Relic Knights Objectives

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Candy and Cola

Candy and Cola are iconic figures from Relic Knights by Soda Pop.  There are so famous that other games companies have included them in completely unrelated games - we have Candy and Cola miniatures for Kingdom Death, for example.  Even in Relic Knights, Candy and Cola make several appearances and I actually have 3 different version of Candy.

This version was a Kickstarter bonus.  All the factions were given an "alternate universe" version of an existing character.  These were not normal part of the faction, this version is part of Cerci Speed Circuit and Candy is normally a Prismatic and they were all dressed as famous anime characters.  Initially, these were "cosplay characters" but by the time the game was released, they were called Darkspace characters and their studio colour schemes were altered a little from the anime originals, a copyright/licensing/trademark issue I guess.  Still, we all know who these guys are!

So here's the Darkspace Candy and Cola painted to match Street Fighter's Chun Li and Ryu.  This is a characteristic pose of Chun Li from Street Fighter, a popular video game.  Also Candy's abilities in Relic Knights match Chun Li's fighting style.  It's a really good copyright infringement crossover:

I am really pleased with little Cola, but Candy's face will need to be repainted.  Honestly, the sculpt is not great (it's a bit flat) and I am not a free hand painter.  Her sheer stockings defeated me too.  But they make a cute pair based up together.

Royal Wrecker

I painted the Royal Wrecker for my Relic Knights Cerci crew a while ago and wanted to come back and touch it up.  I guess it's been long enough for me to know that's not going to happen!

I'm not good at shading the large flat panels and often end up with too little contrast.

Here's everyone together:

Relic Knights - Game 3

Our papercraft table top is growing!  It's been fun playing Relic Knights on more than just a tablecloth.

We had some more scenery on the table for game 3.  It is not quite finished - I have not colored the folded seams yet - but it fills the table and already looks good.

In this game, the Cerci Speed Circuit biker gang raced around the table top, sabotaging objectives quickly, setting a new lap time record.  They settled into pounding the Star Nebula Corsairs primary objective and finally destroyed it as the space pirates started to wipe the biker chicks off the table.

Another win for Cerci!

Starting positions:

Rin hides!  No, she's sabotaging that objective:

Sue moves out!  Kate has brought a knife (and a bomb) to a gunfight!

Rin takes the high ground.  Unfortunately, she was killed before she could get in position to shoot:

The biker chicks crowd the SNC's primary objective.  The Wrecker was destroyed during this skirmish, but Sue destroyed the objective for the win!

10 VPs for Cerci!  Anarchy (secondary), Lap Time (faction) and then Tear It Down (primary).

Big Hair Day

My first mini of the new year is Rin Farrah, from Soda Pop.  She is part of my Cerci Speed Circuit crew.

I struggled with the paint scheme.  Generally, I don't like copying the studio colours and I already had a strongly orange mini in the crew, so I had two reasons for going my own way.  But the studio colours are great and I did not think I could do any better.  It's always a bad start knowing your colour scheme is not the best, even if you can pull of a perfect paint job.

Anyway, I came up with something in the orange region of the spectrum and I think she's just fine.  I'm not good at the flat black guns and she is very tiny, so some of the layering got covered over, but still I'm happy.

She's no Farrah trademark blonde, but that's still some big hair:

So I now have a 46 point Cerci crew.  Pretty close to 50, one of the standard sized games of Relic Knights.

Hey! Where's Rollo?

Relic Knights Mini-Update

Did you see what I did there?

Just a quick update to show the Suicide Queen, a Questing Knight from my Cerci Speed Circuit battle force.  She's like a mini-boss for this biker gang.  I don't think this mini is for sale yet - I got it on Kickstarter and I have not seen it in there e-Shop.

As normal, not enough contrast!  I'll chant that 10 times before the next paint job.

Now I have a fully painted Cerci crew and I am one unit short for a Corsair force ... guess what I am painting next?

Relic Knights - First Knight

Well, I've managed to do a little more on my Relic Knights forces.  The miniatures are not wonderful, so the goal was to clean and paint them quickly, and not to get too obsessed with getting everything perfect.  Well, I managed the "not being perfect" part ;-).  Blowing them up this large really shows the mistakes.

First, we have Betty, who is partnered with Lug in the previous post.  These pictures are really bright, a little more saturated than real life, but the wonky eye is all my own work.  They are from the Cerci Speed Circuit, whose faction colour is green, hence the base, and she is green Creation Esper Initiate, hence the little green crystal.

Calico Kate is the largest figure I have painted from this line, my first Relic Knight.  She's part of the pirate Star Nebula Corsairs faction.  She is similarly colour coded.

This is quite a large figure, it is on an 80mm base.  I painted a few Games Workshop Titans a long time ago, they were also this size.  I loved the eye patch - just one eye to paint for Kate ;-)

Anyway, we are just a few minis away from playing a fully painted game!

A Few Nights of Relic Knights Painting

Here are a couple more Relic Knights minis, from Soda Pop Miniatures.

Lug is large, and to be honest, not well cast.  I had trouble cleaning him up, which shows.  The large smooth surfaces need to be blended carefully.  My yellows has poor coverage and I needed several coats ... and for some reason the paint went really gritty.  Enough whining, take a look.

The small yellow crystal is a reminder that he is an Essence Initiate- the yellow power source in the game.  I like this pose.

The shading is not bad but he's a bit bland.  Anyway, he is another miniature painted.

Rollo was fun to do, but he is tiny.  The large multicoloured crystal shows he's an Esper Master.  Both Rollo and Lug are part of the Cerci Speed Circuit faction, hence the green bases.

Equally small was Skully, also an Esper Master.  He's part of the Star Nebula Corsairs, hence the egg yolk yellow base.

The game is fun and you do not need a lot of minis.  I might have two small forces soon.