HOTT The Purge
I must admit I am a fan of both The Purge movies and The Purge TV series, but fully accept that the concept is truly heinous, and unfathomable. Besides, the concept is to reduce crime and reduce government spending. Truth be told, such a concept would have the reverse effects on both of those. Bad guys will bad guys year-round, not just for one 12-hour period, and those who never have, but think they might find delight or vengeance in killing someone would truly suffer serious PTSD. As far as saving money, the clean up after such a 12-hour period of rampant atrocities would far exceed any expense they think they might save. So, with this disclaimer let's proceed.
The appeal to me is not the killing, but the opportunity to paint up some really fun and unique figures due to the "Halloween" aspect of the event. Of course, this would only apply to the "Purgers" and not the civilians just trying to survive. If you seen any of the movies or the TV series you will understand what I mean. And why HOTT, when a skirmish type game might be a more adaptable approach – for me it's simple, I love HOTT and that is primarily what I play. For those who enjoy a skirmish game it could be easily adapted, but I'm not familiar enough with skirmish type rules to recommend any.
Basically, to do The Purge with HOTT I feel a few changes need to be made to make it work more to the theme. The first change will be the layout or battlefield. My approach is that the entire board area is a park, think Central Park in New York as an example. Within the park you can have wooded areas, creeks running through it with bridges, walkways (roads), hills, areas of bad going or other such terrain features that might be appropriate to a park setting. Then around the perimeter buildings with doors indicated. The buildings can be represented by flat pieces of cardboard laid along the board edge and marked off with doors at various locations. This is a cheap easy way to represent them because they don't really play in the game except as will be described later. So, this is not really a variance from the normal game of HOTT, with the exception of the buildings lining the boarder. I will say that another option could be to inset some buildings say on one board edge so you could have alleys, but I wouldn't make them too deep.
Now, as for the elements. Only a few seem reasonable to keep to the theme, but even then, I see it necessary to alter the number of figures on the element, again to capture the theme. I think the best element types would be Warband, Shooters, Beasts and Riders for the Purgers, but also maybe a Behemoth or Blade for the government forces who take part, and maybe a Flyer if you wanted to add a government helicopter. For the civilians I see heroes (probably limited to no more than two), maybe a Shooter or two, and numerous Hordes. Now that we've identified the element types, I see the suggested number of troops per element be completely ignored. For example, you may have one or two guys or gals on a base of Shooters or Warband, and as another say two or three civilians on a Horde element. In other words, make it like the movies, with a few folks doing bad or trying to survive. They would however, still be based on the standard base sizes for their element type in the rules, and would play exactly as the rules define.
Let's talk about figures next. I game in 15 MM and have had no trouble coming up with lots of figures to choose from for both sides. There are enough civilian figures to easily do the survivors and a few armed survivors or appropriately armed guys for Heroes. Just as a side note on the subject of Heroes, I plan on two. The first will be Leo Barnes with the five survivors he tried to save, but my other will be my favorite characters from The Walking Dead - Michonne, Daryl, Carol and Judith.
For the Purgers you really have to have no boundaries and have fun. I currently have planned some clowns, some cheerleaders, some basic thugs and gangers, and some guys using modified 17th century plague physicians using the figures from Peter Pig's ECW range. Most of the figures for here are coming from various zombie figures and just need a weapon of some sort added. I like the Rebel Minis figures best for this as he offers a really good selection, but also am using other makers zombie figures. The main thing when doing these bad guys is to think of some sort of costume or at least a mask or scary face paint.
OK, so now we've covered the set up and the figures what would a typical army be. I am thinking as a first blush to have 16-point armies which keeps the park from being too crowded. The basic list being:
Survivors
2 x Hero @ 4 AP 8 pts
4 x Horde @ 1 AP 4 pts
2 x Shooters @ 2 AP 4 pts
Options would be more Hordes and less Shooters.
