Friday 10 February 2017

From SanderS: Fred's Saga - the Plot thickens... (90 Points)

Hoi,

Before I present you with the next instalment of the saga of the Fred's, I feel I owe you guys an apology. "Real life" has played one of it's great tricks and lack of time prevents me from replying/ commenting to all of the excellent posts on this blog. I would like to take time each day to peruse all the eye-candy and comment on it but find myself in bed late almost every single night without having seen either a brush or this blog... Therefore I now am also way behind on my schedule and in fear I will never reach my target of 1500 points. If I would be painting in my usual 1:72 scale, I would have been halfway by now but painting almost entirely in 28mm is taking a lot longer... Anyway, I have been able to do a little painting in between work and family-life and here are the results of that.

Meet Fred, this is not the same Fred as last time mind you this is another one of the Fred brothers, listening to CGAG-03.



He has been sent to mid '80s Springfield, USA to rouse rebels and chaos all over. Following are citizens of that poor city who find themselves more and more in the grip of a sinister organisation that has taken hold of most of public and some private services. Arming themselves, some of the citizens have started to fight the new regime, others are willingly aiding the new management. This management is manifesting itself in the form of the CEO's of the ARBCO company a pair of identical twins in fancy suits and fast cars. Miniatures of the latter will follow eventually but the citizens are down below.





All these figures are from the plastic sets of Project Z survivors made by Warlord Games. I seriously mismanaged these figures because I thought I could make the combinations of arms and bodies that I wanted. Turns out one can only combine a certain two arms with certain bodies... Now I have some very strange "mutant-like" figures in amongst them.

I tried to make most of them regular people rather then heavily armed apocalypse survivors, but specially with the women that's hard due to the arm options you get.








There is a boy in the Male Survivors set and a girl in the Female set. I refused to give them the weapons provided in the boxes. The boy I gave a baseball bat and the girl I have provided with flowers. Here she is to finish this post.



This leaves me with 18 figures in 28mm and thus 90 points.


Gosh Sander, another Fred to join the ranks - how many Fred brothers are there? Or is it some kind of nom de guerre? 'I'm Fred'.....'No, I'm Fred!' And what will be the name of their sister? This Pulp adventure is taking a rather sinister turn, these Fred characters clearly aren't a very good influence, trying to overthrow a democratically elected government by force.  

While I see you've tried to avoid kitting out these ladies and gents with big guns - The bunch of flowers is a neat touch. A standard issue tennis racket there, a good crowbar, and some semi-automatic 'hunting' weapons, but do I spy a larger lady carrying an RPG? I'm not sure that's appropriate for an untrained civilian.

Nice work on these Warlord plastics Sander, and a respectable 90 points to your tally. Well, you're nearly a third of the way to your 1500 target!  

Phil
 


24 comments:

  1. Great work Sander. Those survivors are great, but my favourites continue to be ARBCO...

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    1. seems to me, Greg that you have figured it out! My next 80's Pulp post, whenever that will be, should finally reveal the true nature of ARBCO...

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  2. Great group of Survivors there, love the figs

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    1. thanks Ken, if put together they are quite nice, the true treasure of these sets is in all the spare parts!

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  3. Nice work Sander! I don't think there's much obviously wrong with the swapping arms? At least nothing I can see...

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    1. the fit underneath the arms of some of them is awful just as some guys have no neck for instance.

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  4. Very nice work! Those civilians look very neat and will look grand on the tabletop I'm sure.

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    1. yeah I am not entirely sure how active a role I want them to play, but they will look the part ;-)

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  5. @Phil: thanks Phil. The mini with the rpg had just two sets of arm-options and the other one was an AK 47, since the other larger person in the set had already got one I caved and used the rpg. My reasoning is these two are married and the owners of a diner defending it with all possible means against hostile take-over by arbco.

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  6. Nice survivors I can't see any problems this end to be honest!
    Best Iain

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    1. That's because I carefully chose the best angle to make pictures ;-) but thanks for the kind words!

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  7. Really well done Sander. The Fred's will be proud. Like the flowers for the little girl.

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    1. Thanks Rod, since becoming a father myself I have more trouble with violence in combination with children. I cannot watch CSI or Criminal Minds, let alone issue a big stonking Magnum Revolver to a 6 year old child...

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  8. Well done! These survivors really turned out superbly and I'd never have spotted the issues with the arms if you hadn't told. Your basing actually adds to the already great paint job and really helps to set the scene.

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    1. You know, most of the bases are just the base with some paint on it, fairly easy paint at that. The bases have a gritty surface that lends itself nicely to be painted as asphalt.

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  9. Terrific work Sander! I like that you focused this group on the regular folks. Nice change from the over-the-top heroes.

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  10. I have the wargames factory kit of these and they are assembled and primered, but not painted. I hope they turn out half as well as yours did. You are correct in the hinkiness of the kit. I spent a bit of time altering just so I could avoid repeats! ;)
    These are wonderful, I really like what you did to bases too!

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