Tuesday, 15 February 2022

From DavidB - visiting the Death Star and without lucasfilm (285 pts)


Well, I am still alive and ok if not burning the candle at both ends!

I was a bit busy with extracurricular activities, yet I did get released for my first Superbowl at home. I did not see the game but did do a nice spread of chili and munchies for family and friends and even got to imbibe in medicinal supplies with two of my age-appropriate daughters, neither wants to hear the word alcohol now! 

Death Star is either hubris or questionable design. I actually have both in this post. I will only claim the 20 points for the fellow below though. Hubris was thinking I could finish the mess on my table above, and a hero further down.


I introduce the wonky and wonderful gun made by the orks. The shock attack gun is one of many insane weapons of war crafted by the orks. The mechaniac manning the gun doesn't really understand how it works and probably can't be bothered to ponder it. The function begins by vacuuming up several small snotlings into the gun.


They are pulled through the hose which somehow transports them through a rip in between worlds/reality.


The whirly bits, thinga-ma-bobs, whatcha-ma-call-its, and do dads combine with the gears, gizmos, and wires chosen for color to fire them at targets. while going through the force field tunnel the snotlings are tormented by nightmarish daemons that cannot reach them through the force field. once they materialze at the targeted point, they are frenzied in absolute terror and soil, bite, claw as only pint sized psychopaths can. The gun either works really well or not at all which is fun too as it could explode.


Some ork Kommandoz from the Blood Axe clan have cleared the desk with the shokk attack gun.
Being orks they also have weapons of dubious design



As some of the latest orks from games workshop they are packed with detail. So much equipment, scars, rips, tears, and ork trinkets. I could easily spend another week teasing out more of the detail.


The boss is a great sculpt and I kinda think of him as an Orky Sgt Steiner.


A commo ork with exposed wires and a weaponized radio with flashing red light.



An ork sniper whose rifle is belt fed, i can imagine him bending the front sight post to accurately target his intended victim. The kit also had some classic bits reminiscent of the original kommandoz. HE is thus wearing an orange watch cap with the lurid purple camo like my original squad.


I painted them all in my standard bright green flesh, but used olive greens to pick out scars on them.



The burna boy had burn scars molded on his hands and arm, so the olive color was used over the melted flesh. I really like the checkerboard grin of the demolition ork


A grot looking like a SEAL with snorkel, fins, grapple hook gun and knife and a squig loaded with explosives for remote detonation.


10 helblasters for the white scars. for valentine's day my wife got me some miniatures and paint including the valhalan blizard used to decorate the bases of the white scars.


A very nice snow effect which really adds more character to the urban bases. These marines were all bought used while deployed and were painted with an impervious blue. they had red and gold splashed in various places. half were primed black and the other half were primed white and that blue was a pain to cover. I do not think I will try to rescue anymore miniatures for awhile. 


My wife also bought me two Reiver Lieutenants while I was deployed. one is a white scar and the other is now an iron snake. Both are more effective than the "elite" reivers which seem not very elite at all when other marines do the same job better, but I like the skull faceplates and will hope GW can actually make them worthwhile. I will keep on using them as they do great for the rule of cool!



The white scar reivers are equiped with bolt carbines and are intended to hunt enemy backstop units. two are equipped with pistols and knives for use in kill team.



Two Iron Snake reivers with one equipped with a bolt carbine. The bolt carbine reiver is for kill team.


The original 6 iron snakes I painted still have their bases trimmed in brown. Two of the cold greys and all three of the warm greys I used were unusable. It took awhile to get these three new reivers to match the three older ones.


I finally succeeded as you can see above.


These five (formerly BLUE) hellblasters are now sporting Iron Snake colors


Besides his robotic arm, the sgt has a horrible burn scar and robotic eye...Greg is correct...Wear your helmet! The burn scar was done with pale flesh and a very light flesh wash.



The front three are new additions to the intersessor squad and great care was made to match them up since the older P3 paint was rotten.



The seven layers of grey paint was eating up too much time, so I tried the contrast paints as a base over a zenithal highlight. I only needed two greys and a wash to finish the armor and they match well with others.


