From Michael P: At the Court of the Elven Queen (25 pts)

My final Thursday entry includes these four 28mm female elves from the fantasy range of the UK's Heresy Miniatures.   I entered two other Heresy figures earlier in the Challenge, and continue to be impressed by this company.  Their sculpts are delicate, graceful, and are great fun to paint.


These four elven ladies will be leader and character figures for my LOTR collection as well as for my elven army in Dragon Rampant, which has a decidedly matriarchal theme.  I am hoping that the lovely Sarah will smile kindly on one of these and, like a Galadriel of the prairies, grant a sign of her favour.

The mysterious elven queen, doing a passable imitation of Lady Galadriel complete with palantir.  Or maybe she's at the bowling alley, who knows?

Shamaness / druidess / hippy chick.  Definitely my favourite figure of the lot.  She will be useful as a magic user in Dragon Rampant.  Fun fact: her cape is painted using Vallejo Luftwaffe Uniform, which makes a very satisfying elven cloak, I think.

Captain of archers and mistress of rangers:

Captain of swords and leader of the chaotic, scantily dressed unit I call "Galadriel's Grrrls":







The girls like to take heads.  I don't think their new boss will mind, somehow.


Finally there is this barbarian warrior with the big ... axe on the left.   I was ordering some Reaper figures recently and couldn't resist adding this Reaper Bones figure to the cart, as I thought that Kevin the Barbarian could use a ladyfriend.   Don't they look happy? They look like they have stepped out of the pages of Cerebus the Aardvaark.  (They struck sparks on Tinder, and used that fire to burn a village).

I feel like I should personally apologize to Annie the Dice Bag Lady, champion of realistic female miniatures, for having painted blondie here and her chainmail monokini.

So that completes my entries for this year's AHPC, other than my curtgeld figure to be unveiled this weekend.   Thank you Curt and the minions for organizing and doing this.   I am pleased that I exceeded my modest goal for this year.  When I choose 500 points, it was at a rather dark time when my wife had undergone two emergency surgeries for cancer and I didn't think she would make it to spring.   The Challenge gave me something to focus on and was good for my mental health.  Kay is doing remarkably well now, things are under control, and the fact that I could exceed my goal is a reflection of how well things have gone.

Blessings all.

Mike the Mad Padre

Padre, these are some very nice models. I really like your pallet choice on the elfish ladies as well. The wizardess/shaman bears a striking resemblance to Daenerys Targaryen of the show Game of Thrones. I imagine that may aid her performance on the table as Daenerys is a briliant tactician both on the battlefield and in the political realm. She is my favorite of the bunch. I quite like the Heresy style and as my older girls have elvish forces, I may have to seek out some heresy models for them to add to their forces.

The barbarian girl is a little "cheeky"! I'm sure you will be forgien as she is painted very well. She does seem to be a fitting companion to Kevin too!

I have enjoyed very much being your minion for this outing and you were amoung the few  fellows on the list that I knew beforehand! I am very glad that you came along and even more glad to know your wife is doing better. You were missed in the last outting, so I was very pleased to see you in the list for this one. I have really liked your LotR entries and the proxy models that you have sourced as I've still a ways to go in completeing my own LotR forces and proxies may fill some bit of that list. I look forward to seeing what else you come up with, but I'm sure that Mrs Padre will soon have you busy with 1:1 gardening projects!