From StuartL - Fish, Fishmen and Menfish - Books/Limo - 208 Points

Hello all,

Last week, my minion suggested that I should perhaps group all of my posts together rather than spread them out. So, as requested, I only have a single post to make today.

I left off last week at the gift store, so first of all it is time to take another ride around the studio lot in Lady Sarah's Limousine. This time, we'll be heading for the Books area. To pay for the ride, I have painted up a mermaid from Reaper's Bones range.

And to cover the cost of entry to the Books area, may I present my take on The Little Mermaid. Many of you probably know the story from the Disney movie, but it was originally a fairy story written by Hans Christian Anderson and a lot darker than the later movie adaptation. Again, the mini is from Reaper.

So, with two mermaids down, it seemed only fitting to round them up to a full squirrel point and I painted three more of them. 

Each of the models stands well over 40mm tall, with even the 'little' mermaid being about 42mm, not including the base. 

Continuing with my underwater theme for this post, I also painted up some Sahuagin, carnivorous fish-men from Dungeons and Dragons.

Again these are figures from Reaper and the three above are roughly 28mm, though one of them is 'swimming' up off some rocks.

To lead them and provide some muscle, we have a Sahuagin Baron (centre) and two Merrow or Sea Ogres (left and right). These figures are much bigger standing around the 40mm mark.

Hmm, any good underwater environment should have some fish in it, right? Well Reaper have that covered too. 

First up, a large shark. This fine, finny fellow is a bit porky, though you can't see it from this angle. Most of the fish are mounted on raised bases to give them the impression of swimming through the ocean.

That said, this large catfish is not, swimming along the sea bed.

A mixture of sharks, dolphins and a massive goldfish.

To show the size of these critters, I have included a Gripping Beast arab in the foreground. The smaller fish are all roughly 28mm scale, a little longer, but thinner perhaps. The big shark is probably closer to 40mm and the catfish is a massive chunk of sea life and maybe counts as a 50mm mini?

Okay, time to head back onto dry-ish land, with the soggy, squelchy Turnip28 setting.

These minis are straight builds of Perry's War of the Roses knights with added tufts and weird growths coming from both the horses and the riders. The models are quite dark and haven't photographed very well, despite me fiddling with the exposure settings on my camera.

And finally, to finish off the post, from the wettest of environments to the driest. 

These mummies were a real rush job, base colour, wash, drybrush and done. The centre figure is from the D&D minis game that came out about 15 years ago and the other 4 are from Reaper's first wave of Bones figures and are super bendy, lousy with mould lines that cannot be removed easily and are in some kind of odd 2D pose. If they ever see the table, they will be fodder for the players to mow down before they get to the real bad guy (represented by a much nicer figure). 

So for the scores:

13x 28mm minis = 65 Points

3x 28mm cavalry = 30 Points

9x 40mm minis = 63 Points

1x 50mm mini = 10 Points

Books = 20 Points

Limo = 20 Points

Total = 208 Points

My side duels

Squirrels +4 = 25

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers, Turnips, Necrons, Tau, Genestealers, WW2 Japanese, Teutonics, Lizardmen, Gnolls, Arabs, Space Marines, Kung Fu Chinese, Wolf's Dragoons, Merfolk, Fishmen, Fish, Mummies 

Skullz = 200

Turnips +30 = 115 Points

Fantastic post, love the mermaids. Bonus point has been awarded for doing as you are told.

From Mike W [The Tomb] Mummy King and his Guard (40 Points)

Continuing with my new pet side project of an Egyptian Undead Army, may a present the Mummy King and three of his Guards.

The figures are all from Reaper, the Mummy King being metal, whilst the Guards are plastic of some kind. Detail on the figures is great and it made the painting job seem really easy.

Undercoated Mummy's Guard figures,
made of some kind of flexible plastic

I've mounted the figures on British 2p coins and added a desert base - fine sand and a dried grass tuft to give some interest.

The finished figures

As with my other figures, I undercoated these ones white, then did a coat on earth colour to get the base for the 'mummy' look. I dry brushed on light desert sand colour from Valiejo and did the 'fleshy' areas grey.

The Mummy King, dressed in rags & riches!

... and a better front view, I think less is best with dried grass in a desert setting.

I washed the bandages with a watered down brown wash and the fleshy areas with dark tone washes before picking out the bandages again in light sand colour and highlighting the fleshy parts with light grey.

A view of the unfortunate Guardsmen buried for eternity with their king in his TOMB!

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Gold trim was added for weapons, shields and headdresses etc and the dark blue / light blue decorative patterns have been kept to give the army a bit of  a theme as it develops - these areas got a bit of a blue wash and the gold trim got a brown wash.

And a front view of the three guardsmen, who happen to come three to a pack!

All finished with matt varnish!

The guardsmen also come with a variant pose with a spear in their hands, although the soft plastic is about OK for these sword wielding guys, if I get some of the spearmen I'll likely replace the spears with metal ones as I hate a bent spear on my figures.

POINTS

4 x 28mm figures @ 5Pts each    = 20 Points

Dungeon Chamber Bonus            = 20 Points

TOTAL                                            40 Points