From JeremyM: Solar System, Demon Donoldium Drumph [Death Star] (60 points)

  Hi All,

Procrastination (and waiting on a birthday to not spoil a surprise) has me starting a bit late this year, but I was painting pretty frantically right at the start of the challenge. I’ll start my first entry with something that might fall under the terrain category perhaps?

3D Print of Solar System to scale

So this first entry is a model of the solar system I made for my nephew who just turned 7 this past weekend. He loves space and when I saw this model on thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4656228) I just had to print and paint it for him. So I’m a little unclear at what scale the figures one might play with on this model as the scale of it is 1: 1,250,000,000, so umm figures the size of dust might be too big. That being said Curt pushed me to include this in the challenge as it fit this year’s theme to a T!

Earth and the moon are 3rd from the left

Saturn's ring was rather thin, but survived shipping

I printed the overall structure (the two halves of the base and the two halves of the partial sun) as well as the big planets on my ender 3 max in PLA filament. It’s a pretty big model with the base coming in around 40cm wide, 20cm tall. Jupiter is about 10 or 15 cm alone. The small planets and all of the writing were printed in resin. I had to learn how to make text 3d to do this, but it was worth it to add the planet names for him even if it did start to make the base look a bit busy. Fun to also learn a new 3d modelling skill as well. Researching how to paint the planets was a challenge. I’m not sure I got it completely right as the online photos and colours vary depending on when they were taken, the light etc. Overall this took me about 1 month to print and another month to paint. My nephew loved his birthday present…despite it not really being a toy. He told me on videochat that “I have the whole world in my hands!”  Made me a pretty happy uncle to hear that! The model does an excellent job giving a real sense of scale. Since I completed the final parts of this right around the start of the challenge I’ll claim 1 terrain submission for 20 points as a lot was done prior to that but the model is pretty darn big so at least 6” square would have been painted near the end. And now onto my Hubris entry for the Death Star…and what a more fitting entrant than the embodiment of “excessive pride or self-confidence” than the former legitimately not re-elected U.S. President.

Demon Donoldium Drumph

This model I call Demon Donoldium Drumph. He is a kitbash of a great old one on a scooter (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4057326) and a caricature of Donald Trump (https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/donald-trump-pooyanofsky ).  He was made for a campaign game I was running using OnePageRules GrimDark Future setting. Over the course of the game there were multiple variations of Donoldium Drumph as he morphed into ever more evil versions until he finally met his demise fittingly sent back to the warp by Curt’s Inquisitor model. I’ll post a synopsis of our campaign on Curt’s blog soon (thanks Curt!).

Various versions of Donoldium Drumph from our campaign

Since he is riding what is effectively a death guard blight-hauler I think he likely counts as a 28mm vehicle. So I'll start my journey on the Analogue Hobbies galaxy on the Death Star....hmm where to next?

1 Terrain @ 20 points
1 28mm Vehicle @ 20 points
Death Star @ 20 points
Total  = 60 points

Thanks, JeremyM

From DaveD 

A welcome to another of the Friday crew - great to have you along. I agree it certainly fits the theme alright! Even better you got to be the cool uncle! The Demon Donoldium Drumph is to me weirdly scary.. and rightly so i reckon. Good to have you off the mark - 60 it is!

From TomG - On The March To Salem via Arda - 640pts and lots of ACW (Arda) (Sarah's Yacht)

Hey all, I have returned with many figures to share with you all. I have however decided to go no further on the planet rings until my American Civil War project is finished, and yet I wanted to get the outer ring completed. 

So here we are, first port of call is a trip on Sarah's Yacht with this female mouse figure out of the board game "Mice & Mystics", measuring in at the 28mm mark. 

Although not my favourite model I have ever painted, it went quickly and, I feel, turned out quite nicely. Sadly it wasn't until too late that I noticed the photos are slightly out of focus... whoops. 

But with this ticket bought (properly this time) I shall sail all the way to Arda, and bring out this fantastic Highlander Cow, which admittedly is my wife's, but I was given permission to paint it for her. 

He was a delight to paint, and a fun challenge to get the hair as ginger as possible. This was also my first time painting tartan, and it was both terrifying and fun, all at the same time. 

Now on to the project at hand! To join in with the two stands of Union troops from last week, I bring you the final 60 Yankees. Again all of this project will be painted with GW Contrast Paints, in an experiment to see just how quickly I can get them done. 

Now to this week's main focus; 2 sprues of Confederates, each sprue containing 100 infantry, 1 mounted officer, 1 cannon and 4 crew. Although rough and ready, the speed in which an all grey force comes together is very motivating for me. 

All told each sprue takes about 3 hours, with breaks, which allows for one an evening if I knuckle down, and the kids go to bed on time! 

So there we go, a grand total of 277 figures in one week, which is definitely a personal best for me, and one I will try to beat for next Friday!

Points Breakdown - 

15mm Infantry x 272 @ 2pts = 544pts

15mm Mounted x 3 @ 4pts = 12pts

15mm Artillery Piece x 3 @ 4pts = 12pts

28mm Mouse @ 5pts + Star Yacht @ 20pts = 25pts

28mm Mounted (monster) @ 10 pts + Challenge 20pts = 30pts

See you all next week. 

Tom. 

From DaveD

Did you hear that one coming people! Its a whole lotta KABOOM from Tom. That's a fine Highland cow - I am sure James from the chat will be impressed! Its been great to have you around on the evening chats this week and watch you work through the sprues while chatting the tedium away - the way you have chosen to do them is certainly working. I have topped you up with extra points for being a tartan virgin for a grand total of 640!