Two leaders who seem to be bent on watching the world go down in flames. So when I noticed that Red Star Coven had a Kickstarter for miniatures of BoJo and Trump riding A-Bombs into oblivion in the style of Dr. Strangelove I just had to get them.
Quick paintjobs just to get me on the board as Christmas has been pretty hectic and I'll be travelling for a couple of weeks at the start of next year so painting time will be quite limited. Luckily with suits and black bombs the palette was extremely limited anyways so I managed to crank these out fast.
"I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it
better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China
and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are
manufactured, tremendous—if you are into this—tremendous fumes and gases
are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?"
"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"
I must say I was slightly tempted to put these in for the Reidy's Reef Challenge Island task. As both of these world leaders seem to promote environmental politics that seem to lead us towards us living in Waterworld with the rising temperatures and melting ice caps they could probably be considered a nautical subject ;)
Anyways two mounted 28mm miniatures to get me started with 20 points.
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Fat Man and Little Boy, indeed. Great work Samuli. These two figures are sadly very inspired, but you've done a terrific job on them (though one could be a tad more orange imho). I seem to recall that bombs would often have witty epithets written on them, we should have a poll for the best one-liners for these two. ;)
-Curt
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ReplyDeleteSorry, got too political for my own liking.
DeleteExcellent painting Samuli! Welcome on Challenge Island. Fitting miniatures of those two...people.
Brilliant stuff! These made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Jamie, I really had fun reading this post, great one Samuli!
ReplyDeleteFun figures and great painting, Samuli :)
ReplyDeleteDon't think there have been many atomic bomb mounted entries before! Thanks enjoyed this entry - question how did you highlight the black colour?
ReplyDeleteIt's just a dark grey base with two lighter grey tones for highlights and a black wash on top. The highlights were maybe a bit too bright, but I don't think I've ever managed to paint black to a level that I like :D
DeleteFun post Samuli! Further comment have been suppressed by house censors.
ReplyDeleteNice work on these, my chum Drew gifted me one of these and I also plan to get it completed this challenge.
ReplyDeleteFun post and nice painting!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Excellent post, Samuli, and really clean painting of a couple of dirty bombs!
ReplyDeleteGenius, this time next year we will all be bankrupt and speaking Russian.
ReplyDeleteFun looking minis.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Samuli - excellent little models, and super paint jobs on both of the "boys". I'm not sure if we've had a controversial entry before ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat fun (by Jove, we need a bit with these two about). I would be tempted to paint "Get Challenge Done" on BoJo's, and "Make Challenge Island Great Again" on the Orange One's.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Richard
Thanks for the comments everyone!
ReplyDelete@Curt: Yeah Trump is maybe a bit too normal coloured :D But getting that right shade of spray tan seemed to be impossible so I went with a human looking skintone
Yeah, painting evil braindead crimelords can be tough. It's all in the shading, I think. :)
DeleteGreat figures! Would be nice to have a Putin and Kim as well.
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