From MattW: Yellow Brick road, 80s studio, super hero’s, lady Sarah Limousine , books (165 points)

 Final Studios wip round! 

Leaving the casting couch I travel on the yellow brick road to 80s studio, then super heroes, finally  then my last lady Sarah limousine ride to books and then I have completed all of the inner blue studios. Now off to see the director for the final blockbuster! 

Yellow brick road

To travel on the yellow brick road I offer the camera team van of the Pathè Journal! A 20mm Diecast repaint, I hand painted the sign writing  and had an attempt at the Pathè Journal rooster ! This will join my 20mm ww2 collection. 

20mm vehicle          15 points

Yellow Brick Road 20 points

80s Studio

The next offering is my 1980s studio, a diecast Ford Capri. The first project car I worked on in 1987 was with one of my lifelong friends Rob Gow. His Capri was his dream car and together we sanded back, sprayed, pulled down the motor and rebuilt it from the ground up to show condition over two years. Rob was rewarded with a number of trophies around Sydney for the car including being featured in issue 1 of Ford Power in Australia, then later we installed a big block engine to produce 720 brake horsepower for sprint racing, the car again was featured in Street Machine, finally the car became a racing car and sadly was bent up completely and wrecked on a bend at the racing track in Goulburn. Sadly Rob passed in February this year from Cancer and this is my tribute to him, certainly a feature of my 80s. 

Diecast 20mm car.       15 Points

80s studio                    20 points 

Super Hero’s 

A term that is bandied about a lot is Super Hero, for me as an Aussie are the young Australian men who landed at Gallipoli and then went on to fight in the Palestinian campaign, France and Russia are my heroes. Here I offer up to you a 75mm miniature of an WW1 Australian gunner. 

75mm miniature          15 Points 

Super Hero Studio.  20 points 

Lady Sarah Limousine 

Next up is a short ride from Super Hero studio to the book studio if I may. I offer a French Revolution peasant ready to run someone through! The miniature is from the Foundry French Revolution range.

 

28mm miniature 5 points

Lady Sarah Limousine 20 points

Book Studio

One of my biggest influences when growing up was books, as we had no TV reception in the mountains of NSW until I was ten, and then no colour TV in our house until I was 15. Books are a big influence on me still today and I have a library full of them. One of my favourite book series was Biggles…. So I offer up a 1/72 Revell Sopwith triplane, as I have already completed my camels some years ago! 

1/72-20mm aircraft       15 points

Book Studio            20 Points

Off to see the director for my final entry 

Cheers

Matt

Well, I can't fault your maths on this one. Excellent miniatures and vehicles!

Tamsin

From StuartL - Go limo, go! - Lady Sarah's Limousine + others (155 points)

Hello all,
I noticed the clock counting down towards the end of the challenge and decided that I had better get my skates on. I only just entered the Blue Section of the Studios last week, and I want to make sure that I have enough time for whatever horro....er I mean blessings the Show Lord bestows upon me for the Directors Chair challenge.

So, to that end, I have a few stops to make this week, and to get me to those stops I need to pay for my Limousine ticket.

To save me repeating myself, ALL of the models in this post are from Reaper's Bones range. They are cheap (when you back a kickstarter anyway), cheerful and fill a few gaps in an RPG collection. This maiden should pay for me to nip over to the Superhero section of the studio lot.

Despite being a big fan of comics and comic based movies, I don't own any real comic book minis. Digging through my stash of figures, I dragged this out. I'm pretty sure that Reaper never advertised it as Hellboy, but with the sawed off horns, big gun and even bigger magic fist thing, the similarities are probably not a coincidence.

Time to dash on though.

Another female model for another journey in the limo. This time the Swords and Sandals section.

Luckily this hydra is made out of the newer Bones material, so it is pretty rigid. If it had been from the 1st wave of minis they did, the heads would have been flopping everywhere.

The central figure is supposed to be Hercules, the others are Spartans or Greeks of some sort, though obviously with a fairly fantastical bent.

The Hydra is pretty large, but it is mainly the base and a long body that makes it up, so I'm going to suggest that it is scored as a 54mm model as opposed to a 28mm scale monster. That plus the three regular minis should be a Squirrel point too.

No time to dilly dally, I have one more post today and I want to pay for my ticket in the limo.

This should clear me for a ride over to the Arthouse stage. It also means that over the past two weeks, I have 5 painted up NPC women, aka 1 Squirrel Point. 

So for the scores.

7x28mm minis = 35 Points

1x54mm mini = 10 Points

2x Studios (Superhero, Sword & Sandals) = 40 Points

3x Limo rides = 60 Points

Total = 145 Points

My Side Duels

Squirrels +2 = 27

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers, Turnips, Necrons, Tau, Genestealers, WW2 Japanese, Teutonics, Lizardmen, Gnolls, Arabs, Space Marines, Kung Fu Chinese, Wolf's Dragoons, Merfolk, Fishmen, Fish, Mummies, Greek Myth, Peasants

Skullz - 200

Turnips - 115 Points

See you all at the Arthouse!

