Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Jingwei

Heya, this is my third Celestial Genesis mini. I’ve been documenting my paintjobs with On Table Top projects. I previously completed Twilight and Uzeon. It’s been awhile, but part of that is because I completed the entire thing this time before starting this project! My Uzeon project had large stretches with no updates due to work, school, burnout and etc. This time all the work is already done so I should be able to put out two or three updates a week so people can follow along steadily.

Anyway, for the first entry, I’m actually going to do two updates. The first update, is about Celestial/Diemension games at Gencon ’19. The second is about assembling the mini. So without any further ado.

Gencon ’19:

Diemension Games had a pretty sizable booth this year. They had playable demos of Deep Madness and I believe also Dawn of Madness. The highlight for me, though was the four display cases of painted celestial minis, many only seen before as concept art, renders, or even completely new!

Looks like the 4 factions are

Void of Kunlun: Featuring the Queen of the Void naturally, along with Twilight. Has the highest proportion of pinup style models. My guess for the game: this will be the sneaky/deceptive faction.

Guardians of Pangu: Featuring the Celestials based on the four cardinal direction deities, like Zhurong and Uzeon. Appears to be the most mechanical/robotic faction. My guess is that this will be the defensive powerhouse faction.

Flesh of Nuwa: Featuring Nucho and of course Jingwei. Seems to have the most “mutated” looking characters of all the factions. My guess is that this will be the specialist faction.

Legacy of the Nine Dawns: Featuring the will of the nine dawns himself, G’Gong, along with his flunk X’Hydral. Appears to be the most straight up monstrous of the four factions. My guess is that this will be the games full aggro faction.

I have no idea of the display cases represent which factions the characters will actually be in in the game. For instance Nuwa appeared in Guardians of Pangu case rather than her titular faction’s.

They also showed a gameboard with a mock battle set up along with some character cards.

It appears that it’s going to be a skirmish style game with some nameless chumps to fill out your ranks in addition to the named celestials. Some of them are pretty cute:

I spoke with a few people at the booth, the guy who seemed to know the most about Celestial made it sound like we might be getting some new Celestial Genesis releases sometime this winter.

That said, I know they had to delay their Dawn of Madness kickstarter a bit since then, so I have no idea what their timetable looks like at the moment. I believe they’re still planning to do a kickstarter for the Celestial game with hard plastic miniatures at some point in the future. (Personally I’m way more of a painter than a gamer, so I’m mainly looking forward to more releases in the resin Celestial Genesis line).

Speaking of Deep Madness, the kickstarer for that recently successfully wrapped up. I didn’t back it because I don’t really need more minis in my life at this point, and the aesthetic is a bit too, uh, gruesome for my tastes (they’re seriously some of the gnarliest minis I’ve ever seen). That said, they are very well done, the painted versions at the Gencon booth looked amazing (I don’t know if pictures are available anywhere, sorry!), so if you’re interested I imagine they’ll be open for late pledges at some point in the near future.

Finally, there were some new Celestials released for Gencon. I particularly like Nucho. They’re still on sale at the site, check it out if you’re interested. (I should mention I have no connection/arrangement with Diemension so that’s not an affiliate link or anything, I’m just a fan).

Anyway, that’s it for Celestial news from Gencon, next update we’ll cut to the chase and start building Jingwei.