From MartinC Norse and Wood Elf Bloodbowl teams (90pts)

 My current insanity to build an entire bloodbowl league on my own continues. I now have 6 complete teams, with 3 more to paint.

Next up are the Norse. Once again this is a resin print via Etsy. The Norse are a hard tackling team with the key characteristics being frenzy and being drunk. They are nearly all drunk, which may or not help.

It's a big team with 17 players, too many for a team but some will die. I played on Friday and on the 1st roll one of my Skaven fell over and broke his neck

The team has beer boars, they can't have the ball but a useful tackling assist and good for throwing at the opposition 

The big guy is a Yeti, ultra violent and scary

2 berserker, ultra violent and drunk

Ulfwerenar, ultra violent

Valkyries,  the only players that appear to want to play. For Ray think Archie Gemmil whereas the rest are all Norman "bites your legs" Hunter (Leeds players from the 1970s)

The linemen, the backbone of the team. All drunk

Can't wait to get these on the field, but playing too many actual wargames this week to get them on the field.

Next up the Wood Elves. I already had 10 wardancers, resin prints, that had actual ballet poses. I love them but 10 wood elves are enough so I bought an GW Ent from my local toy store, being within walking distance of a wargames store is very bad.

It's an ok model, but like all the other photos all the shading has pretty much vanished.

The full team

I think they are really cool.

Scores on the doors

17 x 28 70 mm inf = 85 119

1x ent = 5 25 pts

Total 144

Really not sure how to score these guys as they are big, 35mm on average and the Ent is 60mm. Advice from the wise minion would help.

Really Martin, I am an old man with a soft brain - no fair making me think!  I will, treat this as 40mm figures and the ent as a 40 mm vehicle.  I was tempted to tell you to take the Ent to Byron as terrain, but reckoned that was not kosher at it is sentient.  

With the hard part out of the way, let's get to the easy part which is enjoying g the figures.  Love the drink Norse and their beer boars (I feel I've met a few of these in various pubs and saying clubs).  I really like the metallic sun glasses on the Berserkers.  The ent looks great and fits in nicely with the war dancers.  Life is tough when you have a FLGS within walking distance....Peter

   

From SylvainR: D&D DEI Heroes (35 points)

Here is a party of heroes for D&D. When my daughter asked me to teach her friends and her how to play D&D a couple of years ago, she made sure I would use the proper pronouns when addressing some of the players. I am of the opinion that DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) measures are good tools to address some obvious inequities in society but I am not here to debate, I just needed to give some context about this batch of miniatures. My goal was to have in my D&D collection 4 different heroes per class, so 4x paladins, 4x rangers, 4x barbarians, etc. and to have diversity in mind, so eventual players could find a character that suits them. Let's see how things went.

 

Here are two paladins, one is queer. I opted for purple as the distinctive color of the paladin class, so I can more easily identify the characters on the playing surface.

 

Two female rangers (dark green), one Elf and one Halfling. This brings gender and body type diversity to the class. In each class, half the heroes are women. I still feel very amateur at painting faces

 

Two female rogues (grey). The newer editions of D&D propose a race called "tiefling", which is basically a half-demon, half-human creature. Crusty me thinks this goes totally against the canon established by the Lord of the Rings and the original version of D&D, but young players just love these new options. My daughter's character was a humanoid mushroom eating fermented barley...

 

Lastly, a female barbarian (brown), to even up the male/female distribution in this class. Considering the rear view of the mini, I must admit that some green putty could have been added...

Points claimed:

7 x 28mm foot figurines at 5 points each = 35 points

Total = 35 points

Thanks for reading!

 Cue the DEI debate in the comments in 3, 2, 1....

Love the female adventurers Sylvain, lots of character (and booty in one case) showing.  I think the halfling ranger is my fave.  Very nice basing too.  Peter

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

From BrianC A Mish Mash of this and that (155pts)

Ok. There's a bunch of this and that. I'm happy to return to my 3rd consecutive paint challenge season! I'm still not that great of a miniature painter, BUT since I'm more of a solo gamer, these will work just fine. Ha! Let's do this!

We begin with Wargames Atlantic Giant Spiders! Smaller spiders are 28mm and the bigger spiders are 40mm. I pretty much painted a black base and dry brush gray, then go over with Army Painter speedpaint of various colors.

We have some dogs from the game Song of Ice and Fire. I think they're the House Bolton's Bastard girls. Majority are painted with Army Painter Speedpaints.

We have some nasty Kings of War Undead ghouls/zombies. I was goofing around and added a head to one and call him, "Frank"

We have a Zombicide Survivor, James from the Rue Morgue Set. There will be much more Zombicide minis, soon. I love the game!

Here we have 2 lovely ladies from Old Glory Miniatures. I think they mean business! Watch out!

Hello, Mr. Terminator! The Warhammer 40K Terminator that is!

Well, there will be a lot more "Mish Mash" turn ins.

I think there's one squirrel point in this. Ha!

Ok to the points...

24 - 28mm = 120pts

5 - 40mm = 35pts

TOTAL = 155pts.

 

That is a miss mash of stuff Brian.  Love those spiders, as long as I don't have to deal with them in person.  I also really like the hounds and those ladies do mean business.  Great work all around.   Peter