2024 Painting Log

It’s unsettling, just how susceptible I am to Gerry’s unboxing videos. Star Schlock is at least the third game I wasn’t going to get into, but changed my mind after seeing Gerry talk about it.

In this case, I did look at the Kickstarter but decided against it, for reasons that elude me at the moment. It was probably due to the overwhelming nature of most Kickstarter campaigns — “here’s a whole ton of stuff, you need to commit to buying all of it right now or you’ll never see any of it again.” It’s also possible that I was in the midst of another project, or had too many crowdfunders going at the time.

Just buying the boxed game direct from Wunkay was a very satisfying experience compared to Kickstarter. I decided I wanted the game on a Monday, ordered it on a Tuesday, and had it in my hands by the weekend. A far cry from the usual two year wait…

Anyway, enough about crowdfunding. The models in the boxed game are a lot of fun, very characterful with a reasonable amount of detail. I decided to paint the gorilla soldiers in classic Planet of the Apes livery rather than the gold outfits shown in the game’s artwork.

I used a mix of techniques for these, starting with a base coat of purple and brown (or black for the lead gorilla), with a middle grey for the hands and faces. I then used Army Painter purple, strong tone, and dark tone washes. The strong and dark tones worked okay, although I had to do two coats to darken down the grey I used for the heads and hands, but the purple left their arms and legs too dark, so I painted in some purple highlights before a final yellowed bone drybrush.

I’m very much looking forward to painting the Explorer Corps landing party, but I’m having a hard time deciding on the color scheme. I like what’s shown on the box art, but at the same time I’m a huge fan of the ’80s Star Trek movies (well, most of them), so I’m tempted to do them all with maroon jackets…

2024 models painted so far: 219, for 6 different games