Deathship One
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About the Project
Black Scorpion Miniatures Highlanders were purchased as a love thing. Wanted them wanted to paint them and eventually field them somehow. Then Joseph came to the rescue. DeathShip One is a fun looking game. Fight with any era's miniatures to take on 5 rooms of death to say that you beat the ship and a promise of gaining their freedom. The project gave me the excuse wanted to buy a Wargames Atlantic Harvesters box to create bad guys for the game.
Related Game: Deathship One
Related Company: Black Scorpion Miniatures
Related Genre: Science Fiction
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Harvester progress
Experimenting with different shades of blue. These bad guys described in the book are shark like but with claws. I think a mix of blue skin tones nods towards that description.
The Aethermatic Blue of this skin looks great.
I think this is Frost Heart Blue,?
This one had more ultramarine and Nightshade elements like the original test model.I wanted to add some red to the barbs on the limbs. It was then that I realised some of the builds are totally wrong / inconsistent, but they’re mutations from a Death Ship, so I imagine that they are hyper evolving and that’s why they’re different. (That’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.)
Golden Button (The Butt But Ding of it all.)
Got another mention for my painting / hobbying.??
They didn’t mention the badger on the mystic / Seer’s base, which was an uncharacteristic miss on Ben’s part. Lol.
Thanks. Every mention like that is greatly appreciated.
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Tokens
Unsure what to use for tokens. I could use Stargrave Sci-fi related tokens or maybe some Corpse Markers from my Rangers of Shadow Deep games. Or maybe some tartan printed on card, especially as this is just a casual occasional game.
Rieger - Tooth and claw
Unsure on the posing, but he's certainly a fearsome thing. The Wargames Atlantic Harvesters were such a good purchase for this project. I might try a different scheme, but I like the simplicity and am not sure that a colourful alternative is on the cards. These will be my Rieger proxies.
I like the glass on the base. The screen protection glass did it's job and took the impact of a couple of slips, but I replaced it. Seemed a shame to throw the broken layer away. It stays together quite well because one side is sticky. Not too dangerous to cut with scissors. Will use these shattered glass elements across my bad guys.Primed Black (Just brushed on as I experiment with the scheme.)
Drybrush of Rakarth Flesh to pick out edges and details.
Good coat of Drakenhof Nightshade everywhere.
Macragge Blue dry brush.
Nihilakh Oxide and Macragge Blue mix as a higher highlight.
White Teeth and Blood for the Blood God painted over the superglue gore and along a brush bristle hanging from the claws.
WYSIWYG - Shooters
Was going to just litter the base with a quiver and bow. Decided that slung over the shoulder would look better. The Oathmark Goblin quivers looked too short so I added a piece of sprue to lengthen them a touch. I had to cut away the hands, but the bows came from a Frostgrave Soldiers II sprue. The bowstring is a brush bristle. May be fragile, will coat it a couple of times with PVA to give it a chance of survival.
Lloyd shot The excuse - Wargames Atlantic Harvesters
Initial scheme. Painted black and dry brushed grey. High white dry brush and followed by an orange contrast paint. Highlighted with orange and higher highlight of yellow.
I saw that the bestiary gave you scope to have insect like small aliens and teeth heavy Tyranidesque aliens. The Harvester box had been something I wanted since the previews some time ago. This project gave me the excuse I wanted to buy a box.
The bad guys - Robots
The blades was a take on the official green studio box art scheme.
Haven't painted necrons before so this was new and fun.
Got these from one of the 40k magazine sprues.The warband
Happy with how the warband looks. No idea how it will play in game. Seems that naming them would be unnecessary, as few if any will survive. 
The warband gives me all the elements allowed in a Low-Tech force. As this is a deliberately hard game to beat, why leave anything out that the game designer put in there to help? 1x Leader, 1x Seer, 1x Healer, X3 Shooters (minimum you have to take) and 4 Fighters.Shooter, fighter, Taylor, spy
I read the warband composition rules and realised I have under done it on the shooters. I will keep this band as it looks, but drop bows on the basing of two of my fighters to make it easier at a glance to see which stat line is applicable.
Shooter
Painted this model as part of a Rangers of Shadow Deep warband. He's another Black Scorpion Miniature and as such scales perfectly with the rest.Hammer of the Scots
He-man hammers away exposing grey skulls as he goes.Not Gleason, Hamish, braveheart at all
Wallace, Wallace, Wallace
A Douglas, A Douglas
Tried to imitate my family tartan on this one. It's close enough that I am happy. The shield has the stars of the Douglas clan, but I imagine this lot are pre- Bannockburn highlanders so there would be no heart and crown on the shield. I went with a cross instead and call him Jimmy the Pious.
The healer
Healer for my warband was a V&V resin Viking. The shield and pouches are from the Barbarian II Frostgrave sprue. The bloody cloth in the hand is cut up shards of sprue. The bandage on his right hip is a tight spiral of sprue. I decided that I would limit the woad to just the healer and the Seer.The hook - The Seer
Part of the fun and the hook of this project has been making a 10 man "Low-Tech" warband from the 8 Black Scorpion Miniatures I already had. The Seer is meant to be mystical. I had a badger and some rats and felt that having some creatures seemingly under this miniatures control gave that mystical feel.
The start.
The leader of the group, pointing with a blooded hammer
The basing with flower soft on a grass tuft should make him stand out nicely. The basing will be Forrest floor brown flock and stones and tufts. 
