The Doomed
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About the Project
Got the book in a sale. Loved the kitbash fun that OnTableTop had during the launch week. Had a model in mind and built before I bought the book. Now just crowbarring the mini into a list and building around her.
Related Game: The Doomed: Apocalyptic Horror Hunting
Related Company: Osprey Games
Related Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
This Project is Active
Knucklebone Nexuses
Dark brown prime, Wraithbone heavy drybrush then contrast paint. I used a flesh, dune and skeleton coloured contrast over each drybrush and they were almost complete.
The eyes were red over the whole eyeball, and orange oval towards the middle and a black slit pupil.
I picked the bones on the back and the claws out with wrathbone.
I feel sorry for these creatures. They are not born of this world, barely cope with the atmosphere and climate and constantly have blood and ooze hanging from each eye.Nexuses - Complete
These look formidable. I think they'll match the type of imposing opponents that the game intends.
There's enough different about them to ID them on the battlefield I believe.
I know I could spend a few more minutes on each of them to make elements pop, but I am happy enough to move on to the next elements of making a game of The Doomed a reality.
Nexuses - The Scheme
Went for a similar scheme to the big Tyranid. Went for the watered down Shyish Purple contrast to start. Then Emperor's Children pink stripes and knocked back with Carroburg Crimson all over.
The flick of blood and gore is a piece of thin transparent clothes tag super glued to the talon and covered with Blood for the Blood God paint.Nexuses
I have built and primed the 3 Von Ryan's Leapers from the front of a "Combat Patrol" magazine.Each Horror (Monster) have 3 Nexuses each battle so this works out just fine. I also read that there are “minions” that drift in to spoil your day, if fighting these things weren’t challenging enough. Will give those some thought.
Very tempted to get the Blood and Zeal box set. The religious ones will fit into one of the factions fine enough and the sketchy looking culty things can be the minions. They have metal legs. Marshall Bravenboer has metal legs. I feel some interesting backstory coming together.
Options - Legionnaire Clouseau
Tried some subtle OSL but maybe it was too subtle. 
The left arm is from the Frostgrave female Cultist sprue. The body is from the female scavenger sprue and the blaster arm is from the Lost Patrol scout sprue. The kit slung under the arm came from the Female Cultist sprue as well. The backpack was made from 3 smaller sundries glued together from the female scavenger sprue.
The name was simply because this mini is searching for something with her torch held high and has found a gooey and bloody clue on her base. Also having a torch when you're perhaps trying to sneak up on a monster seems like a comedic (or potentially fatal) thing to do.Monsters - Finished
Added to same style of basing as my monster hunters. Also went around the beast again using subtle pink stripes to make the patterning pop 
Happy with the final look. Feels like I should add something more dramatic to the base, but will worry about that another time.Monsters - The scheme
WiP. I got a couple of the GW 40K magazines with the minis on the front. I imagine that Tyranids will make a good Monster option.
All the ridged fleshy areas (the long thin ridged eyelet ovals that look like maybe a chunk in the armour) I paintes with a thin coat of Mephiston Red. I coated the model in a thin coat of water and painted all the flesh parts with Shish Purple contrast.Then all the carapace harder areas got several thin lines of Xereus Purple. The zenith prime did a lot of good work, but it also meant the the purple stripes on some of the darker areas were lost. I added a Carroburg Crimson shade to all the wing parts. All the bone parts had a thin Zandri Dust base, a Seraphim Sepia wash and a Wraithbone drybrush / highlight.
On the finished version you might be able to see the thin stripes I added in Emperor’s Children pink to bring out the stripes more.
Marshall Bravenboer
Marshall Bravestarr was a fun cartoon as a kid. This is my Marshall for my all female warband. So the name makes her stand out with a surname not a first name.
Ancestral Blade. Weird writing. Purple. Fun.
Champion Mardy
Mardy ... Because she looks quite the handful socially and on the battlefield. Kind of sour faced and direct in approach Mardy is proficient with her sidearms and does not suffer fools lightly.
Legionnaire Martinique
Another silly path to a name. Thundergun wielding female Miniature. Ricky Martin. 🎶"She bangs, she bangs". Ricky and Martin are too masculine. Martinique sounded better.
Legionnaire Ducky
Got to her name in a bit of a weird way. She's a bit plump and the male chunky scout arm only compounds that. There was something about the posing that made me think back to the "Nanny" from Count Duckula cartoons as a child. I didn't want to call a monster hunter Nanny. One of her catchphrases in the cartoon was "Cooie! Duckie-poos!"
The builds
The champion.The champion was made using a female Stargrave scavenger body, backpack and head and some GW empire pistols.
The star on all the models are from the Wargames Atlantic cowboy sprue.
Legionnaire with Thundergun.Legionnaire
The Thundergun is a GW 40k Scout shotgun. The left arm wasn’t the correct one, but one left arm with a knife was close enough. I removed the knife at the wrist and married it up as best I could.
The head is a 3D piece. I think it was an alternative head for some knucklebone minis I got a while ago. There were 4 of them. I think I will use them for all my potential legionnaires.
The body is a Stargrave scavenger again.
The incense burner was another 3D piece. I just thought it would suit the aesthetic of the game and this unit.
MarshallChose Marshall as the leader type because the model I had in mind is less a judge or a sheriff than a military figure. She’s a female Grognard officer from the Wargames Atlantic 3D range. I had no use for her but got carried away picking up fun minis on an Only-Games order.
The sword snapped off of the original model. I used a GW scout knife blade to replace it.
Legionnaire with blaster and blade The list.
Wanted to go quite elite to begin with and add more chaff as we hopefully improve and get some renown to spend.
Leader
Marshall Bravenboer – Ancestral Blade. Q3
Followers
Pathfinder Evanthia – Incinerator spears. Q4
Champion Mardy- Sluggers. Q4
Legionnaire Ducky – Blade and Blaster. Q5
Legionnaire Martinique – Thundergun – Q5
This is 23 points. It’s meant to be played at 20, per warband, but have decided that Leader equipment doesn’t count. Only if they take a 2nd equipment piece will I count it.
Addendum
I decided to get closer to the honest point count by removing Ducky with her blade and blaster and add Clouseau with just her blaster to be 22 points instead of 23.
The starting point
I was struggling to find uses for my Frostgrave soldier 2 sprues. I made some civilians for Rangers of Shadow Deep. I made some bandits and characters for Silver Bayonet and then I got some Female Stargrave sprues.
I always liked the idea of a spear having grenades or explosives attached. I was sure that the game would give me a weapon description that I could use to crowbar my spears into the game.
I figured that just having two spears would look like a lack of ammo. So I added grenades and flammable liquid pods to her back pack. I think I will add spare spearheads also so it looks like all she needs is a branch and she'll be ready to throw together another explosive spear.
I think that this lady will be from a faction based on the old elite households of the past. There's been a skull carved into the end of one spear and an eagle to another. Symbolising authority and trying to instill fear in rival hunter parties. These spears look unwieldy to throw but in this gravity and with the right technique they can be thrown quite far. I will add a star to the backpack as a recurring theme for my faction because they are from the old law enforcement/ social elite faction.
She doesn't look particularly knightly, but in fur trimmed burgundy and wearing a ring and adding the star she will fit in.
