From Paul O'G: Astartes Apothecary (9 points)

Hello everyone! Returning for my 11th (non-consecutive) Challenge - this time in a new hemisphere which means it feels like I started a day earlier than usual! Love the new location but its a been a relatively dry year hobby-wise so I'm thrilled to be back at the brushes :-)

Opening my season is a Space Marine Apothecary I've been saving, really liking the evocative posing, having just extracted the progenoid from the deceased battle-brother at his feet. He stares contemplatively at it in remembrance of his fallen comrade before it joins the others he has dangling around his neck, speaking to other recent losses (and ultimately the complete futility of a grim darkness of a far future where there is only War, but I might be reading too much into that...)

My whole Black Templar army is painted in the very restricted "Zorn Palette" as a homage to GW illustrator John Blanche, which means only four colours are used (Black, Titanium White, Ochre Yellow and Red), which is a fun limitation to work with. Mars style basing matches the rest of my force.

Skullz: 7 (I feel they could have done more...)

Submitted for the usual 7 points for a 'heroically" scaled Primaris size model and maybe a couple more for the casualty figure? - a modest start but its great to be back!

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Welcome back to the Challenge, Paul! 

I was great to catch-up during the Antipodean Paint & Chat and I was curious to what you were working on, and now I know! You've done a fabulous job on this Apothecary, with his white armour and creepy medi-servo arms. The cracked red Martian soil gives a great counterpoint to these relatively monochrome figures. Terrific stuff.

7 points for this Primaris and a couple more for his poor, flattened battle-brother. I look forward to the other projects that I know you have on the burner!

- Curt