From SanderS: The Laboratory ( 45 points)

 Hoi,

 Creeping along dark and dank passages we travel from the Knight's Solar to the Laboratory. 

Now the term "Laboratory" conjurs up images of cackling demented scientists making genetically altered super soldiers or mutated monsters. I had a more classic Sword and Magic approach in mind. As I have several wizard'f study furniture lying around I thought I'd paint that up as well as one wizard and his guards to go along with them.

This furniture lot is a mix of 3D print/ Heroquest origin and Terrain Crate stuff.

 

 Below we can see two wizard's work desks, the are Heroquest toppers provided with 3D printed body's and legs. They both feature a skull...

 

Since I have a set of the game at home and one at school I thought it a good plan to paint them differently so I could tell them apart.

Next up is a Solar system thingamabob. It's from Terrain Crate and the soft plastic is really bendy, even with the hot water technique I was unable to get it to stay straight. So I came up with the idea of making it an old and damaged item in the study. I really liked weathering the verdigris on.

Next tow cupboards or closets. The left one is 3D bodywork with HQ topper, the one on the right is from Terrain Crate. Look barks: another skull!

Now I have quite a lot of old GW plastic wizard figures lying around and aim to paint one up for pretty much every Lore of Magic in the Heroquest (i.e. WFB universe) and this one will either be my Air or Earth wizard. I am not sure yet. He could also very well be a necromancer since he has that distinct Egyptian/ Khemri air over him.

 

 The wizard is from the old GW Talisman game but his guards are the old Advanced Heroquest guards.

Points count: let's say 10 for the furniture, 15 for the figures and 20 for the Laboratory? That's 45 right?

Skull count: 3

Cheers Sander

from RayR - Chamber of Challenge - The Laboratory - The Doctor (25pts)

The Laboratory: From bubbling glass jars to smoking bunsen-burners, from Dr Frankenstein’s experimentation chamber to a alchemist’s study - laboratories and scientific figures, terrain and vignettes are the things created in this Challenge Chamber.

Who works in a Laboratory? A Doctor of course.

So I plumped for the first Doctor, who's from Black Tree Designs Dr Who range.

William Hartnell played Dr Who from 1963 until 1966.

Points are easy 5 points for the Doctor and another 20 for the bonus round. 

A good recreation of a classic gent. Nicely done, Ray - here, have the last orange crayon.

Tamsin

From ScottC: Soviet Nbc and tankers: Laboratory submission (100pts)

I bought this mishmash of models to use in a post apocalyptic setting, namely zona alpha, but the models are so darn cool I think I may have to use them whenever I can. 

The Soviet tankers are from eureka as are the 4 smaller nbc suits. The 5 chonkier nbc fellows are from Copplestone SciFi / military line. The 2 scientists are 3d printed. All in all they make an interesting bunch and I look forward to using them. 

Points

16-28mmx5 =80

Chellenge bonus 20

Total 100

From DrQ: Alchemical Terrain in the Laboratory (40 points)

I have deliberately been avoiding terrain in this competition because I have a PhD in the humanities specifically so I don't have to do math ever again (a love of Hittite, Akkadian, and Punic also helps). However, these two pieces have been sitting patiently in my pile of shame and each fit well with the theme of laboratories in their own ways.

First up is a food stall from TTCombat terrain. As one who spent a fair bit of time at walkups in the Before Times™, I have no problem seeing such stalls as gastronomical laboratories. I added some gubbins to the piece: a door molded off a Kharadron Ironclad, a few miscellaneous pipes, a couple of paper lanterns, and some placards—including one shutting down the shop for health-code violations

I want to paint up an entire table of terrain that fits in with a Kharadron sky-vessel—sort of a steampunk Necromunda. So a few food vendors fits in with the fantasy Blade Runner vibe. The piece is painted up using the OSL technique I use on the rest of my Kharadron so that it fits with my army and setting. It could use more fiddly bits, but I'm happy with it for now. 

The second piece of terrain is a straight up chemical refinery—a laboratory of more conventional The base is an electric gang box to which various bibs and bobs have been added. Again, the glow is there to match my Kharadron.

No placards or graffiti on this piece. I want to keep the setting for it fairly generic, and having Dwarven runes all over it would make it stick out too much if I use it later in 40k. 

So, with much trepidation I think that this comes out to 40 points: the two pieces together would about fill a 6" cube for 20 points, with another 20 for the area bonus. 

From here we head on to the Snow Lord's Treasury (though to be honest, I've been spending a lot of time over the last few weeks assembling and painting my Great Beast).

From Barks: Come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab (39 points)

Any suggestion that these loyal Imperial scientists have been corrupted is fake news.

The scientist is a 3D print from 2nd Dynasty, and comes in a casual and action pose.

"We do what we must, because we can."

The servoskullz are 3D prints from Makers Cult. I would like some input on how you paint solid flight stands- this is pale grey; should I go brown or tan or mid grey or matt black?

The scenery is GW. I would love to fill the specimen vat with tinted resin, but am worried it will fail horribly. I have left the top loose if I get some courage in the future.  I like all the control panel greebling.

Hard to photograph!

2x 28mm figures: 10 points

2x servoskullz: 4 points

Scenery: 5 points

The Lab: 20 points

GW Side Challenge: 5

Skull-o-meter™: 9

PaulS: The Laboratory (25 points)

 Things have been a bit slow this week, but we're closing in on the Alter of the Snowlord!

The next chamber in the dungeon is full of bubbling... things. I cannot tell what they are for they are of strange hue and temperament. Within the chamber is a figure in a long white coat, with a mechanical backpack and disturbing complexion who seems to know things about the makeup of the body that one should not...

The Genestealer Biophagus is going to be the medic for my Necromunda Genestealer cult. I wasn't a massive fan of the original staff, so a little bit of cutting and he has somehow come into the possession of a slightly battered imperial guard medpack