From Kerry T - All on the table - AHPC XV round up

 Morning, afternoon & evening all

Its been a more relaxed week this week because I haven't frantically been trying to get things on the table and though I've still had the brushes out, they're working at a more leisurely pace. I'm certainly not missing the rushed weekly basing sessions and am looking forward to returning to my habit of basing en masse when I run out of room on the desktop!

First things first and most importantly a big thank you to Curt & Sarah for organising the challenge once again and allowing me to take part in this, my fourth challenge. What a fantastic concept this is and I so wish I had discovered it years ago. I'm envious of those of you who've been in all the way through. Secondly a huge thank you to the minions, especially the awesome articulate Aussie Millsy for his diligence and kindness in minioning my work and coordinating our twice weekly chats where as many as 5 or 6 of us down-underers have chewed the fat. It has really added something special this year. Last but not least, my fellow challengers for their unwavering support and encouragement. Very many thanks to you all, the camaraderie is fantastic, its what makes the challenge

I set myself a target of 2,500 points with the aim of reaching 10,000 career points and am pleased to say I made it and though my score was higher with bonuses I actually managed to knock off 2,500 points worth of figures.

The completed host with 2 extras!

I'm embarrassed to confess that I dropped a clanger this year at the end and miscalculated the time that the challenge finished here in NZ. Rushing home late on Thursday night I thought I had a few hours left and put up a post only to have missed the deadline! Curt there's a draft post sitting in the queue which needs to be deleted please. If only I'd tried to tackle 6 not twelve hobilars I would have finished in plenty of time!

Here they are -zero points but they want their moment of fame!

See the red thing in the distance not quite finished, I needed another 20 minutes - sniff!

I just had to dry brush its spines and claws - another sniff!

I've always used the challenge to beef up my Italian Wars collection. No Gendarmes this year but some Landsknecht pike, characters, command and artillery. The intended Milanese units got bumped down the queue

The Emperor Maximillian

Warlord Games looters

Foundry big guns

Artizan pike to complete an already painted pike block

Over the Christmas holiday I painted up a load of horses and quietly drove myself bonkers churning out cavalry in the early part of the challenge but I put a big dent in the ECW leadpile

A mix of Empress and Bicorne horse

I should get around to playing FKP rules now

The other main theme for me this year having bought a resin printer, was printing, prepping and painting some of Medbury Miniatures STLs for the Scottish wars of Independence and 100YW 

Victrix knights with LBSM transfers

Medbury Miniatures, Footsore and Antediluvian Scottish pike /spear here

Then there were a few other odds and ends along the way

Little man with a big banner

Artizan Black Guard Moorish infantry and horse

Finally TAG Polish Hussars because I'm a butterfly

With very many thanks for your encouragement and support again this year, I've had a great time and hope to see you next year again

Valleyboy

From RossM: 15mm Romano Brits and a 25mm Fantasy Dwarf (30 points)

 The last day of this year's AHPC is here and I have a final offering for you. As the title suggests it has two different themes in two different scales. 

Firstly, here are the Romano Brits from Forged in Battle miniatures and these are the start of an ADLG army for this period. 

A simple start with a command stand consisting of a general and Christian priest. Don't worry there is a Pagan stand planned for balance. 

Whilst there will be colour across the army I will be using a lot of muted colours for a Dark Age feel and the general's cloak will carry across some cavalry stands in the future. At my current pace of painting this may well be in next year's AHPC. 

Next up are the only light cavalry in the army, all two stands of them; unlike the hedge of spearmen that makes the army's backbone. 

The muted colours making another appearance here along with a simple hand painted shield design across the units. It's just enough to catch the eye on the table.  

Now the last figure from me for AHPC XV, a retro Citadel Dwarf from the haydays of the early 1980's. Still on his original pre-slotta base: 

This figure has been stripped down and painted for the last time, roughly forty years after first buying him in my FLGS (now long gone).

Opting for a simple colour scheme to let the armour do its job of impressing everyone around it. Not to mention the longsword.,, 

Started as a central figure for a regiment of Shieldbreakers in Kings of War that sadly has stalled for now. 