Purgers
4 x Warband @ 2 AP 8 Pts
2 x Shooter @ 2 AP 4 pts
1 x Rider @ 2 AP 2 pts
1 x Beast @ 2 AP 2 pts
Options can be any of the elements listed above.
No Stronghold for either side.
OK, why no Stronghold? Because the objective is to get the survivors to a Safe House, and the Purgers try to destroy the Survivors before they can get there. Yeah, seems easy enough doesn't it! Weeeell, not exactly, because before you deploy troops a set of random markers or cards are placed under each building face down. Only one of the markers says "Door Unlocked" all of the others say Door Locked" This means the survivors have to find the one door that is unlocked and get as many as possible in that building.
Standard set up is used with the survivors always being the Defenders. The game winner is determined by the following. The survivors win if they can get more than eight points to the safe house. The Purgers win if they destroy eight or more of the survivors. One point to clarify. The survivors must stop at a door into a building and may enter on their next move. This represents them trying the door to see if it is locked. Only the survivors may see the marker stating if the door is locked or unlocked.
I am now in the process of cleaning and starting to paint up the figures and hope to be giving it a go soon. In the meantime, I welcome any and all questions, suggestions, or knock-offs.
I reckon this will be a very fun project. Looking forward to seeing it develop!
Although the bad guys are going to be more fun to paint, I decided to start with one of the Hero elements of the survivors - Leo and the four people he helped to save. I was able to find near matching figures in my extra bag of modern civilians and zombies to make these guys from. Of course all but the figure for Leo require some conversion, and only one will need some green stuff added (to make he girl with her plaid shirttail hanging out. I am closing on getting them ready to paint and it shouldn't be much to paint them so hope to have them done shortly.
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More to follow,
Terry
Good gritty stuff! Enjoying this tremendously.
Been plodding away on this project, and have finished converting, cleaning and sanding, and have ready to prime the first hero element (Leo and company), and the Shooter element (Carmelo Jones and his resistance fighters) for the civilian/survivors army, and for the Purgers I've finished the conversions for the cheerleader and baseball player element, the clowns element, the 16th/17th century physicians and the biker on his hog with his biker honey added to the back. This completes most of the conversion work, as the rest will just be cleaning away molding seams and sanding. Then I'll glue everything to painting sticks, prime them and start the fun!
More to follow,
Terry
Have you thought about making a truck with a minigun sticking out the back for the governement forces ? Would be cool and straight from the movie!!! :D
Peter, I may do that actually, as I have decided to make my bad guys Purger army as a standard HOTT amry that I can use with a few additoinal elements. One will be he government troops being played as a Behemoth, and might use the truck or a portion of it as the Stronghold.
Terry
Took a few pics of some of the Purge figures I've been working on. Most some form of conversion done to them. Sorry for the two blurry pictures, but they'll still give you an idea.
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This first picture is of the Leon Barnes/Sergeant Hero element which required a lot of conversion work to achieve the dress the characters are depicted in. As in the picture posted previously, they are from left to right – Leo, Cali, Eva, Liz and Dwayne. Only thing done to Leo was to add his black bag of weapons over his shoulder. Cali was holding a purse and wearing what looked like a sweater, so I removed the purse, added a pistol, made the sweater into her un-tucked in plaid shirt, and shortened her shoulder length hair. Eva, was also a bit involved. The figure came holding a pistol which I left, but she was also wearing a barn like coat, so I shortened it to have her wearing a zip up hoodie so added the hood in the back. Liz was made from a zombie holding a phone, which I removed, and have her wearing her black dress and leggings, light blue denim jacket. Her left arm was positioned so she would be holding on Dwayne's right arm, and I added a pistol. Dwayne was another fun conversion, converting his coat to a padded vest and adding a semi-automatic weapon. Each character did carry/use the weapons I have them holding, and I wanted them to all be holding weapons so they wouldn't be confused with being a Horde since this element has five figures.
