I’ve been playing the post-apocalyptic skirmish game This is Not a Test for a while now with a couple of friends, and decided it was time to paint up a new warband. I had a few old metal Escher gangers from Necromunda lying around that I thought could make really cool raiders for the game. Rather than make the full warband from those models, I decided to mix and match with other models I had around the place to get a nice eclectic look to the band.
I challenged myself to paint the team with a variety of skin colours, to break away from the routine of painting skin the same on everyone. There’s a lot of variety in the real world, so why not in made up worlds too! Another challenge for me was the bases, I’ve been trying out various ideas to make desert bases I’m happy with for a while and I think these worked out really well.
I’ve taken individual photos of the members and will be talking about each below, starting with the leader, Rosa:
Rosa is built out of an old Escher ganger, with the lasgun gut up and supplemented with Bren gun parts from the Warlord games WW2 British Paras set. Her hair is painted with Vallejo’s Salmon Rose, hence her name!
Butcher was made from Games Workshop heavy stubber chaos cultist. I filled in the chaos star on his mask, and trimmed the chaos pendant back down to a simple ring.
Vasquez is a stock Escher ganger. This is Not a Test has rules for laser weapons so I decided to keep the pistol as is rather than replace it with a gunpowder equivalent.
Sawtooth is also a stock Escher model. The game has chain blades as relics from the past. In our own version of the universe, the apocalypse was cause by MG, a megacorporation that had its fingers in all the pies. In this case I painted the housing of the chain blade orange as a callback to gardening tools. I see this particular relic is a repurposed chainsaw of some kind.
Ray was kit bashed from a GW marauder torso and arms, GW Catachan guardsman legs, a head from the GW Chaos Vehicle Sprue. In a past life Ray was a tech savant from the reclaimer faction, but unfortunately for him he tried on this mask, which he didn’t know was a Worker Focus and Resiliency Increaser also by MG (of course), which pumped him full of strength enhancing drugs and other drugs made to make workers compulsive about their jobs. Not being in a factory, the drugs pushed Ray to be compulsive about a job he couldn’t do, which made him very mad.
Old Man Ramirez and Old Man Parkes are two old men in the band, I see them as ex-bikers, Both were built out of Warlord Games WW2 American Infantrymen, with old GW head from the empire militias set.
Rounding off the band is Darts, also a stock Escher ganger.
This was a very fun project, each model being very individual and requiring a new plan for painting. I’m looking forward to adding more models to it as the campaign progresses.
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