That is a cracking whistle stop tour of the studios. Hellboy is my personal favourite, I love the 1st 2 movies. Top work. The Hydra is too big for a 54mm infantryman so scored it as cavalry

ChrisW Gladiators, Supers & Rockettes [445 points]

So, this weeks post came up a little short of what I was aiming for, but I guess it just means more stuff for next week.😁 

A rambling note about how I get things done (and all to often do not get things done), my 'style' is chaotic, unfocused and always teetering on the brink of failure. Plans that I might have at the start of the week often change part way in, or even near by end of the week. For example, this week I only decided to work on the supers on Thursday which shunted other projects aside. The other aspect of my approach, not entirely premeditated, is that I tend to work on all projects, even those not scheduled for the current week, all at once. I rarely finish any project before the last possible moment before posting day. The Rockettes in this post is that rare exception, actually started and finished them in the first two days of this past week. 

It does keep me from being bored by any one project, but it does mean that my gaming room is cluttered with 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 finished projects. Teetering stacks of boxes and other detritus spill over from the gaming table and the prep tables. One must be nimble to navigate around my room! 

So, this week the dreaded deadline caught up with me. I have a number of projects that are almost done, and would just need a bit more time to finish but frankly I just do not feel like staying up into the wee hours of the night, again. 

Anyways on to this weeks post. This starts with a limo ride.

Limousine ride

Now that I have access to a blue pass it is time to visit the Sword and Sandals studio. However, first I will need to hitch a limousine ride. For this ride, I submit the following figure. 

Sword and sandal studio, those about to die [33 foot, 3 mounted 28mm figures]

Most of these figures are by Foundry with a few Black Tree Design figures thrown in. They were kind of fun to paint and educational. This time around I did a bit of research and discovered aspects of their attire that I did not know about. There are three mounted gladiators, 31 foot gladiators and two lions.

Now you might have noticed that some of the figures have no shields. Perhaps someone in the group can help me. I need someone who is friendly with the hobby gremlins that steal and hide small items. I had the shields with the miniatures, on my desk when I started painting these figures, but those damn gremlins snuck in and stole them!!! So, for now, the Black tree figures and the mounted gladiators are shieldless. No doubt the shields will be released back into my care as the challenge progresses. 

Limousine ride

On to another studio, this time the Superhero studio. For the ride to this studio, I submit the following figure. 

Superhero studio [16 x 28mm and 4 x 54mm)

Last minute idea to paint up some superheroes/villains. As such I was only able to tackle 16 figures, but thankfully that really cuts into the unpainted supers pile! There is a possible end to at least one genre.

 

The villains

Two skull headed villains

Scale shot, they are really large figures

These are almost all Old Glory figures, with 2 Pulp Figures thrown in and I am not certain who made the 'Black Widow' figure. Four of them are oversized 54mm figures while the rest are 28mm. For the most part I used contrast/speed/Xpress paints to establish a  shadow/midtone then finished off with normal paints. Some weird figures in this grouping, some very nice sculpts and some not so good.

 Independent feature looking for studio backing.

American heroes in the sky! The Rockettes! (WARCs) [10 x 28mm]

The rocket women are Eureka figures, while the other two are not. They are set up as a Pulp Alley league. 1 leader, 1 sidekick, 1 Ally and a gang (the 5 regular troopers). The bazooka team gets used when the league spends gear points for them. They all have fly, even those that are not wearing a rocket pack. I used Speed paints for the pants & leather. The shirts are contrast plague bearer flesh, while the flesh is Vallejo Xpress (as a base) then touched up with Scale75 assorted flesh paints.

Women's Army Rocket Corp (WARC)

Sidekick (Gauge), Leader (Angel), Ally(Rosie)

Weapon team

The gang

Points for this weeks entry

• 40 points for two limo rides
• 40 points for two studio
• 30 points for 3 x 28mm mounted
  
• 295 points for 59 x 28mm foot
• 40 points for the tall supers
  

Total 445 points

Skull duel [+2]

Squirrels this time around [+3]

1. Gladiators
2. Women rocket corp
3. Superheroes

New total of 18 for the challenge

 Previous squirrels

1. Back of Beyond
   
2. Mad figures (Top hat toffs and companions)
3. Greek skeletons
4. Sisters of Sigmar
5. Ancient Germanic women
6. ECW cuirassiers
   
7. Monsters large
8. Post apocalypse
9. Tekumel Palanquin
10. Empire Pike
11. Jazz Band
    
12. French Cuirassiers on Mars
13. Court of Dr Koo
14. Movie makers
15. Gothic/movie Vampires

 

Another spectacular batch of minis Chris, I don't know where you find the time to paint so many models. I am in a similar predicament with my hobby room and its state of (dis)organisation. It is just so difficult to stick to any one project long enough to finish it off. There is always something else to paint or a shiny new toy to buy.

All of your figures look great, but I love the bright costumed adventurers and villains in the Supers batch. They remind me of the numerous comics and publishers that sprang up in the 80's/90's with a whole host of new characters.