"Menace vs Maniak" Riot Quest Diorama

Today I am delighted to show you a diorama I have wanted to make since I first saw these miniatures teased on the Riot Quest Kickstarter a long time ago. Originally I had intended this display plinth to be used for a different diorama, but now the scope and size of that one has been increased substantially so I figured I would use it for this project instead.

So I present to you "Menace vs Maniak" a Riot Quest Diorama!

When painting the two characters I based their colour schemes on their Gear cards from the game they are from, Riot Quest.

My thought was that they are fighting over this treasure horde inside a ship, perhaps one of the two from the Hullgrinder map.

The Mechanikal Maniak was pretty straightforward to paint. I did try to add the slight ice looking effects to the axe blades edge. I didn't go as far with the weathering compared to the cards art, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Personally I always thought that the hardest part of this project for me would always be painting this bunny, the Dhunian Menace. I'm over the moon with how it turned out, I think it fits the card art as well as I could at my skill level. I really like how the eyes look as well as the weathered metal of the axe and helmet.

The floofy tail was important to get looking right... I love how it looks.

I used the large coin pile and the three smaller piles which came as rewards in the "Loot vault" part of the Riot quest Kickstarter.

I really love the detail that's been sculpted into these treasure piles. While I was painting them I kept finding more and more gems to paint! I did pick all the colours I wanted to use for gems then randomly pick which one was each colour while trying to keep it looking relatively random looking.

I rearranged the layout of the treasure piles following a suggestion from Soul Samurai on Discord, who said it would look better if the smaller piles were connected to the large one (I had shown a work in progress picture in which the three small piles were scattered about the area). I tried it out and agreed so here we are! Thanks to you Soul Samurai!

I am really happy with this diorama and I hope you like it too!
Please drop a comment or share it with someone you think might like to see it!

I think this video is well worth a watch as well to give a real sense of the scene as its tricky to get everything into focus at once so seeing things from fluid angles helps I think.

Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my painted model articles.
If you like it please like, comment and subscribe on Youtube it really does help with letting Youtube know its a video worth suggesting to other hobbyists. (And it upsets Mike...)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as posting wip projects.

Even if its just $1 it really helps me out!

Currently my Patrons are voting on which project I will be working on next out of the following options from my wip "to do" list:
Feora4 & Mechanoshredder

18 Croaks (10 Raiders, 4 Trappers, 2 Hunters, Mire & Flugwug)

2 Units of Resolutes (10 models)
Alexia Graveyard Dirorama
2 Units of Legion of lost souls (20 models)
Diffuser & Mitigator
Totem Huntress

See you all next time!

Bog Trog Trawler: Model Review

Today we take a look at the Bog Trog Trawler, a Minions Solo. It comes in four metal parts as seen here.

The body is a pretty large chunk of metal, you can see the attachment points for both arms and the head here on this side.

Its left foot is raised up onto a rock. Personally I don't tend to like models having basing integrated into them as it can ruin some peoples personal basing styles, but this simple rock should fit in with most bases easy enough.

Over its left shoulder is a covering of various scraps of leather, some of which is from people! You can see the tell tale holes which would have been the mouth and eyes of some poor bastard.

It has a couple of sizeable knives including one with a hooked end which will be fun to paint.

The harpoon gun is a really beefy piece of equipment. I really like how cobbled together it looks, just the sort of thing that I could see being taken from a fishing boat then weaponised.

Very slight mould lines run down this part, but they came off with a quick filing.

The head and left arm can be seen here, this is a much bigger Bog Trog than typical and it has more facial webbing than the other smaller ones.

And here it is fully assembled. 

I used green stuff to help attach it to the base as the right foot and the rock the left foot is up on are not level with each other so I was having trouble getting it to stay on with just glue.

I recommend gluing the head on first and then adding the arms and harpoon at the same time. It was a bit tricky to get all the pieces to stay together, I had to hold the whole thing together carefully for w while for the glue to harden. If you have super glue activator this will speed up the process considerably.

And here is the scale shot with Professor Pendrake. Its a very large Bog Trog, the only type which is on a 40mm base.

I really like this model, I know it might not be considered the most competitive of choices but it has a lot of character. It is cast in great quality, though I imagine if it was released today the main body might be cast in resin due to the weight of it.
I have picked up three of them (the max field allowance) and am looking forward to running some janky lists with all three. They also would great "mini bosses" for IKRPG encounters with regular Bog Trogs as the grunts.

And finally I thought I would try something new! 
Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my articles.
If you like it please like, comment and subscribe on Youtube it really does help with letting youtube know its a video worth suggesting to other hobbyists. (And it upsets Mike...)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as wip content.

Even if its just $1 it really helps me out!

See you all next time!

Artificer Prime Nemo Painted

Nemo4 is done! This is another project which has been a long time coming, something of a trend for me sadly but I'm slowly working my way through my backlog. 

One of the things that blocked my motivation to paint this for so long was figuring out how to balance the two paint schemes of Cygnar and Convergence. 
I wanted it to fit in with both of my schemes, even though I have only painted JAIMS and Destructotron 3000 and a converted Talon for Nemo4, I like to have consistent paint schemes for my version of the Iron Kingdoms.
I do have a Mitigator and a Diffuser which I'm working on painting as well in this same scheme. 

I used gloss mod podge to make the voltaic parts appear a bit more like they are within glass or something similar. I could have used gloss varnish but I don't own any.

If you saw my review article (you can find it here) you would know that I wasn't a fan of the clear flight stand so I mounted Nemo on this Protectorate wreck marker.

I've got a post in the works where we will explore basing in great detail so I'll leave it at this for now.

Like a lot of my Cygnar I went with a trench warfare theme.

The mechaniks painted up fairly easily as I was able to copy my colour scheme from the other Stormsmith models I have already painted, the only difference was having to paint the mechanik tool tabard things they are wearing.

I did make a mistake in coating them with gloss agrax earthshade... I wasn't even aware I had accidentally purchased gloss to be honest. Hopefully this will get fixed when I one day varnish them with matt varnish.

I'm really glad to have my Nemo4 finished it brings me back to having all my Cygnar huge bases fully painted. I will eventually get back to 100% painted for Cygnar (I've got to finish the newer morrowan stuff) I am working on it but its slow going!

Let me know what you think of my Nemo4 and his basing!

Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my painted model articles.
If you like it please like, comment and subscribe on Youtube it really does help with letting Youtube know its a video worth suggesting to other hobbyists. (And it upsets Mike...)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as posting wip projects.

Even if its just $1 it really helps me out!

See you all next time!