From Jonathan O - Ancient Assyrian Slingers (45 points)

 My first post of this challenge!  These are 25mm Ancient Assyrian slingers from Lamming Miniatures.  They are not the 50 year old ones, but are new castings from the old ranges that are available again.  

I am hoping this challenge will help me recover my enthusiasm to make progress on a few existing / unfinished projects.  Progress has been a bit slow for newly painted figures, but I have also been finishing off a few in progress ones left over from the previous challenge.

Points:

9 x 25mm figures = 45 points.

Jonathan

Just under the wire for today.  Lovely to see some Assyrians.  And Lamming?  I haven’t heard tha5 name since the 70s.  Maybe show us some close ups next time.

From AndrewG: Fantasy/Sci-Fi Characters, Creatures, [squirrel] (130 points)

I’ve had a growing interest in a number of skirmish adventure games lately – rules like Frostgrave, Guards of Traitor’s Toll (GoTT), Five Leagues from the Borderlands (5LFTB), Five Parsecs from Home and Stargrave to name a few. As most of my miniatures collection consists of historical units, I’ve started plugging away at a few warbands for these other games.

This first group is a detachment of 9 city guards in Lady Eryka’s colours for GoTT. You only need 6 figures or so to play co-op or competitive, but the rules recommend up to 9 figures for solo play so I went with that. These models are plastics produced by Wargames Atlanticand are an absolute joy to build and paint. Nice sculpts overall that are detailed without drowning in it (looking at you Warhammer).

For games of GoTT you need about two dozen townsfolk to populate your busy streets – everything from thugs to barmaids - so I have started getting stuck in on creating a variety of a different folks. Again, these figures are plastics from WGA and I was impressed with how much variety one can achieve from a single box. As well, as with most plastic figures they scale well with many other sets so kit bashing possibilities are endless.

A bit of detail - tattoos on the arms. The dagger is from a Warlord Games Dark Ages set

My only criticism of the WGA plastic sets is that there are surprising few pouches and daggers on the town guard and townsfolk sprues, especially given that the guards have waist belts suggesting they're carrying extra weapons or gear. I had to dig some out of the bits box to give my figures the bare essentials - something to keep in mind when building these.

For games of Frostgrave and 5LFTB I needed some good old fashioned baddies to fight and nothing says evil like a bunch of cultists. This first batch were built straight from a box of Northstar/Osprey Frostgrave plastic Cultists. Again, there are nice clean sculpts with great detail – easy to assemble and quick to paint up.

The 4 rats are also destined for Frostgrave. These critters are old Reaper metal figures that I bought forever ago and were just sitting. Super quick paint job and a bit of winter basing to match the genre.

Last in this week’s entry – two more test figures for the next warbands I’m working on. First, a second detachment for GoTT in different livery. Second, a sneak peak at a kit bashed Frostgrave Gnoll for a new Stargrave or Five Parsecs from Home warband. More pics of him and his companions to follow in a future post.

Thus, this week I’m claiming the following points:

22 x 28mm figures = 110 pts

4x 28mm giant rats = 20 pts

1x Squirrel points – different genres

Total = 130 points.

Wow Andrew that's a fantastic bunch of figures in several factions, and that doesn't include the Terrain bits that I weeded out for Byron to admin on Sunday.  really like that guard set in the green, especially the stocky officer with his blue hat and feathers.  You've done some fine wrk wit these various plastic kits.  A shame about the lack of pouches etc on the WGA kit.  Have a look at some of the Victrix dark age kits, they have spare bits and bods and I think the torsos would work well with your other figures.   I have counted the rates as 5 points each like a human or large animal as they are giant rats!

KenR - 28mm French Napoleonic Command - 50 pts

 

The older I get the less I seem to actually read stuff and make some interesting "mistakes", last year I left a load of painting to the last minute, finished it off and went to post it only to find the Challenge finished the day before !

This is (or was !) my Empire Bonus Round which I was convinced ended on the 21st January but in fact had passed last week 😆 

These are for my Plancenoit Project and are part of Lobaus French Corps, normally I complete a project and realise I haven't done any Command Stand and this time I was determined not to be caught out, so I've started with them.

Here is the first base, 3 28mm mounted figures on a 80mm round base, all the figs are from the Perry Miniatures French Napoleonic Range and this is the make up for my Division Commanders, there is a General de Division accompanied by an Infantry Colonel and an Adjutant. 

The second base is a Brigade Command and consists of 2 mounted (ish) figures, an Infantry Colonel and another Adjutant. I love this figure and it's one of my favourite in the range, the Adjutant has dismounted and is using the horse as a place to rest his telescope (great pose but not convinced it would be that steady)

So that's 5 28mm mounted figures at 10 points each for another 50 points, half the amount they would have been if I read to the end of the sentence 😆

Fine print?  Who's got time for that nonsense.  I missed the empire round altogether.  Well I am sorry not to see these fine command stands in the Empire theme round, I am quite happy to minion them here.  I also really like the guy with the telescope, but share your doubts as to the steadiness of the rest.

