It's On Like Templecon Y'all!

Got this in the mail today! All I need to do now is get my clothes packed, Pick up a bottle of Rowan's Creek bourbon and figure out which minis (and games: Zombicide maybe WWX posse) I'm bringing and its on y'all!

I'm not sure how much tourney play I will be doing but plan to hit the iron arena. If you want a game hit me up. I should be rocking either a blue/white or blue/black Team Spite shirt

The Gang is All Here

I know I did a poll on which army I should paint first but seeing as I was missing some of my energy beasts I skipped the Warrior Nation for now (they are next) and instead decided to start working on an outlaw posse. I felt outlaw was the way to go thematically since Mickey is doing lawmen. Nick is doing enlightened but anyone can shoot those dead freaks not reason needed ;)

So with theme in mind and my love for the characters in the WWX world I went about creating a $750 outlaw posse and this is what I came up with:

• Jesse James $200
• Frank James $135
• Apache Kid $100
• Jake 'Smiley' Williamson $75
• Cole Younger $75
• Sniper Rifle $45
• Shotgun $45
• Hired Hands wave1 x3 $30ea.

Total: $750
Influence: 9

 

The big boss man under assembly

 

 Cole Younger. I love this mini I just wish he didn't lose the bowler hat from the concept art.  

Smile

  

Light support in the form of a shotgun and sniper

An earlier version of the list used the Wrath and wave two HH these guys aren't in the first list.

  

Maybe he stole Cole's hat?

  

 

The characters of the list

 

Gotta love the airbrush for priming when its 0 degrees F out

 

Some leather basecoats sprayed

 

   Cole's coat

 

I found some of these barrels in the basement bits box. I figured they would make a nice obstacle.

 

While I was part way through the above steps a box showed up from Outlaw Minis. Here are the contents of the box.

 

 

I wish there was a foam topper. Maybe they will over one through Battlefoam at some point.

Pluck foam layer

Missing KS items!

 

WWX Assembly Begins

I have not had a ton of time to work on my WWX minis but I did start playing around with assembly and getting the hang of working with resin.

The first thing I did was get to hacking my Union line troops (hired hands) off their sprue. If you are working on your minis I highly recommend looking at Outlaws main webpage and their instructions.  http://www.wildwestexodus.com/assembly-instructions/ The minis are fairly complex for basic troop minis and if you clip everything off at once you may have a heck of a time figuring which parts are for which mini.

I cut all 10 line troopers off their sprues (one at a time) and stored them by trooper. As you can see above each trooper has their own vial and I will be using these as handles when I get to painting.  

 

Sitting bull clipped and cleaned of mold lines

Assembled Sitting Bull

 

Roar!

Sitting Bull and Geronimo ready to defend the Warrior Nation

 



All and all these minis were pretty easy to clean and assemble. The mold lines on Geronimo were worse than the lines on Sitting Bull but due to the soft nature of the resin they cleaned pretty well. I have a couple tiny gaps I may fill on Geronimo where his arms meet at the elbow but I may just let it slide. I am a little concerned about the seam where Sitting Bills leg sections went together and I may have to do something so they aren't too noticeable once he is painted. I need to clean these with some soap and water to get any mold release agent off then they will be ready for paint. I am not sure what colors I am using yet so we will have to make a decision here soon. Two posts in one day.....look out!

 

It's Here! Wild West Exodus Unboxing

Ok so yesterday when I was giving the run down of my pending kickstarters I said I thought Rivet Wars might be there today and WWX by the end of the month. It turns out I had my arrivals wrong. Last night when I woke up to go to work I had a box waiting for me on the front step and it was from Outlaw Miniatures! It turns out Rivet Wars will be here Tuesday the 10th but that's for another post...

Enough of my blabber pics pics pics pics:

I started to open the box last night prior to work but ran out of time (damn work gets in the way of fun)

 

 While my 5 year old was at skating lessons today with the wife I set the 4 year old up with cartoons and got to the box for real :)  My painted test sprue enlightened hired hand looks on in excitement

Lawmen: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Judge K Stern, UR-30, and wave 1 hired hands

Warrior Nation: Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Sky Spirit (he lives), Walks Looking, Braves with Apparition, Energy Beast (missing two) 

Geronimo! So awesome.
 

 Geronimo's legs for scale. He's a big boy
 

Warrior Nation wave 1 and 2 hired hands

 

Close up of two wave 2 hired hands


Outlaws: Jesse James (regular and alt), Billy the Kid, Frank James, Cole Younger, Apache Kid, and Jake "Smiley" Williamson


Outlaw wave 1 and 2 hired hands


Close up of wave 1 hired hands


Union: Lincoln, Grant, Pinkerton, Sheridan, Loveless, and Courtwright


Da Prez gonna get ya!

Union Wave 1 hired hands

Union Tank!

 Entightened: Dr Carpathian, Creation VII, Creation XIII, and wave1 hired hands


Up close of Creation VII he's pretty cool 

Heavy Weapon hired hands. One was missing :(

 

Firefly crew....I mean the Wayward 8 ;)

Dark Council member, Warrior Nation Totems, Marcus Cunningham (mystery backer mini), and ladies of the west 

 

 Odds and ends. I also had the three comics, rulebook, mini rulebook, and novel but didn't photograph them.

 

So there you have it my WWX haul. I was missing a couple things but I'm sure Outlaw will fix those issues. I have my bag coming in the second wave of shipping too. Ok I have to go to bed.