From MartijnN: Medieval Bowmen

 As you now, I am really one for the smaller scales. As a matter of fact, before Challenge XI began I had not painted a figure larger than 15mm since the eighties, apart from some few Warhammer 40K figures bought on impulse in 2018. Mind you, I do have a sizeable (unpainted, of course) stack of  GW fantasy figures and some medievals for a fantasy project that has been on the backburner since time immemorial, but I had not yet come around to painting any of them. However, more inspired by following the Challenge during the last few years than anything else (I guess I, too, can blame Curt), I bought some medieval figures. I prepped them for the "main" Challenge, but you know how it goes. Now seemed as good a time as any to get them done, so here are no less than eight medieval bowmen:

 

They are plastic Fireforge figures. Now I am not a great fan of building figures, nor am I very adept at it, so please excuse the somewhat irregular poses. I am sure that it is more due to my poor modelling skills than to the quality of the figures themselves that some of them look like they have been overindulging in Mister "Cut me own throat" Dibbler's fine sausages again. Still, as a group I am not too dissatisfied with them. Of course I had to drop one of them on the floor, causing the bow to break. I'll have to find an alternative way to repair it, as I have lost the missing piece, but I wanted the post to go up today so that will have to wait.

Needless to say I used Contrast paints again, as well as some colours from the Scale75 Instant Colors range. I find the Scale75 paints a little fainter, or less opaque, than the Citadel paints, but they generally work ok. Obviously, I had to finish the figures with a coat of your friend and mine, as Youtube miniature painter Sonic Sledgehammer calls it (check him out, he is great): Agrax Earthshade.

So, as if I needed another project, eight 28mm figures for 40 points. Yeah!

From TeemuL: Ten Martians (50 points)

Still alive, still painting. Like mentioned before, I have moved and started a new jog, so everything is bit of a mess, but I have managed to paint something on my temporary paint desk. I assembled and primed these Martians from the Kill Team starter about the time I bought them and then put them in a box. Since they were almost ready, I thought they would be a quick paint job, they are basically just red robes and so on, correct?

Well, they are Games Workshop models, so they have quite a lot of details... I skipped most of them, but not all. I like the finish, the colored purity seals and other stuff brings them alive and bit individual, should be good for Kill Team, I think.

Contrast paints and metallic paints and they were done. Picking up the bright details makes them look much more finished and tidy than they actually are. :)

I have new "photo-booth", which means I don't have a photo booth, just taking photos in the most well-lit area I can find in the new home, kitchen. I also have a different mobile than during the Challenge XI, so everything is different. They look quite cold, but there's a nice mood, I hope.. Purely unintentional.

10 28mm models should give me 50 points, if I am counting. There are skulls on the chest of each of them, painted black on basically invisible in photos.