So, there ends AHPC for this year a few things moved on, a few things stalled and a few that just didn't start for varying. 

The points for these few figures tally as:

15mm cavalry x 5 @ 4 points each = 20

15mm infantry x 1 @ 2 points each = 2 

25mm infantry x 1 @ 5 points = 5 

Totalling 27 points. 

Looking forward to seeing the last entries over the next day or so and seeing you all again in the darker nights. 

A huge thank you to the Snowlord for organising this again and to everyone who helped as a minion and as a participant. A great body of work you have all contributed!

Cheers for now!

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Love the 15mm Dark Ages stuff Ross - its a great scale for getting a good feel of massed forces, and your muted colours give them an appropriately dreary pre-colourfast dye look to them :-) I hope we get to see more next Challenge.

The Dwarf is a true relic - great sculpt full of nostalgic goodness! What a cracking fellow to close out on.  Congratulations for completing your Challenge this year - go celebrate with a couple of bonus points for resurrecting a figure you've had for 40 years!

- Paul

SteveM: Rock and Stone (58 points)

The following miniatures are from the Deep Rock Galactic board game based on the video game and have been stuck in limbo on the table since they were primed months ago. These were being painted for someone who played the video game so they needed to be semi-accurate. When looking for reference images online there are many variations and shades for each of the characters which aided delays. It seems the cartoon slant for the game makes all kinds of lighting possible in the drawings and artwork. The fandom wiki assisted with some parts but I ended up taking some liberty with some areas.

The following are the core player characters for the game with their supply pod and sentry gun. The main colors for the characters are yellow, green, red and blue and then orange and green for the two game accessories. For the ground work moon rock colored regolith seemed appropriate as they are deep space mining dwarves.

DRG: Group Shot Front

DRG: Group Shot Top

DRG: Group Shot Back

DRG: Driller Front

DRG: Driller Back

DRG: Gunner Front

DRG: Gunner Back

DRG: Engineer Front

DRG: Engineer Back

DRG: Scout Front

DRG: Scout Back

DRG: Drop Pod and Sentry Gun Front

DRG: Drop Pod and Sentry Gun Back

Genre:  Deep Rock Galactic board game

Mfg: Mood Publishing

Material: plastic

Scale: 40mm

 

 

Points:

4 miniatures * 7 pts = 28 pts

2 miniatures * 5 pts (counting pod and sentry as 28mm)= 10 pts

First Circle: Limbo entry = 20pts

Total: 58 points

 

Sylvain: The primary colors you use on these miniatures suggest that they are board game pieces. Nonetheless, just like cartoon characters, your figurines are brightly colorful and very characterful with their oversize weapons. I'm sure you will enjoy using them. Nice job!

 

From JohnS: A Speck of Slaughterloo Uhlans (110 points)

Next up in my All Slaughterloo Challenge Cavalcade are these Krautian Uhlan Lancers accompanied by a Krautian Staff Officer.

Uhlan Lancers and Officer

Mounted on savage boars, the Krautian Uhlans are the pride of the Dwarf Cavalry and their Death's Head badge strike fear into the enemies of Blooka's Children (as the inhabitants of the Krautian nation are proud to call themselves.)

An officer knows that hydration is key

The Krautian Staff Officer is mounted on a fine fat farm bred pig as this reflects his more genteel upbringing. In keeping with Dwarven tradition the Officer always has a frosty stein of bier handy to ward off the rigours of dehydration. Officering is thirsty work.

Standard Bearer, Line Officer and Staff Officer.

The Officers inspect the troops.

Armed with lances and dwarf muskets the pitiless Light Cavalry rove the battlefields of Valon at will, displaying their superior boarsmanship and charging home when least expected.

The lances aren't just for warfare. They make a handy tool for spit-roasting any mounts that don't make the grade. After salting and smoking, of course. Delicious when washed down with a stein or two of Krautian Schwarzenbier.

This was another fun paint and a good diversion from preparation for Cancon (Australia's largest games convention) which is next weekend. I was helped along by a couple of great paint and chat sessions too.

