From Mike W: {Shrine] Ork Gorka Morka Totem (25 Points)

First of hopefully two or three posts this week as I continue to work through the challenge and juggle different project themes and real world work.

Gorka Morka Shrine, skulls and entrance

Having completed four Chambers on Level One of the dungeon, I have now descended to level two.

For the Shrine special chamber I present just that - an Orc Gorka-Morka shrine, from the Games Workshop old Gorka Morka boxed set, if I remember correctly!

Slightly different angle

As a terrain piece or maybe an objective marker, this piece was moulded in two parts, I glued them together and spray painted black, before highlighting with a light grey spray paint and then a top highlight of white spray paint.

Gorka Morka Shrine, side view, wood panels

I painted the wooden frame and support planks brown, with metal work picked out in a steel colour. Around the base is a pile of skulls, painted a skull white colour, there is also a large greenskin face stretched between poles on the frame that makes an entrance to the shrine...

Back door!

I then spent way too much time coming back to this piece to add in the details. But, the fun in this piece was all the detail! This included what seemed like dozens of toadstools, all painted red with white spots, shields, skulls etc and the marvellous Moon Face icon on the top of the shrine 

Another side view

Everything was given washes and then matt varnished.

Lots of toadstools

POINTS

Shrine                5 Pts   

Bonus                20 Pts

TOTAL              25 Points 

That does look rather spiffing. And 25 points for you.

Tamsin

From StuartL - The First Ladies of Horror (and plus ones)- 46 points

 Hello again. Today I am venturing further into Level 3 of the Chambers of Challenge. Having passed through the Knights' Solar, I must now brave the strange creations of the Laboratory. This was quite an easy chamber to find inspiration for as I happened to have a couple of minis that fit the bill perfectly. However, as I am also hunting for those rascally Squirrels, I needed to put some flesh on the entry and expanded it to introducing the first ladies of horror and their significant others.

The Strong Female Character Who Refuses To Be Defined By Her Relationship To A Man.

As a successful doctor, lawyer, teacher and parts from at least 7 other Jane Does, Mary is a career focused young woman, a diligent supporter of women's rights and refuses to be held down by the patriarchy. Despite having an electrifying wit and a style all her own, Mary spends most of her time on her research work in the lab.

On the subject of her partner, "Frankie means well, but he's hardly the most eloquent of individuals, and terribly clumsy. I don't let him near the lab these days, he has a tendency to smash the place."

Queen Tutankhamun

As the wife of the Mummy, is the Queen a Daddy? Maybe someone more in touch with 'woke' culture can clear that up for me. After having awoken in the afterlife, the Queen found that it looked remarkably the same as the previous life, just with more of the locals running in fear whenever they saw her. Still, as an eternally animated corpse, she has plenty of time on her hands for starting new hobbies and learning new things. Recently she's been tempted to give becoming a historian a go, figuring she has a head start on other researchers.

On the subject of her partner, "King Tut has been awfully grumpy since he awoke. He kills any visitors we get and he barely even bothers getting changed out of his bandages anymore. I was hoping he'd lighten up after retirement."

Countess Dracul

Running the estates of Castle Dracula is a demanding job, but one which the Countess undertakes diligently. The zombie servants work around the clock without complaint in service to their mistress. The Countess takes great pride in both her appearance and that of the estates, believing that it is important for the upper classes to uphold certain standards of behaviour.

On the subject of her partner, "When we first met, the count swept me off my feet and left me pale and breathless. But times have changed. These days he's out drinking at all hours of the night, chasing local girls and then he comes home and just sleeps all day. I'm really quite fed up."

And there you have it, Mr. & Mrs. Frankenstein should cover me for the Laboratory theme of the chamber, plus a few other friends. Every October an American friend of mine likes to run games with a Halloween theme, so these figures will ideally be used for a pulp style adventure game with the heroes trying to avoid the monsters and escape. All of the minis are from Reaper's Bones line. The Countess isn't supposed to be a vampire figure, but I think she'll do. I do have male and female vampires from Reaper, but I painted them ages ago so they weren't eligible for the challenge.

So, I think that should be 5x 28mm minis for 25 points, maybe 1 point for the Count/decor and 20 points for the chamber, giving me 46 points in total. Pulp Horror should also add another Squirrel to that side duel. Sadly no skulls amongst this lot.

My running Duels totals:
GW Points - 287
Skullz - 143
Squirrels - 8

"As I was working in the lab, late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise..."

Lovely job on the ladies and their "companions". Forty six points for you.

