From DaveV: Star Wars Reinforcements (Overdue and Returns) (72 points)

My first entry is under  the Topic Overdue and Returns. I finished these during the week after New Year's. 

Both Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand, and the Imperial All-Terrain Personal Transport (AT-PT) have been sitting around primed for months.

Mara Jade is a  resin 3D print from AnvilRage Studios, printed by Wargames 3D on Etsy. She is part of a set of 5 female Jedi, but I liked the pose; she looks like she's burning through a blast door like Qui Gon Jinn. I will be using her to represent Mara Jade, a character who first appeared in the Star Wars Legends novel Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn. 

After zenithal highlighting, I taped a plastic baggie to the figure, cutting a hole for the lightsaber blade, which I had previously hand brushed pure Vallejo white primer. I airbrushed fluorescent green onto the blade in several very thin coats, giving the effect of a glowing blade. I underpainted the figure in acrylics, and did some blending and detailing in oils. 

Below. Mara Jade with her nemesis (and future husband, according the the Star Wars Legends books and comics), Luke Skywalker (which I painted a couple of years ago).

The AT-PT is a PLA 3d print from Bohimso on Etsy. It represents a vehicle from the Dark Force Rising video game. The filaments do not give as smooth or detailed a model, but is quite serviceable for tabletop game play. After zenithal highlighting, I painted the model in a few grey tones, then went to town with washes, sponges, and weathering powders, to make it look like an Imperial Remnant vehicle.

Only Mara Jade and the AT-PT count for the Challenge. 

In a fit of energy, I also completed some other figures, all from Atomic Mass Games. The 14 Rebel Troopers, 7 Fleet Troopers, and the Imperial Officer were in various states of completion by local painter Steve Brown when I acquired them from him. I did some detailing, flesh washes, finished the groundwork, sprayed clear coats, etc. 

Not my work, but still, that's an additional 22 models for the Fawcett Avenue Conscripts' Star Wars Campaign and my expanding Legion-scale Star Wars collection (now over 350 painted miniatures and vehicles). Inspiration; that's one of the things the Challenge is about, right?

Points:

One 40mm figure = 7

One 1/47 scale (40mm) vehicle = 25

Lady Sarah  Bonus = 20 

Overdue and Returns = 20

Total = 72 points

24 models added to my collection = Priceless

 

Sylvain: Dave, your Star Wars collection is growing exponentially and it's a great pleasure to watch. I also know how much love you invest through your brushes into each of the miniature that lands on your paint desk. Over the years, you obviously developed uncanny techniques, especially with your airbrush.  Mara Jade's light saber is just glowing! You give me more reasons to visit Winnipeg in the (near?) future.

The AT-PT looks a little rough, as you mentioned, but the paint job you did brings out the important aspects of the model: it's Star Wars and it's a f&%ing walker! I'll be looking forward for your next submission!

 

From BillA - Skeletal Robots (20 points)

I mentioned in my last post about playing a lot of Galactic Heroes, a sci-fi skirmish game, and that it's part of a family of games allowing for skirmishes across a variety of genres.  One of these sister-games is called Wasteland Warriors, a post-apocalyptic setting drawing inspiration from the Mad Max movies and TSR's Gamma World RPG.  Tom, my co-conspirator in promoting these games locally, and I are both interested in giving this one a spin so I did some digging for post-apocalyptic figures that I liked the look of.  I quickly found Moonraker Miniatures, who offer fresh castings of Grenadier's classic "Future Warriors" line, and just as quickly placed an order.

The first figures to get fully based and primed were these four Terminator-inspired "Skeletal Robots," which I figure will see use in both Wasteland Warriors and Galactic Heroes.  

Over a black primer coat, they each got a heavy drybrush of Reaper "Tarnished Steel," followed by a wash of GW "Nuln Oil." Once dry, they were washed again with "Reikland Fleshshade" to add some rust to their recesses.  

From there, they were drybrushed with Reaper's "True Silver," and their eyes picked out in "Fresh Blood" red.  Bases are once again superglue and baking soda, base-coated black and given successive drybrushes of "Stone Grey" and "Weathered Stone Grey."

You might notice two different styles of robot here - the first, more skeletal and menacing, and the second (as captured in the picture right above this text) a little more filled out, the detail not as deeply cut.  According to Moonraker's website, these figures were originally produced by a company called Forlorn Hope Games in the style of the Grenadier skeletal robots.  I'm tempted to go back over them with another wash of Reikland Fleshshade and treat them as surviving prototypes of the more menacing terminators.  

Four 28mm figures should net me 20 points. 


Got to love some menacing killer robots and you've done a great job on these ones Bill.

TamsinP

From BillA - Spaceport Security Detail (25 points)

2020 is honestly shaping up to be my year for wargaming, at least on the skirmish front.  My friend Tom and I have been enjoying the heck out of the Fistful of Lead family of games from Wiley Games; originally designed around western gunfights, it's evolved into a family of skirmish games in a variety of genres.  Lately, we've been playing a lot of "Galactic Heroes," the science fiction variant, and demoing it at our friendly local game store.  We've gotten a couple of other people hooked, and had some very interested bystanders, so we're definitely looking at expanding our demonstrations, so I've been trying to get a bunch of "lender" crews together for people who'd like to try the game out.

This crew comprises a portion of the bureaucracy and security of a busy spaceport.  Leading this crew is Customs Agent Gilda Citlax, an overworked amphibian produced by Crooked Dice Games as part of their recent "Colony 87" Kickstarter.  I wanted some really bright colors for her to contrast with the more muted tones of her crew, and Vallejo's "Hot Orange" really hit the right note as the base for her skin.

Supporting Agent Citlax is this Impound Officer, a "Krogglogg Hunter" produced by Lead Adventure Miniatures as part of their "Astropolis" line of dystopian science fiction figures.  He's there to shoot out the power couplings on spaceships that have unpaid parking tickets.

Rounding out the crew are a trio of Security Officers (an-add on from Crooked Dice's Colony 87 Kickstarter).  In game terms, these are "Regulars," low quality troops that form the basis of any crew.  I tried painting urban camouflage for the first time on these fellows and think it turned out really nicely.

"No...no...damn you, look where I'm pointing, not at my finger.  

All in all, that's five 28mm figures at 5 points apiece, so this crew is worth 25 point.

Cool looking figures, Bill, and this post makes 10 submissions that I've had the pleasure of minioning today.

Tamsin