From MattW: Yellow Brick road, 80s studio, super hero’s, lady Sarah Limousine , books (165 points)

 Final Studios wip round! 

Leaving the casting couch I travel on the yellow brick road to 80s studio, then super heroes, finally  then my last lady Sarah limousine ride to books and then I have completed all of the inner blue studios. Now off to see the director for the final blockbuster! 

Yellow brick road

To travel on the yellow brick road I offer the camera team van of the Pathè Journal! A 20mm Diecast repaint, I hand painted the sign writing  and had an attempt at the Pathè Journal rooster ! This will join my 20mm ww2 collection. 

20mm vehicle          15 points

Yellow Brick Road 20 points

80s Studio

The next offering is my 1980s studio, a diecast Ford Capri. The first project car I worked on in 1987 was with one of my lifelong friends Rob Gow. His Capri was his dream car and together we sanded back, sprayed, pulled down the motor and rebuilt it from the ground up to show condition over two years. Rob was rewarded with a number of trophies around Sydney for the car including being featured in issue 1 of Ford Power in Australia, then later we installed a big block engine to produce 720 brake horsepower for sprint racing, the car again was featured in Street Machine, finally the car became a racing car and sadly was bent up completely and wrecked on a bend at the racing track in Goulburn. Sadly Rob passed in February this year from Cancer and this is my tribute to him, certainly a feature of my 80s. 

Diecast 20mm car.       15 Points

80s studio                    20 points 

Super Hero’s 

A term that is bandied about a lot is Super Hero, for me as an Aussie are the young Australian men who landed at Gallipoli and then went on to fight in the Palestinian campaign, France and Russia are my heroes. Here I offer up to you a 75mm miniature of an WW1 Australian gunner. 

75mm miniature          15 Points 

Super Hero Studio.  20 points 

Lady Sarah Limousine 

Next up is a short ride from Super Hero studio to the book studio if I may. I offer a French Revolution peasant ready to run someone through! The miniature is from the Foundry French Revolution range.

 

28mm miniature 5 points

Lady Sarah Limousine 20 points

Book Studio

One of my biggest influences when growing up was books, as we had no TV reception in the mountains of NSW until I was ten, and then no colour TV in our house until I was 15. Books are a big influence on me still today and I have a library full of them. One of my favourite book series was Biggles…. So I offer up a 1/72 Revell Sopwith triplane, as I have already completed my camels some years ago! 

1/72-20mm aircraft       15 points

Book Studio            20 Points

Off to see the director for my final entry 

Cheers

Matt

Well, I can't fault your maths on this one. Excellent miniatures and vehicles!

Tamsin

From EdwardG - A final Fantasy Book stop for Challenge XIII (208 pts)

 Hello all,

As we are fast approaching the end of the challenge, I am going to be conservative and say this is the last post from me this year! Although I am already think what should be my project for next year :D and it might be Turnip flavoured (I am always behind the Zeitgeist curve ;) )  

For my final few weeks of painting, my "OOOoH Shiny" urge has gotten the better of me. Rather than concentrating on my 6mm Waterloo project, I focused on painting up the other packs of 10mm minis that I had purchased with the ones from the previous post!

In an effort to maintain a small possibility of playing with the minis one day, I have based the majority along HOTT/DBA lines. My little gaming group does occasionally play HOTT and up until now I have had no minis, and despite the fact we normally play in 15mm, these chaps will work. The basing scheme has been done, on the small potential assumption that everyone is underground, perhaps in a mine...

In addition I am hoping that this entry will allow me to tick off two more studios, in the form of Fantasy and Books.

Without any further ado, I present: The goblin horde and the Nine Good Fellows standing in the way!!

For the Fantasy studio, I would like to claim the Goblin Horde. It contains some fast wolf riders including the Goblin's war-chief on his black wolf! An uncountable number (90) of massed goblins with sharp pointy things. And finally the heavy hitters, a band of cave trolls, because, you know, all self respecting Goblin armies have to have a cave troll or two!

For the Nine Good Fellows, one might even call them a Fellowship if you are feeling fancy. I would like to claim the Books  studio. This does mean back-tracking through the film studios I have already visited, so I am not sure if it is even possible. But these chaps bear an uncanny resemblance to a cast from a recent book adaptation by Peter Jackson (not in any copywrite infringing way though, honest!!)

And the point tally for this final post comes to:

• 11 wolf riders x 3pts = 33pts
• 90 little goblins on foot x 1pt (PBI!) = 90pts
• 9 cave trolls (20mm tall) x 4pts = 36pts
• 9 Good Fellows x 1pt = 9pts
• Fantasy Studio bonus = 20pts
• Book Studio bonus = 20pts

Total = 208pts

As always a HUGE thanks to the Snow Lord himself for running this Challenge. Also to Peter my Monday minion for being a brilliant chap and a great organiser of posts! And then thanks and best wishes to all who take part, read, lurk, or just support us Challengers while we undertake this annual effort and exercising! 

