From AaronH - Iden Versio and two Orc APCs (17 points)

This week I'm finally getting some painting done after travelling for the last two months. I have Iden Versio in 32mm and two Marauder (Orc) APCs in 10mm.

I painted Iden up for my friend's son so he could use her in a tournament last weekend. She was a quick paint, being mostly black.

I just dry brushed a couple of different grey's over the black undercoat. Her face took the most time.

I had already painted her droid so it's not included here. I still need to paint the other members of Inferno Squad, which may happen this Challenge.

The trucks look like she's playing with Tonka trucks.

The two APCs are Mules, the ubiquitous transport in Mantic's Warpath universe, being in at least three armies.

I have six of these. I'll be doing two each in yellow, blue and red.

They are quick and easy to paint up. I used acrylic paint pens to do most of what you see.

I'm not sure why this is Mantic's vision for an APC but horses for courses I guess.

This is one 32mm figure for 5 points

Two 10mm vehicles for 6 pts each = 12

Total = 17 pts

Nice work here Aaron, I was unfamiliar with Ms. Versio so you sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole there. A pretty intense character, she was the leader of an Imperial black ops unit called "Inferno Squad" (!) and holder of the Imperial record for most verified kills in battle (!!) (I thought surely this would've been the Death Star gunner who pulled the trigger on Alderaan??) before she defected to the Rebellion. You've done a great job on her, especially the face... the sculpt is great too, it really looks like the actress who played her. 

Seventeen for your tally!

Dallas 

From JezT - Assorted Landsknechts - 25mm (60 points)

 Dear All, 

Yikes only a few more posting weeks in the challenge to go! Glad to finish off a few odd Landsknechts for my Renaissance armies though. They are mainly Steel Fist Miniatures figures, some of which I wanted to blend into existing units to add a bit more variety. 

Here are the figures before basing 

This is the first time I have painted figures from Steel Fist and personally I found adding the heads and weapons a bit fiddly, but pleased with the end results. Here are 3 Landsknecht skirmish crossbow.

Next is a single Steel Fist Arquebusier - which added to an existing unit.

Then I have a Light Gun set - the figures are from Steel Fist but not sure about the actual gun. I painted these to be part of the French Army "Black Band" Landsknechts. 

Here is another Steel Fist figure that I have added in as a replacement into a pike block to add more variety. 

Steel Fist figure next to old Irregular Miniatures figure. 

Finally a couple more Steel Fist Leader and Standard Bearer now added into a mainly old Hinchcliffe figure pike block. 

New "Steel Fist" Leader on right with Standard Bearer behind

Close up on the Leader with impressive hat plume!

Next is another Standard Bearer but this time a TAG The Assault Group figure - this was a very nice Thirty Years war standard bearer figure that I wanted to act as a replacement. Originally the figure had a "Morion" helmet so did a heads swap.

TAG converted standard bearer

Finally is a unknown figure that picked up somewhere and although Landsknecht have used to beef up and strengthen a Swiss Halberdier unit. I painted in light blue and white as part of the Zurich contingent. 

So in total it is 12 figures for 60 points.

Cheers Jez

Nice work here Jez! You've managed to blend figures from several different manufacturers together into a pretty cohesive unit, kudos for a good eye on that. I particularly like the stripey outfit on that dude from the Zurich contingent, very nice. Separate heads and weapons aren't my favourite things either and you've done a good job with 'em.

Sixty for your tally!

Dallas

From NormS: A Napoleonic Austrian gun battery in 28mm (60 points)

This is a two model gun battery in 28mm metal from the Perrys for my 1809 Austrian collection. The brown tunics help break up all of the white of the infantrymen that I have been painting of late and I have been saving them for a bit of a treat.

One model is firing and the other is loading.

All my artillery to date has been of the firing pose type, based at 50mm wide by 80mm deep and I had fixed these guns to the bases to match everything else and prepped them just before the challenge, while I could still use the rattle can primer. 

It was only this week when making up each base that I saw that the gun model being loaded either needs a deeper base or the gun set further back to help the guy with the ram to be better placed within the base to protect that rod from accidental knocking - hey ho!

Anyway they have painted up quite nicely. For my metals I gloss varnish (hand brush) first, followed by a matt varnish, because years ago I read somewhere that gloss varnish is tougher than matt and that metals need that strength. I have no idea whether that is true, but am a slave to it anyway! Does anyone know whether the gloss varnish thing for metal is true?

8 x 28mm Infantry crew at 5 points each = 40 points.

2 x gun pieces at 10 points each = 20 points

Total for submission 60 points

Thanks 

Norm

Norm, these models look very nice, I especially like the bases and the great work on the uniforms. The artillery crews must have been stoked to have those cool bicorn hats, they look very sharp!

And yes I have also heard that gloss varnish gives a much tougher protective coating than the matte variety. However I am too lazy to varnish my models twice (and I also worry about the matte varnich not completely killing the gloss shine) so it's strictly matte for me, despite the fact my models might suffer for it.

Sixty points for you to start the work week!

Dallas

Monday Funday

Spoons - Romantic Traffic

Monday again and time for some more OMM. This time it's something from the New Wave of the early 1980s and one of the best Canadian bands of that genre at the time - Burlington, Ontario's own Spoons.

Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne dated when they were students at Aldershot School in Burlington and formed the band with a couple of friends. Their debut studio album "Stick Figure Neighbourhood" came out in 1981 and was engineered by none other than Daniel Lanois, who you may see in a future instalment of OMM. The next year saw the release of their breakout disc "Arias & Symphonies" which featured three Canadian top-40 hits.

The video I've linked above was released by the band in 1984 on the soundtrack for the film "Listen to the City." To me this is peak New Wave from the '80s with all of its keyboards and synthesizers and faux-British-accented vocals, plus some solid rock staples like the "doo doo doo" chorus and handclaps. Plus check out those hairstyles, absolutely epic. The TTC setting for the video is very nostalgic for me too as I rode it a lot when I lived in Toronto in the early '90s.

Now on to the painting...

• Norm brings out the big guns for his Napoleonic Austrians!
• Jez with "assorted" Landsknechts!
• Aaron presents a Star Wars Legion bada$$ and some tiny Ork APCs!

Have a good week all!

Dallas