AndrewB- The Orc’s Pit

 Today, we’re bringing the last two cave residents from the Reaper pack I posted the first two individuals from in the Larder.   We’ve got a nice gentleman with an interestingly colored garment, as well as a bone dagger and a spear, ready to defend his cave from the overhang dwellers next door.  Along with him is a fantastic woman presenting a large bovine skull of some kind.  I’m not sure if she’s conducting some sort of religious ceremony, but she’s hopefully capable of transporting me to the Orc’s Pit!  

In the Orc’s Pit, I found this nice gentleman!  He looks like a LoTR troll of Peter Jackson fame, but he’s another Reaper model.  More work on skin tones and layering, but in gray this time, which presents a whole new level of difficulty.   

 

He’s a big fella, and with a local gaming store stocking Reaper minis, gives me a great opportunity to add a stellar model to a LoTR force.  I need to dig out some orcs or somesuch and get to them for another part of the challenge.  

I believe I’m looking at 10 points for the 28mm cave folks, 10pts for the Troll(50 something mm tall?), and 20 for the challenge, for a total of 40.   More coming soon!

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aye, 40 points it be

Cap'n Wednesday

AndrewB - ‘Cave’ people and Larder Challenge (30 Points)

 For today’s episode of catching my posting up to my painting, I have two fine residents of a prehistoric cave or somesuch, including a little fellow bringing back some food!  

These fine models are from Reaper’s Bones line, a part of a four pack which will all be shortly completed.  I am still unsure of whether they will be based in a jungle or more temperate setting, so for now, a basic cave floor type will have to suffice.  I have recently been making a lot of good use of the textured Vallejo basing gels, and am consistently quite happy with the results.  My layering on skin appears to be coming along, but that’s an uphill battle that I cannot roll dice to fix   

I know the gentleman with the club shouldn’t have a metallic anklet, but it looked alright, so here we are   The other two models from the set should be completed shortly, and will be posted as soon as they are   

By my calculations, between the two 28mm figures and the last room of level one on the Challenge(woooooo!), the total should be 30pts for this post   

Happy painting!

From LeeH: Ogg make FIRE! (27 Points)

A few weeks ago I received a very nice parcel in the post. All parcels are actually nice but this particular one was very nice because I didn't buy it, it was sent to me as a present. Inside were five perfectly cast Neanderthals sent to me by Alex from Russia. He was a member of my Tuesday crew when I was a minion in last years Challenge and I think this was a reward for the odd bonus point I might have put in his direction back then! 😉

These are 28mm, cast in white metal and other than a little bit of filing to be done on the base completely free of any caste lines or flash. The sculpture is fairly basic but actually, they painted up really well. I'm not really sure where I'm going to use them, but I did promise Alex I'd try and get them painted by the end of the Challenge, so here they are.

Actually come to think of it I could probably use these some pulp role-playing games that I have. Have an excellent little RPG we called Hollow Earth Expedition which is a proper 'land of the lost' type setting, and these guys would fit in their perfectly.

Pointwise these are relatively simple. 5x28mm figures and the fire which I suppose should be a couple of points. If my math is correct these should take me to my target! Wo-hoo! Now I really, really, really need to get on with my Snow Lords Challenge!!!

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Great work Lee.  Alex is indeed a fine fellow of the hobby - I have my own set of these figures, waiting for the attention of my brushes.  It's great to see some of the products from Russia's leading producer of prehistoric metal figures painted up for the Challenge :) 

Two points for the fire seems about right to me - so 27 points it is! Well done Lee - and a big thank you to Alex! 

GregB