MartinC - Heroes in a Half Shell (175pts)

 I've finished my Lizardman army and it's very big. I will show it all at some point, but will have to do much more tidying up before then. I know that everyone will say I'm lying and I will make it bigger. But for now it is made of complete regiments and I've bought all the figures I wanted.

All great Lizardmen armies need Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These are the Aztec cousins

Raphaelapetl

Donatellopetl

Leonardopetl

Michaelangelopetl

Cousin Bobopetl

No Wait. There are only 4 TMNT but there are 5 in the pack. Who thought it needed 5 and then designed one. The sculpts are awesome, you can feel them jumping of the bases, full of dynamism. They were great to paint. They move me into the inner ring

Next up the Lizard Queen. She's a big girl (54mm) and have a massive axe and spear.

and skirt and headress with about 100 feathers.

A small unit a lizardmen to complete a regiment.

All lizardmen armies need dinosaurs. This is cheap toy T-Rex with a platform for lizardmen. Don't need much to hold onto, my lizardmen have sticky feet.

This is a big lizard.

But not a big as this Triceratops with a ballista on the howdah, which decorated with severed heads

Does look cool doesn't it

Points

5 x 40mm turtles + Krypton = 55

1x lizard queen = 10

7 x lizardmen = 35

2 dinosaurs = 20mm vehicles = 40

6 dino crew = 30

Ballista = 5 (it's only little)

total = 175

Yes, well, I'm sure that your lizardmen army is complete and that you won't be adding any more regiments to it. At least in the next four weeks.

I'm assuming you meant 28mm vehicles for the dinosaurs, not 20mm.

Lovely stuff, Martin!

Tamsin

From SanderS: Let's play ball! (55 points)

 Hoi,

 

At the end of the Challenge we always are asked to show some pictures of our painted goodies and ourselves. Well my picture will be a mighty empty one since a lot of the stuff I am painting this Challenge is for friends. My mate Mark has only one army: WFB Skaven, as such he also has only one team for Blood Bowl: Skaven. He has asked me to paint them up for him and so here are the "Labrunners"

First up: I have painted up just 10 of the 24 figures he has for his team as I wasn't able to finish the two gutter runners yet. 

 

I did print him a BB Bleachers for displaying the figures in the cabinet including the markers

Apart from the Rats shown above I have also painted up an old school white metal Star Player figure called Zug. I painted him up in the colours of the newest Imperial Nobles team of burgundy and creme. 

 

So 11 figures x 5 points is another 55 for the scoreboard.

 

Cheers Sander

Nice rats!

Tamsin

From SarahHC: 'Dodger' in Two Scales

 

Hello Everybody

For this weeks post, I have painted the same figure in two different scales. Oh, the joys of having access to both a 3D printer and a technician/man servant in the house.

“Dodger”, is a Young Steampunk Girl 3D print from Velrock Art that I found on MyMinifactory.
She was originally printed as a 40mm figure, I then asked Curt to print a slightly larger 50mm.

Dodger, as in “The Artful” is a crew member on Lady Sarah’s Star Yacht. She is talented in the art of crowdsourcing - items, information , anything really to benefit the Star Yacht.

The original Artful Dodger, Jack Dawkins in Oliver Twist had a great respect for old Fagin and willingly turned over his daily pickings to the old thief. Is not the motto Honour Among Thieves a loyalty to a code? My steampunk Dodger is definitely loyal to the Lady Sarah and the Star Yachts crew.

With this in mind, I will use the mini Dodger as my planetary fulfilment (Istvaan, planet of Loyalty/Betrayal) and the larger Dodger as my ticket to summon the Star Yacht to zip off to Aarda (planet of Fantasy/Tolkienesque)

I have painted both Dodgers in the green & black livery of the Star Yachts Crew. Like the other crew members I’ve painted, she also sports big black stompy boots, and as a nod to her Victorian Steampunk origins a top hat and brass goggles.

This is a cool figure, but I did find the pose of hand on hat rather challenging to paint under/around, the ruffled blouse & details on her frock coat were fiddly to pick out. But that issue is more because of my beginner brush skillz.

The mini Dodger, I used as a ‘test’ figure for the paint scheme. I wanted her frock coat to look like Dodger had put it together herself, but I didn’t like the end result… too busy with the sleeves and alternate green/black panels. On the larger Dodger, I still kept the black & green colour blocking but a more simplified look.

The other Star Yacht Crew members all have items of a personal flare .. Dodgers Top Hat and goggles were the obvious accessories to paint in a colourful and distinctive fashion. I used many different shades of red on the hat and I’m pleased with richness of the colour. I hope the hat does look like she’s swiped it from some tipsy toff!


Points-wise:
Both figures I’ll claim 7pts each, as one is 40mm and the other at 50mm.
Istvaan planet bonus 20 pts
Ticket to Aarda bonus 20pts
54 points total

Thanks for reading, I’ll report to you from Aarda next week!

- Sarah 😊

I think that this may be a first - the same figure painted in two scales in the same post! When I saw the post title, given the SciFi theme of this Challenge, I thought it might be "Dodger" the GroPo who hooked up with Chief Garibaldi on Babylon 5, but a steampunk Jackie Dawkins is just as good.

Tamsin

From Phil: A whistle-stop tour of Babylon5 and Vulcan (54 Points)

Is it even February yet..? 

Sad to say I've been very quiet during Challenge XII so far. Not for a lack of minis to paint, just busy, tired, juggling too many projects and a sharp shift in enthusiasm to a new project putting the brakes on all of sapping the enthusiasm for the half-finished. What I intended to be painting isn't what I want to be painting. But I follow the Brush where it leads me!

On a related bright side, I'm actually getting some regular games in for the first time in goodness knows how long.  

