From Barks: Snow Golems (14 points)

A very quick and easy paintjob to get me started. I like to do something seasonal for my first Challenge post, and with the mercury well over 30℃ these snow golems were perfect. They're from Nolzur's D&D minis, and required minimal prep. My painting technique of white undercoat, Speedpaint 2.0 Battleship Grey, drybrush white really brings out the mouldlines like I intended... I used some sparkly snow effect on the bases held in place with satin varnish, hopefully it holds.

They're tall, on 30mm bases, but I'll be more than happy with 10 quick points.

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First, welcome back to the Challenge, Barks! We're on the other end of the temperature spectrum from yourself, with us here in Canada experiencing windchills at -30 currently.  These's fellas would be quite at home here! I really like your ice/snow recipe, which provides a great backdrop to their 'happy' maws. Well done!

These two golems look to be at least 40mm high, so I'm going to score them at 7 each. 14 points to start your climb up the ladder, Barks!

- Curt

From ColeF: Open The Pizza Dungeon! (110 points)

      We were getting real close to that mid January cut off for first submissions (Sloth? Is that you!?) and I frantically spent the last two nights painting.

    First, we have an old Wizkids cannon I've had sitting on my desk for almost 5 years, primed, but never completed. I challenged myself to go from primed to fully painted in a half hour, since it's mostly just a prop piece. Even though I'm not totally happy with it, I'm glad I got it off the bench, and out of LIMBO.

Not my best work, but definitely my quickest.

    Next up, is a Reaper Bones Rakshasa, one of the main villains, Vimanda, of my Pathfinder Curse Of The Crimson Throne campaign. Sadly, I had never gotten around to painting her before the campaign came to a conclusion! She was one of the main string pullers, using her guiles to appear as a beautiful woman, make men LUST after her, then force them to do her bidding.

Brings a new meaning to "Eye of The Tiger"

    Last, but not least, I pulled out some "Pizza Dungeon Animatronics" from Reaper. Personally, I'm a GLUTTON for pizza, and could easily eat one or two in a sitting, and imagine the Pizza Dungeon is a pretty tasty place to be.

 

The Pizza Gang

First time doing jewel style for the eyes and screens.

(My nephew pointed out the troll has a 'juicy dumper', and I can't deny he's right)

Glad to be back in this challenge and thanks for holding the hellfire to my heels to get some stuff painted again this year.

4 x 28mm foot @ 5 points = 20 Points

1x 54mm foot @ 10 points = 10 Points
1x Large Cannon (54mm?) @10 Points = 10 Points
Limbo, Lust, Gluttony Ring Travel Points = 60 Points
100 Total  Points. 

Sylvain: This is a great start of the challenge for you! In one post, you knocked off 3 infernal locations. You really nail it when it come to painting metal, the shades are nicely graded. Your Rakshasa is also very well balanced in tones and hues. Because of its size, I gave counted your cannon as a 54mm mini, thus 20 points for a total of 110 well deserved points!

From Bark B: It walks again!

For the next chamber - The Golem’s haunt it was a simple choice of a Marauder Miniature zombie from back in the day. I had lots of fun on this straightforward model playing with rust effects and weathering. The old plastic coffin shaped shield is a nice touch. Only after painting on the basic colours did I realise he was possibly meant to be bare legged? Oh well! The trousers stayed on... which is a line you won’t hear for all of my entries!😂😂🤣

So a rather easy 5 points for the 28mm figure and 20 more for the challenge =25 points

Hmmm the next room looks kind of dark! I’d best get a torch and some white and black paints out!

Cheers

Mark Backhouse

From KyleC - Deeper into the Dungeon we go - 41 pts

Deeper we go into the Dungeon we go.. Now into Golem's Haunt..

Triple threat appears before us here.. With three larger stone golems trying to block our path through the Dungeon. 

Models are from the Shadow of Brimstone boardgames that I picked up second hand earlier this year. And yet just getting to it and wanting to paint up a bit of it to make the game more fun. 

Again a good test of using contrast paints here. With some decent results in the end here!

Another set of simple 28mm scaled models for 15pts and 20 for the challenge. Netting 35 pts here.

And deeper into the darkness we descend..