Dystopian Bob Wars

The Journey into the Dystopian Wars reminded me of all the Wild West Exodus figures I brought about 4 years ago. I had painted up about 40 figures ( 0ne  of the old starter sets)and was painting a Confederate possie and literally stopped mid paint…

So for this years Spring Challange ta ra! (trumpets and drums please)

It was time I decided to go back to the old Mexican, border town of Rio Morpork , the Town developed around an old Mexican Settlement about 30 years before current events in the Dystopian World ( The Town is actually that old, many of the buildings were Resin models from various Sources, the figures that originally populated it were mainly Guernsey Foundry before the merged with Wargames Foundry, some Dixon, and other sources I can’t remember but do include some very old Hinchcliffe!)

The Town developed as the setting for a series of participation games we did for a couple years at shows , school fetes and even break dance tournaments!

The game participants would find themselves on the Streets of Rio  Morpork for the 4th of July boxing match. The match was to start with the firing of the Noon day gun. Various groups within the town were all planning various nefarious acts covered by the noise  , a jail break , bank robberies ( yes plural) murders etc. Various character populated the Town well known to Gerry and other Pratchett fans. Mrs Palm ran the H’mph H’mph Hotel, as in ‘I’m just going to the H’mph H’mph Hotel my dear’

The obvious visit to see the ladies of negotiable effection being glossed over. Bill Doors was the Undertaker  though no one knew why their was a Sythe on the sign  and why he called his horse Binky.

It also was the scene of many ‘spats’ between the Town Marshall Wynot Burp  and the semi outlaw Clactons

( Sheriff Vimes was County Sheriff Gerry!)

As with many such projects the Town was left to prosperity, apart from the valiant defence against the Giant Ant outbreak. So Its only fair that we return to see how the Town has faired in the Dystopian age.

So going back to the WWE figures  Bit of a journey down memory lane as most of the already completed figures were pre  contrast paints and more importantly pre project on OTT. All done with base colour paints and washs.

I added a bit of yellow piping and red for the heavy wpns (Confederate Artillery)

I then brought the Confederate Rebellion starter set  as I wanted the new rules and Gubbins, even though it doubled up some of character figures. I brought the Wayward Eight and Deadly Seven Possies as …..why not?

The confederates I already had had been primed originally in Army Painter uniform grey , two coats and then given a Nuln oil Wash way beck in the day.

Some I had dry brushed in a lighter grey, not sure what it was , this time I just mixed one myself using Grey Seer and Army painter Matt black, and dry brushed them  a couple of times, lightening the colour and the pressure each time till I got the effect I wanted .

Then it was just a  case of block colouring and washing wpns and faces .

1. The newer starter posse, I decided to try  with Contrast Paints, mainly Gryph Charger Grey , over Grey Seer base, they came out ok, but not sure they were ant improvement on the original method and certainly were no quicker to do

I had built my Wayward Eight posse , and having looked at the artwork , I realised it was a lot of brown variations, wasnt sure how it would look on my broken desert Sand bases

(just miliput with a knife bodged lines to create the effect, Painted in base Zandri Dust, A wash of Reikland Fleshshade, then dry brushed lightly Zandri Dust and Wraithbone)

I picked a Marshall figure from the old starter set  and tried a sample pant scheme using various Brown Contrast shades and Washs.

• I was reasonably pleased with the result  but decided to try with the various different Grey Contrast Shades for the historically predominant montone colours that more modern Western films portray.