From ChrisW - Another Mixed bag (535 points)

 We travel from LV-426 to Cybertron via Sarah's yacht...

...and then we plunge into the great Abyssal arriving at Krypton.

 

 Cybertron

Dystopian Wars Prussian medium robots and 2 Canadian Robots

• Medium robots (7) 40mm tall figures 

 

Dominion of Canada robots

Metzger robots (3)

For a long time these were the biggies in the Dystopian Wars universe, supplanted just before Spartan games went belly up. Also Prussian, they are amphibious and come in both land and water versions and I am painting them in pairs. I figured, I already have 2 pairs painted up, so might as well finish up the last of them...(and yes it is an excessive amount of these for anyone to have)

 

 

Waterline versions

Krypton (Super figs)

I have actually had to stop myself from painting these figures over the last couple of weeks. I am trying to keep with the planetary themes and move in some sort of order throughout the rings. So while I have back tracked once, I really only want to use Sarah's yacht to skip over any planets where I just can't match any figure to theme.  

So Krypton means super heroes, and for me that is a good size collection of Old Glory and Reaper figures. Some of the Old Glory figures (5) are quite large topping out at 60mm! Most are listed as 33mm on their site, but really are in keeping with the scale creep of 28mm modern figures. Some of the figures are very primitive, you could not confuse them with the modern DC or Marvel lines. Heck, even some of the Heroclics are better figures. So why was I keen to paint these, dunno! It just got into my mind to do them. I figured contrast paints might work on these as there were some deep details, but my experience with contrast paints told me that contrast alone would not work. Maybe that's just me, I have some luck with contrast, but basically as a base coat, adding highlights after. 

The Big'uns (4)

Exitor, Host leader

 

Triangle man & Major Payne

The rest of the named supers (mostly named by me)

 Teuton, Red Dynamo and Basher. All are from Reaper, the 'twins' are bones while Red Dynamo is metal.  

Red lightning

Blue streak vs Earth Mother

The villains: King Pin, The Magister, Pinhead

Orange Julius, The Proletariat, Green virus

Ultra, Night watch, Guardian

Dynamo, Gladiator Ape

Green Ronin, Mr Hilter, Cyberman

Artemis, Blue Hawk, Blue Angel

The Henchmen

These guys worked out as I envisioned them. I see them as being made out of a super strong, but malleable plastic and can transform themselves into different shapes or even weapons. Well I figured that would mean the plastic would get discolored when it stretches out, hence the change in colour from a deep pink to the light pink shade.

I find the eyes kind of freaky in the pictures. 

 

 Gun toting & sword wielding elite warriors

 They sorta look like Ninjas but I already have lots of Ninjas and just did not want to do more dark outfitted ninjas, besides, this is for a superhero game, so bright colours should be the rule! This is more like the orange that I was trying to achieve with the workers from last weeks post. Would have been a good idea to have paid attention to what I did to paint these guys.

  28mm vehicles (5 cars)

 

The points

• 40 for two planets
• 20 Sarah's yacht (Blue Angel)
• ?? points regular 3 x ? DW Metzger robots 75mm tall
  
• 45 points waterline 3 x DW Metzger robots (treating as 15mm vehicles)
  
• 91 points 13 x 40mm tall DW robots & the 4 big supers
  
• 185 points  37 x 28mm foot
• 100 points 5 x 28mm cars

Total 481 + Big robots

Squirrel 3 points Post apocalypse, Super, Dystopian Wars

 (may be too late this week, but will learn for future posts)

Wow, what a load of robots! And submitted before midnight in the UK too! Lovely stuff, Chris!

You might have avoided causing me some confusion by posting the Supers first and noting that Blue Angel is your fee for taking Lady Sarah's Star Yacht from LV426 to Cybertron, but I got there in the end!

I've scored the regular DW Metzger robots as 40mm vehicles. Just to note, 15mm vehicles are 8 points each not 15 points. You've still got a total of 535 points for this submission.

