From GeoffT: A mixed bag (55 points)

Hello Challengers,

This week I have a mixed bag of miniatures.  11 x 28mm foot.

Three pulp figures, looks like gangsters.  One has a pig under his arm for some reason.  Six cave men for primeval Cro-Magnon faction, and two pygmies with blowpipes for Ghost Archipelago.

 

Figures with blowpipes were surprisingly scarce.  These ones from eureka.  Cavemen from slave2gaming.  Pulp miniatures from pulp miniatures oddly enough.

11 x 28mm infantry = 55 points, and a squirrel for the Cro-magnon faction.

Kind regards

Geoff.

From Millsy:

This is certainly a mixed bag Geoff!

A gangster, a pygmie and a caveman sounds like the start of some sort of weird joke but there's nothing funny about the quality of your work. That saturated blue is amazing and just the thing for your more dapper mob boss to step out in. Please tell me you have plans to run games using all these miniatures together!

55 cracking points added to your total mate.

Cheers,
Millsy

From AlanD: The Grahams! (100 points)

The start of this year has been even busier than expected, so it has taken me about 4 weeks to finally get this entry finished. I was starting to think the figures were cursed - every time I sat down to paint something there was some sort of interruption, including a power failure when I was looking forward to two solid hours of painting.

Anyway, here they are at last. I've continued working through my lovely Kickstarter stash of Border Reivers From Flags of War. The mounted figures are the Grahams, off to pillage sheep or burn something. The family vignette is particularly charming, I think, with mum and dad looking a bit Northumbrian Gothic. I particularly love the kids, riding their hobby horses with sticks in their hands and a cooking pot on the head, with not a mobile device or Minecraft game to be seen.

8 mounted and 4 foot should earn me 100 points. Thanks Millsy!

From Millsy:

Alan! I was starting to wonder if you'd fallen off the face of the earth and yet here you are mate.

Great to see another addition to your growing Border Reivers collection. They are such a unique looking bunch with their mix of Spanish style equipment and Scots bonnets. I think you've nailed the grey for the bonnets BTW.

The civilians are a nice touch and in skirmish games where so much of the focus can be on scenarios and interacting with NPCs these really add to the fun. Lovely brushwork too!

100 more points it is!

Cheers,
Millsy

From RichardM: Unusual Soldiers of the Queen (330 points)

The Sudan adventure continues this week with a number of the more unusual British and Empire units.

Firstly we have a few batteries of Gatling guns with their Naval crews.

Keeping with the naval theme, I have then done the Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI) battalion with their grey serge uniforms and white helmets and webbing.

And for even more naval action there is a battalion from the Naval Brigade in their sailor uniforms with the straw boater.  I bought these as a battalion when ordering from Pendraken, but from my reading so far it appears as though they were actually used to man the Gatling and Maxim guns and were not fielded as a formed battalion.  In any case, they look good, are different and are always seen in 28mm Sudan armies as a formed unit - so I am having them.

Next up is a unit of dismounted Camel Regiment troops to go with the mounted camels (a few who are accompanying them for flavour - but painted earlier) that I put up as one of my early entries.  These are a smaller unit to match the number of figures in the mounted regiment.

Lastly we have a regiment of Indian Lancers.  Both the 9th and 13th Bengal Lancers served in the Sudan campaign.  However, as I could not find much description of their field uniform I have loosely followed a picture in Mike Snook's Go Strong Into the Desert.  If anyone is interested in the 1885 campaign this is a wonderful book.  

For points, I reckon they work out as:

Gatling guns - 3 per gun and 3 crew so 6 * 6 = 36

RMLI - 60 foot figures = 60

Naval Brigade - 60 foot figures = 60

Dismounted Camel Regiment - 42 foot figures = 42

Bengal Lancers - 44 mounted = 132

Total = 330 points

From Millsy:

Crikey, a second POINTS BOMB in one week. There should be some sort of limiting factor to prevent Minion burn out!

Yet another gorgeous collection of Sudanese goodness mate. The blue is really striking and the sheer number of cavalry just bumps the wow factor even higher.

Loving the RMLI too which you don't often see, and Naval Brigade in sennet hats are iconic. The battery of Gatling guns is something else too. Do you have any Gardner guns as well?

330 brilliant points on your tally!

Cheers,
Millsy

From KerryT: The boys are in town - Landsknechts on the loose (430 points)

 Morning afternoon and evening all

After being away at the beach on holiday last week and therefore not painting or posting, picking up the brushes again has been enjoyable. I've been quite productive managing to knock off some more Landsknechts for my Italian Wars collection. This week I've managed some artillery and some vignettes, the latter providing me with an opportunity to shoehorn them in for a few bonus themes.

Here we go - Danteville

Look out, look out, Landsknechts are about

First up some Wargames Foundry Landsknecht artillery

Boom

I'm going to claim a violence bonus for these but I have to get to that level first 

To date, the only bonus point I've claimed is the Limbo bonus and I think that may have been when posting my second entry ages ago.

Finding myself  still stuck in the abyss, I am probably  lucky that there's quite a bit going on  in the nearby in town and there's no doubt that the behaviour of the participants is in fact abysmal! This is because of course the boys are in town and the Landsknechts have been let loose.

All are figures from Warlord Games' Italian Wars range

Casanova and camp follower about to roll in the hay

Well Moly Miggins shall it be a roll in the hayfield or the hayloft?

Looks like lusty behaviour to me

The glutton finds himself a piglet all to himself

Meanwhile back at the tavern, the greedy gamblers are playing dice

Oh bugger says Ray, I've just thrown a one

While at the bridge Cool hand Lucca fires off his ye olde version of six shooters

Do you feel lucky punk? Well do ya?

If he's not cross enough to be seen as wrathful then this little succubus should take me to the next level

Just a wee tipple then

There's no fiddler on this roof

Hey ho hey ho its off to war I go...

Natty dressers

Bless me father for I have sinned...

While around the corner heretics loot and burn the church

All the while, their commanders ponder the next move

A mixture of command figures at a council of war

Kaiser Maximillian looks on

A bird's eye view

Thus hopefully having managed to thread my way through lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy and finally violence I'm going to suggest that Landsknecht commanders whilst dressed like birds of paradise (see what I did there!) are never sure to fight and thus inconstant.

The cast.....

Thus in summary

4 guns each with 4 crew in 28mm @ 30 points each = 120 points

34  x 28mm foot figures @ 5 points each = 170 points

1 x 28mm Mounted figure @ 10 points

Theme bonus points for 

Abyss - lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, violence @ 20 points = 100 points

Paradise - Inconstant @ 20 points

Total - 430 points

I hope that's correct Millsy

Many thanks

Valleyboy

From Millsy:

POINTS BOMB!

Wowsers, I feel like I need a cuppa and a lie down after working my way through that lot! What an epic post Kerry. A good thing you had some time off as this must have taken an age to blog, never mind to actually paint the stuff.

It's impossible to pick just one thing from this post as a favourite so I'm going with the vignettes and overall quality for what stands out to me. Your tables are amazing at the best of times and having all this extra set dressing is just another level above.

I can't find a reference to justify the Heresy angle but all the other options for the Abyss are here and with great selections to suggest their particular sins. You math was slightly off I think and when I cranked up the abacus it comes to 430 points (without Heresy). If there's any fault I blame Miles and his evil spreadsheet!

Brilliant stuff once again. My head is still spinning mate!

Cheers,
Millsy