11 x 28mm Mounted Figures  @ 10 = 110 points

From Millsy:

"Boarsmanship" is my word of the week now. Everything about this submission made me laugh and think I am really missing out on something through not having played or painted any Slaughterloo over the years.

These fine fellow have real presence and look more like heavy cavalry with their chunky dwarf bodies on chunky boar mounts. I really like you choice of blue and gold which pairs nicely with their beards, something that seems very appropriate for a uhlan for whom sartorial style is a must have. They even have a slightly piratical look about them which is what being a light cavalry man dwarf is all about!

Cracking work mate and a very well earned 110 points.

Cheers,
Millsy

From Kerry T - Old Iron Boots - or A little man tries to set a high standard!- Avatars of War Dwarf standard (30 points + Limbo)

 Morning, afternoon and evening all.....

Its great to catch up with you all once again and also say hello to some new faces. Thanks once again to Curt for allowing me to take part in this my fourth challenge. For me, it has to be the highlight of the wargaming year and not only have I benefited from and been enthused by the wonderful support from the participants here but I've also now caught up with a few in the flesh meeting several of the guys on my trip to Parizan wargames show last year. I've also been fortunate to make new friends in Millsy and Kent Galpin and though we've never met in person we've been meeting online most Tuesday nights for a paint and chat.

I've got off to a slow start this year and this is my first entry. I've set myself a target of 2,500 points this year simply to try and gain entry to the 10,000 career points club. To that end I've spent much of the holiday period painting a multitude of horses in the hope of making the challenge of producing weekly entries less onerous. If only the challenge went on for longer - I'm due to retire from work the week after the challenge ends! Hopefully I'll get there with a mix of figures that reflect my butterfly tendencies and wandering ill-disciplined brush. My plan is to knock off a decent chunk of my unpainted ECW cavalry leadpile, add to my Italian Wars and Reconquista projects and hopefully shoe in some Napoleonics, WW2 and make a start on my main 2025 target, a 100 Years War Medieval project. As always I'm likely to jump from one thing to another in the hope of keeping productive and I suspect some figures that didn't make earlier challenges may push their way up the painting queue.

This was the state  of my current Limbo entry this time last year

A dwarf standard bearer from Avatars of War

I really struggled to get to grips with this having bought it a few years ago. My intention was to have it lead my Dwarven hoard into battle. Fortunately in the past few days, despite the hot NZ sun, the Vallejo hasn't dried on the brush and I've managed to get it finished

Here's the man accompanied by a few Oathmark dwarves just painted

I'm not sure how such a little man is going to handle such a high or big standard, the standard bearer himself seems to be wearing a huge amount of metal which I assume must be a deliberate attempt to make him him as heavy as possible . When he unfurls that huge banner, its obvious, like it or not- the slightest gust of wind is going to turn him into an involuntary kite surfer and drop him off in the next valley!

From a practical perspective he's going to struggle to stay on the table so I felt it was necessary to make him his own base

He's even got his own base

I also painted a few hangers on from some plastic Oathmark figures to keep him company 

In reality, for the tabletop I think he's probably best grouped with some Oathmark metal command figures I painted last year and shown below

Better still perhaps the Dwarf King's banner even

The Kings banner

My Dwarven army is growing - pun intended!

Couldn't resist the group shot - to be clear its only just 5 Oathmark figures and Old Iron boots the standard bearer that were painted for the challenge

In summary

6 x 28mm foot Figures at 5 points each = 30 points

Limbo bonus  at 20 points

Total points = 50 

1 Squirrel

Many thanks and Happy New year to you all

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Lovely to have you back with us Kerry! 

I always enjoy seeing your various project as not only are the fantastically realized but they're all something I'd like to play. Such eye candy.

Love this standard bearer. Like so many things in the world of fantasy this is over-the-top silly, which of course makes it completely awesome. I like your new blue variant much better than the original red, so good choice there, but better yet is the mini-diorama you've made for it. What a terrific centrepiece for the army. As an added bonus I'm sure these guys get great 5G reception. :) I'm going to give another 5 points for that great, honkin' standard as it's the size of several dwarfs in of itself.

A great opening for your fourth Challenge Kerry. Keep them coming!

- Curt