From SanderS: Visiting the Studios part 2 (139 points)

 Hoi,

Let's continue the journey through the amazing halls of the studio today with two more entries of stuff I really love: GI Joe and Star Wars!

 80's Hall!

As we enter the 80's hall I couldn't choose anything else than  GI Joe figures, they echo the 80's like nothing else to me. When reading this you must realise that back in those days trends took way longer to travel from the US to the Netherlands and thus it is that, even though I was born in 1980,  I consider myself a child of the 80's rather then the 90's.

 

While these figures might not be the most recognisable GI Joe figures they are really cool. The two vehicles and troopers in black are part of Destro's Iron Grenadier mercenary corps, who nominally worked for Cobra, but would (during the Cobra civil war) turn on their erstwhile allies. Now I know a lot of you might have no idea what I am going about so there are links to the relevant information pages at 3Djoes.com in the names of the figures.

The big vehicle below (one of the more weird designs) is called the D.E.M.O.N. and I will be honest the only reason it's here, just like the VTOL below, is because it is 3D printable.

 This VTOL is called the A.G.P. Anti Gravity Pod  

 These troopers are the Iron Grenadiers Destro's elite corps:

The troopers in orange and blue camouflage are Cobra Alley Vipers  the urban warfare specialists. These are produced by Footsore Miniatures USA 

All put together these chaps net me a nice amount of points 9 x 5 pts for the footsoldiers, 2 x 20 for the vehicles and 20 for the bonus location is 105 points

Next stop Casting Couch

For the casting couch, I just had to put in Yoda and Ahsoka from the Star Wars saga, most notably the Clone Wars cartoon series. Now I have long been a critic of everything not Original Trilogy, but the relentless badgering of one of my best friends and co-workers led me to finally get Disney+ and watch some of the series for myself. Needless to say I love Mando and The Book of Boba Fett, but most of the cartoons were surprisingly good too, especially the Clone Wars and the Bad Batch. 

 

 

These Star Wars Legion figures of Yoda and Ahsoka were just too good not to paint and I used them mainly as a way to experiment with all kinds of contrast paints and the like. Now I do think I went wrong with Yoda's skin tone but everything else I am pretty happy with.

SW Legion figures apparently go for 7 points each and together with the bonus that's another 34 points making this a grand total of 139 points for this weeks work. 

I will admit that I know nothing about the GI Joe milieu, apart from it's existence. However, you've done a great job painting up those figures and vehicles. Nice work on Yoda and Ahsoka too!

Tamsin