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Overview
Overview
MonsterPocalypse (MonPoc) is a Kaiju game released in 2006 or so. In its original release it had random packs of prepainted plastic figures. It was re-released a decade or more later with a more standard model of unpainted metal or resin miniatures.
Kaiju means giant monsters -- Godzilla and similar -- so the scale is interesting. The base scale is something like 6mm -- the buildings and human vehicles are approximately that scale. But the giant monsters (and the giant robots that humanity builds to defend itself from them) are the size of buildings. Buildings were also included in the random packs.
The original MonPoc game is/was a skirmish game -- each model represented a single monster. I've never played it. All my MonPoc armies are built to play Fantasy Triumph, and so they need camps. I've made several dozen MonPoc camps. A lot of them are not shown here; I gave the armies away, each with a camp, to friends.
All of my MonPoc armies are based on 60mm wide bases (1 MU = 30mm). It is a scale that fits really well with the figures.
Martian Lander
Martian Lander
This is a camp for a MonPoc Martian Menace army. It borrows from the HG Wells War of the Worlds concept a bit, with Martian red weed spreading on the landing site of a Martian transport. The transport ship is a resin casting I picked up some where; spraypainted silver to match the Martian figures it was super easy.
The detail image shows a Martian repair machine building or repairing a combat vehicle. All the small figures are prepainted plastic (they come as shown).
Martian Forward Base
Martian Forward Base
The Martians do a lot of tripod stuff, so creating camps for them in a triangular shape is natural. To prevent it from having any too-bizarre impact on the game, I truncated the leading point of the triangle.
One of the things I really like about the prepainted plastic figures for MonPoc is the translucent ones -- translucent green here for the Martians, translucent red later with Planet Eaters. I'm a good miniature painter, but I cannot paint make flat surfaces look translucent!
More Martian Camp
More Martian Camp
This was an earlier version of the three-building Martian camp shown above, here on a rectangular base with some other Martian figures employed to make the corners look a little less empty.
I gave this camp away to someone; not sure who.
Planet Eaters Small
Planet Eaters Small
The Planet Eaters arrive on Earth in a meteorite. I found a group of plastic craters at the flea market at a wargaming convention (Historicon). Cut down to give a flat back that can be placed against the back edge of the game map, they made great camps for Planet Eaters.
A chomper (one of the Planet Eater smaller vehicles, about the size of a tank) is shown leaving the crater. Everything except the crater is prepainted plastic. The crater is based on MDF cut to shape on a scroll saw.
Planet Eaters Large
Planet Eaters Large
A second Planet Eater camp, much like the first, but using a larger crater and a larger base. This is for fighting Grand Triumph battles with triple-sized armies.
G.U.A.R.D. Missile Base
G.U.A.R.D. Missile Base
Humanity defends itself against Kaiju with high-tech tanks, vehicles, and giant robots (of course). The preeminent organization doing this is called G.U.A.R.D. I don't recall what the acronym stands for. GUARD camps are lots of fun to make. This one is a missile base, with four buried atomic missile silos, a radar dish for detecting Kaiju, and a column of GUARD vehicles leaving the base.
The vehicles, radar dish, and building are MonPoc prepainted plastic and come as shown. The concrete silos I got at a flea market. The dilating sphincter blast doors for the silos is just tinfoil glued down to an impressionable surface (plaster, I think?) and then a five-lobe spiral sphincter design impressed on it with a dull stylus (probably wooden, to avoid tearing the tinfoil.
GUARD Concrete Revetment
GUARD Concrete Revetment
Reinforced concrete with Ion Cannon turrets mounted on top.
The camp is one that I gave to Scott Kastler some years ago. The main form of it is just pink foam insulation, mounted on MDF and sanded to shape, then painted gray and drybrushed. The MDF surface of the interior is painted black to simulate blacktop.
Ion cannon turrets are chopped off of Ion Cannon tanks and glued to metal rivets to make them look more stable and give a good surface for gluing.
Vehicles and the internal building are all prepainted MonPoc figures.
Empire of the Apes Fortress
Empire of the Apes Fortress
One of the armies of the MonPoc world is the Empire of the Apes -- giant apes the size of tanks, wielding 1950s style howitzers as if they were rifles, with the biggest of them being building-sized apes (Godzilla sized). The Empire of the Apes needed a fortress in the jungles of Africa, so here it is.
