From Kyle C - Director's Chair Entry - (153)

Bring on the final boss!!! 

So reaching out to the almighty Snowlord.. I was tasked to complete a project that has been a bit overdue.. or I was procrastinating on.. 

Well this bad boi has been just that! Again for a client but with hesitation. I had painted one of these years and years ago while living in Turkey for myself. So I know how bad they can be with normal paints and no airbrush. But I thought hey.. I have contrast paints AND an airbrush.. this should be easy! 😏

Painting wise honestly it wasn't bad. Though being in only 2 pieces ( head and well everything else ) due to buddy assembling it before bringing it over.. caused new headaches there 😅 

Though in reality it was more the mental struggle of actually starting it due to how much grief it gave me in the past. 

So shout out to Curt for this challenge and for giving me such a task to aim for here. 

And since it's a Badmoon Stompa.. it has to be yellow! So after a white primer.. all of my yellow paints were pulled out. That and yellow tinted browns. And then browns. 

The purple bits were his choice as his other army is a Emperors Children force so this has reclaimed parts from them it seems. 

All in this took a good portion of the weekend and Friday night to tackle. With some touch ups throughout the workdays as time allowed. But it's done and dusted so there is that then! 

Hilariously.. the crew on it will give me just as many points as the Stompa itself lol

I was also able to tackle the Skull Temple for my Khorne Age of Sigmar force which I have resurrected due to the club picking it up again..so tried to see how I would tackle red and bronze/gold like coloring. Stuck it to a hardboard base also to give it a bit of something extra. 

Actually got to use it this week at the club while we trialed the AoS rules out ( haven't played before ) and it did ok. My other Khorne Priest stood upon it and took hits like a champ defending it so that is a positive for me there! 

Also tackled a Skulltaker for my Deamons to trial their color scheme also. 

I foresee a lot of red in my future with this army.. 

His cloak with a lot of fun to play with and I think it came out quite well! 

Not sure how many skulls are included in these two. But that's not a side duel I joined so not sure about if I wish to try to count them all 🤣

Last up is some Ork crew members. The buggies were painted pre-challenge but their passengers were all left overs as I was not aware of them when I began the project. So had a bit of extra work to tackle there. 

So a very slow week for me here.. and going to get slower as work has really increased this month and a trip abroad coming up to really take me out at the knees! But a lot has been accomplished while I could, and while recovering.. and accomplished my 2 goals.. hit my points total and get to the director's chair challenge! Huzzah!

Points for this week are:

Stompa - 28mm Vehicle - 20 pts

4 Crew on Stompa - 28mm infantry - 20 pts

14 Passengers on buggies - 28mm infantry - 70 pts

Skulltaker - 28mm infantry - 5 pts

Skull Temple - Almost a cube terrain - 18 pts

Director's Chair Studio - 20 pts

Total - 153 pts

Let's see if I tackle anything else this week for painting or if a proper rest for the next few will be occurring! 

Minion Miles - very orky and very nicely painted - 5 bonus points because this post made me yell WAUGHHHH!!!!!!

From PeterB - Chaos Epic - 42 points

 Morning all from sunny South East England. As I write this I am being blinded by perfect model painting daylight. So, what have I been up to this week? Well, with challenge studios completed (apart from the Directors chair) I am going to have to rely on volume of models now for points rather than bonus points. So, I decided to switch to 6mm?

Yep, last challenge I was painting my Epic Armageddon Chaos undivided army and there is still some left to do. I'm not sure whether I will eventually use the Epic 40K rules for playing with these models (the latest rules don't really cover all the Chaos models I have) so for now I am just painting models that take my fancy and then going from there.

The other issue of course is unless I want to spend a fortune on Ebay, I'm struggling to find original models so this is a long slow project.

Firstly I have painted 14 of what I think are Disc riders of Tzeentch, although they don't look very disc like. I read on a blog somewhere that people weren't initially impressed with the sculpts of these and I must agree (hence why I skipped over them last challenge) but they do have some detail when you paint them.

They are from the original plastic sprues that also had all the infantry options as well.

