More Figures…

The first 3 encounters and general plot of the gaming module are worked out. Gonna playtest against myself, fore unleashing it on my group. Similar to “New Girl in Town”, but extra.

RPG Tokens

So, here’s a bunch of the token figures for my game. I have a bunch more to cut out, zombies, more monsters and gribblies, but it’s coming along. The player characters, have a bunch of designs to choose from, but the party will be 7.

Thi is fun stuff to work on.

RPG Gaming module

Sorry about the lack of pages, recently. I went on vacation to see my family for 2 weeks and , while I have 2 pages pencilled, I’ve been working on stuff for the Role Playing Game. I am doing character sheets of all our heroes for a Game Module called “Terror of the Cthulhu Cult”. It will be play tested this August at our gaming group’s “Hutzcon”.

The Module, when done, will have lots of background, characters, scenarios, and printable tokens for the heroes and monsters. I’ve been wanting to do this project for YEARS. I’ll post stuff as I get it done.

Pages should be back posting, next week!

Nobody expects the Inquisition!

My Inquisition and Adeptus Arbites forces!

Sara 2D Figure

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Here’s the game piece for Sara. I have ones for Rugnar and Maynard done already. Need to do up Ben and maybe Duncan. These will be usable in the RPG/ Tabletop game I’m developing.

One Page Rules Army

I have been working on my One Page Rules Infected Colonies. I’ve based the army on the Cthulhu Cult I use in my comics. I’ll also be doing double duty with the figs, by using them as the baddies vs Phin, Sara and the gang’s figs for a special edition of my RPG set. So, finally back to doing some work. Comics are coming, as well.

Squats & more Squats

Some older pics of my squats. One of these days, when I get them all painted, I’ll do a proper photo shoot. Until then, here goes.

Additions to My Squats

My birthday was 2 weeks ago and I got some models as gifts, so I was distracted to build the backlog of models for my Squat armies. I found some very cool proxies from Bulldog and Meng. I have another Meng Tank I aim to convert into a Squat Battle tank on it’s way. The Bulldog robots, surprisingly ended up being the same size as the Ambots. Bot are the perfect size for Squat sized robots for my Guild Master.

Now that I have this out of my system, I can get back to some drawing.

Squat HQs

Here are some better photos of my HQs for Rugnar’s Raiders. I use Inquisitorial retinue, leading Imperial Guard squat commandoes and Squat Deathwatch marines.

Squat HQ Miniatures

While my creativity has been stifled and rendered me unable to draw much, I’ve been trying to distract myself and been working on my squat army, repainting and touching up older minis.

Here are my HQs for the army. We have Kris Kringle in the gold exo armor, Rugnar the Grimm in the purple exo. Duncan Borll is the fellow with the powerfist. I have a few figs coming, where we’ll see Sheila from the comic as a Commisar with thunder hammers and a male & female pair of Crusaders.

I run my squats in 3 detachments, Imperi Guard, Deathwatch and Inquisitorial.

I borrow heavily from my comics for characters for the army.

And here are the rest of my boys, that need worked on.

And their rides.

Once I get them all painted up, I’ll do a proper photo session for them.

Imperial Frogz Space Marines

These Space Marines were my first foray into Warhammer 40k, way back in 1992. I’d seen a local game store display the Sons of Elvis chapter, so I did a silly home brew chapter, too. The Imperial Frogz. And that’s a lot of green.

99% of my army is beakie marines, and gret deal of them are old school Rogue Trader minis, as well. I filled in the ranks with newer models as they came out.

I mean to update the pics, as I finish up the couple of straggler figs that still need painted.

I hadn’t dug these out in ages and I’d forgotten just how many I had. Yikes!

Edit: Added new pics after finishing painting all the models. All I have left to do is base 150 models. Yikes!

Rugnar’s Raiders Squat army update

Some updated pics of my Squat army. Still far from done, but looking pretty good. Lots of little conversions in this force. I am especially fond of the 5 mobile gun units that act as Tarantulas. Plus the two custom scratch built Landraiders.

I always play dwarves in any game I play. Warhammer 40k is no different.

The Order of St Maynard (SOB)

My sisters are the first army I have ever finished painting, completely. I took some better lit photos with a better camera and here are the new pics!

The Complete Order of Saint Maynard Sisters of Battle Army

Bondage sister superior with battle sister squad and melta priest.

My second cannoness attached to a battle sister squad with priest. The canoness is armed with plasma pistol and eviscerator.

My first canoness and standard bearer in a heavy weapons heavy command squad. The canoness has a plasma pistol & eviscerator

Flamer Dominion squad with sister superior and priest with eviscerator.

Battle sister squad with sister superior and priest with eviscerator.

Battle sister squad lead by sister superior and priest

Melta sisters mounted in an immolator

Heavy bolter Retribution squad

My custom Excorcists. Missle launchers made from the bottoms of bases and random bits,

Heavy Flamer Immolator

My Immolators

Heavy bolter immolator

Painting progress

Newly painted Squat Landraider, Squat Arvus Lighter & Squat Lancer Knight.

