From DallasE: Some Grubby Little Creeps (45 points)

Second-last Challenge entry for me this year, and this one was done on a bit of a whim - it's a set of five Rottlings from Antipodean manufacturer Wereweevil Miniatures.

Wereweevil, of course, is the maker of some really nice "modern Squats", some of which have found a place in my 40K Squat army. These models were bought from a UK vendor on an amazing sale to pad out the Squat order. Plus, they're pretty cool in their own right! 

The main colour on these is GW Deathworld Forest, a really great sickly green colour.

These guys will fit in quite nicely with my 40K Nurgle gang or even on their own in a FANTASY game, which is the studio I've abused visited for this post.

As for the scoring, I'll take 5 points each for these 28mm models, plus 20 for the studio bonus, total 45 points.

Next I'll take a trip over to the "Books" studio for my last Challenge post!

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A little measured abuse now and then is not entirely a bad thing. :)

Great work on these Rottlings, Dallas. Kinda hilarious looking, but I'm they'd be equally terrifying if encountered as greeters in a dark, dank dungeon. Well done. 

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 BruceR; Limo lift; Fantasy Studio; Random bits and bobs (90 pts)

Without a project starring me in the face, I've again grabbed minis that have been languishing on the shelf of opportunity for a long, long, time.

There should be a random studio.  Ha.

First, I've summoned the Limo from Lady Sara again to move from the Books studio to Fantasy.  As my fee I've painted a couple of Victoria sci-fi miniatures with one being a female raider.

The first is Captain Laura Swift.  Both of these will work with my Stargrave band to include my Ogre brute done earlier in the Challenge.   I did my DIY basing again to keep them in the grimy tunnel/bulkhead motif.   These are Victoria miniatures I picked up from Trenchworx.  

Colonel Ash Ironside:

 

The Fantasy Studio is easily satisfied.  

My first fantasy submission is GW Demigryph knights.    Before the Old World exploded we played a fair amount of WHFB.  I had purchased Demigryph knights and painted up the mounts.  Being points based armies and having a rather large collection of Empire I simply mounted other knights from other units on the beasts and never bothered to paint the knights for the Demigryphs.  So another little victory for some miniatures lying about unpainted.  

Here are the knights ready to mount their trusty steads and head into battle for the Emperor Karl Franz.  The mounts were previously painted so only the riders count for the Challenge.  

Next in my little pile of opportunity are a few dwarf miniatures that must have caught my eye.  The First two are Long Drong's pirate's figures.  

Hard fighting, hard drinking pirates of the Old World.

I actually do not have the foggiest idea where this next miniature came from.  I don't remember having the box set, but who knows.  Scouring the web I discover he is "The Baron" from an old Citadel set produced by the Perry brothers.  

Fun and Nostalgic Stuff.

That's my week.  We did play bolt action this past Sunday during our most recent snowmagedden (Nov to March) is a long snow year.  The game got me to prep the last of my winter Italians and a couple of vehicles.   Time to get busy.  

Almost forgot I did throw together two pieces of smallish terrain for my pirate scenario.

The "Luck" tent and some goodies for pirate island.  I figured 5 pts for the tent and veggie table.

Have a good week everybody and stay warm (if you are in the never-ending winter hemisphere) and safe.  

I forgot, the gratuitous CSM Loki pic, who came in and needed a scratch while I typed.  

Points:

Lady Sarah's Limo     20 pts

Fantasy Studio           20 pts

9 28mm                      45 pts

Terrain                          5 pts

Total                            90 pts

  Minion Miles: SciFi, Fantasy AND a dog in the same post!  That's a winner in my book