This veteran squad is equipped with the nasty assault bolt carbines


A Chapter Ancient with banner flanked by two lieutenants. They were all that horrid blue. Besides an occasional glint in a deep crevasse, the only remaint of that blue is the base coat of the banner.



Lieutenant knives is the only unpainted one from the big set of phobos armor I had on hand and was the test for alternate greys to get the look going forward for the Iron Snakes.



The much battered Captain in gravis armor. He was broken many times while deployed and was not in great shape to begin with. Through all the breakage that blue never chipped off. he has more than seven layers of grey and at least two other spray coats than that nasty blue. I stopped painting him after I got him close enough, but he may be replaced as a lot of detail is gone from a now thick coat of paint both covering the blue and trying to replicate the Iron Snake colors. He also suffered as I thought the Black Templar contrast paint would help, but the gloss from that paint is not good for a base coat and also hurt the detail.


Besides the mountain on the desk, he is the final bit of Hubris as I did not notice the damage I did to him while trying to "fix" him. 


So, three weeks' worth of minis
20 points for death star
65 points for 13 orks
90 points for 18 White Scars
110 for 22 Iron Snakes
a total of 285 points.

also for the skullz duel
standing tally so far
15 skullz for the Blood Angels
42 skulls for the White Scars
69 skulls on the Iron Snakes
5 for the space orks
11 for the fantasy orcs and gnolls
142 skullz painted so far.


It's good to have you back with us, David! That's a fine looking bunch of Space Marines to close out this Tuesday!

Tamsin


From ChrisW - Altair IV via Sarah's yacht, 2 more Super, Robots & Eldar Titans! (297 points)

 


I was a little out of sorts this week, unable to focus, unable to act. Not a painting wall, thankfully, just too much of the real world impacting on my life. The hobby, that I rely upon to keep me in my happy place, failed me this week, and my output has suffered. The up side, while painting eluded me for most of the week, I was able to direct some energy towards cleaning up my painting area and I was able to plan out next weeks projects. Hopefully those will advance beyond the planning stage.

Thankfully I was able to work on some of the items that I was unable to complete for last weeks posting. So before we leave Krypton I will submit a few more supers, then we are on to Altair and some robots!

Krypton (part 2)

Dr Argos and his tripod [25]

A bit pulpy but I think I will use him against superheroes, I present Dr Argos and his tripod! Almost finished off a few weeks back it was placed on the back burner when other more pressing projects came to the fore. I already painted up most of his robot minions, but just never got around the the big guy himself. A straight forward figure, not much extra detail, no real reason for him not to have been done much sooner, but there you have it, you can never say what will happen.

You can tell by the bronze paint on the lower legs that I started this figure around the same time I was painting some AQMF tripods. The paint scheme was inspired by the photos at Crooked Dice and the use of two tones does break up the monotony of the metal finish. 






Giant Tess is my ticket for Lady Sarah's yacht! 






Now from Krypton we move onto Altair IV.>>>>>



Altair IV [Old Robots]

Robbie the robot

Robbie himself! A while back I bought a model of the rocket ship from Forbidden Planet. The kit contained a number of crewmen and this clear plastic robot figure. Not much of a figure and sadly lacking any detail inside his head, so there was not much to do but give it a simple paint job. The model was base coated black, leaving the face plate clear, which was then washed with a Vallejo grey wash. The body was painted with army painter metallic paint Night Scales. 

 


 Odd bots

These are multi part, assemble yourself robots made by  Old Glory. They come in a pack of 13 single cast torso/legs, with an assortment  of many more heads and arms than there are bodies. So lots of choices, which is a curse to me as I spend far too much time trying to figure out what to build. Analysis paralysis is a curse of mine, be it in the assembly of figures or making a decision about what colours to paint. Maybe I should just stick with historical figures!





Dr Who - Robot

The robot and 5 UNIT troops. I have many more UNIT figures, but I am uncertain which colours to use. These are the first five off the line, more than a test, but not certain yet if they are the right colours. So, even with historical figures, well 1970's TV military, I still have challenges with paint colours.Anyways, I needed something to pose with the robot to make it more dramatic! In the show, the robot is pretty basic, all shiny metal with a dash of colour on the helmet and the shoulders.








