'Comedic' from JuanM - 'Moscal Grenadier Guard'

Here is my participation in this weekend´s Bonus Theme. Here is a Moscal Empire Grenadier Guard on guard duty, a resin miniature from Scibor Miniatures I bought as a caprice some time ago. 

He is a one-model project, but a very fine one (hey, I have finished a project!!!!).

Cheers,
Juan.

'Comedic' form MarkO - 'Tricycles of Chaos!'

These turned out a bit grimmer than I thought they would when I purchased them(!), but maybe they can still be classed as 'black comedy'!
 

They are of course Chaos spiky steamroller halftrack daemonic engines. They look a bit like an angry tricycle.

In 2004 when Epic Armageddon was published, the Chaos list included something called the "Deathwheel", the central feature of which was a big spiky wheel, with guns. Games Workshop never made the models in the end, but many fans did. This is a variant that has been produced within the last year and is also on sale via e-bay.

I always found the Chaos models for Epic to be rather over the top and comedic, so this new variant fits with that theme (to me anyway!).

They are available here as resin models and casting quality is very good.

Kind regards,
Mark

'Comedic' by MilesR - 'Rommel Rolls a 6'

Please find the attached photos for my comic submission - It’s a little vignette of how all wars should be fought - with Rommel and Monty squaring off to settle who gets North Africa. 

I’ve had the mini’s for years - they were part of a subscription promo from Wargames Illustrated. There were several other vignettes one could get but the Rommel/Monty Game take was the only one that was memorable to me.

I’ll be using this as an objective market in Bolt Action games that pit my 8th army against my DAK troops.

'Comedic' by PaulS - 'Robbie The Bannana Man'

When the zombie apocalypse hits, you need to be ready. You need to be armed and you need to be properly dressed in order to outrun the enemy (or at the very least, your friend… it depends how many zombies there are).

The day things went to hell, Robbie was working at his local food shop, Morry and Sons, advertising their fresh fruit. He’d known for ages that the zip occasionally got stuck, but he’d been assured that it had been fixed. Turns out… not so fixed after all. Robbie is now stuck inside this damn suit and can’t get out. Not even if his life depends upon it, which it kinda does!

Here you can see Robbie with some of last year’s zombie horde.

'Comedic' by RichardC - 'A Salute to Boney'

A Walk in the Park – Paris, August 1815

This was one of the bonus rounds where I changed my mind a few times. My first ideas were cinematic (Monty Python played a large part in my younger days!). A chance comment from my boss Jeremy Green set my thoughts to this seen. Jeremy can’t understand my strong interest in Napoleon (or the “French Hitler” as he frequently refers to him). How would a similar soldier react on meeting the Emperor?

The model depicts two soldiers of the 2nd Bn 35th (Sussex) Regiment strolling through a park in Paris during the occupation which followed Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo. They come across a statue of Napoleon, and salute him in the time-honoured British tradition.

The 35th played a relatively small part in the Napoleonic Wars (Maida, the Ionian Islands, the Netherlands in 1814), but they did take part in the 100 Days. They formed part of Colville’s 4th Division, with 564 All Ranks stationed at Hal to stop the French, should they have broken the main army, and protect the main road to Brussels. Their Colonel was the Duke of Richmond, and it was his wife Charlotte who hosted the famous ball on the 15th of June. The Regiment had the unique distinction of orange facings to its uniforms – a mark of respect from King William III reflecting its origins in Ireland in 1701.

The two British soldiers are from Westfalia Miniatures (available in the UK via Empress). The pigeon-poop covered statue of Napoleon is a really nice 40mm figure from First Legion in the US (the postage was three times the price of the figure). The eagle on the plinth is actually part of a 200mm figure of Napoleon in his coronation robes.

Great fun to paint British Napoleonics for a change.

'Comedic' by PeterD - 'Sam Slick'

Last theme round I showed up with the same figures as someone else, but I expect that there is little fear if that happening with this one.   I present Sam Slick, a comic figures from early Canadian literature.

The Yankee trader was a common theme for comedy in Colonial British North America, and still so today.  The prototypical example was Mr. Slick created by Thomas Chandler Haliburton of Windsor Nova Scotia, see the link to the Canadian Encyclopedia

Today Haliburton is not widely know, except for his part in the great "Birthplace of Hockey" debate, but he was very popular in his day.  With Slick he created a figure that pocked fun at Nova Scotians and Yankees alike, one who was too smart for his own food yet likeable.

I found the following video clip to give you a taste.

