From BillA: Challenge Prize and Some Miscellaneous Figures (50 Points)

One of my goals for the Painting Challenge is to work through the backlog of Reaper Bones figures I have from their "Bones 4" Kickstarter.  I didn't back as extravagantly as many did (or as I am with Bones 5) but I still ended up with quite a lot of figures, many of which are not ones I would have chosen to buy individually, but when it's 80 figures in a box marked $50, that's hard to say no to.  So I've placed all my Reaper Bones figures in one box and given it a really good hard shake to mix them up.  In between Map goals and other projects, I'll be grabbing a few figures at a time from the box and painting them up - even if they're figures I have no real love or interest in, they're opportunities to practice techniques or test color schemes.  Here are the first few of them to be finished and leave the table:

First up is an "Armorback Barbarian," one of a collection of dinosaur-people included in the Bones 4 "Lost Valley" expansion - a collection of cavemen, dinosaurs, mountain giants, and the like.  I don't know when I'm ever going to use an ankylosaur-man for anything, but he was good practice for washing and layering with his well-defined muscles. 

Second, a "Crone" from the "Dreadmere" expansion - a swampy, steampunk setting that also provided the rowboat in my last entry.  Nothing fancy here, but she's out of the box now.  Bases on both of these were painted a simple Vallejo Goblin Green. 

Third, a cart that I believe was part of the Dreadmere expansion - again, nothing fancy here, just plain wood and rope, but I'm sure it'll be showing up on my gaming table quite a bit - I know there's a Frostgrave scenario revolving around a broken cart, for example, and it's just an otherwise very useful piece of scatter terrain. 

Finally, my contribution to the Prize pool for people conquering Snowlord's Peak - appropriately, a mountaineer, or as Reaper has him listed on their site, an "Antarctic Explorer." He was a fun figure to paint and base, including noting "AHPC X 2019-2020" around his base.  I'm looking forward to see who will be adding him to their collections. 

So let's see, 3 28mm figures on foot is 15, plus 25 for the Prize is 40...is the cart a vehicle? If so this is a 60-point entry. 

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Wonderful work Bill! I like your approach of using some of the outlier Bones models as guinea pigs for techniques and colour experiments. This being said, I really like what you did with the skin tone of that ArmourBack Barbarian - very cool effect that.

Your tariff figure is excellent as well. We could also easily title him, 'Waiting for the Regina City Bus'. Great work!

-Curt