Cannot wait to see you all for the post Challenge wrap up photoshoot! :)

Best,

Ed

P.s. (At the time of writing this post we had ~21,000pts to go to hit the 91,000 stretch goal! I believe our plucky band of brush addicts can make in the remaining seven days [only 3056pts per-day]! A couple of juicy points bombs will do it! Go GO!)

Those 10mm fantasy figures are great Ed, love the movement on the wolf riders and the gallant band of 9.  It's been great to have you on the Monday crew, I've enjoyed your 6mm and 10mm work.    I have faith in some huge paintbombs this week and Challengers pull out all the stops to get large projects finished in time.

From BenitoV: Riding Lady Sarah's Limo to the Books Studios (67 points)

This week, I took a short break from my Dark Ages Saga projects and started exploring some of the Blue Pass Studios sites. You may remember I stopped last at the green pass Casting Couch Studio (which I'd likely revisit before the end of the Challenge) so I needed transport to move to the Blue Pass area.

To hire Sarah's Limo services, my first entry today is another of the long forgotten (and very deeply hidden of the 1980s layers of my lead mountain) model of the Lord of the Rings Mithril range, in this case Galadriel the Elf Queen .... still wrapped in the original blister after all these years (!!).

The scene represents Galadriel operating her famous mirror, which, at least according to the film, informs basically of nothing to the viewer: it could be the past, or the present or the future but also an event that will never take place... or may be yes... who knows... I never really understood what was useful for, frankly speaking.

 

I firstly painted Galadriel's dress all white; but was not happy with the final result (too dull) For that reason, in a second attempt I added some contrasting electric light blue color to what looks like one of those pashminas that my wife likes to wear when the weather is not oo cool in the evenings.

 

OK ... now I'm inside the lino... and where are we driving to? ... To the Books Studio, where we will be filming an epic version of one of the world's most famous sagas: The Lod of the Rings trilogy.

For this purpose, I have rescued from the lead pile, and painted these four world-reknown hobbits (also preserved in the Mithril's original blisters)

 

 

Frodo and Sam can be easily identified (Frodo using a sword and Sam looking like a pack mule) but the other two (Merry and Pippin) .... well I'll let to everyone to decide who's who.

 

All the models in today's submission are Mithril's metal in 28m and I have estimated to be woth 67 points, detailed as follows:

• 1 x 28mm Galadriel = 5 points
• Galadriel's mirror, pitcher and column = 2 points
• Lady Sarah's Limo bonus = 20 points
• 4 x 28mm hobbits @5 points = 20 points
• Bonus Books Studios = 20 points
  

 Also, with a 25 points total scoring (excluding the bonus points) around the common theme of The  Lord of The Rings this submission will also hopefuly accrue 1 point towards the Squirrel Challenge (minions to decide).

Next week I'm planning to walk my way to the Westerns Studio... stay tunned for another Tuesday episode.

Excellent work on these 1980s miniatures, Benito! 

Tamsin

ChrisW This and that [358 points]

We interrupt this post for a rambling rant.

So, to start off with an apology. Reading over my last post I realize I sounded a little dickish. On a week where I claimed 445 points I made the following comment: 

"So, this weeks post came up a little short of what I was aiming for, but I guess it just means more stuff for next week"

Now that is a little rude to those that have a hard time finding the time in their busy lives to get to the painting that they want to do. It sounded a little cocky. I am sorry if I came off that way. I really do set high targets for each week, targets that I can never complete but that I always strive to. Last week fatigue took over and I accepted defeat. It was still a sizable post point wise, a lot of stuff that I wanted to paint got painted so a victory too. 

It also bears mentioning, again, that I am retired and have no social life to speak of. I am married but she has her own distractions (and is social) It means I can sometimes put in 8 hours in a day working on hobby stuff (of course I do have to interact with her from time to time) It also works out, for the second year in a row, that the AHPC is the most productive hobby time for me and as such I plan to work as hard as I possibly can on the hobby (no day job helps)

So this week I have had an anomalous week. I was obliged to go to a movie and dinner with a friend on Tuesday, that took up most of the day, and on Thursday a friend dropped by from out of town. So Wednesday and Thursday were a bit of a wash as I had to clean the hurricane disaster that was my gaming room into something that resembled order. That was not easy. So Thursday was cleaning, prepping for a game of Fantastic Battles, dinner out and a game night, no hobby stuff. Oh well, thankfully I have some reserves that are almost finished that I hope to get to on Friday (writing this on Thursday) Also wife's son and his kids are visiting on Friday, which in a normal household would mean that I would be obliged to interact, but in this household it means I get to hide in the basement painting!!!

We now take you back to our studio tour, already in progress...