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This is the civilian/Shooter element and represents Carmelo Jones and his Purge Resistance fighters. The figure in the center is Carmelo, made from one of Rebel Minis Post Apocalyptic Raiders. I did a head swap adding a Peter Pig British tanker head wearing a beret, and added a clip to his weapon to make it look more like a semi-automatic. I still have to figure out how to add glasses, but have a thought that I am going to try. On the right is Dante Bishop who appeared as the same character in all of the first three movies. The figure on the left is a hooded resistance fighter who was unnamed in the movie, but is seen during the attack on the hunting party near the end – you get a glimpse of him as the resistance fighters advance with guns a-blazing.
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This is one of my bad guy elements, or Purgers. I was going to call it the Cheerleaders, but instead of using three of the same cheerleader figure I made the third figure as a baseball player wearing the uniform of the Atlanta Braves. He was a chubby figure that I slimmed down, converted his trousers to baseball pants and socks and made his tee shirt into a baseball uniform top. Made the bat from a piece of a lance (which I always remove and add wire ones). My basic concept for this element was the "Candy Girl" in The Purge Election year. Since the picture I have modified the hair on the cheerleaders, so one has two buns a la the "Candy Girl" and the other is wearing a blonde wig.
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This was a fun conversion using one of Rebel Minis biker gang figures, which is unchanged. The girl on the back with the shotgun is also a Rebel Mini, removing the pack on her back and the base, then adjusting her legs to let her fit behind the guy on the bike.
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Note much conversion work here. These are the Peter Pig 16th century physicians. I only got them so I could have another element with unique costumes. I did convert their staffs into weapons, and will probably give them a dark red robe with a darker red hat and a black mask and beak.
I have others near finished and will share an update after I get some painting done. Still proving to be a fun project.
Terry
Looking excellent so far!
Always really impressed with your conversions and the range of figures you use. Looking forward to more updates.
I await the results with great anticipation, as you work is top.
Yep...Looking forward to seeing the results ! :)
Cheers - Phil
For a while I didn't click on this thread because people getting rid of armies isn't that interesting. ;D
However, this indeed is going places.
Haven't gotten much done the past two days as we are dealing with a very sick bunny, and that has consumed us. But I am closing on on cleaning the remaining figures and I think all conversions are done so the remaining are just some arm and leg adjustments, filing and sanding and then glue them to painting sticks and priming. I am really enjoying doing the bad guys the most due to their costuming look!
I also need to finish up the last two elements for my Muscovite army so I can sculpt the bases and get it into action.
No other news for now, but more to follow,
Terry
Hope the bun gets better, really soon, Terry !
Cheers - Phil
Hello
The plague doctor figures have have inspired me to consider a Fields of the Nephilim themed HOTT army.
FP, I am not familiar with Fields of the Nephilim, but looked it up and seems it is a Gothic rock band? If so, I am curious to know what your army list is when you work it up.
I am also very happy to report that little Clover is much improved, and if we wake up in the morning and she is still doing well, then the danger is over. Not near ready for that little girl to cross the Rainbow Bridge. She's the white bunny with blue ears and spots in my picture.
Have two more elements to clean up and I can really get started on my Purger army!!! More on it soon.
Terry
For Fields of the Nephilim I'm imagining including units that look like this
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rather than this
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though I may yet be disappointed :)
I was imagining the second
OK, I am not familiar with either, but the costumes of the second one seem awfully cool looking to me! I was already thinking of guys with guitars strapped across their backs - and I was already thinking how to come up with them.
But the first is also very interesting!!! Love to see the army list still.
Terry
For those of you into Gothic music, one of theor few charging hits.
https://youtu.be/JCm68MCvm9M
Quote from: Terry37 on 09 May 2019, 06:15:39 PM
OK, I am not familiar with either, but the costumes of the second one seem awfully cool looking to me! I was already thinking of guys with guitars strapped across their backs - and I was already thinking how to come up with them.
