(RichardH) More and More Space Elronds (195pts)

 

Had a couple of other things almost ready but just missing the cut off for this week, so instead it is simply more and more of those space elves (and their damned gems..... I really hate those gems).

First up a set of six swoopy woosher bike things.

Points for these sit at:

28mm Mounted - 6 @ 10pt = 60pts

Next up the other one of the big Wraithlord type walkers, and another bout of endless spaces where the sculpter felt there should be gems. This one is armed not with a giant pew pew but instead went full out on two vrooms.

Points for this based on last weeks post:

40mm Vehicle 1 @ 25pt = 25pts

Next is a full squad of Storm Guardians along with a ground mounted vroom artillery piece. Many swords means much dashes of blends, but many swords also means no gems on guns, yay!

Points on these are:

28mm Foot - 10 @ 5pt = 50pts

28mm Artillery - 1 @ 10 pt = 10 pts

Total = 60pts

Last up this week is a full squad of corsairs, these folks have way too much detail for simple foot troops and so it was a challenge to pick where to go to town on details and where to ignore. They are definitely a bunch of models that could in future be ripe for some crazy clown type colours and maxing out every tiny little detail though.

Points for these are:

28mm Foot - 10 @ 5pt = 50pts

This makes the weeks total of 195pts which breaks my original 300pt target, now to see what fun stuff I can get painted up to try and tick off more of the studio boxes.

Gotta love a force that fields swoopy woosher bike things!  Great work on the space Elves and congrats on hitting your Challenge goal with over a month to spare.  Did you want to double down and up your benchmark?

A reminder to add labels to maintain order in the Snowboard's Archivist world (one does not wish to displease the Snowlord by disturbing the order of such things).  I've added one with your moniker but I've no idea what to label most of this stuff or who made them.

From RichardH: A Bunch of Space Elves & Some Tex Murphy (200 Points)

I've had a busy couple of weeks working away at a not space elrond army, along with starting a few other projects. Missed out on getting the photos done for everything to make this post as I am off to spend far too much money at Vapnartak this weekend (or will have done so by the time this posts). So just a small collection of things ticked off so far.

First up a full squad of foot troopers with a swirly shield thingy artillery unit. I originally painted a couple up with black bases, however they just didn't look right, it came across as this weird mini standing on top of some black lump for no reason. So I gave it a go at instead doing pure white bases to try and blend the entire theme as an alien snow type world. So far the white is looking far better than the black.

Points for these are:

 10 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 50pts

1 x 28mm artillery @ 10pt = 10pts

Next up some heavy shock troops, I originally started the army with these models as it let me mess about with some blends and the colour scheme. the larger 40mm size of them gave me just enough canvas to experiment without having a mountain of coverage to finish. What I have no discovered is doing gems on these models is right up there with a "Bloody stupid Johnston" machine design, it breaks up the plain nature of the bone armour nicely but takes eons to do when you get to the large models.

Points for these are:

5 x 40mm foot @ 7pt = 35pts

Speaking of large models that have way too many of those stupid gem things, here is one of the big wraithlords. For the most part straight forward, but ye gads there are gems on top of gems on top of gems on these things, this is the first of two with the other going in for next week.

Points for these were tricky to work out, they are around 85mm tall for a model, in addition I am not sure should they be classed as foot troops or are they a vehicle walker? I've based two possible point values by combining the 28mm and 54mm ratings, just depends if this comes in as foot soldier or vehicle/walker?

1 x 80mm foot @ (5+10) 15pt =15pts

1 x 80mm vehicle/walker @ (20+30) = 50pt = 50pts

Minion's verdict - if you count it as a 80mm scale it's a foot figure.  If you count it as a walker it's the 40mm same scale as the foot soldiers.  I am counting it as a 40mm vehicle for 25 points.  It kinda hales the difference and fits the SSOD easily.

