From PaulSS - A trip around the outer ring, plus some Curtgeld (95 Points)

Leaving Caprica we first venture to the Death Star where we find Patrick Harper armed with his seven barreled Nock gun.

In 1780, 500 Nock guns were purchased by the Royal Navy at a price of £13 per gun. However, attempts to use the gun during combat quickly revealed design flaws. The recoil caused by all seven barrels firing at once was more powerful than had been thought, and frequently injured or broke the shoulder of whoever was firing the gun, and in any case made the gun very difficult to control. Furthermore, officers were reluctant to issue the guns during battle out of fear that the flying sparks would set fire to the surrounding rigging and sails.

Quite a design flaw indeed!

The Patrick Harper model is from the British Rifles Veterans Command set from Brigade Games, and really captures Daragh O'Malley in the role.

Moving on from the Death Star we are guided to Sarah's Star Yacht by one of the lovely young ladies from The Gem. 

This charming minx is also from Brigade Games, she promised that for the right price her sisters will also be forthcoming in the near future.

We alight from Sarah's Star Yacht at Glorantha and immediately one of the locals asks if we have encountered "That bastud Hakeswill" we have not but are soon engage in a conversation with Lieutenant Sharp of the 95th Rifles who really is quite the hero if his biographer is to be even half believed.

Again Hicksy really did capture the likeness of  Sean Bean in the British Rifles Veterans Command set from Brigade Games.

Finally, our Curtgeld for Challenge XII, a Confederate officer and his drummer from the Perry Miniatures  American Civil War Confederate Infantry set. 

Three 28mm foot figures and two 28mm mounted figures with the three location and Curtgeld bonuses should add 115 points to the board for me.

American Civil War Duel Totalizer: 27 foot (197pts)

Napoleonic Duel Totalizer: 8 foot, 2 mounted (100pts)

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Hello again Paul, welcome back to another Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. As always, your brushwork is extremely impressive, managing to get a look that is at once blended and smooth, while still clear and clean. There are days when I swear to myself I will attempt to get those results, but it never seems to happen for me!

In terms of scoring, there are no bonus points for "Curtgeld" this year - all we are asked to do is make a donation to Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation, a worthy charity based in Saskatoon supported safe spaces for injured and orphaned wild animals. If you are able to donate, please remember to note that you are a participant in the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.

So that works out to 75 95 points for you! Given your frenetic rate of painting production, we are all expecting more soon!

Greg

From EdwardG - 15mm Medieval Men With Sharp Pointy Things (72 Points)

Evening all,

Happy to say I have managed to complete some further miniatures by this weeks' deadline. The challenge is really zipping along at pace and I must admit I am already starting to worry about my grand plans and trays of undercoated minis! :D

However, on to the minis that I have for today. 

These are 12 elements of in DBM speak Blade (X) or possibly (F). Which for other medieval rules means are chaps with choppy bladed weapons who are either good against knights, or move in a faster more open formation. My original idea was to represent Germans or Bohemians with them. But really they are any generic medieval bloke with a pointy stick in north western Europe. 

Oddly for freshly painted troops these minis have already had their first battle. I had a spontaneous game with a friend over the Christmas holidays and these troops were fielded as Danes (without finished bases!) As is the proper way of things for freshly painted troops, they were quickly beaten and destroyed! 

The minis themselves come from Museum miniatures, and while they are nice sculpts, they are on the large side for 15mm and sadly don't mix very well with my other medieval minis. However, I am still happy to use them as on the table as their own unit.

The side that faces the opponent, with all the sharp spikey parts that remain sharp and spikey until I roll a 1, after which the men realise they visited the LARP armoury rather than a real one before leaving camp that morning...

The player's view, with all the nicely painted helmets to brighten up your(my) day, or the day of the opponent as he watches them run away...

And a side view for good measure...I think someone has just opened the bar on the left flank...

That wraps up my entry for this week. Not a massive points bomb, but another small climb higher towards the points goal peak. 

As for points I calculate:

36 15mm foot minis x 2pts = 72 pts

Thanks all and catch you next week!

Best,
Ed 

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Hello Ed - thanks for this submission. I appreciated your reference to "DBM-speak", as I have no earthly idea how that game works, even though so many hobby folks play it and clearly enjoy it! These fellows equipped with "sharp pointy things" look the business, and I'm sure they will serve well in DBA/DBM or whichever other rules call them to be deployed in honourable toy-soldier service on the gaming table! 72 points for you. 

