From SimonG: One Final Post -- A Pixie and a Nobody (52 points)

Last stop I suddenly found myself stranded on Lune with my delightful slug lady. Having already visited Terra and Xanth I need to avail myself of Lady Sarah's Interplanetary Taxi Service once again and as payment offer up delightful young Rosa the pixie!

Rose is again a Black Rose Wars figure from Ludus Magnus Studios but very different in style from most of their offerings. Like the baby dragon and griffin I submitted last year this is in an anime style and presents a different sort of painting challenge -- naturalism need not apply! 

I did enjoy going to town on the big eyes (without any etched guides to work off) and freckles -- hope you like how she turned out.  Also thanks for the advice from Tamsin on colour selection off a prior post 👍

I'll be gifting this one to my wife Katie as she really liked the result. Anyway with Rosa's assistance we have jetted off to Gethen for one final touch down and the completion of my circumnavigation of the three rings. Arriving on Gethen we find that epitome of absence -- Davide Schaivon the Illusionist.

I think this is as good as one could hope for an execution of an invisible man figure. Some of the absences such as the one on the boot on the staff are very well done. The cloak is the biggest weakness of this figure -- it's just too big and bulky. The blouse is also rather fussy and was hard to detail. Finally all of the chalky masks were just a pain in the butt to manage -- oh well we have to take a shot at everything!

Once again he's a BRW figure -- as one of the main playable characters he's a sold 35-40mm scale figure (Rosa topped out at less than 25mm but with that big face lets call her a 28mm).  This means that my final total for this ultimate submission is another 52 points (one 28mm and one 40mm figure plus two bonuses).

While I've fallen well short of my target this time around it's been great fun coming along for the ride again and I've really appreciated all of the positive feedback received plus seeing everyone else's work. It's impressive in the diversity of subjects, styles and submitters and great evidence that this hobby is alive and prospering!

Looking forward to seeing you all again in nine months time!

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Oh, I love both of these figures, Simon. While the Invisible Man is terrific (I especially like his assortment of masks), I have to say that the Pixie takes the prize with that wonderfully rendered face. I'm sure your wife will be delighted with her.

Thank you for joining us this year, Simon, and I hope to see you with us again when the wind grows cold and the snow flies.

- Curt

From TomM: Seiya (5pts) - my final entry

One can not look into gaming Saint Seiya, without having of course the figure of the titular character, Seiya, painted up.

Throughout the whole franchise, the Pegasus saint has been the chosen champion of the godess Athena, and in the main timeline this of course is Seiya himself.

A hot blooded boy at first, he grows into a responsible (yet still hot to anger if Saori is threatened) hero, often going above his weight to save her and his friends.

The model is from Nonsense Miniatures, printed in resin, and now that I have two models finished already, I guess I can take a look at their ruleset Constellation Warriors and give the game a go in solo play.  I might not have a grid mat to play on, but that will be solved by using dungeon tiles.

As a single 35mm figure, this adds another modest 5 points to the tally, and a great figure to round off my personal Challenge for this edition...

 

From TomM: Teleporting to Graveyard Beach: Fiametta (30 pts)

 As I stand at the Knight's Solar, I invoke once more the Lady Sarah on her sorcerous powers to transport me to Graveyard Beach.

And for the required tribute, I painted up Fiametta, sorceress of the Shattered Sword.

A model from the CMON range for Relic Knights, she comes in a cute school uniform (she is from the limited run of "cosplay" variants of some characters) but still toting around her staff for protective magics and barriers.

I really like the range, even though I never played the game, though I might actually look into some small affair solo-wise for it.  

So for this entry, I got 5 points for the model, 5 extra for it being a spellcaster, and 20 for using the teleport service, meaning 30 points total and a step closer to both my points goal as well as the Altar.

From TomM: Ptolemy, silver saint of Sagitta (5 pts)

  For those who follow my blog, it will be no suprise that I like anime perhaps even more since wargaming.

And that all started back in 1986 with Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque on the french channel TF1, a series known even better perhaps under it's japanese name Saint Seiya.

It's also on Netflix btw now, just ignore that crap 3D monstorsity Netflix made, that is just horrible and in no way representative of both the story and the mythos of this mythology inspired series.

Now recently, a spanish company named Nonsense Miniatures started to make resin 3d printed "Constellation Warriors" models, well, the Saints actually, and one of their first 4 figures is this one, Ptolemy, Silver Saint of Sagitta, scaled at about 36mm.  They also have a free to download beta ruleset for them on their website.

 

 

So I painted up him as the first one, don`t ask me why because even if his appearance in the anime was rather short, he was the one that mortally wounded Athena, instigating the race across the twelve Houses of the Zodiac up to the Grand Pope's palace.

 

And just for reference, here is his anime version...  

So that makes a single figure and good for 5 points in this entry