Still, I should tick off some more planets, and a galaxy far far away has plenty I can use on my journey.

So for Babylon 5 'operatic, low-budget fun'. Star Wars itself fits the bill as a Space Opera setting and I plucked this random mini from the pile of 3D prints. It's a rather grand and rotund Twi'lek, apparently named Orn Free Taa. He's a corrupt and self-serving senator from the prequel trilogy. As I focus on the original trilogy/Galactic Civil War for my collection, he can serve as some VIP or merchant NPC. A long-lost sibling or cousin, perhaps. 

He's a resin 3D print from RavenX Studios. As can be the case with prints, I found the detail on him to be a bit soft, and had to mostly freestyle the detailing his robes. I kept to the brownish palate of the character, though liked the orange contrast with his blue skin. 

Onward to Vulcan, and pointy ears. No elves about these parts, but what's this...? Yup, another rubber-faced Star Wars alien. One of my favourites in fact, yes it's the low-rent Rodian bounty hunter Greedo. Outrageously maligned by George Lucas revisionism, for me he categorically did not shoot at Han first. No, he was gunned down in cold blood by a complete scoundrel, and don't believe any other version of the story!

Another 3D print, coincidentally also from RavenX Studios, much better detailed and a nice gunslinging pose.

I'm pleased with how his skin and googly eyes came out. I did him from a zenithal prime, tried to highlight zenithally and added some texture to the leatherwork. As Greedo only features in one scene, I used this from the Battlefront video game as a painting reference. I didn't get close to the right shade for his jumpsuit, but whatever.

Two minis scaled for Star Wars Legion 35mm, and two planet bonuses makes me a tidy 54 points, if I maths'd correctly. Next up: the new project should make an appearance.

It seems that "leveraging" has spread to Tuesdays now, but with great style! Those two figures are cracking, Phil!

Tamsin

From Jeff B (Sgt Guinness): Rolls Royce on the Grim - Vulcan (40 Pts)

For my second entry in Challenge #12 I will be visiting the planet Vulcan. 

The setting is the NWF, Afghanistan, 1920’s, post 3rd Afghan War. Sniping at invaders on the Northwest Frontier is not just a Pashtun pastime, it’s a mandatory full time tactic to dissuade invaders. To counter the sniping on resupply and troop convoys as well as for reconnaissance the Anglo-Indian forces began to deploy Armored Cars. 

This Rolls Royce armored car is a 1920’s version with solid tires left over after WWI and shipped to India for hard duty on the Grim. 

How does this tie into Vulcan, well, it’s a “logical” solution to a tactical problem, of course. 

This vehicle is a 3D printed model, a gift, 1 of 4 armored cars from a long time friend. It’s got the perfect amount of detail and tons of rivets. I drilled out holes in the hull and turret bottom for a magnet and scrap metal to be able to keep the turret rotating without the turret falling off.

Prime Coat: Flat Black spray paint

Body Base Coat: Glidden (paint sample) No1 Warm Caramel

Various Washes around details & rivets: Delta Ceramcoat: Burnt Umber

Wash of Delta Ceramcoat black on tires, radiator/ condenser, and wheel wells. 

Tires: PS Grimy Black with a black wash. 

High Light: with base coat. 

Points: 42

(1) 28mm vehicle points: 20

Planet Points: 20

Squirrel Points: 2 

1. Solaris: Russians 1880’s
2. Vulcan: 1920’s British Rolls Royce A/C

When I saw this in the queue of draft posts, I did think that the justification for this counting as "logical" for Vulcan was stretching things to the limit, but a precedent was set yesterday so who am I to argue?

That's a good looking armoured car. Did they really have that many rivets of that size? They make it look rather Dalek-like.

Just as a note, "squirrel points" only count toward the Squirrel Duel, not the overall points. Also, please can you mark your posts "Ready" in the title when they are, well, ready? And add labels?

Tamsin

From MartinC - Running out of ways to describe Random Painting. So. Stuff. (302 pts)

 I've done some painting, no messing about, here it is

Moorish Black Guard, a 2nd hand buy and no clue who made them. They are fine, in the English style meaning OK.

I have quite a few Moorish types but they are a bit colourful so needed some in standard black. Even then I couldn't keep them all black.

Moorish shields are intricately patterned. Struggle to paint intricate random shield designs and hate transfers. So in such cases I write in Arabic script (or Sanskrit for my Indian elephants). I think it looks cool. These shields say "Sinner" which works both ways.

Next up a Reaper bones Were-Gorilla. Not a fan of these soft plastic figures but it was £1. Also got a new phone and working out how to use it

I have a large back of beyond collectionm and we have started playing very large battles with Russian Civil War, Turks and Brits. This is an Empress British radio mule

Will use it to control off map artillery

Couple of mules and a couple of converted Wargames Foundry figs as Anzacs

Final stretch. Dave and I are planning a gangster campaign and I fancy a few masked investigator types. These are from Pulp, so are great figures.

This masked Venus is my Perelandra entry. Tried to give her a tattoo but it looked rubbish.

And finally Crash Callahan, ace reporter. She, her dog and motorbike sidecar combo are fab, again Pulp.

Scores, hang in there Tamsin I think I've got this.

Arabs = 36 figs x 5 = 180

Gorilla = 1 x 40mm fig = 7

Back of Beyond = 5 men @ 5 each and 3 mules also at 5 = 40

Pulp = 6 figs + 2 dogs (2.5 each) + vehicle + Perelandra = 75

Total = 302 pts.

Feel free to add more.

Kaboom! Let's start the reports off with a MartinC-shaped points-bomb! That's a great mix of figures. And another odd lycanthrope added to your tally.

Tamsin