This is a complex craft project. The base pieces are made of scrap wood (2x4 stock), tapered very slightly. The windows are carved with a 1/4" wood chisel, as are the doors. The brass studs on the doors are cut tips from pins. Craft wood (basswood, I think) was used for the tower walkways, window tops, and door tops. Balsa was used to create the courtyard in the back, between the main building and the watchtower. The mountainside is pink foam insulation; the base is MDF.
Shadow Sun Forcefield Base
Shadow Sun Forcefield Base
This is a camp for the Shadow Sun Syndicate, who fight Kaiju with different styles of giant robots and vehicles than the GUARD.
For this camp I wanted to create a fortress with forcefield defenses. Two plastic scraps (originally glue-tube toppers of some sort?) were used as the forcefield generators. The forcefields themselves are "stormy water" acrylic sheets by Plastruct.
The JDF building protected in the center is a MonPoc product, prepainted plastic that comes exactly as shown.
Another Shadow Sun Base
Another Shadow Sun Base
If you collect a bunch of MonPoc plastic figs, you'll get a number of distinctive "base" buildings, like the one used in the previous Shadow Sun (JDF) base with the forcefield.
This base was constructed using three of them, with some warcraft zooming between them. A nice simple little diorama. All figures are prepainted plastic; all I did was put them together on a base.
Still Another Shadow Sun Camp
Still Another Shadow Sun Camp
This camp is a combination of a number of disparate pieces.
The two buildings on both ends are standard Shadow Sun Syndicate buildings from MonPoc unmodified. Likewise the two flying vehicles are MonPoc prepaints (one is hidden behind the central tower).
The central tower is a plastic scrap spraypainted silver with a MonPoc figure glued to the top. The shield generator is three pieces from a Star Wars toy (you might recognize it from Hoth). The forcefield is a layer of PlastStruct Stormy Water glued to acrylic backing for stiffness.
Apes Assault Blimp
Apes Assault Blimp
Okay, this isn't a camp, but it is an example of crafting, so I'm including it here anyway.
This is a largely scratch-built combat stand for the Empire of the Apes army. It is a blimp with a gondola; giant apes using jet engines as backpack thrusters are using it as a combat station to fly off and drop bombs on enemies. And they're carrying the bombs with their feet, like you do if you are a giant ape, I guess.
The figures are MonPoc prepainted plastic. The blimp itself is a toy from the "Cars" animated movies, with the logos sanded off and flipped upside down so the gondola was at the top. The suspension ropes are made of thin wire spun together to make rope using an electric drill, then cut to length and glued down. The hanging ship is scratch-built with balsa wood and basswood craft sticks on a styrofoam base (pink rigid insulation). If you look closely you can see that apes are landing on the rear of the ship, bombs are being handed up from below decks through a hatch, then the rearmed bombing apes are leaving through the front. There is a howitzer-wielding ape ready to defend the ship through a firing port in the side, if you look closely.
UberCorp Arcology
UberCorp Arcology
An arcology is an enormous building, common in science fiction like Blade Runner, where the building is completely self-contained.
This one is a single resin casting, painted up as the camp / stronghold for the megacorporation UberCorp, which is one of the factions in MonPoc. I gave this camp (and its UberCorp army) to Rod Cain.
Chthonian Drilling Device
Chthonian Drilling Device
This is the camp for my Subterran army -- dwellers in the Underground, come to attack the surface dwellers. It's a pretty big thing, so probably best for armies on 60mm or 80mm base widths, although it is really scale-independent. Not sure of the manufacturer, but it sure is nice.
I've really done nothing to this object except paint it.
Terrasaur Hatchery
Terrasaur Hatchery
The Terrasaurs are giant dinosaur-like lizard creatures from an island lost in time. Or something. Regardless, they are Godzilla dudes.
How do giant lizard things reproduce? Eggs, of course. How do they defend their eggs and hatchlings? Well, one way is that they create their hatcheries high in inaccessible cliff sites, to make it impossible for any nasty little mammals to come and eat the eggs.
So here is one such hatchery.
Cut from layers of pink styrofoam sheet insulation using a hot wire cutter. Eggs are plastic decorative eggs that you can usually find for sale in craft stores around Easter.
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