But the first is also very interesting!!! Love to see the army list still.
Terry
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I will see what I can come up with.
Quote from: Terry37 on 09 May 2019, 06:15:39 PM
OK, I am not familiar with either, but the costumes of the second one seem awfully cool looking to me! I was already thinking of guys with guitars strapped across their backs - and I was already thinking how to come up with them.
But the first is also very interesting!!! Love to see the army list still.
Terry
Possibly something a little like this:
1 - Hero General- intense front man with yellow eyes wearing a Duster 4 pts
4 - Shooters- band members deoicted as cowboys only covered in baking powder to represent dust 8pts
4 Hordes- Goth Girlies all in black or country and western fans who have turned up for the wrong gig. 4pts
1- God- Cthulhu or record company representative 4pts
1- Lurker- Obsessive fan depicted as petite blonde woman or a sneering music journalist. 1pts
1 Artillery- Guitar amp set to deafening volume 3pts
Stronghold - Music stage with apocalyptic back drop or Stevenage
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 May 2019, 06:25:33 PM
For those of you into Gothic music, one of theor few charging hits.
https://youtu.be/JCm68MCvm9M
For those who are into
real Gothic music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qFCYRQKVA
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 May 2019, 02:22:05 AM
For those into (allegedly) really real Gothic music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-Bk43uRVM&list=PL8iE5DpBPWvvR_PmWUIZwfjPdNkMMhIwM
For those who don't really care about music but don't want to be left out of the Pendraken Gothic revival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0pPgfC6wg4
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 May 2019, 02:23:58 AM
For those who don't really care about music but don't want to be left out of the Pendraken Gothic revival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0pPgfC6wg4
While for those who fancy a sort of Mel Gibson version that actual Goths wouldn't recognise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-Bk43uRVM&list=PL8iE5DpBPWvvR_PmWUIZwfjPdNkMMhIwM
Not to be overlooked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWP_vEcWqMo
As an exhortation to learn from our French friends' misfortunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHOTAhHjtww
An eclectic mix :-\
And a heartlessly overworked epithet! ;D
Flaming Pig, That's an interesting musical HOTT list. I had once thought of doing something based on KISS. Might still do it some day as I enjoy the conversion challenges that would be involved.
Thanks,
Terry
Quote from: Terry37 on 11 May 2019, 10:47:42 PM
Flaming Pig, That's an interesting musical HOTT list. I had once thought of doing something based on KISS. Might still do it some day as I enjoy the conversion challenges that would be involved.
Thanks,
Terry
Unfortunately I am a very poor painter and an even worse modeller so the list will probably never be actualised.
Flaming Pig, Do not let anything stop you in creating the Music army, as it sounds great. If you need some help making the guitars, etc. I am happy to offer my assistance. Just let ,me know what you need and the scale. You could also do a van as the Stronghold as all bands at least started out in one. Although, none of the bands I played in ever did, but that's because none of us owned a car, let alone a van - I'm talking early '60's.
Re my Purge effort, I have made a change to my bad guys - Purgers, army and decided to go ahead and do it as a standard HOTT army so I can play it in open gaming and not just in my Purge scenario. The good guys - survivors, are still as originally planned.
Last night I glued all the figures save two elements on painting sticks and primed them. Phew! That primer is stinky stuff, but one does what one must do!!! The teo elements I still need to do are the General element, a Pimp with his body guards, and another Shooter element. I am expecting the necessary figures to arrive in tomorrows mail. Once I have them, I'll clean them up quickly and glue them on painting sticks and primed and then it's full speed ahead on painting them. I have to admit, that I am really looking forward to creating some crazy costumed Purgers!!!!
More to follow...."Stay Safe"!!!!
Terry
Terry
Just a short update. I have nearly finished the base coats on the first four elements and will share a post soon. May wait until they been finished, but we'll see. I will say it has been fun creating so many characters form the movies - primarily The Purge Anarchy (which to me is the best one).
