Getting close to finishing my 25 halberds... hair, I think, is all that remains.
As an aside, this month will include something a bit different. My old gaming club has a monthly painting contest as a friendly challenge to keep brushes active. It has been an absolute blast. This is the final month of this 12-cycle 'round'. The winner of each cycle picks the next challenge - "Paint infantry." "Has to have a big weapon." "Must use the color yellow." etc. They are intentionally broad to make sure that all of our gamers, regardless of system, can participate with something fun.
Anyhow, this month requires that we paint something with the color pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month. I'm opting to paint a model from a rockstar company called Sodapop Miniatures (they've been to GenCon, PAX, and something else this year - they also happen to be my buddies). I'm not going to go as crazy as their paint job, but here's what I'm working with:
http://web.sodapopminiatures.com/selectcharacter/Princess%20MalyaThe model was a bit of a pain to put together, but is truly gorgeous. Sodapop doesn't mess around. Detail is great and the opportunity to go through the roof on this one has me salivating. I'm leaning towards a blue robot and pulling the required pink in for Malya's hair and, possibly, her bodysuit. We'll see.
The coolest part of the whole thing is that Sodapop has graciously offered the winner of this challenge one of the models in their range as a prize. I encourage you all to look through their stuff. It is pretty fantastic - not to mention that they're pulling together a few games to go with the models and a board game called Super Dungeon Explore which rocks face. Their home page link is here:
http://web.sodapopminiatures.com/homeGreat stuff. Thanks for reading and, hopefully, I'll be posting pics of halberds tonight! Woot!
