From TashaH: Last Minute Planet Scramble [Babylon5][Xanth][Lady Sarah’s Star Yacht] (75 points)

Well. 

Here we are on Babylon5. This figure is the first one I assembled myself. Yikes! When I got it in the mail, I contemplated putting it in a drawer and just forgetting about it! 

 

Overall, it was easy to assemble. I should have paid a little closer attention, as I clipped the pegs off on his legs, so he is just sitting precariously on his shoes! 

This is Zo! - a Starfinder Miniature. As with most of the figures in the Challenge, I know nothing about him. I chose him for this planet for his microphone. He will be given a place of honour in my husband’s music room, where many a song is sung and while perhaps not quite operatic, he can hit some pretty amazing notes!  

 

As I’ve completed 4 planets on the outer and middle rings, I understand I can drop directly to the inner ring. I’m going to head to the planet Xanth. 

Here I have another Elf Cleric from WizKids. As you can see, he clearly has the unique talent of being able to conjure fire in the palm of his hand!

 

I had planned to have a figure completed for Lune, but I do not. I would like to call on Lady Sarah’s Star Yacht to take us to Terra. 

This is the last of the Heroclix figures I have from WizKids (thank goodness).  Psylocke is from the Xmen and that is about all I know about her. I do know I didn’t paint her outfit properly, but I did use four different shades of black to try to make her look cool. 

 

I ordered my new 3D printer today and I am soooo excited. I just wish I had some more time to use it before the end of the Challenge. 

The points:

3 - 32 mm figures - 15 points

2 Planet Bonuses + Star Yacht - 60 points

Total - 75 points

(I redid all the photos with a lighter background as the originals were incredibly dark)

That's a lovely trio of figures, Tasha! 

Tamsin

From MartinC: It's Alive (502pts)

 

Think I've survived covid, although it was rough and I still feel crap. I've done a little painting and model building, but mainly I've been to sleep. Most of today's post was for last week. I'm still working out my camera so the pictures are rubbish. For those of you that are used to my posts, this will come as no shock. If I wanted to be good at photography, I would do that as a hobby - bet it's cheaper, easier to give as gifts and takes up less space in my house.

I've been building up my Back of Beyond collection, it offers so many gaming options. I noticed that my Brits are all in shorts and shirt sleeve order. They look great but most of my Russians are in overcoats and fur hats. Therefore I needed some Brits for colder climes.

I picked these up 2nd hand from a mate. They painted up quite nicely

Overall there are 3 sections

plus 3 spares, inc 2 highlanders with Lewis guns

They came with 2 vickers MMGs and I had a sniper in the to do box

All forces need command and control. These guys came with 4 sets. 2 semaphore teams and 2 carrier pigeon teams. i think I have too many pigeons and enough flags for bunting.

Next up an Empress Model T Ford for Dunsterforce. They famously went to war in 600 Model T Fords and this stripped down one has 2 Lewis guns.

Next up a troop of Chinese infantry, told you everyone had fur hats. These are from Copplestone and lovely.

And then I started to potter around this week. 5 mob types, again Copplestone

12 Arab archers, 2nd hand purchase, think they are Gripping beast

A 40mm warrior chap, nice fig from a Games of Thrones set.

Next up I made a couple of tank models I'd been given. This Sherman M4A1 is by Rubicon and a pressie from sick note Dave. Nice kit to built.

Finally a 1:35 Churchill Mk VII by Tamiya. This was a birthday present from a friend and a nice kit to build.

It is bleeding massive compared to the 28mm Sherman. can't believe i only get 25 points for it, it's at least twice the size of the Sherman. Maybe i should put it in as a terrain piece.

Scores on the doors

81 x 28mm infantry and crew = 405

2 x crew served weapons = 20

2 x 28mm vehicles = 40

1 x 40mm infantry = 7

1 x massive tank = 25pts (REALLY!!!)

total = 497pts

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Kaboom! Another points-bomb from Martin, despite being sick with Covid. That's a great set of figures and vehicles. The 1/35 scale tank is "54mm" so that's 30 points rather than 25, but still doesn't seem much for such a big piece of kit.

