New Escher Gang

Now that Charlemagne is done, it’s time to keep moving that brush around. Along with recently picking up a brush again, I’ve started attending our local gaming club night on Tuesdays. Some of us grognards are playing the occasional game of Battletech (which a few people have a lot of mechs so they share), and some other none “wargaming” type games like Nuclear War and Illuminati. I do want to get back into the wargmaing portion of he hobby but didn’t want to commit to trying to complete 2,000 points of something (ok, they’ll be orks, and maybe a second army of Sisters), in a short time just to play. There’s also a cost factor involved that I didn’t want to commit to.

As a number of our locals play Necromunda, that seems to dovetail into the “painting and playing” thing I’m looking for, Start with 10 models and work from there while I learn the rules. The local scene for Necromunda is a campaign and very chill, which I’m excited to become a part of. I chose the Escher gang because I’m a huge cyberpunk fan and they fit the bill nicely.

I took a long time to think about how I wanted to paint these gangers. I know the box art and typical color scheme is yellows and animal prints. Not a huge fan of yellow so I wanted to find other options. While wanting to stay true to the original 80’s inspiration for the Escher gangs, I wanted to go for more or a retro-inspired, vaporwave vision of the cyberpunk gang.

I found my color inspiration in a series of images from a gallery by Tompalompa called The Furious Images at Yaktribe. Pink, purple, orange, blue and the occasional leafy or pale green for pop. No reds or yellows. Very different than my usual reds and greens from the ork models I’m used to. The bottom image is a little less saturated, but still includes many of the color combos I want to work with.

Can I rant about something here? Of course, I can, it’s my blog! I have built hundreds, upon hundreds of models in my lifetime. Miniature figures for wargaming to military aircraft and tanks. None have ever featured as many, small, fiddly bits as these models. The worst is the two-piece head/hair combos. I’ve got old man eyes now and these figures took me way too long to assemble, and to be honest, they’re not assembled as well as I’d like. The heads in the necks on a few are wonky because of alignment issues (not sure if that’s me or the manufacture). I guess I’m glad I’ve got a second box and figure on using this first round as testing for my paint scheme, and how to start customizing these for furutre additions.

Getting older sucks.

Rant over.

Still looking forward to working on these ladies though and putting my gang together.

Later!