tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13914276627378716622024-03-18T19:40:34.892-06:00The Analogue Hobbies Painting ChallengeWelcome to the Painting Challenge. Here you will find the fabulous, fevered work of miniature painters from around the world. While participants come from every ethnicity, gender, age and nationality, they have three things in common: they love miniatures, they enjoy a supportive community, and they want to set themselves against the Challenge.
This site features the current year's event along with the archives of past Painting Challenges.
Enjoy your visit and remember to come back soon.Curthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03202047917371080576noreply@blogger.comBlogger9086125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-86441255748556343622024-03-18T19:37:00.013-06:002024-03-18T19:39:01.190-06:00From JamieM - Kings of War Northern Alliance (188 points)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Just in under the wire….. the silly thing is that these should have been about my third entry. I had a plan for the bases and it didn’t work out like I had thought it would and so I shoved them to the back of the painting table, approximately 97% done, and left them there until now.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZq9MRSAXHdJuxN4qnlq4kqOYhedsmJng-zE5iW1cpOLTEP-OHUUhx63aYumeNTpu-WCIgWhzRlrZ1XSJGDVzDn7GFtp845caUPRnoJFt0wuCFf2tziPAeZwdE6nZriIDn7H2_kH_xsNLZjgHZnaa8vB1de2SD8epcMMifJ1xxL3ZmLr0zTMulgL-avPg/s4032/IMG_5227.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZq9MRSAXHdJuxN4qnlq4kqOYhedsmJng-zE5iW1cpOLTEP-OHUUhx63aYumeNTpu-WCIgWhzRlrZ1XSJGDVzDn7GFtp845caUPRnoJFt0wuCFf2tziPAeZwdE6nZriIDn7H2_kH_xsNLZjgHZnaa8vB1de2SD8epcMMifJ1xxL3ZmLr0zTMulgL-avPg/w400-h300/IMG_5227.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As you can see, they’re literally still on the painting tray. They’re multi based up for the Kings War game by Mantic. The game started as a derivative of Warhammer fantasy battle, with all of the classic races, but this is one of Mantic’s own, a mixture of men, elves, trolls, monsters and animals who live in the frozen north.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvS5IYJEyH7Jd6BfcPJdhBrry94TfPZiHpW0LUl9jZRaxah-GWAYjf98z9NqeXHCn2ll6m3Qb-SulBjsxdTzFnZf-raD5See3bCGmn9F6JJNCHAbdqUr24-XhPKrZ_RqouIQCga3U_AijIL086DxmOvzDdEOtk4O8CanFa3jhRD4l6rKgB3As7Tku1LpU/s4032/IMG_5228.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvS5IYJEyH7Jd6BfcPJdhBrry94TfPZiHpW0LUl9jZRaxah-GWAYjf98z9NqeXHCn2ll6m3Qb-SulBjsxdTzFnZf-raD5See3bCGmn9F6JJNCHAbdqUr24-XhPKrZ_RqouIQCga3U_AijIL086DxmOvzDdEOtk4O8CanFa3jhRD4l6rKgB3As7Tku1LpU/w400-h300/IMG_5228.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Cavern dweller (a horrible monster)</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuO1Yguorb3DjtEakiysxVDR2gAIiB6jc6sxNcZX_RP_nRyArmvjYDumnrD6v0kWfP1lA3aAzhGYAFJTVJj2XOnjuHH2Pl8YU7171m8Z4bFWWWoPNlxsUa4-EAp1b9txTI1hcfXvUIUf2lGKhrwtO0bHqQedGQs8HEResHfwSKs3f4nhxZpjg0fAvOJCI/w400-h300/IMG_5231.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lots of wolves<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrj7xn_NpdBnELG2dkXPYpFmj6hvBA6lnLYhJIdhRFLuV6dhNoyHSgLPTxEOepmWGFGf7BiZzjUgJ7-RpzLUc8TwxlgkTOImAEw2bw9N7B0a3vMRgFkdTqCIiOeSVWPZBHrKv6QMxEvETCAMV-tLfpxx7yDMH63dDIc70QR88nPonvrU8TjptgdKARLc/s4032/IMG_5232.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrj7xn_NpdBnELG2dkXPYpFmj6hvBA6lnLYhJIdhRFLuV6dhNoyHSgLPTxEOepmWGFGf7BiZzjUgJ7-RpzLUc8TwxlgkTOImAEw2bw9N7B0a3vMRgFkdTqCIiOeSVWPZBHrKv6QMxEvETCAMV-tLfpxx7yDMH63dDIc70QR88nPonvrU8TjptgdKARLc/w400-h300/IMG_5232.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Elven heroes - all three are ladies so I shall claim lady Sarah’s library cart for one of them!</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvuaN9zQhnu5hT8Uma0MkmNAQQntn6ocyW19e0cTr8g__0ehwVpFVGGYPWYAuonEamkAOX1Yumx720pwFvBbqgQmdFBGDucyz0LWx6geMPcaEgsoUJmTiuA5XDTpUj32g5utNW5jVVB1R2uSq4SJ6nAsPvj8pE5p2l4FpJ4w4vmOFbfpw5ry2fwqDrTg/s4032/IMG_5233.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvuaN9zQhnu5hT8Uma0MkmNAQQntn6ocyW19e0cTr8g__0ehwVpFVGGYPWYAuonEamkAOX1Yumx720pwFvBbqgQmdFBGDucyz0LWx6geMPcaEgsoUJmTiuA5XDTpUj32g5utNW5jVVB1R2uSq4SJ6nAsPvj8pE5p2l4FpJ4w4vmOFbfpw5ry2fwqDrTg/w400-h300/IMG_5233.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snow trolls<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWV8-fWkC43nFOnK3m1eBtz5k28VwBK5ULfxoNFIVNrJxJ3EyXW5fSSAUwyjQfRcmBjtTf-CzfzvE6flGBv51UYjtQVf19iDHCZPBbZ4yaSgeCzxmWm0rrg6JAdLmWsGkOCPBNwCXoU5Jyces6Zcp5y5MP1lywKpzEuzPX5tRSuaB8X7tYUY9D7xikWc/s4032/IMG_5234.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWV8-fWkC43nFOnK3m1eBtz5k28VwBK5ULfxoNFIVNrJxJ3EyXW5fSSAUwyjQfRcmBjtTf-CzfzvE6flGBv51UYjtQVf19iDHCZPBbZ4yaSgeCzxmWm0rrg6JAdLmWsGkOCPBNwCXoU5Jyces6Zcp5y5MP1lywKpzEuzPX5tRSuaB8X7tYUY9D7xikWc/s320/IMG_5234.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>A different angle to show the weapon swaps - mantic only produce one body with two slightly different heads and one separate arm holding either a rock or a club, so I swapped in some weapons from a Games Workshop giant to make them more interesting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHoO1PXBySGhcv6kqLW7IMuMyqfHujYMCAxBHa4u5yja8V4A79y4ur7yOTlUTdea_bIjlkE6UxmfxVeqAY9N-MpKdCXIwWUejnoEIlNeBotkJwkhsIAIpPPx0Y-EK_a41t-Taa2nx20gYgTajdzzsfluNLg74dr2VtT1UcPvZ5kc3BbTVddtzR2s7nRZ0/s4032/IMG_5235.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHoO1PXBySGhcv6kqLW7IMuMyqfHujYMCAxBHa4u5yja8V4A79y4ur7yOTlUTdea_bIjlkE6UxmfxVeqAY9N-MpKdCXIwWUejnoEIlNeBotkJwkhsIAIpPPx0Y-EK_a41t-Taa2nx20gYgTajdzzsfluNLg74dr2VtT1UcPvZ5kc3BbTVddtzR2s7nRZ0/s320/IMG_5235.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Snow Troll hero and elf ice bolt thrower</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoSscU7ZeWGxz3TrVoRSEtQK5Ukus4q_WQDaxBugajQPopcnT3ZhfHNZ0zfh0fTqVa42xCMC3JB-TUCIlamtqYg4AmiN6cNgLG9GlP-pC5bETecKudTDx0CRVAds8EwFCDuqVcdK0FoIcEVlBltUztDEQoT9EXrL55TQkkMBitVFtO3AAFdABQSS6fYQ/s4032/IMG_5236.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHoSscU7ZeWGxz3TrVoRSEtQK5Ukus4q_WQDaxBugajQPopcnT3ZhfHNZ0zfh0fTqVa42xCMC3JB-TUCIlamtqYg4AmiN6cNgLG9GlP-pC5bETecKudTDx0CRVAds8EwFCDuqVcdK0FoIcEVlBltUztDEQoT9EXrL55TQkkMBitVFtO3AAFdABQSS6fYQ/s320/IMG_5236.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And some ice elementals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some great sculpts by mantic and nice to see them striking up their own armies. I picked them all up as a job lot by someone who had made something of a mess of them and so they took a lot of paint stripping, but I find that reclamation projects are one of the parts of the hobby that I really enjoy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Some other angles</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIuJQEeXbHF5u7bldWR1PKcsQ4-DYFD7y-Fpkr75nqHYLpx2y8XRQafBQgDS2aWDqRc-I4F8uB15M3mX8tnkffDZyXym-EmPLv-HPacNfgr3YzVXtTJoahNTXtUoi_nIhTEc2fBt3O7VilH0nLepAHpQJiy4OJXGB9qSVF3kqATC9ZzfOpO4RSnJmho8/s4032/IMG_5237.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIuJQEeXbHF5u7bldWR1PKcsQ4-DYFD7y-Fpkr75nqHYLpx2y8XRQafBQgDS2aWDqRc-I4F8uB15M3mX8tnkffDZyXym-EmPLv-HPacNfgr3YzVXtTJoahNTXtUoi_nIhTEc2fBt3O7VilH0nLepAHpQJiy4OJXGB9qSVF3kqATC9ZzfOpO4RSnJmho8/s320/IMG_5237.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU1BfnhzTIH9IaVdXzsXqOtv09j_R3OH2OKeNdH2bduXhGk0cJB6wxAygZNNKRnsVGnImz1LpE-MfdtD9PibHj2YBzN1P3KwveFEx8nhcfaoz9LlyQhqj2rRReHBRyYkRfiny7MJmIcs2dlPcKrrpuq-185jDiEmMhEsLPWBHhvxCB3HrkedQZh0RvVks/s4032/IMG_5238.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU1BfnhzTIH9IaVdXzsXqOtv09j_R3OH2OKeNdH2bduXhGk0cJB6wxAygZNNKRnsVGnImz1LpE-MfdtD9PibHj2YBzN1P3KwveFEx8nhcfaoz9LlyQhqj2rRReHBRyYkRfiny7MJmIcs2dlPcKrrpuq-185jDiEmMhEsLPWBHhvxCB3HrkedQZh0RvVks/s320/IMG_5238.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismwd_6VNsqEfeLrgYcZKl3pYVex4uND-Bvx1K3q6dlhLgNyIc5RgNUGmAhS2nhPjUgU5BmIL5ezr4MDDSg-OCTW0n2gHrCFc68elvtsOA6I787vBZ6R_qgQp36g1Rpyj_2C_posuPJWM9QBdx1fphTjZqwnnST_nhDE11Tl5UGZRRimnuj7ubT3mNldk/s4032/IMG_5240.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismwd_6VNsqEfeLrgYcZKl3pYVex4uND-Bvx1K3q6dlhLgNyIc5RgNUGmAhS2nhPjUgU5BmIL5ezr4MDDSg-OCTW0n2gHrCFc68elvtsOA6I787vBZ6R_qgQp36g1Rpyj_2C_posuPJWM9QBdx1fphTjZqwnnST_nhDE11Tl5UGZRRimnuj7ubT3mNldk/s320/IMG_5240.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I’m pleased to get these done as my painting table is now fairly clear - at one point during the challenge I had my painting desk <i>and</i> dining table covered in miniatures in various stages of building/painting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A big thank you from me to Curt for running it back again, Greg for being a cracking minion with some great comments and also a big thank you to the serial commenters who comment on most posts, irrespective of genre, as you do much better than I do at keeping up with posts and encouraging people, which is the whole point of the challenge after all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For scoring then:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 wolves, 6 heroes and 2 crew all at 5 points (28mm) each for 90 points.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One (38mm) crew served weapon for 10 points</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6 trolls, 3 elementals and 1 cavern dweller each at 7 points (40mm) for 70 points.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lady Sarah’s cart for 20 points.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Knock off a couple for a couple of bases not finished (two wolves didn’t fit on the multi bases) and that’s 188 points to just put me over the 1,000 points mark!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_______________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonderful work Jamie! This force looks terrific and very chilly (great job on the winter bases)! I especially like the Skald and the Ice Elementals. I quite like it when the Challenge causes household mayhem with hobby projects spreading from room to room - a success story if I every heard one. :)</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Well done Jamie and wonderful job in blowing past your points target. I look forward to seeing you in the lists next time we roll out.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></p></div></div>JamieMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206287212346614676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-22165280010418666952024-03-18T19:29:00.000-06:002024-03-18T19:29:00.519-06:00From DavidB: Aquatic mine in Venice (475 points) maritime<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizIv3CU8UotKtA-9BDerw5iOP5-urTIkCP4M6nyI8PbRk3FbGl-Zw8mK1R8ZY0edn44LY8wR6tf4Kxg-USFKFXjw-kOTI6qtA39hsHB_8A77nCshjua2mbztSgWYos_8fzEzRJ3t1aoWh64zSGOD9KG-5p9Eg49zNnCaHCIhyphenhyphen2bV3kEHTgh4jBeQwLEn_f/s512/Challenge-Tunes.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizIv3CU8UotKtA-9BDerw5iOP5-urTIkCP4M6nyI8PbRk3FbGl-Zw8mK1R8ZY0edn44LY8wR6tf4Kxg-USFKFXjw-kOTI6qtA39hsHB_8A77nCshjua2mbztSgWYos_8fzEzRJ3t1aoWh64zSGOD9KG-5p9Eg49zNnCaHCIhyphenhyphen2bV3kEHTgh4jBeQwLEn_f/w196-h200/Challenge-Tunes.png" width="196" /></a> <a href="https://youtu.be/sTFVMMCwsss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> lunatic fringe- red rider </a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I will apologize for the mass that follows. while I have not been on the challenge site to comment much because of work and military. My 20 year letter hit for 25 years of service. That means of all the time devoted to all military years, five did not achieve enough points for a qualifying year. I will still enjoy the benefits of those years of service in pay though. I had 120 days to get my packet in and that is a lot of records to go through and meetings, additional classes, and more time devoted but all making sure every achievement, school, deployment, and awards are documented and represented. Lunatic fringe was the breakaway song my ship the USS Halsey CG-23 used for underway replenishments back in the 80's the Navy had 6 years in those 25. Since 120 is the days for the packet, my battalion decided 90 days is better. I have been on the road for work, school, and military and then straight to the brushes when at home. The last photos are a project that I started the first day of the challenge and has been in bare foam since summer. The following are not so much for that particular project but every maritime themed alternate I have been painting on the desk and not submitted...I may get a smaller post out before midnight. I got back from drill Sunday night, but averaging three hours of sleep there meant I barely built the post and placed photos Sunday night. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIBUeLbD7dnjQXnkKy9pHhjZZNr_piz2QcEuqVnK5_GkfPYqQk6Q_C4nfQZMcGfh5UgktCGWudnrec1ld9aMYU8Q932Lqo4J3MN2QOZ8jhOMD3VFeInIOaOeEWyeATr4DTCrw2WQfDeVU-OR_A79nlviGvTqi4zOYKJlrCh2MHiLGllPPM6hLAlOViY7k/s3456/20240317_211957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIBUeLbD7dnjQXnkKy9pHhjZZNr_piz2QcEuqVnK5_GkfPYqQk6Q_C4nfQZMcGfh5UgktCGWudnrec1ld9aMYU8Q932Lqo4J3MN2QOZ8jhOMD3VFeInIOaOeEWyeATr4DTCrw2WQfDeVU-OR_A79nlviGvTqi4zOYKJlrCh2MHiLGllPPM6hLAlOViY7k/s320/20240317_211957.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So the Carnevale Lady Doc leads the Cart to the Maritime section.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasY1mWkOXmyaNnzX70-IrhCv7At2uXAdg9ITP7NkXWG9gc3YhtkfL4TMBaI6b8oydKUIn8fHKmYbKcQwQ7eqljQUJmy4DHXbWUyGEbWLjOQAn9PEx2ZYWhgOYnSZE7F-RcvyjV7gxMFjC6Y5XolhQLfgXNXgbNR8AbLZvilz920zszlCe62gQbz60W0Hx/s3456/20240317_212211.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasY1mWkOXmyaNnzX70-IrhCv7At2uXAdg9ITP7NkXWG9gc3YhtkfL4TMBaI6b8oydKUIn8fHKmYbKcQwQ7eqljQUJmy4DHXbWUyGEbWLjOQAn9PEx2ZYWhgOYnSZE7F-RcvyjV7gxMFjC6Y5XolhQLfgXNXgbNR8AbLZvilz920zszlCe62gQbz60W0Hx/s320/20240317_212211.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Scarif shore troopers are a favorite version of storm troopers from an excellent Star Wars movie.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAb3wIHidyzHMGTtV_Kk-jihxJPZnWSZQ6RrEq8axo7y-n9Y0DKJofXGe3lo_Bd-OoOkvDHui8Gz2ldD7YSMUfiIXQ08p2vNi0AnXTrHhAvqBXNEWNnc19ZBVSxRxzHd0nxJlq3U9_2lzH5xUu0ZtiGtFAgaIUxC1aUipvDtaS8K0Xx_afvdun68GwBST/s3456/20240317_212238.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAb3wIHidyzHMGTtV_Kk-jihxJPZnWSZQ6RrEq8axo7y-n9Y0DKJofXGe3lo_Bd-OoOkvDHui8Gz2ldD7YSMUfiIXQ08p2vNi0AnXTrHhAvqBXNEWNnc19ZBVSxRxzHd0nxJlq3U9_2lzH5xUu0ZtiGtFAgaIUxC1aUipvDtaS8K0Xx_afvdun68GwBST/s320/20240317_212238.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I used contrast to block in the color then used triads air color from army painter to clean them up. I am finding that I now am using the contrast paints and air color almost exclusive as I work and this season the airbrush and paints have been used a lot. I have been painting the air color with airbrush and also from my wet pallet as I do not need to worry about color matching.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRiMDwQC1u03xvioG54Rs0ArYQtk5hspPw0WdKWwsCqq3DMWwq4tkM7sqcDqTZdVE-D67R4aACD2sHOhcyoBMec9QYV-Rwc6eVco5mYQKBF1esWoSgD03XBGcXENkLpsdl701jdv8lu33S1RdGTPdDtJFdpB1PcfmGP-nf4gfSKHAo8cSCkG13jM2J92l/s3456/20240317_212401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRiMDwQC1u03xvioG54Rs0ArYQtk5hspPw0WdKWwsCqq3DMWwq4tkM7sqcDqTZdVE-D67R4aACD2sHOhcyoBMec9QYV-Rwc6eVco5mYQKBF1esWoSgD03XBGcXENkLpsdl701jdv8lu33S1RdGTPdDtJFdpB1PcfmGP-nf4gfSKHAo8cSCkG13jM2J92l/s320/20240317_212401.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have two squads as i read a card description where they can summon more troopers and after facing tyranid and undead armies so many times, I now have a unit that can bring more troops to the table for a change!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1y5ULnsCRu7dcs_U339sHHcabuzlUhuuMLDtB4zc6TCYbN4fXgVA-HlhFvXtfLAOWUrKtIQBEzigiiW9pyeIFfvteEbwnPltpHZXqE8gMsRH-psWynWSyPa1frC1C7n5jZ3_Y5qSKOZ8O8bvm7AH7GargRA-nKP6VVNuSxp56FppjqJFgVM7gT8AQ61l7/s3456/20240317_212546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1y5ULnsCRu7dcs_U339sHHcabuzlUhuuMLDtB4zc6TCYbN4fXgVA-HlhFvXtfLAOWUrKtIQBEzigiiW9pyeIFfvteEbwnPltpHZXqE8gMsRH-psWynWSyPa1frC1C7n5jZ3_Y5qSKOZ8O8bvm7AH7GargRA-nKP6VVNuSxp56FppjqJFgVM7gT8AQ61l7/s320/20240317_212546.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also the Elucidian Starstriders were also an alternate for the section. I quite like them and am looking forward to battle with them now that they are painted. They also make a great command squad for the imperial navy boarding troops too hence the color alterations.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkk2v0a8qJcN-9gjcJeB-iBsAgpQChdP3eOHB7CQk_gbryJAGoT88QrFQA3_F5eg2fjgtB3vyaiDYBz_uAIJ2GQYxeSOGCDBqbbSTEHzOm5GcyLwkDKCp2k9jCIKDH3klHBh6O6F5Wiy2S0hCy_nXKZEwBtnLSdFHz_TO1kRuJ0HGakBxMHbtp6JHV6YK/s3456/20240317_212602.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkk2v0a8qJcN-9gjcJeB-iBsAgpQChdP3eOHB7CQk_gbryJAGoT88QrFQA3_F5eg2fjgtB3vyaiDYBz_uAIJ2GQYxeSOGCDBqbbSTEHzOm5GcyLwkDKCp2k9jCIKDH3klHBh6O6F5Wiy2S0hCy_nXKZEwBtnLSdFHz_TO1kRuJ0HGakBxMHbtp6JHV6YK/s320/20240317_212602.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every purple and gold I could scrounge up went to the boss. She has one blue feather to tie her in to her gun minions.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLV0LxPb1OPVhfbqt8LhE16sNG9JYhyphenhyphenQnjn8fVCXjNF3cW33g0FLey5G8HWIk-IUteDePZMeQnK16KbCiA5u2_lKNMhmxDTSLyBhRu_f5pua2-3EJR29fADum6tsiQqN-CAV6Y4jMheBZ_DDyLRxTvmL-C3PpMWnnJnrcLgEccHNnk5_0nZuatMn6bNtp/s3456/20240317_212616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJLV0LxPb1OPVhfbqt8LhE16sNG9JYhyphenhyphenQnjn8fVCXjNF3cW33g0FLey5G8HWIk-IUteDePZMeQnK16KbCiA5u2_lKNMhmxDTSLyBhRu_f5pua2-3EJR29fADum6tsiQqN-CAV6Y4jMheBZ_DDyLRxTvmL-C3PpMWnnJnrcLgEccHNnk5_0nZuatMn6bNtp/s320/20240317_212616.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP92hKGHTu_Yf6n5uEroQVQCgx6ldJbi75SedA6HrURqefHpUZZU693LW2do-Cll5zaFwQ70tvaBLYOCTFAMApganZHlm6GFVFTuRURY3axOGZ8GY3XVO4SMpyBNuVHJ2czYRKA047Bc2QHK_E0zOZO1VCLHcbvJLK14OdhKPp15NU5MtzFGZjjc97SqjF/s3456/20240317_212633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP92hKGHTu_Yf6n5uEroQVQCgx6ldJbi75SedA6HrURqefHpUZZU693LW2do-Cll5zaFwQ70tvaBLYOCTFAMApganZHlm6GFVFTuRURY3axOGZ8GY3XVO4SMpyBNuVHJ2czYRKA047Bc2QHK_E0zOZO1VCLHcbvJLK14OdhKPp15NU5MtzFGZjjc97SqjF/s320/20240317_212633.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The goodest Boy ever and the true leader of my imperial navy troops. He is sporting the snazzy ceramite plate doggo tacti-cool vest.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNckmuHFyMJYmPYm1nkyjzv9yV2F6SHTYo19zdkMNrTnSqES26qK6LhyO8z2ugh9X8YZI-AjrUm1dNQBU-HEbsM9BIeQOJr2fTX-1gRem9UpWxO7Y2ns6XN4Ueq5DYnQdVJngZoQWxGc_SK870F40v73Lx1iovarlvPLstn0PAbxNPXlnEKT7TWaJzvrOf/s3456/20240317_212646.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNckmuHFyMJYmPYm1nkyjzv9yV2F6SHTYo19zdkMNrTnSqES26qK6LhyO8z2ugh9X8YZI-AjrUm1dNQBU-HEbsM9BIeQOJr2fTX-1gRem9UpWxO7Y2ns6XN4Ueq5DYnQdVJngZoQWxGc_SK870F40v73Lx1iovarlvPLstn0PAbxNPXlnEKT7TWaJzvrOf/s320/20240317_212646.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a death cult assasin with hair matching her blade</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpg3A3XggFBFTNYvQXqfVydVEva9MbZ8IK6tAS1ObQd3VsQpGZ3fO2CgeXtEKs96NK0sdy_UTpLolLelsiS9FgBrsPV2CnEYoyerv9S0GcRX6u_yy4E-pD3ME30PqNZ-8Bec2NKwskiWf-jW0Ntudj9-tYDRldlccp_3ZlGXjJZKux736Ippk_Bm-tZxVf/s320/20240317_213041.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">possibly the most fun was painting the next kill team the geller pox. I have won one and lost one with this bunch. They should triumph now they are properly colored.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5FtaWzPD-tYzXuCwqulLOy8zJqF237bPFyxPUXGzdQ4IHPsPXgykB2QUD8qpAbJoh7HcX2sbm1uhN8KwmMh3Vw78VVUgxoXjE5q-o9PND94GLcCJPi7klJEcz95mgNkd2rRZa6r1nCYqovveS0u30IoGKS08EkGx3lJFIInIJRLslgFqC5uziPSEb9sL/s3456/20240317_213120.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5FtaWzPD-tYzXuCwqulLOy8zJqF237bPFyxPUXGzdQ4IHPsPXgykB2QUD8qpAbJoh7HcX2sbm1uhN8KwmMh3Vw78VVUgxoXjE5q-o9PND94GLcCJPi7klJEcz95mgNkd2rRZa6r1nCYqovveS0u30IoGKS08EkGx3lJFIInIJRLslgFqC5uziPSEb9sL/s320/20240317_213120.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I threw every color at this kill team and they also got a lot of washes, spot washes and drybrushes</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKkxPTFE6sp40YNB02QCuo2Sb_ETeruuFvMQZumObxGigrA7Q2uhxbOOAu3srM8LtlkdPIORC12SxCceipwSXneo5aghNi3ZOdAatFrvnYlU-RGCBJXuSHFkiiL5bZcxXJbM-B40WbaptyaJr_Y_AfQBbj0gp2vAUpAFCdSgKQM6PDLsoJ5qFd0vJDhMkI/s3456/20240317_213149.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKkxPTFE6sp40YNB02QCuo2Sb_ETeruuFvMQZumObxGigrA7Q2uhxbOOAu3srM8LtlkdPIORC12SxCceipwSXneo5aghNi3ZOdAatFrvnYlU-RGCBJXuSHFkiiL5bZcxXJbM-B40WbaptyaJr_Y_AfQBbj0gp2vAUpAFCdSgKQM6PDLsoJ5qFd0vJDhMkI/s320/20240317_213149.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I wanted them to look as nasty as their lore and also plan to use them in a myriad of games besides the Games workshop ones.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEg46OyS3-TFK41wM_T_7Z05ki6B1yf5_OrztzJmdr1IAQr1q8Vja__JfFL-uXPj58DYCR8GYlAn3rFqahhslzi20HtTZzrprgbXKLLIgdAlUw1c_a6otIPdIdi0h1RL43_4luezAV-ZS7R562DSP4NULxVvq8Z9CnAtlLwO5ELYEEp6PlrvvYstOlrKXA/s3456/20240317_213207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEg46OyS3-TFK41wM_T_7Z05ki6B1yf5_OrztzJmdr1IAQr1q8Vja__JfFL-uXPj58DYCR8GYlAn3rFqahhslzi20HtTZzrprgbXKLLIgdAlUw1c_a6otIPdIdi0h1RL43_4luezAV-ZS7R562DSP4NULxVvq8Z9CnAtlLwO5ELYEEp6PlrvvYstOlrKXA/s320/20240317_213207.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVK_dLJUQKbwUvPH_FGQkfOsIyvz9UvlnD5Vx8ofwFwZsJP25TYj0R-RN0p6NYFe5lwIuKw8ONPuQrDZITPUH-jcrmLK6IjdYSOCcfiJSRSIMHNw0eb2B0bdNvKVFeRQsBCzSvXmbFLSWXXCUqdh-dmfybeqFxU8oYUwRC2s7q1voutQE98TH54AUGf6l4/s3456/20240317_213230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVK_dLJUQKbwUvPH_FGQkfOsIyvz9UvlnD5Vx8ofwFwZsJP25TYj0R-RN0p6NYFe5lwIuKw8ONPuQrDZITPUH-jcrmLK6IjdYSOCcfiJSRSIMHNw0eb2B0bdNvKVFeRQsBCzSvXmbFLSWXXCUqdh-dmfybeqFxU8oYUwRC2s7q1voutQE98TH54AUGf6l4/s320/20240317_213230.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">giant mutant fleas!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPiiccKwKBkoCLybDTQIvucs0lKLl_KmYyceX0uuJpESCt8dazglzbpKG1DRJ0uUPBf3yfv0SgAFp5FErpibybR_9WFxdawP_pmeCHvy-qMqhSLVyE812bM3N19gObWpoiK2zM9x42GTdOlU-fKJvU6hVbFYlZuYHCbv3SDxUIfFttskjbz4wE_jWdeG7/s3456/20240317_213316.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRPiiccKwKBkoCLybDTQIvucs0lKLl_KmYyceX0uuJpESCt8dazglzbpKG1DRJ0uUPBf3yfv0SgAFp5FErpibybR_9WFxdawP_pmeCHvy-qMqhSLVyE812bM3N19gObWpoiK2zM9x42GTdOlU-fKJvU6hVbFYlZuYHCbv3SDxUIfFttskjbz4wE_jWdeG7/s320/20240317_213316.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">geller pox nurglings up to antics</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0MQFQ5EcuBJgeCWIO1H9ymA1D6hkiHm59qfNhb8-nPjHf7j2kmxrRdsGDwRIosaKmuF2azFhZCbBLZzG4RfcUTJO2m_uQQPNs3_vKdXTDBkFTN9RcwwCVhMPhHVzolOn4U2q-0CZqk5HpBElwMSKINxG8172bSEQCmoGtmN1zVzdYVwu8ACjxlWscyso/s3456/20240317_213337.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0MQFQ5EcuBJgeCWIO1H9ymA1D6hkiHm59qfNhb8-nPjHf7j2kmxrRdsGDwRIosaKmuF2azFhZCbBLZzG4RfcUTJO2m_uQQPNs3_vKdXTDBkFTN9RcwwCVhMPhHVzolOn4U2q-0CZqk5HpBElwMSKINxG8172bSEQCmoGtmN1zVzdYVwu8ACjxlWscyso/s320/20240317_213337.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">geller pox weirdos but a delight to paint!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QG9jtb2rfRbBvTcyvtcjb-flCvyqMrymBXLeReAzHwVTuyp_j7ISgjvBKy-h92KD5McKJNvt9pIH5aUqCtwDPW5CpsWqVEzJUB9TU1k9iNQ8n5YiwL7t7SugBkwdEcSDkIfzyFbForT3TQcttRl2cYMNaPVpSH-7aD_C_JXtoYAa1mEVWV1XVLbwbyIS/s3456/20240317_213358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QG9jtb2rfRbBvTcyvtcjb-flCvyqMrymBXLeReAzHwVTuyp_j7ISgjvBKy-h92KD5McKJNvt9pIH5aUqCtwDPW5CpsWqVEzJUB9TU1k9iNQ8n5YiwL7t7SugBkwdEcSDkIfzyFbForT3TQcttRl2cYMNaPVpSH-7aD_C_JXtoYAa1mEVWV1XVLbwbyIS/s320/20240317_213358.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I noticed more details to tackle later on Nurgle is like messy Napoleonics</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmC9pU4Lt6J1EWyg7fv8P3giL3zSepLfRrqpmjqoEwPzhiEuQsz6ZRWM72R8QbfXEFwPzqFYGN193EyAZFHOP1eTeDje710EwrEz3Gutx6wNAjReUCy2LBa6CQJ7nOFZaLC1cjXzQ8VBwACOvBj62C8YvgoPn9CyAGDl9_s3pV5ZBjk7C0bT5ao9aXUXg/s3456/20240317_213416.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmC9pU4Lt6J1EWyg7fv8P3giL3zSepLfRrqpmjqoEwPzhiEuQsz6ZRWM72R8QbfXEFwPzqFYGN193EyAZFHOP1eTeDje710EwrEz3Gutx6wNAjReUCy2LBa6CQJ7nOFZaLC1cjXzQ8VBwACOvBj62C8YvgoPn9CyAGDl9_s3pV5ZBjk7C0bT5ao9aXUXg/s320/20240317_213416.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A hulking monstrosity leaning in the ship's cook role. I kept his skin pasty white with a few washes and spot washes and lots of sickly white dry brushes of pale skin tones.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyz3CfXrhZrohNJQGNd28AzamSR4OVZrEI9gJz5fx6qqgVIMPFZcrcVCus1ZyD3RpM4LcBlft4kPylPERyZdQ4aEFqdV9YL7qxE-6tHoFNxJ1IGAIc0vB0t8fojbJecewV7OkWuRHdfWEzG1-hfR3gMJWwgYImQvrccTq_KqjR8QN_MQeHEypPGj9mxx-/s3456/20240317_213430.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiyz3CfXrhZrohNJQGNd28AzamSR4OVZrEI9gJz5fx6qqgVIMPFZcrcVCus1ZyD3RpM4LcBlft4kPylPERyZdQ4aEFqdV9YL7qxE-6tHoFNxJ1IGAIc0vB0t8fojbJecewV7OkWuRHdfWEzG1-hfR3gMJWwgYImQvrccTq_KqjR8QN_MQeHEypPGj9mxx-/s320/20240317_213430.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The blotches of red, purple, and green really make him look icky. I need a tetanus shot after moving him</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaT0aQlAZg00bpAPCKbuyfuq2ZitDMqN_fE_YWMJkCA7zC8ncBbtW-YeDGSVS4X8HmZT7l6RBQQYaSigDjncVv5pVJ6CcJgH9fXFTzqt8AoNj-dTnswCiYvWfZXnMwJ2Jk2-5N3eqaZRM9CgrR6Gtc3pqZn-OBw7C-ipuo2iwR0tDdg8DiKHz3h1i4iLLA/s3456/20240317_213450.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaT0aQlAZg00bpAPCKbuyfuq2ZitDMqN_fE_YWMJkCA7zC8ncBbtW-YeDGSVS4X8HmZT7l6RBQQYaSigDjncVv5pVJ6CcJgH9fXFTzqt8AoNj-dTnswCiYvWfZXnMwJ2Jk2-5N3eqaZRM9CgrR6Gtc3pqZn-OBw7C-ipuo2iwR0tDdg8DiKHz3h1i4iLLA/s320/20240317_213450.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the hulking lord of the flies</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimjQgIw-PlVFL3xaOrbICcr2mNNWWVY6-6niC_ZjEmdVKEWuLRXTbxrcFpIZpw_POM_lbv3VS0rp345iGpztERuEDBHmjX7JMetLsdH-WE8-VC7W8UG8o8Ej4I69TvBQ-eV0LoiTCPdvfjSIEFgROqENDglhXyAOdE6UIx8lQ3Cb9YOtefXPUhFwmCqoMk/s3456/20240317_213507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimjQgIw-PlVFL3xaOrbICcr2mNNWWVY6-6niC_ZjEmdVKEWuLRXTbxrcFpIZpw_POM_lbv3VS0rp345iGpztERuEDBHmjX7JMetLsdH-WE8-VC7W8UG8o8Ej4I69TvBQ-eV0LoiTCPdvfjSIEFgROqENDglhXyAOdE6UIx8lQ3Cb9YOtefXPUhFwmCqoMk/s320/20240317_213507.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">another ick spotlight with fly larva on his shoulder</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQKi1YjgDqbawvoWOD_Ql9LeGqhHFRBauEnjaYVoI3sQvVXR0ICe5jEjH7dpYwn-nn4N1byKpr_Bvq-ea2tnozgsCpKsyrzy88M045TOJG457Heul4M0TcSeCJTdWkgcAjvyIjkHH7Kkcvbl1SKqkQE3kV6l3N_jJvchTbth1O6B7T5NiD5V2ueOGMWw-p/s3456/20240317_213529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQKi1YjgDqbawvoWOD_Ql9LeGqhHFRBauEnjaYVoI3sQvVXR0ICe5jEjH7dpYwn-nn4N1byKpr_Bvq-ea2tnozgsCpKsyrzy88M045TOJG457Heul4M0TcSeCJTdWkgcAjvyIjkHH7Kkcvbl1SKqkQE3kV6l3N_jJvchTbth1O6B7T5NiD5V2ueOGMWw-p/s320/20240317_213529.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I like this mutant a lot and gave him a purple bruised flesh to mach the squid arm</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8-eBpFdzfvm02FrMkPGwdLPYAPlJ5lc-6-N9tDJqT-5IBgES1yvpp3fvt7vZ9iAOaBJ8rFzHkzMWXs1TKdDvlpyjm6fn3CtiQF0FBuPdT-Op7pF75pYU8K1e9UTelijjOEh5bWd6x8VCc2PtI3wQTMqQIm-mW_9Z0PgzawrbLGvhmBUSWyWmAvkxFR_L/s3456/20240317_213540.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX8-eBpFdzfvm02FrMkPGwdLPYAPlJ5lc-6-N9tDJqT-5IBgES1yvpp3fvt7vZ9iAOaBJ8rFzHkzMWXs1TKdDvlpyjm6fn3CtiQF0FBuPdT-Op7pF75pYU8K1e9UTelijjOEh5bWd6x8VCc2PtI3wQTMqQIm-mW_9Z0PgzawrbLGvhmBUSWyWmAvkxFR_L/s320/20240317_213540.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">he has fish hooks and barnacles everywhere</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpbpz7H_zX-oGqZphoZJKFLJf7K3J3BwvFOnjI8XLHnylE0pHC2qyadtJwzRrwy9-NfVDFoWo_qxf1B_-dis_zq96S3lc54MbfEeYjyaQVRYP-72XqpDFcIdnLZWYK0mYM03RfANeSnQXnn6nL1whGEAoijqFTgs5EUcdtGCSUGiRzwRflmW6XEIKkmJ8/s3456/20240317_213554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpbpz7H_zX-oGqZphoZJKFLJf7K3J3BwvFOnjI8XLHnylE0pHC2qyadtJwzRrwy9-NfVDFoWo_qxf1B_-dis_zq96S3lc54MbfEeYjyaQVRYP-72XqpDFcIdnLZWYK0mYM03RfANeSnQXnn6nL1whGEAoijqFTgs5EUcdtGCSUGiRzwRflmW6XEIKkmJ8/s320/20240317_213554.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The boss of the crew with warpfire in his belly....really there is warp fire there!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicjWjbIcoWNntCMdRYp0NbX5Uf8VbDt2UY1PPLksP-y_-cu3Jp2Vdm6H2wvZwEKPmDz77Qrt870zodlgZOSj10jPdsJTDNVhg4dRtjCq2dQ-KCFS9pb6HlyT5WzNAsMFgovHsXKT_EElGkzX5RIekrnfqjZU8XdjBios6Su4qvA5bPOsfhxGuR5asIpUz/s3456/20240317_213611.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicjWjbIcoWNntCMdRYp0NbX5Uf8VbDt2UY1PPLksP-y_-cu3Jp2Vdm6H2wvZwEKPmDz77Qrt870zodlgZOSj10jPdsJTDNVhg4dRtjCq2dQ-KCFS9pb6HlyT5WzNAsMFgovHsXKT_EElGkzX5RIekrnfqjZU8XdjBios6Su4qvA5bPOsfhxGuR5asIpUz/s320/20240317_213611.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">normal flesh tones to have dead white flesh near the metal protrusions and purple icky boils and pustules. I oxidized all the metal bits and rusted them for more ickiness.