From SimonG: A Mixed-up Monster and Mini Military Men (80 points)

Week three in the challenge and I'm finishing up the entry hall in the Analogueville Public Library with stops in Fantasy and Overdues and Returns. I'll be showing my final and oldest ongoing project -- my 1980s BAOR vs Soviets in 10mm plus (as always) a Black Rose Wars fantasy figure.

Look! A squirrel?

First up is a new offering from Ludus Magnus Black Rose Wars game -- this is a Chimera from the Magister add-on that was released in 2022. It's quite a large figure as you can see in comparison with my reference 28mm mounted. 

The Chimera

10mm vs 28mm vs ??

Part lion, part snake and part satanic goat it gave me three different sets of eyes to paint (who knew that snake irises show vertical, while goat's are horizontal, and lions tend to have brown eyes!)  Anyway I tried to pull off all of these differences plus anatomical details in the lions mouth (based on my lion taming experience 😂)

I'm also very pleased with what I was able to do with a very large, very flat and featureless slab of stone. I went for a rough marble effect greatly aided by a pair of washes (the ubiquitous Nuln Oil over Soulblight Grey) -- layering washes is something I've not tried before but worked out well.

Now that we're finished in fantasy we can head over to Overdues and Returns and visit the final pieces of a 1980s Cold War project  I started back in AHPC XI (Sabre Squadron or Battlegroup Northag rules.) The final elements being the UK infantry. Not surprisingly I've been putting off painting DPM in 10mm. 

The figures are from Timecast who provide a helpful painting guide and with some patience and practice the results don't seem too bad. Anyway the pictures below show a command team plus engineers and two anti aircraft crews with Blowpipe SAMs. The associated vehicles were submitted as part of the last challenge.

Command squad and FV438

He's a Medic!

LMG and Sniper

Blowpipe SAM Teams

Engineers

Another view of the engineers with their Land Rovers behind

Each base has a small brass printed and label on brass strip, in practice basing at this scale is a complete PITA with the need to fit tiny figure bases, labels and static grass all in a base the size of a postage stamp -- it took me the best part of two days just to base 20 figures so it remains to be seen if I'll get the remaining 56 (7 more 438 squads) done by the end of the challenge!

Overview of the 20 figures with their associated transport

So my total for today is one oversized fantasy figure -- given Domini Nivis Predcedentes I'll call that a 28mm vehicle for 20 points plus the 20 point fantasy room bonus. Then I have 20 10mm figures at 1 point each, 3 of them prone  and a 20 point overdue bonus. So 78.5 points in total I think.

Here's progress so far (this week shown in red) -- up next my first jaunt on Lady Sarah's library cart to learn more about Roman statuary and take a deeper delve into my Jewish Wars 28mm Impetus project.

Progress to date - 4 locations visited

Sylvain: What an awesome mix! I like the colors on your Chimera and how you gradually shifted the colors from brownish to blackish. Your camouflage pattern at such a small scale is brilliantly executed. It really brings out the "modern" flavour of the miniatures.

 Pointwise, standing or prone a figurine is worth the same amount of points. So 80 points for you!