From PhilH: Zeitgeist Curtgeld, Din Djarin (30 Points)

Afternoon folks, Soooo, my challenge has gone a little awry, largely because 1). I was waiting a few weeks for a key component of my Pit of the Pendulum entry, and 2). I was loath to skip the room, as I have a great vignette for it, and the things I have been studiously painting while waiting have taken quite a lot of time. Thus, Every Point Counts for me to reach my target. Sooo, I've a few hundred points of stuff waiting in the wings, but haven't eeeeven started my Pit entry. I'll get there over the last few weeks, but whoops. In the margins I've painted up my Curtgeld offering, which is channeling the current hotness TV Show The Mandalorian. I hope it will fit pleasingly in some Challenger's SciFi collection.

Yep, i's Din Djarin, our dour but sensitive bounty hunter protagonist from the latest Star Wars hotness TV show. Unlike most Mandos you see, this isn't a 3D print, rather a traditional metal sculpt by Tim Prow of Diehard Miniatures, from a Kickstarter 18 months or so back. He's nicely scaled for 35mm Legion, so has a pleasing heft.

One of the things I've been trying to do recently, is try new painting methods by trying to add more texture, particularly here to the boots and cloak, rather than defaulting to my usual entirely smooth layered style. Part inspired by recent work on vehicles, Twitter inspiration and also by watching YouTube channel 'Not Just Mecha', by Marco Frisoni while working. Marco does wonderful work, usually on GW models, that's both inspirational and depressingly done in just a handful of hours. He draws a lot on the old masters and colour theory, so a good opportunity to learn along the way.

I have spotted a couple of bits in the photos that need tidying up, and of course he'll a few layers of varnish for transit to his eventual owner.