From PeterD: Nickel's Warband for Badgers & Burrows (22 points)

Ollie, Nickel and Fennel

 

My second post today is three members of my Burrows & Badgers war band.  Curt got us into this system around Christmas time and we've had fun creating war bands and playing a few games, although the wide random variance in results takes some getting used to.  These are 3d prints from Curt, and I've no idea who the creator of the files is.  Full disclosure, when Curt handed me these to paint he asked me to return them with the ground work incomplete so that he could match his other B&B figures.

B&B includes a wide variety of animals to choose from.  Given the choice overload I sought inspiration from my local environment as shown below.

Back row Nickel and Ollie.  Front row Fennel, Orville Owl and Zippy Bat.

I am rather disappointed that the tree stump is sawn off and not chewed. 

Nickel the Beaver gets her name from the Canadian coin featuring a beaver.  In B&B she is a massive animal and she is the leader of the warband.  Well armoured she is fearsome in hand to hand, but it takes a while for her to get into combat.  The original Nickel came from the Hudson's Bay site and has a kerchief in the iconic stripes of a HBC blanket, which I've tried to represent in her helmet plume. 

The war band's 2iC is Ollie the Otter.  B&B counts otters as large critters with good speed and ranged combat ability (like beavers, otters can also swim and thus avoid movement penalties in water).  The original Ollie is a sea otter and I tried to give the model the buff face of a sea otter but gave this up after a couple of failures and painted him as a river otter.  His shield carries a starfish emblem.

I like that he's standing on a bag of gold coins.

Fennel the raccoon looks like he could talk your ears off, all the while drinking your beer, pocketing your silverware and flirting with your wife.  He's got definite panache, suitable for the masked bandit raccoon persona.  I spent a fair bit of time on google counting rings on tails and working out the facial patterns.  I did learn that raccoon fur varies from grey to brown depending on genetics and geography.

Points are anyone's guess. The raccoon is about the same size of a 28mm figure for 5.  The otter is a bit bigger, maybe 40mm for 7.  The Beaver is pretty massive so I'd say count her as a 54mm for 10.  That's 22 points, less deductions for not painting the bases myself, maybe 18 points? 

JeremyM would be disappointed with me if I did not share this video.

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Sylvain: Excellent painting job on these "small" animals (everything is relative). They look very furry and very tough with their weaponry. I'm sure Nickel's big hammer will help "even the odds" when it comes to rolling. For points, you know that it is "impossible" to subtract in the spreadsheet, so "have to" let you go away with 22 points. It was an honor to be your minion and hopefully you will be participating in the Challenge again next year. Ce n'est qu'un au revoir.