From KentG: Samurai Lord and 28mm Medieval slingers (75pts)

First up another command figure Fireforge resin miniature

Another nice figure 

All the slingers are 3D prints, broke one this morning just picking it up

I know a lot of people like this stuff but it’s really not me, hope they get to the

 customer in one piece 

For points  this week

13 foot @5pts each

1 mounted @ 10pts

Total 75pts

From Millsy:

Another lovely effort with the brush mate. Those smooth blends and muted tones on the slingers are just wonderful. It makes their samurai offside pop even more than he might otherwise with the saturated red.

I've found the likelihood of a break with 3D prints is very unpredictable and often down to the resin and how much they were cured. Some are just flexible enough, others feel flimsy from the get go. If a customer sent you them that's on them as I know how fanatical you are about safe packing.

Good stuff Kent. 75 more points for your tally.

Cheers,

Millsy

From Millsy: Late Roman skirmishing archers (100 points)

G'day All,

The weather has improved, the annual audit is done at work and life is good from a hobby POV. Things are moving along nicely once again in the Late Roman department now that varnishing can happen. Consequently I've got a bunch of skirmishing bowmen to share this week.

These are leftovers from both the Gripping Beast Late Roman and Dark Age infantry sets which I didn't want hanging about so painting them up for To the Strongest! made the most sense. They're sufficiently generic they could pass for any number of protagonists for the period I think which is always useful.

20 x 28mm infantry = 100 points

Next week will see the last of the Late Romans - a pile of cavalry, a little artillery and some command. I'm super excited to have them all done as I have a series of games on the horizon. Let's not think about how freshly painted troops typically perform eh?

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Millsy

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Great to see some more Romans rolling in Millsy. I have really enjoyed following this project during this edition of the Painting Challenge, and it has been great fun to have you as part of the Thursday crew!

As for the performance of freshly painted figures...well...I hope the dice gods will reward your efforts with favour and good luck! But in the event you end up marching off into miniature Adrianople, at least they'll be nice an varnished as they go down...

Another 100 points for you - thanks so much!

GregB

From GrahamB - Loads more Ancients (555 points)

More IT problems have delayed me posting these. I can’t find the settings on my iPad to enable me to upload photos to blogger so I have resorted to uploading photos from my telephone.

Anyway, in the meantime I have still been painting more ancients for my classical army’s for the Mithradatic wars and other Successor army’s. Firstly here is a unit of Successor Agema heavy cavalry. They can also serve as Cataphracts.  I don’t know the manufacturer as they were bought 2nd hand and given long spears from Aventine Miniatures and a spare Victrix Greek standard.

Secondly I have completed a small unit of 4 Scythian horse archers who will see service with various armies. I think they are A &A miniatures. The riders have separate legs and torsos allowing multiple poses.

Next are two Caesarian Roman units from Wargames Factory so have been in the plastic pile for years. I have enough Caesarian Romans already mainly in Red, so these have yellow and white tunics as well as a variation in shields to represent either Pompeys troops or imitation Legionaries or even Italian allies of the Romans or Successors.

Next up are a unit of 16 Greek Hoplites from Victrix Miniatures. They paint up and rank up very easily.

I have added three units of 6 generic ancient skirmishers, a mix of spare metal figures and cobbled together plastics giving one unit of bows, one old slingers and one unit of javelin men. 

Finally I have completed a unit of 16 Theurokitai from Aventine Miniatures for service with my Successors. They could also double up as imitation Legionaries.

So 16 x 28mm cavalry @ 10 pts = 120 points and 79 foot 28mm figures @ 5 points each = 395 points giving a total of 555points.

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That is...a lot of horses, a lot of riders, and a lot of guys...for a lot of points...

555 points it is!

GregB

From JamieM - Kings of War Ice Naiads (160 points)

In a rarely seen (for me anyway) feat of focus, I’ve kept cracking on with my Northern Alliance for Kings of War. I herewith present a Horde of Ice Naiads.

These are a mixed kit from Mantic where they reuse their Sea Naiad figures and add resin (and now 3d printed) parts to change them into Ice Naiads.

Fairly simple paint jobs, I decided that I wanted them to be wearing leather outfits a bit like the outfits in the Dune films.

Cheeky bit of multibasing and I quite like the way the blue hair/tentacles flow across the unit.

In game these units are annoying as they hinder others attacking them and regenerate and so they hang around whilst their more "hitty" friends pile in to smash up the entangled unit.

And I thought people might be amused at the fact that these are only ready as I had to go for a day to my kids’ swimming gala which meant I only watched when they raced, which gave me plenty of spare time. So I took a paint station and the paints and brushes and got some "Carhammer" painting in whilst catching up on some downloaded series.

