Wednesday From JamieM - The Horus Heresy’s Greatest Traitor and Mythos (62 points)

Something of a small and yet mixed bag today. First up are the Priory faction for "Mythos" by warcradle. One of my friends and I are like moths to a flame when obscure and virtually dead games with pretty miniatures are concerned and "Mythos" is that. Don’t think it was ever big, but it limps along and can be had very cheaply on eBay at times. I have the Priory faction who are nominally the good guys standing against the evil Cthulhu-type entities

These appear to be led by a wise fellow who has dragged along a chap with a flamethrower, an archaeologist lady, a mechanic, a cat and he’s summoned a massive golem! Feels like he’s ticked all of the boxes for fighting evil…..

Fairly simple paint jobs and it remains to be seen whether the game will see table time with so many other games fighting for it. Heck, they’re nice miniatures either way and were fun to paint. Oh, and one of the ladies will be my fee to move to the “Traitor” area of hell……

……Because I’ve also painted this fella, Lorgar Aurelian...

He’s from GW’s Horus Heresy setting and is one of the primarchs, who are super human beings who lead the legions. Lorgar leads the Wordbearers, religious nut jobs who built massive cathedrals to the Emperor (back when he claimed he wasn’t a god) when they took worlds over instead of moving on to pacify the next world. The Emperor slapped them down for this very publicly and used the Ultramarines to do it, which mortified the entire legion (The Ultramrines? Ugh. I would be embarrassed too - GB).

Lorgar responded to this like any teenager would and sought out the chaos gods to worship instead. He then introduced them to Horus and some of his other primarch friends and the Horus heresy began!

Lorgar is therefore a huge traitor (even though the Emperor was also a bit of a git) as he set in motion a war that killed billions and set humanity back and got what would become the 40K universe going. Ironically, it set up a universe where the Emperor really is now seen as a god. So perhaps he’d feel it was all worth it?

Anyway, 5 x 28mm figure, one 54mm figure, one 40mm figure and a Traitor bonus for 62 points by my maths.

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This is lovely Jamie! And with all due respect to "Mythos" - and your commitment to obscure-adjacent games (which I share and respect), I can say "thank god" for some 30k at last! And that is a sentiment I think Lorgar would appreciate!

The Primarch models are a real hoot, and it is so nice to see the arch-criminal of the Horus Heresy rendered here and ready to lead his legion into some manner of "faithful endeavor". Progress demands sacrifice, after all, and Lorgar his chaps can help out with both! While Erebus is still the biggest @sshole in the story, at the end of the day, Lorgar is THE bad guy. You've done fine work here - the cape, the mace, and even the "such-a-shame-that-billions-must-die-in-order-to-show-the-obvious-truth" expression on his face.

And full marks to the "Mythos" team. But why assume the "Cthulhu types" are evil? Why, Lorgar could help you understand that inter-dimensional diversity can be your organization's new "greatest strength"...

62 points it is! We can all celebrate in our next visit to Monarchia. Right....?

GregB 

From GavinB: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone of 28mm and Into 1/16th Scale (30 points)

Last week I was lucky enough to find a fair listing on eBay for one of the discontinued models from Miniart, the French Knight. Once I received the model I made a few edits to sallet with green stuff, as it was not in the style that was most common in the wars of the roses, and I was planning on painting this fellow as a retainer of Edward IV. I had never painted a model larger than 30mm so It was a real joy, I had a lot of fun focusing on all the little details and trying some new techniques. In the end I was pretty happy with how he turned out... so lets have a look!

It was a LOT easier to paint the Sun in Splendor on a 1/16th guy rather than a 28mm guy

  
Now, I do not know how many millimeters are in a 1/16th scale figure, I tried searching it up but to no avail, so to help you out in scoring this guy Greg, I have placed a 28mm Perry miniature next to our soldiers legs that way you can get an idea of how many points to award. (really sorry to add another thing to you busy list of to-do's...)

        And that wraps it up for this week, thank you so much for reading!

POINT TOTAL:

1 1/16th scale foot figure for ? points!

Happy Painting!

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Hi Gavin - thanks for sharing this unusual project with us. I maintain that heraldry is hopelessly confusing  no matter what the size of the model is, and I have a lot of respect for those who attempt it (and understand what they are doing). I have a Hundred Years War project that is utterly frozen as I have zero idea how to approach the heraldry...

But enough about me! You clearly know what's up - right down to messing around with "green stuff" to get the right helmet. Good show!

In terms of scoring, we thankfully have some precedent here. There have been a couple of instances of 1/16 scale figures in Challenges past - they were scored at 30 points, so that's what we'll go with here!

Thanks Gavin, we look forward to what comes next! 1/6 scale perhaps? :) 

GregB

From SylvainR: 28mm Yellow Monsters for D&D (30 points)

 

This week, our fearless cleric encounters a family of yellow monsters: Mama Drider with two babies and their pet Hydra. All models are from Reaper and made of vinyl. I never used yellow on such large surfaces before, so I took this opportunity to paint a batch of big monsters in this "difficult" color.

Although small in height, the little "driders" or "arachnid centaurs", needed a wide base for their size, the same I used for my giants. I painted their eyes big and black in order to give them an "arachnoid" attitude. In the second picture, below, you can read "2013" on their rear end. I did not think that part would be visible when I was prepping the models and I should have scraped the writings off. Oh well...

When I assembled Mama Drider, I carefully filled the seam line in her abdomen with putty, but the filling material did not stick well when I used sand paper to soften the gap. Hopefully, players will pay more attention to her front end than to her rear end. Because of her size, I had to make a custom base for her out of mdf.

The thing with vinyl miniatures is that fitting is optional. After gluing the heads and filling the gaps with putty, I endeavored to "re-sculpt" the scales. Here she is in her bright yellow coat, ready to take five bites out of helpless adventurers. I custom made an mdf base for her as well.

 Points claimed:

2 x 28mm foot figurines at 5 points each = 10 points

2 x 28mm "mounted" figurines at 10 points each = 20 points

Total = 30 points

Thanks for reading!

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Great work on your expanding monster menagerie here Sylvain. As you say, yellow is one of the more frustrating colours to work with. But it all looks go great in the end! This is how I ended up doing Imperial Fists for 30k even though painting yellow is so awful..

For all the trouble that yellow might cause painting-wise, however, it always seems like the vinyl material is always a bit of a bigger pain in the rear...well done handling all of the association modeling challenges that come with the vinyl material. 

30 points well-earned!

GregB