The figure is by Reaper and sold as Uncle Sam, and he was very nice to paint  I picked him up for last year's challenge possibly for an 1812 themed poet or possibly for the villain round.  Anyway, my family was so Loyalist that they moved North to Nova Scotia before the Revolution and there was no way I was painting up Uncle Sam out of the box.  However, it struck me that with a change of clothes and hair colour he'd make a damn find Sam a Slick.  There's some thing in the pose that just screams "Arrogant American Blowhard".

'Comedic' from RayR - 'Pub Donnybrook'

Setting the scene....
 

Welcome to Ye Old White Hart, a quaint old English pub circa 1685, just outside of Norton St Philips, during the Monmouth Rebellion.

Curt and Sarah Campbell the proprietors of this most English of Public Houses. And their moggy Millsy...

Privates Dave Docherty and Alan Dearn have nipped out of camp, to the local village pub, for a few swift halves and a bit of tickle with the local lasses.

But they obviously haven't noticed a rather stern looking Sgt Willey eyeing their disgraceful behaviour! Not only boozing but fraternizing with the locals??  Mayor Scott Bowman also looks on disgusted by dirty the goings on, and wishing that was him with that dirty girl Daisy on his shoulder. Millsy manages to get in the pic as well!

And talking of dirty goings on, look at those two on the floor, fighting it out, pulling each others hair and sticking fingers up each others noses. Even though she's on the bottom Tamsin seems to getting the better of that bad Irish lass Anne, who pinched her drop of Farmer Awdry's Best Ale.

But you've gotta feel sorry for Private Docherty, he's thinks he's off for some fun and frolics with Daisy, she's not best pleased by the look of things, but nor will he when he finds out that Daisy is infact the local rebel leader Clint Burnett in disguise!!!

 

The figures are a mixture of Dixon, Parkfield, Col Bill's Depot Battalion and a few others I can't remember??? I've gone for the practical approach for this entry, Instead of my usual long winded painting style, I thought I'd try something a bit more simple otherwise I'd never get the damn things started let alone finish them.
 

I block painted them and slapped on some ink....easy!

'Comedic' from SamuliS - 'Cut the Crap'

Finan was starting to get tired of tagging along with Ser Heinrich the Pious and his fellow Paladins. He'd gone with them in the hopes of getting a boost for his fading career as a palace Bard entertaining fine ladies. Ser Edward was on a quest to rid the land of evil and Finan had figured that writing great songs about Edwards deeds would grant him a renewed contract within the bard industry. He should have known to stay away from them from Edwards epithet, but he was getting desperate. The last straw had been when Edward had turned away two elven sisters who had asked to join the group, because they would tempt him to lead an evil life of lust and joy. Finan couldn't believe somebody would actually be so foolish, after all it was the bards job to make everyone look mightier than they were. Even his fighting was devoid of any elegance. It was deadly efficient, but didn't offer much to be sung about as there was no finesse as Finan saw it.

Still there was some relief as the evil sorcerer had fortunately had the decency to install a proper toilet in his tower that they had just cleared. The shape was odd with clawed feet and a face on the water reservoir, but after having to do his business in bushes on the way the feel of porcelein on his bottocks was sweeter than he could ever have imagined. He could spend hours here dreaming, but the darned paladin was calling again to continue their journey. Reaching for paper one of the toilet's hands moved in to give it to him. "Ahh... the wonders of modern sorcery", thought Finan as he reached to take a piece. At the same time he started to feel a slight tingling sensation in his manhood as water splashed into it only to be followed by a horrible grab as he was pulled into the bowl... 

So let's cut the crap (pun intended) and move to the hard facts...

Going old school for this bonus round with a 80s Citadel Chaos Toilet sculpted by the great Aly Morrison. This is probably the most random miniature that I own (and all the other random stuff also seems to be from Citadel...) I'd seen some pictures before and when I saw one going cheap on eBay last summer while hunting for Oldhammer Chaos Warriors I knew I'd have to buy it. It's been sitting on my desk since summer waiting for inspiration to strike and what better than the Comedy portion of the challenge :)

Sculpting is decidedly 80s styled and way over emphasized everywhere, but hey it looks great. Too bad Citadel has started to function like a business and crazy stuff like this doesn't get made. There's actually two more toilet themed sets from Citadel and I figure I have to get them too to join this one.

There is also a semi-historical aspect to this with everyone whose been in the military knowing what the toilets look and smell like after coming from a longer training period and everybody is embracing the sweet porcelein. The smell would suggest something like this is coming after you after devouring the previous guest.

I wanted to stay with more Candy colours for this partly to have some change to the decidedly dull colour schemes of WW2 historicals and also because everything in the 80's was extra bright. I did take a slightly more modern approach by applying some of the newish Citadel effects paints to create blood splatter and some seeping slime. The base was a simple green stuff affair with some stone floor tiles sculpted in.