'Fellowship' from SanderS: Kal Jerico

Hoi There,

There's a real load of figures I own that I could have used for this theme round. The knights of the round table from Monthy Phyton's movie (made by studio miniatures) or the Antediluvian Miniatures Adventurers team and even Gaunt's Ghosts. Yet in the end I settled for more Necromunda figures: Kal Jerico and his faithful sidekick Scabs. Why? Well perhaps we all are a Scabs to the greater glory that is our Snowlord who always strikes the right pose at the right moment and always knows how to come up with a  truly erudite remark! Enough sucking up yet? On to the figures then!

While I only recently jumped into the game full throttle, I had been well aware of the game and it's miniatures for quite a while. As such I jumped at an opportunity  to get the duo in an Ebay offering and have been rearing at the bit to get some paint on them, so here they are.

Kal has made a lot of enemies over time and none more fanatical than the Brotherhood of the Redemption (see? Another "fellowship" thingy) so I included five of them here as well.

Most of the Redemptionist figures you see around have red, black or white robes, many of which are decorated with flame motives. I wanted to go a bit less conspicuous and did them up in mostly brown robes, with only the Zealot with eviscerator (a huge chainsword with attached mini-flamer) and the brother with the duo of pistols in a different robe. The guy in the blue hood clearly shows allegiance  to his old Cawdor gang who, according to some novels I've read, don blue hoods.

Oh and someclose ups of the Eviscerator, I like playing with the rust effects a lot:

Some characterful figures to enter in this last of theme rounds. These 7 guys in 28mm scale should gain me 35 points.

'Water Feature' from SanderS: All Aboard!

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Before this Challenge started I decided not to have a plan, sure I had some figures I really looked forward to painting, but no specific schedule was made. However every time I want to start some of the figures I really want to paint (my Necromunda stuff, Gaunt's Ghosts and some Indian Mutiny figures) I get side-tracked. First by the need to paint my Blood Bowl Goblins for the Sports Theme round, next the Austrian 7YW figures, most recently all the Heroquest figures as well as the GI Joe vehicles. So now last week I thought I could start some Necromunda figures. WRONG! I misjudged the schedule for the Theme rounds, I actually believed the Water Feature Round deadline was next week. So freaked out of my mind I have started my entry which, as a result, is not quite done yet but well enough to enter anyway.

Funnily enough when Curt anounced the themes I basically had ideas for all of them except this water feature thing. Blood Bowl for Sports, Battletech mechs for the Mercenaries round ( I never came round to actually painting and entering them) and I still have loads of options for the Fellowship round, but none for the Water Feature, I even grumbled at the stupidity of this theme, seriously who comes up with this? What do you want me to paint aquarium plants? Then my brother came to visit, he looked at my cluttered games table and said in an accusing tone of voice "I gave you that GI Joe platform to actually USE, it's been lying in this table for 1,5 years now..." The proverbial lightbulb above my head shone so bright it hurt.

So without further ado here's my converted GI Joe Battle Platform: (if you click the link to the left you can see the difference between the painted and un-painted version)

Let me start by saying that it's not finished and I had some real posers while constructing it. Since I wanted to keep as many original features as possible and keep the surface "playable" and easily accesible, I decided not to remodel the interior. I have quite a lot of resin terrain pieces like computer stations, armoury closets, medical facilities and the like I can use to dress the scene but none of them got painted in time due to lack of time. There's two "rooms" on the platform, one is the control room seen here at the top right corner, which I covered with a roof. The glass windscreen is the original one which is actually placed on a computer console rim, but that made the walls too high for 28mm figures so I left it out and roofed the windscreen.

The strange colomn in the room is the leg of the swivel chair for the action figures, but I willl use it for a great many options: operations table, map table, computer console etc. This picture also shows the moulded on stowage items which really benefitted from the painting.

The other room is the armoury and has no roof yet, that as well did not get done in time for the deadline. The armoury has moulded on crates of shells and a small ladder leading to the main platform.

Next up is the ramp this is a fold-up ramp that can be set up in 3 ways.
Folded in stowed position:

Deployed as a jetty for craft to dock on or to connect with the shore:

Or sloped down into the water for amfibic vehicles to enter or for access to a beach.

The hinges were broken and I had to fix them with plasticcard, not my favourite job.
There's also 3 smaller pads on the platform. I had to get rid of the original weapons mounted on them because they were action figure scale. Luckily I had two die cast HAL lasers (they are 28mm scale) of which one had a broken carriage so I made a mount for it to be placed on one of the pads. It is magnetised and looks great.

The two smaller pads have hatches on them that lift-off to reveal mechanics underneath.

The second smaller pad has the Platform's original crane on it (still working by the way) which was sited on the square base behind the armoury, but I put it up on the pad.

The last of the pads is the Chopper-pad. 

Next to the platform itself I also finished two Devilfish speedboats and 8 torpedoes (long live WI's free Cruel Sea goodies). The yellow torpedoes are for the COBRAY Moray, i.e. the big red boat which I had already painted. The orange torpedoes are for the two little orange Devilfishesheshes.

Some more shots:

So painted for this entry is:
- one Battle platform, when cramped together the size is 6"x 12"x 14"
- 2 x 28mm vehicle (40 points)
- 8 x torpedoes (I'd suggest 2 points each?)
All the other figures and craft were already painted and are purely for scale and scenic purposes only.  

No Water Feature Theme round would be complete without a suitable nautical song:

 

'Sport' from SanderS and ArthursS: Going round the pitch!

Hoi,

Okay let me be totally honest: I am only in this Bonus Round for the (extra) points... I have nothing even remotely original or flashy just plain Blood Bowl stuff. When I get into a certain game, period or army I tend to go over board, so I rather bought a lot of teams for the game. I have the basic box set which gives you Orcs and Humans, I bought Dwarfs (my favourite race for WH) and ordered Skaven for my gaming buddy Mark, but the FLGS where I ordered them accidentally sent my these Gobbo's. Now he offered me them at half price (more efficient then replacing them with the Skaven) and I took this offer.

While in theory you can play these as a separate team and it should be fun, I think I will use them to enhance my Orc team.

As I had 4 teams I also needed some star players and so I got myself an ogre and a troll. The ogre got finished in time for this round the troll sadly not.

Now there was this big area on his left pauldron and it just screamed out for the beast's name to be put there and my brushes just took over and made me paint his name there...

here's the lot put together:

The Lad didn't understand the workings of a Bonus Round last year, this year he gets it and wants a piece of the action. Sadly he doesn't own anything that could be considered "in-theme" at least so we thought... last Tuesday he came and said: "Dad didn't I buy a SPORTS-car at the Crisis?" and so he has and so he painted it. Here's Arthur's sports-car for your pleasure.

It's a Ford Falcon made by Wargamesterrainworkshop.co.uk and yes that's the famous "Road Interceptor" a.k.a. Mad Max's ride. In hind sight I would have liked one myself, but at the time my money was leaving my wallet in an alarming pace so I didn't buy one.

Pointswise this entry should be worth 20 points for Arthur (a 28mm vehicle) and 13 figures in 28mm scale for me is 65 points.