Tamsin

JamieM - post apocalyptic survivors (35 points)

My second post if this challenge involves the genre that I intend to spend most of my time on - post apocalyptic. I’ve had these figures for a number of years, slowly adding to their numbers as they pop up on eBay or elsewhere. I’ve no idea at all why I would be inspired this year to do post apocalyptic figures, but let me know if you have any ideas.....

Anyway, these first five are general survivors. The average people trying to make their way in a vastly changed world.....

These figures are from a now defunct range for a game called “Eden” produced by a French manufacturer. Originally they were “Taban Miniatures” and then the range passed to a company called “Happy Games Factory” and they now seem to have closed.

The game is split into a number of factions and whilst I find some of the factions not to my taste, there are a large number of figures that I really liked, so I started purchasing them even though I couldn’t really see myself playing it any time!

First up is Angela. We met her in a bombed out music shop where she was cradling her “Axe”. Turns out she was part of the civil defence force, before that fell with everything else. She kept her leg armour, but the rest of the suit needed batteries to work so she dumped the rest of it. She’s sure handy in a fight.....

Dietrich is next. Bit of a survival nut, even before things got bad. Doesn’t seem to have had any formal military service, but knows his way around his assault rifle and seems to have raided an army surplus store for his kit......

Luther was some kind of hipster before it all went wrong. Kept his hat, shades and washed out t-shirt and grabbed a pick axe from his shed when he headed out into the wilderness.

Liesl was a self styled “soccer mom”. Don’t have the heart to ask what happened to her family, but she’s sure handy with that spear and shotgun.

Otto worked construction before the Events. Only person I’ve met who’s strong enough to lift that chainsaw on his own. Strong and silent type.....

Some conversions to give than a variety of weapons from different manufacturers, I intend to use them with the “Fistful of....” rules as they’re quick, simple, fun, great for multiplayer and can be adjusted to fit pretty much any era.

With regards sizing, they’re chunky figures, slightly bigger than Star Wars legion I would say (scale shot below with a 28mm figure) so I was going to suggest 40mm scoring like Star Wars legion are?

I too cannot possibly imagine what could have inspired you, now, to paint up these post apocalyptic survivors.

Lovely work on he figures and the basing. I'll score these as 40mm figures, as per your suggestion, so that's 35 points for you.

I almost missed this post as it somehow snuck in between mine and Stuart's.

Tamsin

Tamsin's Tuesday Titivations

 

"Good morning, Ladies, Gentlemen...and Ray. Snowlord Airways flight AHPC-XI out of Challenge, Blogland is currently cruising at 19,044 points, which means we have ascended 6,414 points since my last announcement. At this rate of climb, we should achieve our target altitude of 69,600 points eight weeks from now which is slightly earlier than planned."

"As of this morning, 69 (*titter*) passengers have boarded the flight, leaving us with just 21 still to join us. They'd better do so soon, or they may find that Captain Campbell has locked the doors."

"Although I am not participating in this flight's painting contest, I have been keeping my hand and eye in nevertheless. Here is what I am currently daubing:"

"But that's enough nonsense for today. Wax crayons are in the usual place (if Ray hasn't eaten them all); medications may eventually be administered; the drinks trolley will come around in a few hours time (it had a rather heavy night). What's that? You didn't realise it was sentient and abused it? No wonder it got completely trollied* last night!"

Toodle-pip!

Tamsin

* in case you ever wondered where the expression came from, now you know.

From Barks: The construct (35 points)

When the old wizard died, did his powers flow into the ruins of the mansion- or was a dark presence there all along?

Last week I unexpectedly acquired a large collection of Descent 2nd Edition, which simultaneously derailed some of my Challenge strategy as well as throwing a few lifelines. This figure is Skarn, a perfect fit for the Golem's Haunt. I've also started to dabble in Citadel Contrast- about 90% of this figure is plain Contrast.

I don't really feel like I've hit the ground running this Challenge- but I can feel the juices begin to flow again and have a few posts lining up.

3" tall construct: 12 points?

Golem's Haunt: 20 points

Wow! That is a great way to get derailed! The contrast paints have worked really well on this model.

I'm going to score it as 12 for the construct and a point each for the birds, so that's 15 points plus the 20 chamber bonus points.

Tamsin

From TomM: Ruffians (35 pts)

 Not every entry in the AHPC is for the Chambers of Challenge, as the objective of this bloggers community event is still to reduce Lead Mountain.

 

And this is one such entry, not attached to any location, just some nice little pile of figures reduced from the unpainted stack.

