Remote as it may be, Gerezman is not free from the blight of greenskins. Where once was a large desert in the southern hemisphere is now an ecosystem of orkoid life; fungal strains, squigs and the ubiquitous orks themselves. Isolated groups of feral orks are present in other parts of Gerezman, but the world's other horrors discourage the greenskins from leaving their own territory.

It's nice to finally be putting a brush to things. This pandemic is a good excuse to sit and paint. This boy is a simple paint job largely consisting of contrast paint over a zenithal undercoat. It's very grimy and dusty, but I like it, especially for a model I have to paint more than a hundred of.

Foxbox: We'll Make It Orky

Foxbox is a boutique miniature manufacturer based in the UK and someone I have been chatting with for a while now. I wanted to do a proper review of his products, since I am such a large fan of his products.

Foxbox has a selection of ork bits, and I picked up a selection of them to spice up my orks. Here we have some torsos.

The size and shape of them is in line with GW Ork Boyz. There's a nice variety available. However, the Aviator torsos in particular suffer from some flash that is difficult to remove.

As seen here, the nature of the mould used means that the connection point is right in a socket, which is a bit tricky to dig out. The other torsos don't have this problem.

If you are bothered by how hunched over the GW ork legs are, then these are for you. They are a little bit chunky, being from the "basiks" range of parts. Do note however that GW tork torsos and indeed the Foxbox ones are designed to fit in at the angle that the slouched legs have, meaning that there may be some fiddling required, and there may be a gap.

Like so. Easy enough to cover with a pouch or similar gubbin, though.

You can see here that the change in stance adds a bit of height to a standard ork boy, which I like.

The selection of arms is nothing short of fantastic, however size can vary slightly from sculpt to sculpt. This arm from the special forces weapon set is a little bit stubby. I don't mind a bit of variation personally, but it is worth noting.

Here you can see some boyz I've put together using mostly Foxbox parts, with some GW bits and an arm from Kromlech. 

Here's a Spanner made almost entirely using the Blackthumb part set. The variety of tools is delightful.

There's a number of original sculpts. I couldn't resist snagging this boss to be a lieutenant in my Waaagh!. Some of the fiddly bits snapped off in transit to Australia, but the overall level of detail is rather shiny and quite chrome.

My absolute favourites have to be the goblins, however. Look at that grin!

They're so characterful and absolutely marvellous. The squad leader at ease is my favorite.

They're a little bit taller than a GW grot, mostly due to the pose. These grots have confidence!

I wont make a secret of the fact that I love Foxbox's conversion parts. They cater to me as an ork player and a Gorkamorka fanboy directly and I would recommend them to anybody in the same category. I would, will (and have) buy again.

Tehnolog and Souldark: A first impression

I ordered some Tehnolog terrain from Souldark and it arrived today. I placed the order on February 7th, so it takes about a month to ship to Australia from their Russian place of business. I ordered 3 Repulse Line wall sprues and 1 Repulse Line Windows sprue, just to test out and see if the company and the product were worthwhile. The sprues were 3 USD each and shipping was 10 USD., coming to a total of about 35 AUD

The kits arrived already removed from the frames, with no damage from the shipping. Nice!

From the four sprues I was able to make a small building of some kind and a redoubt/fortified point. A base of a statue, perhaps? The pieces click together with a lego technic-ish system of rods and slots. It was a little bit fiddly, and the windows had an inverted design compared to the walls. It's hard to explain but if you do a ratio of 3:1 you should be fine. While the door to the larger structure does open, there's no real interior to speak of.

The pieces are well in scale for 40k and necromunda, and the price is very, very good, especially when compared to GW kits of similar size. When you take into account the ease of assembly and disassembly, I can see these being a big hit on the Necromunda scene for making dense hives.

The final verdict is a solid recommend. I will definitely be trying some more Tehnolog kits in the future. I can't wait to get some paint on these.

Small Skitari update

One of the planetside skitari, recruited from Gerezman's feudal population.

Peasant Hollow

The unfortunates that eke out a living in Gerezman are a pallid, withered lot. Mortals dwelling in the death-haunted, dimly lit lands often resemble cadavers even before they die.

This miniature is just a simple re-creation of a Peasant Hollow from Dark Souls 3. The arms and hat are from Mantic scarecrow and the head is from Mantic zombies. The body is a GW flagellant, possibly the best body ever to base Aos28 or Inq28 conversions on.

Deus Est Mechanicum

The Adeptus Mechanicus of Gerezman have long been in isolation from the rest of their brotherhood on Mars. Divergences have emerged, splitting them off of the hegemonic orthodoxy. They are fractured into factions, with more conservative and tradition-centric priests residing upon the planet's moon. The adepts that work upon the planet's surface more permanently are more divergent, and cast out renegades and hereteks have fled into the dark corners of the world.

The Cult Mechanicus are one of my favorite 40k factions. There's so much space to sprawl out and go wild with the aesthetic choices. With the right marrying of bitz, anything can be made to look like an adept of Mars.

One of the surface dwelling Magi. Note the unusual, low-tech leg prosthesis. 

A Sicarian assassin given unusual ornamentation.