Tamsin

From ArthurS: The Last Post. (30 points)

 Hoi 

Arthur says:

"This will be my last real post for the Challenge this year! I have set myself a points limit of 75 points and with this entry I will reach that goal. I have enjoyed joining you all for this year's Challenge and hope to join next year too.

For my last post I have painted up a Whirlwind tank for my Powerwings Space marines. Pssst, don't let anyone hear it, but since my hobby budget is rather limited, Dad printed me the main tank hull on his  3D printer and we put a real GW rocket launcher set on top. 

Apart from the Whirlwind I also would like to show you my first painted Blood Bowl figures. My team is the new Black Orcs team and here's one of my Black Orcs and a Goblin Shaman that can be used to summon down the Foot of Gork (or is it Mork?)  on the playing field. 

 

I am mighty proud of the Shaman since I think I really made the mushrooms work very well. They were painted in the rainbow colours to provide extra magical energy. 

Finally Dad also printed a scatter template and I painted it in my team colours as well. Now the vehicle (28mm) and the two figures (28mm) will net me another 30 points.

Thanks everyone for looking in  at my post!

Arthur

Those are all great, Arthur. It's been a pleasure having you taking part in your own right this year and a shame that this is your last entry. You've done very well, and we look forward to having you back with us next year.

Tamsin

From SanderS: Visiting Cybertron via Maelstrom! (40 points)

 Hoi,

With only a few weeks to go, I need to make haste in order to reach my points goal of 1000 points. For that I will now visit two more planets in the Challenge Galaxay Quadrant, let's make landfall on one of my favourites: Cybertron!

Quite some years ago a small Australian firm, aptly called Traders Galaxy, (headed by two nice blokes) had obtained a license to produce a Transformers miniature game. Something went wrong, they fell out with each other and the license was cancelled. Before the line of miniatures was mothballed as well, several sets had been available for purchase for some time and I got my hands on a few of them. Through the last Challenges I have been painting them and have now amassed a small but delightful amount of Transformers; both Autobots as well as Decepticons. 

They are a pain to put together as they are extremely fiddly and I have really fat clumsy fingers as well as detoriating eyesight, oh well I got there in the end.   

Todays offering is a duo I really remember fondly from the old cartoons: Hot Rod (or rather Rodimus Prime)  and Jazz! 

Jazz:

Hot Rod:

The Bots were put on Battletech Hexbases and Arthur has been busy making CBT Rostersheets for them in Heavy Metal Pro (if this all sounds like gibberish to you just have a look at the pretty pictures ;-) so we will be able to use the Bots in games of Battletech as well.

If I understand correctly entering a planet through Maelstrom is 30 points rather than 20 and 2 x 28mm figures is another 10 so 40 points all round. Next stop will be Arrakis!

Cheers Sander

Those robots looks great, sander. And you're right - being dumped out of the Maelstrom scores you 30 points for this planet!

Tamsin

Tamsin's Teasy Tuesday

"Good morning Ladies, Gentlemen...and Ray! I must say that I am very, very, very disappointed in you all. After last week's apparent return towards high rates of exploration you seem to have slipped back. Just 6,130 parsecs of exploration over the past seven days."

"That really isn't good enough if we are to achieve our current pledge of 85,989 parsecs - we currently stand at 70,264 parsecs. Doing some quick sums, I believe that means we will need to explore an average of 1,210 parsecs per day between now and the end of this exploration."

"Thank heavens for Team Tuesday's big-hitters. We have several exploration reports lined up already for today:

• Lady Sarah introduces another member of her Star Yacht crew
• TashaH distributes grub while conducting a whistlestop tour of planets
• MartinC is alive, despite the worst efforts of the Wuhan Plague, and dropping points-bombs in the back of beyond
• SanderS tells of his escape from the clutches of giant robots and gets very, very dusty in the desert
• ArthurS brings his exploration to a close
• ChrisW promises another mega-report

...and there may be further reports coming in later on."

"Announcements from the Station Master:

1. A reminder that we have been granted a 24 hour extension to our Exploration Warrant for this quadrant. All reports must now be submitted by Midnight on Sunday 20 March.
   
   
2. From Sunday 13 March until the end of this trip you will be able to submit your exploration reports for publication on any day. The Stewards will maintain their duty days for processing them.

..and that seems to be it."

Toodle-pip!

Tamsin