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ58NsCZQ8GtCUNgQoEdtccoU4Vmj73EZpSR1BUUb9qUdFbV0Q_ihJ7oh5otgFGtB2cXilvYMvyPSARCZKTRmUjU_xH_9FIxX7hS5u1qSQz1dUm3pGHLgvBzYY_ab4ZkRgOEr6UeCF7F8m_8SIvhPd5tx-aJZKGbYUYhlzlo7ZuMNxnXj21k9nnxvvUao/s3456/20240317_213745.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZ58NsCZQ8GtCUNgQoEdtccoU4Vmj73EZpSR1BUUb9qUdFbV0Q_ihJ7oh5otgFGtB2cXilvYMvyPSARCZKTRmUjU_xH_9FIxX7hS5u1qSQz1dUm3pGHLgvBzYY_ab4ZkRgOEr6UeCF7F8m_8SIvhPd5tx-aJZKGbYUYhlzlo7ZuMNxnXj21k9nnxvvUao/s320/20240317_213745.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The whole putrid lot of geller pox.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9e4rayKzgrmz0lRovzmTR3GrgsxhHH4CkzM1MQc0AYv2fOOESk8mzueJEwF6lwMjioyRaVIVISekHLUkIIZqWZdEBrJ8tUuK99oeV95SAYVuTmLb_6ruvUWrVf-c3ktgBdP5XqDigEhYyaFvc1eqkprOcnczSL1ObRwq-CybRs0NBOaiRZtNWL5LXeZtt/s3456/20240317_213921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9e4rayKzgrmz0lRovzmTR3GrgsxhHH4CkzM1MQc0AYv2fOOESk8mzueJEwF6lwMjioyRaVIVISekHLUkIIZqWZdEBrJ8tUuK99oeV95SAYVuTmLb_6ruvUWrVf-c3ktgBdP5XqDigEhYyaFvc1eqkprOcnczSL1ObRwq-CybRs0NBOaiRZtNWL5LXeZtt/s320/20240317_213921.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am getting another set or three of these for boarding actions in 40k.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqY10Ks_X9e5Isv0i3UEqrGB88DucQe_End-UzSHK4qFTSgysPFU8l_2ldzZjmyVSIyWZhM3h83uzazOHnE3sVXdHRbfMJqbJ7pHeMTiuNJV2ATxW9mNZSvUmOqQLBDHSYUFMm61BngKZenHsuzRjUhS5F8F8E6e7wl82N0A927S6ylxT9k9GEHf31kS_/s3456/20240317_214005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinqY10Ks_X9e5Isv0i3UEqrGB88DucQe_End-UzSHK4qFTSgysPFU8l_2ldzZjmyVSIyWZhM3h83uzazOHnE3sVXdHRbfMJqbJ7pHeMTiuNJV2ATxW9mNZSvUmOqQLBDHSYUFMm61BngKZenHsuzRjUhS5F8F8E6e7wl82N0A927S6ylxT9k9GEHf31kS_/s320/20240317_214005.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">my favorite one of the lot complete with scars on his bare head. and power fist with a chain cutter for cutting through doors.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqx_pCLDZfx247DjsH6UR_tHkdsFzuYXamHPWK-7Hi5F8gkJNCCn4iL68nAmLpmkxsz-SMp-vO0WHtWsjF1cW3hnjI-pBWc5SGpi-pthJFOXUsCH2PYuH22H1OM_SgNOMdEjSLdTZwo0ls_CwYXIGzvl1WobeWGRRvEIQz-uCM5Rrj5F-_V9UE0iCyDOUA/s3456/20240317_214024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqx_pCLDZfx247DjsH6UR_tHkdsFzuYXamHPWK-7Hi5F8gkJNCCn4iL68nAmLpmkxsz-SMp-vO0WHtWsjF1cW3hnjI-pBWc5SGpi-pthJFOXUsCH2PYuH22H1OM_SgNOMdEjSLdTZwo0ls_CwYXIGzvl1WobeWGRRvEIQz-uCM5Rrj5F-_V9UE0iCyDOUA/s320/20240317_214024.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My second favorite armsman with combat shield</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGTD8fEIhpxr1yEtE5HjUjuEhKtOccAkcNMLpccxW86UvvXT4JSHJIhYzwmlhfdq4iaGTxaYeZWRPsvSwvcLzjmx7j2jv105xeVHo_YjpnwwZ1WEkr2TuPOHyEoMFQ9YkFrUVAWSsq-i6Kku3Q4I6GO5CNJq4fia4Xif17n3D_7e5RHnIb8rrHVuposoFX/s3456/20240317_214035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGTD8fEIhpxr1yEtE5HjUjuEhKtOccAkcNMLpccxW86UvvXT4JSHJIhYzwmlhfdq4iaGTxaYeZWRPsvSwvcLzjmx7j2jv105xeVHo_YjpnwwZ1WEkr2TuPOHyEoMFQ9YkFrUVAWSsq-i6Kku3Q4I6GO5CNJq4fia4Xif17n3D_7e5RHnIb8rrHVuposoFX/s320/20240317_214035.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISDGaD2mrCCQhp85qwsY6JSIsVWYxAxPsxaI9wJ8SZ6utDDUbgiLTa4j4bWPtTbd9Vzd9Y6kXnf1TgXH5IrZ2msLfINPTCHLg8bwglQuBoKj4j5ZpZftITkTwZMjGvs1NPcWXazirK0xIZTAzaH4xP1CTZySZidjQDb72nTK56zOU8ruA9gXodDoVbHC8/s3456/20240317_214055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISDGaD2mrCCQhp85qwsY6JSIsVWYxAxPsxaI9wJ8SZ6utDDUbgiLTa4j4bWPtTbd9Vzd9Y6kXnf1TgXH5IrZ2msLfINPTCHLg8bwglQuBoKj4j5ZpZftITkTwZMjGvs1NPcWXazirK0xIZTAzaH4xP1CTZySZidjQDb72nTK56zOU8ruA9gXodDoVbHC8/s320/20240317_214055.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho6gWqjeD-gJgGJjrFsr-A-LPdM4M5V24ieNw2zAaQW0yvi3CtpQDXiacAITxLHADekZQmPfCLQHV7miiAI02yBiZLR1ddICVFVstJR2wDmEBi48_37wnntYiUy1zv5iBU5NGK0PsRuZxexvZKq-KlJlhkoQIXm0_4XB6qTt7jycPR_fHMnYEnQRl3MWQJ/s3456/20240317_214121.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho6gWqjeD-gJgGJjrFsr-A-LPdM4M5V24ieNw2zAaQW0yvi3CtpQDXiacAITxLHADekZQmPfCLQHV7miiAI02yBiZLR1ddICVFVstJR2wDmEBi48_37wnntYiUy1zv5iBU5NGK0PsRuZxexvZKq-KlJlhkoQIXm0_4XB6qTt7jycPR_fHMnYEnQRl3MWQJ/s320/20240317_214121.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the drone pilots with their charges. the bases are clay with secret war deck plate roller texturing them and then painted to look like ancient ship decks. I use supper glue to adhere them to the bases after they dry and clay is way cheaper than green stuff! a small ball flattened on the base then left to dry over night. the clay won't adhere to the bases so I remove them then glue them back and they are ready for priming.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJGyG5iLsWJxkmFSir3jDXrvy9K8lBX35Tt_XdJ4GFulj4Um2slSNVUrO7R-fcV-cs7CKtbaweG3RFtzKoUt_GJdiD-uKQPzYuN0k28933U3gayowqtbElm28Sl2NZsg4wkjlRMiFIaN0GrO4DtcuQiwUiOoj4dc55H5VkJ_fCVNRHuFb13Vu9N_cQHOt/s3456/20240317_214146.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJGyG5iLsWJxkmFSir3jDXrvy9K8lBX35Tt_XdJ4GFulj4Um2slSNVUrO7R-fcV-cs7CKtbaweG3RFtzKoUt_GJdiD-uKQPzYuN0k28933U3gayowqtbElm28Sl2NZsg4wkjlRMiFIaN0GrO4DtcuQiwUiOoj4dc55H5VkJ_fCVNRHuFb13Vu9N_cQHOt/s320/20240317_214146.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmBCDWmmet6UouvfH6oyN6miWD5eZ_qVNXGf_IFTU4rUb6Fst7L45tMquad_dN5efgT3ssmCCcb1ETwUUJ47sVhbVkz-9_a8DzoX0B5nlbR7nNDLfi4-Zp08YkTYt5OTmghzVuWI2KCTLfCH-VWF6hpxl_h9kjYl2bje4odfuaPztLE9WmER8l0hhYE5X/s320/20240317_214339.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">9 rats of a large size....you always need rodents of unusual size in games and i bought them for a couple bucks at adepticon...Maybe Wryd maybe another maker.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvxdILsrDLQ16LGi4kX1I1C3JbKe20wOXlihVtjf13PgbELnGvZpcb4Zem6I5kphQjUCohTaeLQ1Hvh4MxI57AK59UOhArV97eQRaFIusmlVf8arsgJFDDdiawfbj1M9PchXknNsbHmcgq2y-sZ9MnBs9ZmEx1kOkkUYfn37jLcYJzNy20crL0UFXQog4/s3456/20240317_214350.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOvxdILsrDLQ16LGi4kX1I1C3JbKe20wOXlihVtjf13PgbELnGvZpcb4Zem6I5kphQjUCohTaeLQ1Hvh4MxI57AK59UOhArV97eQRaFIusmlVf8arsgJFDDdiawfbj1M9PchXknNsbHmcgq2y-sZ9MnBs9ZmEx1kOkkUYfn37jLcYJzNy20crL0UFXQog4/s320/20240317_214350.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a zombie dog...i like dogs and even this one needs a boop on the nose!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKnx5YmQuKrRZ_Zj1mK0fDwKY09gosghjJmUuFqEC3-S3K7oWmSHF-T7T0ks0MT86dlEFJDcOlqb4HxQFzKAI0SefbTOMxoP2ctRumzfAs8_JXNkb0q8zhpzaP6OXM_HrBYJXUB1F_Bx4YfDsptsleUwJ26cydQnYaF2J6XXlR3psLKkx41cy6iMcmZLb/s3456/20240317_214402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHKnx5YmQuKrRZ_Zj1mK0fDwKY09gosghjJmUuFqEC3-S3K7oWmSHF-T7T0ks0MT86dlEFJDcOlqb4HxQFzKAI0SefbTOMxoP2ctRumzfAs8_JXNkb0q8zhpzaP6OXM_HrBYJXUB1F_Bx4YfDsptsleUwJ26cydQnYaF2J6XXlR3psLKkx41cy6iMcmZLb/s320/20240317_214402.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">he could use a bath...and I say he as he does have the tackle in the rear. perhaps the Lady doc has him as a faithful companion, unknown maker like the rats and bought cheaply for a wide range of game uses.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CuTLCLBbNNNFm9jDjnfxEFAn7ACQRyiJzYxpjq2w_AvVpfSTuuu4wUsEvC4ApBkHABxR8F_P0n4us2TV8dlILB-OwUEgJXUgT4gbS4XH3VHzhQSLXnByUTcwDi9QeWrN0tqPl5slKPGQdk-SoHWRZuI6LD4OQE4Ukqoz_30BerClleIKkd9DkJlavQLQ/s3456/20240317_214510.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CuTLCLBbNNNFm9jDjnfxEFAn7ACQRyiJzYxpjq2w_AvVpfSTuuu4wUsEvC4ApBkHABxR8F_P0n4us2TV8dlILB-OwUEgJXUgT4gbS4XH3VHzhQSLXnByUTcwDi9QeWrN0tqPl5slKPGQdk-SoHWRZuI6LD4OQE4Ukqoz_30BerClleIKkd9DkJlavQLQ/s320/20240317_214510.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The lady doc has finally made it to her home as indicated by the Pali di Casada, also bricole, or palina.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I painted these in white and red but after reading about them, future one will indicate the different factions of Carnevale.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKyoPBVhE0alacQs6nRCijHZ1Zis6CUKZ3ft_rQbzG0Qpp_315eyD8xrvXqvQ90Dpu09PwG7JVFL_Ue1m9Jqc0043XZ0lIzQPBZ9os1fwXE6laRVPwmVAzhsahUadjZM2xR2htNnpFcuboHQbpltaNqJ8oq8xhY4CuZCnRyY8Z9zeoZ3jFot5d1nbRQrl/s3456/20240317_214533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm_LcqYk1UKKjFEZX1FwynmaYdg-K93TkZniUcDTVYU44E6M6O8-gaXAamo1I0Bstba3Tuh8zA495eogJPUqbJ5Jr3AfjYOWNS9Xffj08XpZE__W78VOoQ5DrW8mLedF2TOGFHlUTr10TwN0VDP5taVczcugVdKu31P4J9-glV0Th8yXznzP8tYz4mZxUO/s320/20240317_214544.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The bases are cobble stone rolled from a secret weapon roller</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoamvN5YikUS54fyh8LKx01OZ3Mu4dm1LZAWo5sOCP1DNN6hyphenhyphenKSs_zvbCS4QWFUbcgefpUICqySlnlx54KZ34hwPtQU2l0pIiwol2_2ORFbs1miLHcon23jwApJNgXyMfIO_bzoOptXoNNAT6Ll_N_n02ln0snLOx71gYthdOqt_elvlKCvCXCuaMrsPA/s3456/20240317_214607.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the pickpocket and Capodecina. </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4jAZkm7kHIOjMe0yByzgF2yyRKVDrCCjF-jjrH-FatkprAxkYdUySXmOVijY1diAyEywmHr2BYs6g20iCjfZ57rLcbnUUO_JpIy02I_DKTyEB5tS7sZkPYsgSWy3MB-xBkahsSVwn8mZncmso0KxLs_Jt9h1tMmhBFRJnAo9QQT69MBc_eLagt2OxbIu/s3456/20240317_214927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4jAZkm7kHIOjMe0yByzgF2yyRKVDrCCjF-jjrH-FatkprAxkYdUySXmOVijY1diAyEywmHr2BYs6g20iCjfZ57rLcbnUUO_JpIy02I_DKTyEB5tS7sZkPYsgSWy3MB-xBkahsSVwn8mZncmso0KxLs_Jt9h1tMmhBFRJnAo9QQT69MBc_eLagt2OxbIu/s320/20240317_214927.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaB527iWAGKfS6GrqQzIrxUdGPXm4ObFdXslm-7VHMlbvoWBB5UHeZnXT_6R1q3l_pb1qmGSsIN4tPh7Px7C5PnymapAKhMsRN67LWMibAfHE1Rfo7dNrL8x1ivDGO7lInCQHi29fR736UtoysdzAtIZ57wND5eRflofm9arevzGOeSRm9owKUfLqUZhL/s3456/20240317_215026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggaB527iWAGKfS6GrqQzIrxUdGPXm4ObFdXslm-7VHMlbvoWBB5UHeZnXT_6R1q3l_pb1qmGSsIN4tPh7Px7C5PnymapAKhMsRN67LWMibAfHE1Rfo7dNrL8x1ivDGO7lInCQHi29fR736UtoysdzAtIZ57wND5eRflofm9arevzGOeSRm9owKUfLqUZhL/s320/20240317_215026.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">you also need gondolas, a black passenger cruiser with a green cargo hauler.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowOQ8BHnuJNunwbUMRNi7Bl4XSpeCjThWlNiZ_DkKVsm7BfGPblQH0fcfBMhRgqIg2V_G7vMnxMI7ldk8U7ND3Vq7OSouPWZxmJo6YCVaU9Zjgz4Za7R0pTGSE88C2y94qYAmKX7qZ3nbe37fUlTyrigT-EGi6kxPmI4dTlYzbfxsoJH5zaJ1B3EScous/s3456/20240317_215041.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowOQ8BHnuJNunwbUMRNi7Bl4XSpeCjThWlNiZ_DkKVsm7BfGPblQH0fcfBMhRgqIg2V_G7vMnxMI7ldk8U7ND3Vq7OSouPWZxmJo6YCVaU9Zjgz4Za7R0pTGSE88C2y94qYAmKX7qZ3nbe37fUlTyrigT-EGi6kxPmI4dTlYzbfxsoJH5zaJ1B3EScous/s320/20240317_215041.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It seems black is the color of choice, but I want to have fun with them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEikh7elPsmW1Jx6CXSw-E9pv-K1Zi4kPq4FDldyc4YQmR6HxI6hxVH8jxW1nP6A6c48k36rN5pM4h_B39aSLvX08FFeSjBD3Wq9d7eFuCP1KN4zdRbhjGBo3GHeB4Cfk_KQnrGnd8bHty8aGNBB8jDpZ4gozI9ipLKNF6hi6XLJU0MdDKlwB1QnXLuyf-/s3456/20240317_220344.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEikh7elPsmW1Jx6CXSw-E9pv-K1Zi4kPq4FDldyc4YQmR6HxI6hxVH8jxW1nP6A6c48k36rN5pM4h_B39aSLvX08FFeSjBD3Wq9d7eFuCP1KN4zdRbhjGBo3GHeB4Cfk_KQnrGnd8bHty8aGNBB8jDpZ4gozI9ipLKNF6hi6XLJU0MdDKlwB1QnXLuyf-/s320/20240317_220344.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the starter game gomes in two flavors one is an under $50 with small gangs and the other is an $80 kit with larger gangs. I bought both to get the goodies and learn the game which is a lot of fun. The terrain is nice, but it is flat and uninspiring.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hgk-k_vrnh6j2Nqho0fiWEMXtJHrxsc9rsdv-C-dX0dT8MPb4hmgEa0RivfPaeQ-maCd2L-mUclqgD85mXqQTGv6rL2b_WD0Hw_z7c9RC-9gmyxrk0vOmpcNAFDvJ8twi8GCdsxzWdSabsXaZ9rIlEL9hzGfPSrljiIB0TynK5-AOHjGRW2W3w64dxvJ/s3456/20240317_220554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hgk-k_vrnh6j2Nqho0fiWEMXtJHrxsc9rsdv-C-dX0dT8MPb4hmgEa0RivfPaeQ-maCd2L-mUclqgD85mXqQTGv6rL2b_WD0Hw_z7c9RC-9gmyxrk0vOmpcNAFDvJ8twi8GCdsxzWdSabsXaZ9rIlEL9hzGfPSrljiIB0TynK5-AOHjGRW2W3w64dxvJ/s320/20240317_220554.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So I bought a picture frame of roughly 3X4 feet and gathered insulation sheet remains from my garage and laid out a board of Venice canals. I will be using it for a lot of games besides Carnevale...even with the bricole stuck in the board.It is perfect in size for lots of skirmish games and besides terrain, the first game board I have made.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKY7Nfj4C1rdJ5qrNCUxBGnl4H31lhDJjmy5rBpcfT43yJpFt_rzysVhcdIgf_NmUFyjtlPTWztzkn2KdLs8-p1PtecyLjDsAU76HFRfreMHbmeZf18kS0yyyhf8tVYHCzY00t9uo2jygN3goiAIoLH4V6tIag_9cwScbtZTOcQD5ybCNwQQOuOTpniBJ/s3456/20240317_220604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKY7Nfj4C1rdJ5qrNCUxBGnl4H31lhDJjmy5rBpcfT43yJpFt_rzysVhcdIgf_NmUFyjtlPTWztzkn2KdLs8-p1PtecyLjDsAU76HFRfreMHbmeZf18kS0yyyhf8tVYHCzY00t9uo2jygN3goiAIoLH4V6tIag_9cwScbtZTOcQD5ybCNwQQOuOTpniBJ/s320/20240317_220604.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It took five pours of resin over blues and greens used to add depth to the canals. a resin gel of mediteranian blue sadded waves and was used to fix spots between pours. </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYargt-78URc3qNugSPlhoInptlTruvUGOlv1F7ZUVNIH4MXZsc2EE3TLpaEJsxS_ZnVx6q_ahKP90_OyyDK7XMWJxQnpGExk_panY13LEc48sovo8wX9sXafjB15GqZfqNxzXtE73UBlqDQtS0NqADLKfuEAI17mToxepMYdeoN48TzQlFeJQU3QZGY4/s3456/20240317_220611.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYargt-78URc3qNugSPlhoInptlTruvUGOlv1F7ZUVNIH4MXZsc2EE3TLpaEJsxS_ZnVx6q_ahKP90_OyyDK7XMWJxQnpGExk_panY13LEc48sovo8wX9sXafjB15GqZfqNxzXtE73UBlqDQtS0NqADLKfuEAI17mToxepMYdeoN48TzQlFeJQU3QZGY4/s320/20240317_220611.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was fully painted before christmas with craft paints and gloss modge podge was used to dampen the sides and make puddles on the cobble stones.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvZ6U2CcbTWiYGJrCZ4f824NSYlK6gyGI-6ndOTlx-SWIwApj1rFaREcyYsbCLj9wnzCBnEEExfvEwQXquVBaJtqPNH55gXR9AbTc5GWU1VOCrbRmjkeTip62xh16BudvXs4U3_Hktc0W6BN7yWLzT32-OPeXQLB2a65LZf5rXKBXGoaOrP4wjN4TAXgL/s3456/20240317_220621.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvZ6U2CcbTWiYGJrCZ4f824NSYlK6gyGI-6ndOTlx-SWIwApj1rFaREcyYsbCLj9wnzCBnEEExfvEwQXquVBaJtqPNH55gXR9AbTc5GWU1VOCrbRmjkeTip62xh16BudvXs4U3_Hktc0W6BN7yWLzT32-OPeXQLB2a65LZf5rXKBXGoaOrP4wjN4TAXgL/s320/20240317_220621.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I want to make another pour to bring the canal water up. I used the gel to also make eddys and ripples on the water.</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21rLIjteh4OIYiUaBdAyZD5d9EIffqDdNSicYuLSGt3j28Fonu9ZMiCuKf9papsXXfd7gy4JFV6zJR12t5FcAw9m-4_38LDvZCs-WmGy2YGNXC8lOvi2eMP-3xDj7DF3HQNfVc5WVt4AiAVE8rB0Z4bbzzcs7vTz-wDjuWXqWbvCitn111UFXcUioXVOF/s3456/20240317_220628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21rLIjteh4OIYiUaBdAyZD5d9EIffqDdNSicYuLSGt3j28Fonu9ZMiCuKf9papsXXfd7gy4JFV6zJR12t5FcAw9m-4_38LDvZCs-WmGy2YGNXC8lOvi2eMP-3xDj7DF3HQNfVc5WVt4AiAVE8rB0Z4bbzzcs7vTz-wDjuWXqWbvCitn111UFXcUioXVOF/s320/20240317_220628.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">plenty of flotsam in the water with green and brown washes adding weathering to canals</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIvIgjkV8t1ltu5bfcacuqEAWX2VWWz7i0eDom3sDVB2czrmqYru0UHkphl5o1xLfFu1STcLiyEBN0MOBBKR6Ply_sKAlbRUXzTNEP5CbS3hCZZwwFop3qExIKXnf4Q6pGqjzqLbR8ZKLcltiwTCq4pcgqbTDlWk9HYDxxMzP_DTobrsno6tVGucvKUA7/s3456/20240317_220933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAIvIgjkV8t1ltu5bfcacuqEAWX2VWWz7i0eDom3sDVB2czrmqYru0UHkphl5o1xLfFu1STcLiyEBN0MOBBKR6Ply_sKAlbRUXzTNEP5CbS3hCZZwwFop3qExIKXnf4Q6pGqjzqLbR8ZKLcltiwTCq4pcgqbTDlWk9HYDxxMzP_DTobrsno6tVGucvKUA7/s320/20240317_220933.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">now the game looks a bit better and more immersive. The final resin pour wouldnt be dry for Adeptican this week and its maiden game will be there. Expect some MDF veinitian buildings next year to replace the cardstock. </span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXqm4uc0g4_aTh_Na8mL9awU1dl_-cOokX0WhyphenhyphenLY8jDz1T-ebBUk5IfXlUFqGTINvU-Nwld33ZRBYTsNxDM1vvOeNyHI5-IPVDTQcbOrHvayXsFham738PIbr2DRdm8fes_prz4B-iPB-i33IS_mReNZ6dylJbtA5yJWqqs3P7MqOf1D36yXgbkIi7-2R/s3456/20240317_221247.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXqm4uc0g4_aTh_Na8mL9awU1dl_-cOokX0WhyphenhyphenLY8jDz1T-ebBUk5IfXlUFqGTINvU-Nwld33ZRBYTsNxDM1vvOeNyHI5-IPVDTQcbOrHvayXsFham738PIbr2DRdm8fes_prz4B-iPB-i33IS_mReNZ6dylJbtA5yJWqqs3P7MqOf1D36yXgbkIi7-2R/s320/20240317_221247.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is this teleport homer of the white scars that was found when I removed the horde above from the painting desk....probably going to mean trouble for this board soon!</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpmYxfdFj4j-4JTs9dOjRq0qCr7hg3HhSPJ0p3Fm-FUUyOoIniNUVzDlML4zV2RImAxSATGR6FfqbBBIQxrwqWEGRZRBQs-WAqZIVwhyj-oTfFFtciEUVzWqsLUkIHqK6d_eeJ5o4bIHRNd6IZzQKl9a6wIiKbh7DJyZN30eH07ret81_5E8ruZrlOOAY/s3456/20240317_221443.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpmYxfdFj4j-4JTs9dOjRq0qCr7hg3HhSPJ0p3Fm-FUUyOoIniNUVzDlML4zV2RImAxSATGR6FfqbBBIQxrwqWEGRZRBQs-WAqZIVwhyj-oTfFFtciEUVzWqsLUkIHqK6d_eeJ5o4bIHRNd6IZzQKl9a6wIiKbh7DJyZN30eH07ret81_5E8ruZrlOOAY/s320/20240317_221443.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So totals for this aquatic mine</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Scarif stormtroopers- 12 troops and 2 crewed mortars for 80 points</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Geller pox infected for 95 points including 13 skulls</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">( hulks counted as cavalry and the mini minions at 2.5)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Star striders- 50 points and 18 skulls.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">naval armsmen- 55 points and 20 skulls</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">rats and zombie dog- 25 points</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">10 points for the loose Carnevale bollards</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carnevale Guild- 80 points</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">gondolas- for 20</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and the big skirmish board for 40 plus another 20 for the maritime theme</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">legion duel no change, some one gets the White Scar Comms officer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Big Stompy Robots of Death stands at lucky number 13</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">skulls get a few more another 54 for a new total of 272</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am going to make some coffee and see if I can at least finish some more stormtroopers before midnight! I am sorry I couldn't get enough time to comment more in the challenge as work and military have prevented all sorts of social media in areas I am. Although I think some of it is silly, I also know that cyber security is serious important for nuclear plants and military operations. Blogspot just happened to get caught up in the lockdown....and I am unusually busy this outing!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_______________________________</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wow! You have A LOT going on in your life Dave! Still, it's great to see that you've managed more than a little time for your hobby. Your Scarif Shore Troopers look like they're on a great holiday (not), and your </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">Elucidian Starstriders</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"> are the absolute business. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I absolutely love your Carnevale and Venice board. Wow. Beautiful, painstaking work. Well done!</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>david bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15373599516429004062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-804444277552601502024-03-18T15:00:00.002-06:002024-03-18T15:00:33.344-06:00From MikeW: 28mm Polish Dragoons & WoR, Emperor's Guard Space Marines plus other bits and pieces (206 Points) <p>Hopeflly I will not overload or wonderful minions but as we enter the last weekend of painting, I'll be putting posts into a 'Ready' status as and when I get a good batch of figures completed! Thank You Minions! 😀</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_ulWwBnetFBAFk7iUltcSe3vknGPZbWtyeKc-SSZr9tX-chSPDdTxjoEqpZeiJCA9A7m2fnus_t9R8-9vXu7M2D3wnsx__C6ZixHnLxEjTu9kJeujnw9knjIJQYvONyd2cIFxsvKgeugctY_srdfDvRrl3tG7dRZkDm55NA_RbVgCAjeQzwtWBFeBBQU=w400-h196" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Polish figures for my Siege of Vienna project</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
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</div><br />Next up, I have a lonely Mexican Grenadier, waiting to join his comrades in my Alamo collection. I found this lonely soul, in my drawer the other day so decided to paint him up. <br /><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieO842NKUZc1WDlwulLq-SvdRgUfiRkCi0H26Pk2XFQQWPeVOQ7CFKKL48nTRUd7PFbxCGc1scvxjC5LPMAbGX7tRXw_v6UPTeeUOG50itV2VIVu-y6BzcGmZaFjht3ZFFO74FS_8eKtU7u0TsPpVNyOCEXTIhxqD0oQrRs5z9-xUAxVO2LHahbzXjtfA=w400-h383" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A lonely Mexican Grenadier figure found at the bottom of my drawers, <br />now ready to join his comrades at the Alamo!</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
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</div><br /><p></p><p>Next a couple of 40K Space Marines, these are for my new Emperor's Guard Chapter that I have been toying with building an army for. A few months back, as an experiment, I asked the Chat GPT AI site to generate a Space Marines Chapter for me. This is what they came up with (see <a href="https://saswargames.blogspot.com/2023/11/using-chat-gpt-to-create-new-warhammer.html" target="_blank">here</a> for more details).</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipUxLMaoixCnyzDe4ibve7MGB5KdC-rrTjXwG6amD81TFbhzjvlW34ETyQNXVJJA0EM_bgr4rVVZRNplXtNupmvhqk2duCcDcZSsV-pqRtEETW-aBBlp3IBMPez-BKj_55qedpBRstKk6Mu7APpSbxLtOiAxpDRsQMMkJukQcLjTUi03asxYS5cHXuchY=w277-h400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="277" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm putting this down as a test figure, <br />not overly happy with the way the paint has finished on this guy</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p>So I have done a standard Marine plus his Terminator 'Big Brother' to accompany him</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYw6hdakLqKmTdhm05VtBh15og0BUCwxDXD2q-Af_KjH8mvCZVyF9SSnMtQyB4vsccoasqh1f4p4mrRkB9AQSaEAA7xDU9hY3mvwSbmGg1NoXTB00hx3k1IKvZOEqVR_NpzotqEMFeu8lwgK0IxgLv36mDnuCqIZLdzdk1PI0R5Mqaqmswlfrv9DAn_eQ=w316-h400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="316" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Happier with this big boy, note skull on base<br />but may come back to this to do some more detail and weathering</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p>Now a cheeky one pointer for a piece of terrain, a Bretonnian brazier!</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghELWhD8TYNqil75E8fcNOR9KHjqxMUbhq2TXKQvW4PKJQf-ql21y1I3NZOkJqGGDuI-mal0gJc6S220BV6tzRm7TLKHcByMvnaWDHRoxZfmjdoqGx68s4znaUSuvWMfjh94XFbjgr5iYoo2WuycNgrVCZJpYNMMA2qkYdM3MncbfWzysMnfWWDCz-i94=w315-h400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="315" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Smoking brazier...</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
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</div><p>My final work for this year's challenge is a group of 31 x Perry plastic War of the Roses 28mm figures, painted to represent part if the retinue of Sir Robert Whittington, in their distinctive green and white livery.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOnpoS5eTHNwXTeSfDTobuNBIaq0xkleJhxdPwjCjUTuBkbwswENxJNGhXX6P2n55S3F5izNUocCFVgLf9r1Jc0dz5QUahAlPZH0KcXFNWSMtkm28rmu_yGJX4kCyFWyPNzxN2UHASE_qFjDyv0HG1WQOyq4uarisIKc8goGD78G5wOn7yuT1vrbSdktg=w400-h107" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>All 31 figures as they enter the battlefield</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p>The group includes 9 x Archers, 5 x Crossbowmen, 8 x Handgunners and 9 x Men-at-Arms, Standard Bearer & Musician etc.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6QllzP5w4g05AwQ3aThU1FBDzyXJGPPvO5imJzOG1cYsauhox6s6U2cyQJB9-0PsN1cwsJxLq0vowUIdOAgwu5X-0QsSOV2kwZ6aH-lWAu63VBqCPceuyleJUEGbonLhK1gr-Ls-kAq96SzUelArSPHganAnTr-bejOSuMG27g4gX6RWz4cxI2qY7sl8=w400-h100" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The 9 x Archers, most in livery jackets</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p></p><p>All were undercoated in an 'oatmeal' colour - exact colour is hard to determine as I used hobby paints for this job! I then drybrushed the figures white and concentrated on faces and hands to get a smooth white finish. Skin had GW Darkoath Flesh applied before being highlighted with Army Painter Barbarian Flesh. All metalwork was painted with GW Leadbelcher and then the livery jackets were painted in with white and green halves.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGXJ0_xMfHhM6ek7pnhxIIvhlp6tL6JkBHKQqXF__yYM6kFgw2MC-g8wgXF_7KeHWm37eCoa-4Z_N05gWeaLJLoLP4iUqazn9ppKIj4Bz24YZJWmMPs9H1fIAdfWGRwPyP7Rka70IEq2MuLJZbqMnYr2PJ8MDC_YMSLUJpsQmYfDa2WAz6EpGcuxDjWek" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>8 x Musketeers</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ6jCjJbbF6RcognfsHoXioJ4x8BvTf2w2l7q2yQ91T5AUpHezaiCutOFrWU5GxCMMUj8303lm0OYB45qpZIocKKF_3jg_y2zhELnb7QbIWhZaT0zOkeW7Agee5lU8D2G3mkxqOJYM1MUavAWaWCJVd1G0cV1caZE5yYJDm_65PkzFfYNxMYMF6FSn3O4" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Another close-up</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br /><p></p><p>So there it is hopefully enough work to get me over the 3,000 point level - something I didn't think I'd have time for this year. Thanks to all the minions and other participants for making this another great challenge and yet again Grahame H. outscores me, the man is a painting machine!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier;">POINTS</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier;">2 x 28mm Polish Mounted @ 10 Points ea<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 20 Points</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier;">3 x 28mm Polish Command @ 5 Points ea<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span>15 Points</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>1 x 28mm Mexican Grenadier <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 5 Points</span></b></span></p><p><span><b><span style="font-family: courier;">1 x Bretonnian Brazier<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 1 Point</span></span></b></span></p><p><span><b><span><span style="font-family: courier;">2 x Warhammer 40k Space Marines @ 5 Points ea<span> 10 Points</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span><b><span><span><span style="font-family: courier;">31 x 28mm WoR Retinue Men @ 5 Points ea <u>155 Points</u></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>TOTAL <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> 206 Points</span></b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span>+2 Squirrel (War of the Roses & Polish Dragoons)</span></b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span>+1 Skull</span></b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span><i><br /></i></span></b></span></span></p><i>A great varied post from you, Mike, and also an impressive final (?) dash!. They are all great, the Polish cavalry, the Mexican, and the purple space marines (love how you used AI to get your backstory for those) but my favourites are the WotR figures. A nice collection, I love the livery and together they look very good. Your total output during the Challenge is frightening, you are quite the painitng machine yourself! It has been great to see your projects rolling along, and I am sure we will meet you again in Challenge XV!</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Martijn</i></div>SAS Wargameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12250531467040558060noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-37592193480580887502024-03-18T13:59:00.003-06:002024-03-18T13:59:27.471-06:00From ByronM: Last dash to the end [Lady Sarah's Cart](40 points)<p> It has been a super slow challenge for me with a lot going on this year distracting me, so I will be missing my points goal for the first time since being involved with the challenge. Sigh.... Oh well, life goes on, and I may as well try to get a few last points up today.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYseji8_dvCHHVYwoDYb4WFf0xQA3Wp4TRlQa1OrBKHtAbW3NyMez5G9oWVC46hpQy8Em70Z14HBZwbyk8WbeRRiEftKxkCPsIX3r8w4b7jeSTtiw7PpmchWrQwWuk7OidUZ2EPEz_HzU2z8mHvGZ1EwtEE3NJZvtPPa3JFwdhVTyTLdbb1RXTcQg/s2442/IMG_3469.