GeoffT - From the Library Entrance into the centre room (Fantasy, Romance, Statue of Famous Person, 122 points)

Hello Challengers,

Last week I left off completing all but one of the shelves in the library entrance room.  I finish that shelf this week, the Fantasy shelf.  These three 28mm skeleton warriors by Grenadier have been based and painted to go with a cobblestone mat I use for Frostgrave and similar games. 

From the entrance chamber, I enter the central chamber and gravitate immediately to the Romance shelf.

The classic romance is the three musketeers, here are the said three with D'Artagnan and four of the Cardinals guards to duel with.  Watch out Milady !  

All they need is a suitable published ruleset, looking and you Sidney Roundwood.

Finally we have a Statue, indeed a living statue which is a Famous trope from DnD.  This model was produced with DnD in mind, from Grenadier miniatures in the '80s.

I tried a bit of a go at a Bronze patina, looks a bit fresh really, probably should be fully green like a statue of liberty.  Mini is quite big, about 40 mm tall.

The library as it stands.

Points:

11 x 28mm infantry = 55 points

1 x 40mm infantry = 7 points

3 x library shelves (Fantasy, Romance and Statue of famous person) = 60 points and 3 skullz.

Total = 122 points.

From Millsy: I love everything to do with the Three Musketeers but unfortunately have never managed to game the setting. Your wonderful swordsmen and making me think long and hard about adding to the lead pile mate which is always dangerous! Presumably there is a Cardinal Richelieu waiting in the wings somewhere along with other dramatis personae? And maybe Sid will get his publisher's hat on if enough people ask?

Your skellies and the statue are all lovely work too. The basing is brilliant and really contrasts well with the red and blue of the shields. Nice work here too.

122 very well earned points it is for you Geoff!

From GeoffreyT: Star Trek Ships (Yellow Brick Road)(40 points)

Hello Again fellow Challengers,

From the casting couch I duck up north to follow the Yellow Brick Road.

What is more cinematic than Star Trek Space Ships? Nothing really. So they are the vehicle to get me onto the yellow brick road.

I'm not a trekky, so had to do quite a bit of research to find what these pieces are. They came in an ebay lot with traveller 15mm figures. They are quite venerable. This one is USS Excelsior by FASA Corporation (1983).  

The metal is quite soft and it has taken quite some battering on the underside, which fortunately is hidden from a normal tabletop view. I also have a USS Reliant, but there is extensive damage on the top side and I'm not quite sure how to rescue it yet. The lost Miki's Wiki states that the original FASA casts were a very soft metal, with later Citadel recasts being more rugged.

This red ship is a Kzinti Space Control Ship by Task Force games (1979).  According to the Star Trek lore, Kzinti are space cat-people in red space ships.  Sounds a bit like red dwarf.  I wonder if they have a sentient hologram too.

This ship came with the original special round base with a cross shaped cardboard insert, but I preferred to use a hexagonal base so it will work with Starmada or Full Thrust game systems.

I'm not quite sure what scale these are, but I'm guessing they are 10 points each maybe as these two are quite hefty, but fairly easy to paint.

2 x Starships = 20 points

1 x Yellow brick road bonus = 20 points

Total = 40 points and some skipping down the road.

The Yellow brick road leaves me at the door of the Swords and Sandals Studio; we will look inside next week.

GT

From TeemuL: The second post from Geoffrey throws us in to the space, Yellow Brick Road is an excellent way to the Final Frontier, and these ships are cinematic, no questions asked. I don't say I'm a trekkie (or trekker), but I have seen quite a lot of series and episodes and movies and in general I like them. You have done a nice job here, especially on the USS Excelsior, very authentic. Being a junior minion it is difficult for me to score these, since there's no scale or measurements, but assuming those bases are about 25mm, then they are probably quite close to 28mm cavalry models. So 10 points a piece it is!