Blake's Seven - "The Way Back" - WIP - Part Five

Having re-watched a few of the early episodes of the British Science Fiction Television series “Blake’s Seven” in recent days I’ve managed to make a bit more progress on these two Freedom Fighter models by “Crooked Dice Game Design Studio”. Unfortunately this has actually meant a bit of a re-paint for both models as I realised that the planned colour schemes I was following for them were somewhat at odds to the costumes worn by Vila and Jenna in the stories “Time Squad” and “Mission To Destiny”.

As a result the all-purple look I had planned to give my female Freedom Fighter has been changed to red, and the light brown outfit of Vila has been replaced with a much darker costume, with dark blue and purple-pink sleeves. I’ve even changed the colour of the thief’s toolbox to the red and grey of the televised episode.

This also seems to be a time of great challenges in the blog painting world, two of which have certainly caught my attention. The more time-consuming one is undoubtedly going to be “The Fifth Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge” by Curt over on his “Analogue Hobbies” blog: http://analogue-hobbies.blogspot.co.uk

This looks set to be four months of painting mayhem as I try and paint up 500 points worth of models; a somewhat tough target bearing in mind I’ll only receive 5 points for every 28mm foot figure I paint during this time. Fortunately there will be a few themed submissions which will earn me extra points, and frankly I think I’m going to need to rely upon these to get the job done. Two of the themes will be ‘Hot’ and ‘Anti-Hero’, so I’ve already selected and based two “Heroclix” models for them. Indeed I think I’ll be spending a fair bit of time over the next few weeks getting models prepared and primed ready for the start date of 5^th December. The Hulk figure is actually one of two of the same model I’ll be painting as part of the challenge so I can send one to Curt as my (anti-hero) Challenge entrance fee.

The third model I’m currently pottering about with is Devil Dinosaur, a “Marvel Comics” character created by Jack “King” Kirby. Michael over at the “28mm Victorian Warfare” blog is having another Dinovember: http://28mmvictorianwarfare.blogspot.co.uk

I’m rather committed at present what with both Mo’vember and Oldhammer but I thought it was such a cracking idea that I couldn’t help but dig out the bright red Tyrannosaurus Rex and show my support by giving the rather large plastic model a lick of paint.