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2168" data-original-width="2442" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYseji8_dvCHHVYwoDYb4WFf0xQA3Wp4TRlQa1OrBKHtAbW3NyMez5G9oWVC46hpQy8Em70Z14HBZwbyk8WbeRRiEftKxkCPsIX3r8w4b7jeSTtiw7PpmchWrQwWuk7OidUZ2EPEz_HzU2z8mHvGZ1EwtEE3NJZvtPPa3JFwdhVTyTLdbb1RXTcQg/s320/IMG_3469.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>First up is a Kingdom Death: Monster figure that I painted up for some bonus points with Sarah's Library Cart, to take a trip, hmm.... anywhere.... I don't plan on getting any other bonus points so it doesn't really matter where I go, I just had this female figure on the painting table to finish at some point. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0z5T8S1qC1rOzMs68ie94iqt6Zn4QGPq0_hBoNSEfU7PF4N-SNJVeHT-qzPVyjQIi2LQyvewLaMbBgfpzKFkl_7urpi9WGUMOdvq1e50Xf9LknegPWlnMLgm6BvizN6FxuQ93CyMOGj4p1RPD-hYdLVYJNIL2L9-wunU1TqE0AM45OiLFI0dpmI1/s1896/IMG_3470.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1896" data-original-width="1664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik0z5T8S1qC1rOzMs68ie94iqt6Zn4QGPq0_hBoNSEfU7PF4N-SNJVeHT-qzPVyjQIi2LQyvewLaMbBgfpzKFkl_7urpi9WGUMOdvq1e50Xf9LknegPWlnMLgm6BvizN6FxuQ93CyMOGj4p1RPD-hYdLVYJNIL2L9-wunU1TqE0AM45OiLFI0dpmI1/s320/IMG_3470.jpeg" width="281" /></a></div><p></p><p>She is a survivor done up in leather gear (including the bondage face mask and gear) and has her Dom whip in hand! Kingdom Death is not for the weak of heart, so she makes sure you can pass the test before letting you out of the settlement!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFkaXnJ2zGsHwrvKkh11lrudQlELNtMqnTVJEdRGCJ2WMl2Cuktk2CzDGEuI8ohUd5jUN7hoJE5Thc9lnjWjxPV5ghK7jBgetDVdbjdP5xa-6NQj_nBtzr49KcCDFCgxUGEivjyANLFxeI9jeR13NzpMw3mWnnJc7g0zd36fw1WAleFAnjkTxU1UfN/s2246/IMG_3471.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2051" data-original-width="2246" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFkaXnJ2zGsHwrvKkh11lrudQlELNtMqnTVJEdRGCJ2WMl2Cuktk2CzDGEuI8ohUd5jUN7hoJE5Thc9lnjWjxPV5ghK7jBgetDVdbjdP5xa-6NQj_nBtzr49KcCDFCgxUGEivjyANLFxeI9jeR13NzpMw3mWnnJc7g0zd36fw1WAleFAnjkTxU1UfN/s320/IMG_3471.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I was not sure on colours, other than the leather needing to be black or brown. I went with a very Karen blue hair as I wanted something to contrast against the brown and flesh of the rest of the model, and I think it worked out well.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThDDpUBJcsR2h9tKYi1ADC6Swsg0McAfbYwsuBtg4XekNjwNA8JQKVWrtENGEyX7iM1IhHMvH95P8P5evOGTSNU-vqmdiwnImhyphenhyphenBPFeeFYMk9WA0u3TwjR7cg6Rvxs_KJGH0tAr11i0GKiZQydkR4zwn1KN12waWYaaQsa6S_snBo1vd7MzFMnTsL/s1912/IMG_3472.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1878" data-original-width="1912" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThDDpUBJcsR2h9tKYi1ADC6Swsg0McAfbYwsuBtg4XekNjwNA8JQKVWrtENGEyX7iM1IhHMvH95P8P5evOGTSNU-vqmdiwnImhyphenhyphenBPFeeFYMk9WA0u3TwjR7cg6Rvxs_KJGH0tAr11i0GKiZQydkR4zwn1KN12waWYaaQsa6S_snBo1vd7MzFMnTsL/s320/IMG_3472.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Next up I have 2 models that have been kicking around on my painting table for at least 2 years and maybe 3 or 4! They are the last models for the Ten Thunders gang for Malifaux that got tucked behind a bunch of other stuff years ago when I did the other models of the gang and forgotten. Since we haven't played in years, it hasn't been an issue. However, we started talking about giving it another go recently so I figured I should get them done. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHCb4TSOoSofEmkldxvTw6xGtdXE7X2qEYwaZWa0Q7UNopbztvYLrhRRGlAEni2muEvetyYXHfrFx0o4KyvEyoDMCS3aMV9PlA-WuW1ubPDDehZI9WXAsUpSmjiPMhsHg3UBjtzEqBbsCmhrbj2h7yOaEDN7poYdQudGMGaEP7tHpSgxCcc3i9Er-/s3841/IMG_3474.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2256" data-original-width="3841" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPHCb4TSOoSofEmkldxvTw6xGtdXE7X2qEYwaZWa0Q7UNopbztvYLrhRRGlAEni2muEvetyYXHfrFx0o4KyvEyoDMCS3aMV9PlA-WuW1ubPDDehZI9WXAsUpSmjiPMhsHg3UBjtzEqBbsCmhrbj2h7yOaEDN7poYdQudGMGaEP7tHpSgxCcc3i9Er-/s320/IMG_3474.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>The female is a caster of types to help out the rest of the faction, and the guy is a oni spirit that they bring with them to crush their enemies. Not my best work, but they are done and table worthy.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi907-5drePqC_sud125rdSdyvGUkmJ_IEoyMR-c-jsuN4jqUZ9eOfcMbSfNLYK4_F4NcySxp1FBKjHKlTdftOneYF2q617SXIgY1MlMoXSqwV3CF1K5Vk4_RytQO43m3KndOZIffs5JOcZfV9ORpE0x-21kwIKr-ZwkHnB6vcDYrvOmj8_jxEj06B5/s4032/IMG_3475.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi907-5drePqC_sud125rdSdyvGUkmJ_IEoyMR-c-jsuN4jqUZ9eOfcMbSfNLYK4_F4NcySxp1FBKjHKlTdftOneYF2q617SXIgY1MlMoXSqwV3CF1K5Vk4_RytQO43m3KndOZIffs5JOcZfV9ORpE0x-21kwIKr-ZwkHnB6vcDYrvOmj8_jxEj06B5/s320/IMG_3475.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Overall this should be 40 points. 10 for the 35mm KD figure, 20 for Sara's Library Cart, and then 5 for each of the Malifaux figures. <p></p><p>I should be back later tonight for one last post, I am just trying to finish up my Turnip28 figures, but we will see how that goes.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ha, you thought you'd escape me didn't you? No way! I won't miss minioning this absolutely stunning KD figure. The leatherwork is fantastic, you may have had your doubts about the colours but they work very well and the overall effect is fabulous. What a great piece! I think the photos don't do the Malifaux figures enough justice, but they look great too. A great post, Byron! I am not entirely sure about the maths, there is no 35mm category and it is not really possible to judge the size of the KD figure, so I went along with your suggestion and scored it as a 54mm figure. In any case 10 points seems fair. So, 40 in total,let's hope we'll see you back later today!</i></p><p><i>Martijn </i></p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>ByronMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11290492763955225660noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-35142097315943818592024-03-18T13:45:00.001-06:002024-03-18T13:45:24.979-06:00From TomL: Clearing the Desk (220 points)<p>The AHPC challenge of trying to post something weekly coupled with the wonderfully addictive nature of the Library theme generator really pushed my output and cleared out some boxes of unpainted figures. <br /><br />Thanks again to Curt, Sarah, Millsy and all of the minions for all the time & effort it takes to put on the AHPC. While painting was a lot of fun, looking at all the other entries in the morning is something I am going to miss quite a lot. Hope to join again next year. </p><p>Starting off this post is another lady adventurer. The last Pulp Adventuress on the painting table is Mrs. Mallowan from Bob Murch’s Daughters of the Empire set. Painted with Foundry and Two Thin Coat paints.</p><p><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPiZ4UcACkN3Awu0nMxGVFjTMWCnQl2ibqu4DjPyJchhnOJ7lLlhoEHaqQViEaJeR8RlC5yXqQxvRtZw4v9EoBjVeOhs91tg6mxr8duJLrrdGnXn21LW-YAaJcK8pjIKFrQ9VOco4G_tA_QSc9wbvp42Kv_cRQhVZOds1-3DUTY1KY7gV10_jBy6I_pZM/s1000/DSC01098w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="930" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPiZ4UcACkN3Awu0nMxGVFjTMWCnQl2ibqu4DjPyJchhnOJ7lLlhoEHaqQViEaJeR8RlC5yXqQxvRtZw4v9EoBjVeOhs91tg6mxr8duJLrrdGnXn21LW-YAaJcK8pjIKFrQ9VOco4G_tA_QSc9wbvp42Kv_cRQhVZOds1-3DUTY1KY7gV10_jBy6I_pZM/w373-h400/DSC01098w.jpg" width="373" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunwXjVDcjhpg6qC6w1mFW9ofkK-hOp_jrg760hX4aK202xzOdIpiqN7l1_KsWUa1Nxvd-AhNY3j2Ivw2SSAMJSdWVu5J2DQ-DZttk_Z8dP0AMwMwYuyHHDtMtRqtCMw5X4KDkgBxi7azZw05TcVRmUNZ-2zdCY5XJfbmQuhXbWFwl9XJ9fa2I-g-Brssb/s1000/DSC01096w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunwXjVDcjhpg6qC6w1mFW9ofkK-hOp_jrg760hX4aK202xzOdIpiqN7l1_KsWUa1Nxvd-AhNY3j2Ivw2SSAMJSdWVu5J2DQ-DZttk_Z8dP0AMwMwYuyHHDtMtRqtCMw5X4KDkgBxi7azZw05TcVRmUNZ-2zdCY5XJfbmQuhXbWFwl9XJ9fa2I-g-Brssb/w395-h400/DSC01096w.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><br /><p>Wandering in from the Congo box after he missed the last call for the Nature entry is a Wargames Foundry gorilla. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydekdSvuojFUoBaz3hlT6hAfupS-WVAwRnZAjmYwSy8QGjuQyAwlBXwg3nogfhgAROoF-46SL626sm_4oq8GTGr-IwdtcR7T-kROygVwLspdkKn4qEMtbtyvQpFwq9i32FvYoM4XgGwKTSDpJCOa4BkOiwem8gd8t0JpWYCmJbV0Cvbp_kYzuw0H-lW4B/s1000/DSC01093w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="984" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydekdSvuojFUoBaz3hlT6hAfupS-WVAwRnZAjmYwSy8QGjuQyAwlBXwg3nogfhgAROoF-46SL626sm_4oq8GTGr-IwdtcR7T-kROygVwLspdkKn4qEMtbtyvQpFwq9i32FvYoM4XgGwKTSDpJCOa4BkOiwem8gd8t0JpWYCmJbV0Cvbp_kYzuw0H-lW4B/w380-h386/DSC01093w.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnchXUy5UBJFcZx9fk9dh8udPWkZZ2fPt1Xhe-1e1wiIQb10vx93fpk5OJ-Jwrt_afbEPjzPoRJB2urHOU50vXFIdbCTQYOV-6NDn419v7n95yAQwKqCcLwyoCP-nxyC3BmdYhtr-ydtgGddXl59R7qdSTeHMyFHWjkfolU6cl-gBgL1qSMgqwdmTv9mbY/s1000/DSC01094w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="843" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnchXUy5UBJFcZx9fk9dh8udPWkZZ2fPt1Xhe-1e1wiIQb10vx93fpk5OJ-Jwrt_afbEPjzPoRJB2urHOU50vXFIdbCTQYOV-6NDn419v7n95yAQwKqCcLwyoCP-nxyC3BmdYhtr-ydtgGddXl59R7qdSTeHMyFHWjkfolU6cl-gBgL1qSMgqwdmTv9mbY/w366-h433/DSC01094w.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><br /><p>These are Wargame Factory Zombie survivors picked up at a GenCon in 2013. They were assembled in a week or two by my friend's young son, I painted a few and the rest sat on a shelf until I bought contrast paints. Painted in spurts over the last few years I decided to finish these last 10 so they can join the other 50 painted survivors. They are a weirdly sculpted set in that all the heavyset figures clothes fit horribly - social statement? <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yhIZukrJipKKGBBptGvnsDGhloO5zISaryTV34wgTmZxaRXjM2cWDPNV0v-O6e-LoiRdFVkRn3RWbau6dx4nbEPPbc6Rb8PB51lnlc540OGIPsn9dFzUf3FR05S10lOqoxgL367PAF9Pf8WuVtNE4d-UNFJ7UXvndU2WDbdxxF0ZY8m5-cpARFmUfGDF/s1000/DSC01113w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1000" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yhIZukrJipKKGBBptGvnsDGhloO5zISaryTV34wgTmZxaRXjM2cWDPNV0v-O6e-LoiRdFVkRn3RWbau6dx4nbEPPbc6Rb8PB51lnlc540OGIPsn9dFzUf3FR05S10lOqoxgL367PAF9Pf8WuVtNE4d-UNFJ7UXvndU2WDbdxxF0ZY8m5-cpARFmUfGDF/w400-h328/DSC01113w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXh10RASN7VwNygWKc5Q4i-UxilEYfc4thTtXu6cqwnaX4AelpNSV-BX-FdKpJrmKTTxAXhvl0uZsN9Y_26e7qg1XgZIW2BMZ7LOdF0d7mEkiN4UMds5q9hBzzTkihG2D-tZN6GeLvrJ9NlYWSN-T2NE2XzxzsMGkI4mVxvhHpXD7FbJJuu-4kpJNj6e6V/s1000/DSC01117w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1000" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXh10RASN7VwNygWKc5Q4i-UxilEYfc4thTtXu6cqwnaX4AelpNSV-BX-FdKpJrmKTTxAXhvl0uZsN9Y_26e7qg1XgZIW2BMZ7LOdF0d7mEkiN4UMds5q9hBzzTkihG2D-tZN6GeLvrJ9NlYWSN-T2NE2XzxzsMGkI4mVxvhHpXD7FbJJuu-4kpJNj6e6V/w400-h328/DSC01117w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The final group is my Skaven. Still have a few leaders & random old metal blisters but this unit of 24 completes my rank & file clanrats. These were painted with contrast, Foundry acrylics and Vallejo Metal color paints and dirtied up with Vallejo Game wash. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivLjm9PXf4AKdKPS_Sad0NoX0FOnsyRWYhF4Nlq-akFWfNw_NAObhX9IlzxQs7spYlgNoigU-wbIePEooLVXTBURf_wgM1GmkSxXyy3LIevl0lfspR9IKdRLRYYVIxYwnhZLVNpM_kurRHtTOON3gKdpGGmiHR9QocMtdaxn05c8nOCP7ecQCL4OULJcTu/s1000/DSC01104w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivLjm9PXf4AKdKPS_Sad0NoX0FOnsyRWYhF4Nlq-akFWfNw_NAObhX9IlzxQs7spYlgNoigU-wbIePEooLVXTBURf_wgM1GmkSxXyy3LIevl0lfspR9IKdRLRYYVIxYwnhZLVNpM_kurRHtTOON3gKdpGGmiHR9QocMtdaxn05c8nOCP7ecQCL4OULJcTu/w400-h225/DSC01104w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvk9IuB0id6Sej7xq0bNf80MGSwjfdzouc-GAsQvlwR4YS_GooVPU1DCQwUZYjRSnMHG6rU9Acs9-kkt80V2vxqd59_KdfIYUqy-43N4T0vPFTTPhSbkW_uwW6LPcRz1VJhM_uAm0QtJSnUmH9UmrseerN8Et0lIqhYOnkJFkT_CtsOnzyaH1t-I2NLHjl/s1000/DSC01107w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvk9IuB0id6Sej7xq0bNf80MGSwjfdzouc-GAsQvlwR4YS_GooVPU1DCQwUZYjRSnMHG6rU9Acs9-kkt80V2vxqd59_KdfIYUqy-43N4T0vPFTTPhSbkW_uwW6LPcRz1VJhM_uAm0QtJSnUmH9UmrseerN8Et0lIqhYOnkJFkT_CtsOnzyaH1t-I2NLHjl/w400-h300/DSC01107w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4p9HfNKgi2TojTnBmOfq7vGEcbWq-TvqxwDYQR8bYGzQANgU2036Jov6wSpYGBBZcHhhFUPgb-ru8LE6nVgZO5DA1hP19SzwNLHfbCV_E6kz9XEZmxcv2rQh826JRgG67cEhcaqaOTNfXIeTUrk38VwzN7_Je-Sz__8ZekfjI4DQ-Jnlwfs0vB72XyWVV/s1000/DSC01108w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4p9HfNKgi2TojTnBmOfq7vGEcbWq-TvqxwDYQR8bYGzQANgU2036Jov6wSpYGBBZcHhhFUPgb-ru8LE6nVgZO5DA1hP19SzwNLHfbCV_E6kz9XEZmxcv2rQh826JRgG67cEhcaqaOTNfXIeTUrk38VwzN7_Je-Sz__8ZekfjI4DQ-Jnlwfs0vB72XyWVV/w400-h300/DSC01108w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Two heavy weapon teams of death and destruction. Sometimes they even hit the enemy.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd5o8oO9AGWE6ILh1kq5fCCryFFIgKx_Wu2DQYmlnGTDgnSMZERXI_aRYrcRkmbZ_ZBMRbbnv7Ry2mhJTV6nfPpVxnSehljxmc0dLd5arxeApYDpkyUsCbya27hHz3BtSvzsE8QKU0uqyiwnJTXMpau66V1ixSaKhCBDOubEQs-g93B40T8Az8qiBPeXT/s1000/DSC01109w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1000" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd5o8oO9AGWE6ILh1kq5fCCryFFIgKx_Wu2DQYmlnGTDgnSMZERXI_aRYrcRkmbZ_ZBMRbbnv7Ry2mhJTV6nfPpVxnSehljxmc0dLd5arxeApYDpkyUsCbya27hHz3BtSvzsE8QKU0uqyiwnJTXMpau66V1ixSaKhCBDOubEQs-g93B40T8Az8qiBPeXT/w400-h383/DSC01109w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtC-KtNNKZJZZW_aNt3UrFUPsJDLC11oDFz85YXunH9-M5TTvRs37rWr477HGHFTrupCxcPSA82ALbkOnbWJuzTSKGET0PvaVuPC4ANM-pk2EDyPK4UEHLqHiV3pCzC5t85X57KDHxLAJTqQJTQ61YxpEJH8pQ1nHGAzT9ACVCZmUvxA62PkwIRR2-GmNu/s1000/DSC01110w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1000" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtC-KtNNKZJZZW_aNt3UrFUPsJDLC11oDFz85YXunH9-M5TTvRs37rWr477HGHFTrupCxcPSA82ALbkOnbWJuzTSKGET0PvaVuPC4ANM-pk2EDyPK4UEHLqHiV3pCzC5t85X57KDHxLAJTqQJTQ61YxpEJH8pQ1nHGAzT9ACVCZmUvxA62PkwIRR2-GmNu/w400-h379/DSC01110w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I believe points for this post would be 220.<br />36 28mm figures * 5 points = 180<br />2 28mm weapons with 4 crew for 40 points. Assuming the weapon is 10 plus 5 per crew - correct as needed. <br /><br /></p><p><i>A great way to clean your desk Tom! Mrs. Mallowan looks very spiffy, I like the way you painted her skirt. Not a lady to mess with I think. The gorilla and the zombie survivors all look great, but I find your clanrats the true pièce de résistance of this contribution. The varied colours look great, and you have applied just the correct amount of wash to bind them all together while preserving some of the vibrancy of the colours. Very nice! Those weapon teams of death look horrifying, one wonders whose death we are talking about here. But they look <strike>terrifying </strike> terrific, a fine job. Your calculations are correct I think, so 220 points added to your tally!</i></p><p><i>Martijn</i></p>Tom Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02266449811721553717noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-34729037388493228672024-03-18T13:23:00.003-06:002024-03-18T13:23:37.482-06:00From RayR: Spanish style Fountain for Santo Domingo [Art] (35 points)<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju__S1v6SVGwFrNc7lT-MUQSpska4dTFK3PcTSEgM81vY9RoBG2m3xmk6G6QlP_4d7w8Ho_KnIQnsRPe5O1ZlA9snWz8QumrL3NtFuxJYtijYZVBZUKTNQkgNEonYoLvCZ7WzEmqcx9s_KwunFJjwHBZ1y6S6UK2ZQGimM5oLHBt0B6SHqB1u30bgDRZhJ/s3428/20240318_095322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="3428" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju__S1v6SVGwFrNc7lT-MUQSpska4dTFK3PcTSEgM81vY9RoBG2m3xmk6G6QlP_4d7w8Ho_KnIQnsRPe5O1ZlA9snWz8QumrL3NtFuxJYtijYZVBZUKTNQkgNEonYoLvCZ7WzEmqcx9s_KwunFJjwHBZ1y6S6UK2ZQGimM5oLHBt0B6SHqB1u30bgDRZhJ/w400-h308/20240318_095322.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The country now known as Haiti was once called Hispaniola by the Spanish who <i>discovered</i> the island in 1492. The French had a colony on the eastern side of the island, they called it, Saint-Domingue, the Spanish called it Santo Domingo and the English Saint Domingo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpEqAnL7mCNJdCGYshJ_RoxknO3O5m6xmUwUnCtNc1-F62JXc8-u56hdVjDDnQ51U5TNEn9kEcYluGwa6wmhboLj98YiXjwKQr6h8Wh4lt6Ke1ibm1Z0I1FGxPs0fz8g-RGo5QR7Z6Hcnm0GBUuwJXrYLKj_pQO8owiHEHfiIbB7CCajn2LKnGKU4mDwA/s3745/20240318_095332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2794" data-original-width="3745" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmpEqAnL7mCNJdCGYshJ_RoxknO3O5m6xmUwUnCtNc1-F62JXc8-u56hdVjDDnQ51U5TNEn9kEcYluGwa6wmhboLj98YiXjwKQr6h8Wh4lt6Ke1ibm1Z0I1FGxPs0fz8g-RGo5QR7Z6Hcnm0GBUuwJXrYLKj_pQO8owiHEHfiIbB7CCajn2LKnGKU4mDwA/w400-h299/20240318_095332.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>In Cap-Francis, the capital of Saint-Domingue, a fountain was built to honour the namesake of the colony St Dominic. It was built in the 1720 by the renowned French sculptor and painter Ramon Mentuer Pantalon de Feu. It took just over a year to construct, and as it neared completion, Ramon succumbed to a yellow fever that also took his wife and 6 French art students and labourers who accompanied him to Saint-Domingue from his studio in Mensonges,a suburb of Paris. The four un-named students who survived finished the work of the fountain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The statue was damaged by a runaway donkey and cart in the late 1780, when St Dominic's pointing arm was broken off, I have chosen to keep the arm in place and not snap it off, for art's sake!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The statue and fountain can still be found in Cap-Francis, or rather Port Royal as it is known today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhOWMWfUARBzqfZP4G3EVM1x3hyO5FQ_kqIDZc41oucR2ddsE1S9QZdYngXy3hWm09-aBLb7QQsq54JIjiVSfJS_1YixHeY8mXBUucyfrLRvvcKcDHuezBedNN3xLF8Efo_oQn1GHE-GXZA46TAn9ThXTkGgQx3ACf1W-TEv-L-5rTxaPYk4GcgIOXpkC/s3442/20240318_095341.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhOWMWfUARBzqfZP4G3EVM1x3hyO5FQ_kqIDZc41oucR2ddsE1S9QZdYngXy3hWm09-aBLb7QQsq54JIjiVSfJS_1YixHeY8mXBUucyfrLRvvcKcDHuezBedNN3xLF8Efo_oQn1GHE-GXZA46TAn9ThXTkGgQx3ACf1W-TEv-L-5rTxaPYk4GcgIOXpkC/s3442/20240318_095341.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="3442" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhOWMWfUARBzqfZP4G3EVM1x3hyO5FQ_kqIDZc41oucR2ddsE1S9QZdYngXy3hWm09-aBLb7QQsq54JIjiVSfJS_1YixHeY8mXBUucyfrLRvvcKcDHuezBedNN3xLF8Efo_oQn1GHE-GXZA46TAn9ThXTkGgQx3ACf1W-TEv-L-5rTxaPYk4GcgIOXpkC/w400-h323/20240318_095341.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">The fountain is from <a href="http://www.tablescape.co.uk/Catalogue/Mediterranean/MediterraneanRange.htm">Tablescape</a> in the UK. I bought it at the Cavalier wargames show in February.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6B8p5FX5REmgBXBtebu-CXQVMlm9UEm3d3wM8fN3lycGJHqaIwmsnwNQgUpf79DX7PY6qYQ_Z8vsOrjWdW32ZLmZk7FLIZkbUSMFQFwNnLt1knzDg5bo9gYk4c-Z6t4h1BlUqSVg31DXJmaGbS8Yg8PSeM1OfVZdImoc6TLFPebW3d2NL5GI6jGzcmdC/s3154/20240318_095401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2598" data-original-width="3154" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6B8p5FX5REmgBXBtebu-CXQVMlm9UEm3d3wM8fN3lycGJHqaIwmsnwNQgUpf79DX7PY6qYQ_Z8vsOrjWdW32ZLmZk7FLIZkbUSMFQFwNnLt1knzDg5bo9gYk4c-Z6t4h1BlUqSVg31DXJmaGbS8Yg8PSeM1OfVZdImoc6TLFPebW3d2NL5GI6jGzcmdC/w400-h330/20240318_095401.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'd been eyeing it up for a couple of years and finally took the plunge. John the owner explained that the centre plinth was left open so any gamer could put any statue they wanted on top.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglc0m1BgdMndt3jiYjcQWgr3Inmbj5i1BnGCaqaA-yZ182ZYBpf-JHM0jZA2ZbNibj8XqD8g2bO2VyfW0dr8RpNCFhmCTadiKSTY-EoYCnVX97qvpzeDZmJKpxmPIM9qId7IaOif2jHll2oBNkuEme_cTcbJKNSnaqAcPFYVt0mCf9u0CuNAOOGt6ipFP7/s4032/20240318_095419.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglc0m1BgdMndt3jiYjcQWgr3Inmbj5i1BnGCaqaA-yZ182ZYBpf-JHM0jZA2ZbNibj8XqD8g2bO2VyfW0dr8RpNCFhmCTadiKSTY-EoYCnVX97qvpzeDZmJKpxmPIM9qId7IaOif2jHll2oBNkuEme_cTcbJKNSnaqAcPFYVt0mCf9u0CuNAOOGt6ipFP7/w300-h400/20240318_095419.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I chose a Monk, from <a href="https://irongatescenery.co.uk/product/medieval-clergy/">Iron Gate Scenery</a>, to use as a St Dominic substitute, I think it works rather well?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ4va51WDZqrfqS3YvFovJ7e_2g2R0ecJwDDPmhrgwxKC-Qe0K2CozTlnq5ZV4lhzBvyJ6bE8OBoQ7iHq0s5r-getOzDYna3si_8cqy1-phGmMNgnaTtbfsWpXR4IPldHjlJhzT9N3UMPWV3Hc2wOLBLsTtQG4q0iH8tp_LLcI_Ccw1sXryBEP5SM1ahjh/s4032/20240318_095437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ4va51WDZqrfqS3YvFovJ7e_2g2R0ecJwDDPmhrgwxKC-Qe0K2CozTlnq5ZV4lhzBvyJ6bE8OBoQ7iHq0s5r-getOzDYna3si_8cqy1-phGmMNgnaTtbfsWpXR4IPldHjlJhzT9N3UMPWV3Hc2wOLBLsTtQG4q0iH8tp_LLcI_Ccw1sXryBEP5SM1ahjh/w400-h300/20240318_095437.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did put some Woodland Scenery water effect, into the fountain, but it hasn't shown up in any of the photo's at all, I guess I should have added a little blue paint to the mix?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsypwW9F5BIhJv2u_9tw2JbCoTHn7Uztahj66h2it9PNTnUub3rWSo29NEy5Iw_8XVw0cJFFiToSWdwTaJy4jKwk6yvXXJHxYA0N79ocNukllx6XCE6qk1cbYiU8C1ZrTxCuoQ0j2h2CTgYeC3IZxl5wdRm_JH-JTFpVSCdoeYKlmW7dylfn9H9ZBwHR02/s4032/20240313_213216.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsypwW9F5BIhJv2u_9tw2JbCoTHn7Uztahj66h2it9PNTnUub3rWSo29NEy5Iw_8XVw0cJFFiToSWdwTaJy4jKwk6yvXXJHxYA0N79ocNukllx6XCE6qk1cbYiU8C1ZrTxCuoQ0j2h2CTgYeC3IZxl5wdRm_JH-JTFpVSCdoeYKlmW7dylfn9H9ZBwHR02/w400-h300/20240313_213216.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a pic of the fountain when bought from Tablescape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEKSB0e_1MiW5zJUsRGnzPPGdtyxDNSQY_XSsU4Rpuyn9wLdn6cjQjSTiK626QXogz8zm83rdoLNoxLnXDe6uiojXY5XGe5_ILc9oxMIa8S5VzS5x9xBhLNQYu4IVVspbYB_uFGsDCoADa6wFe7jDsKLEjsYvADJkN2DeXt0OH4j-f3wx0tFlAwxxPYZa/s2048/Library%208%20Art.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1545" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEKSB0e_1MiW5zJUsRGnzPPGdtyxDNSQY_XSsU4Rpuyn9wLdn6cjQjSTiK626QXogz8zm83rdoLNoxLnXDe6uiojXY5XGe5_ILc9oxMIa8S5VzS5x9xBhLNQYu4IVVspbYB_uFGsDCoADa6wFe7jDsKLEjsYvADJkN2DeXt0OH4j-f3wx0tFlAwxxPYZa/w400-h301/Library%208%20Art.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>Art: Tap into your muse and show you artistic side, or perhaps do something about an artistic subject.</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Well I'd say Ramon's fountain fits perfectly into the art bonus round??</div><div><br /></div><div>As for the points, 5 for St Dominic and 20 for the bonus and whatever today Minion decides to give me for the fountain? it measures 4x4 inch with a height of just under 3 inches, not including the figure.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Ah, I would almost say that it is just like you to come up with a difficult minioning task at the last moment, master Ray. However, I guess you're lucky to find the Junior Assistant Librarian, who is in a fine mood on a beautiful spring day. Yes, the fountain fits nicely in the Art theme and shall we say half a cube or 10 points for it? I love the background to the story (especially the traffic accident) and I must say that you have chosen well for your Saint Dominic stature, even if it still has its arm. No doubt it is due to the influence of the venerable holy man that the water is so completely clear! Well, there you have it, 35 points for you. Well done!</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Martijn</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div>Ray Rousellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352596392520905197noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-32056510135652913492024-03-18T13:08:00.001-06:002024-03-18T13:08:36.917-06:00From PaulSS: Bataljon Jagers No. 27 Skirmishers - 30pts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVCEgiWaGVzmNtR7dDaa4sBJx6rrJlIStSfegldOzvFJvU52nTHq1tDsqdAAV977JG0EJc-nShJ3RbevudjqTKiAjECJOMgSlB3gvIuju9WwcgDD5MQ7KpA7bXws_ehtICcLuSngtsprXdbFKcNO-YvQXJfn5rwLXrkc46KCa8Wj3w-qSDKrKM6acrnsb-/s1280/PXL_20240318_011408131.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="1280" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVCEgiWaGVzmNtR7dDaa4sBJx6rrJlIStSfegldOzvFJvU52nTHq1tDsqdAAV977JG0EJc-nShJ3RbevudjqTKiAjECJOMgSlB3gvIuju9WwcgDD5MQ7KpA7bXws_ehtICcLuSngtsprXdbFKcNO-YvQXJfn5rwLXrkc46KCa8Wj3w-qSDKrKM6acrnsb-/w400-h206/PXL_20240318_011408131.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>I had quite a busy weekend coming up, so I did not know if I would manage to get final post in before the challenge ended, but some persistence saw the skirmisher bases to go with Bataljon Jagers No. 27 featured in <a href="https://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/03/from-paulss-bataljon-jagers-no-27-120pts.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a> made it over the line.</p><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93zNiWB-D-9VS7dDxgW5kwj-UEYgwxFaPdtUBY0vSXQ8WMFL0v8G_7RzDaisitt6AWV0nllv4VYNCCOo1q158i9WK4T4G6y7xsgU4b-nEwaywf2mSJLWopliInDV8l7YZHICJwSTlWUTP1g-OK21n-8AlMKMuUXT5uhKG14vH14irerybj4Hh0YZrURna/s1171/PXL_20240318_011624467.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1167" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93zNiWB-D-9VS7dDxgW5kwj-UEYgwxFaPdtUBY0vSXQ8WMFL0v8G_7RzDaisitt6AWV0nllv4VYNCCOo1q158i9WK4T4G6y7xsgU4b-nEwaywf2mSJLWopliInDV8l7YZHICJwSTlWUTP1g-OK21n-8AlMKMuUXT5uhKG14vH14irerybj4Hh0YZrURna/s320/PXL_20240318_011624467.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here they are screening the front of the battalion.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mU1oKQRljxzye8-zBDVsbYyayEc-Dc1QuFWu87ztwbLwI8D7rGrKOzz-6mx52C93_JHPVraP6HpTJHVZstLR8Q-O1rOSpLXEEArCJ5F6miUQQ2IpyoZqYqmSU02UzkmE_lmG_7bFpQh0bVaNTMtKMGeuhG2XjCXoBSGazuPW3n5yT_Gs_-aNqL7pXbEu/s1280/PXL_20240318_011732750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="1280" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mU1oKQRljxzye8-zBDVsbYyayEc-Dc1QuFWu87ztwbLwI8D7rGrKOzz-6mx52C93_JHPVraP6HpTJHVZstLR8Q-O1rOSpLXEEArCJ5F6miUQQ2IpyoZqYqmSU02UzkmE_lmG_7bFpQh0bVaNTMtKMGeuhG2XjCXoBSGazuPW3n5yT_Gs_-aNqL7pXbEu/s320/PXL_20240318_011732750.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Six 28mm foot figures should add a final 30pts to my total.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>I feel privileged to get to minion your final post Paul, as it features these gorgeous Dutch-Belgian jagers from the 27th battalion! The Front Rank sculpts are very nice figures and your painting is ace. I am particularly impressed by the highlights and shadows on the trousers, really well done. These skirmishers put the finishing touch on your beautiful unit and are a fitting conclusion to your Challenge I'd say. A great job and 30 final points to you!</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Martijn</i></div>Paul Scrivens-Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12949398840254289016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-20036790075854161292024-03-18T12:14:00.000-06:002024-03-18T12:14:02.806-06:00From Millsy: Purple People Eaters + Extras (170 points)<p>G'day All,</p><p>To wrap up my Challenge for this year I wanted something simple, relatively low on detail and that wouldn't require too much in the way of thinking. The answer is Tyranids (and droids) apparently. Apart from the Assassin Droids these guys are an addition to <a href="https://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/from-millsy-hive-fleet-millsy-expands.html" target="_blank">Hive Fleet Millsy</a>.</p><p>Apologies for the photos, the light is really poor and the purple doesn't agree with the phone camera!</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">20 x Hormagaunts (100 points)</h4><p>Speedy, slashy, stabby little suckers who want to get all up in your grill and then eat everything on your grill. And then eat the grill.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFzDKF4ufUatKUUpqGTX2GNFDZqnFc0IlE2YoifIdKqbAo4xmw0K1X7nkT-5TOjQlq3xSZhb2jVsDFm9RLtj0IM6krNo88zFpdZjAbx6qNt8ZKJoCq4GpAKX6Y4UxAjhbkxL0LchIce_qcV5Y0VBu_HPS2wjYKXgnBZy4fR2AeyZ3-9kOBRBNNAu_iTCk/s1000/PXL_20240318_072852263-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFzDKF4ufUatKUUpqGTX2GNFDZqnFc0IlE2YoifIdKqbAo4xmw0K1X7nkT-5TOjQlq3xSZhb2jVsDFm9RLtj0IM6krNo88zFpdZjAbx6qNt8ZKJoCq4GpAKX6Y4UxAjhbkxL0LchIce_qcV5Y0VBu_HPS2wjYKXgnBZy4fR2AeyZ3-9kOBRBNNAu_iTCk/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072852263-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sLFBphOmrZyCHGpNFZMnfhWGo9gl45nx6bntHuLUI00ZWGXnRP4kJitJM1dlA_buh_9S48pNcb2qG0xj3cQZCuH9C9hEupBOc_HJEFjen808zf5hUWELP2wQZlQ-00TDS2jkHEdx1GtKH82rWx6B3ZlRyyH8QhMkEi8FEoWDMjKF-su-3DYVyxvynOC0/s1000/PXL_20240318_072857102-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sLFBphOmrZyCHGpNFZMnfhWGo9gl45nx6bntHuLUI00ZWGXnRP4kJitJM1dlA_buh_9S48pNcb2qG0xj3cQZCuH9C9hEupBOc_HJEFjen808zf5hUWELP2wQZlQ-00TDS2jkHEdx1GtKH82rWx6B3ZlRyyH8QhMkEi8FEoWDMjKF-su-3DYVyxvynOC0/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072857102-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">10 x Termagants (50 points) </h4><p>Speedy, shooty little suckers who want to get slightly less all up in your grill but still eat your grill, etc. after all anyway.