From KyleC: Prison Heist - [SciFi] - (122 pts)

First off.. hope all had a wonderful Christmas day and got many more goodies to add to their collection for this season. 

I was lucky enough to get a Star Wars Legion starter set.. so obviously that's what I worked on recently for assembly.. 

But I had also begun to paint something to get me into the feel of it and work for the SciFi studio also.. 

But first in order to get there one must take a limo. And that limo comes at a cost. 

So here is the fare for the Limo.. a Wizard/Druid Princess Peach. Printed a while back for a customer who never collected.. so figured now was as good of a time to paint it up then! 

But for the SciFi portion we have the Prison Heist crew Vs the Security Droids. 

I didn't realize that the Star Wars models are all 40mm figures.. once these printed off I thought that they were too big.. but seems they are the right fit. And gives one a lot of area to play around with details (and to paint eyes!!).. 

The heist crew were a fun bunch. Especially the Twi'leks. Trying to nail the purple was especially difficult and required a bit of playing around. Pulled out the Scale75 Artist ranges for this here. Seems I didn't have any other purples that weren't dried out aside from them. 

The security droids were also interesting to paint up. Easiest manner would just to cover them in Darkstar Metals and call it a day.. but I would play with them, inks and washes to get a bit more depth on them. 

But now I got a few models to start the Star Wars Universe for myself.. and to build on now! 

So points wise.. 

Limo fare - 20pts

11*40mm figures - 77pts

Sci-Fi Category - 20pts

Total - 117pts

Now to tackle a bit of terrain that Santa dropped off and maybe play a game or two! 

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Fabulous work on Princess Peach, the heist crew and security droids, Kyle. I think you nailed the Twi'leks skin tone, and I really like the depth you achieved with the various metallics - time well spent I think. I sympathize with you on your hunt for usable paint after discovering the litany of pots that have dried out (sooo aggravating). 

I look forward to seeing the terrain that Santa gifted you!

- Curt

PS: Remember to give yourself the base points for Sarah's Limo . I've added 5 for Princess Peach.

From PhilH: Zeitgeist Curtgeld, Din Djarin (30 Points)

Afternoon folks, Soooo, my challenge has gone a little awry, largely because 1). I was waiting a few weeks for a key component of my Pit of the Pendulum entry, and 2). I was loath to skip the room, as I have a great vignette for it, and the things I have been studiously painting while waiting have taken quite a lot of time. Thus, Every Point Counts for me to reach my target. Sooo, I've a few hundred points of stuff waiting in the wings, but haven't eeeeven started my Pit entry. I'll get there over the last few weeks, but whoops. In the margins I've painted up my Curtgeld offering, which is channeling the current hotness TV Show The Mandalorian. I hope it will fit pleasingly in some Challenger's SciFi collection.

Yep, i's Din Djarin, our dour but sensitive bounty hunter protagonist from the latest Star Wars hotness TV show. Unlike most Mandos you see, this isn't a 3D print, rather a traditional metal sculpt by Tim Prow of Diehard Miniatures, from a Kickstarter 18 months or so back. He's nicely scaled for 35mm Legion, so has a pleasing heft.

One of the things I've been trying to do recently, is try new painting methods by trying to add more texture, particularly here to the boots and cloak, rather than defaulting to my usual entirely smooth layered style. Part inspired by recent work on vehicles, Twitter inspiration and also by watching YouTube channel 'Not Just Mecha', by Marco Frisoni while working. Marco does wonderful work, usually on GW models, that's both inspirational and depressingly done in just a handful of hours. He draws a lot on the old masters and colour theory, so a good opportunity to learn along the way.

I have spotted a couple of bits in the photos that need tidying up, and of course he'll a few layers of varnish for transit to his eventual owner.