Traders Galaxy 2024 Painting Challenge – Botwar, Beat Em Up and Rise of the Democracy miniatures

Leviathon got some greens added to certain parts of his limbs and a little mixed in with his ripple camo. The various pipes got a silver coat and you will have to take my work for it but the cockpit windscreen that is on his posterior got a coat of light blue.

I burnt a lot of time today faffing around with the printers again, but I got a few exciting results that have not so much changed… more added to my plans.
Leviathon got nothing more than a single pass with some colourshift paint to his ripples.It doesn’t really show on the camera, hopefully it will show better on video when I finish him.

I continued with the 2 Barracuda , painting the cockpits and starting a blend from the dark almost metallic black to white silver.

I realised I missed a bit of priming on 2 of my Light Tanks so I corrected that today and then gave them a coat of Contrast to catch up with the other. I put a first coat on the windscreens of the Mongoose.
I drybrushed the crashed Buzzard.

Then I did some more priming, because I decided I needed a little more ROTD focus in my challenge as the ninjas could count as Beat Em Up or ROTD. So I picked Dr Mindtwist as I have an idea what I want to do with him and Blackwarp, I may do Redwarp too!Then hot off the printer came some of the Classic range BeastLords, namely one based on a Triceratops that had his name changed as it was deemed offensive ( I blame Viz!) and another based on a Brontosaurus. When I saw these on MyMinifactory they were a must and they look amazing in person. I got them primed straight away and I’m going to do them classic cartoon style.
Even hotter off the printer I have a full set of the exlusive Beat Em Up thugs from the MyMiniFactory Tribes. Also the perfectly timed release of the classic Overlord as he will be featuring in my Beat Em Up scenario with the Destructive Duo, in the future. And finally another Beastlord, this one based on the Stegasaurus. So I still have the best one to do yet which for me is the Pteradactyl… stay tuned. P.S. I doubt I will actually get chance to paint all these but you never know, we’ve made it this far!

Finally I painted what will become my wrecked Buzzard, that A-10 grey and put some dark patches for battle damage and fires.

Unlucky for some, the number 13, but when everyday is rubbish you don’t notice! Until work is over and you can get painting again!? Despite the blistered fingers, the multicoloured painted nails and the odd superglued skin graft we soldier on.
Today was a drybrushing day. I managed to give the Mongoose and the two Democracy tanks a drybrush of pale green just to take away some of the darkness caused by Contrast paints.

My castle walls got a drybrush too.

Finally I finished another couple of bases for the ninja, leaving only 3 to be based now.

Unlucky for some, the number 13, but when everyday is rubbish you don’t notice! Until work is over and you can get painting again!? Despite the blistered fingers, the multicoloured painted nails and the odd superglued skin graft we soldier on.
Today was a drybrushing day. I managed to give the Mongoose and the two Democracy tanks a drybrush of pale green just to take away some of the darkness caused by Contrast paints.

My castle walls got a drybrush too.

Then I had an attempt at printing an attack jet from a while back using my FDM printer. The FDM just can’t do the detail, but I’m going to make use of it and turn it into a wrecked jet. So I got some primer on it.

Back again so soon?
I managed to get a bit more black to tidy up Leviathon, but I will start to focus on him a bit more now I have got some of the other figures out of the way.

Just a reminder that I took Igor Dragon and attempted a crazy conversion. I used some Green Stuff to change his stance and his arm poses and with little amounts of Green Stuff I gave him a mohawk and a beard. I am no sculpter and so the figure is pretty rough, but in my eyes I wanted to create T.G. Maracas. As you will have seen, I painted him a few days ago. Tonight I finished some detail like the ‘Clubber’ logo on his shorts. I also sculpted a punch bag that he is hitting, so hard that it explodes. For his base all I could think of was a gym floor, so I did that.

I also managed to get Syndey finished. Again I had slightly changed her pose to get a better kicking stance, then mounted her atop a police car and gave her a little kicking effect, a bit like Chun-Li from Street Fighter 2. For those who like the detail. She has Dallas Cowboy shorts on with the stripe down the sides. I was going to put the star on her jacket, but the frills made it too hard and I didn’t want to risk it. She has gloves on in the style of Michael Irvin ( I know wrong decade ) I also gave her some Reebok Royals for trainer as Reebok was big back then!

Back again so soon?
I managed to get a bit more black to tidy up Leviathon, but I will start to focus on him a bit more now I have got some of the other figures out of the way.