From TeemuL: Getting to the Squirrel Island (63 points)

Once upon a time in this historically accurate, scientific-fictional oriented pulp world with a hint of fantasy spice was an island, Squirrel Island, or Challenge Island, as it was better known.

A group was heading for that Island, they had been on their way for many weeks now. We don't know yet who they really are and we don't have a complete story, only fractions of discussions and so on...

"What, Border Patrol wants something in order to grant as land? No gold, jewels or anything valuable is accepted?"

"Give them the useless priestess, she has been with us for weeks without no use!"

"Land ahead!"

"This is no island, this is a bloody Atol!!¤#"&¤"

"You say now, that the useless priestess could have landed as anywhere on the island and instead we got into this hostile looking atoll?"

"We can only get as far as to a some Reef now? that's not a proper landing site for us!"

"I guess we go there, then..."

"Let's rest a while, make a camp next to that broken whatever next to those spiky plants."

So, this post marks not only the participation fee, but my landing on the Challenge island. The fee can be seen above, a Mithril Miniatures Wose Priestess, MM249. She has rather simple paint job and the washes are still glowing in the pictures, I need to doublecheck them later and make any corrections if needed. It is glued on 25mm MDF base with same sand and tufts glued on.

I believe she can be used in various purposes, MESBG as one option and other fantasy themed games of course as well. She is a true scale model, still available on Mithril webstore, if someone likes to get one. And of course this one goes to someone as well, if you like her, feel free to make comment and I will let the Snowlord know. (I know I could have used that for Sarah's balloon ride, but I really liked to land on the Atoll, since building stuff on CDs is great fun.)

After the fee business, it is time to make the landing, I'm going to the Awdry's Atoll with this piece of scenery on an old cd. There's an odd piece of packing material looking like a part of sewer, some venerable styrofoam ball cactuses with dangerous spikes and general rubble. Some parts from my bitz box as well, mostly WH40K parts, but the vegetation implies to a ruined area, which has seen some action, but not recently. We'll see where I'll use it.

There's also a bit of mdf building frame on the ground, two sorts of sand, old paintbrush brush cover as pipe and dried white glue "ring" taken from the bottle. Yes, you can use everything...

The last picture shows one model (painted for Challenge IX) in the terrain, so yes, it is a working piece.

Terrain piece is about 2 inch high and given the size of a normal CD, the volume should then be about 35 cubic inches. That's about one sixth of the terrain cube, which would mean about 3 points... Doesn't sound much, so may be I have made an error somewhere...

1 25mm miniature - 5 points
Participation fee bonus - 20 points
Terrain - 3 points
Challenge Island location - 30 points


That's some interesting terrain and a cool priestess, Teemu. There's a slight miscalculation in your scoring though - the 25 points for the Curtgeld is being scored in addition to the figure, so that gives you 63 points for this entry.

Tamsin