Simple for the scoring - 30 x 28mm figures for 150 points.

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Focusing consistently on one project? I would suspect this had been some kind of hack, right up until the whole part about "Carhammer", which was the best and most hilarious part of this submission! I've been known to obsess about painting, but this level of commitment is tremendous, and should be applauded. 

Oh, and I hope the whole swimming gala went well. :-)

Lovely work on the Naiads - sounds like they are real pests on the battlefield! I have tossed in bonus points in order to acknowledge the effort on the hobby side even with 1-to-1 scale life events getting in the way!

GregB 

From DaveD - Landship Mark V - Bolsheviks (20 points)

Well it wouldn’t be a Thursday without me doing something for my Bolshevik army. So to keep that Thursday tally going here is some armour for my Bolsheviks . In the form of a British Mk V tank . The Brits shipped around 70 as part of their intervention effort to bolster the failing Imperial Russian forces They were used around Archangel and in the Southern front area.  Some were destroyed to stop them falling into enemy hands but some were captured and repurposed. The Brits used them with the Whites in 1919 attacking Tsaritsyn - eg Stalingrad , now Volgograd. Well my Bolos have acquired one.

Some were used in Tallin in 1941 against the Germans and were shipped back to Berlin as prizes, and after 45 ended up back in museums in the Soviet Union.

This is a big old beast. Two guns and four MGs. Very useful. Unrealiable as hell.   Even more so in the back of beyond.

 

This only arrived in the post on Tuesday, so it’s been a quick turn around. 

This is a 3d print piece that had the rails on the top to stick on and that was it . A dark olive green Tamiya  rattle can and green olive paint pen for the paint job , Black grey for the track's , then an oil wash and dry brush of beige brown. I added some tubing to carry a flag that can be removed or swapped out .  I found some large stars in the decals stash and added these then painted the hammer and plough emblem in the middle. 

I will look out for a suitable figure to use as a commander as one stood out of the  hatch waving a flag would look cool. 

What better than to use the imperialist's weapons against them. “Workers of the world unite!”

Points 1x 28mm vehicle - 20 

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Indeed it doesn't feel like Thursday without one more addition to this fabulous project. The silhouette of these armoured vehicles is notorious, another iconic piece of kit that really "makes" a period and setting jump out on the table. Your description of the work implies that this was something of a rushed job, and perhaps it was by your standards, but it looks terrific. 

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose except everything as the bolshevik filth steal all you have and kill you and everyone you love! Hmm...maybe they had a different slogan for the flags...I definitely need to try this as a project next year!

Another 20 points comrade Dave! Excellent stuff.

GregB

From GrahamB: Greeks and Roman Camels (210 points)

This week's submission has been in the lead pile for a long time.  These are the first Greek Hoplites I have ever painted in over 50 years of wargaming and have come out OK.  They are Old Glory figures that I purchased over 15 years ago when the figures were ridiculously good value, especially with a USD/GBP exchange rate, the Old. Glory army card discount and a stupidly cheap deal on.

Secondly here are some Hinchliffe ancient camels and camel riders.  These can appear as a small Roman unit or even substitute for several other classic army’s that used camels.    

30 Hoplites @ 5 pts = 150 plus 6 mounted @ 10 pts = 60 points.

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Very nice to see a Challenger tackle a subject they have been waiting on for a long time. Brings to mind my constant pledges to paint some 28mm Romans. I mean, I'll get to it one of these days... 

GregB

From DaveD - Guns for the Khalifa (113 points)

Here we have an artillery park for the Khalifa . This is part of an ongoing commission for Sudan figures - I may have painted a few in my time 😆. These will be used in an upcoming Kreigspielers campaign this summer and it’s made up of collection of random old guns and the Perry captured Egyptian gunners . 

4 emirs 

Two casualty figure bases with two figures on , and a “marksman” for the prone ones 

There is an enormous bombard which is 3d printed. I have made a pile off ammunition for it using 10mm ball bearings . The others are older muzzle loaders from the Pendraken 28mm ranges . 

There are also some single command figures and some markers 

Points 

12 full figures - 60 pts 

5 prone 12.5 

4 guns = 40 points 

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Have you painted any figures for the Sudan previously? I just can't recall...

Lovely stuff Dave - I particularly enjoy the bombard. It looks suitably impressive, loud and unsafe for its crew. 

Points wise, I have a slight adjustment, as the spreadsheet tells me this Khalifa Kannonade should work out to 113 points. And I lose all of the arguments with the spreadsheet. So that's 113 points for you!

GregB