Prize Sponsors for Challenge XII

 Hi All!

I hope you are all enjoying a nice holiday break. I've managed to rouse myself from my tryptophan induced haze to give you some good news. We have lots prezzies waiting in the wings!  

Below is the list of this year's generous and splendid Challenge Sponsors. If you find yourself having some spare shekels burning a hole in your pocket, please think of visiting these vendors to see if they have something shiny that may interest you. 

Some of these prizes will be given out as our 'Challengers' Choice', 'Judges Choice' and 'Sarah's Choice' awards at the end of the Challenge, but others will be given out via the tempestuous whims and wishes of your Challenge organizer (i.e. me).  Yes, the power I wield is pretty heady stuff - not for the faint of heart, and pretty exhausting actually. In fact, I think I may lie down again for another nap. 

See you in the upcoming entries!

- Curt

BigRedBat

Comic Readers

Deep Cut Studios

Moonstone, from Goblin King Games

Northern Lights Terrain and Gaming Supplies

The War Library

Too Fat Lardies

Warbases

Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

Westfalia Miniatures

From MikeF - The Price of Entry - War Griffon's Warhound Titan - Adeptus Titanicus - 12 points

 For the price of entry I completed a Warhound Titan for Adeptus Titanicus. I advised Curt at the beginning of the challenge that I would be painting this for Dallas Ewen should he complete the dungeon challenge. Hopefully this serves as sufficient motivation. It will also save me mightily on any postage!

I painted it in the style of the War Griffons legion to match a new titan maniple he's painting. I tried to match Dallas' painting style as much as I could, but I decided to leave out the weathering and ground work. I find that weathering techniques are a very particular taste to each painter and the ground work helps unify units into a larger army. As this model is intended to see the gaming table, I fully intend for the new owner to complete the weathering and groundwork to their own taste.

The model itself is a Lucius pattern Warhound titan. Games Workshop only makes the Mars pattern, so this model is actually a 3D print ByronM made for me a while back. I have a 2nd identical one which I'll be painting up as Legio Ignatum later in the challenge.

For points, I looked back at a previous challenge and saw that Curt awarded 12 points for one of GregB's warhound titans, so I'm going with that.

The model came as a single print which is pretty impressive.

From TomG - Going Quackers Entering the Chambers & "Not" Curtgeld Ahoy - 50 points

Hello again, today I bring you my first entry in to the Chambers of Challenge via the Hall of Traps, and my entry cost mini, although this is a long post I hope you enjoy it. 

To start with is this Trapper, laying in wait for a dastardly, yet daffy, prey. The vignette is made up of a French Indian Wars plastic Warlord Games mini, from yet another freebie sprue, a tree stump and a duck from the recent Mantic Terrain Crate 2 Kickstarter.

I had great fun creating this, my first ever completed vignette, all for the sole purpose of exploring the ideas of laying in wait, trapping and being trapped. I wasn't sure what colours to use as it is a period of history I've never read in to, but the frame where the trapper came from was chock filled with interesting details. My thoughts went to the fur traders and the Jason Mamoa tv series, where all manner of visceral violence is laid out for our entertainment. Somewhere in there I'm sure I saw buff coloured clothing, so here we are.

From the top down you can just about see our dear friends aim is slightly off, but I'm sure any duck hunt players had a glitchy game once in a while. The added hatchet was initially going to have the musket rested on it, but the effect seemed daft, so it just became a visual interest point.

Painting the duck offered a surprisingly high level of calming and cathartic relaxation, simply letting go of what uniform and texture to work with, and instead just working from memory of all the ducks my kids and I have fed over the years. And of course we have our trapper who I named Trigger, for no better reason than I was watching the classic English sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" at the time of painting. 

Next we have the infamous Curtgeld mini for this year's entry fee. This chap has been sat in a collection of special edition minis i wanted to paint but had no reason to, and so what better reason to get at him than as a potential prize to one of you. I hope you like him as I loved painting him up. 

All in all I have very little idea how to score the vignette,  so I'll stick to the points I know I've earned:

Trapper Vignette (28mm mini plus bonus challenge points) - 25 points

Curtgeld (28mm mini plus bonus challenge points) - 25 points

Total - 50 points

That's all folks, I hope you like what you see and I'll catch you next time.

TomG