Sunday, 6 April 2025

Medieval clergy, cargo containers and a mock vargr

 Arthur and I visited Imperial Hobbies last week, so of course I made some impulse purchases.  First up, I picked up a pack of early medieval clergy from Bob Murch's 1066 line.  Although they are intended for 1066, I will take advantage of the timelessness of their garb to use them in more modern settings, whenever a monk or nun would fit in.


I slightly modified the Mother Superior - she has a greenstuff veil added on top of her wimple (hopefully I got those terms correct!).


My other purchase was a pair of MDF containers from Canadian company Xolk.  I liked them so much I sent in an order to the company for more!  They go together very quickly and paint up easily.  They will do nicely as scatter terrain in the cargo hold for starship boarding actions.

Our recently started Traveller RPG campaign includes a vargr NPC, so I decided to convert one of Fletch's 3d printed werewolves to represent him.  This is clearly not an accurate representation, as vargr are typically shorter then humans, with an average height of only 1.6 m.  So this is a particularly jacked vargr, as he is notably taller and bulkier than Captain Handsome!



Conversion was minor, I replaced his arms with a flamer and a left hand from the bits box.



3D printed resin is regrettably a bit brittle.  You can see that this poor vargr was dropped and his ears were chipped!


As you can see, the Xolk containers have nice detail on the ends.  They can be built with the doors open, but I chose to keep them closed.


 Next week is Trumpeter Salute - I'll hopefully fit in lots of gaming :)

3 comments:

  1. Nice little conversion. I will have to check out the Xolk range.

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    1. Thanks, Codsticker. See you at Trumpeter Salute this weekend!

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    2. That's right! I'm looking forward to it.

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