7TV - The Cast (pt.5)

With the upcoming 7TV: Apocalypse being previewed soon at Salute 2018 I thought I would share a few more of my recent Casting Couch auditions.

These have a 'post apocalypse / zombie survival scenario' bent to them...

First up are the Containment Squad...

Here come The Men In Black...

Survivors...

These guys are actually enjoying the Apocalypse...

Alpha Males...

Some poor defenceless innocents...

Last up, some generic, expendable military types. Bless 'em...

Figures by CP Models, Hasslefree, Copplestone, Studio Miniatures and Miniature Mojo.

7TV - The Cast (pt.3)

Some more 7TV cast, this time with a more 'Sci-Fi' flavour...

The Preacher and the Engineer...

The Starship Crew...

The Space Pilot...

The Alien Killer...

The Captain...

The First Officer...

The Soldier...

The Mercenary...

The Boy From Hell...

The Juve Gang...

The Squat Trooper...

The Genetic Experiment...

The Alien Scout Squad...

Figures this time from Heresy, Hasslefree, Crooked Dice, Moonraker Miniatures and CP Models.

Kindly painted by Robafett and Matt Slade (nothing by me this time!)

Doctor Who - 10th Doctor & 'Slitheen'.

The 10th Doctor and Rose Tyler face off against a mean group of Raxacoricofallapatorian..

Surrounded! But who is the mysterious stranger??

The Slitheen are a family of massive, bipedal extraterrestrials. They are creatures of living calcium, hatched from eggs and native to the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius. Though the name "Slitheen" refers to a specific family, the term has been used by the Doctor and Rose to refer to the Raxacoricofallapatorian race in general.

The Slitheen are a ruthless criminal sect whose main motivation is profit. They are instinctive hunters, being trained to hunt and kill from as young as twelve. The members of the family are convicted criminals on their planet, subject to the death penalty if captured. Blon (the last of the Slitheen family on earth) had a second chance to relive her life thanks to the 9th Doctor.

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A 'not' set of monsters recreating a scene that didn't happen for the 10th Doctor (I don't have my 9th Doctor painted yet...) - hardly a favourite Doctor Who monster for me, for some reason I couldn't resist these figures from CP Models and found them fun to paint. The 'hands' and heads are separate allowing a myriad of poses.

Rose and Jack by Crooked Dice, the Doctor by Heresy and the 'not' Slitheen by CP Models.

Call of Cthulhu - Deep Ones.

Deep Ones.

"I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design - living and horrible."

(H.P.Lovecraft - "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")

Hybrid children watch the sea...

Maybe it was the calling of the sea, the foul murmurs of the Esoteric Order of Dagon, or maybe the fish and chips I had at the weekend - whatever, I decided to make a start on my Deep One horde. Currently a work in progress, I have dug out all my 'Deep One' miniatures and started work on about half. Out of the initial twenty, three of these are almost done but I have most of the detailing work to complete on the others. I also have two hybrid types undercoated and then another fourteen, a mix of hybrids and pure, to begin.

A fishy collective.

The figures are a mix of old Grenadier, RAFM, em4, CP Models, Black Cat Bases, plus some Black Tree Design Fishmen and Troglodytes to bolster the ranks. At the back is a huge mutated Deep One, aka a Frog Daemon also from Black Tree. Due to their monstrous nature and the practice of mating with humans, I felt there was a some flexibility in the actual physical shapes they could potentially have. The idea is that these are a mixed bunch of pure Deep Ones right through the various stages of hybrid plus the few inevitable grotesque mutations.

...pray for Father, roaming free.

As far as painting goes, I have tried to go for the 'classic' look, as described by Lovecraft, greyish green with white bellies. I could not decide on the colour of the eyes so settled for a glowing yellowy look.

Blasphemous fish-frogs indeed!