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Novitiate Biess (left) is the warband's quartermaster and mess cook. His specialty is mystery meat pie. One of the pie’s mysteries is how can it hang from the novitiate's back without its crust breaking open and its contents spilling out? Brother Bellator (right), nicknamed 'Bean Pole Bellator,' has a skeletal frame and a voracious appetite. No matter how much he eats, he cannot gain weight. The Biess and Bellator have an arrangement. Novitiate Biess sneaks Brother Bellator extra rations and when the bullets start flying, Brother Bellator watches the diminutive novitiate’s back.

Another mutant has joined the flock. He shall be known as Brother Ne, and his shotgun shall be called Death's Herald.

I don't know if this post violates this forum's rules, but it's great opportunity for the right person and I would like to give a Warhamster (or a Warhamster's friend or loved one) a shot at it. My company is looking to hire a staff accountant, so if you know an accountant who is looking for work or a job change, send them the following link and tell them to scroll down to the Tech Division section: http://benkinneycompanies.com/careers/ Casual attire is the norm (please wear shoes - at times some of our software developers walk around barefoot -bleh). I believe that this position starts at $24-$26/hr (DOE). We offer health & dental insurance, 401K, 12 paid holidays, and what we call, 'paid leave 'as needed'. Our employees don't accrue paid vacation and sick leave, rather they simply use paid leave when they need it. Our lunchroom is stocked with free fruit, snacks, soda, sparkling water, fruit juice, bottle tea, tea, and coffee. If I'm in the office on Friday, I bring everyone bagels, pastries, and fruit -which we call 'second breakfast.' Also, because all of our businesses revolve around real estate, if an employee wants to get his or her real estate license, we will pay for the classes and testing. With this you can sell real estate on the side, receive referrals, and qualify for recruitment bonuses.

The Children of the Wasteland

This brute is either the new Cardinal Corvus (Omega Mutant) or a Mondo. The jury is still out. I do have to admit, now that I have paint on this model, I like it much more than I thought I would.

Well, I've just about finished painting Cardinal Corvus. The model (Imbrian Arts' King of Ghouls), is turning out, more or less, as expected, however, when placed beside his flock, he doesn't 'fit in' as well as I had hoped. Bummer. Back to the drawing board. My first candidate for my new Cardinal Corvus, is the Redemptionist Deacon that I converted into a Mondo. Like Cardinal Corvus, the model is huge and is equipped with a double handed weapon and I have little doubt that this fine fellow fits in the with the rest of my mutant cultists. The downside is that this model is cool, but a little boring. Also, there's nothing about it that ties in with the Corvus (the Latin word for 'raven'), part of the cardinal's name. Another option that I'm mulling over is to make Cardinal Corvus a truly horrific mutant, whose visage is worthy of a mutant cultist's awe and worship. One of the models that I'm considering is Wyrd Miniatures' Black Blood Shaman. The model is wearing robes, of sorts, and it's head is definitely bird-like. If the model is as tall a I think it is, Cardinal Corvus could keep his Large mutation. And of course, I would also have to add the Wings mutation. Hmm?

The Iron Deacon (Mutant Emissary) The model is a Redeptionist Brethren armed with an autogun and an exterminator. In Necromunda, the latter is weapon attachment that gives the wielder a one shot flamer attack. In keeping with this model's origins, as soon as I have the barter script, I am going to equip the Iron Deacon with molotov cocktails with the 'large caliber upgrade' (i.e. strength 6 molotov cocktail). Since, in TNT, a model can be armed with a two-handed weapon and grenades, the model's armament easily translates into a model armed with an assault rifle and molotov cocktails. One more model to go (Cardinal Corvus himself), and I will have a fully painted 400 BS warband.

Thanks Sherbert. My painting style is still fairly cartoony, but my color selection and use of washes has let me to add a dash of grit to my post-apoc models. These poor wretches are the feral mutants, Brother Ick and Brother Ack. The razor sharp quills that sprout from their torsos had shredded a half dozen vestments before Cardinal Corvus finally agreed to grant them a special dispensation and permit them to wear only loincloths.

Sister Ovis (Mutant Emissary) Pulp cultists are typically portrayed as wearing robes colored a single tone, typically black, purple, or red. I've taken a different direction. I reasoned that both tailors and bolts of dyed cloth are hard to come by in post-apocalypse America, so I gave my cultists a dirty, rag tag appearance -hence all the browns and greys that I used to paint my first two cultists. Sister Ovis' status as deaconess gives her access to better garments, but she should still look a bit grubby, so I painted her robes to look like dirty, undyed cotton, fancied up some with a plain red stole and trim. My aim is for the model to both stand out and fit in with the rest of my grubby cultists.

