Here's my first entry to Challenge #12, just under the wire, I hope. Real life has been a bit more challenging lately preventing me from doing what I would really like to do here. I'm off to a slow start and hope to continue the momentum.
I will start with the planet Solaris, a fictional planet in a 1972 Soviet sci-fi movie about a mystery planet where the space station crew suffers from man's conflict with the unknown. Thus I present these 28mm Russian infantry figs painted in the colonial uniform for forces fighting an unknown and deceptive enemy in Central Asia 1839-1895. You see how I feebly tied that all together to scrape out an extra 20 planet points?
These figures are the remainders to a 20 man TSATF unit I started for our Epic NWF colonial campaign, "Never Trust Anyone on the Frontier"...hmmm... more mystery and deception. The figs are from Askari Miniatures from their Russian Colonial Range and paint up nicely. I have lots more from this range on my painting bench and hope to post more soon.
Planet Points = 20
28MM Figs: 5 x25 = 25 Points
Total: 45 Points
Cheers, Sgt Guinness
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First, welcome to the Challenge Jeff!
Great work with these (Space?) Russians. They have a bit of the old school toy soldier look to them, which is quite wonderful. They cut quite the dash with their red pantaloons and white jackets. I look forward to seeing more of these in the future!
- Curt