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZ8S6aYIxE7JKpmtstTbzf73UrFV_10WPs7qUaQU6uzIyzkl7Xli8py-lxSSplmVzUctKFfeFsx5Tta-o7uomlQpPAGOyqgKro1-bfnUVKXcqb8YfEpMiF_VdbLaECGXY_1p63jUPvwxNWjyipy1dnoKc_r259q6YZg3gcG0WJ3H48c7hcDqzN2U8xdZq/s1000/PXL_20240318_072630392-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgZ8S6aYIxE7JKpmtstTbzf73UrFV_10WPs7qUaQU6uzIyzkl7Xli8py-lxSSplmVzUctKFfeFsx5Tta-o7uomlQpPAGOyqgKro1-bfnUVKXcqb8YfEpMiF_VdbLaECGXY_1p63jUPvwxNWjyipy1dnoKc_r259q6YZg3gcG0WJ3H48c7hcDqzN2U8xdZq/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072630392-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGs54yr6yko2FXG7kvzu3WYFPxxdTtAt_eGU2bi6gahwZvxups1SVQVzmP7_bTyWeI9nDpy92blfV0IGx4OVrgOzpSdGY1JdmAgZyM0KEi_WPu2_cHJU4VuKoTpdPySwnnBIMyzTfK2lBdfS1uc3ccnJPgDa2gBvUvGTwZRNznUdI0JITDYVqkXcSWGNi/s1000/PXL_20240318_072636709-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGs54yr6yko2FXG7kvzu3WYFPxxdTtAt_eGU2bi6gahwZvxups1SVQVzmP7_bTyWeI9nDpy92blfV0IGx4OVrgOzpSdGY1JdmAgZyM0KEi_WPu2_cHJU4VuKoTpdPySwnnBIMyzTfK2lBdfS1uc3ccnJPgDa2gBvUvGTwZRNznUdI0JITDYVqkXcSWGNi/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072636709-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">1 x Broodlord (10 points)</h4><p>Nasty, grabby, stabby monster with loads of spikes, teeth, etc. [insert your own grill joke here]. He's about 80mm tall so I'm not sure what he's worth points-wise. If teeth and spikes count for anything it'll be quite a bit!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqGPXGxiltZyn2Zchjat9neOVurLs77-nAtwze01piJ1Ms-qjciKwN0B3-RHAQ68D64SdyuWJikcHWnXeWjAenh8VI2HoSgAp-joWXFBYR-AFD97qv_U8l-PHckJtrFE0RKnozkNPESN-TV7HmBNr3tHJrX5XmM167S8iMvhk773jrftSaGvFQPaewHzu/s1000/PXL_20240318_072720835-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqGPXGxiltZyn2Zchjat9neOVurLs77-nAtwze01piJ1Ms-qjciKwN0B3-RHAQ68D64SdyuWJikcHWnXeWjAenh8VI2HoSgAp-joWXFBYR-AFD97qv_U8l-PHckJtrFE0RKnozkNPESN-TV7HmBNr3tHJrX5XmM167S8iMvhk773jrftSaGvFQPaewHzu/s320/PXL_20240318_072720835-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPIBIYA5kW_KXNdXfeEHQSiwoh4dn5Y3c-rsz0GDK9I93qQRp0QCPwUeEysTwVB8_Owtm2pU7G9tISwrnV2skdpPWF7KCYu4B-8eXsA-yhyphenhyphenoXc4TZ9_DDpiD_JM5opRrVj1DOCN5M_Tc_eBYmMcR8C3piYldDLS3phhdXWhU_IcanIJJx0ZcJ_esJj1Hs/s1000/PXL_20240318_072738435-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPIBIYA5kW_KXNdXfeEHQSiwoh4dn5Y3c-rsz0GDK9I93qQRp0QCPwUeEysTwVB8_Owtm2pU7G9tISwrnV2skdpPWF7KCYu4B-8eXsA-yhyphenhyphenoXc4TZ9_DDpiD_JM5opRrVj1DOCN5M_Tc_eBYmMcR8C3piYldDLS3phhdXWhU_IcanIJJx0ZcJ_esJj1Hs/s320/PXL_20240318_072738435-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeN01TqAvlVVrL78XF549KYFRFHbAEN2qUWVpSSaxaJQnLZ9EPT3vrQirOzIgfskxbpc4VImF8hAVfQvLsoP1DOfgDCGuaESdOsbn6pq7AWoUny0YtDyKhNvB_w4X6jFrXgnJwzhQRocgL1tFmDvFlVp4mvNtCkkSVnavRPba3YWLplvn2quTxRXxy9Hkc/s1000/PXL_20240318_072749388-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeN01TqAvlVVrL78XF549KYFRFHbAEN2qUWVpSSaxaJQnLZ9EPT3vrQirOzIgfskxbpc4VImF8hAVfQvLsoP1DOfgDCGuaESdOsbn6pq7AWoUny0YtDyKhNvB_w4X6jFrXgnJwzhQRocgL1tFmDvFlVp4mvNtCkkSVnavRPba3YWLplvn2quTxRXxy9Hkc/s320/PXL_20240318_072749388-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Star Wars Legion IG-Series Assassin Droids (10 points)</h4><p>Not much to say about these apart from they're done. About and simple as they come in terms of paint job really!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8Lr1KoDJ34kTC2xizudGawtNDmk7rykRclp90YUexsRWuTN2oRQpsjfPeNjk7vgMyYG3D7_IVQ3Xw720V9HHA-40989fcV0sqx1YI088q2sDIOmkciHoRwOhaVnWvkw_3zWdF_vuVLAX7bYKuTe_b8PidV4ZwDcYK41rnbqSDEsr3YUjsZbhvAULR1O-/s1000/PXL_20240318_072931893-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1000" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8Lr1KoDJ34kTC2xizudGawtNDmk7rykRclp90YUexsRWuTN2oRQpsjfPeNjk7vgMyYG3D7_IVQ3Xw720V9HHA-40989fcV0sqx1YI088q2sDIOmkciHoRwOhaVnWvkw_3zWdF_vuVLAX7bYKuTe_b8PidV4ZwDcYK41rnbqSDEsr3YUjsZbhvAULR1O-/w400-h301/PXL_20240318_072931893-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNPIJFqQIg5Fr-eY2aTGBZNQg0v06ItA3o8b6n5GhtlzSAoXZfXyqnK0d4cULm2oOQ8A59a2CznxM6gD0zgrVWowy-trPJA8DTSchhbnritv5BjT5Sv1CCyavCEFpc6B1cEQMexk_RF2p91XpWSPe8vTZGCkotA9wq01qvODtwiVYNCZ6mLLUOg_3KrZh/s1000/PXL_20240318_072941043-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWNPIJFqQIg5Fr-eY2aTGBZNQg0v06ItA3o8b6n5GhtlzSAoXZfXyqnK0d4cULm2oOQ8A59a2CznxM6gD0zgrVWowy-trPJA8DTSchhbnritv5BjT5Sv1CCyavCEFpc6B1cEQMexk_RF2p91XpWSPe8vTZGCkotA9wq01qvODtwiVYNCZ6mLLUOg_3KrZh/w400-h300/PXL_20240318_072941043-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And that's me done for another year. I believe I've passed the 15K total points this year which when I think about it is a LOT of minis I might not have painted otherwise.</p><p>Thanks once again Curt for the opportunity to be a part of something so special, thanks to my minion charges for the fun and games, and thanks everyone for sharing your work and commenting on mine!</p><p>Cheers,<br />Millsy</p><p><i>TeemuL: Yes, relatively easy paint job to crab a lot of points, very fitting indeed. And as I painted the Broodlord myself two years ago and claimed 10 points, I see no reason to grant you the same 10 points for yours. Blue, purple and red are traditional Tyranid colours and you have executed the scheme well. Those two droids have a busy evening fighting all those 'nids...</i></p><p><i>P.S. I somehow misread the title and was expecting "World Eaters" all the time... :D</i></p>Millsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17580692168847505881noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-73960470900117295472024-03-18T12:05:00.000-06:002024-03-18T12:05:16.723-06:00From JamieM: Conquest Brute Drones (80 points)<p>As my tumble down the “Conquest” rabbit hole continues, I’ve completed some Brute Drones, heavily muscled goons for the Spires army I’m working on.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG3VZf-e3DwqMxwlXnoypHemr4lBU2eszePvqBKkJagbke_RXnZRL363kaMgq8ZGyBgxKeSE6yXj9WVpRV04qWWzJnYsFwoSyS-Ja47G1tV2Vrp_grvs-kSlUvdMXIlMvhctV-uzLw-P0mN-46zF2qBhQZTs_QubpCruYKfyM-tP_hU7k0x1MSwwehWg/s4032/IMG_5223.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG3VZf-e3DwqMxwlXnoypHemr4lBU2eszePvqBKkJagbke_RXnZRL363kaMgq8ZGyBgxKeSE6yXj9WVpRV04qWWzJnYsFwoSyS-Ja47G1tV2Vrp_grvs-kSlUvdMXIlMvhctV-uzLw-P0mN-46zF2qBhQZTs_QubpCruYKfyM-tP_hU7k0x1MSwwehWg/w400-h300/IMG_5223.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>These are specimens who show promise in ending up looking particularly Swole and they’re fed protein shakes and energy drinks until they get big enough to have whacking great blades strapped to their arms and are sent into battle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBneEFRt8VoOq2BQSmLhMf54ZL99ybkXjGiLExEEigPj_vzHvSK2RhgxgEYJaBkyujgnd_M-eYrju7vU-VnNrjgKT33_OrYRLtf4s6yjPPbDbwTqBiNqazHyNpCrsd2V7b38MIf2TsKcQ8ZfFwgENqxDuRQaAphUNknqy6ME7TB0NxFXxFFQAP8OHn5U/s4032/IMG_5224.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBneEFRt8VoOq2BQSmLhMf54ZL99ybkXjGiLExEEigPj_vzHvSK2RhgxgEYJaBkyujgnd_M-eYrju7vU-VnNrjgKT33_OrYRLtf4s6yjPPbDbwTqBiNqazHyNpCrsd2V7b38MIf2TsKcQ8ZfFwgENqxDuRQaAphUNknqy6ME7TB0NxFXxFFQAP8OHn5U/w400-h300/IMG_5224.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Quite enjoyable to paint, almost all contrast paint to match the earlier force grown drones that I painted.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1XzdEiceH-7mnzo6H9Phf7WfVSO1agHS2LaSU45P_yWjZQtx-6aS3hJKjTIj0cvLj3IGKeO7UiwUOK95ZJ9FjdralroW4MDtejNRz5wlGnUl88FlLfbYTKW-FKecEZQ0tp9rXUiHnEX_C_Q4iiY3t64HvJE2D0OpvIcf6vRPbBjkxZfKR70oXGblTu8/s4032/IMG_5225.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN1XzdEiceH-7mnzo6H9Phf7WfVSO1agHS2LaSU45P_yWjZQtx-6aS3hJKjTIj0cvLj3IGKeO7UiwUOK95ZJ9FjdralroW4MDtejNRz5wlGnUl88FlLfbYTKW-FKecEZQ0tp9rXUiHnEX_C_Q4iiY3t64HvJE2D0OpvIcf6vRPbBjkxZfKR70oXGblTu8/w400-h300/IMG_5225.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>They’re huge lads, shown with a necromunda figure that I won’t have time to finish today for scale, so they clock in at 8 x 54mm scale androgynous individuals for 10 points each, so 80 in total.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3uhXrAGWQX7nZzgF3Q241XkvwbvTQ8BYK8oXRSMdJHVcMlnf3yrDPZ5120xqC60MkN3dKhrr5cSeBIUEuo1S96_YA4ee5vHUzuTrAbP4WT6KO0wZ195XiL0ykFbpZGhAK5AEV5_AG0BLLN9uwE0FlZQvHFVZ_ye9n_rHkM1FJuHhetcfTqVTIcTpRNw/s4032/IMG_5226.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF3uhXrAGWQX7nZzgF3Q241XkvwbvTQ8BYK8oXRSMdJHVcMlnf3yrDPZ5120xqC60MkN3dKhrr5cSeBIUEuo1S96_YA4ee5vHUzuTrAbP4WT6KO0wZ195XiL0ykFbpZGhAK5AEV5_AG0BLLN9uwE0FlZQvHFVZ_ye9n_rHkM1FJuHhetcfTqVTIcTpRNw/w400-h300/IMG_5226.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>TeemuL: Wow, they are huge! As I am unfamiliar with the game, are these minis just giant 28mm scale minis or are they just big ones in different scale? Nevertheless they are finely painted and they will make a great addition to your force. The colour combination looks great, cyan and purple (or whatever they are called) work together and pale skin and metal compliment them. And nice 80 points to your tally!</i>JamieMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06206287212346614676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-1883403531332175742024-03-18T11:30:00.011-06:002024-03-18T12:43:53.550-06:00From Reilly OG: More Goblins! [New Acquisitions] (85 points)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7viHAL4Zw8s6hOnhR7nMsWKI1KWXyDT8O7NldHKWXca9inEMQBdj1mHaXTWVV7q9eJYslJfy5xyFb6ivsxAOmkSfjRpziH6YvxFqv30Djoim3d15aCZAUGdSISQCvmb7RvbbvUHvej45QoBhmtENlUjwIUjrO64wa4b4bm9B6Q2AgvFrDwASE23oQ4xq/s1398/IMG_9765.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1398" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7viHAL4Zw8s6hOnhR7nMsWKI1KWXyDT8O7NldHKWXca9inEMQBdj1mHaXTWVV7q9eJYslJfy5xyFb6ivsxAOmkSfjRpziH6YvxFqv30Djoim3d15aCZAUGdSISQCvmb7RvbbvUHvej45QoBhmtENlUjwIUjrO64wa4b4bm9B6Q2AgvFrDwASE23oQ4xq/w400-h231/IMG_9765.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Release of The Old World has gotten our juices flowing and motivated me to finish my Forrest Goblin army. These figs really bulk our the "heavy" (relative term!) infantry and add a mounted character to give them some resilience.<p></p><p>First up: 10 reinforcements for the utterly terrifying "Goblin Phalanx"</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: centre;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYrD5CRK3aWKwqemu9rFDGQlOQNhE_LEy9hFpOVpmYGSgIPNw8gZ1EAfMEbDQ3XX0bC6mG6t1CeJ8nHuf7XKN8mG2ehNGQ6W8qEXXnNTHPNkKHUcbMFB26zg8mOcNbPbWi5rxohGKReCFVz8yxwBaH2tAN70EsBYK18nq-qdy4D-Ol4og9JhZwSJraYo4/s1089/IMG_9761.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1089" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYrD5CRK3aWKwqemu9rFDGQlOQNhE_LEy9hFpOVpmYGSgIPNw8gZ1EAfMEbDQ3XX0bC6mG6t1CeJ8nHuf7XKN8mG2ehNGQ6W8qEXXnNTHPNkKHUcbMFB26zg8mOcNbPbWi5rxohGKReCFVz8yxwBaH2tAN70EsBYK18nq-qdy4D-Ol4og9JhZwSJraYo4/w400-h251/IMG_9761.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: left;">And to lead them a new Hero arrives, riding a fear inducing Giant Spider! I bought this Character specifically to paint for this challenge so it definitely counts as "New and shiny" for me!</span></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIsQjB5QLjMGKgERy8m5XQZSTyZPWaC3VlkBdaz9PrCIov6rxezw9GIVxUiSjkQuQ7SODGiltwDk9IimkHrBGaROLVjYH0eWcUKZGQwDmou_Xt7UjcCsFwSV79E5UJYRc5TYTuYrvYdrJUUlq0l7WfMoVQ621QFeN0jb7mCnEPfnm-C2DRW_o6A22NtGD/s1059/IMG_9763.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="1043" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIsQjB5QLjMGKgERy8m5XQZSTyZPWaC3VlkBdaz9PrCIov6rxezw9GIVxUiSjkQuQ7SODGiltwDk9IimkHrBGaROLVjYH0eWcUKZGQwDmou_Xt7UjcCsFwSV79E5UJYRc5TYTuYrvYdrJUUlq0l7WfMoVQ621QFeN0jb7mCnEPfnm-C2DRW_o6A22NtGD/w394-h400/IMG_9763.jpg" width="394" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spiders: they're just bigger in Australia!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8EMrdQBuc97LvFvKZQcO6t908OpPFix4vj3hXi4_th6OvA6JNbzFLb1ReIv2bjaSX0oOH_WahTfz-aQz3D5q3d61eSNe6Z0gy8AjoP98YZu9FTACCH534Ik1aMzzhcXGMrATPdeo4dLlY40I39HDhJgsLKeVlSfrNF8ePS12cZJD6h9gyLnn2Wp384pt/s1178/IMG_9764.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1178" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8EMrdQBuc97LvFvKZQcO6t908OpPFix4vj3hXi4_th6OvA6JNbzFLb1ReIv2bjaSX0oOH_WahTfz-aQz3D5q3d61eSNe6Z0gy8AjoP98YZu9FTACCH534Ik1aMzzhcXGMrATPdeo4dLlY40I39HDhJgsLKeVlSfrNF8ePS12cZJD6h9gyLnn2Wp384pt/w400-h354/IMG_9764.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>10 Goblins @ 5 points each = 50</p><p>1 large mounted character = 15 points</p><p>Bonus shelf for New and Shiny <i>(New Acquisitions, but what's the difference really?)</i>= 20</p><p>Total of 85 points, which added to my current total gets me over my 200 point target at the last minute!</p><p>...and 7 Skullz to my tally please Mr McSkullface!</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I like these night goblins a lot, Reilly!. The spider is well needed to "beef them up" a little, I suppose, but they sure look nice, although myself I would rather hesitate to use the word "phalanx".. The spider character itself is rather more terrifying, a fine model and you have painted it up very well, with the different gradients of blue and it's intrepid little rider. Well done and congratulations on hitting your target!</i></p><p><i>Martijn</i></p>Paul O'Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08611720164170399684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-75037952394035513532024-03-18T11:00:00.001-06:002024-03-18T11:00:00.139-06:00From EdwardG: Last sprint and a smattering of production [Overdue and Returns] (357.5pts)<p>Hej hej all,</p><p>Sadly it is finally here, Spring. I cannot believe how quickly this challenge has gone. Its been inspirational to see all of your minis and thank you all so much for the kind comments give posted on my few entries. I've been rather poor at completing minis this challenge. I've had half painted minis sitting around the painting desk since December, and they're still there! 😀 Partly to blame is my disjointed painting time, but most of it stems from a rather terrible "oooh shiney" infection. </p><p>So without further dithering and fluff, I present my final offering to the great 14th Challenge:</p><p>- A Spanish 15mm DBA army</p><p>- More 6mm Napoleonics</p><p>- A fraction of my Cold War British 6mm target</p><p>Starting from the bottom of the list, I present the Cold War 6mm British. I'd had high hopes of getting those project fully completed this year, but not to be. The project started before COVID and in the time to the start of the challenge I'd only managed to get one Regiment of Challenger tanks off the painting table. The rest of the minis have sat in varying stages of primed and bare metal. Which means that the painted miniatures below don't look at all coherent! Hopefully it's not too obvious, and in the end I blame the British Army Paint procurement process ;)</p><p>The Orbat below is one I've been studying and tinkering with for a while. The basis is the British 3rd Armoured Division of the BAOR in 1985. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of information on this Division on the Web for this time period. The reason I picked the 3rd Division in 1985 is because it was the only moment when I could find the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars (QRIH) and a Guards battalion on the same Orbat in Germany. I've a family connection to the QRIH and the Guards. Both of my grandfathers (sadly both now passed) were officers on each one, respectively. My father's father was commissioned into the 4th Hussars (a pre-amalgamation Regiment of the QRIH) in 1948 and served until he shifted sideways onto the diplomatic scene in the 1960s [https://www.qrhmuseum.com/obituary-col-g-a-g-gilhead] My mother's father was a Guards officer in the Coldstream Guards leaving the battalion a Major to take up life in the city as an insurance underwriter at Lloyd's of London, specialising in aircraft. Famously, in the family, being the lead for insuring Concord but being unable to take up his complimentary ticket on the inaugural flight because my grandmother didn't trust any infernal flying machine that didn't have a prop propeller! </p><p>Hence the wish to remember them a little with this Orbat. That said their era was the 1950s and 1960s, but the other wargamers here in Hamburg have collections for the 1980s. Hence the shift forward 25yrs. 😀</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7INZmZxG9YymzHeJWBDhNBu1k73A3HePek47xuftbMvC7BLWsSqe8U0JhqRVPe9jCWgYWNqdnsEOwEXQDqwOUQiqAq3LP2cuqvSrC6EsWJ2FKqHZqS97ccZC4oEF2D5ieFeYnTjL-hAsfClbI5OrgUH80GUMqcAlN1aXTc2t3FQGAEV-AlYoiSbZFjv5x" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="948" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7INZmZxG9YymzHeJWBDhNBu1k73A3HePek47xuftbMvC7BLWsSqe8U0JhqRVPe9jCWgYWNqdnsEOwEXQDqwOUQiqAq3LP2cuqvSrC6EsWJ2FKqHZqS97ccZC4oEF2D5ieFeYnTjL-hAsfClbI5OrgUH80GUMqcAlN1aXTc2t3FQGAEV-AlYoiSbZFjv5x=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></div><br />First up I present the hypothetical Recce Regiment the 9th/12th Lancers. The only Divisional orbat I could find does not give a recce Regiment. But with the rules we play, it's a necessary force to have, hence why I've added them in. They're equipped with a mixture of Scimitar and Sabre CVR(T)s, with one squadron parading in Striker anti-tank guided weapon vehicles. <br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgllZArmZ4pIyRNF4okS8B6f8d59URH06iRBQerqshWFOdM2pW8JuVQmA1gyMRVvodFcJtSC_Gpm76zLQXCKBuq49z_16cAj6ZoifsgRQJmsMqPZFIXnli3rjOY7-1MAwzKISDXvkLC9Lon26C0CDBLkvMbPbcKnsb3Sw61BTHz5C16ASWF-fyfgsT9yGjV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="786" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgllZArmZ4pIyRNF4okS8B6f8d59URH06iRBQerqshWFOdM2pW8JuVQmA1gyMRVvodFcJtSC_Gpm76zLQXCKBuq49z_16cAj6ZoifsgRQJmsMqPZFIXnli3rjOY7-1MAwzKISDXvkLC9Lon26C0CDBLkvMbPbcKnsb3Sw61BTHz5C16ASWF-fyfgsT9yGjV=w400-h226" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1kJSqE2paI7VE7vV3YzU1JKxyiX6W8YO3L41vsetUjdmTAsCs_I5yGwqNJ2DBVrfE_mK5zw9j9XSSLtBg5bx3Z7wuTjeDjvHor3ONLKx_yFdaMf3qli8LsuNO_ibtaRdjxcNDTsyO6-Wq_rgW4g9VW1QlbwazR5UB4qU3efNyZ0hZl3EVAgkeojjJFKpd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="873" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1kJSqE2paI7VE7vV3YzU1JKxyiX6W8YO3L41vsetUjdmTAsCs_I5yGwqNJ2DBVrfE_mK5zw9j9XSSLtBg5bx3Z7wuTjeDjvHor3ONLKx_yFdaMf3qli8LsuNO_ibtaRdjxcNDTsyO6-Wq_rgW4g9VW1QlbwazR5UB4qU3efNyZ0hZl3EVAgkeojjJFKpd=w387-h400" width="387" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwuPRGuH4HCEHHWlXik4dAI5_q8FBmITagO7phuPeEWn64c2_JClZQJuAy_LFUogvH3pWhKu7jmGt74JbEW9HLffe2HCIAjvM2eBPx6llZCWXs5O0ltLT1gn3avMXHQ_QBpFfCrwPG4jhnGoLdnIbUbJz9iaCx43ZRT_nph2puIbBbyAYbZ0Tf5zcgMeGj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="994" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwuPRGuH4HCEHHWlXik4dAI5_q8FBmITagO7phuPeEWn64c2_JClZQJuAy_LFUogvH3pWhKu7jmGt74JbEW9HLffe2HCIAjvM2eBPx6llZCWXs5O0ltLT1gn3avMXHQ_QBpFfCrwPG4jhnGoLdnIbUbJz9iaCx43ZRT_nph2puIbBbyAYbZ0Tf5zcgMeGj=w400-h302" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7NJMQLPNvZeMNzOXkVPA763NFzLrbDJBWOOaDg3w9GBLLPBX5tSzkzVNkLMYq1r51Wt5ciC7_eAzSwYn2vmNn3TrUJE97oF1BKmI5EUUmWyq2joohDkebnxyyFwh094sQEYtK7fRi-etNZFqeeFUiCLj8buqNQf5ytIAO88yhgdewyMTzQsjcAKtUPNZD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7NJMQLPNvZeMNzOXkVPA763NFzLrbDJBWOOaDg3w9GBLLPBX5tSzkzVNkLMYq1r51Wt5ciC7_eAzSwYn2vmNn3TrUJE97oF1BKmI5EUUmWyq2joohDkebnxyyFwh094sQEYtK7fRi-etNZFqeeFUiCLj8buqNQf5ytIAO88yhgdewyMTzQsjcAKtUPNZD=w348-h400" width="348" /></a></div><p></p><p>Next to parade is the second heavy tank Regiment of the Division. The 17th/21st Lancers. They're equipped with older Cheiftan tanks. The 1980s was the big tank transition period for the BAOR. From the older Cheiftan to the new Challenger 1. I've equipped the QRIH (painted pre COVID!!) with Challenger, so I decided to give the Lancers the older kit to depict the discrepancies in British Army equipment issuing :) </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpYYdfMf1kvISGCeWge51A-gfky2qq8oByeHq3umkcaMmqblPj4mMimwSa4NzaGZQapDyZpgAke-VjHcP2Zx89YWpiQ_Ah1Ay-GYQ4xr2G6-TUIRCwX54_6i_A0ap6qKwMwlBAV0aFkBwGn5kgbckxPH2cq0PqLG3kH8bSSldFm1Gh_pNtsAjWlX-X2mpL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="800" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpYYdfMf1kvISGCeWge51A-gfky2qq8oByeHq3umkcaMmqblPj4mMimwSa4NzaGZQapDyZpgAke-VjHcP2Zx89YWpiQ_Ah1Ay-GYQ4xr2G6-TUIRCwX54_6i_A0ap6qKwMwlBAV0aFkBwGn5kgbckxPH2cq0PqLG3kH8bSSldFm1Gh_pNtsAjWlX-X2mpL=w400-h156" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7mo2Mtlhk_kpee3mGDoIzWRErpadP2Vt7AzcnJmKR3sn14VN7tUWpKL21zzazuarLgUwOh1ZoEXzY-G8-OnbkfKnCVgCtY-UKikn3-yCS-HvJRgbz1uNPCh_QvhzmDi0OLzVvF9A-S0UmBQCsMT8Lsi17UdqvoYa25z-3jrOho0Odo1j1tq_7YWhFGZMv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="800" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7mo2Mtlhk_kpee3mGDoIzWRErpadP2Vt7AzcnJmKR3sn14VN7tUWpKL21zzazuarLgUwOh1ZoEXzY-G8-OnbkfKnCVgCtY-UKikn3-yCS-HvJRgbz1uNPCh_QvhzmDi0OLzVvF9A-S0UmBQCsMT8Lsi17UdqvoYa25z-3jrOho0Odo1j1tq_7YWhFGZMv=w400-h195" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4NbyMwwbaaKNXkjOlTQB5zU6LlgfQM9lWroyOIM9mXhpbEfpkD8tKdPHAdajHQY6lkLyJ8muk6uvfUcczHWLg8DBXD_MGFEpHC_0DOvZfF5KR7lsXa0zgcxaNsM2uF_VoqCvLrvihChr4JaddI6iCjf3ncOJa-0OyRVctK_eSeaOiBxDAtu0h_kfSx67k" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="949" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4NbyMwwbaaKNXkjOlTQB5zU6LlgfQM9lWroyOIM9mXhpbEfpkD8tKdPHAdajHQY6lkLyJ8muk6uvfUcczHWLg8DBXD_MGFEpHC_0DOvZfF5KR7lsXa0zgcxaNsM2uF_VoqCvLrvihChr4JaddI6iCjf3ncOJa-0OyRVctK_eSeaOiBxDAtu0h_kfSx67k=w400-h291" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>And finally for my Cold War British, I present the Coldstream Guards. This version of the Regiment is also slightly hypothetical, as they weren't in the 3rd Division at the time (it was the Iriah Guards) and the battalion didn’t change over to being an Armoured infantry battalion for a few years. But I didn't want to let real history get in the way! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXADjQue777B4ItXaZ2Rezzs9P3kW1lEqXHC1e87WekYYuHyBh7-pib51Wm47ZtowQLeA-t6r6_hYdUFMRPbxZk50MZYCLV0xoHRu3pGG1M4yEgWxPO48xzqVdtCLFa7t8mbWMPITFCiuVvLnNW_z1W8kb3uNTmPtAFZIuqNsu7yzBcscJrx9fvGFs0JjC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1068" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXADjQue777B4ItXaZ2Rezzs9P3kW1lEqXHC1e87WekYYuHyBh7-pib51Wm47ZtowQLeA-t6r6_hYdUFMRPbxZk50MZYCLV0xoHRu3pGG1M4yEgWxPO48xzqVdtCLFa7t8mbWMPITFCiuVvLnNW_z1W8kb3uNTmPtAFZIuqNsu7yzBcscJrx9fvGFs0JjC=w400-h307" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtsZhECWiQ8FWxmq27nQeJJtLks2s0s1MEhfxS_ryAXvwE5KNkSpPtT4Hqt7YZYpssp3_TAxIYqnRBhCdskR5BKRxp7KKq-Aj1j-DRirKG89jhv4Qfp75ICO5a1rArS5q6jIK0LjKQzWAJGwHbrN66plL7fW8MRbeEbkMHD8BtsSA3K6V1pCAX55NipFnF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="907" data-original-width="864" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtsZhECWiQ8FWxmq27nQeJJtLks2s0s1MEhfxS_ryAXvwE5KNkSpPtT4Hqt7YZYpssp3_TAxIYqnRBhCdskR5BKRxp7KKq-Aj1j-DRirKG89jhv4Qfp75ICO5a1rArS5q6jIK0LjKQzWAJGwHbrN66plL7fW8MRbeEbkMHD8BtsSA3K6V1pCAX55NipFnF=w382-h400" width="382" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnipH_26kjnS50rK7SAqkjjvTAHPIJ7fAjRYYCWI3pRGY55Mg4V7A-UaQeuH134mXd2MKWZm7COcst0_4orakecCgy1agT481vzweIngYPH3IByVgSMScLfKAt3EcsvMkYAW6FrXqmwnmFtS6-7-58pRXoxvz9-aXvWN8OKyMhNJRkREsgym0CobVL1_fz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="832" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnipH_26kjnS50rK7SAqkjjvTAHPIJ7fAjRYYCWI3pRGY55Mg4V7A-UaQeuH134mXd2MKWZm7COcst0_4orakecCgy1agT481vzweIngYPH3IByVgSMScLfKAt3EcsvMkYAW6FrXqmwnmFtS6-7-58pRXoxvz9-aXvWN8OKyMhNJRkREsgym0CobVL1_fz=w358-h400" width="358" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrCCfm4UTd_MB4-kAE3_NenSkoMIP3W4yrHOmvi2WIn6GD8n3pt7GHbefAyB-6SZzimLKk3z1BNjxUWGqxDH5l4t2jOSLOo9FvFLucdLdo_dXXmXC17Nhp5aisV9jPZ_1D7E6WZIrJ2sUoSRLzGZClsMcjmN2uitwYSi03P3Pyv4I2qB69Iz7OhLQwdz-N" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="620" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrCCfm4UTd_MB4-kAE3_NenSkoMIP3W4yrHOmvi2WIn6GD8n3pt7GHbefAyB-6SZzimLKk3z1BNjxUWGqxDH5l4t2jOSLOo9FvFLucdLdo_dXXmXC17Nhp5aisV9jPZ_1D7E6WZIrJ2sUoSRLzGZClsMcjmN2uitwYSi03P3Pyv4I2qB69Iz7OhLQwdz-N=w400-h281" width="400" /></a></div><br />I'm really happy with my progress, even if there are two more Brigades to complete for the whole Division. A target for next year! As this project was started prior to COVID, I'd like to claim the Overdue Section Bonus :)<p></p><p>Next onto the parade ground I have the 1st Hannoverian Brigade from the 1815 version of the British 3rd Divison. Accompanied by the Brigade commander and the associated skirmisher stands for the rules we use. Again, all made up with the brilliant Baccus miniatures. </p><p>This Brigade was made up of the field battalions of the Hannoverian army. Most of the soldiers were professionals who had been fighting in either one of the armies for a lot of the war. The Hannoverian army was also strengthened, in 1814, by a cadre of officers and NCOs transferred over from the KGL as it returned from the Peninsula. All in all, this meant that this Brigade was in the thick of the fighting for most of the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, giving a very good account of themselves throughout. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQXxfFWQmYHYg9I-WAy-fvUokp60gwk02YRwnIU-EeCTd3YeZSQwHhhr88Y66TKn-3Q627nKXlugRn6RSJNPLHpPUdGW1fnaQMBpaZHFvQA24zqMB0gxbPGu2X-fLjiPCNyM5FKFtzRxK0FjSPO3vR_FpaPhJH3_wnYrlj1EyRGZGTZAY4DtUdRviNf8_A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="666" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQXxfFWQmYHYg9I-WAy-fvUokp60gwk02YRwnIU-EeCTd3YeZSQwHhhr88Y66TKn-3Q627nKXlugRn6RSJNPLHpPUdGW1fnaQMBpaZHFvQA24zqMB0gxbPGu2X-fLjiPCNyM5FKFtzRxK0FjSPO3vR_FpaPhJH3_wnYrlj1EyRGZGTZAY4DtUdRviNf8_A=w400-h231" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizPcW99pxUoA8cA9O-WAQPvX5Ojirvx_hCTNRJNi6dQGDQSl15zBFARDQFuzsKjLsveaqt5Cm-JYA-Cqp_Ls5ZcvaH0BbiEegG7NAS9G9ZgziXUFBSlV2KC6lsVQ8mXK5aw9zurreP7-XdbGCpdob660Mdnw3V4cgxTxcZhkUqXuCGcD260HV54SInU6Qo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="743" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizPcW99pxUoA8cA9O-WAQPvX5Ojirvx_hCTNRJNi6dQGDQSl15zBFARDQFuzsKjLsveaqt5Cm-JYA-Cqp_Ls5ZcvaH0BbiEegG7NAS9G9ZgziXUFBSlV2KC6lsVQ8mXK5aw9zurreP7-XdbGCpdob660Mdnw3V4cgxTxcZhkUqXuCGcD260HV54SInU6Qo=w400-h234" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOoioD8NR8PMV2EL5WzxJ3yeWsbiszdt4uaJOjf_wJGU1jY-SxtseQfViQvfPUwhoil8toY6A_fHw1vBMfOz_qoq2dRy-ToUf62_-EiocJc_e_5kkP4-tSeL8ybGbLpG2cq_sEttZyCeMELlHJvxqLFo8c13Qtq9t3lTVC1LV7By2kMcCX4624F8sNeTdz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="800" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOoioD8NR8PMV2EL5WzxJ3yeWsbiszdt4uaJOjf_wJGU1jY-SxtseQfViQvfPUwhoil8toY6A_fHw1vBMfOz_qoq2dRy-ToUf62_-EiocJc_e_5kkP4-tSeL8ybGbLpG2cq_sEttZyCeMELlHJvxqLFo8c13Qtq9t3lTVC1LV7By2kMcCX4624F8sNeTdz=w400-h175" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHv0SG_LQ0WIT4_-VvPD-qFsxVFE5cAFkbpHnhmEuawqeOvGLURNswQHatg0e9qUCxC4xiV7NvAuGazMf5RleZSli6CXLkAs1nehgQsM2pnO6mEVliPIe4DEaVP6YveSjgW5H4ayWht5ccj6vQSRpKS5yZrUZMhNo1W1VuJg7-JKOhKW-AwCEiRtmKaACX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="697" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHv0SG_LQ0WIT4_-VvPD-qFsxVFE5cAFkbpHnhmEuawqeOvGLURNswQHatg0e9qUCxC4xiV7NvAuGazMf5RleZSli6CXLkAs1nehgQsM2pnO6mEVliPIe4DEaVP6YveSjgW5H4ayWht5ccj6vQSRpKS5yZrUZMhNo1W1VuJg7-JKOhKW-AwCEiRtmKaACX=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIr7P3PObYIDOXoq9EmWTQmUTnoTHCYcMxxn2o4NskmBk7kVzvUSN2mpH1ZAN35puk11XfAGDJ0EhozeEvHev1JMXFHbIAzr-gCx06eNKli-JmpmXi2_WnhleZomB5_yu27B41rYQgRyUDJObZiibslqBdNEDcTLbIbWX78cLDBzAZWPGqk3RpPLIT9ZxW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="789" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIr7P3PObYIDOXoq9EmWTQmUTnoTHCYcMxxn2o4NskmBk7kVzvUSN2mpH1ZAN35puk11XfAGDJ0EhozeEvHev1JMXFHbIAzr-gCx06eNKli-JmpmXi2_WnhleZomB5_yu27B41rYQgRyUDJObZiibslqBdNEDcTLbIbWX78cLDBzAZWPGqk3RpPLIT9ZxW=w373-h400" width="373" /></a></div><br />I had also hoped to get the final KGL Brigade painted in the last week. But they're still sitting in the painting queue, undercoated and ready to go for another week! <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPZwDrqlhSfvcFx6fF_5d7CNU9QgCRkKt7CtMd0AFG6Wr-PGyUE5g4XgJAYfyLkxTlJnoDmvS03mA_Y9i1t3U247bYaY-6Pfflng0Rqp7HxCkFp7m2WHg9VJTAiPrHd47iVQf4s5qnTo5UXUI1pDIFFUA2BaB62vmJOTxkOpAs-MOo8vDfgPdNfjFRKj5J" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="696" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPZwDrqlhSfvcFx6fF_5d7CNU9QgCRkKt7CtMd0AFG6Wr-PGyUE5g4XgJAYfyLkxTlJnoDmvS03mA_Y9i1t3U247bYaY-6Pfflng0Rqp7HxCkFp7m2WHg9VJTAiPrHd47iVQf4s5qnTo5UXUI1pDIFFUA2BaB62vmJOTxkOpAs-MOo8vDfgPdNfjFRKj5J=w400-h241" width="400" /></a></div><br />Last, but not least, I present the 15mm DBA army that I've been working through this year. Painting a DBA army has become one of my challenge staples. And I think it'll continue for a long time as there are many more in the purple bible yet unrepresented on my shelves.