From JamieM - A whistle stop tour of the middle ring (136 points)

I had to leave this post until today’s minion had imbibed his first coffee (or other suitable morning beverage) of the day, as I didn’t want to chance him spitting it out as he read the "Supermarket Sweep" style bonus points gathering about to occur in this post…… let’s go wild in the aisles!

Anyway, first up - Coruscant. I’ve gone with “Good vs. Evil” here, with some more carnevale figures 

Here we see the Good Capo of the Guild (in the red) facing off against the evil Rashaar worshippers. The Rashaar are an evil race of fish people who want to take over Venice and some silly humans worship them. Here we have two such people and a lesser hybrid, although the less guessed about how hybrids come about, the better…..

The Capo is a leader in the Guild and this is an alternate female sculpt that ttcombat do which is brilliantly dynamic.

Next up, a trip to Perelandra and an Oceanic theme. This is a Barchyura also for Carnevale, which is a large crab beastie who wants to nip your toes as you go paddling in rock pools.

Ttcombat don’t do a figure for this yet, so this is an OOP figure from the Wrath of Kings range which I rather like, so I’m pleased to have found him a home.

For some reason, he has a belt of bags around his waist…. Perhaps his fellow Rashaar worry about thieves in Venice? In fairness, you wouldn’t want to pickpocket this fella….

After our stop at Perelendara, it’s off on Sarah’s Space Yacht we go for the first time and this is my offering for such purpose - a female Magi Rashaar

She’s a leader character for the Rashaar and is again an alternate sculpt with bags of dynamism.

She’s a mage, so is using the water to carry her as she delves into her magical bag of tricks. I tried to make the staff feel like coral, not sure how successful I was.

Anyway, we’ll be dropped off at LV426 I’m order to show these aliens off

These two are from Mantic games and will be used for Deadzone, a sci-fi skirmish game fought on a gridded table which looks ace but that I haven’t been able to try yet. These are a Judwan medic and a large fella (converted from a Dreadball figure) who will be an “Alpha Simian” in the game. His job is to run up and punch people with extreme prejudice.

I tried to make his armour look battered and chipped, but as ever I’ve been too heavy handed so the black parts look like metal….. but that’s ok as long as he duffs up plenty of his enemies.

So, to the scoring! As a recap, here they all are

There are:

5x 28mm figures = 25

3x 40mm figures = 21

One planetary visit through the warp maelstrom = 30 points?

Two further planets at 20 points each = 40

One space yacht visit = 20 points

For a grand total of 136 by my count. And I’m positively dripping in bonus points!

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Well, Paul Ray Jamie, this is some fine painting here. "Carnevale" looks to be a very entertaining setting, and it must be a great feeling to get more characters - even if they ARE fish-worshippers - ready for a game. Barchyura - does he do canal rides? I assume the packs are for all of the tips he collects?

Very nice sci-fi figures. I enjoy any large sci-fi creature who has the job of running up and punching enemies with extreme prejudice. Awesome.

You certainly managed a fair bit of bonus points leverage on this one. Not quite Enron levels, mind you, but I was half expecting to see a blacksmith here for LV246 while you claimed "all of the space technology is alien to him"...nonetheless, it's all within the rules, and as inflation eats our economy alive, why not let our own version of modern monetary theory run wild in the Challenge scoring as well?

Fine brush work here Jamie! 136 points for you...

GregB