You don't have to be mad to work here...

...but you will be.

Returning to the mean streets of eighteenth century Venice, I'm finally bringing some of the Doctors of the Ospedale into my collection of Carnevale miniatures

Unlike with the proxied Vatican or Strigoi, I've opted to return to the official models and picked up the La Grazia Industrial Works starter gang with some birthday money.

First out of the wards are some asylum patients who have been 'repurposed' after the Doctors discovered that the mentally unstable could be used to generate eldritch energies to power their magics and fiendish technological devices.

The Voltage Bombadier is two asylum inmates strapped together to power a device that can give off blasts of explosive force surrounding them. 

Looking at the rules it appears that this model is intended to run on a one way trip into the midst of an enemy line and detonate, hitting as many opponents as it can.

I'm terms of painting, I've kept things very simple, using mainly contrast paints (Darkoath Flesh, Skeleton Horde and Garaghak's Sewer) as base coats, used Leadbelcher washed with Agrax Earthshade for the metals, and then Nihilakh Oxide over white for the glowy bits.

I opted to go for a terracotta or brick colour for the bases for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I wanted to do a different form of basing that distinguished the Doctors from the other factions, secondly I figured that these could be tiles from within their institutions. Finally, I felt that grey bases like the Guild and Rashaar would wash these models out.

The other model is intended to be a Carrion, an inmate who has been fitted with tools and weapons to allow it to climb and steal and it doesn't actually come in the La Grazia Industrial Works box.

Some time ago I bought a batch of mismatched and miscast Carnevale miniatures from eBay which have been cleaned up and added to my forces (and actually started my Vatican force off). The last unused piece was the top half of a Carrion.

With the arrival of my birthday present, I dug through my bits box to find a lower half to complete the model and settled on the legs of a Wizkids D&D miniature, and I also replaced the hands (one of which was miscast) with some taken from the Frostgrave Wizard sprue.

The odd pose comes from the fact that the original Carrion sculpt is bent over backwards scuttling on its hands and feet. I couldn't totally replicate that pose, but this perhaps evokes the idea that this one is contorting himself into that position.

I'm already enjoying the distorted steampunk vibe of the Doctors and will enjoy getting the rest of the box painted.

Acquired: -90

Painted: 165

Lead Mountain: 394