The Gangs of Ankh-Morpork
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About the Project
I recently printed a few slums buildings and I immediately thought of the shades. I generally make enough terrain to fill a 6x4 , but how would it go if properly focused on a 2x2 or 3x3 fantasy city street scene. Then I recalled an old Osprey game called Kobolds and Cobblestones. I reckon it's time to have a good nose through my fantasy prints and have a look at Knucklebones miniatures again.
Related Company: Osprey Games
Related Genre: Fantasy
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Rogues Gallery
I’m not convinced my miniature painting skills are worth showcasing like this as I am more of an army painter really. But here goes …
A couple of Frostgrave kitbashes and someone running late for a date from Eureka miniatures 
A thief from Otherworld, might repaint this, a Frostgrave Merc and a leaning ruffian from Eureka Still some work to do on basing. I definitely need to give the ruffian something to lean on! Very tempted to strip the paint off of the thief and use a colour card for a paint scheme to work to. It’s a really nice mini and I don’t think I have done it justice.
A couple more Frostgrave ladies with an Oathmark elf
An Otherworld courtesan flanked by a couple of Frostgrave warrior women.
An Oathmark kitbash, a crazy old man from Otherworld and a Frostgrave archer 
A couple of Otherworld miniatures and a resin print, love the old biddy with the rolling pin
A trio of Eureka shades dwellers, who won't look out of place in Silver Bayonet either
Two Frostgrave kitbashes flanking a Zenit miniatures orphan.
More miniatures from Eureka 
Various matriarchal figures from Otherworld The Big House
The makers of the slum set added a new building to the range. A bit of a town hall of sorts , it’s only after I printed the first piece that I realised how big this thing was going to be.
I had two Bambu labs P1Ps going flat out for just over a week.Still have no idea where I am going to store it.
Painting Update
Started slapping some contrast paints on the assorted miniatures, painting them with a view to looking like denizens of Ankh-Morpork. Lobbed in some half painted Frostgrave minis too.
What's in a name?
Given this name generator clocks in at 33 pages I decided a pdf would be better than showing all the details in project.
The first table creates a list of which name tables to roll on . It can give titles, nicknames, first names and surnames.
There are 199 male and female first names, 100 title and 100 nicknames and 800 surnames to go at , so there’s not much risk of two of your gangers having the same name.
Miniatures phase 1
Having avoided printing any miniatures for the time being. I set about priming and drybrushing the metal miniatures I have accumulated.
Acquisitions
Just a quick update I picked up couple of sets of metal miniatures that I thought would work.
Another building for the slums has been released and it looks awesome, I may be printing another building for this project.
Not heard of zenith miniatures before but they look a good fit as a bunch of street urchins. You can’t really see it in the box art but there’s a ton of character in the sculpts. You could easily integrate them into The Woods or Verrotwood.
The Gangs
Time to do some research on the various groups that might get into a scrap so off to the wikis I went and came back with the following:
Cockbill Street Roaring Lads (Sam Vimes old gang)
Shamlegger Street Rude Boys
Pigsty Hill Dead Marmosets
Cable Street Particulars (some rather corrupt and brutal Watch members)
DeBris Gang -trolls obv
Breccia -the troll mafia
Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night -fools who summon dragons
Grisham Fford Close Harmony Singers – A quartet of assassins
Jolly Good Pals -A pair of enforcers for the Fools Guild
Mohoks and Skats -rival urchin gangs
Tenth Egg Street Gang -troll gang , one of it’s members being a brick onna string
Looking at the gangs I am probably going to double down on the first three, street gangs with the others more aligned to hired specialists within the game rules.
As for miniatures I am looking at Knucklebones as they have some characterful models. Also I picked up some Wargames Atlantic Roman citizens as I see potential there.
I am also going to work on a name generator
The Shades Part.2
I printed and primed the remaining buildings from the slum set. I decided to make the buildings as one piece, there wasn’t really enough room to make them playable. They also had plenty of ledges and verandas to give a few height options to a table
Next step is adding various different colours to some of the bricks then give everything a dirty wash.
Finally I need to add a little moss. I also need to decide if I am going to lightly dry brush the wood or not
My 2×2 mats arrived so I popped one down and plac the not quite finished buildings on it just to see if I was on the right track.
Shady Construction Deals
Ankh-Morpork the greatest fantasy city of all time… hadn’t even crossed my mind when I started printing some of these Stls-that-looked-cool.
Before I got my Bambu I could only stare wistfully at fdm prints in the knowledge that I might get two pieces off before the flux capacitor died or the printer gods started demanding sacrifices.
But no more, the Bambu PS1 truly is the chocolate hobnob of the 3d printing world. I point, it prints and prints quickly.
I had at the back of my mind an Osprey book called Kobolds and Cobblestones, where fantasy gangs duke it out. I investigated further and got some distinct Pratchett vibes. And so the idea of making a section of the shades came to life.
I have another four of these buildings and a larger one in a similar vein, hopefully that will be enough. Also have some possibilities for the dwarf quarter.
Decided to add a bit of moss effect on the stone to create a bit more interest.