Greg

From JamieM - Carnevale Guild and Rashaar (Glorantha) (48 points)

This post is going to concentrate on some figures for Carnevale that I have finished.

Carnevale is a game now published by TTCombat, who started off as a company that produces low cost MDF scenery. They then purchased the Carnevale game from Vesper-on-Games, which is a game set in an alternate history Venice, where a great Rent split the sky and delivered magic and monsters from another dimension.

The synergistic benefits identified by TTCombat was that it’s a game that plays best with lots of scenery and they were just the people to provide that at a very reasonable price. Without further ado - the figures:

This lot consist of 4 members of the Guild, which is essentially the criminal underworld, and a monster from the Rashaar.

These first two are an Arbelast and a gondolier. Being played in Venice means you can punt gondolas around the table to get around more quickly.

The arbelast provides some ranged support with his crossbow and the gondolier has strapped some metal to her oar to hit monsters harder!

These next two are a shadowy Rialto Assassin and a Fisherwoman. I gave the Rialto assassin a deeper red cloak than the red I used on rest of the mob.

Smashing sculpts and they’ve done a nice job of mixing genders in the figures. These two act as Heroes in the game and are more capable than the Henchmen level characters shown above.

This ‘orrible looking chap is a monster from the Rashaar faction called a Lesser Rhyll. Even more terrifying than the prospect of spending a weekend in the Welsh seaside resort of Rhyl, he uses his tentacles to do unspeakable things to the good people of Venice.

The Rashaar monsters have a set of (mostly) human followers - the Church of Dagon, who spread the word that they aren’t nearly as bad as they look and are actually benevolent and should be our masters. The good citizens of Venice remain to be convinced.

The game itself is great fun, with a simple yet deep set of rules that encourages characters to bounce around the scenery like a giant game of Parkour. These figures are intended to give me a couple of small forces to lend to potential players to draw them in……. Here are a couple of pictures of a game in action.

 

So, scoring wise I make it five figures, they’re probably 32-35mm tall, but I’ll stick with 28mm scoring for simplicity’s sake.

The two Hero characters will hopefully hit the Glorantha requirement as you have to be some sort of Hero (even a criminal one) to face off against the monsters of the Rashaar!

So 25+20 gives me a nice 45 points for this submission.

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Hello again Jamie! Glad to see you back in The Challenge once again. Carnavale looks to be great fun, and your fine brushwork is a credit to these excellent characters. Have to say, your Lesser Rhyll makes me terrified of both Rhyl and the possible existence of a Greater Rhyll!

 

Scoring-wise, these are hefty figures, so I will toss a couple of extra points on to the pile because I am a Minion and I can do that sort of thing now and again! Well done, we look forward to more from you!

 

Greg 

From SylvainR: 6mm RAF and Luftwaffe airplanes (64 points)

 

Bonjour,

It has been a while since my last Challenge, in 2017. I am back and my goal is to clean up a few of my boxes of unpainted miniatures. About 10 years ago, a friend of mine sold me part of his huge collection of WW2 miniatures in 6mm scale. If many models are painted, and quite well, the majority are not and I also decided to re-base everything. Anyway, the first project of this new enterprise is to paint the British and German airplanes from the lot and use them to play aerial combat. I tried “Watch Your 6" with my group, but the rules did not feel very intuitive nor fluid. I am looking for a fun set of rules for WW2 aerial combat and suggestions are welcome.

I already painted (or refreshed) 30 airplanes before the Challenge, so what I am presenting today are models I painted since December 21st, 2021.

Here are 10 airplanes from the RAF collection.

First, there are 4 Spitfires. The planes are from different manufacturers (and most of them are quite old models) and I can’t identify the origin of most of them with certainty. Except for CinC because assembling all those minuscule parts on those tiny flimsy models always make me swear a lot. The Spitfires in the background are painted in the livery of No. 144 Wing, which was made up of Canadian pilots.

Now 3 Typhoons. Please note the “D-Day” pattern on the under part of the fuselage, to help Allied AA gunners avoid friendly fire. Since the models are so tiny at this scale, I decided not to add numbering on the wings or fuselage. I just used decals for the roundels, that I got from GHQ. The Typhoons are from CinC and just a nightmare to assemble.

