AHPC12 - Sarah's Star Yacht & Arda

 

For only my second post in this the 12th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, I'm taking a trip on Sarah's Star Yacht from my massively successful Pointy Ears at Vulcan!!! to the pleasant surroundings of Arda.

For payment for this trip I'd like to introduce you to Becky Burton the buxom18th Century barmaid.

Becky is from the wonderful chaps at Col Bill's and can be found here, for £3.25

Upon arrival at planet Arda, I chose the Tolkienesque route after I found these sitting in my unloved box. They are obviously from Games Workshop and represent 6 Warriors of Minas Tirith.

I do have a few more of these as well as some other bits and bobs that may pop up a little later, IF I can't work out what else to paint for this years bonus rounds.

And so to the points

Becky 5pts

Sarah's Star Yacht 20pts

Minas Tirith Warriors 30 pts

Arda/Tolkienesque 20 pts

Making a total of 75 points

Should push me up to No52

RP No149 LotR - Gandalf & Saruman

What? More Fantasy figures???

Like the previous Lord of the Rings Sauron figure, these have been sitting unloved and forgotten at the very bottom of my leadpile. Not really sure when I bought them, but it must be at least 10 years ago if not more??

Along with some other figures this was my entry into Curt's Challenge on the 7th January.

There's no prizes for guessing that these are the Games Workshop figures for Gandalf the Grey and 

Saruman the White. 

If I'm gonna be honest, painted up very quickly! 

My nose was beginning to bleed!?!?!?

RP No 147 - Sauron, Lord of the Ring

Another entry into Curt's Analogue Painting Challenge, this is my entry into the Villain Bonus round, I'm currently in 6th place in the bonus round and (29th overall, when this was posted), I'm up against some very very stiff competition, Curt's Russian's and Sydney's Mata Hari are both running away with it,  and well deservedly so!!! So if you haven't voted on the Bonus round get on over and do so, you don't have to be in the Challenge to vote!!!

I was a bit stuck on what to paint up for the villain bonus round, so I dug deep down into the layers of my leadpile and found these figures wrapped in a bit of loo roll. To be honest I'd forgotten I even had these figures, and I don't remember buying them??? I must have bought it for my nephew Connor around 10 years ago, when he was collecting the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings figures, which incidentally are up for sale, if anyone's interested??? I'll get some pics soon.

Now as you may know I'm not a real fan of Fantasy figures and I don't actually own any myself, I prefer historical periods, so I was a bit like  

"Oh God, how the hell am I gonna paint this bloody thingy???" 

There was lots of twitching and itching and quite a bit of swearing, in the end I looked a little like Woogie below!

You ever had a Whitehead on your eyeball Curt??? Hmm?

Elendil and Isildur lying prone.

The Dark Lord Sauron is driven by a consuming desire to dominate all of Middle-earth. From his stronghold in Mordor, Sauron controls many servants and all who fight for Evil, bow to his will. Sauron is the most powerful Hero in The Lord of The Ring Strategy Battle Game, to face him in combat is to face death.

But if you've got a broken sharp pointy thing, you may be in luck??