From SimonM: "Black Tree Design" Myrka (7.5 Points)

This 46mm long metal miniature of a "genetically modified... unknown deep-sea creature" is produced by “Black Tree Design", and can be bought as Code DW509 Myrka from the manufacturer's "Doctor Who" miniatures range. "A large species of reptile used by the Silurians for heavy backup in times of war", the "bullet-resistant" beast which can attack using a powerful electrical charge first appeared in Johnny Byrne's January 1984 BBC Television story "Warriors Of The Deep".

The Myrka was first super-glued onto a "Citadel" 75x42mm oval base, primed with two coats of "Vallejo" Heavy Green, and drenched in Strong Tone Quickshade by "The Army Painter". The monster was then heavily dry-brushed using (more) "Vallejo" Heavy Green, so as to bring out the detail of its "strange kelp-like growths" under its chin and around its "rubbery" body, before subsequently being washed with "Citadel" Biel-Tan Green.

After a second (and final) dry-brush of "Vallejo" Heavy Green, the Myrka's "wide, pale eyes" were 'picked out' using a combination of "Vallejo" White and Pale Grey. Lastly, the four-legged reptiles's base was gritted with sand, undercoated "Citadel" Abaddon Black, dry-brushed in Doombull Brown and Rakarth Flesh, then washed with "Citadel" Agrax Earthshade.

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One of the perks of the free fire round, aside from Facebook and ESRI continuing to think I am a Russian artillery brigade commander, is that I have entries that are not French. And here we have something decidedly not French.

It's reptilian, and centauran, and clearly the product of some deluded mind at the BBC after one too many nights cavorting with snifters of absinthe and actresses sunning their magnificent ankles in foreign climes. Quite smashing, too. The eyes, though, are the centerpiece of the Myrka, and you've done quite well picking them out, as it were.

Given that it's centaurish, bigger than a lone horse, but not as big as a cavalryman, let's split the difference and call it 7.5 points!

HerrRobert, Friday Follies Phantasmical, Over