From RichardH: A Bunch of Space Elves & Some Tex Murphy (200 Points)

I've had a busy couple of weeks working away at a not space elrond army, along with starting a few other projects. Missed out on getting the photos done for everything to make this post as I am off to spend far too much money at Vapnartak this weekend (or will have done so by the time this posts). So just a small collection of things ticked off so far.

First up a full squad of foot troopers with a swirly shield thingy artillery unit. I originally painted a couple up with black bases, however they just didn't look right, it came across as this weird mini standing on top of some black lump for no reason. So I gave it a go at instead doing pure white bases to try and blend the entire theme as an alien snow type world. So far the white is looking far better than the black.

Points for these are:

 10 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 50pts

1 x 28mm artillery @ 10pt = 10pts

Next up some heavy shock troops, I originally started the army with these models as it let me mess about with some blends and the colour scheme. the larger 40mm size of them gave me just enough canvas to experiment without having a mountain of coverage to finish. What I have no discovered is doing gems on these models is right up there with a "Bloody stupid Johnston" machine design, it breaks up the plain nature of the bone armour nicely but takes eons to do when you get to the large models.

Points for these are:

5 x 40mm foot @ 7pt = 35pts

Speaking of large models that have way too many of those stupid gem things, here is one of the big wraithlords. For the most part straight forward, but ye gads there are gems on top of gems on top of gems on these things, this is the first of two with the other going in for next week.

Points for these were tricky to work out, they are around 85mm tall for a model, in addition I am not sure should they be classed as foot troops or are they a vehicle walker? I've based two possible point values by combining the 28mm and 54mm ratings, just depends if this comes in as foot soldier or vehicle/walker?

1 x 80mm foot @ (5+10) 15pt =15pts

1 x 80mm vehicle/walker @ (20+30) = 50pt = 50pts

Minion's verdict - if you count it as a 80mm scale it's a foot figure.  If you count it as a walker it's the 40mm same scale as the foot soldiers.  I am counting it as a 40mm vehicle for 25 points.  It kinda hales the difference and fits the SSOD easily.

Finally as a break from batch painting I took a shot as some monochrome ideas, I had some nice noir style models in the pile and so thought they would make a perfect little diorama. A simple 6" cube sized design, that has some 3d printed parts, some clay molding work and a couple of led lights throw in for measure. It's a nice break from just painting and though I can see clearly a ton of learning needs to be done for the clay work, it is a medium that I can hopefully use more often in future.

Points for this are :

1 x 6" terrain @ 20pt = 20pts

2 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 10pts

With two bonus studios of Sci-fi and Black and white for 20pts each, this leaves this post total as.

12 x 28mm foot @ 5pt = 60pts

1 x 28mm artillery @ 10pt = 10pts

5 x 40mm foot @ 7pt = 35pts

1 x 4080mm foot @ 15pt = 15pts / Or 1 x 80mm vehicle/walker @ 25 50pt = 25 50pts

1 x 6" terrain @ 20pt = 20pts

Bonus sci-fi 20 pts

Bonus Black & White 20 pts

Total 200 pts

Great stuff here Richard.  You are speaking my language with "swirly shield thingy artillery unit"!  I don't know what it does but it sounds so cool I think that I need one.  And your not space elves warriors are bedazzled up enough to fit right into Mardi Gras in N'awlins with no worries.

Best of all however, is that Western themed diorama.  Great wok and really thematic and atmospheric. I've thrown in some Minion discretionary points for the lighting and coolness.  But next time make sure to include labels with your name, scale, manufacturer, theme, etc.  If  not then Minion's discretion may take points away for making me do work.

Have great fun throwing your shekels away frivolities in York, you'll likely see most of the Monday crew with their wallets out.