The larger plane in the back is a Fairey Battle, a single engine bomber that was soon relegated to training duties. The other plane is a Hurricane with markings for the Belgian air force. Only 18 such planes were ready when Germany invaded France in 1940. 

This is an Avro Lancaster in night bombing colors and the model is a very, very  old, with sparse details. I had to “suggest” the various canopies and turrets with light blue paint. This model is also made of pure lead. I hesitated for a while about throwing it away, but finally decided to keep it and paint it. It’s not like I’m going to lick it or ingest bits of it. Hey, a model is a model and it looks good in the game. Now in regards to points, I would like to suggest that a single engine plane is worth 2 points, a twin engine plane be worth 3 points and a tri- or quad- engine plane be worth 4 points. So the 10 RAF planes would be worth 22 points.

Sorry about this photo, I did not realize when I took it that it was so blurry. I just wanted to show the planes of the Luftwaffe collection together.

 

 First are six Focke-Wolfe 190, including four “Dora-9", also known as “Long Nose”. I decided to paint my planes in pairs of the same color. Note the tank in the background, mounted on a now obsolete Canadian penny, for scale reference.

Next we have four Messerschmitt 262. Note how the too large decals on the darker planes, in the background, make them look like toys. Oh well, lesson learned. I should have kept the larger decals for larger planes.

Two Messerschmitt 410 and one Junker 88 P-4, with a ventral 50mm gun. I decided to use Citadel colors for camouflage on the Junker, but immediately regretted my decision. It turned out way too bright. Almost all the colors I used are from Tamiya, because their color palette, although very dark, is well adjusted for military models.

Two Messerschmitt 110. I really like how the camouflage turned out on these ones.

Two DFS 230 gliders. With these, I now have 12 German gliders completed, and I will have to design a scenario involving paratroopers on a voyage gone bad.

Two Ju-52, also tenderly known as “Aunt Ju”. Big models made of lead, again. I chose for these guys the camouflage used for the assault on Crete. Now for the count, there are 12 single (or no-) engine planes worth 2 points each ( I will count the Me 262s as single engine planes, because of their small size), 5 two engine (3 points each) and 2 tri-engine (4 points each), for a total of 47 for the Luftwaffe, and 69 points for this whole project.

That’s it for today. Thanks for reading!

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Hello Sylvain, and welcome back to The Challenge! I still fondly recall your "Viet Cron" from back in the day...

Anyone undertaking 6mm aircraft is either very committed, or maybe should just be committed? Very tricky stuff that - very tricky. And there are some favourites here as well, from the crackers-looking JU-52s to (my favourites) the Typhoons - such a fine ground attack craft! Points-wise, there is a slight adjustment, as most all of these will score as 6mm vehicles - however, for the super big ones I count each as two vehicles, giving a total of 64 points. 

Looking forward to more!

Greg

From George S. - Arda - Lord of the Rings Gothmog, 28mm and Roman 60mm figures for Glorantha (145 Points)

 It took me a while to start on this challenge but finally made it to have some things ready :)

So, I'm starting my trip on the Quadrant by Arda on the outer orbit. Something Tolkienesque...

Here we have the two versions of Games Workshop 28mm Gothmog, commander of the Orks.

 

 

     About scoring , I think I get 15 points for them and 20 for the quadrant challenge..

 

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Next stop on my trip will be Glorantha - Something Heroic something on quest..

 

So here we have a small group of Heroic Roman Praetorians with their officer fighting Heroic battles on their quest of conquer the world...(...??) The figures are 1:30 scale (60mm) made by Expeditionary Force. About scoring , there are 9 figures there X 10 points = 90 + 20 for the challenge = 110 points.

So if I'm correct I have gained 155 points and two cleared planets on the map...

 

With this first post I would like to thank Curt and all the people who are hardly working for this challenge!! Good luck and happy painting to all participants!!

'till next post...

Keep Up The Brushes!!

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Hi George - thanks for this submission. It is always cool to see LOTR figures - in fact, I was reading an earlier post from another Challenger and was shocked to learn that these fantasy books had been adapted into a series of films! Who knew? This builds on my fascination with the setting :-)

But setting that aside, I would really love to know more about these Roman figures - and how did you do the shields? Decals? Freehand? I'm always threatening to paint Romans, and handling the shields stops me about 99.9% of the time...so well done. In all, that will be 145 points for you.

 

A reminder to all participants - we do have a whole three months, so feel free to space out those visits to different plants, alright? 

 

Greg