From GeoffreyT: Star Trekking and High Fantasy (45 points)

Hello again.

In a quite uncharacteristic manner, I am making a post devoid of bonus points.

A friend of mine gave me 6 of these Star Trek marines to help replace my failed Stargrave warband with.  Hopefully they will be more successful.

There was only two variants, so I varied the outfit, hair and skin colours to mix it up a bit, all the whilst keeping them in Star Trek theme.  These minis were formerly from Harlequin miniatures, but are not manufactured by their successor Black Tree, probably due to licensing issues, as they have the Star Trek logo on them.

I am very pleased to have gotten these 6 miniatures, I really like them.

The next three pieces are from Iron Wind Metals, they are contemporary casts of old Ral Partha models.  I was planned on using them for the Good v Evil theme, but ended up using Imperial theme on the said planet instead.

This is what was planned.  Goodly Centaurs v Evil manticore.

Here we have the ferocious Manticore.  The face is characterful, humanoid and monstrous at the same time.  Could do with being painted better tho.

The wings I am pleased with,  I copied the colour scheme from the Iron Wind metals website.

The goodly centaurs of the forest come in both armoured and archer form.

The female centaur has modestly covered her breasts, yet leaves her rear end exposed.

This then creates all sorts of quandaries as to why?

Does the centaur lady feel less modest about her animal parts?  Is it hard to get pants that fit her horses arse?  Or simply are her arms too short to put pants onto her rear legs ?

I discussed this matter with a friend, who then produced this fine work of philosophical art, making the centaur pants question no clearer.

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So we have 9 x 28mm miniatures for 45 points,

a squirrel for Star Trek marines,

and an unresolved quandary,

Until next week

Geoff

Dual-wielding in Star Trek? Why have I not seen more of this! They should be great for Stargrave. Your colour schemes hide the lack of sculpting variety. Good work on your monsters as well. The pants quandary is one of life's great questions. Centaurs in general have a lot of anatomical issues, as far as I am concerned.

Barks