Wow! Twenty Twenty Two shot past in a blur and here we are on the eve (almost) of another Painting Challenge. This will be my ninth time in the mosh pit and I'm all geared up, ready, and eager to get started. I set myself a modest points total, but as most of my work this year will be 6mm, that equates to a lot of minis. For a change, I am nearly* ready ahead of time. Everything* is primed, my consumables have been restocked and my long-running AHPC Spreadsheet of Doom is set and ready to start recording my completed entries. (* More figures from Baccus are on their way, but are clearly being delivered by an asthmatic carrier pigeon and may take a while to arrive!)
My desk is tidy, although a quick going over with a mini-vac is probably in order... there's a year's worth of sand, dust, and static grass building up in the corners and between the bottles.
So what am I working on for Challenge XIII? Well, I'm back with 6mm this year (following a 15mm Foreign Legion outing last year) and I'm working on the late medieval period and the end of the Wars of the Roses. I will be focusing on the Battle of Bosworth and its participants. I visited the Heritage Centre earlier in the year and the more I read about this battle the more interesting it becomes. I'm looking forward to exploring the battle and the seemingly endless theories on exactly where it was located, who took part, and how the two sides were deployed. Modern archaeology may have answered a lot of questions, but there are still lots of options to explore so this seems to be a battle that will just keep on giving.
Best of luck to everyone taking part and I look forward to seeing the entries of Challengers new and old over the next few months.
