Greetings Terrans, I have more Sludgy goodness to share with you folks today. For those that don’t know, Sludge is a wargame created by Sean Sutter, (available in Blaster vol. 4), and comes with a really appealing setting which mixes Blackpowder, medieval and steampunk vibes into one nightmarish dystopian reality… It is also miniature agnostic, so for me, was a great excuse to go and get some Perry Miniatures – a range that I have been itching to have a look at for a long time!

So I started out with the ‘PN1’ Prussian Line Infantry from the Napoleonic range… that’s a whopping 46 minis for £22 – less than 50p per mini!! The set includes 40 muskets including officer, standard and drummer, plus 6 bonus Jaegers. I was quite happy with the general vibe of the Prussians, but I wanted to tie them in more tightly with the concept of the Toymaker Kinge, and so wanted them to look horrifically like automatons… (or, even more horrifically, like they might NOT completely be automatons…).

I picked up some robot heads somewhere (Spellcrow I think?), and ended up with these creatures – I’m very pleased with the Cyberman vibe:

Yellow epilates & cuffs

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Blue epilates & cuffs

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Red epilates & cuffs, plus leader, drummer and standard

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I have since painted the flag and changed the eye colour to blue :-)

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Officer/Leader type

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The spine of my Sludge army – for about £40 with heads and bases!

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Plus 6 bonus Jaegers :-)

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So let’s talk about the models… Well, they are really very good for 50p! They are ‘proper plastic’ for a start, so very amenable to converting and so on. They are truescale, so won’t look great spliced with GW minis – you can see that the more heroically scaled automaton heads come up a smidge large, but I can get away with it in the context of this project I think. If I’m being hyper-critical, the detailing is a bit of a faff to pick out here and there, but really nothing too terrible when you consider the price!

The painting was suitably sludgy & mucky – very quick work with Contrast paints, shading and drybrushing being very much the order of the day! I also went to town with the texture & technical paint, plus plenty of grass tufts to hide any wonky bits… I wanted these poor machines to look almost derelict – the Toymaker Kinge cares not if they break as a result of enacting his will!

So that’s all on this project for the tie being – off to Dublin on Thursday for a weekend playing Ghost Archipelago so supper excited about that!! Catch you droogs on the flip side :-)