From SebastianR: Some kind of automaton (5 points)

It’s been a bit of a rough start to the year and that has really eaten into my painting time, so I'll keep this brief. With the deadline looming I offer up this lil’ guy to stake my claim and keep the window open for the hodgepodge of projects to come.

This was a super simple paintjob; metallics and a bit of red for the eye washed with seraphim sepia to bring out the detail. The main colour is Vallejo bronze but it looks pretty golden to me. Maybe I dont know what polished bronze looks like.

His base has no makers mark and I have no idea what he’s supposed to be. He’s a little bit Pathfinder Iron Gods, a little bit Eberron Warforged, a little bit World of Warcraft. 

What he is, is 1 28mm figure for 5pts.

Well you may just be squeezing in before the deadline, but really glad to see that you've made it.  I too have a lot of real life going on in 2026, which has affected my painting time considerably.

What a splendid little automaton, but I'll try to keep on its good side.  I particularly like the steampunk look that the bronze colour gives it.  Welcome aboard.

From SylvainR: D&D Last of the heroes (35 points)

   

These are the last of the D&D heroes for my current project, who could also be used as NPCs. Don't adjust the brightness of your screen, all of these guys have dark skin, for diversity.

Wearing red garments, two fighters ready to join a party. For this batch, I embraced the "manga hair" trend with colors such as green, blue or pink.

 

Two druidesses dressed in light green. The powdery effect on the blue skirt looks like magic sprinkles... but I have to be honest, my white dry brush went a little wrong...

 

Two female monks (nuns?) sporting white garbs. White clothing is always a challenge.

 

 Lastly, a bard with a sitar. Gender undetermined, hair definitely blue.

 Points claimed:

7 x 28mm foot figurines at 5 points each = 35 points

Total = 35 points

Thanks for reading!

Another fine set of diverse D&D (DD&D?) adventurers Sylvain.  Nice work on the magic sprinkles, the blue hair and the basing. 

 

From MartinC All Kinds of Stuff (202 pts)

Another busy week, being retired is hectic and this week is busier. I say busy but it is 2 days of work, 4 days of family and gaming and 1 day of rest.

Straight on to it

My next bloodbowl team. This is an amazon team, it's resin 3D printed and done as a Cheyenne team. I think they are very cool. But, they are very fragile and already have  lots of broken feathers. I have a plan to repair them but until then they will be called the Wanitka Pasun, Sioux for Broken Feather

Next up another Bavarian battalion, the 7th. These didn't fight in 1812 but who can resist pink facings. As this is a firing line it has fewer figures than a marching unit, simply due to firing figures taking up more space

Finally a random dynamite gun for my colonial Americans. They are by Tiger Miniatures, not my favourite manufacturer but they do make figures no body else does.

Scores on the doors

Amazons 16x5 = 80

Bavarians 15x5 =75

                    1 x 10 =10

Dynamite gun 4x5 =20 plus another 5 for the gun as it's very simple =25

Total = 190pts

You know I don't know what I'd do with my Tuesdays if I didn't have Martin's completely random posts to minion.  Today he got me down a dynamite gun rabbit hole trying to find out more about that weapon.  I was aware of the completely useless dynamite cruiser USS Vesuvius used during the Spanish American War, but wasn't aware that the US Army also used these oddities.  As you say not a wonderful casting but it painted up well. 

Love the Cheyenne team, but if they''ve already got broken bits I don't fancy their odds on the pitch.  Also nice to see more Bavarians, I agree with the pink facings comment especially with cornflower blue.  I'm giving you the full 10 points for the gun and 2 for the flag.

 

KenR - 28mm "Spanish" Heavy Cavalry Dos (62 pts)

 

Here is the 2nd of 6 Heavy Cavalry units I have prepped for the Challenge and a nice little Palette cleanser after the Pike guys I did last week.

The figures are 28mm Spanish from TAG (The Assault Group) with flags from Petes Flags, these are banners for Neopolitan Condottieri so the figures will have a dual use as and when required. Figures are based 2 per base on a 50 x 60 base which is my standard for the period. 

As always I've used the colours and designs in the flags as a guide to my Palette and look to the riders, 6 x 10 points for 28mm Cavalry plus a couple for the flags nets me 62 more points.

I've got some French Command Stands on the go (which may be a late entry this week) being finished off before I do the third unit of these and then its back to some Pike.

Below is a picture of the growing Spanish Gent'd'Arms (12 done pre challenge) so you can see how the group looks.

Wonderful stuff Ken, I just can't say enough about your units.  The full array is awe inspiring.