Voting for November’s theme has now ended. A close race, but last minute a theme was found - and it was …? :
"This is how I would do it"
Challenge:
(Re)Paint a miniature that is from a colored/pre-painted “toy” line (could be Heroclix, Wizard’s of the Coast, Rackham’s At-43 or another plastic toy/toy soldier maybe even a Kinder Surprise toy.
Challenge special rules:
This time we’ll ask you to enter a picture of the “miniature” before you start stripping, prime and paint it - as we would like to see what you actually did to it.
Like always, it’s pretty much up to you! So you can pick any “toy”, but we’ll ask you to make it plausible as a wargaming miniature, meaning it has to be based on an appropriated wargaming base. It also has to be “in scale” with the most common war games. So no foot tall (or bigger) dinosaurs and gigantic robots etc. The keyword here is “plausible”
Deadline will be end of November 2011 (your time zone)
After deadline will run a poll and ask the members of CDO who did best. Winner will be rewarded with an additional bonus challenge point.
Bolg (4)** (Bolg is awarded 2 points for entering 30 small based beasts in a large movement tray)
Borador (1)
Clam (5)*
Golder Goldeater (1)
G.2 (5)**
Hazkar (4)**
Inkpwn (2)*
Loki (1)
Ryanamandaanna (2)**
Tribun (1)
warh (3)**
Zanko (3)
*=finished the November Challenge
=finished the Challenge with a big beast (2 points)
And then, all there is left to say is thanks to all that took part in BS #9. Our most impressive one (IMO). I’ll hope seeing you all back in BS #10. Looking so much forward seeig how this one here turns out
Looks like the members are buzzing wih exciting in regards to this challenge. I just read through the thread, and it was a nice change from the usual comments, like “I’m not sure what I am going to paint” or “I don’t think I have a mini that fits that category”, instead I am hearing the opposite, which is a really nice change.
I am really looking forward to this one. I can’t wait to see what people come up with.
if you remember gogos, those hard plastic miniature monsters that all the kids collected. This one is a copy of that, think they where called “draco” something.
A japanese gashapon (capsule toy) of the Gold Saint of Scorpio, Milo. Stands about 32mm when removed from the socle, and as such can batter it out in our SuperSystem games at the club.
I got a heap of capsule toys and heroclix (a few cardboard boxes full actually), I find them the most reliable source of miniatures to game oddities with. That and the fact that they are dead cheap, if you stroll a bit through my bloggie page you`ll find quite a few entries of repainted Saints, Gundams and Marvel supers.
