From BillA: Maya Ajaw and Ah'kin (30 points)

 This was a project I didn't really plan on starting, until my buddy Chris gifted me a pair of figures he'd commissioned and had cast up - a Maya king and queen (whom you'll see in my Empire theme round entry). Well, now I needed to do something with them! Looking at my options for Maya miniatures, the options out there aren't as varied as there are for Aztecs. At Chris' suggestion, I ordered about a dozen packs of "Jaguar Tribes" and "Maxzans" figures from Lucid Eye Publications. Sculpted by Steve Saleh, formerly of Wargames Foundry, these figures are a little bit generic "Mesoamerican Fantasy" but work well as representatives of the Maya people, pre-European contact. 

Current plan is to paint up enough figures and terrain to put on a game at a local one-day show, six months from now; I'm mostly thinking Mana Press' "Tribal" ruleset for these, which uses units of five figures and a unique playing card-based mechanic, but I'm going to workshop this with Chris. 

I started with some of the more richly dressed and ornamented figures; these five I'm treating as ajaw, members of the noble class in a Mayan city-state, fighting for personal glory and social status.

I misplaced the shields for this group; if I find them or buy more (or more likely, buy more and then find them), I'll get them painted and glued on. 

I also picked up some 28mm Maya figures from Gringo 40s to accompany my Lucid Eye figures and fill in some gaps. One such is this priest, or ah'kin; He wears a Chaac mask, putting on the persona of the god of rain, agriculture and (sometimes) warfare, with a plume of quetzal feathers. 

This is one of two copies of Gringo 40s' priest figure I bought, so you'll see another one in different colors later on in the challenge. 

Six 28mm figures on foot gives me another 30 points, and I claim a second Squirrel Point for Maya.

Total Squirrel Points: 2 (Modern Horror, Maya)

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Sylvain: "Colorful" is the first quality I can say about your paint job. You are regaling us with a subject not seen much during past Challenges and I hope you will keep showing us more of this stuff. Joli travail!