ChrisW Part two of Under contruction a trip to High Adventure & start of new project [175 points]

So hopefully this is still the open posting time period, if not I am early for Saturday. Would have had it up sooner but for the flooding of my in-laws basement, at least it was a more interesting end to a year. Happy New Year!

So, I think I could spend the entire challenge in this one studio! My room is full of projects that never got done, many not even started many just a few items away from being done.  This week I figured I would finish off a couple of small parts of much bigger projects before I moved away from the under construction studio.

VSF robots

Up first are two VSF French robots to add to the already painted 5 robot unit. These are old Parroom Station miniatures (OOP), They are tall robots (63mm) able to look and fire over friendly troops to provide support for advancing French troops on Mars.

Referred to as Mitraillette Infanterie Mecanique Extraodinaire, they have seen very limited action so far. With no vox box installed, they are silent but deadly. Their slim profile is proof against the harsh winds of Mars are capable of swiftly striding across the battlefield.

 

Scale picture

Top Hat Toffs (for Pulp Alley)

Now the pulp league that expanded as silly thoughts entered my mind...I already had two top hat figures painted up but really needed two more. Thankfully Pulp Figures was able to supply me with what I needed (along with a whole bunch of other figures for future projects) So I present the two newly painted figures first then the original duo.

Kowalski and Rico now can join Skipper and private.

Left to right Rico, Skipper, Kowalski and private

Then this is where the project started getting weirder and more expended. First there was Marlene that cried out to be painted and with her top hat she would be a good compliment to the four boys. As luck would have it my research into the boys revealed that there actually is a Marlene that assists them. 

 

Then I thought about the first time I saw the quartet they were in someone else's movie, but how could I paint up some reversed anthropomorphized versions of this other quartet. Well here is my attempt.

 

 

 

So we have Alex (the entertainer), Marty (in black and white), Gloria (in Grey) and Melman (the tall one in yellow/orange/brown)

A 'no prize' for guessing the movie & who the Toffs are.   

The full group

Limo ride

Then it is off to a new studio, via limo, the High Adventure studio! For the limo ride I submit this Foundry figure. She is from their Argonaut range and represents the start of that new project.     

 

Ten skeletons, late addition part of the same Argonauts project

Back of Beyond for High Adventure studio

So last year I started off with a large tank presented by Lepa and Tanya. Well this year Lepa's distant cousin Jada is here to present the latest in high quality tanks, the Mark IX Beast! This is from Empress miniatures and for me it was a beast. I had wanted to do this for last years event but a disaster occurred while painting it and I just had to put it aside, out of sight. So this year I re-primed it and started from scratch. This time I managed to get the colour coming out the way I wanted, and was able to weather it reasonably well.

 That's it for now, much more on the table that might make it onto the blog next week.

 Points this time around

• 20 points limo ride 
• 20 points High Adventure 
• 95 points 19 x 28mm foot
• 20 points 28mm Tank
• 20 points 2 tall (65mm) robots (treating as 54mm figures)
  

Total 175 points

 Squirrels

1. Back of Beyond
   
2. Mad figures (Top hat toffs and companions)
3. Greek skeletons
   

Late entry into skull challenge (I did not plan to paint anything with skulls, I was wrong...)

• 10 skulls
  

Oh yeah, about the map, normally I do not like the idea of colourizing black and white pictures this particular colouring occurred while I was recovering from a cold and chomping at the bit to get painting figures, I just had to do something. So it was a therapeutic process for me. 

 

Sorry to hear about the flooding, hope all is well now and slowly drying out. What a fantastic set of figures to start the year with, I love them all. The toffs, the robots, the tank, the whole kit and kaboodle. And I really love the map, will get Curt to install it on the blog

MartinC