Tamsin

 

Yep, brain not too good sometimes, thought 15mm figures, saw the 8 points, but '15' stayed in mind, so I of course recorded 15 points each, I am a dufus...!😁

Thanks again for your help, maybe next week I can be before noon your time, baby steps 

From Curt: Klaus and Raegan in the Benighted Turnip Patch (19 points)

 

Those of you who read Sarah's post last week witnessed her spurning my generous, open-handed offer for her to paint terrain for my collection. I know, the nerve! Instead, the ungrateful woman decided to paint figures for herself, for, get this, 'her own personal enjoyment'. Pffft. Like, what's that all about? 

Anyway, having no luck in convincing her of her indentured servitude, her rendering assistance to me, I decided to do-up the &#*! turnip field myself. *

The turnip patch in question (around 5" x 12") is an old chestnut from the sadly closed 'Architects of War'. Like many of their terrain offerings, the field is a fairly substantial piece of thick resin, nicely detailed, with white metal fittings for the foliage. It was an easy build, finished with a quick skim coat of Liquitex to fill in any gaps, primed brown and then drybrushed up to spec. Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy.

Now, really, how hard would that have been for you to do, Sarah? True true, certainly not as hard as that frying pan you're holding rather menacingly. No worries. It's all good luv, I'm sure I have a nice tank, or fortification for you to work on to make it up... *

Next, I also have a couple more characters to add to the Moonstone collection. This time it's two Faun, Klaus and Raegan. 

The background story for this pair is that Klaus, being sort of an awkward fella, was teased mercilessly as a young faun by all the other kids. Well, teased by all except Raegan. Taking pity on him, the young Leshavult priestess took him under her wing, keeping him safe and taught him how to protect himself. They now work as a dynamic duo, with Raegan operating as a spell caster, while Klaus runs interference, wreaking havoc with his big-honkin' flail.

I limited the colours to mostly earth tones, so both of these painted up fairly quickly.

As you can see, Klaus DOES NOT need more cowbell.

The floaty Raegan, casting spells, ensuring Klaus remains a happy, healthy, murder hobo.

As to points, I don't think the field is worth more than 5, and the two characters, being over 40mm should give me 14, so 19 total?

Thanks for dropping in for a peek!

- Curt

* Yes, my tongue took up prolonged residence in my cheek for this post. Perhaps to be joined by the rest of me on the couch. ;)

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Well, folks, there you have it. The possibly-soon-to-be-late Snowlord's turnip patch! And two more rather bonkers Moonstone figures to boot! I'll go with your suggested points for the turnip patch.

I'll be the first to dare say it, just in case news breaks before next Tuesday, "The Snowlord is dead! Long live the Snowlady!"

Tamsin

From TashaH: Terrain makes me happy [Perelandra] (30 points)

I really do enjoy terrain. I can visualize it in a completely different way than I can miniature figures. Is that strange? 

I started off this project with these:

Not much to look at and certainly makes one wonder how on earth I am going to make this fit the requirement for Perelandra, which is Venus; Oceanic; Temptation. Let me show you...

From the angle this picture was taken, it looks like I created this piece on the rectangle slice of wood, but I actually used the 6" square. The rectangle piece was broken down (actually broken, I wanted it to be ragged) to create the platform that the mirror is sitting on. To create the wooden planks on the ground, I used a small pair of needle nose pliers and pried off pieces of the wood, bit by bit until each piece was the shape I wanted. To elevate the platform, I used three glass aquarium stones. The aquarium stones were too clear and shiny. I painted them with 3 layers of black Gesso and glued some fine gravel to them. Much better. I used river rocks for the stairs.

The mirror, braziers and crow are all WizKids miniatures. 

Where is the temptation? Where isn't the temptation! Venturing forth into a location you know is bound to be dangerous, but you can't help but feel to be compelled to continue anyway. Once you're in, continuing up the stairs, despite seeing a creature's tail peeking out from under the platform and then, finally, peering into a mirror that, is certainly, not going to bring about anything good!!

Points... I don't ever know how to score terrain. This is built on a 6x6 square. At its tallest it is 3" and at its smallest it is 3/8". 8 points for less than half of a 6" cube and 20 points for the planet for a total of 28 points?

I also enjoy making terrain, but the stuff I make tends to be larger than this - a great excuse to get out the big brushes!

This is certainly a good call for Perelandra. I'll round up the points to 30 to cover the painting of the mirror.

Tamsin