The models are Games Workshop ruffians for the Middle-earth setting, and part of my grand plan for 2021 to paint all the needed models for the scenarios in the Scouring of the Shire campaign book.  A good little rulebook that makes fantastic introductory scenarios to real new players into the game, with it's small tables and not to fancy rules laden characters.

 

Armed with a variety of weapons, these 7 guys are there to bully around some poor hobbits.  The two archers provide some long range support, while the guy with the whip is there to put the p into pain on those he manages to catch.

 

So that makes a little entry of 7 models removed from the to do pile, and a small step closer to my target for this year with these 35 points!

Wuffians, you say? Wascally wobbers and wepwobates? Stwike them down, centuwion! Tweat them woughly!

Nice work on these Tom. And 35 more points.

Tamsin

From ScottC: Medieval Houses & Gribblies - Larder Chamber submission (158 points)

 

My adventurers have a brief respite as they come across not one, but TWO medieval fantasy buildings in the Larder Chamber.

Let's see what they can peak at through the windows...

Taking a couple of steps back!

(Zombie for scale)

First up is the two story shop:

I drew heavily from the Prancing Pony for inspiration on these two, and this larger one in particular. I was very unsure of a tudor wood house coloring and wasn't too keen on painting it white. I ended up with a german camo beige / bonewhite combination that I believe fits both historically and fantastically.

Next up is the single story:

These two fantasy medieval buildings can be found at Northern Lights Terrain medieval fantasy line. They were an absolute joy to paint once I stopped fussing about colours. Admittedly my airbrushes have made painting terrain infinitely more approachable. The style of building is very accessible to a variety of game systems and I have no doubt will get a lot of table time.

And now for the gribblies! (Colonal Veronin for scale)

About half of these gribblies are from the recent mantic terrain crate 2 kickstarter, and the wine cases/cubbies and larger table are 3d printed. The rats are reaper miniatures 28mm in scale.

As for points... here is my educated guess:

Single story: 5" x 5" = 20 points

Two-Story: 6" x 6" x 9"tall = ~40 points?

Gribblies: pointed as per ~ 28mm figure: 40 ponts

Wine + Potion cabinets: pointed as per ~40mm figures: 28 points

Rats: 10 points 

Chamber of Challenge submission: 20 points 

Total: ~ 158

From MattK: 3d Printed Forest (60 Points)

 For my next entry, I decided to submit the terrain I just finished. These files are from Printable Scenery and I have a full write up on the process coming to my blog in the next few days over at Gaming With Mitten

 

Over all the project is 10 trees averaging just under 6 inches, 6 fallen trees, and 4 stumps. There are 5 unique designs and the fallen stuff in the pack and each tree takes an average of 9 hours to print. Which when all typed out seems ridiculous. I'm still coming to terms with how slow the process can be sometimes. 

I've arranged the trees into more or less 6 inch cubes and I'd say the total contents roughly fills 3 of them netting me 60 points. 

After seeing them all painted, I rolled out a 3x3 mat to see how much of the table they take up and my original plan was to make another ten or so but I don't think I'll need quite that many. I guess the beauty of the 3d printer is if I want another, I can just hit print.

From Dallas: Ral Partha Cold Drake in the Hatchery! (30? Points)

Now on to Level 2 of the Dungeon... and the Hatchery! I figure this Ral Partha Cold Drake is a lock for the Hatchery, as it's a dragon (which hatch from eggs) crossed with a bird (ditto)!

This model was sculpted by the great Tom Meier for Ral Partha back in the late '70s/early '80s (I think the copyright date on the base was '79?) and boy, it's a stunner. Amazingly, I'm the original owner of this model, having purchased it myself, likely at the Hobby Hunter shop on 10th Street in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It's sat in my lead box ever since, only being painted nearly 40 years later!

The strange part about this particular example is the wings... if you search the web for images of the RP Cold Drake you'll invariably see the model with normal webbed dragon wings... but I'm certain that this example came with the feathered wings that are on it now. Packing mistake at the Partha-werke? Who knows but these wings fit well enough and that's how I assembled it lo those many years ago.

It's not a huge dragon, but big enough to count 10 points I reckon... here it is pictured with a recently painted Foundry fantasy fighter from the Casting Room.

I really like the way these two models interact - hard to fathom that they were probably sculpted 35 years apart.

Lastly, here's the updated map... coming for you, Mike F! Next up, the Armoury... or maybe a figure for Sarah...?

Cheers!