Finally as a break from batch painting I took a shot as some monochrome ideas, I had some nice noir style models in the pile and so thought they would make a perfect little diorama. A simple 6" cube sized design, that has some 3d printed parts, some clay molding work and a couple of led lights throw in for measure. It's a nice break from just painting and though I can see clearly a ton of learning needs to be done for the clay work, it is a medium that I can hopefully use more often in future.

Points for this are :

1 x 6" terrain @ 20pt = 20pts

2 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 10pts

With two bonus studios of Sci-fi and Black and white for 20pts each, this leaves this post total as.

12 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 60pts

1 x 28mm artillery @ 10pt = 10pts

5 x 40mm foot @ 7pt = 35pts

1 x 4080mm foot @ 15pt = 15pts / Or 1 x 80mm vehicle/walker @ 25 50pt = 25 50pts

1 x 6" terrain @ 20pt = 20pts

Bonus sci-fi 20 pts

Bonus Black & White 20 pts

Total 200 pts

Great stuff here Richard.  You are speaking my language with "swirly shield thingy artillery unit"!  I don't know what it does but it sounds so cool I think that I need one.  And your not space elves warriors are bedazzled up enough to fit right into Mardi Gras in N'awlins with no worries.

Best of all however, is that Western themed diorama.  Great wok and really thematic and atmospheric. I've thrown in some Minion discretionary points for the lighting and coolness.  But next time make sure to include labels with your name, scale, manufacturer, theme, etc.  If  not then Minion's discretion may take points away for making me do work.

Have great fun throwing your shekels away frivolities in York, you'll likely see most of the Monday crew with their wallets out.

From : RichardH . Getting off the Starting Blocks (165 points)

 

It's taken me a while to get off the blocks on this comp, not for painting issues, but also for painting issues. I had so much going on that I simply didn't have time to stop and write entries. Now things have settled into a less manic (it's still just as manic) nature I can get in with everyone and make regular posts.

This first post has everything I managed to complete from the start date up until the end of the year (technically it was 00:07 when I brushed the last black rim, but I am claiming it all for that year!). As such it is a fairly eclectic mix of things from various games and styles.

First up are the miniatures from the board game Direwild, I've had this game over a year now and somehow kept avoiding getting them painted up, which considering the numbers makes little sense (It is hardly on the scale of a CMON game). But over the holiday period we wanted to get a lot of gaming done and so this seemed an ideal easy way to start both this challenge and shift some grey.

Apologies on the distortion of these, I managed to forget to scale them maintaining aspects and so we end up with lots of folks living in the belt.

The points for these I worked out as :

Direwild minis = 15 x 28mm @ 5pt = 75

Next up from another board game are the miniatures from Endangered Orphans, this was a backed Kickstarter I had been waiting on for far too long due to the covid delays and so was really keen to get playing. The big Tim Burton vibes on all the artwork also meant these plastic folks were definitely not sitting around and waiting.

The points for these I came to is:

Orphans minis = 3 x 28mm @ 5pt = 15

Orphans Bigs = 2 x 40mm @ 7pt = 14

Total = 29pt

Lastly I had finally managed to find some folks to play Stargrave with (after having owned all the books for well over a year and had roughed out several different ideas for crews). My current crew are still getting some finishing touches, but I wanted to bring something iconic to the first game as the random beasties. When someone says sci-fi and beasties there really is only one thing that any respectable nerd should think of (it is not a mogwai). 

So I fired up the printer and churned out a full batch of nightmares to torment our crews (they performed superbly while we did less so).

The points for these are :

Alien small minis (facehuggers and chestbursters while on 25mm bases are tiny so it felt wrong to try and claim them as anything larger than this) = 6 x 10mm @ 1pt = 6

Alien minis = 5 x 28mm @ 5pt = 25

Alien queen = 1 x 54mm @ 10pt = 10

Total = 41pt

One of the face huggers has been used to instead qualify for the 80s bonus location, I considered doing another for the sci-fi but have others in mind later for this.

This should put my total as:

Painted models = 145

Bonus = 20

Total = 165

THe Direworld figures are marvellous, if a little in cinemscope. I always love a good alien