From MartinC - I thought you'd be taller (126 Points)

As others have already posted the Anti-hero bonus theme, and Curt's well deserved fee, I thought I'd post mine. Snake Plissken strode though my youth like a surly Collosus.  Not surprising when every one who met him said "I thought you'd be taller". I loved Escape from New York.

The 28mm figure is from Hasslefree and was great, although I find the separate arms with both hands on one piece annoying, I always end up with a gap that needs filling. He has been injected with the microscopic explosives in his neck and sent on his mission to Regina where Curt will need to de-activate them with X-rays within the week. His mission is to slightly interfere with Curt's OCD by moving everything 1" to the left..

For Christmas I received a 28mm scale Empress Rolls Royce armoured car from my baffled sister. The model is beautiful and apart from a huge chunk of resin on turret had almost no flashing. It was fairly easy to put together apart from the radiator and engine cover which I could not get to fit well. Of course there were no bleeding instuctions and only a couple of unpainted diagrams on the interweb. Why oh why oh why don't they at least include a decent diagram (sorry slipped into Daily Telegraph letters page mode for a minute).

I undercoated the whole kit in black post assembly and then painted with several washes of Foundry Drab. I then went over all the seams with my permanent black 0.1mm micro pen and dry brushed with the light drab. If you don't own one of these pens I strongly recommend getting one. For years I have undercoated in black as I find it gives depth to the figures but means using many coats of flesh and white. However I have been adding shadow lines with the pen and it works really well, especially on webbing and straps. From now on I will be undercoating in the predominant colour and using the pen The whip aerial and tools are from my bits box.

Then there is the ubiquitous ACW regiment, the 7th Louisiana. The strap edges have been done with the pen and I used all my shades of grey to paint these (sounds like a mucky book). I'm also starting to get the hang of washes now, not something I do normally. I am so old school.

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!". These figures will take me over my target of 1000 and I still have 5 infantry regiments and 4 cannon to paint. I have also gone a little mad at the January sales and bought a lot of stuff. Lets up the target to 2000 and see what happens.

Finally this is my space with another one of my presents a magnifying lamp - these are great and pretty cheap - excuse the curtains, I only bought the house recently from an old lady and haven't got round to changing them yet.

From Curt:Brilliant! I look forward to trying to thwart Mr. Plissken's nefarious mission. Thank you very much Martin! 

I've been wondering how that Empress Rolls AC measures up. You've made it look very good indeed. I'd like to see how it compares to the new one from Trenchworx.  

I like your painting station (great natural light) but those curtains just HAVE to go. ;) 

AND congratulations on meeting your points target. I'll get you logged in for 2K - good luck!