<p></p><p>This year it was the turn of the Ancient Spanish. An army based on the Spanish who fought against Carthage and Rome from the 250BCs onwards. The hope is that I'll be able to play them in one of our local themed DBA days later in the summer. The figures are all from Forged in Battle, and I have had them in the lead pile for a while now, so I'm happy to have gotten some paint on them eventually 😀</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgimzrecPYA_N-qN-cTxdrerk5zHM3YX5HW6pzS78Dh2nmOFSu_U-4FKFpjfdTpCJV4Y_pFdXQeRo9Dz9e5T_d535PyuL0jmTSwGPWk2LhUtQ65yJeOxrD50k9uY6frWKixvldPL1aNfZMDF68ZJiD_Dr0TS-wtN7g65Xi0SAJb3yn2LFZkVpEE7LaatCy6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgimzrecPYA_N-qN-cTxdrerk5zHM3YX5HW6pzS78Dh2nmOFSu_U-4FKFpjfdTpCJV4Y_pFdXQeRo9Dz9e5T_d535PyuL0jmTSwGPWk2LhUtQ65yJeOxrD50k9uY6frWKixvldPL1aNfZMDF68ZJiD_Dr0TS-wtN7g65Xi0SAJb3yn2LFZkVpEE7LaatCy6=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim2t9akYobtm22sUD7-b9L-SX8f6c85t65HG_iyEdlCPcLh4nIK1emDx6U_kBG1clkuSLYdIgutdE3lYvWgiEjCZ4EYcnMlQAAQC4anSqOiLAFrPnnEl5cbI70kc50YvnwipG2JqsFE6aQhi8wi_9TOQrHKTYPhoT25hO_-pWoaFX0JGY0x1Tc0ajr84q6" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI-4mu7jXJ21EN-vSalFslSbkU3jU0Hcg1BZz6UhwORX3P6I8J3lWMs3oN9zEGarpN-hUNQJs-wgvCQJ8HU60wumX1yDsoxTifKvEpmBr-eg8muYrYDR7xIZ6s0cPyiMbrLh750nchxCb_OZOeccXCFEPVC1V1c971hCt6zeKDW2vvyvPrghjisd5-0ckc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="645" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI-4mu7jXJ21EN-vSalFslSbkU3jU0Hcg1BZz6UhwORX3P6I8J3lWMs3oN9zEGarpN-hUNQJs-wgvCQJ8HU60wumX1yDsoxTifKvEpmBr-eg8muYrYDR7xIZ6s0cPyiMbrLh750nchxCb_OZOeccXCFEPVC1V1c971hCt6zeKDW2vvyvPrghjisd5-0ckc=w400-h188" width="400" /></a></div><br />For points of this submission I've calculated the following, please correct me if I have erred! 😀<p></p><p>52 x 6mm Vehicles @ 2pts = 104pts</p><p>54 x 6mm foot with the vehicles @ 0.5pts = 27pts</p><p>10 x 6mm prone foot with the vehicles @ 0.25pts = 2.5pts</p><p>Overdue Section Bonus = 20pts</p><p>252 x 6mm Napoleonic foot @ 0.5pts = 126pts</p><p>2 x 6mm Napoleonic mounted @ 1pt = 2pts</p><p>28 x 15mm Ancient Spanish foot @ 2pts = 56pts</p><p>5 x 15mm Ancient Spanish mounted @ 4pts = 20pts</p><p>Total = 357.5pts!</p><p>I'd like to thank Curt and Sarah for running another sublimely fun Challenge! I cannot wait for winter again and the start of Challenge XV!! Perhaps next year I'll have a painting streak and be able to best my personal goal of achieving a top 10 finish 😀</p><p>Also thanks again to all my fellow Challengers. It has been great to tune in and be inspired by your painting and thank you all again for the comments on my entries. It's super motivational to read them all. </p><p>TTFN, and see you for the round ups! </p><p>Ed 😀</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Some fine sprinting here I'd say Ed! Nice to see the Cold War vehicles and figures (well done on the camo btw!) contrasted to your very colourful Spanish 15mm. Good to hear that good old DBA is still getting some love also. I am very impressed by your Hanoverian troops though, it is really a great sight to see them all lined up together, and I liked the little background history as well. I think your calculations are spot on, although the spreadsheet says 358. We'll see how it shows up. Meanwhile, I am sure we all very much appreciated what you produced during the Challenge and are looking forward to meeting again next winter (when I hope you will remember to add your labels too ;-)! </i></p><p><i>Martijn</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p>E Gilheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03734915696230386124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-90659330984188530732024-03-18T10:30:00.001-06:002024-03-18T10:30:00.134-06:00 From Kerry T: A final post -Do you hear that thunder? (405 points)<p> Morning, afternoon & evening all....</p><p>"Hey Luigi, isa gonna raina - I can heara thunder ana I feel it ina my bones".....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLYoTdNO3-QwlnWRdB5DLs-u0FsdGl0If-_PHKhnGGRL20s-PZZeEeaEpqlHJLIgzTA9XgYAPlEm_SlwbX0NbadvSTjOm8WKvk22Wy9zUJcOy23dTw4M-FsFA0uajL7uiIT-nmYxuWEnQFMXfiL6chwI4PLsUWlbI35-mz0UA_OZsgoz_ZBb2543HUl3X/s4896/DSC06362.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLYoTdNO3-QwlnWRdB5DLs-u0FsdGl0If-_PHKhnGGRL20s-PZZeEeaEpqlHJLIgzTA9XgYAPlEm_SlwbX0NbadvSTjOm8WKvk22Wy9zUJcOy23dTw4M-FsFA0uajL7uiIT-nmYxuWEnQFMXfiL6chwI4PLsUWlbI35-mz0UA_OZsgoz_ZBb2543HUl3X/w400-h300/DSC06362.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>"Heya, Marco, look there - thata noisa is nota thunda".......</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNym1A17lnrmGwmGETy__X7EnLtVmaNIQVINxTjbyy1znG9F22sbOtNod51l0_IyB4mpEmJ7kkgA4X-xEAqIfl75Mnp5PE6BDB5az1mSpkGj5_dLtWCWgQxBONwSyrNV7FZs04Ep33z6bw6JH3XPNTcSFX-XNQ7RHxbJMwH622GI5u1TEpnejtnSeGsHt_/s4896/DSC06374.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNym1A17lnrmGwmGETy__X7EnLtVmaNIQVINxTjbyy1znG9F22sbOtNod51l0_IyB4mpEmJ7kkgA4X-xEAqIfl75Mnp5PE6BDB5az1mSpkGj5_dLtWCWgQxBONwSyrNV7FZs04Ep33z6bw6JH3XPNTcSFX-XNQ7RHxbJMwH622GI5u1TEpnejtnSeGsHt_/w400-h300/DSC06374.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>I hadn't originally planned to add these to my challenge entries but they somehow leap frogged others in the painting queue. I can't in all conscience take part in the AHPC and not enter some gendarmes.</div><div><br /></div><div>I do have a few more and had decided on a bigger entry but I ran out of steam and couldn't face painting more! After a while it gets hard not to repeat colour combinations. I've half completed a pile of Perry plastic knights that will eventually bulk up my Italian Wars cavalry. They took the place of a planned entry of First Corps knights and Claymore castings & Antediluvian Scots for 100YW.</div><div><br /></div><div>Quite a few planned entries didn't make the cut this year, probably because I didn't allow for a realistic painting time allocation for my entries and decided that this year I'd try and complete units and not chase squirrels.</div><div><br /></div><div>One plan was to paint up quite a few female figures but that fell by the wayside in the end. Having bought a selection of females from the Burrows & Badgers range for the joy of painting I confess I have most left</div><div><br /></div><div>This leaves me then with my final figure the Cat Huntress</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_EfVbhExCjT3IAvTWLLxVqy3XWG85N5cRTeEEVYTccs9d-nFxjze5qJohBLFPOTrBOyxnmVgVoOcvDjyLtwIRg6nmTLypobHO_eHvRDNylyQigXQsR9aI8Kz7eghx5qFHITx0mkMkjWDQymIc4Sf9S9LinmWYSMYv6wxlei7Oiuxe6ihneMLEfwn1ysAu/s4896/DSC06363.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_EfVbhExCjT3IAvTWLLxVqy3XWG85N5cRTeEEVYTccs9d-nFxjze5qJohBLFPOTrBOyxnmVgVoOcvDjyLtwIRg6nmTLypobHO_eHvRDNylyQigXQsR9aI8Kz7eghx5qFHITx0mkMkjWDQymIc4Sf9S9LinmWYSMYv6wxlei7Oiuxe6ihneMLEfwn1ysAu/s320/DSC06363.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrTFfm3H_ctbG1vUOnrfW9ToD_NNYLlaz58tHN0tpJa1K91xW7dhZNLWQGF7calBkTTBAmGuBaXVqvyzOoeHaRSPviPSgJ-bqndmeNqdnyA5z9TMZojuxMv-2AWEYipI0LSkfp5093ykH158axKpqLgEZsPK8fOpWdCZYLzQQYzq5R3kgJIFBhZF71vrx/s4896/DSC06364.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrTFfm3H_ctbG1vUOnrfW9ToD_NNYLlaz58tHN0tpJa1K91xW7dhZNLWQGF7calBkTTBAmGuBaXVqvyzOoeHaRSPviPSgJ-bqndmeNqdnyA5z9TMZojuxMv-2AWEYipI0LSkfp5093ykH158axKpqLgEZsPK8fOpWdCZYLzQQYzq5R3kgJIFBhZF71vrx/s320/DSC06364.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJL_8xeRckStiLTn8YLpvCBXuxACMZaCXUwRgQhGNsjwa9Ow0DyoQLTsUH8DLEZOAcTfy0RV8oh2NyaIw03_fd_HnqMoy8MJNCvMjAKrY5DN3axNvTxY3zBJpJnesmzYC8VKsC1PPijQIrI97hpzwKkxgFgrKrMO9EKrw2PNdOJs0d9rvhqICO6RA18g0/s4896/DSC06365.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJL_8xeRckStiLTn8YLpvCBXuxACMZaCXUwRgQhGNsjwa9Ow0DyoQLTsUH8DLEZOAcTfy0RV8oh2NyaIw03_fd_HnqMoy8MJNCvMjAKrY5DN3axNvTxY3zBJpJnesmzYC8VKsC1PPijQIrI97hpzwKkxgFgrKrMO9EKrw2PNdOJs0d9rvhqICO6RA18g0/s320/DSC06365.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div>So in summary then</div><div><br /></div><div>36 x 28mm cavalry at 10 points = 360 points</div><div>1 x 30mm figure @ 5 points</div><div>Lady Sarah's library cart @ 20 points</div><div>I'm going to claim a Literature bonus from the Rotunda as you can't get anything more "snooty and high brow" than French gendarmes - 20 points</div><div>Total 405 points</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally a big thank you especially to Curt and Sarah for hosting the challenge and allowing me to take part. Taking part in the challenge is the highlight of my painting year. Enormous thanks to all the minions, especially Millsy for the time you all spend toiling on our behalf. Last but not least a heartfelt thank you to my fellow challengers whose own entries are inspirational and whose kindness, encouragement and support makes taking part so much fun. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you</div><div><br /></div><div>Kerry</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Out with a bang, as they say. I can definitely hear that thunder, what a great cavalcade to end your Challenge, Kerry. Fabulous work, I really like how you achieve such variety while somehow still binding these units together. They look absolutely resplendent with their flags and banners flying high, surely a grace for any wargames army. As such, well I am not going to begrudge you your Literature bonus, French gendarmes are indeed pretty high brow. The cat hunter is an amazing figure, you managed to capture the cat face really well. Is it just my imagination or is she seriously staring down on us mere humans? Anyway, she is a very fine figure to conclude your Challenge with. Thanks for all your great contributions and see you again in XV!</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Martijn</i></div>valleyboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861373599982991407noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-66355815540727696342024-03-18T10:01:00.000-06:002024-03-18T10:01:01.718-06:00From Millsy: Western Desert Italian Infantry & Weapons Teams (155 points)G'day All,<div><br /></div><div>I didn't think I'd get any of the Italian infantry finished before the end of the Challenge but it turns out there was less work to do than I thought. These stalled at the base coat(ish) stage but when I picked them up again they progressed quicker than expected. I think I was more fatigued by the detail than anything when I left them off. There's another 35 infantry to finish but this is a good start...</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">HQ + Blackshirt Squad (70 points)</h4><div>This represents a couple of officers and offsiders, plus a ten-man squad of Blackshirt (aka fanatic) infantry squad. It's unlikely they wore their funky nightcaps into combat but I wanted a few in there for character and so I can distinguish individual squads on the table.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9QFmohaEQMjJgrKwpqSQltoCOzO-hJ27S5JH_xb2QOTUVt5bX3o3VbfaBDHo94mavd_J_usLU59OT_7CGjDjq4oWrDf2H6cWDRjXMQfYTimA7TfS18qhH6FF1HzLs2sk38vmn5GJyvdopkF7Occ8PGdNIpBUsSQGwqejItUP9MXfk0i03vUooGsFfzG3/s1000/PXL_20240318_072221021-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="1000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9QFmohaEQMjJgrKwpqSQltoCOzO-hJ27S5JH_xb2QOTUVt5bX3o3VbfaBDHo94mavd_J_usLU59OT_7CGjDjq4oWrDf2H6cWDRjXMQfYTimA7TfS18qhH6FF1HzLs2sk38vmn5GJyvdopkF7Occ8PGdNIpBUsSQGwqejItUP9MXfk0i03vUooGsFfzG3/w400-h184/PXL_20240318_072221021-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEzdIg5PJ7IQ3UMDj1J4MskPkzL0nD20nj8vBlemTwdd3cSXPIyJcAzAgg_jNeuNMVfwil45RdGj9E4rD0gDHi89ibgoBMmEyW5UcLi3pELyCt-EEnmS9Yc79dJYIUFbfTau8zGdLW-DBKcb2LdziU5uH_kEmTeOthm3yLX2fiIgUpoCCQPd5FTrwsKvL/s1000/PXL_20240318_072326452-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="1000" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEzdIg5PJ7IQ3UMDj1J4MskPkzL0nD20nj8vBlemTwdd3cSXPIyJcAzAgg_jNeuNMVfwil45RdGj9E4rD0gDHi89ibgoBMmEyW5UcLi3pELyCt-EEnmS9Yc79dJYIUFbfTau8zGdLW-DBKcb2LdziU5uH_kEmTeOthm3yLX2fiIgUpoCCQPd5FTrwsKvL/w400-h184/PXL_20240318_072326452-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwx3w7fGe1c4bs08v1-9ywV2F63p2OsjNdQxJmjsDhNYrsl9t4d6k6ZyXLVkBe4Qfm2x20rsmXeIO0gs2BbK-dbiESTppmx6dbaYGQutlb8tvUsCxVSxENC83f9zHcwopRajWTZCYSRJ6k7v24Hedu8YLN0GitJ0-Wl7miYYpWnfrmwTNguEqj8G_Vna1/s1000/PXL_20240318_072354932-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="1000" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwx3w7fGe1c4bs08v1-9ywV2F63p2OsjNdQxJmjsDhNYrsl9t4d6k6ZyXLVkBe4Qfm2x20rsmXeIO0gs2BbK-dbiESTppmx6dbaYGQutlb8tvUsCxVSxENC83f9zHcwopRajWTZCYSRJ6k7v24Hedu8YLN0GitJ0-Wl7miYYpWnfrmwTNguEqj8G_Vna1/w400-h185/PXL_20240318_072354932-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Weapons Teams (85 points)</h4><div>The Bolt Action Italian starter army from Warlord Games contains a good selection of weapons teams but it's not all possible options and the missing elements are available in other packs e.g. sniper team. If you are careful though, you can find what you want in the starter army (like a prone rifleman pinched from the mortar team of all places) and make your own teams to fill the gap. It also means you can mix more types of headgear in by replacing some metal weapons team crew with plastics from the infantry sprue.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0Ua5u1q6-kTr7QJlLcGgJby6xglpXxC5jMUq3codDyCUOd_0IIFBTJ52ps4-qDFKIcqNBktamiQcPZnvwDn-i2n0CVoaQX0QLt57oo9kz4E-paLVkj1Xw496wf4ZdF8PBAqXtFuYjMWkiTx1UsKdhNIqNNEA-Jl1QBLpTuhCQ70huU3rL6xnkJ4r73b8/s1000/PXL_20240318_072434924-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0Ua5u1q6-kTr7QJlLcGgJby6xglpXxC5jMUq3codDyCUOd_0IIFBTJ52ps4-qDFKIcqNBktamiQcPZnvwDn-i2n0CVoaQX0QLt57oo9kz4E-paLVkj1Xw496wf4ZdF8PBAqXtFuYjMWkiTx1UsKdhNIqNNEA-Jl1QBLpTuhCQ70huU3rL6xnkJ4r73b8/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072434924-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6B-A2-T5giLBEndsBbMvZqXFzHTiD1vVcLPuJa_R6DH2pyZxIZSnpYjYvP0HElX2i1ZUchg1iN3qA-3EY4wdOvFda9FZ6P_u2C5O0MEHLZPCPDku81hbGOvgO4MaJ_E1iIyCNgB-klT2sRRhzWHy1wVqtTMJ-r2QbsuzKh-NGrtUpy_4FCqofAoJhd3W/s1000/PXL_20240318_072448304-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6B-A2-T5giLBEndsBbMvZqXFzHTiD1vVcLPuJa_R6DH2pyZxIZSnpYjYvP0HElX2i1ZUchg1iN3qA-3EY4wdOvFda9FZ6P_u2C5O0MEHLZPCPDku81hbGOvgO4MaJ_E1iIyCNgB-klT2sRRhzWHy1wVqtTMJ-r2QbsuzKh-NGrtUpy_4FCqofAoJhd3W/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072448304-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg055vK1oNQhfGc2fW99cwjlnEqIG_NSWx5Loz2hsXr0EboCHGKlW4lfcJyXhtXtUKJdoRvJ23ytTVg6locpAJjgKIl-CsCn5nD3rcufmFrhRCSNjBTZBB9vSZPYlHg0wvLV5JdvFZhFa83x9EIEBRrC0SHEMAo_iXu1kNHYcz4PZfT0N2gZtuVbaSTi_bK/s1000/PXL_20240318_072510393-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg055vK1oNQhfGc2fW99cwjlnEqIG_NSWx5Loz2hsXr0EboCHGKlW4lfcJyXhtXtUKJdoRvJ23ytTVg6locpAJjgKIl-CsCn5nD3rcufmFrhRCSNjBTZBB9vSZPYlHg0wvLV5JdvFZhFa83x9EIEBRrC0SHEMAo_iXu1kNHYcz4PZfT0N2gZtuVbaSTi_bK/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072510393-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-iKBc46qkRrx7jfpolyLaKvuNPEVC_fJ5oKYqkkW_08qPyB_nZ38opliA7xNYrZIWOCNCSJdWQHcqh5yRsHfiBWB1CQgGPgF2Zszx11FRnMYOr7o2aGJskodSHvYpLVmsvGBTPvn2YgHXA-pwnvMQ6JsjilFNRgTOzq7UirvPV1fgGArYUhiQOoXgm-4/s1000/PXL_20240318_072521559-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-iKBc46qkRrx7jfpolyLaKvuNPEVC_fJ5oKYqkkW_08qPyB_nZ38opliA7xNYrZIWOCNCSJdWQHcqh5yRsHfiBWB1CQgGPgF2Zszx11FRnMYOr7o2aGJskodSHvYpLVmsvGBTPvn2YgHXA-pwnvMQ6JsjilFNRgTOzq7UirvPV1fgGArYUhiQOoXgm-4/w400-h225/PXL_20240318_072521559-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>There's still plenty of infantry left but they will have to be completed ex-Challenge unfortunately. Still, I've managed to knock off a full Aussie 1000 point army, plus about 600 points of Italians amongst everything else time round so I'm pretty pleased with the progress.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Millsy</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Succeeding in painting 600 points worth of Italian on top of everything else is quite an achievement, Millsy, especially when they are painted so well as these. I really like the Blackshirts in their "nightcaps", but I am equally impressed with your creativity in assembling your weapons teams. Also, I think your bases look very good indeed. All in all a great addition to your force. Having left this poor minion to find out the exact composition of the entry for himself, I do think your calculations are right so another 155 points for you. Well done!</i></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Martijn</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Millsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17580692168847505881noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-6898950072367423202024-03-18T02:24:00.010-06:002024-03-18T02:24:56.728-06:00From Codsticker: Bloody Miniatures- The Continental Mercenaries (20 points)<p>With any luck this will not be my last entry for AHPC XIV! Here we have another pack of 4 figures from Bloody Miniatures, The Continental Mercenaries BM 036:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJoLOmL5iPtycVy5g0Au2JVZ2coS-iDfxpHiSHQzHhGm0WDOtvhBaMqjHjdowuOuP3u1ihiDKOi0UwlHhSk3TxQt9dfra2BTGdDk7xJYse4MgrXNOkzveZh9ci_WNaIDSIv5B-xHOgMxNLWm1xLNcSCbpjfwjKlEuukPix6SkMj5zZnGr04-BuvsdfT80/s1000/AHPCXIV68.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJoLOmL5iPtycVy5g0Au2JVZ2coS-iDfxpHiSHQzHhGm0WDOtvhBaMqjHjdowuOuP3u1ihiDKOi0UwlHhSk3TxQt9dfra2BTGdDk7xJYse4MgrXNOkzveZh9ci_WNaIDSIv5B-xHOgMxNLWm1xLNcSCbpjfwjKlEuukPix6SkMj5zZnGr04-BuvsdfT80/s320/AHPCXIV68.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel like I rushed these a bit to get them done for today.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxbka5u3qav4URF-ATGeHE83jn8yt_QjU2IwGA0qFRst6mr2TAYMVjWlFdXB3VxOQBRFM7uMD-Xz8RmV6NUZ7qpgDYsvu8sRI-ZZ7eE4lN_M0KYjvPTTldYTTE5KqQ3vT7jBBZGQRW5nzOxYBZuLRgXfRESydOkGhRurZ4v1qmldKABFpSHRNimhf3nQ/s1000/AHPCXIV69.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxbka5u3qav4URF-ATGeHE83jn8yt_QjU2IwGA0qFRst6mr2TAYMVjWlFdXB3VxOQBRFM7uMD-Xz8RmV6NUZ7qpgDYsvu8sRI-ZZ7eE4lN_M0KYjvPTTldYTTE5KqQ3vT7jBBZGQRW5nzOxYBZuLRgXfRESydOkGhRurZ4v1qmldKABFpSHRNimhf3nQ/s320/AHPCXIV69.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another wonderful pack though, with very characterful figures.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmDPUeMz8aDF4SxQ9heoj-7jkKBM951Dm0HIVkMlregXAmvhepWPS_s0sXhiZ9yN2J4boi54RshKjVPyEaWMNJ2nTLRi1TXaVO0IN3R7PboSB56jgQ66qs6hu6VZ3x0UqWDnJvQFsuEo4P-PDKzfUNXPhjvDAo3zqkSvkg2kpSGCzdGM1hx8Q5HBNrZ8/s1000/AHPCXIV70.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOmDPUeMz8aDF4SxQ9heoj-7jkKBM951Dm0HIVkMlregXAmvhepWPS_s0sXhiZ9yN2J4boi54RshKjVPyEaWMNJ2nTLRi1TXaVO0IN3R7PboSB56jgQ66qs6hu6VZ3x0UqWDnJvQFsuEo4P-PDKzfUNXPhjvDAo3zqkSvkg2kpSGCzdGM1hx8Q5HBNrZ8/s320/AHPCXIV70.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They could be from anywhere in western or central Europe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1R8FFT9kdHOXUJ1r6t-NeD5lzsQSgdirzhpzE46Y73qjrALgH6-DuHbHUt6eUL6_qjsQ_Y5LuZ5leVzobB57vMlMb9clWj-9Bn7-KgSACy5akvmkpHCX-dR1i_N3GRZpUsPPRItTzz9_dyFa5VSjzOZTZ0mGBJ8CXNGfLCybDA1pw9k0oIdV-T817Nrk/s1000/AHPCXIV71.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1R8FFT9kdHOXUJ1r6t-NeD5lzsQSgdirzhpzE46Y73qjrALgH6-DuHbHUt6eUL6_qjsQ_Y5LuZ5leVzobB57vMlMb9clWj-9Bn7-KgSACy5akvmkpHCX-dR1i_N3GRZpUsPPRItTzz9_dyFa5VSjzOZTZ0mGBJ8CXNGfLCybDA1pw9k0oIdV-T817Nrk/s320/AHPCXIV71.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One got a red sash (Royalist) and one an orange sash (Parliamentarian) but, being mercenaries, their loyalties may be... flexible.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxE9hyYg_ISh8k3ShTVJTHi3E5TyVyMvig9dQXyu96RqKxGiyRpFEXxBjAzAFT1ZHcNGhDXz5yyQLzwmH74URrj8kOPKMCK4YqiV8QSR_irqrOk6iTfqbx7r7HSV1jOVTJ78d0KQQZZXNeysUzG50jiru5IH00q25SaB5UhS2azP0Ts5DvClzWyx2nnM/s1000/AHPCXIV72.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxE9hyYg_ISh8k3ShTVJTHi3E5TyVyMvig9dQXyu96RqKxGiyRpFEXxBjAzAFT1ZHcNGhDXz5yyQLzwmH74URrj8kOPKMCK4YqiV8QSR_irqrOk6iTfqbx7r7HSV1jOVTJ78d0KQQZZXNeysUzG50jiru5IH00q25SaB5UhS2azP0Ts5DvClzWyx2nnM/s320/AHPCXIV72.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm no Miles, so just a measly 20 pts for me:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4 x 28mm figures @ 5 pts each= 20 pts</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZsgaj8rl0BRdo6OoMvtNjCkrXdSFDuWfjIaeWVP8jrno9a9E-1i4D8uanQ0HAItMP5AtzE3UXWL1aBTvq1va-aEgzWZyqB2THTT1rGTECgtIxHgWnqdJXw8BXPTFtkcevXUQJ-vmjl99_wrlVDTpMuiqF-GIgZEAeIyCnwgrsUw1zKb5JnENKYx1MJ4/s1000/AHPCXIV73.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZsgaj8rl0BRdo6OoMvtNjCkrXdSFDuWfjIaeWVP8jrno9a9E-1i4D8uanQ0HAItMP5AtzE3UXWL1aBTvq1va-aEgzWZyqB2THTT1rGTECgtIxHgWnqdJXw8BXPTFtkcevXUQJ-vmjl99_wrlVDTpMuiqF-GIgZEAeIyCnwgrsUw1zKb5JnENKYx1MJ4/s320/AHPCXIV73.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><i>TeemuL: Well, you might have rushed with these, but it is just your opinion. To my eye, they look excellent! Their un-uniformed look (is that a word) fits nice with their mercenary background, but you have still managed to have certain uniformity with them - the basing of course goes a long way to that direction. There is so much to like, painting the lace, all the consistency in the highlights and selection of tones of colours in general. Good job!</i></p>Codstickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899018919527308863noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-66545331467318244132024-03-18T02:20:00.002-06:002024-03-18T02:20:16.231-06:00From DallasE: The Emperor and Horus - Homage to Mike McVey (20 points)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlo0TvFItJd24kdcuh9s3S1nKSOG8Wul1pOpwzGCXPpgiBj1s_1wGwMpRWnAxssZTcUtI7Lx5lEYhsbjMT4fXw8YwRQIrj0Ib9WmC0UQQlDpvg-mpIjcDm12IG3kYzcmx3wxoFGarEGDQeQHW_i7VcXjFbTqRXGkFd_uF01b1eR3RAtEKyfdUOyXlVtQ/s5152/IMG_6826.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizlo0TvFItJd24kdcuh9s3S1nKSOG8Wul1pOpwzGCXPpgiBj1s_1wGwMpRWnAxssZTcUtI7Lx5lEYhsbjMT4fXw8YwRQIrj0Ib9WmC0UQQlDpvg-mpIjcDm12IG3kYzcmx3wxoFGarEGDQeQHW_i7VcXjFbTqRXGkFd_uF01b1eR3RAtEKyfdUOyXlVtQ/s320/IMG_6826.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>If you're over 40 and played Warhammer 40K I bet you recognize these models. Back in the days of second edition, one Mike McVey headed up the painting crew at GW and what a talent he was. One of the amazing projects he undertook for the Studio was a diorama based on an Adrian Smith illustration, "The Emperor vs. Horus" from back in 1990. I've put a pic of the illustration at the end of this post.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYmqTMkx3w-DfTnRWptHr0G211syxc2v4zovlWmQ0_hsUVMUh-Zbw4kl9bpwB4qz-ssA87v6HdXCS7lC-VWkQZleaFp8wfU4-K49SJXHmja9Ooha92O8c62KbOhIw8ASa7akdP_j0aKkq3t0Lvpj_Ud7suM9qA8W2FeYvUxwau2AUzM_shIopUpRQ2CHU/s1600/IMG_3181.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYmqTMkx3w-DfTnRWptHr0G211syxc2v4zovlWmQ0_hsUVMUh-Zbw4kl9bpwB4qz-ssA87v6HdXCS7lC-VWkQZleaFp8wfU4-K49SJXHmja9Ooha92O8c62KbOhIw8ASa7akdP_j0aKkq3t0Lvpj_Ud7suM9qA8W2FeYvUxwau2AUzM_shIopUpRQ2CHU/s320/IMG_3181.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So ever since then I've wanted to have these models to paint for myself. This desire was only reinforced <a href="https://wpggamegeeks.blogspot.com/2019/07/ye-olde-trip-to-nottingham.html" target="_blank">when I saw the original diorama at Warhammer World in 2019</a>. Unfortunately the models in the diorama were one-offs converted and sculpted by McVey - he said in an article in White Dwarf #183 that the Emperor model had parts from eight other models and some sculpted detail too. Horus was similar. I even tried my hand at a <a href="https://wpggamegeeks.blogspot.com/2019/08/horus-warmaster-1995-version.html" target="_blank">Horus conversion myself</a>, so desperate was I.<div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3vvrdB_t8g68V1xWlclOxIxIvcyANl7qBkcMxm8qQIXuYDzB-BkmmgYrfj_JbnVG0lyk4_Y9AbGiBuQM1cUrUlGUeaJ7ro-a0joLv6tEwjBprbKf_w-kAMbRTzT5-slD785LAQUfNsJVxs7agWrBZnHci13FswO7lN9N6mR9qJwB74GE8k2QBR-o_TZg/s5152/IMG_6828.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3vvrdB_t8g68V1xWlclOxIxIvcyANl7qBkcMxm8qQIXuYDzB-BkmmgYrfj_JbnVG0lyk4_Y9AbGiBuQM1cUrUlGUeaJ7ro-a0joLv6tEwjBprbKf_w-kAMbRTzT5-slD785LAQUfNsJVxs7agWrBZnHci13FswO7lN9N6mR9qJwB74GE8k2QBR-o_TZg/s320/IMG_6828.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Fast forward to this year. I'd seen some 3D prints of models sculpted by a man called BigMrTong, a fellow who's also an enthusiast of the Golden Age of GW. In fact I bought a set of amazing Rogue-Trader-style skeletons in spacesuits (wielding RTB01 bolters no less) and needed to know more. So I joined his Facebook group...<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrtGbjj5GDkkU8F8699AUX6JcsBOVIglAoaJb9XtyHoNh7VR1rwoFvTDmWoYqVYKC0E5zKQ_XwveWcAukdN-HOnL9AI1397LoYSCsVEvmhGFZUDl3V_0B65FZsJ4C603zVGWVa5nHpdCCsEke5enwYmwzMMrI2-H8mGOFThFnJDzJhqubDyM4rxwqakM/s5152/IMG_6829.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrtGbjj5GDkkU8F8699AUX6JcsBOVIglAoaJb9XtyHoNh7VR1rwoFvTDmWoYqVYKC0E5zKQ_XwveWcAukdN-HOnL9AI1397LoYSCsVEvmhGFZUDl3V_0B65FZsJ4C603zVGWVa5nHpdCCsEke5enwYmwzMMrI2-H8mGOFThFnJDzJhqubDyM4rxwqakM/s320/IMG_6829.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>...and nearly lost it when I saw this model, painted by one of the group's members. I hoped it was a 3D print but was quite deflated to learn that it was a metal sculpt produced (along with Horus) in a limited run by BigMrTong. He picks up the story of their origin: "a guy was finding all the parts used in the original conversions and I found the final few bits and then tracked down all the original parts, then resculpted the custom parts, finally casting up a few sets with that base for display." <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9qRAaYyIaFA-D3MpnZ7d74zV5LqeCRDRyOWLb_CQGtY8n5cx2a5EljIc8hIudvsjP3SPoT54DwE11LT05bEgxEMPC-rpmHi5NsOcaHpdp5rIj8mx-LR6Q7yXn0-9PZV98NxI9NjwbMLHlhWZqopSxTiG0ILALRnLIn5P9Mb6zDPtaGIjGCbXvyCuH6s/s5152/IMG_6831.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9qRAaYyIaFA-D3MpnZ7d74zV5LqeCRDRyOWLb_CQGtY8n5cx2a5EljIc8hIudvsjP3SPoT54DwE11LT05bEgxEMPC-rpmHi5NsOcaHpdp5rIj8mx-LR6Q7yXn0-9PZV98NxI9NjwbMLHlhWZqopSxTiG0ILALRnLIn5P9Mb6zDPtaGIjGCbXvyCuH6s/s320/IMG_6831.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Sadly (and unsurprisingly) they quickly sold out, but after I reached out to him, BigMrTong came to the rescue by offering to sell me a set he'd held onto himself. I couldn't get out my wallet fast enough, and after a week or so the parcel arrived with the Emprah, Horus, the 3D-printed diorama base, and a smaller bit of stair for the Emperor to stand on. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjnZZhUoFwHwMr1Ykn373qoxSXtOCcacc0TWDzCpOsfS8e4hFMBkEob0zcEeCmj0YfR7hE21iqN61XYRMPLGkv8zzwkDO0Ldq_IHbilKZiwprIAx5C-lTQE2FVT9G3T31uFDbKOI_I_aqUOpTQKS0rVJPHK9MGuFRMJGn2HpFxa3D70jjABpSPpfVE_0/s5152/IMG_6832.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjnZZhUoFwHwMr1Ykn373qoxSXtOCcacc0TWDzCpOsfS8e4hFMBkEob0zcEeCmj0YfR7hE21iqN61XYRMPLGkv8zzwkDO0Ldq_IHbilKZiwprIAx5C-lTQE2FVT9G3T31uFDbKOI_I_aqUOpTQKS0rVJPHK9MGuFRMJGn2HpFxa3D70jjABpSPpfVE_0/s320/IMG_6832.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>What can I say about these models? They're fantastic and were super-fun to paint. I'd always wanted a set of these models and BMT made it happen.<p></p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAK9EMIjtRK_CpWvBw-x4OvigLsbSuM9lXP4JukW_TkO1DpWY5fF3KxmQHzRtKbeHMwtmInb8DY25hOddSNOLA2dIis36XMW5jQY-4u5sisuVOHQijUYj3QpR2YSG-vr8glXsKRshFMB0gMA-cGbgXXQA5xOh_zcCfUqwMbv2JmW0E1BKUNxzYq2EBMc/s5152/IMG_6830.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAK9EMIjtRK_CpWvBw-x4OvigLsbSuM9lXP4JukW_TkO1DpWY5fF3KxmQHzRtKbeHMwtmInb8DY25hOddSNOLA2dIis36XMW5jQY-4u5sisuVOHQijUYj3QpR2YSG-vr8glXsKRshFMB0gMA-cGbgXXQA5xOh_zcCfUqwMbv2JmW0E1BKUNxzYq2EBMc/s320/IMG_6830.JPG" width="320" /></a></p><p>Freehand here on the shoulder pad and power fist [pats self on back]</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispppZFlHeI_O4IKmtTSX5JShGhKU8FbGEAGKi8jgmyuLOaVmPZxK7bILS6-IaydY1oSPJgHGrLPYlSWflCYMs1OoodatRTF81N7QRZDEeS5Yp-iT8TB-dRJZ_slUNqekniXP2HRmDfmBaNJTEGwqXRfbQul1wSIrY7nC1vUJAhl0cMxTPL_b3xKv7boE/s5152/IMG_6833.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispppZFlHeI_O4IKmtTSX5JShGhKU8FbGEAGKi8jgmyuLOaVmPZxK7bILS6-IaydY1oSPJgHGrLPYlSWflCYMs1OoodatRTF81N7QRZDEeS5Yp-iT8TB-dRJZ_slUNqekniXP2HRmDfmBaNJTEGwqXRfbQul1wSIrY7nC1vUJAhl0cMxTPL_b3xKv7boE/s320/IMG_6833.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here's Horus, looking mean and moody. A word about the painting. Having only a fraction of Mr. McVey's skill, I painted the armour in straightforward red and white. However, if you've seen the original models, you know that McVey painted the armour in a very detailed freehand filigree style, it just looks stupendous but like I said, well beyond my skill level.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLtDeKhhMxJP2TRtE7m27LFlM49p4Y26VtpavzuUplMPpNGW0aUUqV9XRt7lpI9RRI4kvtcSff-ZNF7sxHCWKKttpahuEuxxB734qMnIPRdc6n-ve0LJykihy8eNC1ekO7K9xwUgZgx9ni3LH_In8wAhLkOZ0vieCS4qNmrXj4LNFhLYHR9CFMM9jWyc/s5152/IMG_6834.