A miniature painting challenge created to provide a safe, supportive place for hobbyists to keep in touch during this time of social-distancing and isolation.
Another Black Seas ship of the line. I've christened her Généreux (Generosity and odd name for a ship of war, sounds more like a hospital ship) for one of the two French ships of the line that escaped Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.
She's a 74 gun ship of the Téméraire class and she would meet the English again at the battle of the Malta Convoy where she took on an a Royal Navy frigate and defeated it but had her commander killed.
She was then rundown by three English ships of the line and forced to surrender. She did allow the rest of the convoy to escape but they could not make it into Malta.
One feels she might have done better if her leadership had not been removed, fortune's of war. She also had a undistinguished career as HMS Généreux.
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.