Acroyer Knight Titan

My Acroyer Knight Titan for my Imperial Armies. Made from a random mech model, the head of an Acroyer Micronaught, gun from a mech warrior toy and Gatling cannon from a GI Joe bike.

Building a better Landraider

Step by step scratch build of my new Squat Landraider. This will be for Kris Kringle and his acolyte retinue.

I built the bones of this out of chipboard, using a template I found online. My first Squat Landraider was made from a pattern I made myself, which I since lost.

I printed the template onto letter sized pieces of chipboard on one of the big printers at work. I cut it apart with utility knives and scissors and glued most of the pieces together using white glue, holding it together for drying with rubber bands.

i also used odd bits and bobs from random kits in my bits box. I crafter the twin las cannons from plastic tubing I got from my hobby shop, combined with parts from a GW Landraider.

I also sketched out and decoupaged a Dwarven face on the fron hull.

I have armed the tank with a very old multi meltas and a hunter killer missle.

I Need to find some time to toss some paint on this. It’ll be gold and reds, fitting for Kris Kringle! Remember my squat army is fashioned after Kris Kringle and Rugnar and all the North Pole dwarves from the comic.

More to come, soon.

Barry

Edit: Finished Landraider

Nobody expects the Inquisition!

The Inquisition!

My Witchhunter Inquisition retinue.

MY hoard of Gray Knights.

My radical Daemon hunter with bound Daemons and retinue.

Three random Inquisitors.

A Xenos Hunter Inquisitor with a hoard of Servitors. (Need to get painting!)

Assassins!

My Adeptus Arbiters.

GRay Knights, based on the old Deathwing Space Hulk set.

My Inquisition and Gray Knights forces!

The Order of St. Maynard Sisters of Battle

The whole army.

My Canoness and command squad, with custom standard.

Heavy bolter Retributioners.

My Startch built, switchable Excorcists.

All 3 Immolator transports.

The girls, with all the Similacrum bearers.

The vereran Sister superiors and preachers. Lot’s of Evicerators!

Special weapons.

Hevay weapons and Sisters Superiors.

Troops a plenty!

My Sisters of Battle army, maned after Brother (Saint) Maynard. Around 2500 Points.

Rugnar’s Raiders Squat Army (Counts as Grey Knights with Imperial Guard)

Rugnar’s Raider Squat Army

Rugnar the Grim, Squat Warlord (Counts as Grey Knight Master and retinue in Exo armor)

Squat squad (Counts as Inquisitorial Storm Troopers)

Lord Duncan Borrl (Counts as Imperial Guard and retinue)

Hearth Guard in power Armor (Counts as Grey Knights)

Squatnaughts (counts as Grey Knight Dreads)

Living Ancestor Kringle (Counts as Inquisitor and retinue)

Berzerkers (Count as Imperial Assassins)

Master of the Forge ( Counts as Tech Marine with robot cohort)

Squat Titan (counts as Knight Titan)

Squat Landaider (Counts as Promethius)

Squat Rhinos (Inquisitorial Rhinos)

Gaming and I

Well, specifically, Role-playing shaped me.

It has grown me as an artist, an actor, a writer, a world builder and a storyteller.

I spent many years playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends. We even played IN social Studies behind my teachers back. D&D flourished my imagination and ability to create characters.

I played D&D through Middle and High school. I played with a great group of friends in college, one of whom, John Burris, I collaborated with to flesh out his system, written on 6 note cards and created out own game that replaced D&D at Edinboro University.

When out of school, I played more D&D, more of our own game, named Backwaters of Mysticism, Call of Cthulhu, Feng Shui, Deadlands, Star Wars, Warhammer 40k (ok, not a RPG, but I use a lot of it in my comics). All these worlds they created for their games showed me what I needed to do to create the world in which all my comics exist.

And, yes, ALL my comics exist in the same world. Phineus, Kris Kringle, Creephunter, even Bastard Who. I’m kind of obsessed with doing that, for some reason.

Ironically John and my own RPG doesn’t have a world. We created it so that it would fit into any world you wanted it to.

Many of my Phineus stories came from those games. Rugnar and Maynard are both characters I played in Backwaters. The Kali Saga was based on a campaign run by John, in which I played Brother Maynard. And yes, he did get squished in that one, too.

Many comic creators are also avid gamers. Adam Black, creator of Locus is working on his own game. Brian Babyok, creator of Weirdlings also plays D&D, religiously.

I am toying with the idea of running some Skype based Backwaters games for my fans. As I gather interest and ideas I’ll let you know.

Games are good for comics.

Barry

The History of Phineus: Dwarves

The mighty dwarves! They first appeared in “Against the Giants“. They are an amalgamation of Norse myth, D&D and Warhammer 40K squats! I love these guys!

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Squat Landraider Close up

My completely scratch-built Old style Land Raider. Based on the Old Rogue Trader version that I’ve never been able to get a model for. I am really proud of how this one turned out.