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLtDeKhhMxJP2TRtE7m27LFlM49p4Y26VtpavzuUplMPpNGW0aUUqV9XRt7lpI9RRI4kvtcSff-ZNF7sxHCWKKttpahuEuxxB734qMnIPRdc6n-ve0LJykihy8eNC1ekO7K9xwUgZgx9ni3LH_In8wAhLkOZ0vieCS4qNmrXj4LNFhLYHR9CFMM9jWyc/s320/IMG_6834.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I cheated a bit on the freehand here, the base was a decal from "Chaos Decal Sheet 1" from the 1990s. I painted the white around it and the colours on the eye.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTcd1UtwPTgnScJa8cQLILwN2NDx_Kjtv3yr7Kr3x7M6LlUHJkwFzxub92x4IMSvFhgfJb8pDVmU5soqXRLoZGZfg2omw1NkxRbngELw30ghvdau2Qi7DdzGGGP_7DKb0CGSv8sfB2x__pl50rngCYmfwovM7SKNy7KnOf5Y8SU7INrgKcSq74nPgQ0Y/s5152/IMG_6835.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQTcd1UtwPTgnScJa8cQLILwN2NDx_Kjtv3yr7Kr3x7M6LlUHJkwFzxub92x4IMSvFhgfJb8pDVmU5soqXRLoZGZfg2omw1NkxRbngELw30ghvdau2Qi7DdzGGGP_7DKb0CGSv8sfB2x__pl50rngCYmfwovM7SKNy7KnOf5Y8SU7INrgKcSq74nPgQ0Y/s320/IMG_6835.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>As you can see here I've actually magnetized these too. I ended up sinking one small neodymium disc magnet into the bottom of one foot on each model, then putting a somewhat larger disc magnet in the appropriate positions on the diorama base and 32mm round bases.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1l_ewVfljzIjmqa6U-jJF_w_lbpiyvv-QBXF7VA3heQlt1XwLnJyV4ypUKzrR23AjxG61n4MMWMn4oJDIrwwrYhSaf1NJuK06-g52AwYKFET-lZoXEGifOCxaKFpqXzxvgGhkzIAuJwsMH6VjMi2oewXbe5IjEAssD4I-bQeQWtqbaSKyEBTL5BwOBbU/s5152/IMG_6836.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1l_ewVfljzIjmqa6U-jJF_w_lbpiyvv-QBXF7VA3heQlt1XwLnJyV4ypUKzrR23AjxG61n4MMWMn4oJDIrwwrYhSaf1NJuK06-g52AwYKFET-lZoXEGifOCxaKFpqXzxvgGhkzIAuJwsMH6VjMi2oewXbe5IjEAssD4I-bQeQWtqbaSKyEBTL5BwOBbU/s320/IMG_6836.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>That way Horus and the Emprah can actually take part in a tabletop game if we want - however unlikely that is. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOewrnFdrLcFQHbsMXg4BPQ-uVMzXP0vjGMJU_Z4f_G1a3-FZ5DL9BGr0vK4sQWFTRMXdat2bVx2x91qJ_n5yTEjBLuMpVRylZ4_XB50Cyy8Dvfkmy3DRVEPrHOXfcJyWD7D6h5Vs10mWed2NRFTSM9si_PuOu5pMlpWbxLy6PWzWP2c9OZadU_wvtyqo/s5152/IMG_6837.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOewrnFdrLcFQHbsMXg4BPQ-uVMzXP0vjGMJU_Z4f_G1a3-FZ5DL9BGr0vK4sQWFTRMXdat2bVx2x91qJ_n5yTEjBLuMpVRylZ4_XB50Cyy8Dvfkmy3DRVEPrHOXfcJyWD7D6h5Vs10mWed2NRFTSM9si_PuOu5pMlpWbxLy6PWzWP2c9OZadU_wvtyqo/s320/IMG_6837.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Supposedly the original head here was a part from the old Leman Russ model, with the hair carved off. Looks scary.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinf5xAW_aoZCQjjEm9mJi3gVVrtiB9k-jCtX1ip7PdE_sKlvJZwtVQJuSXnK09TK7aIycPJ1Btb77zIH1thmFbm_MR_asBs3nb12BKDv703kTD3ZuLS-grfFkREzqLDzvfMZOJlFx9PO1sGnmRbqEYhKHO-9gLKYz49Sq_KvNbUevzwh12m9tvYzOLbyc/s5152/IMG_6838.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinf5xAW_aoZCQjjEm9mJi3gVVrtiB9k-jCtX1ip7PdE_sKlvJZwtVQJuSXnK09TK7aIycPJ1Btb77zIH1thmFbm_MR_asBs3nb12BKDv703kTD3ZuLS-grfFkREzqLDzvfMZOJlFx9PO1sGnmRbqEYhKHO-9gLKYz49Sq_KvNbUevzwh12m9tvYzOLbyc/s320/IMG_6838.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here's the original diorama just in case anybody needs a reminder of how good it was. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqu86rg0rEo9l_n-AJ8NP22OUJSvrXLrb8bX8mVENx8mCWk-r-H_qaNAqOHdxvprUmkWirqLCua4VYdfMYsgrpbqtJJCuuRdL6eUZ7eKfzdPAS1Ueahwef5ceDjniitI_Elr4h1cG39O11FRpHD4Fa-k7cknh34OMYPiRI69fF3qvUui2T_QvMVGMavM/s1080/Emprah%20and%20Horus.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqu86rg0rEo9l_n-AJ8NP22OUJSvrXLrb8bX8mVENx8mCWk-r-H_qaNAqOHdxvprUmkWirqLCua4VYdfMYsgrpbqtJJCuuRdL6eUZ7eKfzdPAS1Ueahwef5ceDjniitI_Elr4h1cG39O11FRpHD4Fa-k7cknh34OMYPiRI69fF3qvUui2T_QvMVGMavM/s320/Emprah%20and%20Horus.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>And here's the picture it was based on. So good.<p></p><p>I know that the world of GW has moved on some in the last 30 years, but I miss metal models and the original lore, before everything got so serious. Let us not forget that the "Horus Heresy" was only invented because Space Marines were the only models made for the Space Marine (epic scale) game and there had to be some reason that Space Marines were fighting each other. But that was before there were 200 books published telling the story of the Heresy. Whatever.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24JF9glCxHsBdizNTChJTZsqmwmxCqgDlXAfkpDmx8oE7xPMGu3zUuAOzVi-aztHwr28J2RSzzPxUwijFsLoYdSo6NWz-tDvB747fl8MHz6opmRqfny_9opA6mPZE5VkloD0_fZ5Q7rPMKtCpC_xx9kELwyoIen-83bfC6KpqC18uOY65ZmUwszhVd40/s5152/IMG_6827.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24JF9glCxHsBdizNTChJTZsqmwmxCqgDlXAfkpDmx8oE7xPMGu3zUuAOzVi-aztHwr28J2RSzzPxUwijFsLoYdSo6NWz-tDvB747fl8MHz6opmRqfny_9opA6mPZE5VkloD0_fZ5Q7rPMKtCpC_xx9kELwyoIen-83bfC6KpqC18uOY65ZmUwszhVd40/s320/IMG_6827.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Anyway I had such fun painting these models. Gotta say a big thank-you to BigMrTong for the sculpts and for selling me these models from his personal collection. If you like RT-era GW please check out his stuff (Facebook or Google works) and support his work.</p><p>And also - big thanks to the Snowlord for setting up the Challenge and to my minion Kyle for his work too.</p><p>Lastly - for these two 28mm models and the diorama base that's... 15 points :-D </p><p><i>TeemuL: There seems to be no "Nostalgia" topic in the Library, this would have scored about 40 000 bonus points from that section, I think. What a story to get your hands on these models, tells a lot about the part of commuity that still exists there and loves the good old GW stuff. Tracking all the parts and then sculpting the rest and casting in metal... And your brushwork, you might not be Mike McVey, but you have honoured his work in an excellent way. I'll throw 5 more points for the free hand, the pure nostalgia and the reason's of the spreadsheet. :)</i></p></div>Dallashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08816655312205569168noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-92114531994077440542024-03-17T22:39:00.004-06:002024-03-18T08:14:08.837-06:00From DaveV - Jedi Master Luke - Fantasy (27 points)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLcOkUCrirEXA8H8EnrG6OjH3GtjEXM5ngQGxEJleGNFqk7qmx-gOtYiFt4Xff1bvIvIznaSYxQ-St8ILeKoh0Rab8TsWh_tzLk59V03RwWdsxpXHQc-kv8KWfecfUqEKoO39Z00WaVp24CJI9Q33MdYWxU6pSlnPq7SIKic7jATxR9Qyk4YPf-ZGppg/s4032/IMG_5308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLcOkUCrirEXA8H8EnrG6OjH3GtjEXM5ngQGxEJleGNFqk7qmx-gOtYiFt4Xff1bvIvIznaSYxQ-St8ILeKoh0Rab8TsWh_tzLk59V03RwWdsxpXHQc-kv8KWfecfUqEKoO39Z00WaVp24CJI9Q33MdYWxU6pSlnPq7SIKic7jATxR9Qyk4YPf-ZGppg/w334-h445/IMG_5308.jpg" width="334" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The best laid plans and all that. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This year has been challenging for painting so far. My wife Jen had a kitchen accident involving boiling water (she is recovering very well, but there were some scary moments at the hospital and follow-up visits). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My IDOLS of Torment project was derailed. I was just about finished my Flayed Man, and was dry-brushing a horrifying ballerina with blades on her feet and hands when she snapped off her base, fell and shattered most of her right fingers. I will be having 18 models re-printed using a more flexible resin. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOShR18Njelj8lyKj0Pdt3AbvguzG__iX9QOXSSeRHNtxUU8zVVxQXe3QMZAHxe1LUu-61iUS7cIqj99hfR4VFbOKd9CU8bCFmoAx3Xx8328DNKzhC38YeqH2NB7y-SQ8nLM75VNfCN-FQT0rdFAXmQkY49aJfdFJSOKTZ89CdXBZmnYTH1-CEi6Kxssc/s4032/IMG_5207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOShR18Njelj8lyKj0Pdt3AbvguzG__iX9QOXSSeRHNtxUU8zVVxQXe3QMZAHxe1LUu-61iUS7cIqj99hfR4VFbOKd9CU8bCFmoAx3Xx8328DNKzhC38YeqH2NB7y-SQ8nLM75VNfCN-FQT0rdFAXmQkY49aJfdFJSOKTZ89CdXBZmnYTH1-CEi6Kxssc/w281-h374/IMG_5207.jpg" width="281" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Plus, work has been very busy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">##</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It has been great to at least view everyone's cool models.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did receive last week a new Star Wars model designed by Felipe Manivel of War Bear, and printed by Wargames3D in Spain. I figured, what the hell, and assembled, primed, zenithal highlighted, and painted this figure over the last couple of days.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I replaced the resin saber blade with brass wire. Otherwise the figure is stock.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVKnsmUtE5ml5leCr4IuRYaKhFkiDBkX4zFEgQJX8-hU5HXDwLhHYyjYJKkh5WgviO6j8k_9XQHHVeOLEi2bXflg01xruwvU2Fn-rYelEwMAXIImv9bucRgVWAnX1PG5RwcV-8NgmELxhlZsZVxg3lUy1aU7tO9DJ7PjK0VorSOctM7ug_og08E7nJ-M/s4032/IMG_5278.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVKnsmUtE5ml5leCr4IuRYaKhFkiDBkX4zFEgQJX8-hU5HXDwLhHYyjYJKkh5WgviO6j8k_9XQHHVeOLEi2bXflg01xruwvU2Fn-rYelEwMAXIImv9bucRgVWAnX1PG5RwcV-8NgmELxhlZsZVxg3lUy1aU7tO9DJ7PjK0VorSOctM7ug_og08E7nJ-M/s320/IMG_5278.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's a great design, with Luke raising rocks with the Force, ready to hurl at some hapless Imperial Remnant baddie. Luke is wearing his black Goth look, so I just needed to highlight the various black textures and tones - I don't shade black. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The lightsaber was hand painted white and airbrushed Golden Fluorescent Green. Luke's head and the rocks got zenithal highlights. A quick sketch in acrylics, and I then finished his face in tube oils. Everything else was basically thin acrylic glazes, with some oils for detailing. Tamiya clear flat spray completed the figure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNndotludGBQprRAAnXclqKXEGHZkgwTvgVK7syHwQ0MhmrOhPoB6a4G1p-InnTYXJLAnR_nSy9IcLNSTbG7qiOeYqg0EpY1FqyRW3R9vnrufkUNSOA2XbeSebnuigjKyiLwJH7UElV_hT4v55XcxnO1dMbxqaAndGZKlRZXysAGy3nZeGpETbS-fJ-sk/s4032/IMG_5311.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNndotludGBQprRAAnXclqKXEGHZkgwTvgVK7syHwQ0MhmrOhPoB6a4G1p-InnTYXJLAnR_nSy9IcLNSTbG7qiOeYqg0EpY1FqyRW3R9vnrufkUNSOA2XbeSebnuigjKyiLwJH7UElV_hT4v55XcxnO1dMbxqaAndGZKlRZXysAGy3nZeGpETbS-fJ-sk/w300-h400/IMG_5311.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXYvnei0AzpjhWqaHVpw3kHospEdo9_C6gjBYPMv2Kxm_I7gStpr8D7J-CIdbD5pwRl_W0DecRu5O7hOp2pJLO5QEfA8SMqfhsOwcd-5BH2lS6L2FbJL6y38Elw_7V0LgT3_jwEnJRETs_spXeaFI4ZOwigrLGo_CTzQTLRwNR25fNSpYj6OJVLwikjo/s4032/IMG_5310.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXYvnei0AzpjhWqaHVpw3kHospEdo9_C6gjBYPMv2Kxm_I7gStpr8D7J-CIdbD5pwRl_W0DecRu5O7hOp2pJLO5QEfA8SMqfhsOwcd-5BH2lS6L2FbJL6y38Elw_7V0LgT3_jwEnJRETs_spXeaFI4ZOwigrLGo_CTzQTLRwNR25fNSpYj6OJVLwikjo/w300-h400/IMG_5310.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtdMuXp_sNmkWaV_398EZ3LzZBHY-0E63neW0dJJmWof5uorwMUwrbNtK2YAxbjWiaf3Ku0l_rmAPjfjM1dErUeael1fXBR0y7A64OFv26ld5MMWB29cHF5F-t3xxhRpX40eHb97wllzCtp31YQPgCqyjm6Yq5b58W2Gym7eELcWXxVQ4vHKYKwTyuxs/s4032/IMG_5309.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtdMuXp_sNmkWaV_398EZ3LzZBHY-0E63neW0dJJmWof5uorwMUwrbNtK2YAxbjWiaf3Ku0l_rmAPjfjM1dErUeael1fXBR0y7A64OFv26ld5MMWB29cHF5F-t3xxhRpX40eHb97wllzCtp31YQPgCqyjm6Yq5b58W2Gym7eELcWXxVQ4vHKYKwTyuxs/w300-h400/IMG_5309.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's a ~40mm figure. Star Wars is a space fantasy, not sci-fi, so 27 points for this last minute entry.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_________________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Really lovely work on Luke, Dave. The sculpt looks to be a sturdy interpretation of him, which I quite like (though at some angles it seems like he's wearing BOG boots). Your work on his lightsaber and face is fantastic - so smooth. Well done!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></p>DaveVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08629682074533048304noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-87733814326449874342024-03-17T22:30:00.001-06:002024-03-17T22:30:42.894-06:00From Barks: Grimdark outpost (60 points)<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've been overthinking this pile of GW plastic scenery for some time. Magnetizing, pigment powders, basing- in the end I decided to smash it out for the end of the Challenge. I rattle-can-sprayed everything black, then brown, then gunmetal; then sponged on a bright orange; then slathered everything in watered down brown craft paint; then drybrushed metal; then got lost in the weeds of the details. I could go back to it and add more- I'd like a buildup of dust on the lower surfaces, and maybe some decals- but I'm more than happy with them for now.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are plenty of thematic pieces which are great for scenarios and objectives. Let's go on a tour with <a href="https://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/from-barks-halo-jones-manga-and-graphic.html" target="_blank">Halo Jones</a> for scale.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzUzPqoK4TweZfFeGhxji4II28nTZ_TjscMOIqz3MqaYwQ6yDT43t_QgBJiLSSYp_ZQEz7lTBhh7PyHz3IpDFtfGAPmoLjCXbT89lbxTNTmjpQ-wUQNZ1mnCyNwWZ-NFzEsAUSVOfUTLrNj6jibkuyRvK0Psg_uvXL1SegklPuztmrp_PEiT2VD3_H40/s1998/IMG_5586.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="1998" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzUzPqoK4TweZfFeGhxji4II28nTZ_TjscMOIqz3MqaYwQ6yDT43t_QgBJiLSSYp_ZQEz7lTBhh7PyHz3IpDFtfGAPmoLjCXbT89lbxTNTmjpQ-wUQNZ1mnCyNwWZ-NFzEsAUSVOfUTLrNj6jibkuyRvK0Psg_uvXL1SegklPuztmrp_PEiT2VD3_H40/w516-h328/IMG_5586.jpg" width="516" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Is it a secret facility? Forward base? Childcare centre?*</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;">First, the stockade wall pieces. They don't physically connect together, unfortunately. I took a while trying to work out which were the inside and outside- I decided the lights go on the outside, despite the armoured shutters opening that way. I'm not a huge fan of these as gaming scenery- they're too constraining, and the gates don't open.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWt_bOJd3hczaPjgQrqZy2jTFbRXdrz8tTKZfrErK5wZrew5kf-lwkXPSKRLPOKtVfvdOewfyNoFY6UKAFwAjPQ29lTFHi2eqaaxHTUggtA-sNQ1zvYLGXQqIokejpPAvFeDSSbbe8tp6xes_10Szt0HPyUQ_tpn99VYqL_oCP5H5rRBht0B11bkHm8o/s1998/IMG_5587.jpg"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="1998" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWt_bOJd3hczaPjgQrqZy2jTFbRXdrz8tTKZfrErK5wZrew5kf-lwkXPSKRLPOKtVfvdOewfyNoFY6UKAFwAjPQ29lTFHi2eqaaxHTUggtA-sNQ1zvYLGXQqIokejpPAvFeDSSbbe8tp6xes_10Szt0HPyUQ_tpn99VYqL_oCP5H5rRBht0B11bkHm8o/w400-h276/IMG_5587.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The hab-bunker has a wild west vibe with the false front board. I put armoured shutters in all the windows. The roof is removable, but I didn't detail the inside.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTjCH_4Lj0Gagn9ebaYXtZTFFDWyZMaOKEYXgyTFdjxsxEH1hO3UWO8xCB2yd90rUiTpqE6IAZ5q-mfExebF41mihyphenhyphennn1IBgq46LKJt4_eLH8PdlXB7jkfrYVLZqnkTSj0fYQ4BPKIkcVEHfAxRebecZL6n3vtr66Lx9kEK8kUS3szGCiRZwyl4Nc68g/s1998/IMG_5588.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1606" data-original-width="1998" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTjCH_4Lj0Gagn9ebaYXtZTFFDWyZMaOKEYXgyTFdjxsxEH1hO3UWO8xCB2yd90rUiTpqE6IAZ5q-mfExebF41mihyphenhyphennn1IBgq46LKJt4_eLH8PdlXB7jkfrYVLZqnkTSj0fYQ4BPKIkcVEHfAxRebecZL6n3vtr66Lx9kEK8kUS3szGCiRZwyl4Nc68g/w400-h321/IMG_5588.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I quite like the Mechanicus in 40K. They run all the machines, but don't know how they work or what they do. If you want to make something more efficient, they will kill you for tech-heresy. Their weird gizmos make evocative terrain pieces.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggptlJ-37qU4W2hDzMvKY73c2JC_W1AkRbVWsikcM-pO65LP5kBTs2ChGMvcycyluJGUwgD3mf2_LRvhL2om9o3rGgCVs2yyujvYz83i8GqsBYlHANCGCTOiWtqi2GmAPm3BRw5t9IzWbhgVyyArw1rACjL8NXle2QYgGy1x74gX-Wpcre6FwLlbo3Zsk/s2000/IMG_5589.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="2000" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggptlJ-37qU4W2hDzMvKY73c2JC_W1AkRbVWsikcM-pO65LP5kBTs2ChGMvcycyluJGUwgD3mf2_LRvhL2om9o3rGgCVs2yyujvYz83i8GqsBYlHANCGCTOiWtqi2GmAPm3BRw5t9IzWbhgVyyArw1rACjL8NXle2QYgGy1x74gX-Wpcre6FwLlbo3Zsk/w400-h158/IMG_5589.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I tried a mild glow and some verdigris on the furnace.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgouhps_yqCsS2rUiyWvLjvpZ5KuRxHrlqznQoomu8wvhCH8KVQExpLuJCg6XK7Ix6eiywpej28GVyrJQQyOCKoZTWDVy8LWMxdCJaqP9khMTyLRCyBndmQoq7tqKTYLamn_KT1eRjMp9RplqyIJQ_rv_Fy6aK6miwlaT9DN4zIOzW2LVTTApNBS1T8SoQ/s2000/IMG_5590.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="2000" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgouhps_yqCsS2rUiyWvLjvpZ5KuRxHrlqznQoomu8wvhCH8KVQExpLuJCg6XK7Ix6eiywpej28GVyrJQQyOCKoZTWDVy8LWMxdCJaqP9khMTyLRCyBndmQoq7tqKTYLamn_KT1eRjMp9RplqyIJQ_rv_Fy6aK6miwlaT9DN4zIOzW2LVTTApNBS1T8SoQ/w400-h130/IMG_5590.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYEgHtVHAVNBqGVhPEPG7Q3fB1tci1hnKCQ_wpkNnTkxrIUntlk59sooOiyywgR5ZgjI1TAHdVoQxmSrQhTfYNuST5mQXk8x6-D_wdRRkidWwekf5S5Zp_Gj9VDiKa3LPeeybuCjkpr89mxdpBK9pNgTnUyAFM0xn73YyPdhjPcEOzeSoz1poyNh-RxA/s1998/IMG_5591.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="1986" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYEgHtVHAVNBqGVhPEPG7Q3fB1tci1hnKCQ_wpkNnTkxrIUntlk59sooOiyywgR5ZgjI1TAHdVoQxmSrQhTfYNuST5mQXk8x6-D_wdRRkidWwekf5S5Zp_Gj9VDiKa3LPeeybuCjkpr89mxdpBK9pNgTnUyAFM0xn73YyPdhjPcEOzeSoz1poyNh-RxA/w398-h400/IMG_5591.jpg" width="398" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I tried a bit of drybrushed OSL for some of these. It is always a bit heart-in-mouth, as it is hard to fix any errors.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCgZBDJcxXEFGcV21BMrKNcYTkEmL-J91DGfMVnn1MruB-9yRgVyvl3C5dBVB-DtCvUERWfsc20L8vKiBTKULU6yvFjSuDMGvC1-OAwhUEy5LPE4WlnyhPgozA5fpoJxeS893N8tFGMwwiU9BQbcvtdkqWtRRcw1DPcmHyn65ssnWUPZZ7QG9SlolWfw/s2000/IMG_5592.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCgZBDJcxXEFGcV21BMrKNcYTkEmL-J91DGfMVnn1MruB-9yRgVyvl3C5dBVB-DtCvUERWfsc20L8vKiBTKULU6yvFjSuDMGvC1-OAwhUEy5LPE4WlnyhPgozA5fpoJxeS893N8tFGMwwiU9BQbcvtdkqWtRRcw1DPcmHyn65ssnWUPZZ7QG9SlolWfw/w345-h400/IMG_5592.jpg" width="345" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's so hard to avoid going to town on all the details!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />This comms tower is a great vertical piece. Also, festooned with skullz.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-9IPUuEdkCCbINJOSvwVVbSGAP75bp8D0FSWrlYnirfnBuI77pTtiZZJSg3Dmi6NuOt9_EqiW3i-w6urYwyNRA8v4CdRYNwn51gisn_cY9dzJCalIXoJmcaA4-FxLaa4MFd_D5f05Hi_HdXMCgOMNJSdDYDeKG_OF44oLNzM1X-LiSpMy-S6d026GGo/s2000/IMG_5593.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="698" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-9IPUuEdkCCbINJOSvwVVbSGAP75bp8D0FSWrlYnirfnBuI77pTtiZZJSg3Dmi6NuOt9_EqiW3i-w6urYwyNRA8v4CdRYNwn51gisn_cY9dzJCalIXoJmcaA4-FxLaa4MFd_D5f05Hi_HdXMCgOMNJSdDYDeKG_OF44oLNzM1X-LiSpMy-S6d026GGo/w224-h640/IMG_5593.jpg" width="224" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlFxNckOkVfYJes4gu7K27DIIU3RG9BCVVThKOboozq2m5ARNfOQwGaPDpCRDE6T7dYaQj6r2PEkmw4K2vdibiVMR2sHUhsh8tFpV6cn5XdHItiWBP3dM-a6lsSTN9iw8d9WG4wvfIIyTDpt5ylbpBKCbVb_t7HdTqDDxEj4azVe8PTofcCIkmUOGRVQ/s2000/IMG_5594.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="608" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlFxNckOkVfYJes4gu7K27DIIU3RG9BCVVThKOboozq2m5ARNfOQwGaPDpCRDE6T7dYaQj6r2PEkmw4K2vdibiVMR2sHUhsh8tFpV6cn5XdHItiWBP3dM-a6lsSTN9iw8d9WG4wvfIIyTDpt5ylbpBKCbVb_t7HdTqDDxEj4azVe8PTofcCIkmUOGRVQ/w194-h640/IMG_5594.jpg" width="194" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This radar dish is a great terrain piece. The dish rotates and can be elevated and depressed. It could be assembled with the dish up-and-down, but I chose the horizontal aspect.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQi0pwAr1XXmx_h1152AqP6mLSUNJKig5gX7_Asy5CH4FS9L7woY5QHC7i_Xsj6kAVfERmRKpXM8CG1fToW6DgBL1VEbXou1fUHld2Ma5Er8JNlHrCMfW_w0Fzx4w_nnscYgQlHTHUrkCKUuY7hMvhzCfJiskgjtH2nmFeikr8xNFQYvwJ503mWOpNbIE/s2000/IMG_5595.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1812" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQi0pwAr1XXmx_h1152AqP6mLSUNJKig5gX7_Asy5CH4FS9L7woY5QHC7i_Xsj6kAVfERmRKpXM8CG1fToW6DgBL1VEbXou1fUHld2Ma5Er8JNlHrCMfW_w0Fzx4w_nnscYgQlHTHUrkCKUuY7hMvhzCfJiskgjtH2nmFeikr8xNFQYvwJ503mWOpNbIE/s320/IMG_5595.jpg" width="290" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The last piece is this chunky landing pad/ refuelling station/ missile silo. I was set on red landing lights and the hazard stripes. I tried orange fuel tanks, but it was a disaster. I used about a dozen coats of paint and wound up with uneven coverage that was too vibrant and overshadowed the red lights. So at the last minute, I went back to trusty Vallejo Iraqi Sand and am very satisfied with the outcome.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7R4vSr6eCHyrYNfUoO7jmiAGh3muZl6eCoxwqne2Ys8g6ToYfuo9EGzJjqJivQnsXNPK1_JgZcqFay_bGWPn9PzIej5f8T0YhaaE3FmcfVIR4skwpSy_GCczqGAJo_3DFup5VY_cz9HGWNLy_dZokmKM2ia6y3aovN9eMkLqHA2y6hne7HdcUZmgjp0/s2000/IMG_5596.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2000" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc7R4vSr6eCHyrYNfUoO7jmiAGh3muZl6eCoxwqne2Ys8g6ToYfuo9EGzJjqJivQnsXNPK1_JgZcqFay_bGWPn9PzIej5f8T0YhaaE3FmcfVIR4skwpSy_GCczqGAJo_3DFup5VY_cz9HGWNLy_dZokmKM2ia6y3aovN9eMkLqHA2y6hne7HdcUZmgjp0/w400-h274/IMG_5596.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The hab-bunker is designed to be another level. The stairs are removable.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY34LkPcuEy3QCM0HZQcQUGgM-5A1CoRB8pFyeSVv3x_nRARhfqZwdviTuBvNjpeKlNePbaOBgkbeSscpUfyoLh_AyJDHry_QAiX-FMs6G8uxypB7Q9IqXK5e8xRX4Qs1UHz4QG9ySGPuY0jRdHnUKTMy-I4LtGbu0e2Ev8P02HTgCsiFL3ajn2b3toHo/s2000/IMG_5597.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY34LkPcuEy3QCM0HZQcQUGgM-5A1CoRB8pFyeSVv3x_nRARhfqZwdviTuBvNjpeKlNePbaOBgkbeSscpUfyoLh_AyJDHry_QAiX-FMs6G8uxypB7Q9IqXK5e8xRX4Qs1UHz4QG9ySGPuY0jRdHnUKTMy-I4LtGbu0e2Ev8P02HTgCsiFL3ajn2b3toHo/w400-h320/IMG_5597.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Uj8WBCUhrHa9IsWko1qGAI-KxFRxSnJP012lFF0CQYSB2a7rN-pEGQgEd_VXcQcaTI6DQr0cyJfTW7yjBF-KyNfOj1UD2j5t5X05X0vUeqj2R1W6j_jlsXI9gXSJkKkQobWUy9lISLDKcE0yRoP3Rm55wchXHjdzdfpUCLsaQX2pQ1h-RI_zFjweRSU/s2000/IMG_5598.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1896" data-original-width="2000" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Uj8WBCUhrHa9IsWko1qGAI-KxFRxSnJP012lFF0CQYSB2a7rN-pEGQgEd_VXcQcaTI6DQr0cyJfTW7yjBF-KyNfOj1UD2j5t5X05X0vUeqj2R1W6j_jlsXI9gXSJkKkQobWUy9lISLDKcE0yRoP3Rm55wchXHjdzdfpUCLsaQX2pQ1h-RI_zFjweRSU/w400-h379/IMG_5598.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY0QsqL-h8WwIIrMEjxmgVp8oMxrfhzkVXA8FgRJ9bMqaagoH5LnMSrUZccM8jq4uvTkwIWFEsmmTi8mNtUhcBoU7CetHsNxCdKUqJINdpBuRs-GkvdiRD0bEk3vw3T5My2pyVf3hm9-IgegsrHnTtJZjtSV9TK883hpesyQc8k1GSXOLwP0G_pR-3XmY/s2000/IMG_5585.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="2000" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY0QsqL-h8WwIIrMEjxmgVp8oMxrfhzkVXA8FgRJ9bMqaagoH5LnMSrUZccM8jq4uvTkwIWFEsmmTi8mNtUhcBoU7CetHsNxCdKUqJINdpBuRs-GkvdiRD0bEk3vw3T5My2pyVf3hm9-IgegsrHnTtJZjtSV9TK883hpesyQc8k1GSXOLwP0G_pR-3XmY/w400-h195/IMG_5585.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Too orange too blotchy.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I've eyeballed this as three Standard Terrain Cubes. 60 points, please!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3gjfqgrce5edClCnHLposzePoKVzb-Oh0mqdU021x1ZGqa-ZYB7_cQ2RoUAqC05z7IOLtFjF2DnysE263GYIKwSjUfnGsWmvR95DeVd4PZbwnxpeQWH-3pL4ukdeUVF2nrrQAjvzNFIUbIlGTraAobWRjTL7mEu1t7dTZjKkmNYB01xpHpNrKpymfbl8/s2000/IMG_5599.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1898" data-original-width="2000" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3gjfqgrce5edClCnHLposzePoKVzb-Oh0mqdU021x1ZGqa-ZYB7_cQ2RoUAqC05z7IOLtFjF2DnysE263GYIKwSjUfnGsWmvR95DeVd4PZbwnxpeQWH-3pL4ukdeUVF2nrrQAjvzNFIUbIlGTraAobWRjTL7mEu1t7dTZjKkmNYB01xpHpNrKpymfbl8/w400-h380/IMG_5599.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Skull-o-meter™: 34 (total 184)</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">* All of the above!</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_________________________________</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>That is an awesome bunch of tech terrain, Barks. I really like the Mechanicum turbine-type-thingy with the black and white Machine God sigil. I totally agree, your sand coloured fuel tanks look MUCH better than the initial orange effort. I also fancy those red marker lights on the surface. Such a great schwack of GrimDark architectural goodness (grimness?). Well done! </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></div>Barkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04389368754759452544noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-41648033189272600282024-03-17T20:55:00.002-06:002024-03-17T20:55:22.905-06:00From SebastianR: Behold Kaladrax! [Oversize books] (80 Points)<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I told you I'd be back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBE_UZXNKo75gR8VCF9LUUwGIrqtCaho_RrJ7Mdk8qxW36HWrDbsIT6ui6cy35F-PChqomNw_UUchfQWqmyHrJZqsAcJHSmay63236iqp4-IYuAjr6_JTZ35Z2aZBmBWckpP9fAxvGPobvfSLujdExYZ61kZSzCx6CM1wR1SSP6owLmowtp_LOTmmhgdcJ/s1000/20240211_100908.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBE_UZXNKo75gR8VCF9LUUwGIrqtCaho_RrJ7Mdk8qxW36HWrDbsIT6ui6cy35F-PChqomNw_UUchfQWqmyHrJZqsAcJHSmay63236iqp4-IYuAjr6_JTZ35Z2aZBmBWckpP9fAxvGPobvfSLujdExYZ61kZSzCx6CM1wR1SSP6owLmowtp_LOTmmhgdcJ/w400-h225/20240211_100908.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />I've had this one in the pile of <strike>shame</strike> opportunity for a long time, and after being thwarted in my last attempt to claim the oversized books location I decided there was no better time than the present.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I also did a lot of anxious procrastinating.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHQmkvBTJbTJ8dd6bNDOnRdT9fne2aj2mIQVyfzKBMx-Bjcv3r3noR8wJe2VEeO95c8w8sibaNCYRLfDN1xIFQK9zypUrrwRLOaeWApkPRJgEguyXUiaaUt5u-FjrDN6Tr18dtOWNJkDebwoLsIqpXJvT-teD9d1NDUSn-mNRpIXVX95pRuFaqPa11cKp/s1000/20240223_145532.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="721" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHQmkvBTJbTJ8dd6bNDOnRdT9fne2aj2mIQVyfzKBMx-Bjcv3r3noR8wJe2VEeO95c8w8sibaNCYRLfDN1xIFQK9zypUrrwRLOaeWApkPRJgEguyXUiaaUt5u-FjrDN6Tr18dtOWNJkDebwoLsIqpXJvT-teD9d1NDUSn-mNRpIXVX95pRuFaqPa11cKp/w289-h400/20240223_145532.jpg" width="289" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I've never painted a model this big, nor as... prestigious. I didn't buy the original reaper bones kickstarter; I got this figure from facebook I think, for around £50, almost a decade ago and lugged it around ever since.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz0MVmHBij3aisra8SrQftBIA5EibyOjxWhdwsXefzNsfU5-EjItquUG-h3KKFx_-PmNIaZRzXQh1tWoClhNnu9rq8krxF1RGeuAf2oRs60ot6-xGiv_Whw228EQULbWcZvQXkJlPVVAuWFDw472nakhswodq1M1pip6KY7Y3uSIv3quLAsAAAk6I5ziB5/s2272/20240313_174636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2272" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz0MVmHBij3aisra8SrQftBIA5EibyOjxWhdwsXefzNsfU5-EjItquUG-h3KKFx_-PmNIaZRzXQh1tWoClhNnu9rq8krxF1RGeuAf2oRs60ot6-xGiv_Whw228EQULbWcZvQXkJlPVVAuWFDw472nakhswodq1M1pip6KY7Y3uSIv3quLAsAAAk6I5ziB5/w396-h400/20240313_174636.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I love skeleton dragons and was hoping that this bad boy could become the centerpiece for an undead army or be the end boss for a particularly messy Pathfinder campaign, but he's just too damn big. Impractically big. In fact, according to a <a href="https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/80614-what-bones-are-retired/" target="_blank">couple of sources</a> I stumbled across while searching for painting tips, due to a miscommunication with the manufacturer, he was molded larger than intended, maybe even three times as much.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7hB8QsncdlVRIY3mR1aZUistmpZeQe2MwR4ETS-N9lHwc9JoF6YNIib5J0z12HSbTOCTQwCYCwpqKI0hIBZI8oFyjKrFXz2FMoB7aaYm7XXFSJupnnmoiUA1omwX44Fs_KDNXrZrMd1gdI4oejxdwi3_7R5AZecLKVwD0NhsjFQiFkcdQgN5TLfMPmPl/s2688/20240317_215554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2688" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7hB8QsncdlVRIY3mR1aZUistmpZeQe2MwR4ETS-N9lHwc9JoF6YNIib5J0z12HSbTOCTQwCYCwpqKI0hIBZI8oFyjKrFXz2FMoB7aaYm7XXFSJupnnmoiUA1omwX44Fs_KDNXrZrMd1gdI4oejxdwi3_7R5AZecLKVwD0NhsjFQiFkcdQgN5TLfMPmPl/w335-h400/20240317_215554.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRGADrANHoyhLgQze0TYR8hanfb_1l8UUcNtEOyVG6EkFc1BT3Smh6UcIShsEA8PJKpWboQMz1xWRxCHEH_Cq5_zIexYs_tUJIo4CIwysrRpByHm4oBLOPhtvI5y7s7DvruWm6wonf2gBWabExLsnMRNoi7UexNiULDJPixvVX4I-tpDs7FQsVkPeA1M5/s2921/20240317_215629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2921" data-original-width="2252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRGADrANHoyhLgQze0TYR8hanfb_1l8UUcNtEOyVG6EkFc1BT3Smh6UcIShsEA8PJKpWboQMz1xWRxCHEH_Cq5_zIexYs_tUJIo4CIwysrRpByHm4oBLOPhtvI5y7s7DvruWm6wonf2gBWabExLsnMRNoi7UexNiULDJPixvVX4I-tpDs7FQsVkPeA1M5/w309-h400/20240317_215629.