From MikeF - Vertibird from Fallout - 28mm Vehicle - 20 Points

 I painted a set of 10 Brotherhood of Steel miniatures  from the Fallout video game for the Toy Story Theme. The Brotherhood are the high tech force of the setting and have access to one of the few flying vehicles in the game - The Vertibird. It’s a rototilt aircraft which seems to just want to be a helicopter. There isn’t a commercially available model in 28mm so I had to grab the next best thing. The Hornet from Mantic Games is fairly close and I had one already in need of a repaint. In the original game, all the brotherhood equipment is left over US army gear which was still painted in the US army green. I painted it the same green as the brotherhood figures and added the appropriate decals. As the vehicles are meant to be old and worn, I went to town on the weathering. It’s far more than would be acceptable for an aircraft, but there’s no FAA in the wasteland to threaten decertification.

 28mm vehicle - 20 points.

This is definitely it for the challenge, so I’d like to thank Curt, the minions and all challengers for making the challenge happen.

See you later this year!

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This is awesome, Mike. I loved the vertibirds in the TV series (in fact, I love saying the word: 'vertibird', much to Sarah's annoyance). Great work on the painting and weathering. Your power-armoured knights will be able to travel (or crash) in style now! 

'Remember folks: It can only get worse!' 👍

- Curt 

From JohnS - Late Romans and Late Halflings (140 points)

 Life continues throwing curveballs but I managed to get some Late Roman Cavalry finished.

 These are Gripping [Beast? Minion Dallas] Late Roman Cavalry. The sculpting is a little stiff but they do the job.  

I decided to give them a variety of shield designs, just for the cool factor.

They are based as 2 (of 3) elements of a To The Strongest unit, with the Hero on the oval base.

What you probably don't want to know is that I dropped the middle of these three elements just after this photo and snapped the lance and popped off the shield...

I have also been working my way through Mantic's Halfling Muster Battlegroup.

These are LARGE halflings, taller than GW dwarfs!

They have a cool "early 19th century English villagers" vibe to them.

They look like the local squire has called out the muster and they have answered.

Armed with their fowling pieces, they are ready to repel the louts disturbing their idyll.

The melee troops are armed with mallets, ready to tenderize.

As soon as I saw these figures I was reminded of a bronze faced maul my coachbuilder grandfather had, so bronze they are!

Once again I made the shield faces quite plain as these are not warlike people, they are armed with what is needed to do the job.

These smaller halflings (more GW/LOTR size) are a Paul Hicks sculpt.

Now available from Footsore, I purchased these in a Kickstarter many moons ago.

I have painted these as members of my ever increasing Halfling Empire Army for Old World or Warhammer Fantasy Battle. 

That's my lot for today. Apologies for the awful photos. One of this week's surprises was a need to temporarily move out of my office which means my photography set-up is adhoc.

5 x 28mm Cavalry @ 10 pts  = 50

16 x 28mm Infantry @ 5 pts = 80

2 x 20mm 28mm Infantry @ 4 5pts = 8 10 [these are 28mm halflings so I'm awarding 5 each]

Total 140 points.

Nice production this week John, and you're right - the halflings give a nice "green and pleasant land" kind of vibe, which I think was always Tolkien's idea. Their rural attire is also really good and you've done a nice job with them. The Late Romans are pretty cool too. 

Happy to confirm 140 points for this lot!

Dallas 

From RhysH - Abyssal Dwarf sorcerer on Winged Halfbreed (20 points)

This week Rhys finally finished his Abyssal Dwarf on a Winged Halfbreed for Kings of War from Mantic Games. He's wanted this model for years and his brother got it for him for Christmas. Rhys was never aware of the Chaos Dwarfs but he fell in love with their Mantic versions the first time he saw them. Some of his units have featured in previous challenges.

These are both resin models in 28mm.

Sadly he broke off the horn when he was painting it.

This dwarf model can be built as a warrior or sorcerer.

There is good detail in this beast. It's the same body as the dragons, but has a different head for this purpose. It's a clever build option that works very well.

This model actually fits well on the small base with so much of the mass spreading out as it rises above the level of all of the foot units that will be around it and attacking it.

Rhys went for a deliberate ruddy complexion to show that he has risen from the Abyss.

This face is really spectacular. I love the brassy look that Rhys achieved on it.

I'm not sure what the points on this should be. Five for the little dude on top, but the beast is significantly larger than that.

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Well now, what IS it with things from the abyss being sinister and evil? 

This sure looks like a large project - sorry to see that damage was suffered in the painting process, but I certainly sympathize, given that I pretty routinely damage figures I am painting...

That "winged halfbreed" is quite the beast. Let's clock him at 15 points, making 20 points for the whole thing. Well done Rhys! Congratulations on completing a big centrepiece type model, one that you have had your eye on for some time!

GregB

From AaronH - Iden Versio and two Orc APCs (17 points)

This week I'm finally getting some painting done after travelling for the last two months. I have Iden Versio in 32mm and two Marauder (Orc) APCs in 10mm.