More soon,
Terry
Normally I would not share pictures of figures in progress, but thought you all might like seeing the progress. Sill a few bits to hit, and final touch-ups before washing/shading and highlighting, but you'll get an idea anyway.
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Hero element for the Survivor team - left to right: Shane, Liz, Eva, Cali and Leo. About half way through the movie, Cali lost her army jacket, so I opted for that version of her.
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Compare them to this picture to better understand the element. This picture is in reverse order by character of my figures above, i.e. Leo is far left and Dwayne at far right.
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Shooter element survivor team - Purge Resistance Fighters - Carmelo Johns center, Dante Bishop left and unnamed Resistance Fighter right.
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Purge Team General: Pimp with his gangsta bodyguards.
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Biker with his "old lady".
More to follow
Terry
:-bd =D> :-bd
Excellent :D
Very nice work, Terry !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Really looking good
Although a busy week, I have just about finished the first 5 elements for this army. Most of the shading I'll do by hand, but the base coats are finally all but finished. Here are a few pics, but understand they are far from finished.
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More soon,
Terry
:-bd =D> :-bd
particularly the check shirt
They're going to look great !
Cheers - Phil
Looking like a great project again
I like the effect on the fur coat!
Thank you all for the kind and supportive comments. It is proving a lot of fun. I've also been watching lots of gangland type movies for ideas and motivation as well as watching the Purge movies over and over and clips on YouTube.
I am sorry that Cali's checkered shirt didn't show up as well, but I was very pleased in how it turned out. I'll make sure you can see it in the next picture.
The fur coat on the pimp general was a fun to do. I got the idea from this picture I found on line.
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More soon as I am starting the shading and highlighting now.
Terry
OK, the first six elements are finished, save the basing which I will do at one time when the army is finished. All of the figures are Rebel Minis 15 MM form various ranges that he offers.
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The Survivors Hero element, with Leo and his following. You can see Cali's plaid shirt a little better in this one.
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Carmelo and his Purge Resistance Fighters. This is a Shooter element.
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And now for the baddies. Here's the Pimp Boss General, a Warband element, with his bodyguard. Can't really see it in this picture bu the "lady" on the right has bright green, purple and yellow hair.
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Another Warband element, a group of gangers out purging!
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Biker and his "Old Lady" our purging. He's got a piece of chain in his right hand, and she's got a pump shotgun. Her hair is bleached blonde with a carmine streak and a green streak in it. She was made from a standing figure.
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Thought I'd show you a rear view of the biker, so you can see what I did on the back of their black leather jackets. Just FYI, she is not glued in place yet as I'll do that after I've done the base.
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Here's a government drone made from a Pendraken drone, but with four rotors added.
Started working on the next batch now, so more to come.
Terry
Great work, Terry, very creative. :-bd :-bd
Very decent work. Bet they are going to.look amazing based.
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Looking forward to seeing the rest and them all based
Looking good!
Looking damn fine, Terry !
Cheers - Phil
For those not familiar wit The Purge movies, these may be of some help in understanding the many funny costumes you get to do for this project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE21mbeZvfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVF-a5Miu5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jJ6Bejayg
This is only some of them, but it will give you an idea. I am starting on some of fhe really fun figures now and it is these costumes and masks that are he reason I am pursuing this project.
More soon,
Terry
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 May 2019, 09:26:51 PM
...amazing based...
Hmmm...there could be a song in that....
Sorry no pictures yet, but have to at east give an update. Two Purger Shooter elements well underway, a "Sports" element (Warband) - two cheerleaders (SMU and UT Austin) and the Clown element almost done (Warband). Have to say that in all my years of painting soldiers and gaming I honestly never thought I'd be painting clowns.....but what a hoot!!!! Of course being one who has to research to the Nth degree, I looked at dozens and dozens of clown pictures before I started them. They have been so much fun to paint and gaudy and colorful is quite an understatement!!! I'll have some pictures shortly.
