Sunday, March 28, 2021

From SanderS: The Boy in the Ice berg (15 points)

 Hoi,

The figures I am going to present to you today were actually meant as my first entry in this Challenge spin-off, but they weren't finished yet. There's quite a few series that Arthur and myself watch together on Netflix: Voltron, Transformers, Dragon Prince, She-Ra and of course the brilliant Avatar the Last Airbender together with it's sequel Legend of Korra. Watching these series sometimes can be a great inspiration for miniature gaming as we did with Transformers and GI Joe (the latter isn't on Netflix but I have it on DVD) We really would like to game Avatar because it's just that good! For the legend of Korra there's actually a miniature game out there that's now out of production and mega expensive! No such luck for Avatar the Last Airbender so I had to go and scrounge my own figures.

First stop was the 3D printing world but I have yet to locate good STL's for properly sized figures of the series. That got me thinking and after some offering to the Google-Fu God I found some figures from GCT Studios Bushido Risen Sun that I could use to get some of the series' characters on the tabletop.

I used figures from the starter set from the Temple of Ro-Kan (Arthur and I call it Miyagi-Do since it also has a Bonzai tree as logo) to make Avatar Aang his nemesis and best friend Zuko and a generic Earthbender.

 

Oh yeah I should explain that the series revolves around people who are capable to "bend" (i.e. magic) a certain element around. The avatar being the only one capable of bending all 4 elements.

First up is Aang himself:




Next is Zuko, who at first is his biggest rival and later turns out to be on of Aang's best friends




We also needed some adversaries and I choose this unnamed Earthbender as one of the chaps Aang could fight.




If you have no idea what Avatar the Last Airbender is see this LINK for more info! Of course we have adapted our Heroquest rules for these figures and there are full spell decks for all the Elements already in the game so all we had to do was create cards for them rather like Sidney has done for his Laarden project. 

3 figures in 28mm gets me another 15 points and thus 25 are gained sofar.

Cheers Sander




 

9 comments:

  1. I’m a massive fan of the Bushido figures - I can highly recommend it as a good game itself too. You’ve done a great job with these, nice to tie them into a game that will inspire Arthur too!

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    1. They are awesome figures indeed. I have a few more and will try to paint the up as part of this Challenge. I have actually played Bushido once and didn't dislike it ;-)

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  2. Cool re-purposing of the Bushido minis. From what little I know of the series, the look very well suited to their new roles.

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  3. They are looking great Sander, Zuko is very striking in his bordeaux robe. I also like your bases, a very classy plinth look. Well done!

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