From BrianC: Can you smell what Rumbleslam is cooking! (31pts)

Another paint challenge! Hello to all! Well, the first entry for the challenge is small. But, it's a start! All miniatures are from the Rumbleslam Tabletop Miniature game. I truly enjoy painting these miniatures, so much fun to paint and jump back in time as a kid watching the WWF, yes the WWF! A couple of these minis you may recognize. Well, here we go!

I give you... Ronnie Salvage, Henchilada, Gun, and Troll!

I used only Army Painter Speedpaints. Yup. not much of a miniature painter, but they are painted and ready to go!

"Gun" aka Hulk Hogan

Henchilada

"Ronnie Salvage" aka Randy Macho Man Savage

Troll

This one I used old citadel Space Wolves Grey for base. The other colors are from Army Painter Speedpaints. I tried to use Army Painter Blue Wash and I almost ruined the work. I was able to reapply the Space Wolves Grey and I'm leaving it alone!

Well, Like I said, a very small turn in. 

POINTS

1 X 50mm = 10pts.

3 X 40mm = 21pts.

TOTAL = 31pts.

WooHoo! Ha Ha! 

Welcome back Brian, sorry that I missed this post last week.  these guys certainly look ready to rumble!   Gotta say the not Macho Man is my fave, big beer belly and Zulu like leg decorations plus a very active pose.  31 points it is. Peter

The 'Sport' Theme Results are now UP!

Hi All!

The votes are in for our 'Sport' bonus round! We had a very respectable showing, with the entrants treating us with visions of all things, well, sporting! Thanks to all the participants for their entires.

First up, for our Honorary Mentions, we have:

JamesM's 'NAAFI Van' 

BenF's 'A Spot of Tennis?'

MichaelA's 'Private Dancer'

PaulSS' 'English Archery Tournament'

and, PaulOG's 'Gladiator Sagittarius and Dux the Spectator'

Bravo! Great work fellas!

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In Third position, for 25 bonus points, we have:

MartinN's sad and evocative 'To the Green Fields Beyond...'

In Second place for 50 bonus points:

RayR's very cleverly crafted 'Lacrosse'

And, in First Place, for 75 bonus points and a gift certificate from Regina's 'Comic Readers', we have Byron's orktastic 'F1 Race Car, Ork Style'

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Congratulations to our people's choice winners and, again, a big THANK YOU to all our participants for making this Bonus Round a wonderful success! Great work everyone!

If you're interested in seeing the voting results they can be found here.

Now, please get back to your hobby desks and get busy working on your submissions for our next theme round, 'Mercenary'. All entires are due by midnight this Saturday - I will have the gallery up next Sunday.

Have a great week!

Curt

The 'Sport' Theme Round is Up! ...and Curt's 'Wilhelm Tell's Apple Shot'

Hi All!

Our second Bonus Theme Round is now up for viewing, so please head over to the gallery and enjoy all the entries.

This round the theme is 'Sport' and we have all manner of interpretation of the topic from tennis courts, and archery butts to Bloodbowl teams and Iroquois playing lacrosse. 

After you've enjoyed in the gallery please take a little time to vote for your favourite entries.

Again, one thing to note: Blogger has a glitch dealing with large uploads occurring over a short period of time, where when you advance to view the next submission it may skip one or two ahead. Yes, very aggravating and it's been an issue for years. Anyway, the way to ensure you're seeing all the entries is to use the submission list on the right sidebar to advance through the list of submissions. 

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I interpreted the theme as 'to make sport of', meaning to try to ridicule or make mockery of something.

Early in the 14th century, Swiss legend has it that William Tell was made sport of when Albrecht Gessler, the Austian vogt (officer) of the Swiss principality of Uri, demanded that he shoot the apple resting on Tell's son's head.

Mosaic at the Swiss National Museum

This challenge originated from a situation in which Tell pointedly decided not to salute the authority of the Austrian crown as he entered the town of Altdorf (this being Gessler's hat sitting atop a pole placed alongside the road to town). 

Seeing this act of defiance, Tell and his son, Walter, were arrested by the town constables and presented to Gessler for judgement. The Tells were cruelly sentenced to death for William's temerity of not recognising the power of Switzerland's Austrian overlords. Nonetheless, Gessler, knowing Tell was a renown crossbowman, wanted to make nasty sport from his prisoner's expense, and so decreed that he would commute their execution if Tell could shoot the apple off the head of his son.

From Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia' (1554 edition)

The young Walter was tied against a tree, with an apple duly resting on his head.  William silently drew two crossbow bolts from his quiver, socketed one, took aim and deftly struck the apple from atop his son's head. Gessler was very impressed, but wondered why Tell had drawn two crossbow bolts when only one was needed.  Tell cooly looked at Gessler and said the second bolt was meant for him if he missed his first shot. 

William Tell's act of defiance has become part of Swiss legend and lore, being recognized as the first spark of the Swiss rebellion which led to the foundation of the later Swiss Confederacy.

The figure shown here, depicting 'Wilhelm von Tell' in victory, is from Lead Adventure Miniatures.  He was sculpted by Igor Karpov who has a very distinctive, characterful style, with lots of heavy detail to loose your brush in. While the William Tell story is from the medieval period, he's shown here in high Renaissance garb, with slashed sleeves and  wearing a tasseted, flutted breastplate. A great figure to paint.

Okay, the next fortnight theme is 'Mercenary' so start thinking of suitable creations for that most cunning and machiavellian bonus round.

Have a great week everybody!

Curt