From SarahHC: Mushrooms for Moonstone! [Solaris](35 Points)

Hello Everybody!

The Star Yacht has brought me to my destination of Solaris - a planet of deception and illusion. Visitors to the planet will be enchanted by the wondrous and colourful mushrooms scattered throughout its forests.

In my mind, these mushrooms, though pretty to look at, are in reality, quite deceptive. They spew noxious hallucinogenic spores to ward off interlopers or make them more susceptible to the hungry forest creatures.

Moonstone has been regularly played in this household since summer. I hope these mushrooms will be good addition to the game table. I can only imagine that Curt will be embellishing rules to accommodate my noxious fungi. :)

These are 3D prints from Printable Scenery. As part of my 'indoctrination' into this hobby, I cleaned and primed before moving on the the painting and eventual basing, but more on that later!

I had a lot of fun with the colours and the use of Curt's Contrast paints was a boon. I had an idea in my head of mushrooms in an Alice in Wonderland/Willy Wonka world, but not Tim Burton-style, or too cartoonish, if that makes any sense.

Having fun with my paint journal.

I am really quite pleased with them. Although I can see mistakes, I have learned more about painting minis doing these than I have just watching Curt over the years. The basing process was a struggle, I hadn’t trimmed the 3D prints well enough, so the pieces wouldn’t fit, I glued one mushroom off-center on its washer base which really annoys me, and I can see the seams where the prints fit together… grrr!  Frankly, I'm lucky that I didn’t super glue my fingers together!

Curt is the designated mini-photographer, so the big, fat fingers you see are his … not mine. :)

Here is my grove of Mushrooms along with Curt's Moonstone Faeries to give a sense of scale.

As to points, these fungi take up about 3/4 of a cube, so 15 points, plus 20 for Solaris for a grand total of 35. As we are counting 'pure points' for my Chocolate Cake Challenge with Natasha, this will leave me just a little shy of the mark, so I'm hoping she came up short as well so we can dash to the finish together next week. 

Speaking of which, next week I will summon the Star Yacht to zip me across the quadrant to my next destination. I'm planning a fun female figure as a surprise for Tamsin!

See you soon!

- Sarah

And Lady S gets in her riposte in the Chocolate Cake Challenge! Those 'shrooms look simply superb!

It's great to see how you and Tasha are developing as painters.

Tamsin