From Barks: My last skullz (8 points)

I was under the misapprehension that I had several more days to go, but realised a few hours ago that I had overestimated by 48h! So, this is my final Skull Duel entry- a suitably skull-dense figure, but not enough to catch StuartL.

First, another 3D printed Servo Skull:

Then, chosen for his skulliciousness:

Five on the base, three on the helmet,
three on the gun, one on the kneepad...

Three on the backpack, and
twenty-two on the shoulderpad!

This lad has a hefty 37 Skullz! Plus the Servo Skull for 38, gives me a total of 466- more than double my total for AHPC X.

I'm claiming six points for this chap, seeing as he's a big lad and has two Nurglings; and two for the Servo Skull.

+6 to the GW side Challenge

+38 to the Skull Duel

From TeemuL: Spanish Civil and Age of Sigmar (69 points)

This week saws all kinds of stuff from me. Firstly I painted three Nurgling Bases from the Blightwar box to get some more "troopers" for my Mixed Chaos army for our Firestorm campaign. I decided to use quite bright colors, Moot Green, Biel-Tan Green wash and some yellow and blue drybrushing for the skin. They are not masterpieces, but better than I expected from them.

Then the last four unpainted Spanish Civil War Republican Militia members I have. I bought a pack last year from Empress Miniatures for the Curtgeld purposes and this year I finally managed paint the last of them. I gave all these blue trousers as well, just to keep an unified look on different sculpts. Limited palette helps with that of course, there is actually dirty white and dirty yellow on clothes, but they are not that visible in the photos. I gave them a plain red flag (with my extraordinary green stuff skills), which would allow them to fight in pretty much any force. Now I only need the opposing force, some rules and an opponent... The first two are probably the easiest. :) I could use those Crooked Dice Nazi Lizards against them, but they all have fancy sub-machine guns, so it is probably an overkill. :)

My whole Republican Militia force, 13 models

The stretch goal for this week was this Bloodstoker, which I just managed to finish. I just need add some tufts to the base, which I forgot. This fellow comes from the Age of Sigmar starter set and uses his whip to make the Khorne fighters to run even faster in to the battle. The blade on the right arm is actually stuck into his arm stump, he is not holding it with his fingers or anything. Looks quite brutal with the barbed whip.

Torn pants

Scoring wise the 4 Spanish guys are worth 5 points a piece, so 20 points.

Curt scored the Nurglings earlier in this Challenge with this formula: "...round out the Nurglings on the mass bases as 15mm figures", what that means, I have no idea. I feel sorry for you, my minion.

Bloodstoker is the same size as some other Khorne models I painted last year, which were counted as 40mms, so 7 points.

That gives me a total of 27 and some points.

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Oh I do like a scoring challenge!  Fortunately Curt has already led the way with the Nurglings so using his method I'm plumping for 42 points for the little chaps giving you a grand tally of 69 for the entry, well done Teemu!

From:PaulS: The Plague Garden (126 Points)

Sorry to do this to you Curt, but here are some more Nurgle models for you to score ;)

These are most of the Nurgle forces from the Blightwar starter set. Some additional bits and pieces are further back in the painting queue. With the new Nurgle models and rules coming in January, I suspect you will see a lot more in the coming weeks from many people... especially Great Unclean Ones... that thing is insane ;)

Leading this warband is Horticulous Slimux, riding his snail-demon Mulch. I really like the model, but had to make a few changes as the standard build has some weird bits on (nurgling on a fishing rod to guide the snail) and it definitely needed a less comedic paint job than the box version. The tree at the back has loads of little bits dotted around the bottom of the tree, including a small Audrey 2, but the top half felt a bit bare... so I've added a nurgling dancing on a branch as well as some severed heads from the Plaguebearer kit to the branches.

Following Horticulous is a band of Plaguebearers. Nothing special about this lot

There is also a set of Nurglings. The kit is supposed to make up 3 bases, but with a bit of careful placement and the inclusion of all those spare nurglings from the other plastic kits, I've managed to expand this from 3 bases to 7!

I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave scoring to you Curt as I'm not sure how you want to deal with the nurgling bases. There are 10 plague bearers (standard figure size), Horticulous on his large snail (probably single cavalry?) and the 7 bases of nurglings, which contain lots of smaller figures.

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I'm typically not a big fan of Nurgle stuff, but when I see this kind of work, well, my preconceptions go out the window. 'Mulch' is absolutely awesome and I love the slight modifications you did, including the Nurgling riding shotgun. Also, good use of the spare bits to stretch our your bases from three to seven! I really like your controlled use of colour to bring some visual interest to the otherwise fairly drab palette.  

I'll never forgive GW for killing off the Old World and replacing it with with the Age of Sigmar, but when you see creative models like this it help salve the sting somewhat.

Lovely work Paul.

I'll count Mulch as a vehicle with a couple crew and round out the Nurglings on the mass bases as 15mm figures. Let's pitch the score at 126. Well done Paul!