As I said original GW models are pricey second hand as I'm sure you all know. Proxy models for Epic are also few and far between but I did find these great Sparta APC vehicles from Vanguard Miniatures. They come with double sided top hatches, plain and Renegade, so of course I chose the Renegade side.

They will make great alternatives for Rhino transport for my Marines.

The paint scheme is fairly simple with GW Macragge Blue covered with an old blue ink wash I still have from the 90's. (those old citadel paints really last don't they?)

I am not sure what this guy is officially known as. He was in a pile of second hand epic bits I was donated by a friend. At first I thought he was a 28mm scale familiar, so he was moved to a different box. Turns out though he is from the Epic range, possibly a Demon Prince, or Giant Bloodletter?

He is certainly giant sized for Epic, to the top of his head he is 2cm.

Finally some more from Vanguard miniatures. In the chaos army list there is mention of Death Wheels and I thought these fit the bill pretty well.

The remainder of my hobby time this week gave me no points for the challenge. Whilst I was delving through my Epic models I realised I had not added the flock to the bases of any of my Orks, so once the chaos models had been given a good flocking, I continued on with the hundreds of Orks. Well, at least they are done now...

Far too many to fit in one picture

To the points:

14 x mounted 6mm = 14 pts

12 x 6mm vehicles = 24 pts

1 x 20mm foot figure = 4 pts

Total = 42 points

Minion Miles: wow I really like the epic 40k stuff - keep it coming!

From FrederickC - A Phalanx of Hoplites, A Gunslinger, and a File of Riflemen [Swords & Sandals] [Westerns] [Books] (176 points)

  From our last stop at the Fantasy studio, we are going to continue along the Blue pathway to the Swords and Sandals studio for the production of '300' with a 15mm Spartan De Bellis Antiquitatis army consisting of 12 stands of Spear and an optional stand of Psiloi. If I recall correctly these are from Falcon Miniatures that are now no longer in production. They were cleaned up and primed a quarter century ago, and have been sitting in the pending box ever since. Once again, the Special Challenges has cleared a project from the 'To Do' list. They were painted using Army Painter Warpaints Tannned Flesh for all the skin areas, Partha Paints Bronze Metallic for the helmets, greaves, and shields, and Vallejo acrylics for everything else. They were mounted on metal bases of the appropriate DBA dimensions that I still have in my storage boxes, and the groundwork completed. The temple in the background is one I built for a scenario that Curt hosted back in the early days of the Fawcett Avenue Conscripts. 

 

'300' from 2006

 

This is Sparta!

 

Spartan hoplites

Shields emblazoned with Lambdas

The General's stand

The lone stand of Psiloi

 

  Before carrying on, we will make a quick stop at the studio cafeteria for some refreshments in the form of a tall glass of Spartan Brewery 'Swords & Sandals' Session IPA. 😁

 

 Moving further along the Blue pathway we arrive at Westerns for the production of 'The Quick and the Dead'. Okay, it's not Sharon Stone as 'The Lady', but Alex Kingston as 'River Song' in the Doctor Who episode called 'The Impossible Astronaut', but she's wearing jeans and packing a big iron on her hip. That says Gunslinger to me. This figure was a freebie that came with my order from Warlord Games back in December. Just the thing for the Westerns studio.

 

The Quick and the Dead from 1995

 

River Song, Gunslinger (front view)

River Song, Gunslinger (rear view)

  

 And now we arrive at the fourth stop on the Blue pathway, the Books studio. If my wearing of a British uniform at Waterloo 200 raised Minion Miles's ire, my book choice will really be twisting the Minion's tail. Nearly 50 years before Bernard Cornwell wrote the first Sharpe novel, C.S. Forester wrote 'Death to the French' (also known as 'Rifleman Dodd'), one of two stories he wrote taking place during the Peninsular War. His second book was 'The Gun', that was made into a movie in 1957 called 'The Pride and the Passion', but we had to wait until the 'Sharpe' TV series to see riflemen on the small screen. Cornwell gave a shout out to Forester's character by naming one of Sharpe's men Matthew Dodd. 