Eldar Titans

Old robots? Well for me you can't get much older than these titans from the 1990's. So this blast from the past consists of 8 Eldar Titans! These have sat largely untouched for 20 to 30 years in a big box with a bunch of other stuff. Well before this challenge started I had pulled out all of my titans, Imperial, Eldar and Orc and placed them on one of my shelves, and there they sat for another year. 

Incidentally, from here on in I will stop talking about how long I have had a given model. I will only mention time frame if the model has been acquired recently, otherwise assume that anything I paint has been sitting on my self for many years yadda, yadda, yadda... I think about 80% of my stuff has been around for a long time without being painted. Nuff said!

So thanks to Curt, the Analogue Challenge and a planet of old robots! I have 8 of them, plus 2 smaller ones,  which have finally managed to migrate over to the painting table! Most of them were not even fully assembled and there are 2 more still in their original packages.

The big question is, how many will I get done this week?

Well the answer was... 8

I have used a variety of colour schemes to paint these as I just prefer variety on the tabletop. I also experimented with colour shift paint on one of the Warlock Titans, still not certain about it.

 




 Adeptus Titanicus styrofoam buildings

Kind out of left field, but in keeping with the epic titans, I decided I needed some scenery for the titans to interact with. These are the styrofoam buildings that came with the original Adeptus Titanicus game back in the 80's. A couple of years ago I was able to pick up a near mint copy of the game at a local bring and buy, doubling my collection of buildings and titans. They promptly joined the originals languishing in a storage drawer, until now. The original plan was to spray them grey and then dry brush them to reveal the details. Dry brushing did not work so well and in the end I painted most of them in a variety of colours.

They actually were fun to paint despite the large number of windows and it was fun to select the colours. 



Now maybe some pics of the titans rampaging through the city!






Dystopian wars FSA John Henry robots.

More stuff that I did not finish in time for other posts. These are the flying robots that are the progenitors of the robots used by the Dominion of Canada, but with fully functional flying jets. These are the all the John Henry robots that I own, in fact two of them were re-primed just for this challenge. They had been 'painted' really badly before, actually one was pretty much just silver primed and the less said about the other one the better. So those two were added into the pile, meaning that once done all models would be in the same paint style if not the same livery. 

Like many of my projects the main barrier to starting/finishing a project is determining what colours to use. It took a while, and a lot of internet searching to try and find something I liked. I finally got some inspiration from Gundam models and my own idea of keeping the colours muted and in line with a post Confederacy victory America, so browns and greys, not Yankee blue!

 

 

Points tally

  • 65 points for 13 x 28mm foot 
  • 20 points for 28mm vehicle/Tripod
  • 05 points for Giant Tess (gets me on the yacht)
  • 20 points for Sarah's yacht 
  • 20 points Altair IV
  • 64 for 8 Epic Eldar Titans
  • 40 points for 16 Epic building scenery
  • 63 points for 9 x 40mm robots @ 7 points each

 Grand Total (new) 297

 

When stacked, they are two 6" x 6" cubes


Squirrel points

I have been very remiss in labeling my squirrel entries. Well that ends today! I doubt my addition to last weeks post was in time to be counted towards the squirrel so I might as well start fresh.

  1. Super heroes
  2. Epic 40K
  3. Sci-Fi Robots 28mm
  4. Dystopian wars
  5. Dr Who

 


Yoiks! So that was a slow week for you? Yes folks, another points-bomb from Chris. I was certain I saw it marked as "Ready" this morning when I made the list for my post, but when I went to do the minioning it was marked as draft. Either I was mistaken, or Chris decided to return and add some more bits...

Chris - I'm assuming that Giant Tess is a 28mm figure from the points you are claiming for her.

Tamsin

Edit:
It's been pointed out to me that there is precedent for the scoring of Epic Titans - Samuli's Ork Gargants were scored as 15mm vehicles at 8 points each. I've adjusted the score accordingly.
 
EDIT

Thanks for the information and update. Error was based on answer to an earlier question, no harm or foul intended!😳

Sorry, yes she is 28mm, actually taller than 28mm but who;s counting...😀


Almost made it without mitakes! Also forgot my alpha challenge...