From JuanM - Goblin, Pulp, Brigadistas & Essex (30 Points)

Hello, my friends. Here is my entry for this week. Again, not too many figures, but I´m unable to paint faster!

As I said in a previous entry, I wanted to paint some Fantasy figures in 28mm. I have some of the excellent models from Scibor Miniatures, small resin gems I would like to use in skirmish games and this is the third one I have painted (and the one I can put in this Challenge):

He is The Prophet, a mysterious Goblin who has come from the mountains to preach a message of hope (and rebellion) to the subdued Goblins, an ancient - and not to brilliant - folk enslaved for centuries by the mighty Moscal Empire.

I´m not too pleased with the green I have used in his skin, and I think that in a near future I´m going to paint another Prophet, but I like a lot the figure. This is a resin miniature full of character and quality and a full revolutionary!

Of course, there is another Pulp Figures miniature; a new armed sailor ready to defend his mates. I´m enjoying a lot the painting of these figures, and I´m awaiting some more of them!

Two more Brigadistas from Empress Miniatures. I´m finishing their bag, at last!!!!!

And the last one. Another English adventurer. This time, this is the Earl of Essex from Warlord Games. I have painted this figure to cooperate with the Thirty Years War project there is now active in my local club. They need some Generals and cavalry, so here is this English mercenary General, Edmund Campbell, looking for a new contract.

The figure is very nice, with a lot of detail, but half of his face was in a not very good shape, so I have taken the opportunity to paint him an eye patch to give him a more piratical look.

Cheers!

From Curt:

Lovely work Juan. I have a few Scibor figures in blister and seeing your Prophet makes me want to tear mine out of their packages and get going on them. I really like his red eyes and the dried (or fresh) blood on his mallet. His schnauzer (nose) is pretty impressive as well! 

The Brigadistas are also excellent. I like how you've used different webbing colour to give them some more visual interest.

Finally, the addition of the eyepatch to mask sculpting flaws on Essex is a stroke of genius. And the yellow sash provides a gorgeous punch of colour to the figure.

This 30 points will give Juan enough to meet his 250 point duel with Phil, but I'm a bit torn here. Part of me thinks it should be whoever reaches the point target first, but the scheduled submission day makes this difficult, as someone may have enough points mid-week to win their duel, but are restrained by waiting for their submission day. I'm wondering if, in the spirit of fairness, we should wait until the end of the 'paint-week' (Sunday) to adjudicate the duels.  If we did this then Phil would have his submission day (tomorrow) to see if he can come up with enough points to tie with Juan.  I kind of like this approach as it provides a bit more of a level playing field but it will play to having more 'ties' as a possible result. What are the thoughts of the group?