 The figures I have are two Perry Miniatures plastic 95th Riflemen that were another freebie with an issue of Wargames Illustrated that sat in storage until now. They are very nice minis with lots of detail, easy to assemble with minimal cleaning of mold lines. Their rifle green uniforms were painted using Vallejo Luftwaffe Camouflage Green, followed by a wash of Citadel Nuln Oil. 

 

'Death to the French' from 1932

 

Riflemen Dodd and Harris (front view)

Riflemen Dodd and Harris (3/4 Profile view)

Riflemen Dodd and Harris (rear view)

The points being claimed are as follows:

50 x 15mm foot figures @ 2 points = 100 points 

2 x 28mm foot figure @ 5 points = 10 points 

1 x 34mm foot figure @ 6 points = 6 points

3 x Studio lots @ 20 points = 60 points

(Since the 34mm figure is halfway between 28mm and 40mm, I split the difference between 5 points and 7 points)

 

We are ready to try the Director's Chair on for size

Minion Miles:  Mr Fredrick - Another wonderful submission but there really isn't a 34mm category so its 28mm - I'm just too lazy to adjust the spreadsheet :). I do like the rocks on the Riflemen so a bonus point for that but this is probably the last time

Greetings, Minion Miles. I did some further research into the Warlord Games Doctor Who range of minis to try and determine their scale. Obviously it was not possible to make that assessment from just one figure, especially given a shorter than average character. It appears that they are 1/48 scale. The Star Wars Legion minis are apparently 1/47 scale and are rated as 40mm figures. Just sayin'.  ;^)

From TeemuL: More Dwarfs (40 points)

Yes, more dwarfs for Lotr. This time those plastic ones again, 8 in total. A nice mix of archers and axemen with axe and shield or a two-handed axe. I again painted the armour brown and clothes with rather bright green and blue. Some variation in colours in beards and hairs. Very nice minis to paint, couple of more to go.

8 plastic warriors, 28mm scale, so 40 points, please.

Minion Miles: 8 Dwarves you shall have, Sir (at least in the spreadsheet)

From SimonM: Sauron by "Wizkids" (5 Points) + Super-Hero Bonus (20 Points) + Xeno Brood Sentry by "Papsikels Miniatures" (5 Points)

This 28mm scale pre-painted plastic model of Sauron was produced by “Wizkids” and is miniature number 029 from their Marvel “Heroclix” Wolverine & The X-Men range. After being bitten by mutant pterodactyls, physician Doctor Karl Lykos was transformed into a humanoid Pteranodon, who was "able to absorb the life force of others through touch." Created by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, the Savage Lands mutate made its first appearance in the September 1969 issue of "The X-Men by "Marvel Comics".

Clipped from the figure's 'clicky' base and super-glued upon a plastic 25mm circular base, the super-villain was treated to a double-coat of Ethereal Green from "Duncan Rhodes Two Thin Coats" paint range so as to cover up its previous paint-job, shaded in Battle Mud Wash, and thoroughly dry-brushed with (more) Ethereal Green. I then 'picked out' his tongue using a combination of Sanguine Scarlet and "Citadel" Carroburg Crimson, before dotting in the energy vampire's mesmerising eyes with a smidgeon of "Duncan Rhodes Two Thin Coats" Skulker Yellow over a "Citadel" Abaddon Black base layer.

Finally, I applied two layers of Sorceror's Cloak from "Duncan Rhodes Two Thin Coats" over Lykos' torn loin-cloth and shaded it with "Citadel" Druchii Violet. To be honest I had originally intended to pigment the garment in yellow, as per the miniature's 'official' paint scheme. But having recently played quite a bit the computer game Marvel Snap, I decided to go with the colour he wears on his digital card.

Having previously completed four Green Pass studio tasks (Sci-Fi, 1980's, Casting Couch & World Cinema), I decided to travel back the way I came so as to use Sauron as the perfect piece to bag my first Blue Pass at the Superheroes studio. Sure, the character has been a lifelong foe of the X-Men, but like so many classic villians, he's also been a hero at times - befriending the Lord of the Hidden Jungle, Ka-Zar, and ultimately sacrificing himself (by hurling himself off of a cliff) when he realised what a threat to Humanity he had become.

