With this year’s Miss Feasance providing a Seamus and an alt Sybelle already in the stash, I was just one clearance box of Rotten Belles and a proxy Copycat Killer away from a Seamus crew box worth of models. How could I resist?
Emeline Bellerose (alt Sybelle)
Emeline Bellerose is an alt Sybelle originally made available as a promo in August 2017 when buying enough Wyrd product from a local game store. Although the character she represents is undead, I decided to go with a cleaner, more ladylike appearance that most of my Resurrectionists.
Proxy Copycat Killer (Wild West Dorothy)
I’m still keeping an eye out for a Puppet Wars Seamus or Evil Baby Orphanage models for a more “official” proxy. But for now I’ve got this Wild West Dorothy from Reaper’s Chronoscope line. There’s some light conversion of giving her a bigger gun, and of course hats. The topmost hat is an extra from one of the Winter Wonderland Ice Gamin, so at least there’s some Wyrd product!
Rotten Belle (burgundy)
Rotten Belle (green)
Rotten Belle (purple)
Finally, the Belles. They get my standard undead treatment, and individual colors to help distinguish them on the table.
Since I’ve evidently doing Resurrectionists now, I guess I should probably do some Versatile models. Dead Rider seems like a good start.
Dead Rider
I decided against using my undead flesh recipe on the horse, even though he appears to be a re-assembled horsey monstrosity. Instead I went with the purples and (and green for the rider) that are my primary colors for the Ressers.
To make it look more decayed, I went with bronze and verdigris on the metals. I picked up Secret Weapon’s verdigris paints a while ago, but haven’t really worked out how to use them. I haven’t achieved a particularly realistic effect, but at least it adds some visual interest.
These two blisters from TTCombat expand my selection of post-apoc scatter terrain.
TTCombat Furniture
These pieces let me explore a couple of new-to-me techniques. I’ve long used (on these and other pieces) sponge chipping for rust. On the couches I used a sponge for dirt.
TTCombat Vending Machines
I also used AK weathering pencils, especially for rain streaks. It ended up almost invisible, but adds a hard-to-define authenticity to the terrain.
Along with Wreck Age models and terrain, I picked up some post-apoc terrain from Crooked Dice, the makers of 7TV, at Adepticon.
It’s a nice mix of fairly generic signage, although I wish I had picked up some walls to go with the gate. Maybe next year.
The pieces themselves are nicely detailed resin. All the signs came with a variety of different signs to put on the post.
Painting post-apoc terrain is a ton of fun, since the messier it looks the better. The only risk is letting things get too dark, like the lettering on the gate.
