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

Last of all for part 1, I managed to resin print some of the original classic 10mm Democracy Infantry. I did this because I wanted a Red female character. So for Red’s Rescue I went with what I think was the story of her being rescued from the roof of a building. I painted up the little miniatures, then I built a rooftop out of a Square miniature base with some tiny Green Stuff bricks used to build a wall. I stuck the troops on, then poured a little UV resin to sink the bases under. It’s so useful UV resin as it instant cures! Finally I used one of my missle trails to be a distress flare. That is going to go on the roof.

At the end of yesterday when I reviewed my pictures, I noticed that my Gorg looked like a strawberry ice cream cone… well that’s worrying! So today I got an hour in working on the minis which was good. Gorg got some silver and gold paint to make him less ice cream like. I also started fiddling with him, as last night I thought he’s a big monster, he needs to be more rampaging. So I cut his front two tentacles and repositioned them. One will now be lifting up a car and the other will have an innocent bystander, played by the tiny Democracy soldier that I converted to be holding his arms up.

I also want Gorg to look 50’s saucer like, but not figured that bit out yet. You’ll see some more Democracy soldiers that have had their arms cut off or repositioned, some will become mind controlled lackies, others will be fighting gorg.

For the car I had a few spare experimental Camero prints, so I am just using one of them. I also managed to get one of my missiles from yesterday stuck to a 3D printed jet trail.

And finally I returned to the ninjas. It was a bit better today as it felt like progress was being made. I got them drybrushed with some uniform grey, I got the wood and leather base coated brown and I got the metal base on the weapons.

Why is it you always kid yourself, ‘it’s the weekend I’ll have plenty of time to do what I want’? Anyway after painting my daughters room I finally got some time to relax in the evening, by doing some more painting! I added a little shade to parts of the ninja and I’ve selected some bases for them.

Gorg got some Contrast paints to create a bit more shading, though I’m not touching the tentacles yet until I have built the tentacle that will be holding a human. I did start painting the humans that will feature in his base.

I also started on the thug I will now call Nick after (Nearly Headless Nick in HP), he is intended to go with John, when I get round to him. John will be literally knocking his block off!

I finally got a very quick spray of primer on Leviathon. He’s a big guy and going to take a fair bit of paint, but hopefully will be a good centrepiece. I did a little bit of converting to make him point, you’ll see why later in the month.

I also got some inspiration for Strikeforce my plane, check out the last pic! I want to have my plane on a base which looks like the U.S.S Flagg. Let’s see how it goes!

I thought I was being clever by choosing a couple of squads of Ninja. This would give me a banker of 11 figures, thus meeting the minimum requirements and being mainly black, the paint scheme should not be too difficult. But normally I like individuals who I can think about and craft a story, with the ninja at best your ninja Fred or ninja Jerry, so after painting ninja number 7 (let’s call him Bert), I found my interest waning. For those who remember the Fast Show and the painter character, I was quickly seeing black everywhere.

So i changed it up a little and started on Overlord Gorg, who is more of an individual. I’ve got a great idea for him (if it works), along the theme of alien invaders.

I also painted a few tiny missiles which I had sitting around in a drawer as I’m going to arm my Strikeforce plane when I get to that miniature.

Finally I got some primer on a thug from Beat Em Up who I have converted with The Adventurer’s gun arm and then I cut off his head. I then stuck some red resin blood splatter that I made by mixing resin and curing while pulling it with a cocktail stick. Beat Em Up is about to get gory! He is going to be part of the scene for one of the main character’s bases.