After these are done, I am thinking I only have three more element to finish the army - a Beast (thugs with dogs), another Shooter (government hired mercenaries) and the last Warband element.
My real delima right now is what to use for eh Stronghold???? I ahve been thinking of an apartment type building or maybe a Pimp-Mobile - after the the General is a Pimp!!!! Any thoughts?
Terry
Hello
I haven't seen the purge but isn't there normally a liquor store in this gritty urban genre?
Quote from: Terry37 on 04 June 2019, 02:26:28 AM
Sorry no pictures yet, but have to at east give an update. Two Purger Shooter elements well underway, a "Sports" element (Warband) - two cheerleaders (SMU and UT Austin) and the Clown element almost done (Warband). Have to say that in all my years of painting soldiers and gaming I honestly never thought I'd be painting clowns.....but what a hoot!!!! Of course being one who has to research to the Nth degree, I looked at dozens and dozens of clown pictures before I started them. They have been so much fun to paint and gaudy and colorful is quite an understatement!!! I'll have some pictures shortly.
After these are done, I am thinking I only have three more element to finish the army - a Beast (thugs with dogs), another Shooter (government hired mercenaries) and the last Warband element.
My real delima right now is what to use for eh Stronghold???? I ahve been thinking of an apartment type building or maybe a Pimp-Mobile - after the the General is a Pimp!!!! Any thoughts?
Terry
Great work Terry 8).
Looking really good!
Flaming Pig, the idea of a liquor store is a good one. However, using the movies as he basis, I have decided to go with a multi-story apartment building. Leven makes a nice one that should fit the bill, so I just need to place the order. You can see it toward he bottom of this page, it's model HOU25 - Block of Flats - here http://www.levenminiatures.co.uk/pages/housing.htm
Made this decision after looking at several dozen pictures of Pimp-Mobiles, and they just didn't seem right to the setting of the movies.
More soon,
Terry
I highly recommend that you play this YouTube with volume as background while looking at this picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODqj9Mq39FM
And now Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages in the center ring we have the Clowns!
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When I first got into the hobby over 60 years ago I never thought I'd be painting clowns.....but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! These bad boys are all the same figure which I have done a little modification to each for a slightly different look to each one. They are a Rebel Mini zombie figure, but really paint up nicely, and with the weapons added will make a colorful Purge Warband element. Their weapons left to right are a scythe, a hunting knife added to a broom handle and a small hatchet. These are just base coats, but I will do a little shading and highlighting by hand so I can keep he bright colors.
More to follow,
Terry
These made me smile greatly, Terry (along with the background music). In my lifetime I have seen clowns (think Emmet Kelly) go from playful and very human figures to representatives of demonic evil (thanks almost exclusively to Stephen King). Really enjoying following your work.
Top work Terry
Very good, suitably scary!
Thank you all! Bill, Emmett Kelly will always be the most famous clown I know of, even surpassing the one with the Golden Arches by a long shot! I studied quite a few pictures of Emmett Kelly, but his costume did not match what I had to work with, but I was considering doing his face make-up.
Terry
:-bd =D> :-bd
They're great fun. :)
Cheers - Phil
Just wanted to share a work in progress report on the new Purger elements. They are far from finished, but will give an idea of where I'm heading.
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The clowns base coats are now final, with a few minor changes and tweaks from the last picture. Will start the shading and highlighting on them now. When I do that I will focus on just these three figures.
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First view of the "sport's Warband element. Univ. of Texas, Atlanta Brave, and SMU.. Need lots of work still.
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The first Shooter element. Flag face, skull face and a character taken form the second Purge movie, Anarchy.
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Second Shooter element. All variations taken from the various movies, although the last guy was taken from the Indian in the latest remake of The Magnificent Seven, but modified. (FYI - the remake is terrible so stick with the original!!!)
