Next up for the Dark Carnival is Mr Cooper’s totems, Flying Monkeys (alt Mechanical Doves).
Flying Monkey (blue)
Purple or green monkeys would have been silly. Instead, I used those colors for the hat and shorts, and pulled out the gray from Mr Cooper’s hair as the main color for the Flying Monkeys. I always wish I could achieve more texture for animal models, but either fail or wimp out. This time it was wimping out.
Flying Monkey (white)
Since the monkeys reappear on the Coryphee, I really wanted to use these models to validate the color scheme. I’m happy with the results.
Flying Monkey (white)
The three sculpts, while not identical, aren’t exactly distinctive on the tabletop. So I colored the wings to make them easy to identify in game.
When Wyrd’s Easter sale announcement made the Nightmare Coryphee available again, plus a new alt Joss, from the Guilder store I decided I had to dust off my Dark Carnival box and bring it to the table. It took some time, but now I’m finally getting them off the workbench.
Dark Carnival is the Nightmare box Wyrd released at Gencon 2015, and has been available a few times since. It is an alternate for the Colette Smoke and Mirrors box, with an evil circus theme. Each model gets a alternate sculpt from the standard box.
Mr Cooper
Mr Cooper (alt Colette) sets the color tone. Deep violet red and green. In retrospect, I wish I had used the darker green for the scarf, to give it more contrast with the scarf.
Baritone Lola
Baritone Lola (alt Cassandra) continues the colors, although switching the focus to the greens. I’m quite pleased with the face makeup on this model. It’s simple but effective, and helps to sell the model as a clown.
Perhaps my favorite UCM unit is the Falcon. How could I avoid the Resistance equivalent, the giant helicopters known as Typhoons?
Typhoons (group shot)
The model comes with metal rotors, which I thought might be hard to work with or bendy, but it hasn’t really been a problem. I did magnetize the rotor hub and model body so I can pack them more easily.
Typhoon
In the one game I’ve gotten in with the Typhoons, they did fine work. I miss the Evasion from the Falcons, but higher armor and two damage points makes up for it.
Way back at Adepticon 2016, I got to the Hawk booth too late for special edition models. I still wanted to throw them some money, and I was taking some classes on weathering techniques. I decided to put the two together, and picked up my first Resistance models, the new (at the time) Thunder Wagons.
Thunder Wagon (teal)
Thunder Wagon (red)
Thunder Wagon (yellow)
Of course, I left them in their package for many months. Even after I actually started Resistance, these guys didn’t make the initial cut. Now, I’ve finally gotten around to them.
The rockets turned out a bit fresher looking than I had intended. The look dusty, rather than truly ancient. On the other hand, I’m not sure a really rusted out shell could be expected to fly. So maybe I can get away with declaring it intentional.
Thunder Wagons in Kraken Hovercraft
I had bought myself a second Resistance starter for theLifthawks. So while I was at it, I painted up the second set of gun wagons (in muted tones, to be distinguishable) and Kraken.
