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My April 2024 Painting.

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Well April came and has nearly gone. Despite the Easter holidays, I did find some time to get some painting done. First up was the latest expansions for the board game 'Star Trek: Away Missions'. These two expansions introduce the original Enterprise bridge crew to the game. Spock, Kirk and McCoy Chekov and Sulu Uhura, Scotty and Leslie Completing these two expansions gave me nudge to complete the rest of the Next Generation crew too. Riker, Picard and Shelby La Forge, Data and Worf Wesley, Troi and Beverly I did manage to complete some non Away Missions painting too. I picked up some Twi'lek style Smugglers from OttsWorkshop on Etsy. Here's the first one I have painted. These are well printed miniatures and an absolute joy to paint. Also from Etsy, were some robots and human civilians printed by HeadBunnyGames. These are very cheap figures to buy and it shows with the print quality. The print layering is very obvious with the human figures and their faces lack definit
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Massacre at Briar's Bend - Star Wars Redux

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Aa always, a Star Wars version of a scenario from the 'For a Fistful More: Scenarios for Fistful of Lead' with the third scenario "Massacre at Briar's Bend". An Imperial Army vehicle has suffered a power loss and has been left stranded in hostile territory. A distress signal has been sent out, but it will be some time before assistance will arrive. A local native tribe have spotted the stricken vehicle and plan a revenge attack on the Imperial invaders. The natives start in two groups of 5, in the opposite corners not covered by woods. To add a bit of drama to the game, the game length would only be determined at the start of Turn 6. Rolling a D10, a result of 1-6 would mean the game lasts 6 turns, any other result would the number of turns the game lasts. The natives on the other side of the river used both their turns to advance to the river. Unfortunately, they were spotted by some Imperial Troopers, whose blaster fire was enough to inflict some casualties.
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Metaluna Mutants

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One of the most famous Universal monster designs in the history of Hollywood. These aliens featured in the 1955 science fiction film This Island Earth. They once occupied the planet Metaluna and were bred for menial labour. This Island Earth was one of those 1950s/60s films that got broadcast during the school holidays and that's where I developed my love for all those films. When I saw that the mutants had been recreated in 3D and were available on Etsy, I jumped at the chance to get some. However, This Island Earth was a black and white film, so what colour to paint them? Doing some research, I was quite surprised to discover that the mutants were a teal colour with red veins. However, there seems to be some debate on what colour the eyes and the claws are, so I went with black eyes and silver claws. So here they are.
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Location: Southampton, UK
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Klingon Shuttle

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I cannot remember where I picked up this vehicle. I suspect it was designed to be some type of sci-fi delivery van.  Anyway, it has been languishing in my 'to do' box for ages. Given it's crude casting and shape, I thought that looked Klingon in style. So using a Bird of Prey colour scheme (the green is darker in real life) as inspiration, I painted it up as a pseudo Klingon shuttle. 
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All aboard the Space Bus!

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Picked up this "Sci-fi Space Bus" from a seller on Etsy. Designed for 28mm/32mm figures. It lends itself to various sci-fi genres.
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Location: Southampton, UK
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Warlords of Atlantis

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Warlords of Atlantis is a 1978 British adventure science fiction film, where two deep-sea explorers and their crew must survive a master race of beings and monstrous creatures when they discover the fabled city of Atlantis. This film was one of the Doug McClure trilogy (alongside The Land that Time Forgot and The People that Time Forgot) that used to be repeated frequently on BBC2 back in the 80s. I have always had a fondness for this film and was very pleased to have recently seen it again on TV. Of course, it got me thinking, does anybody do any figures for the film; especially the Atlantean troops? Sure enough, I found Antediluvian Miniatures did a range in metal (including a not Doug McClure) and Big Mr Tong had recreated them in 3D. I ordered the Big Mr Tong sculpts from a 3D printer and I ordered the 'Warlord' commnader figure from Antediluvian. You can see the results of my painting below.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E and other spyfi.

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Back in January I took advantage of a sale at Northstarfigures and picked up some "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" figures that I had long admired. First up is the pack called 'Top Agents'. Three figures in the pack and (to me) two of them represent Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin from the 60's TV show "The Man from U.N.C.L.E". I found a publicity shot where Robert Vaughn (Solo) was wearing a brown suit and David McCallum (Kuryakin) was wearing a black suit with a black turtleneck - I took the liberty of changing the colour of the turtleneck. "Open Channel D" The third figure from the pack (I think) is supposed to be James Bond as potrayed by Sean Connery. This time I have gone for a light grey suit for the man with the PPK. "Bond, James Bond" The rest of the order was made up of the various 'Guards' packs in the range. Although it's not clear until you see the figures in reality, the jumpsuits are all sli
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