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Behemoth element, the NFFA troops from the second movie, Anarchy. I know, pretty exciting.....black! Here are a couple of screen shots form the movie so you can see just how exciting they are. Hopefully some highlighting and bits will make hem look a little more interesting. But they are a big part of the story.
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(https://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh235/terry37photos/Painting/NFFA%20Troops_zps7a1ovtqt.jpg) (http://s257.photobucket.com/user/terry37photos/media/Painting/NFFA%20Troops_zps7a1ovtqt.jpg.html)
I know, they're hard to see, so maybe this will give an better idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qv52f3CL70
More to follow,
Terry
Looking good, Terry!
Top Terry! 8)
Very nice work, that man ! :-bd
(Those clowns ARE creepy !!)
Cheers - Phil
Here are four more elements finished for my Purge army. These four elements were truly fun to paint due to the various masks and face paint, not to mention the clowns. There are two Warband elements and two Shooter elements.
Only four more elements to go to finish the army and am hoping the buildings I ordered for the Stronghold will arrive so I can get that done too.
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Clowns – Warband
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Sports Purgers – Warband
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Ganger – Shooters
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Another Ganger element – Shooters
More to follow,
Terry
Nicely nasty Terry. :D
:-bd =D> :-bd
Nice, Terry. Strange that we've come to a time when the clowns appear, by far, the most threatening, total nightmare material! :)
:-bd
Those clowns look creepy!
VERY creepy.
Great job on those, Terry.
Cheers - Phil
Thank you all. I am finding it interesting that it seems a common thought about the clowns being creepy! I hear it a lot, but hadn't thought of them that way. Actually, my being a zombie story fan I have over the years purchased a lot of zombie figures, of which these clowns are part of. They are intended to serve as zombies as purchased, but also seemed to work fine as living people, and since the fun theme of The Purge is a Halloween type theme where the baddies dress up and wear masks, etc. that seemed a perfect use for them (and the cheerleaders), as I didn't see a clown as a zombie I would want to do. They are made from a single pose casting that I tried to modify each a little, but the middle guy with the hunting knife on a broom handle is the stock figure with the weapon added. The cheer leaders are also sold as zombies.
Terry
Finished two more elements for the Purge - the "Smileys" and the Government Troops. Only leaves three to go, and it's finished. The buildings for the Stronghold arrived, so I'll start working on them too.
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The "Smileys" - Mercenary troops brought in to help reduce the lower income families so the government doesn't have to take care of them!!! (Told you the scenario of the movies is appalling!!!) Sadly, the smiling faces painted on their Balaclava don't show up very well, but in person it make them very creepy looking.
(https://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh235/terry37photos/Painting/First%20Purge%201_zpsphzlfsqb.jpg) (https://s257.photobucket.com/user/terry37photos/media/Painting/First%20Purge%201_zpsphzlfsqb.jpg.html)
The "Smileys" from a screen shot of the movie.
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The Federal troops, brought in for the same reason as the Mercenaries. They are basically overall black, but in reality are painted a black-gray, shaded with true black and highlighted with a medium gray and then in a few key areas a lighter medium gray.
More to follow,
Terry
Nice
Looking good, Terry. 8)
Cheers - Phil
Another element finished for this army - The Beast element, some punks of the "Heart Bleeders" gang with their mutts!! The center puppy is what is called a Tiger Boxer. Had never heard of it, but in seeking info ran across it and had to do that one. Not sure what the other two are supposed to be so I did one as a sheep dog and the other a a black mutt whose owner painted him as a skeleton for Purge Night.
(https://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh235/terry37photos/Painting/DSCF2175_zpsj1s71eje.jpg) (https://s257.photobucket.com/user/terry37photos/media/Painting/DSCF2175_zpsj1s71eje.jpg.html)
More to follow,
Terry
:-bd =D> :-bd
Particularly like the Tiger Boxer :)
Great work once again and the tiger boxer looks like it's wearing a fancy dress skeleton suit, making it really fit in with the whole theme 8).