Alongside Doctor Karl Lykos' alter-ego, I have also pigmented a rather large 32mm scale Xeno Brood Sentry produced by "Papsikels Miniatures". The model can be downloaded for free as an STL (Standard Triangle Language) file from their PAPSIPACK Welcome Models subscription set on "Patreon", and is based upon a species of H.R.Giger's infamous deadly xenomorphs.

Produced using "Elegoo" Water Washable Resin on a Mars 3 Pro 3D Printer, the monster was super-glued to a "Citadel" 60mm circular base and primed in Doom Death Black by "Duncan Rhodes Two Thin Coats". I next gave the model an enthusiastic dry-brush of Scorched Earth and shaded it with Oblivion Black Wash to help make the creature's base layer look very dark indeed.

I next much more delicately (re)dry-brushed the models with (more) Scorched Earth, before applying a light highlight of Dust Bowl across all the prominent raised areas. Finally, to help better blend this all together, I gave the fearsome fiend an absolute drowning in Battle Mud Wash. This just left me needing to 'pick out' all the alien's metal teeth with a combination of Sir Coates Silver and Oblivion Black Wash, as well as apply a coat of Doom Death Black across its forehead and scorpion-like stinger tail.

One x 28mm scale foot figure = 5 Points

One x 32mm scale foot figure = 5 Points

Superheroes Studio Bonus = 20 Points

Total = 30 Points

From SimonM: Sardaukar by "Big Mr Tong" (20 Points) + B2 Droids by "Nyverdale Tabletop" (20 Points)

These four 28mm scale Sardaukar were sculpted by "Big Mr Tong" and can be downloaded for free as part of a ten-figure set of STL (Standard Triangle Language) files from his "Patreon" subscription service. Based upon David Lynch's vision of the Emperor's elite warriors as first seen in his 1984 American science-fiction film "Dune", the miniatures were produced using "Elegoo" Water Washable Resin on a Mars 3 Pro 3D Printer.

Each figure was undercoated in "Citadel" Abaddon Black, and heavily dry-brushed with "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal. The super-human soldiers' belts were then 'picked out using a little "Vallejo" Steel Blue, and their firearms with Gunmetal. Finally, each model was entirely 'drowned' in "Citadel" Nuln Oil and the Sardaukar's distinctive green face-visor realised using a combination of "Scalecolor" White Alchemy and the "Citadel" Contrast paint Warp Lightning.

Alongside the last of my Sardaukar I have also pigmented four 32mm scale B2 Droids by "Nyverdale Tabletop". These can be downloaded for free as part of Duncan's fifteen-figure strong B2 Droids Collection (Fan Art) on "Cults" and are clearly based upon the Super Battle Droids from "Star Wars". 

Produced using "Elegoo" Water Washable Resin on a Mars 3 Pro 3D Printer, their pre-supported versions are all quite bizarrely placed face down onto the build plate, so resultantly suffered quite horribly from the pimple/acne effect of their struts. Admittedly, the fact the miniatures are so low to the ground does result in a fast print-time, yet this is debatably off-set by their rafts' significant footprints only allowing five models per batch. In future, I may well simply stand them upright (at a 30-40% angle) and supply my own supports using "Chitubox" Basic.

Having based each model onto a 25mm round bases, they were all primed with a coat of "Citadel" Abaddon Black and subsequently treated to some "Vallejo" Gunmetal. I then heavily washed them with "Citadel" Nuln Oil before dry-brushing them with (more) Gunmetal. Disappointingly, this process really highlighted all the pits, dents and deformities of the printing process, so I eventually went back and gave the quartet a second shade of "Citadel" Nuln Oil to darken their overall tone.

In addition, I attempted to contrast some of the Baktoid Combat Automata-built robots' joints, softly-detailed heads and midriff with a further application of "Citadel" Nuln Oil. But this didn't really work, so eventually settled on carefully painting their waists with "Citadel" Abaddon Black, and 'spotting' a light-emitting diode on one of their chests using a combination of "Vallejo" Heavy Red and "Citadel" Carroburg Crimson.

Four x 28mm scale foot figure = 20 Points

Four x 32mm scale foot figure = 20 Points

Total = 40 Points