From AndrewG - More Fantasy/Sci-Fi Characters & Creatures (56 points)

This week I continued plugging away at my fantasy and sci-fi skirmish game requirements in between some historical figures (see other post) and was pleasantly surprised with the results.

First up, a rider to add to the Guards of Traitor’s Toll (GoTT) patrol detachment I showed last week. Interestingly, GoTT includes rules for mounted troops, wagons, animals, etc. but there are not many figure options readily available yet, so I made my own kit bashing some town guard bits with a Wargames Atlantic medieval mounted sergeant. The bed roll is from a 30+ year old Italeri 1/35 scale German soldier kit (never throw those extra bits away!). Overall, he turned out pretty good. Additionally, I finished one more townsfolk – a distracting puppeteer – who keeps the guard preoccupied while someone else fleeces his saddlebag of goodies.

 

Next up, a small addition to my monster library. These three Constructs are metal miniatures from Northstar’s Frostgrave line, and I have to say I really enjoyed painting them up. For ‘Barrel Man’ and ‘Pencil Head’ I followed the grain so to speak and kept my paint strokes all in one direction. For ‘Creepy Muppet’, I kept the colours drab as he would be put together from abandoned clothing items. By the way, I have no idea if that’s the actual names of these figures but that’s what I’m going with. The winter bases were made with Vallejo rough grey pumice (26.213) that dries lighter than the picture on the container, and little pieces of quartz, which pass for decent ice blocks.

Turning to Sci-Fi, I knocked out a big stompy mining robot and its handler for my Stargrave campaigns. Again, both are Northstar figures – the mining robot is multi-part metal, and the handler is a plastic figure kit bashed from the Crew and Mercenaries sets. Being a mining robot, I added some access panel decals, serial numbering, and gave it a couple of washes of nuln oil to dull down the brighter colours. Off he goes to drill holes!

Claiming the following points:

1x mounted figure = 10 pts

5 x 28mm figures = 25 pts

1x 28mm vehicle = 20 pts

1x Squirrel points – different genres – riders, monsters, robots

Total = 56 points

I am enjoying your GoTT pieces Andrew, nice guard and puppeteer.  If you're looking for mounted figures, you might want to check out the Perry WoR "Light Cavalry" kit.  Those creepy constructs as almost as unnerving as Byron's KD stuff.  But I have to say that you christened them with appropriate names.  Do the blue base rings have any significance in game play?  And I like the Rompy Stompy Robo-miner and handler.  I don't want to be on the receiving end of those.

I can give you 55 points for the figures, but the Squirrels are a separate tally. I've tagged this post to give the Squirrel Finder General (SFG) a heads up.

 

From Barks: The bitter end (27 points)

Here's the last odds and sods as I gaze at my distant points target. First, some movement trays from Knights of Dice. These hold either three or five 25mm round bases. The mdf remains are interesting negative spaces, maybe I should save these for swamp terrain?

Next, a wasteland robot. It's the non-seasonal version of the Xmas-o-tron I submitted way way back at the start of AHPC XIII. It's a free stl from Imitation of Life.

Some battlefield stakes, with Middle-earthlings for scale. 3D prints from Asgard Rising. I struggled with warping, even after softening with heat, over-bending and dumping in ice-cold water.

Next, a lone squig.

Penultimately, a sausage dog from Eureka. I have a weird relationship with dachshunds: they're annoyingly yappy but such a humorous shape! The Skirt Swisher & I get points for how many sausages we spot on a given day.* So, I couldn't pass up the opportunity for this little chap. I'd like it to become a pet for a Rogue Trader or Inquisitor, snapping angrily at the heels of eldritch horrors etc. If it's a boy, Fritz. A girl, Heidi.

Finally, I was unable to avoid the Call of the Turnip. I failed to get a proper unit up of Lord Barkington's Brownjackets, the tuber-worshipping tirailleurs. Instead, here are their mascots, the vicious spudlings. Again, 3D prints from IoL.

• Bases: 5"x3"x3" thus 4 points
• Stakes: 10x 4"x1"x1" thus 4 points
• Robot: 1x28mm figures: 5 points
• Sausage/ potatoes/ squig: I'm counting them as 15mm so 7x2 points: 14 points
• Turnip28 Side Duel: 10 points

Thanks, everyone! See you at the wrap-up.

*Current record: 5. It was a pentasausage day.

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Haha! A scattershot wrap-up, Barks! All of these are excellent (though the bases are a bit of a stretch), but I especially like the wasteland robot and the vicious spudlings (checking out that designer after sign-off...).

It's always a pleasure, Barks. Thank you for overseeing the Skull Duel and I hope we can count on your noggin for the next edition of the Challenge. Cheers mate!

- Curt 

From ScottM: Studio Black & White - Robot (25 pts)

A quick and easy submission for this location. I was going to have a bunch more figs but I ran out of unit bases. Off to the hardware store! 

Black & White - I went with a 28mm resin Salvager Bot from Crooked Dice's Colony 87 line.

A very simple fig and I think I did a half-decent job on it. I'm not much of a grey-scale painter.

Scoring: 28mm foot fig + location bonus = 25 pts.

Friday Minion - Welcome back to the Challenge Scott!

More black and white goodness, it's been a popular location this year. Nice choice on the model for this location, it sure suits this dorky robot with his expressionless face. Tidy brushwork here Scott.