This week we shall take a limo ride to the books studio. I have a number of entries that, while having been made into movies in the past, could really do with better movies.

Limo ride

 For this ride we share a limo with Sister Mary. Really not certain who makes this figure...

Black and White studio

Our first studio this week is the Black and White studio. Now I had a more ambitious plan for this studio and I may yet try it, but for now I have gone with my nuns as a black and white theme.

There are two Warlord nuns (men disguised as nuns), a RAFM figure and a bones figure, Not certain who makes the nun with glasses.

I must remember to blow off the excess flock before taking pictures

Limo ride

For the second limo ride we have a Pulp Figure panther lady from the horror section.

 Book Studio  

So, maybe it is time for yet another Robin Hood movie, no wait, hear me out,  maybe it could be an adventurous, fun movie that does not insult ones intelligence, that more closely emulates the classic Errol Flynn movie, but a little updated and where the actors have (more or less) proper accents. (I'm talking to you Mr Costner)

Old GW Bretonnian figures (Will Scarlett is by someone else) finally  painted up. I have no immediate use for these figures, they were just in my path one day.

Then again could do a Robin Hood meets attack of the gorillas! Okay, maybe not.

On the animal theme, perhaps another Island of Dr Moreau. All these figures are by Pulp Figures from the horror section.

Finally in the non terrain segment we have the flying squad! Sprinters and pedalers form this elite metropolitan police force tasked with quick response to supernatural threats. Then again could be the return of the keystone cops.

The bikes are from Eureka (I think), the cobble stone based figures are Blue Moon and the final foot figure is West wind.

GW haunted forest

So, long over due to get this out of the way, four GW forests. Long thought about how I wanted them to look finally ended my analysis paralysis and had at them. 

The trees were all sprayed a grey/white or light grey primer (primed so long ago I cannot remember what I used) The trees had a mix of Vallejo Black and sepia wash liberally applied and daubed off a bit with paper towel. Then touch ups were applied with whatever shades I had at hand (mostly craft old barn wood). Vallejo light/dark green slime and yellow mold were applied to the roots. 

The base was done with craft paint burnt umber and dry brushed with craft raw sienna and craft khaki. The rocks were painted with GW Ratling grime contrast paint then touched up/dry brushed with light grey. Base flocking was standard Woodland scenic's green, with isolated patches of other brighter coloured flock.

 Deadwood forest?

Point wise, well these are 10"+ by roughly 6"+, so I guess 2 x 6" cubes per forest section.(x4)

However if someone wants/can do the more complex math I am fine with that just my brain isn't going to work on it...

 

Points total this time

• 40 points for two Limo ride
• 40 points for two Studios
  
• 160 points for 4 GW forests
• 155 points 31 x 28mm foot (I was not certain if the penny farthings counted as mounted)
  

Total of 395 points

No skulls this week, could have been 8 but I flocked over the skulls on the forest scenery.  

Squirrels this time around [+6]

1. Forest scenery
2. Robin Hood
3. Gorillas 
4. Dr and his pets
   
5. Nuns
6. The flying squad

 New squirrel total 24

 Previous squirrels

1. Back of Beyond
   
2. Mad figures (Top hat toffs and companions)
3. Greek skeletons
4. Sisters of Sigmar
5. Ancient Germanic women
6. ECW cuirassiers
   
7. Monsters large
8. Post apocalypse
9. Tekumel Palanquin
10. Empire Pike
11. Jazz Band
    
12. French Cuirassiers on Mars
13. Court of Dr Koo
14. Movie makers
15. Gothic/movie Vampires 
16. Gladiators
17. Women rocket corp
18. Supers

Another wild mix of miniatures for this week, Chris. Nice work. I don't think you need to worry about your previous post. We all set targets for ourselves based on our own free time. Even if you have more than most, it can still be frustrating when we fall short of our goals. I envy you how much time you have available to you, but I certainly don't hold it against you.

Nuns on the Run is a fun movie, and those models look great. I don't think the penny farthings will count as cavalry models, but I will throw in some extra points for them, (not that you really need extra points with weekly posts like this).

I'm honestly not sure how to score the woods, I have been through every forest, wood and tree related post on the blog going back to Challenge 1 and I haven't been able to find an example of this set. While the bases may be 10" by 6", the trees don't actually take up all of that area (Also, how tall are the trees?). There is a lot of open space in those pieces of terrain, so counting each one as being 2 cubes apiece is a little on the generous side. I'm going to score them as 1.5 cubes a piece or about 9"x6"x6" to account for some of the open space. If you think I am being overly harsh, feel free to contact our esteemed Show Lord about it, this is my first time wearing the minion hat after all.

The classic GW minis and the menagerie of beasts and bestial creatures look superb, but it is the elite bobbies of Scotland Yard that are the stars of the show for me.