Here are my first two mutant cultists, Brother Crepitus and Brother Ferrum.

I glued the artwork to a very thin sheet of styrene that is sized to fit in the sign's frame. The sheet is held in place by 4 tiny pieces of poster tack and can be easily removed. I designed it this way because I didn't know if I would like the look of artwork after it was "aged" with a thinned down brown ink. This turned out to be a wise move on my part. My first attempt to "age" the art didn't go so well. What you see is my second go at aging the sign.

Sherbert, I'll probably play as well. PM Kickstarted Devil's Run and is now looking to get rid of them. He thinks he has all the models LINKY I've offered to take them off his hands. I told him that I'd share with you. Do you have rules for big rigs?

I know that I stated that I am eager to finally get to painting my warbands, but my orders from Fogou Models and Sarissa Precision arrived yesterday, and I just couldn't help myself. By combining a Sarissa mdf billboard kit with some of the Fogou barriers, I hope to create an interesting terrain piece that injects a bit of old Seattle flavor into my board. I didn't say it's a very good flavor, but it's good enough when you are 5 or 6 beers in, and not tasting much of anything anymore. Plus, it's something's that had its heyday during my youth, so for good or ill, thinking about it always brings back a sense of nostalgia.

The FAQ is official. Joseph posted in on the 'TNT Official Facebook Group.'

I'm eager to finally start painting my warbands, so I decided against spending the many hours required to assemble and paint a dozen Citadel Woods trees. Instead, I opted to save time by using model railroad trees. I mounted the trees on 40mm 'Building Ruins' bases made by Crafty Ogre, a local manufacturer. Before painting, I drilled a hole in the center of each base and added additional texture using white glue and sand.

I finally finished the Crooked Dice Scrapwalls. There is certainly room for improvement, but I think they turned out pretty good.

Here's the set up for our final game of our mini-5 week TNT campaign. Sorry about the quality of the photos. The light in the shop is bad and I took the photos with my phone. After setting up my terrain, we decide to play a 4-way, 'King of the Hill' type of scenario. Since the warbands were deployed within 8" squares at the table's corners, we added the cargo containers to block LOS between the deployment zones. We had to stop the game during Turn 4 because the shop closed. There was much carnage. The Washington State Troops, a Peacekeeper warband, was declared the winner.

I’ve gotcha covered. I will bring them with me tomorrow night.

Joseph McGuire ask me to compile all of the Q&A form our correspondence with some additional questions and the existing FAQ & QA from the website. You should see the FAQ V1.5 appear on the World's End Publishing website fairly soon. Attached to this post is what I submitted to him. It's in Word because the PDF version exceeds the max upload file size for this message board. Enjoy.

I've been thinking of ways to break up my VERY grey board. A friend suggested adding some foliage. In TNT it's been at least a century since the Great Fall, so it's easy to imagine nature breaking through the concrete to retake the ruins of Seattle. Below is a before and after shot. I assembled the trees for a different board, so the aren't based for this board. If I elect to add trees, they will be a bit taller and a little more numerous. And my future post-apoc forest would probably be a mix of deciduous and coniferous trees. So what do you think, trees or no trees? These photos have convinced me to put my jersey barriers on styrene bases. As present, they blend in a bit too well. I suppose I could break up the grey buildings by adding to the walls areas of green moss or perhaps some ivy.

]I outsourced the painting of my outpost to Joey, who is pretty handy with an air brush and weathering pigments. I am very pleased with the result. The next step is to put it on a textured styrene base and add some jersey barriers that will form sections of outer walls. Once finished, it will make great fortification for the Little Slice of Heaven scenario.

My apologies if you showed up last night, expecting Bruce. My wife was ill. I will do my best to be at Dark Tower next Tuesday, October 3rd. If you showed up last night expecting Bruce and can't make it next Tuesday, send me a PM.

Sorry guys, wife is sick so I won't make it out tonight.

Last week was another TNT make-up week, so the apocalypse continues!

This afternoon I knocked out 6 of Walking Dead Scenery Booster supply counters. These I will use to mark the objective scenery pieces in the Snipe Hunt scenario. I also found time to assemble IG176/2 or IG-88 for short. After their last scenario, my cultist mutants drew the Wrecked Robot card from the Wasteland Deck, and were rewarded with a free Depend-o-Bot. The model is sold by the creators of TNT. The end of its barrel was a bit malformed, so I replaced with a short length of aluminum tubing.