Round 9 - The Artillerist vs. Tarzan and Family

[Prof.Witchheimer]

[Mancha]

Tarzan and family impresses me in all sorts of ways.  Their flesh is great; the ape and elephant look like they could walk off the page; and while I guess having animal team-members for Tarzan's family makes complete sense, this still strikes me as very original entry.

[Vanvlak]

The first pairing I see in this round, and it's already a tough decision.... 

[Poliorketes]

The fifth impossible decision, this is the toughest round so far! Who does that arquebusier?

[Ray Rivers]

Captain Blood unleashes another great entry... but Tarzan... 

[Captain Blood]

You know, this is my most meticulously painted entry of the whole sodding competition - 17 shades of turquoise, carefully layered, hand-mixed in the eye of a needle... And I come up against... an elephant and a chimp!

Who can compete against an elephant and a chimp? Curse you, Bugsda 

You have caught me sir, like a Treen in a disabled spaceship. 

[Hammers]

Voting either way will sting a bit.

[argsilverson]

Another tough decision.

I must confess that the originality in Tarzan and family is first class.

I casted a die to find out which one to vote

[Admiral Benbow]

Another hard to decide pairing: very high painting standard on the Artillerist, but the Tarzan family looks so as an integrated whole and is very well painted on top, they get my vote this time.

[Captain Blood]

The fifth impossible decision, this is the toughest round so far! Who does that arquebusier?

The foreground minis are from Game Zone which is a Spanish Games Workshop tribute band. 

Their Imperial range includes lots of slightly exaggerated / fantastical types, but quite a few will pass muster as historical figures for my ever growing Elizabethan swashbuckling collection...

As you can see, the figures have bundles of character, and some are rather lovely. I thought the gunner in particular was a sculpt of real genius...

Obviously without quite the appeal of a beautifully painted elephant though 

[Aaron]

Apologies Captain Blood. Stunning work on those artillerists, but that Lion clinched it for me. I swear the scantily-clad Mrs. Tarzan had nothing to do with it!

[Bugsda]

Sorry Captain, I can see how using half naked women and cute animals can look like gamesmanship but it wasn't deliberate, honest

[Heldrak]

Apologies Captain Blood. Stunning work on those artillerists, but that Lion clinched it for me. I swear the scantily-clad Mrs. Tarzan had nothing to do with it!

I agree about the Lion (although the entire family is frankly brilliant). Bugs' can we get a color recipe for the Lion?

[Captain Blood]

Sorry Captain, I can see how using half naked women and cute animals can look like gamesmanship but it wasn't deliberate, honest

Bugsda - you go on, my son 
Personally, I thought you were a little short-changed in the voting stakes in one or two of your earlier encounters this season, so you are well deserving of a romping home run IMHO.

I have that Jane figure too, I've added her to my cave tribe - her panga is now a flint knife - and she's a/w painting. I shall tackle her with even more care when I get round to her now... 

[Bugsda]

Yeah! She's definately got a touch of the Raquel Welch's, excellent as a cavegirl.

I've got a spare so I may have to nick that Idea Cap'n. 


 Heldrak, the lion was done in either Plaka Yellow Ochre or Inscribe Caramel over a plaka brown undercoat, with added white for successive layers.