Cool
Thank you gentlemen for the kind words. I have really been having fun doing this army, even though it is keeping me from some other commitments. I think what makes it so much fun is the Halloween aspect of masks and costumes that are a prominent part of the movies/story line.
Here's a picture of a Tiger Boxer, which I used as the reference.
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And, here's the reference I used for the black dog whose owner painted up as a skeleton.
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Working on the "Bird Watchers" now ans they will be very colorful, but are also a big challenge -You'll see what I mean shortly.
Terry
Super work on those, Terry ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
When I first looked at the figures, I though it was a black hyena but after reading post see what you did, your source picture was hilarious.
Of the three dogs, "skeletor" is my favorite.
One more element finished, and this actually gives me a 24 point army, so it could be ready for play. However, I am going to do another Warband element.
This element is my "Bird Watchers", and probably the craziest of all the elements, but I was always fascinated by these Peter Pig figures, and ordered hem with no real plan in mind. However, once I got into this project I decided...why not! They are very colorful and to keep that colors bright like I did with the clowns, I hand painted the shadows and highlights. They are based on actual birds, that I got from my copy of Peterson's. Left to right, they are - an Eastern Bluebird, a Western Tanager and a Painted Bunting. These guys are played as a Warband.
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More to follow,
Terry
Nice work Terry and I like the idea of using bird colours/markings as inspiration.
+1 :)
Cheers - Phil
Nice one
+1 also. Using bird colors opens a world of possibilities but, Terry, wouldn't this element be called a "flock"? :P
Thank you gentlemen for the kind remarks. This has really been a very enjoyable project. Not one I took a lot of seriousness in, but really to just have fun creating some funny and colorful elements. Had to do some research into what gangers might look like and being honest even some of the pictures I saw were scary!!!
Bill, a interesting suggestion!!! I checked the rules for a "Flock" element but the closest I could come up with was a Flier. Somehow I don't see these bad boys actually being able to fly, so I'll leave them as a Warband.....or maybe a Warband Flock!!!! :D
Terry
You could try the collective nouns route:
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/collective-nouns-for-birds-68344 (https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/collective-nouns-for-birds-68344)
I've finished the base coats on the last Ganger Warband element - they're sort of a elitist punk rocker type group. One has a big Mohawk and one is a converted riot policeman wearing a motorcycle helmet, and baseball catchers pads (and he turned out very cool I think). The last guy is just a big tuff - all brawn and no brain! Definitely fun ones to paint up. I hope to do the shading and Highlighting tomorrow and share pictures. Then I'll start basing the entire army and start working on the Stronghold. Two of the figures I know are Rebel, and the third, the guy with the Mohawk might also be. This gives me 26 points for eh army so i can swap out the clowns as some find them too creepy. Painted really quickly and I a looking forward to getting them into play!
The Stronghold will be a couple of lower income storefronts and apartments above, so there will be some conversion to turn the buildings to that description.
More soon,
Terry
OK, all of the figures are now painted, and glued to their bases. The next step is to do up the bases and paint them, then properly do the Stronghold and it's ready for action. Due to a friend's preference to not deal with clowns, I have two versions. After all, the local guys respect my immense fear of spiders and so do not play them, I can easily understand.
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Here's the final Warband element - a mixed bag of thugs!
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Here's option A, with the Birdwatchers. Note the buildings in the back ground. They will eventually be converted into a store on the lower left building and painted up as a lower income area of a large city. Those are 6 MM Leven models and I really like them for my HOTT armies.
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Here's option B, with the clowns.
So, it's on to the basing now!!!
Terry
Fab Terry
I like the clowns as they really stand out from the crowd 8).
Looking forward to seeing them all based up
Wot they sed :)
Looking very, very nice, Terry. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Super job! I like the clowns in the line up as they really stand out, in a creepy sort of way.