LPL Sunday: Round 7! And round 6 recap

A band of Martian rebels with walker support.

After loosing against Bugsda last round I'm back to winning again this round with my newly painted "Reds".

The infantry are Sahadeen from Rebel Minis and the walkers are DIMOGs from Khurasan (with converted drivers). All reasonably nice models, although the infantry are not as clean as the UNSC minis from GZG or the heavy infantry from Blue Moon. There are quite a lot of greeblies and they were trickier to paint. The DIMOGs are nice sculpts, but speaking of greeblies... the driver! Phew! He's just one giant greeble isn't he?! Khurasan does amazing stuff but I was a bit dissapointed with the driver. Good thing is you don't see much of him when he's seated.

Something I tried out when painting these guys was using a regular pencil to make the chipped paint effect at the end of the rocket launcher barrel. I thought it might not look metallic enough to actually read to the naked eye but it worked really well and I'm looking forward to trying it again in the future.

I went up against Tomsche and his Sons of the Sand (with a big nasty sand golem!) this round and in the end I won with a bit of a margin. If the trend continues I'll loose rounds seven and (of!) nine but win rounds eight and ten. Hehe!

Some of my favourite entries this round were:

• Big Trouble in Little Fishbowl - Really cool minis (love diving helmet!), well painted and a beautiful composition!
• Field Trip with Miss Bachaus - I haven't seen the film(s) but Hammer's produced an awesome entry!
• Frontier Men - Once again Frank has put together the perfect nature scene.
• "You have 20 Seconds to Comply" - But I had to vote for the ED-209. :)
• Larkhall Police Lieutenant Omega Fives Riot Squad - Excellent use of digital camo and lighting effects.
• Agents of Evil - Robo-Hitler!

For round 7 I'm fiiiinally getting some starships into the league! Unfortunately only one is newly painted, but I think you'll recognize her...

See my entry and all the other great stuff over at the Lead Adventure Forum. And don't forget to vote!

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LPL Sunday: Round 5! And round 4 recap

A recon element of the Earth Sectorial army.

Last round was a real nailbiter as I went up against Mancha's Mouse Patrol! I don't think we were ever more than eight or nine votes apart during the week and in the end I won with but a single vote, one more and it would have counted as a draw. Phew! Although I really liked the mice, I'm glad my 15mm guys finally managed a win.

The minis are UNSC marines from GZG (I'll insert a link later when the new online store is up) and they're great sculpts with loads of detail! The vehicle is the comanche MATV from Rebel Minis. I was actually slightly surprised at how rough a few parts of it were when I got it and I had to do some cleaning to get it in shape, however when painted you don't really see the flawed areas and it just looks beautiful! It also comes with some different weapon options and a small shield/turret as well and I had a hard time deciding if I should use that or not. In the end I went for the leaner look without the turret, but I'm not sure I made the right decision. What do you think:

Some of my favourite entries from round 4 was:

• Bamboo Raiders - Great painting and great minis.
• Nemo's Army -  Two words: Crab. Tank.
• Imperial Escort - Although not to scale, some really nicely painted Star Wars ships.
• Ah, with ever anxious heart, the blossoms are falling... - My absolute favourite entry this round! Maybe not the best painted, but the composition and those sakura trees made me melt.
• Die human scum! - Some awesome sci fi right here! Made me want to get some AE Bounty minis.
• Wolf Pack - Definitely an underrated entry. Probably because of its "mundanity" compared to the terminators. But have a look at the painting again... that fur is amazing!
• 'Relax men, it's only a couple of gau...' - Again, maybe not the best painted, but Andys scratch built bio-titan just looks awesome! Good work man!

In round 5 I'm unfortunately missing out on both the newly painted team bonus and the additional Africa theme bonus. I have a strict rule not to paint anything that I won't be able to use later for gaming, and since I'm mostly a sci fi kind of guy the Africa theme was tough. What I really wanted to do was get some non-prawn "crusties" from GZG and make a small District 9 scene. But I was a bit slow and the GZG store is now temporarily closed for updates. Bummer.

So instead I decided to enter a few of my Northern Guard gears, and to spice it up I painted a squad of infantry as well! They turned out great, so I'm very happy in any case. See my entry and all the other great stuff over at the Lead Adventure Forum. And don't forget to vote!

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