From StuartL - If I Could Turn Back Time - 1980's - 55 Points

My third and final post for this week is an epic of time travel and a lucky find in my bits box. 

When I was looking over the guidelines for this part of the studio I was absolutely stumped, I didn't get into the hobby until the 90's, and most of my collection comes from well after that. I went through all my boxes of stuff, or at least the ones I could reach and started searching. Eventually I found a model that I assume I picked up in a job lot on eBay or something as I have no recollection of buying it. It looked old, so I snapped off the base and sure enough the slotta-tab showed me that I had a mini to enter. 

And a close up:

I decided to go for some bright garish colours as that is what I recall about clothing from my childhood. A bright green uniform, a tasteless pink headband and bright blue stripes down the sides. I'm not sure what the model is supposed to be, maybe an early 40K Imperial Guardsman or something.

Thinking about the 80's and movies got me thinking about one of my all time favourite franchises, Terminator. While they only made the original 1984 movie and then the classic Terminator 2: Judgement Day, it is my dearest hope that we will one day get a third entry into this series.* Now, I don't have any actual Terminator minis, but I do have the next best thing, Necrons.

Either inspired by or ripped off from the Terminator movie, Necrons are one of the factions of Warhammer 40,000. Tough, armed with incredibly potent hi-tech weapons and almost impossible to put down, they are also really easy to paint.

The Necron range got a bit of an update when 40K's 9th edition dropped a few years back and this is one of the models from that update. I forget the exact name for it, but it is a lieutenant type leader for your infantry units. To help make him stand out, it got a bit more bling around its neck and forehead. There is also a skull peeking out from behind the grass at its feet. Speaking of Skullz, if memory serves Necron Noggins count towards the Skullz side duel, so I will be adding 7 to my tally today.
 

Scoring time.

7x 28mm minis @5 points = 35 Points

1980's @20 points = 20 Points

Total = 55 Points

My side duels:

Squirrels - 11

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers, Turnips, Necrons

Skullz - 8

Turnips - 60 Points

That's all from me for this week, but I'll be heading off in the Limo again to my next destination soon.

*I am aware that several other movies called Terminator were made, I just choose to ignore them as they are clearly trash.

Great work on digging the cool old figure out. Do like the terminator types, love a man with a big gun