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Instead he'll spend his days perched on a shelf, waiting for people to ask, "That's a neat dragon; what the story there?" at which point I will regale them with the tale of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge that forced me to finally paint him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And isn't that the purpose of the challenge? For us to ignore the projects we actually need to complete in order to chase internet points with fearfully ignored figures from the bottom of the <strike>lead</strike> reaper bones worryingly soft plastic pile?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0e4_GJA5hP6jKRL6BLrGrTfZVH22LufnZVgMTcjVheoVepvOoxrXr8S3c9w6Nho70anJq4htbXgaGwNvxqPounA0gNq_pChMYlc66wOYBh103p4W3KYXe_b0R8FzkJNTrBikR5NaLkLvujiso7eFao3cYBu0V_AVRXeUWqQ5SKbDTxYDEatwKEbjgyw2E/s3065/20240317_215649.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="3065" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0e4_GJA5hP6jKRL6BLrGrTfZVH22LufnZVgMTcjVheoVepvOoxrXr8S3c9w6Nho70anJq4htbXgaGwNvxqPounA0gNq_pChMYlc66wOYBh103p4W3KYXe_b0R8FzkJNTrBikR5NaLkLvujiso7eFao3cYBu0V_AVRXeUWqQ5SKbDTxYDEatwKEbjgyw2E/w400-h294/20240317_215649.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0b-bXVEMRVE6LMpaEykoMQgmSdoYv9fZSoRc74y-NRbE_0oOpSjbzun4Qn0qAeyr3XZBPBpytXsUV2jk3gwmFSI9auHFJ1sDTOdIlSAuhju5OUMgqZUBZ_cuc1s8iqQ0GxkS4ToS1vRZ7xlRCUA4wNjQ5T7iM_6qNRuAVWJrbatc09LSWbzNrMO7U0CdD/s2383/20240317_215658.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="2383" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0b-bXVEMRVE6LMpaEykoMQgmSdoYv9fZSoRc74y-NRbE_0oOpSjbzun4Qn0qAeyr3XZBPBpytXsUV2jk3gwmFSI9auHFJ1sDTOdIlSAuhju5OUMgqZUBZ_cuc1s8iqQ0GxkS4ToS1vRZ7xlRCUA4wNjQ5T7iM_6qNRuAVWJrbatc09LSWbzNrMO7U0CdD/w400-h378/20240317_215658.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> It's still too humid to trust a varnish, thus the glossiness on parts of the base.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4dorq3KZzTRh41yQJPDcWyCCcYDl7Bcb5b-CDZHad4nuVFkBUwj7NcTeeFmj-9U9nTJtqZfrJCmHb3349h9Za7uEmBk1JjGVL1F1WYwrPISdND10TF2PsHpYgaWTaPqc0pfpVDmyPrlW1r1NNuSTdWdlrUKZWlE8dzAjSoCzzm5pY4KZuIzLkQlH1IHQ/s1000/20240317_215747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="563" height="599" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4dorq3KZzTRh41yQJPDcWyCCcYDl7Bcb5b-CDZHad4nuVFkBUwj7NcTeeFmj-9U9nTJtqZfrJCmHb3349h9Za7uEmBk1JjGVL1F1WYwrPISdND10TF2PsHpYgaWTaPqc0pfpVDmyPrlW1r1NNuSTdWdlrUKZWlE8dzAjSoCzzm5pY4KZuIzLkQlH1IHQ/w337-h599/20240317_215747.jpg" width="337" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have no idea what this is worth points wise. It's 20 for the challenge, and it's <i>technically</i> a 28mm monster, but given the mis-sizing and the sheer size of the model (14"*14"*9").</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahKR1FfOjRNyDaLt4taqm33AR7mlQwegdf-hxax9eqiEfCkrWLuLjrgyFOV7w4-oQIIQ6WxuBMVIMKJm3SEj1-8JCEnvDFaFiuPRJ0sKlhMlmL9oZ9D3KWfDwbjHWRmR_0DmIGBZdyToSJe81xao5rdHMXKU7V-er2Uy2UhyFes0eyVQTTSsWxl1509QY/s1000/AHPC%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1000" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahKR1FfOjRNyDaLt4taqm33AR7mlQwegdf-hxax9eqiEfCkrWLuLjrgyFOV7w4-oQIIQ6WxuBMVIMKJm3SEj1-8JCEnvDFaFiuPRJ0sKlhMlmL9oZ9D3KWfDwbjHWRmR_0DmIGBZdyToSJe81xao5rdHMXKU7V-er2Uy2UhyFes0eyVQTTSsWxl1509QY/w400-h301/AHPC%202023.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">And that's me I think. Once again I get to within unlocking distance of the Snowlords challenge, but without the time to actually complete the challenge. See you all next year!<br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">____________________________________</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">That is a fabulous undead beastie, Sebastian! I love his sickly green interior and wing membranes. Very cool. I'm delighted that the Challenge prompts some folk to do as yourself and unpack almost-forgotten treasures to submit to the event. That warms my heart! I also really like your 'Returned' library stamp. :)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Due to the shear size of this fella lets equate him to thee 28mm vehicles, so 60 points plus the Oversize bonus.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Until next year Sebastian!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">- Curt</span></div>S Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13458100348487687395noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-90205434601256118842024-03-17T19:03:00.004-06:002024-03-17T19:03:52.224-06:00From GregB - More Afghan Regulars (60 points)<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hNxXJR8SHF0n_PygWiQ-8X0VHlPyHlc-RTG1_yfoUb1-UbuzZ0P8An66rgA8QGOkT30TDE8m3k24RDXXnvW57kQY6fCMCYEUWHIXAp5h_lkemW9I99kiIBMUnLqGSMRg98IjtwcLsBkzoSceH32F-INZiI7gr9E9dmsLX2UBWMhKGwZ4A-KcL5NvXLer/s1984/IMG_6747.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1984" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hNxXJR8SHF0n_PygWiQ-8X0VHlPyHlc-RTG1_yfoUb1-UbuzZ0P8An66rgA8QGOkT30TDE8m3k24RDXXnvW57kQY6fCMCYEUWHIXAp5h_lkemW9I99kiIBMUnLqGSMRg98IjtwcLsBkzoSceH32F-INZiI7gr9E9dmsLX2UBWMhKGwZ4A-KcL5NvXLer/w400-h245/IMG_6747.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Another unit of 28mm Afghan regulars for the late 19th century - metal castings from Perry Miniatures.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />As we get down to the short strokes on the clock, I have one more unit of 28mm Afghan Regulars for my Second Anglo-Afghan War project. These are metal castings from Perry Miniatures, sporting different head coverings from the last group. As with the previous such entry, this group is meant to represent a unit of infantry in the Osprey game "The Men Who Would Be Kings".</span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqmyrAtwU9AR8xnUotvHbeXddlDSjJveQ2TKuKN_49EsLHA3ZdVCsSAVdsg6U8i334oXDzqiziyjji1IRj34Isxx8WodvFvtABQTLFpKW9bRSMI-7Gzzntus2rqJXkbKzkJYtisQaz0EJMb_vBorKvEA1544PP4YSxCNIdpHBaIijJyAro_unSSyLTGR3C/s1580/IMG_6750.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1580" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqmyrAtwU9AR8xnUotvHbeXddlDSjJveQ2TKuKN_49EsLHA3ZdVCsSAVdsg6U8i334oXDzqiziyjji1IRj34Isxx8WodvFvtABQTLFpKW9bRSMI-7Gzzntus2rqJXkbKzkJYtisQaz0EJMb_vBorKvEA1544PP4YSxCNIdpHBaIijJyAro_unSSyLTGR3C/w400-h299/IMG_6750.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Opted for Khaki colours on these lads...<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaEPtWV-WBYN-X82Otc65xL5T-QQ0iApS2_-zheuh94UXCpV9whNXuVN_5GOdHUxXn8yW1cCcg0r3KN6N1yhUZzW9lx6TODdsl_PxHuMyKit01ekGUjJn0JjSlS40lJ6Pmw5Ewll4Wh2geBMf1VCNpIIq3a2c0pv7ae27aJPkulP_k9NuwdhzRGaon6Ef/s1890/IMG_6751.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1336" data-original-width="1890" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRaEPtWV-WBYN-X82Otc65xL5T-QQ0iApS2_-zheuh94UXCpV9whNXuVN_5GOdHUxXn8yW1cCcg0r3KN6N1yhUZzW9lx6TODdsl_PxHuMyKit01ekGUjJn0JjSlS40lJ6Pmw5Ewll4Wh2geBMf1VCNpIIq3a2c0pv7ae27aJPkulP_k9NuwdhzRGaon6Ef/w400-h283/IMG_6751.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Some different head wear to capture the variety to be found among the Afghan forces of the period.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />I opted for more of khaki look for this unit - still a bit of colour on the red facings and straps, but on balance not as bright as the previous unit of regulars. This choice was made in part to create some variety, but I also wanted to practice painting khaki tones so I could come up with a paint "recipe" that I like when the time comes to paint some of the British units.</span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcFjZUNhsuxHixBDTCfeimsQPJFHKlC13NjjqF2E49MKjmzmzt3-EPU-2W009a1vr7lwnK96ib3NnGfqriTUrRujS2cC6LUVcWFTtja6FYaJWSETzwE0t1TWXvGze2o5j3TjY96cTjQLE1j6Q9Tcpqwpm68kDIImxnZe_FJTiwOD3ZKYSFHNg-rbD8XN4/s1602/IMG_6752.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="1602" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcFjZUNhsuxHixBDTCfeimsQPJFHKlC13NjjqF2E49MKjmzmzt3-EPU-2W009a1vr7lwnK96ib3NnGfqriTUrRujS2cC6LUVcWFTtja6FYaJWSETzwE0t1TWXvGze2o5j3TjY96cTjQLE1j6Q9Tcpqwpm68kDIImxnZe_FJTiwOD3ZKYSFHNg-rbD8XN4/w400-h336/IMG_6752.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Officer and musician to rally the troops!<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />So that makes four units for the Afghan side of this project - still not a complete force, but getting close. Not bad for a new project started from scratch!</span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4IoQ7Zukh7j-Bi99Ut5MwAXx1A_nyyNlDbV6y27LovKei1gyZR-bcPNfxFx5VTxWRKpaABAeBBkpC2kEZNwUMqPn_bBQ0JZzm3Ui-ZObaHsXu3rPT4jwMIWlrQordroBPGjiQdPFxMvuP5njJo3Cj2CTbISK8YLkBH-JaB6qVXelfz5CMayHpNqmiWbg/s1788/IMG_6754.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1370" data-original-width="1788" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX4IoQ7Zukh7j-Bi99Ut5MwAXx1A_nyyNlDbV6y27LovKei1gyZR-bcPNfxFx5VTxWRKpaABAeBBkpC2kEZNwUMqPn_bBQ0JZzm3Ui-ZObaHsXu3rPT4jwMIWlrQordroBPGjiQdPFxMvuP5njJo3Cj2CTbISK8YLkBH-JaB6qVXelfz5CMayHpNqmiWbg/w400-h306/IMG_6754.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">A couple of the riflemen.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2q1a6GHV2iXUMVracoUGUqBNDW38APqUfe739IfhhvqYmjiEPJyOJvknCcDJoc7jFKei4Obwl5NAmKF91SvK0W_q_4bj0X1a2Ky3icCAxXMwG_NOIGT6WD882W8EAvweOAhOsUTzYOc9vWqhGV7b17tBuiIK-Tf4dl5ZfMm-iENgLkDVVG-f2MXMKeVY/s2016/IMG_6748.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2q1a6GHV2iXUMVracoUGUqBNDW38APqUfe739IfhhvqYmjiEPJyOJvknCcDJoc7jFKei4Obwl5NAmKF91SvK0W_q_4bj0X1a2Ky3icCAxXMwG_NOIGT6WD882W8EAvweOAhOsUTzYOc9vWqhGV7b17tBuiIK-Tf4dl5ZfMm-iENgLkDVVG-f2MXMKeVY/w400-h300/IMG_6748.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Afghan regulars ready to resist the British!</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />So, for points, we have another 12 different 28mm figures, which should be good for 60 points. Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone in these last few hours of AHPC XIV. Thanks!</span><br /><p></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">____________________________________</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Terrific work on these reinforcements to your Afghan Regulars, Greg! Your khaki recipe for these fellas looks pretty darn solid to me, especially with that vibrant red accent with the cuffs, sash and shoulder boards. Very sharp. I look forward to hearing what you think of the rules once you have enough of these lads (and the Brits) ready for a game. Lovely stuff my friend!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></div>Greg Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05090722688748673409noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-69999401581886797962024-03-17T17:30:00.003-06:002024-03-18T07:46:55.237-06:00From FrederickC - Elements of the British 8th Army in North Africa (471 points)<div><div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The deadline is approaching like an oncoming train, so this last week has been a mad scramble to get my last big project completed before the bell rings. It consists of elements of the British 8th Army in North Africa. Again, I was inspired to delve into that arena by fellow Fawcett Avenue Conscript, DallasE, who had recently painted up some 8th Army and DAK troops. Like my Italians that I painted earlier in this challenge, I wanted to do something a little different, so I went with earlier models of tanks, and infantry units of the 4th Indian Division. The four tanks are by Blitzkrieg Miniatures, while all the rest are from Warlord Games.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have always been interested in the early years of the North African campaign so I acquired two Vickers Mk VI light tanks, one of which is the B version, mounting </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> .303 and .50 Vickers machine guns, while the other is the C model with co-axial 15 mm (0.59 in) and 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Besa machine guns. Of course, you have to have an Infantry Tank Mark II, better known as the Matilda. Finally I have a Valentine tank that I got in a trade with DaveV, another member of the Fawcett Avenue Conscripts. The Matilda and Valentine tanks were resin castings, while the two Vickers light tanks were 3D prints. Both methods have their pros and cons. The details are much crisper on the 3D prints, but a lot of cleanup of supports was needed around the road wheels. Keeping with the early war theme, I painted all of them using the Caunter Camouflage pattern, although that introduced a slight historical anachronism. The Caunter scheme was phased out in October 1941, but the Valentines didn't become operational in North Africa until December of that year. The method and colours used closely followed those outlined in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zvrs4_UCsA" target="_blank">video</a> by Sonic Sledgehammer.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLYeF4uX-NtfaRGXCK5jLlwO_ELMEIuW5jFXULRcacp2L6RH0EavkMBm6x1cfInyENlo13mBheTl7LvRW5BxTRgl6wSPyq9GKBp4qqDWT_zWyGVeImdmBNXQkjsq_JjU4sRQVvNgR0VHpkI5mSdYhsmFwF6xesifTULus0Ysiy3phoHY5tBgv9mXCO1o/s1200/IMG_3137.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLYeF4uX-NtfaRGXCK5jLlwO_ELMEIuW5jFXULRcacp2L6RH0EavkMBm6x1cfInyENlo13mBheTl7LvRW5BxTRgl6wSPyq9GKBp4qqDWT_zWyGVeImdmBNXQkjsq_JjU4sRQVvNgR0VHpkI5mSdYhsmFwF6xesifTULus0Ysiy3phoHY5tBgv9mXCO1o/w400-h225/IMG_3137.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">British armour in the desert</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPtp_2EnjN_WNbFIN-Vh6fCuyJzpRn-VexihgpSooGGqJtB4CcPZH69iq_FOeq0vWm5g9FzS6qznv9DhmyLrQVFzHaiYUb7kgSeHbaCNEBAh9SJkEFQbqgKHREY086KaiOS24H4hBjwO9N0dsQvoliQgKnDOQ5T1NZX5hFb45xKwVg3gC7x2Zu_LWQSM/s1200/IMG_3138.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1200" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPtp_2EnjN_WNbFIN-Vh6fCuyJzpRn-VexihgpSooGGqJtB4CcPZH69iq_FOeq0vWm5g9FzS6qznv9DhmyLrQVFzHaiYUb7kgSeHbaCNEBAh9SJkEFQbqgKHREY086KaiOS24H4hBjwO9N0dsQvoliQgKnDOQ5T1NZX5hFb45xKwVg3gC7x2Zu_LWQSM/w400-h226/IMG_3138.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Valentine and Matilda (front)<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6R4lzYAjiGbQxTbtbdwqvSDYHIKDwn-lfr22xbOkLwA-ORLgOz3J8xcWEq1_aEMDeSojNlk6Pm2fnPFgWYGehzcVtPp3Sd0jVxAaGytDmVEOR8FYkJNN7oHUXEoHZ7ou229xry39hOOR-MYHrTjxuxmqZ3-fXWPCnTpHF63wP4rlIbFnZdiw7qwB2Tsk/s1200/IMG_3139.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6R4lzYAjiGbQxTbtbdwqvSDYHIKDwn-lfr22xbOkLwA-ORLgOz3J8xcWEq1_aEMDeSojNlk6Pm2fnPFgWYGehzcVtPp3Sd0jVxAaGytDmVEOR8FYkJNN7oHUXEoHZ7ou229xry39hOOR-MYHrTjxuxmqZ3-fXWPCnTpHF63wP4rlIbFnZdiw7qwB2Tsk/w400-h225/IMG_3139.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Valentine and Matilda (back)<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sGNdDfdkHCRI50KrBjkHCkJRttaIDg3pTrV9vITMDwtVCmKJ4EgiNJBP-T_6ggmbQKD9yZYLwrFf1BRbYKzSqpNMOclrCi9ZYLAihdeFODrmrhAL0jlbCO06JBnx75AJnh4oxVEoRPftSlaUGDWKfBiCuhrbfMjEdzS5bkMkPIzF-1inKBy4LqlQ8Y8/s1200/IMG_3140.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1200" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1sGNdDfdkHCRI50KrBjkHCkJRttaIDg3pTrV9vITMDwtVCmKJ4EgiNJBP-T_6ggmbQKD9yZYLwrFf1BRbYKzSqpNMOclrCi9ZYLAihdeFODrmrhAL0jlbCO06JBnx75AJnh4oxVEoRPftSlaUGDWKfBiCuhrbfMjEdzS5bkMkPIzF-1inKBy4LqlQ8Y8/w400-h226/IMG_3140.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Vickers Light Tanks Mk VIC and Mk VIB (front)</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWljNoNhB2yz-ej8Qg66OHX4Cp0cX_UP7CQZZykUneOjRMWjYlbkyJ8hZ_E5sJYRYeSx5tdsuQ7ZX6otjSaJYk3OlUqb0qmuPkuWfso1sGQDDPBAI76-7KpFVFa0bBbl7KMYaBvGVYxGTlinJH48TThHJR_yVRuIO447QNtCZUwiPNOcK_4QRnWMLe1E/s1200/IMG_3141.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWljNoNhB2yz-ej8Qg66OHX4Cp0cX_UP7CQZZykUneOjRMWjYlbkyJ8hZ_E5sJYRYeSx5tdsuQ7ZX6otjSaJYk3OlUqb0qmuPkuWfso1sGQDDPBAI76-7KpFVFa0bBbl7KMYaBvGVYxGTlinJH48TThHJR_yVRuIO447QNtCZUwiPNOcK_4QRnWMLe1E/w400-h225/IMG_3141.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Vickers Light Tanks Mk VIC and Mk VIB (back)<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next up is the 8th Army Carrier Patrol from Warlord Games, to which I added a third Universal Carrier that I had in one of my storage boxes. The Carrier Patrol box comes with four metal figures wearing shorts to ride in the back, and some heads with helmets without the later war scrim, and two 8th Army infantry sprues to make 12 figures on foot. I decided to assemble them as members of the 4th Battalion, 16th Punjab Regiment of the 7th Indian Infantry Brigade, and swapped out a few heads for the carrier crew to give them Punjabi turbans. The carriers were painted in the same manner as the tanks, while I used another Sonic Sledgehammer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR30FH81pGg" target="_blank">video</a> for the infantry, with a few minor modifications. All the figures were primed with Vallejo Desert Yellow, and I used the Cork Brown option suggested for the skin colour. I also used Army Painter Strong Tone Quickshade instead of the special mixture shown in the video.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYoKTkCj1Pd1mEelHIieyqcgk6UgnLqAVK99IJRJV0FnrKoSPQRL1k6zfBfkPxv1GHVEm9eHbDZMsvNBY_mry1zCmO-ykwQ-G8eyD3cV4OeRdj1tvIUvxYvt2PAMi1dh1ooHKgwW0KgHc-PuLRgBSvy1RItvCHk1l6alzR8dhStt3NkRlK1EwO79bG2Pk/s1200/IMG_3142.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYoKTkCj1Pd1mEelHIieyqcgk6UgnLqAVK99IJRJV0FnrKoSPQRL1k6zfBfkPxv1GHVEm9eHbDZMsvNBY_mry1zCmO-ykwQ-G8eyD3cV4OeRdj1tvIUvxYvt2PAMi1dh1ooHKgwW0KgHc-PuLRgBSvy1RItvCHk1l6alzR8dhStt3NkRlK1EwO79bG2Pk/w400-h225/IMG_3142.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carrier patrol of the 4th Bn 16th Punjab Regiment<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTL-5L1gGGjY9z0raC7S_3uFAzYGlEuB1FvwkFZTgo_FpcrClbrSqKS9DGQC3xcdiBTUmDCBJ3j98dU6Z0tBB7-bOQCO15pgPTvz5e3SBc1pPART0TPkZXx6Opg6qCKMy0oExdNe1FvuyBW9t6bRRGqXzsNmUxdtOQPoC84QdZi3elUUVWRjf7J3T4-R0/s1200/IMG_3143.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTL-5L1gGGjY9z0raC7S_3uFAzYGlEuB1FvwkFZTgo_FpcrClbrSqKS9DGQC3xcdiBTUmDCBJ3j98dU6Z0tBB7-bOQCO15pgPTvz5e3SBc1pPART0TPkZXx6Opg6qCKMy0oExdNe1FvuyBW9t6bRRGqXzsNmUxdtOQPoC84QdZi3elUUVWRjf7J3T4-R0/w400-h225/IMG_3143.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3 Universal carriers in Caunter scheme camo (back)</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpcgqx2lNQvY0N_-pnZQHYCoQfa6j9Zxeavw9jOfkL_5prVpt4YjF96FBv-5Nj2zhhX1ZOxKMcEv9G7BPdIN2NgisOgCL38EeheTpwSN0UI13VVeeb04eIb_M6y5NdhGFSEYEdy_B8fmGN7ZbjV2iItPPV1tnHoRGT0Z3aLa6DjnxKIRhm66vdJpQBvA/s1200/IMG_3144.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpcgqx2lNQvY0N_-pnZQHYCoQfa6j9Zxeavw9jOfkL_5prVpt4YjF96FBv-5Nj2zhhX1ZOxKMcEv9G7BPdIN2NgisOgCL38EeheTpwSN0UI13VVeeb04eIb_M6y5NdhGFSEYEdy_B8fmGN7ZbjV2iItPPV1tnHoRGT0Z3aLa6DjnxKIRhm66vdJpQBvA/w400-h225/IMG_3144.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3 Univeral carriers in Caunter scheme camo (front)<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a similar fashion to my Italian force, I bought a Warlord Games 8th Army Support Group boxed set consisting a Headquarters, a Vickers medium machine gun team, and a 3" medium mortar team. The Headquarters group has some nice sculpts depicting a senior officer smoking his pipe and having a cuppa, a medic with a stretcher, a company havildar-major (sergeant-major) carrying a Thompson with a drum magazine, and a radioman feeding a monkey some bisquit. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QM32cDm8M0EiCUiSv8TEBRyqkEa1AkcF5nLIdw9GAIvZq8CMZQYFKrIH5vRFHI87j21A51QApnTZUeDrp1oTeQLEqySWPlOEBiReF1C9M3tEuZWfaN4tNTjwNCoaCuVfXGpIbVoApz31mRlRgjsHk4lql5Qsx_jVwiRne0a7YvJTMeR430M5vG-9Vjo/s1200/IMG_3145.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QM32cDm8M0EiCUiSv8TEBRyqkEa1AkcF5nLIdw9GAIvZq8CMZQYFKrIH5vRFHI87j21A51QApnTZUeDrp1oTeQLEqySWPlOEBiReF1C9M3tEuZWfaN4tNTjwNCoaCuVfXGpIbVoApz31mRlRgjsHk4lql5Qsx_jVwiRne0a7YvJTMeR430M5vG-9Vjo/w400-h225/IMG_3145.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">8th Army Support Group<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next is the mainstay of my infantry, a 36-man platoon of the 2nd (Royal) Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment of the 7th Indian Infantry Brigade. It consists of a headquarters with a British officer with Enfield revolver and whistle, a havildar (sergeant) with a Thompson, a Boyes anti-tank rifle team, and a 2" mortar team, and three 10-man sections each with a Thompson-armed naik (corporal), a Bren gun team, and seven sepoys armed with SMLE No. 1 Mk III* rifles. The miniatures are from the Warlords Brtish 8th Army infantry box, to which I added an additional sprue of 6 figures. I have a love-hate relationship with multi-part figures. I like the ability to customize the miniatures, but I find assembly is sometimes frustrating due to the fiddly small parts (not helped by have a finger in a splint), and not all arms fit well on all torsos. I also found that the arm options were a bit lacking, and a few figures were assembled after cutting off whatever the soldier was carrying in that hand to just leave a closed fist. I opted to make rectangular bases out of plastic card for all the prone weapons teams, rather than mount the figures individually. They were painted using the same method as the Punjabis.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEOKFKbXyhNP0Kuu2QfEQ_dFOrquYOCBd4UhcLPYuZNJUOSbpg7DTlJJx4gptTokC0LwuWUaGJNukZ-KKEJ57KpBgcLeh5-b1VUhiGde0RlSEQhek4rQbcuVed0BN4_3OIS3HgpIRIwYrzw79a_qUOIss58Q91086OlR86s6zOOzlFjW4fitHZswTsp38/s1200/IMG_3147.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEOKFKbXyhNP0Kuu2QfEQ_dFOrquYOCBd4UhcLPYuZNJUOSbpg7DTlJJx4gptTokC0LwuWUaGJNukZ-KKEJ57KpBgcLeh5-b1VUhiGde0RlSEQhek4rQbcuVed0BN4_3OIS3HgpIRIwYrzw79a_qUOIss58Q91086OlR86s6zOOzlFjW4fitHZswTsp38/w400-h225/IMG_3147.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Platoon of the 2nd Bn 11th Sikh Regiment<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqb7e0YjyAA3CKmqf9nmYsVzEM34Q9PeItAiQSRevjEM5l92SjFyVkpaoiv7lhc_rIpCgt4-6-Q1suYZV6ZdMuEOjlziPNb5nSGPjorBuEspMsFJMxPue6Q6r_7_2yblz4KU5GnfaujgFdzL98lPPJIj49UEggBmuXqjnT96MO-WQEVBLskJJlHfKQrsU/s1200/IMG_3146.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1200" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqb7e0YjyAA3CKmqf9nmYsVzEM34Q9PeItAiQSRevjEM5l92SjFyVkpaoiv7lhc_rIpCgt4-6-Q1suYZV6ZdMuEOjlziPNb5nSGPjorBuEspMsFJMxPue6Q6r_7_2yblz4KU5GnfaujgFdzL98lPPJIj49UEggBmuXqjnT96MO-WQEVBLskJJlHfKQrsU/w400-h226/IMG_3146.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Boyes A/T rifle, officer, havildar, 2" mortar</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBqB5ff7JlrvcdRV_knfMUv3sz6gJdFd97v6-PYoH_GV7SUBbIkq7vMKtj7It7BFTLJef7noskHoKTk5Jtv_-pAYhqt6P9Ok6d7K6z6StJJ8WueylfOnOFEYvvS7ot-_Lapi733BZ3d6C4SJmn7fyFMvd5fJAfKZpPq_qgVQSjwoxIaBugqF8ywyNxpo/s1200/IMG_3148.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBqB5ff7JlrvcdRV_knfMUv3sz6gJdFd97v6-PYoH_GV7SUBbIkq7vMKtj7It7BFTLJef7noskHoKTk5Jtv_-pAYhqt6P9Ok6d7K6z6StJJ8WueylfOnOFEYvvS7ot-_Lapi733BZ3d6C4SJmn7fyFMvd5fJAfKZpPq_qgVQSjwoxIaBugqF8ywyNxpo/w400-h225/IMG_3148.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No. 1 Section</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTeE6b2jkCJkBT-xy8MXM2HkE_Q9kXqFR47I33agd5-gbiqv2maKcuBQC6hs5ktWVHKd2he4gqJhL8q__dQVZVxtXXKkNwURFo5MRF4gSftQXTIfMJuYYx7Ey76FG4oI4L9RTZmz2P8ir75WvVQM6qjMticJ0y1BxspRqnu7APKFDRoI_cr2Dn7GVK0U/s1200/IMG_3149.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1200" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgTeE6b2jkCJkBT-xy8MXM2HkE_Q9kXqFR47I33agd5-gbiqv2maKcuBQC6hs5ktWVHKd2he4gqJhL8q__dQVZVxtXXKkNwURFo5MRF4gSftQXTIfMJuYYx7Ey76FG4oI4L9RTZmz2P8ir75WvVQM6qjMticJ0y1BxspRqnu7APKFDRoI_cr2Dn7GVK0U/w400-h226/IMG_3149.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No. 2 Section<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6jdOQuqyla4kxJcV77hMEy-IKZZVdQZQUK7dYe6J6ycdfmQ3cPAB2hJUTJErxPIL1hn1rQYlPHew2q1Q9pnlWZYGkIGmOsBFK2618hpJoANLm7BLuz5EZRjMdMjKYAjEw7_9FcyNiyp2_qyJgjQyo4yk72t046O9i3YtjqsxsOEviPTfTx03MybDlzc/s1200/IMG_3150.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1200" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt6jdOQuqyla4kxJcV77hMEy-IKZZVdQZQUK7dYe6J6ycdfmQ3cPAB2hJUTJErxPIL1hn1rQYlPHew2q1Q9pnlWZYGkIGmOsBFK2618hpJoANLm7BLuz5EZRjMdMjKYAjEw7_9FcyNiyp2_qyJgjQyo4yk72t046O9i3YtjqsxsOEviPTfTx03MybDlzc/w400-h226/IMG_3150.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No. 3 Section</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As a final bit, I have a few pieces of terrain that got painted up during periods of contemplation that occurred during the challenge - a set of light smoke/heavy smoke/flame markers, and three scaling ladders made from a plastic piece to which a set of Christmas lights were clipped. It was heavily trimmed to remove all the slots for the lights, primed with dark brown, and then dry brushed with lighter shades of brown. My Uruk-hai with make good used of these when assaulting Helm's Deep.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3FukKPymUuks9GvfDjd06C3HSF4vO8ZzKSs8ig7xkBw3Ishu1PN3zB1zqQ-W-suwwKMgHNsFp1CknbzHJ0CpZsVP_yGDRI_7jWxiky2XrNiUNG3tm_AuhBu69Z2qZn8Bk_4LdTjg7XNZf1XvrqcsYq3AlYLzVAhKW0CAZ5G5bZVqjC5Ri44uJBsbUzs/s1200/IMG_3151.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3FukKPymUuks9GvfDjd06C3HSF4vO8ZzKSs8ig7xkBw3Ishu1PN3zB1zqQ-W-suwwKMgHNsFp1CknbzHJ0CpZsVP_yGDRI_7jWxiky2XrNiUNG3tm_AuhBu69Z2qZn8Bk_4LdTjg7XNZf1XvrqcsYq3AlYLzVAhKW0CAZ5G5bZVqjC5Ri44uJBsbUzs/w400-h225/IMG_3151.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A point's worth of miscellaneous terrain(?)<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The points being claimed are as follows</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">64 x 28mm foot figures @ 5 points each = 320 points</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1 x 28mm artillery @ 10 points each = 10 points</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">7 x 28mm vehicles @ 20 points each = 140 points</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.05 x cubes of terrain @ 20 points = 1 point</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thus concludes my third year of participation in the AHPC.. We will see you all at the afterparty.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9cf6rFsXISUr96mTf0KyLvMfapIfUEPr1OKsq7dPTbgJ7lM-HZ8iS-k31j5dT4DF3Ou1jciix0vQIb_o4ZmBiUuyytdBPu-SwtYcZMQHg1IxuCazaLeYTIwg7DXdWD0q3j9nUBH5svEeSDh0j22Nq5BEbeZe2G-I6H2IsmtMbq_mPxVQfYBKsl6nhPQY/s1200/Dusty%20in%20the%20Desert.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9cf6rFsXISUr96mTf0KyLvMfapIfUEPr1OKsq7dPTbgJ7lM-HZ8iS-k31j5dT4DF3Ou1jciix0vQIb_o4ZmBiUuyytdBPu-SwtYcZMQHg1IxuCazaLeYTIwg7DXdWD0q3j9nUBH5svEeSDh0j22Nq5BEbeZe2G-I6H2IsmtMbq_mPxVQfYBKsl6nhPQY/w400-h225/Dusty%20in%20the%20Desert.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Chocks away!"<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>***</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Congratulations Frederick on another tremendous Painting Challenge. While I may have moved away, I will always consider myself a "Fawcett Avenue Conscript", and as a member of that extended gaming clan I am confident to say I know all of us are glad to see you running up spectacular points totals on some great projects. Need to keep the Conscripts up at the top of the scoring table! These figures you have shared here will all provide fantastic service on the gaming tables in Winnipeg (I mean, after they get their "newly painted figures" game out of the way). They will particularly be welcome in the middle of a prairie winter, which I find is always an even better time to stage some Western Desert WW2 games. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Seeing Caunter camouflage appear is always a treat too, and I think you have achieved some excellent results here. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>A fine "points bomb" to conclude your participation in AHPC XIV. Well done!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>GregB<span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <br /></span></div>FrederickChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06105186844570428983noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-85768717626154150382024-03-17T16:34:00.001-06:002024-03-17T16:34:17.333-06:00From ArthurS: The Final Post (5 points)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Hello Everyone,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While I really like painting, there's loads of other things I also like and therefore when I reach my points target I am usually content to leave it at that. But this year I managed to find a figure I really liked a lot. This is a Turtle Spellcaster that I intend to use for DnD. His name is Serus Fernblood. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4rZxzzPCYSm4NJeUc3jP_UpndX1_rehmXwnJhVz65biYWdigjyGq1X_ndbtTf5vfI_iG9xpI75cu-ZeJj0Mokyx3cM8OM2mUYETHSGG_AP9HpLMO48cTaOABOPm6Lsor3A4_uF9SYquWpAh7vQR_FcbYTNNvkiWV_H4G5pg5PsA14nouCQ_rOBiXANE/s997/PXL_20240317_142538804.