Scenery hotchpotch

I'm mixing stuff from different manufacturers today, but all of it will serve the same purpose, crowding my board! 

The first pieces here are made by Valquiria Studio, a relatively new company specialised in coloured translucent resin pieces (among regular resin scenery elements). They don't have hundreds of references, but everything they have is really sweet. Some time ago I got a few tokens kits, a sci-fi one and a post-apoc one. This is what I've done with them:

Power generator and beacons

Control consoles (not all of them properly working!)

Supplies and land mines

Some really nasty looking alien eggs! Yikes!

Then the post-apoc stuff, again with translucent resin

Objective tokens!

 About the cans, just a couple of close-ups, as I did some freehand work on them. The upper one says 'Prandium', which is just Latin for 'food' (not that creative, I'm afraid, but this way I keep it WH40K friendly). About the other two you can see the ubiquitous Blue Sun logo (dual use material it's also Firefly friendly!!):

 The other one is just a bad pun. 'Bona Mala', which one could say means 'Good/Bad' really translates as 'Nice Apples' in Latin. that's it, end of story, my mind plays like that, I cannot avoid it.

Let's move on. Next thing here is from TTCombat, from their urban ranges. They were a gift from a friend, who split up his kits and allowed me to have these cones, a parking machine, a newspaper dispenser and an ATM:

Really sweet stuff, I didn't expect to have these on my board :)

 Finally, street lamps by Fenris Games. Street lamps is something my board is really in need of. I have a few kits on my radar, but these are the first ones I actually get:

I'm the star of the show!

I of course will need more, many more, and more sci-fi looking, but for the moment these will do their part.

This is it for now! My board keeps on growing slowly (and randomly!). Not even me can tell what will come next, but ahhh, that's the charm of it all :D

Not Portobello Road Market

I had the idea of a tiny market for my urban board for quite a long time in my head, but it hasn't been until now that I've been able to turn it into a real thing. My most obvious choice were the stands by Micro Art, from their Wolsung range, which are lovely.

I painted them in the gritty, dirty style of my whole board:

The two smaller stands, in all their rusty glory

I started with the big one. I converted it into a spice market/food vendor stand. I used some greenstuff to represent mounds of spice into the boxes provided, and also sculpted some exotic or alien vegetables and stuff.

Looks clean and trustworthy

I also had an idea to add more variety. Edible variety. Well, as edible as these things can get in Rogue Trader, ahem. Just a little greenstuff turns into...

Space cuttlefish!

With a couple of spare MDF gears from another kit, a few staples and a button I built a cage that would be hanging from the stand:

Yummy yummy

So this is the other side:

Hmm, I still have some room for some hanging pickles

For the two smaller stands, I sacked the bitsbox. I turned one of them into a salvaged military equipment stall:

Blood from previous owners has been cleaned up from all pieces

I did quite the same thing for the other stand, but with salvaged low-tech equipment instead of military gear:

All the equipment the modern adventurer needs

You may remember that, for more forbidden stolen specialised gear, you may want to visit Mama Balaklava's, a fine place for the gentle adventurer who would like to avoid undesired Imperial entanglements. This is more a modest place, but also serves its purpose.

The final touch. I got these jars from Fenris Games. Sweet pieces that fit in the market theme but that can also be used for other settings.

Typical objective markers

So well, all in all, this is the market so far:

Should be bustling, but it's monday morning

When the noon cargo ship arrives we'll have more customers

This is it for now. Of course your adventurers will need a place where they can replenish their existences between jobs. The market also serves as a perfect excuse for an Indiana Jones-like pursuit. Besides, when I get some more food crates or stuff of the like, they will serve as objective markers for an eventual scenario in which raiders have to steal what they can while the Merchants Guild thugs try to avoid it. Sounds like an idea to me, hmmm...

Now I need crates and stuff!

I have a plan (Pt.1)

The Cylons were created by Man...

I'm a great fan of BSG. So, when I saw the two space Officers by Hasslefree, there was no choice to be taken. There are some things you really know you have to do, right? :D

I got both some time ago, along with the skinny girl in the dress. This is all I was able to do then (I believe this was about three years ago, give or take)

I haven't improved a bit in the art of taking photos

I also got the board game. If you recall the stuff I did and planned regarding the game, you'll remember the painted Vipers, Raptors and Raiders, as well as my intention of recruiting the whole crew for the game, so we didn't have to play using card tokens :P

Well, plans take time to develop, but I'm really, really stubborn a determined person :D

With time, Hasslefree have released a couple more characters, and it all begun again. You know, all this has happened before, and all this will happen again. First of all, I had to do something to the bases. What I had until then was not acceptable. Fenris Games have a set of wonderful spaceship bases:

 

  

I repainted Adama and Tigh (but I still take the same crappy pics as years ago)

 

They needed to be here, you know, the most Old School guys you can face

I rpainetd the uniforms, made them look slightly brighter

Hasslefree also released a much better version of Caprica Six. Rocking mini, really great one.

 

Not in the board game, but what the frak, I needed this one!

 

They also recently released a Starbuck. The girl was wearing just a sports bra, so her gorgeous girl abs were to be admired. However, I didn't feel that was what the character was about, even if she appeared like that a couple of times in the show. I really thought the tee & tank top uniform combination woud look better, so I sculpted them.

 

Pilots call me Starbuck, you may refer to me as God.

 

So here they are, both of them:

 

-Morning Starbuck. What do you hear?

 

-Nothin' but the rain, sir.

-Grab your gun and bring the cat in.

 

So these four are all I've found depicting characters of the show. I'd for sure buy new minis if Hasslefree (or whoever) made them, but for the moment my plan will have to work with what I have at hand. I already have something, I'll be showing you in the following days ;)