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Some progress again, this time fabulous miniatures from Crooked Dice. There's rest of the Danger 5 starter set (I painted the first 5 on previous Challenge) and two extra miniatures - they are those which they add every now and then to your order, when they have a campaign. So in total there are 5 models this time.
Here's the Danger 5 set, Colonel Chestbridge, Hitler and Blondi/Hitler’s Dog. I guess I could have technically use Blondi on Sarah's Balloon to get out of the Atol to somewhere which doesn't require ships or something nautical, but I don't believe she likes to fly, so I figure out something else. Blondi was rather easy to paint, just dark brown contrast and then some drybrushing to the belly and picking up the nose and eyes and stuff. Hitler was almost as simple, since most of him is painted with black contrast, just the head, shirt, hands and red ribbon after that. Colonel Chestbridge is the most colorful chap in this group, but nothing spectacular there either.
Hitler has mustache, of course. I believe that was a thing Challenge or two ago...
I like how the flask looks like, that white bit is paint, not a reflection.
Here are the two extras, Time Lift Security guy with a gun and a scientist holding a flask. I used similar blues and greys on these as with the Danger 5 people, so it is easier to tie them together narrative wise, if needed. More colors used on these and more time spent, but rather simple in the end (one could argue about painting the eyes on this scale, but...)
Here's the whole Danger 5 starter set together.
So, 5 28mm miniatures, 25 points, please.
These are supercool, esp chickhead. Top piece of work
Something different (and another squirrel point for Pulp genre) this time, 5 members from the Danger 5. I was about to paint all 8 from the starter (and couple of random additions as well), but time is running out so I decided to paint just the 5 to get one Squirrel point. Cheesy, I know.
Lightning is not the best at this time of year, but it hides the mistakes I made. :) These are the good guys and wear uniform of sort, so they were rather quick to paint. Only the leader, Tucker, has a darker blue coat, but otherwise it is light blue top and dark grey bottom.
A bit better picture, more light. I painted red shoes for Claire, so she wouldn't look so dull in all grey.
Look how I have professionally focused on the backs of the guys and butts of ladies are properly blurred...
Tucker
Ilsa, I'm not happy with her face, at least not from this angle
Pierre
Claire
Jackson
These are from Crooked Dice and were very nice to paint, practically no flash or other problems and very nice details, open poses etc. I even managed to paint rather nice eyes on them. They are 28mm scale, so this gives me another 25 points (and did I mention the Squirrel point as well - I might not have the time and miniatures to win, but I'll do as much as I can).
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Great figures from one of Australia's oddest comedy exports! Imagine the rules for these guys... These five figures net you 25 points - and is there a Johnny Hitler figure lurking on your Lead Mountain perhaps? Ev
There's been quite an absence from me due to our house renovations and moving to a new place, but finally it's all finished and I can get back to having free time! Six weeks of painting walls and laying down new floors didn't leave too much time for anything fun. We moved in at the end of February and have more or less settled in. Still a lot of things in boxes around, but at least my man cave is starting to form up!
Allright, let's get straight to the biscuits. World War 2, the Nazis are making their mark on Europe. Adolf Hitler wants to take the world, and keep it... all for himself! Hitler's days are numbered, because Danger 5 are on the case.
A masterpiece of modern television straight from Australia! Danger 5 chronicles the adventures of a group of allied agents, Danger 5, and their quest to kill Hitler. This has to be one of the most absurd shows I've seen in the last few years. Influenced by pulp adventures and 60s action series, it has action scenes that make the original Star Treks fights look realistic, over the top characters, ridiculous plot twists and always a conveniently placed window for Hitler to escape through. If you haven't seen it yet, I definitely recommend watching it!
During last challenge I put a short clip of Danger 5 in
one of my entries and somebody suggested I paint up the heroes from the
series. So when I visited Salute last year after the challenge and
noticed Crooked Dice had a booth there I naturally had to get the set
for the next painting challenge. While I was at it I couldn't resist the
sets of Nazi soldiers and their lizard counterparts as well. Should
provide some nice minis for pulp games when regular WW2 starts feeling
too dull! As a bonus Crooked Dice were giving out a free Cameraman with
all sets bought at Salute so I had somebody to record the heroics!
The heroes, Colonel Chestbridge, Jackson, Ilsa, Tucker, Pierre, Claire and everyone's favorite, the Patriotic Hound, Blondi.
As someone could guess from the TV theme I intended to get these done for the final Bonus round, but alas work got in the way and I had to leave for a business trip and only had a day to paint the whole squad. In the end I decided to prioritize sleeping instead of an allnight painting session and just left them for the week.
Simple paintjobs with a wash over the base shades followed up by a couple of layers to bring out the details. The sculpts were mostly very good and casting was excellent. The cameraman was a bit lacking though. He's definitely sculpted by a different sculptor as the style is different and quality is much worse with especially the face being quite badly sculpted. Still can't complain as it was a free extra mini :)
Who would have known that Lizard people were running the planet already in the 1940s...
So that's 14 figures, 1 dog and 1 camera. I'd figure that's about 16 28mm figures then and should give me 80 points and get me close to my halfway through my goal. With these out of the way it's time to start gathering points in a mad rush to the finish! There's no way I'm going to reach my 1000 point goal after having to take 6 weeks off from all hobby activity. But at least I can try getting close to it! I have some AB Napoleonics in store that should yield a decent amount of points and be a lot faster to paint than these guys were.
That was Patriotic dog, ladies and gentlemen, a tough act to follow
Spectacular Pulpy entry, Samuli! You really can't go wrong with 60's camp Scifi. The addition of Reptilian nazi goons and a loyal pooch just adds the extra oomph! Very clean work on them all! I quite like the lizard flesh,er, scale tones too! I t is a shame that the cameraman wasn't up to the same quality as the rest, but you did a fine job on him as well. It just wouldn't be 7TV without a cameraman and you defintley cannot beat his price! The only place you have erred is in the point tally. I'm quite certain that a camera would qualify as an artillery piece( The past year of my countriy's political theatre has really proven that!) and crew! It is a shame you missed the bonus round with this, but I'm honored to post it on my shift!
