From RossM: 15mm Hoplites and 10mm AFV (106 points)

Another Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is ending soon and here are my last entries. 

Before the pictures I'd like to thank Curt and all the minions for making this possible. It is a great idea to bring people together through their passion for painting "wee men" - and ladies of course. Hat off to you all and many, many thanks for doing this over the last twelve years.

Whilst this year, I didn't achieve as much as I would have liked too I did realise that people say one thing at a time for a reason: it lets you finish things off! I have something like 400 points of primed, partially painted figures and vehicles that I just didn't have the time to complete. Plenty to keep me going as spring starts to blossom and the light returns to northern hemisphere. 

Now onto the figures and the first set are of a very old Hoplite army that was gifted to me just before the end of 2021. The figures are mostly from minifigs and are chunky and poorly sculpted in comparison to many of their modern counterparts. However, they take paint, will create either an allied force in ADLG or a DBA army with several different options due to the range of figures for this army. 

The first rank consists of two stands of light infantry archers (Ps) and two of archers (3Bw). 

Behind the first rank there are two stand of slingers and javelinmen (Ps) which are better seen in the pic below. 

The final rank holds a stand of auxiliaries (3Ax), four stands of hoplites (4Sp), one heavy and one light cavalry. 

There are another six stands of hoplites, four of peltasts and two light cavalry still to be completed for this army. 

Next,  the start of a small force for the Afrika Korp to be used in Big Chain of Command in 10mm.

The vehicles are digital printed and include a Pz MkIII J and three SdKfz 251/1 in glorious 10mm. 

This is a new scale for myself and involved working out a way to paint the vehicles that is catches the eye and reflects the style of painting used on the vehicles themselves. You can see how I did this here

The infantry and other vehicles for this are a part of the almost finished figures mentioned above. 

In terms of points, this takes the scores on the doors to:

37 x 15mm infantry - 74 points

5 x 15mm cavalry - 20 points

4 x 10mm vehicles - 12 points

For a subtotal of 106 and final total of 253 which just passes my revised Challenge score.  (1% over my revised Challenge Total and 34% of my original 750 points total)

Thanks again and I look forward to seeing the remaining posts for this year and starting to plan for AHPC XIII!

Cheers, Ross

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What a wonderful mix of figures from two eras. While I always like seeing hoplites, I have to say I particularly like those 10mm DAK vehicles for Big Chain of Command. I'll be checking out your link for sure. Well done Ross! I know what you say about best laid plans, but I think you did a great job with what you got completed.  Just think, you now have a few hundred point ready to go for Challenge XIII ! :)

- Curt