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="997" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4rZxzzPCYSm4NJeUc3jP_UpndX1_rehmXwnJhVz65biYWdigjyGq1X_ndbtTf5vfI_iG9xpI75cu-ZeJj0Mokyx3cM8OM2mUYETHSGG_AP9HpLMO48cTaOABOPm6Lsor3A4_uF9SYquWpAh7vQR_FcbYTNNvkiWV_H4G5pg5PsA14nouCQ_rOBiXANE/s320/PXL_20240317_142538804.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhywcLxO8pwFPmpJPqlknjb_uBEB2CTn5FqQyyZ05UDPONojRORiN8EYXd_cHo8llLzvN9LLZATYJH4pIEyspLfj1Ye-mqS85cqh0LGJT5b2gfGZB0lqZIw-C-oUf-3IO5qeWd_lLEMhUxUrd7-bQD5ZJYa85yIAvK3e9B-0fvuo5feBWkYBJL-mwYYwfI/s962/PXL_20240317_142602416.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="962" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhywcLxO8pwFPmpJPqlknjb_uBEB2CTn5FqQyyZ05UDPONojRORiN8EYXd_cHo8llLzvN9LLZATYJH4pIEyspLfj1Ye-mqS85cqh0LGJT5b2gfGZB0lqZIw-C-oUf-3IO5qeWd_lLEMhUxUrd7-bQD5ZJYa85yIAvK3e9B-0fvuo5feBWkYBJL-mwYYwfI/s320/PXL_20240317_142602416.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZSSaRoYcAVMA9umWLnMFjTBmkqG0op3Hg0wFHctH_y4vWItt9W7MUCTYT_8AWNcKlVr3on0SnsAZApvFbSoBTwskFRV0_3HJW-8ffDQB46-sswRf46_XramS4R4_uso1SpuRvYPLai5GusoZ7-3eMGmS40gKra782ZbhUCLPr3fSP7QT9ttrm0z_m_k/s992/PXL_20240317_142612286.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="992" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZSSaRoYcAVMA9umWLnMFjTBmkqG0op3Hg0wFHctH_y4vWItt9W7MUCTYT_8AWNcKlVr3on0SnsAZApvFbSoBTwskFRV0_3HJW-8ffDQB46-sswRf46_XramS4R4_uso1SpuRvYPLai5GusoZ7-3eMGmS40gKra782ZbhUCLPr3fSP7QT9ttrm0z_m_k/s320/PXL_20240317_142612286.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_BtqZ6jlwFNhIynLTT1hfvPOYKWRG4-H4rlrVZLK85OeSnHFH4IJqsaeU9Mfzp54mMhxiArRFuO0wP58jlXm5fXbE9t3E5UxHv61uZREgMaUK3VJTunZQtG8BGI5KFLmlpPZleDdZaPuc48_LS5EdsjKZR0Nr54MtHYsql1eN9INZQccccAd_bVpOFYw/s1046/PXL_20240317_142620329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="995" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_BtqZ6jlwFNhIynLTT1hfvPOYKWRG4-H4rlrVZLK85OeSnHFH4IJqsaeU9Mfzp54mMhxiArRFuO0wP58jlXm5fXbE9t3E5UxHv61uZREgMaUK3VJTunZQtG8BGI5KFLmlpPZleDdZaPuc48_LS5EdsjKZR0Nr54MtHYsql1eN9INZQccccAd_bVpOFYw/s320/PXL_20240317_142620329.jpg" width="304" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The producer of this lovely miniature is <a href="https://gooseminis.com/" target="_blank">Goose Miniatures</a>, I bought him as my first online purchase with my own pocketmoney, but didn't notice it is a company located in the lands of the Snowlord. Since delivery from the Frozen Chaos Wastes takes forever, he almost didn't arrive before the Challenge ended. Luckily he came in time and I have painted him up. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCsEvWlyjSn9I8F4Is-9HESMsT_nvPRtElSSF-9yrWMg3rWDpSQOL5CjqrqpBjbzVHEZQuJ4oxtSD8kFBdpvXutXs5cxg9GcPwUq-zPLJYwTtutNFCMWdtKYf3n-mef891_iXeaUOsHQ7hU8CxDwy_Td88ql4pApRTvEx-Do0qh8LW4imQ0Pgtbaq1q4A/s971/PXL_20240317_142631696.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="971" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCsEvWlyjSn9I8F4Is-9HESMsT_nvPRtElSSF-9yrWMg3rWDpSQOL5CjqrqpBjbzVHEZQuJ4oxtSD8kFBdpvXutXs5cxg9GcPwUq-zPLJYwTtutNFCMWdtKYf3n-mef891_iXeaUOsHQ7hU8CxDwy_Td88ql4pApRTvEx-Do0qh8LW4imQ0Pgtbaq1q4A/s320/PXL_20240317_142631696.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As he is a single 28mm figure he adds another 5 points to the total in the list for me. We tried to get a Blogger account for me so I could reply to all your excellent posts, but I am apparantly too young. We will try again next year, even if we have to cheat a little. </span></p><p>_____________________________________</p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wonderful work Arthur!</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Yes, the postal 'service' in the Lands of the Chaos Wastes can be a bit of a Challenge at the best of times (but we make up for it with excellent curling bonspiels and poutine... Sorry, that's the best I can come up with... *shrugs*). Nonetheless, I'm delighted that Serus arrived in time for you to get him painted before the curtains closed on this year's event. He's a great mini! I especially like the flames in his hands and his glowing blue eyes. I hope he gives you good service in your upcoming D&D games!</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for joining us again Arthur! I very much look forward to seeing what you have for us next Challenge. Take care and have a great Spring!</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">- Curt</span></i></p>Sanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115340279941888622noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-44273696071066765922024-03-17T16:24:00.002-06:002024-03-17T16:24:19.467-06:00From SanderS: The Last Post (25 points) <p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hoi,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well that didn't go as planned at all! I had this really cool post in mind to introduce the main two characters of my Bretonnian project to you all, but in the end I just about managed to finish the characters and a few terrain bits. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you have been following my Bretonnian progress you will know that the eventual leader of my force will be Louis Baron de Montelor. The foot knight presented here is my Mordheim version of said leader. Why a Mordheim version I hear you ask? Well in the old Bretonnian army books there's this little piece of background story that says that most girls that show magical abilities, are taken away by servants of the Lady to be trained as damsels. A small portion disappear and an even smaller portion aren't claimed by the Lady but sent off to the Empire to learn at the Colleges of magic there. I imagine Madeleine, Louis' sister, to be one of the girls sent off to the Empire and somehow finding herself in Mordheim, with Louis tasked with the quest of retrieving her. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiwMhGLg10SCLm3gSQXkT4Jz2Ko-aC25TKtjXXiVSkkQuGsMB8bfGG4SGS8An9vNGzywoe0iFOswePSPvTVMdUMpBK0rW9paswz6sO5M0h6o7HG0ZgDgPdjhVnOAz-uNa_6YxBTUW66KeKncUllcRX-863vchln6T10RNgvj8qoPil06R1AYBnovEHoQ/s982/PXL_20240317_081442659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="982" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiwMhGLg10SCLm3gSQXkT4Jz2Ko-aC25TKtjXXiVSkkQuGsMB8bfGG4SGS8An9vNGzywoe0iFOswePSPvTVMdUMpBK0rW9paswz6sO5M0h6o7HG0ZgDgPdjhVnOAz-uNa_6YxBTUW66KeKncUllcRX-863vchln6T10RNgvj8qoPil06R1AYBnovEHoQ/w444-h273/PXL_20240317_081442659.jpg" width="444" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here they are supposed to be a the tourney of the Duke of Brionne where Madeleine will meet an empire wizard that will invite her to the Empire, while Louis "dukes it out" (pun intended) on the field. 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That will make a grand total of 20 points. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All that remains to do now is put together the traditional "End of Challenge Post" Curt will be asking of us soon I suppose.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thanks for tolerating me once again this year and I do hope to see you all next year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cheers Sander</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">___________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>You are more than tolerable, Sander. Well, just barely. :P</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonderful work on these two classic Mordheim miniatures. They look to be perfect characters for your Bretonnian collection. I really like how you crisply pulled out all the assorted detail on the knight, and his sister's hair is quite lustrous and fetching. This all being said, I think the star of the post is the brilliant jousting pavilion and stands. They look absolutely spot-on for watching a good tilt or two. Great work on adding that punch of colour with the heraldry on the pennants and shields. I think this set is worth another 5 bonus points. Bravo!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Thank you for joining us once again for this silly winter diversion. I hope you have a great spring and summer, keeping in mind to return to the Challenge when the weather turns cold. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Sanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115340279941888622noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-34854119043295206292024-03-17T16:10:00.004-06:002024-03-17T16:10:48.479-06:00From DennisC 28mm Napoleonic Cavalry and civilians 100pts<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Winding down and I got sidetracked with a few things so not able to reach my goal of 750 points.. however the 'sidetrack' meant painting up some Wolf Brigade Cavalry for my French, famously in Sharpe's battle with all the wolf pelts, plus I have a Ducos (Sharpe's again, will be my Exploring Officer) and 2 civilians for the game Sharpe Practice, for a total of 100 points</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZV7aivv7qCLLpJUVI0y_fApU9caDfOitXXkTLNBowNZgF6TFvtgrVxe8BOrIqONWz9NkkDui6sy56WY5sG2HuFPpX1KTYjyd6_SVeXn1EDcGNC_HC-S0S6kQr9GYcAxehJEPVPYS4-V1g-eUTH-KWM_9S5Cso_fhtk1EckKkJrMbvxFhyphenhyphenfeo4k2OBuBn-/s612/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20075651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="875" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKtV_fPJ-2rrmdr2A53Sw-xxsI4eHDctCpAfy7Ia8umOYdNiyL8SSXtWenByIpQKljF0f6IW3aItiYLqRZhJlEAOpmkv2bH1h5vfujuM1hCk8n0M7COD8BdASIrwthyphenhyphengr8ecC-k-jn286wHEbolN_R9tL16bAEcc5YLjOi9XzQBm41YYGMe1nP52OCmpn/w400-h289/Screenshot%202024-03-17%20073851.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Clergy and random female civilian, for Sharpe's Practice</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_____________________________________________</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonderful work on these enemies of Sharpe, Dennis! I really like how you kitbashed the Wolf Brigade from the two Perry plastic cavalry boxes - the final result look terrific (the lack of lunchtime walks paid off, I think). Also excellent work on the spymaster himself. These will make very worthy opponents for future Sharpe Practice scenarios. Well done!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Matt Varnishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581316485323711294noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-90872953497448532272024-03-17T14:25:00.000-06:002024-03-17T14:25:22.421-06:00From MartinC: The Last of the Russians (168 points)<p> For my last post it seems appropriate to coincide the last of my Napoleonic Russians with the "free and fair" elections in Russia. I've been working on this project for about a year and now have a sizable force of a division and half of infantry and a division of cavalry and a Russian amount of artillery.</p><p>The last unit is the Kiev Grenadier regiment, this post seems laden with irony.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8NCAjDOKyPgLKU1224t8IhcGroBvPtgWCSDJrgGBQ1TQ-4dban1NgR9xflpTARY8ZTsM3hsuwGVPRjr65KCRpQ0q1Yabl7RZG6SowbyKpU1MUuWPOO5nRMBlxyqY5lWfvjQKvdjaWtpJkg0NdtioJntwNsZwSKTc2CGEwJir5w2x_o0C1vmByThE7Ms2h/s800/i1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8NCAjDOKyPgLKU1224t8IhcGroBvPtgWCSDJrgGBQ1TQ-4dban1NgR9xflpTARY8ZTsM3hsuwGVPRjr65KCRpQ0q1Yabl7RZG6SowbyKpU1MUuWPOO5nRMBlxyqY5lWfvjQKvdjaWtpJkg0NdtioJntwNsZwSKTc2CGEwJir5w2x_o0C1vmByThE7Ms2h/w400-h300/i1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Once again these are Perry plastics with a mix of Perry and tweaked Warlord heads</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsoNTr1y7aFMhRwqUEuWyan4qkNa8E36bCngPTRKWBmeoCy9LpVW4wwdqs8K9XwwvsZ7ixnGM5fFFN0Obh7s-lvxXI2KwY8bg0rztVt47zqm_OyWHkoQwmIrdMnhw2-TXwLTCGYdFDWC4Cx1DkEt9rZnfQFqZaKZLTNoX3oHvtlKY6fXeN0FhmhPORrxJ/s466/i2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpsoNTr1y7aFMhRwqUEuWyan4qkNa8E36bCngPTRKWBmeoCy9LpVW4wwdqs8K9XwwvsZ7ixnGM5fFFN0Obh7s-lvxXI2KwY8bg0rztVt47zqm_OyWHkoQwmIrdMnhw2-TXwLTCGYdFDWC4Cx1DkEt9rZnfQFqZaKZLTNoX3oHvtlKY6fXeN0FhmhPORrxJ/w385-h400/i2.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I needed a couple more brigade commanders. this one I think is elite miniatures and from the estate of Scotty</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWYjGnbZfwhQ0PcGgMf3eFLFtDalhDy5cwf_F1rUUq0gt6KuXqqC23hbgANBQ6dZnj-AAx0Bqnswqvrx-dJPzDf7vxsl5y6znfTgxHKpnJc12yV9XAQKrMhxoEVsALrKK0atB7Lzc3iRlJOtfL-2QTCIUNxYKRV-84NYMmYAj6rybR2FlFS5-c1tXnXFCv/s472/i3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="434" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWYjGnbZfwhQ0PcGgMf3eFLFtDalhDy5cwf_F1rUUq0gt6KuXqqC23hbgANBQ6dZnj-AAx0Bqnswqvrx-dJPzDf7vxsl5y6znfTgxHKpnJc12yV9XAQKrMhxoEVsALrKK0atB7Lzc3iRlJOtfL-2QTCIUNxYKRV-84NYMmYAj6rybR2FlFS5-c1tXnXFCv/w368-h400/i3.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKg6BG1bbgv-NnV-gaaIxT-IOr829U0uyedX61ZQMq-_MZo6bhyTpGrErgl40wjRG2cWSJrvGApnTXO0zxiU9jfT1CRrPhy5qa57wdy472bgbUm117KChhtMr0OM_jvC5OfhQqLR2TXtv2ojyBSehDXglQ172XP45OYGQWQtxJclOcF0_uaWYeDw_ojSc/s439/i4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="439" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKg6BG1bbgv-NnV-gaaIxT-IOr829U0uyedX61ZQMq-_MZo6bhyTpGrErgl40wjRG2cWSJrvGApnTXO0zxiU9jfT1CRrPhy5qa57wdy472bgbUm117KChhtMr0OM_jvC5OfhQqLR2TXtv2ojyBSehDXglQ172XP45OYGQWQtxJclOcF0_uaWYeDw_ojSc/w400-h371/i4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The last command stand is from the Perry High command pack, a present form Dave (or Matt). THe map is drawn on, but you can't see it</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYCW3B83t4KT7b9vA2jDKTOnEoSvm3uljIq5-1vEIEomLFviPvwHXYbP6oNPeKFI9sy1zjUtfO_i3_ym2MDNSlcPOkucZuHviGK8WmfdxGw1QhwbzWhyEUJUpvh0o90r0uwnlFx2Dv-Rwn1a5YhMbB-LBGAwTeNWfu8YR6-CAKpe9Ql5Dw_O6xXlHcHl6G/s572/i5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="572" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYCW3B83t4KT7b9vA2jDKTOnEoSvm3uljIq5-1vEIEomLFviPvwHXYbP6oNPeKFI9sy1zjUtfO_i3_ym2MDNSlcPOkucZuHviGK8WmfdxGw1QhwbzWhyEUJUpvh0o90r0uwnlFx2Dv-Rwn1a5YhMbB-LBGAwTeNWfu8YR6-CAKpe9Ql5Dw_O6xXlHcHl6G/w400-h326/i5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a nice duo, and I added the dog, cos I had one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thus ends the Russians, for now. I had planned to paint a load of Bavarians to figth them but never got round to it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmyyu5XfafoJG4Cn702pE2MTaRJ9wtFSza0jFt8veKDCK5EXT4bDUzDGOjyLOQS1EMXqz8UHIga1bhfU1qv8kVjPNXHXXdFHsztKkrb7T_lx5ZgKx6Sq59QHAJs4n0MeiQ6JDy5x1h2CjrvwB9anLXEpbzUXaNTCdznPD4tVJk8Xaofm2qGVhlHy8keK-k/s531/i6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="531" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmyyu5XfafoJG4Cn702pE2MTaRJ9wtFSza0jFt8veKDCK5EXT4bDUzDGOjyLOQS1EMXqz8UHIga1bhfU1qv8kVjPNXHXXdFHsztKkrb7T_lx5ZgKx6Sq59QHAJs4n0MeiQ6JDy5x1h2CjrvwB9anLXEpbzUXaNTCdznPD4tVJk8Xaofm2qGVhlHy8keK-k/w400-h280/i6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next up a couple of Hasslefree Sci Fi types, to add to my growing collection</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKseYf83i28cMr9D3Q5EZ-OkQkiT45V0ZPMjRrv0MB1eyWgUicEhhUXP1DZLsaFbyqO1BZXWvthfwJ_PVfbRpE0xcuXmbVYcplNKXnEax9AoU8VX6AlP6icfkqf4mjZAGnFi4k16mZ-LUutpMvihrCbM7neJ0_4ZYlyFrDZqwpi_V7p5L5TlQVkaq0e8es/s335/i7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="335" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKseYf83i28cMr9D3Q5EZ-OkQkiT45V0ZPMjRrv0MB1eyWgUicEhhUXP1DZLsaFbyqO1BZXWvthfwJ_PVfbRpE0xcuXmbVYcplNKXnEax9AoU8VX6AlP6icfkqf4mjZAGnFi4k16mZ-LUutpMvihrCbM7neJ0_4ZYlyFrDZqwpi_V7p5L5TlQVkaq0e8es/w400-h370/i7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It seems appropriate to end on a Lady Sarah figure. I have a weird steampunk German female colonial force and they need a commander</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxx0sFfbCDLuFZakm2pIiVrFS56nHguSBI1T8h4RaAZnHY5CB54V3kWSADxGkVILre9pkC-3Z8r5kSjaJ59w7nx-hQuvwpReAEN3GUp-ymiVtnXr-2glCtrEDTkfKLT_QSCFTvfJbfQhMC7EGLhmXQP5s3s26SOlEjJpIT3ctKx5Huo7xlyUgde9mqvZf/s334/i8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="334" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxx0sFfbCDLuFZakm2pIiVrFS56nHguSBI1T8h4RaAZnHY5CB54V3kWSADxGkVILre9pkC-3Z8r5kSjaJ59w7nx-hQuvwpReAEN3GUp-ymiVtnXr-2glCtrEDTkfKLT_QSCFTvfJbfQhMC7EGLhmXQP5s3s26SOlEjJpIT3ctKx5Huo7xlyUgde9mqvZf/w400-h396/i8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No clue where I got this, probably Scotty, nor who made it. But she's a nice figure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I like to thank Curt and Sarah for again organise and putting up with this on going madness. It's been a great challenge with some beautiful and imaginative submissions. I'm glad turnip wars is less popular this year. Life has got in the way more than normal but I've posted a healthy total, mainly Russians and Boxers.<div>Secondly I would like to thank Teemu, you've been a great minion and have a well earned banana.</div><div><br /></div><div>The final scores on the doors</div><div><br /></div><div>22x28mm Russian Infantry = 110</div><div>Couple of flags = 2</div><div>2 mounted russian officers = <strike>30 </strike><i> 20</i></div><div>2 standing officers, dismounted horse and a dog = 16 (3x5 + 1 for the dog)</div><div>2 sci fi types = 10</div><div>Mounted Lady Sarah = 10</div><div><br /></div><div>total = 178<br /><p><br /></p><p><i>A great post to end your Challenge, Martin, although I doubt these will really be the last of your Russians. The Kiev Grenadiers look great, let's see which direction they will be heading. The eye catcher of this contribution must, however, be your Lady Sarah figure. A very fine model and surely a very firm and decisive commander for your Colonial Germans, well done! I must agree with you that the lack of vegetables this Challenge was somewhat refreshing. Your math was slightly off, two mounted Russians still only count as two mounted Russians @ 10 (and you are showing us only one of them I think), so the total will be 168. Still, a fine conclusion to another great Challenge from you!</i></p><p><i>Martijn</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>MartinChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04465653471454483708noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1391427662737871662.post-51312887363592729742024-03-17T12:14:00.005-06:002024-03-17T12:14:35.521-06:00From JP: Final Post Fantasy 28mm (38 points)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Well, they were on my
painting table for the past two weeks eyeing me dolefully… so what else could I
do?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first three are by
Artizan, a pair of trolls and a goblin shaman. I love the figs but the trolls
turned out more difficult to paint than I expected. Lots of nooks and crannies
and an absolute pain to properly undercoat (I only brush undercoat). Still, I’m
fairly pleased with the outcome. As for the shaman, I decided he should be a
bit of a dandy, by my standards anyways.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBESIVNUwqI4Nped1K_XKhsKiyJ59CtgdRpCe3dHZ_lrrl38nh2grkEn1N-vo4YlaiKmej2xSloeYbG3dXzqzzcomt808Yv-oipDp4kLjKQWlZTftcTdUnu5uYtyRj68lmy6DuNbjucsXMVlMwaJp4sKYjX1_b-fyvwRQaBXsvrVruMxZYVSJK5tzn76gY/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.37.53.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1000" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBESIVNUwqI4Nped1K_XKhsKiyJ59CtgdRpCe3dHZ_lrrl38nh2grkEn1N-vo4YlaiKmej2xSloeYbG3dXzqzzcomt808Yv-oipDp4kLjKQWlZTftcTdUnu5uYtyRj68lmy6DuNbjucsXMVlMwaJp4sKYjX1_b-fyvwRQaBXsvrVruMxZYVSJK5tzn76gY/s320/2024-03-17%2011.37.53.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2npxEEQZSbUlAGWJjTi_hKqkVie7oUvKpD45F_XxNtl5sf6TOI18WDqG_HVVhK_zAB9Ae-md8tyKKrwtQ3rkCkFSQe4lBtsGSR8_rYqK4vg72Wa-XKK14mRvfImq9VaEhnp1o4a_ND1YeeUnmBfWEwwO2VWBEjeU9aqaMnrC1ii-fxYfRwjcINiBS9EB/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.38.16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1000" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2npxEEQZSbUlAGWJjTi_hKqkVie7oUvKpD45F_XxNtl5sf6TOI18WDqG_HVVhK_zAB9Ae-md8tyKKrwtQ3rkCkFSQe4lBtsGSR8_rYqK4vg72Wa-XKK14mRvfImq9VaEhnp1o4a_ND1YeeUnmBfWEwwO2VWBEjeU9aqaMnrC1ii-fxYfRwjcINiBS9EB/s320/2024-03-17%2011.38.16.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGIQtwBMVpmyJvILYgjmfPSrQuyudMPPtHfx344CLXM48d_TsTqw1Tzl3Wz18GkAja-nMp3H0FsMSv7gwl2n9Wq8ImhAdSH9457jrdoifnhso0CNOQn85WCXzSGsiOrTLOwbEGZO3gqrkjVLNpdMSW-dsFV9GsgNDidDgC7jYnVR2c-gYpnLO8MedksdB/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.40.18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="1000" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGIQtwBMVpmyJvILYgjmfPSrQuyudMPPtHfx344CLXM48d_TsTqw1Tzl3Wz18GkAja-nMp3H0FsMSv7gwl2n9Wq8ImhAdSH9457jrdoifnhso0CNOQn85WCXzSGsiOrTLOwbEGZO3gqrkjVLNpdMSW-dsFV9GsgNDidDgC7jYnVR2c-gYpnLO8MedksdB/s320/2024-03-17%2011.40.18.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaC0iAGBmnLPcVcdyqUEdaDrR_4DgeaJp_dr6fqfe4q64p3Il2wTIqjQWvRlV0hyphenhyphenDlXSiiNe9K0_uxiS6XjfQvT0u8eD058nO23vN8ruBrQVez52nBr2JiJu3cPwgOUQMc_YXn33oK7S1-yPu4VwZxDz5ILb00dG_trMVPHhjlqw9dK4FlCN6G7PaiZ-k/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.40.41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1000" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaC0iAGBmnLPcVcdyqUEdaDrR_4DgeaJp_dr6fqfe4q64p3Il2wTIqjQWvRlV0hyphenhyphenDlXSiiNe9K0_uxiS6XjfQvT0u8eD058nO23vN8ruBrQVez52nBr2JiJu3cPwgOUQMc_YXn33oK7S1-yPu4VwZxDz5ILb00dG_trMVPHhjlqw9dK4FlCN6G7PaiZ-k/s320/2024-03-17%2011.40.41.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then there are the
Otherworld male and female owlbears. Getting these two to remain assembled was
also a challenge, even with pinning arms and tails in place. I have tried to
follow the conventions of nature in that the male is brighter coloured than the
female. My only regret is the inability to vary the arm poses. There's also a basic statue...</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD6FjQJk0HSm8R0IslbbE_ecX8EqBqzO-9d89P4meoRAGCZkV7QogXwzKuKYNDaNCmZAPzD4M2XO7YleTCt5T5O77PbCiJd4Di5QCFRkQ0ieVY5Zktlgab77BMpxUHf8H7RhKN88zSqTp9IiqJ_OEVhOAhzgaa_mvKvqOGB0TKesscMG8UEBm9gYFeEjhR/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.41.55.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1000" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD6FjQJk0HSm8R0IslbbE_ecX8EqBqzO-9d89P4meoRAGCZkV7QogXwzKuKYNDaNCmZAPzD4M2XO7YleTCt5T5O77PbCiJd4Di5QCFRkQ0ieVY5Zktlgab77BMpxUHf8H7RhKN88zSqTp9IiqJ_OEVhOAhzgaa_mvKvqOGB0TKesscMG8UEBm9gYFeEjhR/s320/2024-03-17%2011.41.55.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraO-J7bp3svSoMG8unmbCS5ih5hleDO_9SxTEtdpPxEexy6sK55Afxv2cCUstxMSYMZWXcsvLb5zUO72NhJ4NlHaRxMa_7ue7lVIMwcUHKUvu2oe6u0r9L4OeryBqioZnesxYKe5-Lcq2Jtqo0zYE3JYwYA9DNlS2YyV_Qwf2tggZ7OtV0H9C8VPnRKzj/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.41.33.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="1000" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjraO-J7bp3svSoMG8unmbCS5ih5hleDO_9SxTEtdpPxEexy6sK55Afxv2cCUstxMSYMZWXcsvLb5zUO72NhJ4NlHaRxMa_7ue7lVIMwcUHKUvu2oe6u0r9L4OeryBqioZnesxYKe5-Lcq2Jtqo0zYE3JYwYA9DNlS2YyV_Qwf2tggZ7OtV0H9C8VPnRKzj/s320/2024-03-17%2011.41.33.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9ZUJ6HS9ZNboRBa-tc8WnMDGUxrXmNOSmBJZzE5YO_7e0s7JJYYydL-jVSlUBjhNH_LryWnC3pT3fvNquTOUM6YAcfg37pQwP-4MAQ7Z86HWMUFwf4U7iLnus2Oh5sMM5xyNyw_NTAz4aUFYoxm2U3VOZS1x0xioLKOnCOoOU6ToZ1wWCpQHUWUuXQ1y/s959/2024-03-17%2011.41.16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="959" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9ZUJ6HS9ZNboRBa-tc8WnMDGUxrXmNOSmBJZzE5YO_7e0s7JJYYydL-jVSlUBjhNH_LryWnC3pT3fvNquTOUM6YAcfg37pQwP-4MAQ7Z86HWMUFwf4U7iLnus2Oh5sMM5xyNyw_NTAz4aUFYoxm2U3VOZS1x0xioLKOnCOoOU6ToZ1wWCpQHUWUuXQ1y/s320/2024-03-17%2011.41.16.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I end my last entry
for this year, I will lean on a little nostalgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very long time ago, in a galaxy far, far
away, a small group of university students started playing a game called
Dungeons and Dragons. A member of the group designed a logo, based on our
favourite cartoon at the time – he is a painter in this year’s Analog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The year was 1976 and
yes, that’s your drawing skills Frederick Carsted. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still have my original rules, in their
wood grained box<o:p></o:p></span>, and I still wax lyrical about the nostalgia of those days.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A couple of years ago,
I managed to buy Foundry’s wonderful range of Ogres and Goblins. I was so
enamoured I eventually picked up almost all of it. It also led me to paint
this little vignette, well in keeping with my twisted sense of humour. No - no points, did it a few years ago. but wanted to share it with fellow painting enthusiasts:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2ORmeP8FB3BRDG3zit5byPHwuN1BmwyzD3t2vlgTWaZKeUS7VyK3GlcAsfmKdIqMwFyJFRHk7Ql1GxA-za7JmT7JlOe41Hb8nhSTNTiy_mkQF6i9pMSUoih6ZuYkuDqVelH9JLqJxPuyhFu8V-Wa9ge2Np-qPpMuUNI5XeRJEiLT46nXgDvgv-qLB-S4/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.42.58.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="1000" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2ORmeP8FB3BRDG3zit5byPHwuN1BmwyzD3t2vlgTWaZKeUS7VyK3GlcAsfmKdIqMwFyJFRHk7Ql1GxA-za7JmT7JlOe41Hb8nhSTNTiy_mkQF6i9pMSUoih6ZuYkuDqVelH9JLqJxPuyhFu8V-Wa9ge2Np-qPpMuUNI5XeRJEiLT46nXgDvgv-qLB-S4/w400-h211/2024-03-17%2011.42.58.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61FS0TjshR3y1l4kwh7nLgAelgCqvc5qHjCXAfFzPERsVLjlYaPcP8nt2-68unCzAYrxdZ7AB85mpwmY2w-5W7giwQ3BEpq2vXgC_hXTkzKCSs1ued4uiELoSh98I-X8DmV50C9boceFT5wafM4Qrgq7sztwIfgc0NMJe1VVBAY6ZGUm7WQp3xw7QRjo-/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.44.41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1000" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi61FS0TjshR3y1l4kwh7nLgAelgCqvc5qHjCXAfFzPERsVLjlYaPcP8nt2-68unCzAYrxdZ7AB85mpwmY2w-5W7giwQ3BEpq2vXgC_hXTkzKCSs1ued4uiELoSh98I-X8DmV50C9boceFT5wafM4Qrgq7sztwIfgc0NMJe1VVBAY6ZGUm7WQp3xw7QRjo-/w400-h189/2024-03-17%2011.44.41.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilTj9lnIslgcz8-0JHAM15pHfEhY1T5sOdL8Y-6nvYNQ9hIRiifpOhZolw4GjJia1n2dSopkne33G1DuaGtHPcubhQbYflykUL3LFaRfsKzENOgNi0GjfldYt1MDc13Bv2N-BtyW0Q1cAz9kwHgYDMLvg3bHM4EFw9uVOTWs3oV-46A08Jzo-V_ma6dYKB/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.45.00.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="1000" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilTj9lnIslgcz8-0JHAM15pHfEhY1T5sOdL8Y-6nvYNQ9hIRiifpOhZolw4GjJia1n2dSopkne33G1DuaGtHPcubhQbYflykUL3LFaRfsKzENOgNi0GjfldYt1MDc13Bv2N-BtyW0Q1cAz9kwHgYDMLvg3bHM4EFw9uVOTWs3oV-46A08Jzo-V_ma6dYKB/w400-h220/2024-03-17%2011.45.00.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUtEGL_5yQrWhOH5KHzYq4HStVIitpzY9jHkWMSrblv7-ijTcJWCqNESFtWmchyjHTM-CAnpdx0O7HExgYQmY4iwW7v5ABJPoaUGcugJxTTIYECXHCRUaike8ZrRADUH-34avKCarsZWDayJhYfuBLmXyIAfEotefsiAIX4eTkUp-hcOc-fUhl1JAGMc9_/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.45.39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="1000" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUtEGL_5yQrWhOH5KHzYq4HStVIitpzY9jHkWMSrblv7-ijTcJWCqNESFtWmchyjHTM-CAnpdx0O7HExgYQmY4iwW7v5ABJPoaUGcugJxTTIYECXHCRUaike8ZrRADUH-34avKCarsZWDayJhYfuBLmXyIAfEotefsiAIX4eTkUp-hcOc-fUhl1JAGMc9_/w400-h204/2024-03-17%2011.45.39.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdQHKNGcdfVTGxy0R4KlSFkERUqogqWppi3NhzNSLDDQHJQmC4gc_j6wGrOiAFdZdsGlzVJr6VYTpAiaEGTLSRLGV-TLLqyVPrFqXBerT3gh-utlabM53hDfhXCcvj3a1Wv1WfeR8AX0qmDjEaHIZSJBll9b59u1Iy5LcttyMWzbos7-8bhCUt-0NmjAzA/s1000/2024-03-17%2011.45.59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1000" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdQHKNGcdfVTGxy0R4KlSFkERUqogqWppi3NhzNSLDDQHJQmC4gc_j6wGrOiAFdZdsGlzVJr6VYTpAiaEGTLSRLGV-TLLqyVPrFqXBerT3gh-utlabM53hDfhXCcvj3a1Wv1WfeR8AX0qmDjEaHIZSJBll9b59u1Iy5LcttyMWzbos7-8bhCUt-0NmjAzA/w400-h189/2024-03-17%2011.45.59.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Almost forgot:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">6 x 28mm figs (though 4 are well over 32mm) = 30 points.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thank you again. Hope to see you at the end of this year!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cheers,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">JP</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">_________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Wonderful work JP! What a great bunch of classic D&D monsters. I realize the Owlbears took a bit of work to get done but they look terrific (with their pose they look like a Motown duet!). Wonderful bit of nostalgia as well (love seeing that early edition of the D&D rules - brings back good memories).</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>I'm going to award you some extra points as several of these models look well over 40mm.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Thank you for pitching in with us this year, JP. I hope we see you out in the ranks the next time the Challenge sails.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>- Curt</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span><span></span></span></p></div>j.ollivier@telenet.behttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13182630126852858636noreply@blogger.com9