Relic Knights Objectives

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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).

Monster of a Mini

I'm back after a bit of a break.

I painted Kenobo for our Relic Knights Star Nebular Corsairs force.  It was much harder than it looked.  I did not clean it well enough (I am not sure that is possible).  The red Noh skin is tricky to paint.  The blending is wonky and the NMM is not good.  But he is painted and now we have two 50 pt forces!

Go Pirates!

Relic Knights NMM

So I finally tried some NMM on a fun mini from Relic Knights, the Iron Chef (part of the Star Nebular Corsair faction).  Perhaps a mini with a thin sword and more curved armor would have been a better choice, but it was time to try it.  Also, this guy has a pretty limited palette, mainly grays and browns but there is the odd splash of color here and there.  I have not worked with black or white before, so there were many challenges here.

My blending is not quite up to the job, but I think it's close.  The pictures are little "posterized" - you can see the transitions pretty clearly.  As everyone says, the mini is a little better in real life.  I kept the white jacket a little grey, so that there was some room for the whites on the steel to pop.

He was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.  On the whole, I am pretty pleased with the result.

I'm pleased with the shading on the fry pan and the leather knife scabbard on his back.

    

I'll call him Marmod Ramsay.  His attacks are:

Back to Cerci Speed Circuit next ... or maybe some scenery for the game.

Ready for a Game of Relic Knights

So the Star Nebula Corsairs are ready!  With the completion of these Blowhards, we have two 35 point Relic Knights forces - enough for a fully panted game.  We have played already and it is really good fun.  I might do some scenery or objectives next.

With this pair of minions, I was really focusing on increased contrast and good separation of the colours. Not quite black lining, but enough of the really dark shade left at the edge of the blocks to be close.  I'm quite pleased with the result, but I think those lines could be a little thinner.

And here is the force, all together.

Hope you like them.

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.