Straturday Snipe Preacher

 Trench Crusade minis are starting to go out to backers soon, so I'm going to need an opposing warband to greet my Azebs when they arrive. Kitbash time baybee

These are a sniper priestess and a trench cleric, made from odd bits I had lying around attached to my partner's gracious sacrifice of a couple of WH40k sisters of battle. That and a bit of plastic glue from the bottom of an old bottle, plus some very past-its-prime green stuff that came free with an army painter basing starter set, back when I had Big Plans to get all the way into wargames. That's all you need! I even added extra green stuff where it wasn't needed for some bonus jank

I'm pretty happy with these - the cleric's head in a reliquary cage (majestic!) and dual weapons akimbo gives her a lot of character. And the priest's over the top (pun intended) weapons are a great fit too.

They're not done - painting, plus there are bits to tidy up like the extra hand still clutching part of the priest's rifle - but a New Antioch warband has begun to take shape.

Only issue is, now I'm out of bits. Reinforcements will have to wait for another time.

Elsewhere in wargaming, you've got to check out Chris McDowall's scrapheap starter set for space fleet games, and watch quadra make amazing terrain while recounting the fantastic backstory behind it. Don't miss these.

More Straturdays to come x

Rough Terrain Cards

I posted on bsky a little while ago about the Trench Crusade kickstarter, I’d followed the project for a while and was happy for their success but mentioned it wasn’t really my vibe

Well for something that’s not my vibe I’ve been doing a whole lot of hobbying around it already lmao

A lot of games have a rule for rough terrain, moving over particular surfaces affects speed and can incur penalties or damage. I think in TC it’s called difficult terrain, and then there’s also dangerous terrain

I thought an easy way to create some scatter pieces that could be used to implement this rule would be with old plastic cards. I used an expired cinema membership and train card. Idk if there’s a standard size for these for legal reasons or if every company uses the same manufacturer but they’re the exact same size, I reckon most cards will be. Not that it matters but it ends up looking nice and uniform whatever you use, and it’ll be easy to make more later

Anyway I just slapped some texture paste and paint on one side of each card and stuck down some bits, cardboard and lolly sticks from the recycling plus some citadel skulls. The idea was to make them still basically flat so that I can store them easily and models can stand on and move through them. But using these as bases for terrain with more height to provide cover would also work ofc

 also ended up using some resin which I hadn’t before, got mixed results but I’m p happy with how it all turned out. Idk how well they show up on camera but these look great in person. I was going to add more colour and pick out the details but I kinda like the monochrome effect of base coat/drybrush/wash. These are background after all. And I can always go over them later with more detail if I want

girl, same

It was a fun little project that didn’t take long at all and should be useful in games, I’d recommend giving these a go. You can even slip them back into your wallet to transport them

Oh and I ended up backing the ks after all, the rulebook’s a mess but the basics look fun and I expect they’ll clean it up before release, plus those Sultanate minis were too good to pass up. But it’s all free online and you can use kitbashed models anyway if you want to get stuck in