I painted Iden up for my friend's son so he could use her in a tournament last weekend. She was a quick paint, being mostly black.

I just dry brushed a couple of different grey's over the black undercoat. Her face took the most time.

I had already painted her droid so it's not included here. I still need to paint the other members of Inferno Squad, which may happen this Challenge.

The trucks look like she's playing with Tonka trucks.

The two APCs are Mules, the ubiquitous transport in Mantic's Warpath universe, being in at least three armies.

I have six of these. I'll be doing two each in yellow, blue and red.

They are quick and easy to paint up. I used acrylic paint pens to do most of what you see.

I'm not sure why this is Mantic's vision for an APC but horses for courses I guess.

This is one 32mm figure for 5 points

Two 10mm vehicles for 6 pts each = 12

Total = 17 pts

Nice work here Aaron, I was unfamiliar with Ms. Versio so you sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole there. A pretty intense character, she was the leader of an Imperial black ops unit called "Inferno Squad" (!) and holder of the Imperial record for most verified kills in battle (!!) (I thought surely this would've been the Death Star gunner who pulled the trigger on Alderaan??) before she defected to the Rebellion. You've done a great job on her, especially the face... the sculpt is great too, it really looks like the actress who played her. 

Seventeen for your tally!

Dallas 

From JamieM - Epic Warpath Plague (137 points)

We’ve started playing Epic Warpath at my club and it’s a really rather good game.  This is the 10mm mass battle game from Mantic from their Warpath universe. They’ve essentially taken the rules from the old GW epic game and given it a clean and tidy set of armies and rules that are great fun to play. GW decided it would only refresh the ruleset as its “Legions Imperialis” game where everyone had to play marines, guardsmen or mechanicum in a civil war, so Mantic decided to do what a lot of fans actually want and include aliens as playable factions.

(And have an actual set of rules which doesn't suck - Editor)

These are miniatures for the plague faction, which are infected humans who are a horde close combat army (a lot of them don’t come with guns!) family photo first.

Another one slightly off to the side. Mantic decided to have four (or two for the slightly larger) miniatures to a base, which is an absolute godsend for painting as you can paint them after sticking them to the base without a middle fella to get in the way.

The large chap to the front right is a Corruption, who is a leader for them, what with four arms being better than two.

Behind him are some plague zombies. Now, having painted these I feel like I must have unlocked some sort of an achievement as I’ve already painted the same unit in 28mm during this challenge. I use no idea whether to be proud or slightly concerned about the silliness of painting the same unit in two scales, but I figure I’m amongst like minded people who won’t judge me too harshly……

Whilst the primary quality of the zombies are their sheer quantity (they’re rubbish until they stumble into contact), these next fellas are Ghouls - more or less humans who retain the ability to fire guns. Their main strength though is being quite quick and so can gum up the opposition’s lines until the heavy hitters get in.

And that segues nicely onto these heavy hitters - Leapers. Fast and deadly in combat, they eschew guns to better concentrate on ripping their enemies to pieces.

Some funny sizes going on, so I was going to go for 27 bases of four 10mm figures for 108 points, 6 bases of two 15mm figures for the leapers to make 24 points and a 28mm figure for 5 points for the corruption to get to 137 points.

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Painting the same subject in multiple scales within one Challenge...why, that is just BRILLIANT. I would say you are "in a safe space" when it comes to that sort of behaviour. Why, I might even describe such an approach to the hobby as "wise" and "comprehensive". The smaller figures give a larger scale battle, sure, but within that you think, "wow, a skirmish would be lovely!" - so you paint some larger figures, naturally. Then, while skirmish gaming in 28mm, you think "wow, a huge scale battle with a whole lot of figures would make for a great spectacle". You see - it's all a virtuous cycle. 

Well done Jamie - 137 points for you!

GregB

From Barks: Giant alien fungi (40 points)

These are from a Mantic Terrain Crate. You can mix and match different alien jungle bits to your heart's content, and there are gaps for 5mm magnets. I matched rather than mixed, and stuck them together with hot glue, then hid the gaps a little with some quick Milliputting, and mounted them on MDF circles. They're decently tall, between 5"-8". I painted them with Army Painter SpeedPaints; Maggot Skin & Sand Golem; Howling Sand and Dusk Red. I also did some smaller ferny bits. 28mm figure for size.

7 tall fungi, 3 small ferns

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These are some great looking alien terrain bits Barks.  While they are simple paint jobs, they are highly effective and look great!  Great colour choices as well, the yellow and purple help with that whole alien feel.  

I am going to count each of the large ones as about the same as a figure and then the 3 small together as the same.  So you are getting 40 points for the lot of them.  Great work.

- Byron

From BrianC: Undead, Zombicide Black Plague, Next Level Miniatures, Beyond The Gates of Antares and more (135pts)

 Ok. Here we go again. Not too much. Work and life stuff going on. BUT, I'm hoping for a big point dump soon. Let's get to it!

We begin with some nasty ghouls/zombies from Mantic Kings of War Undead Army:

There will be more of these uglies in the future...

We have some Sci-Fi 3D printed Alien "city folk"

I'm not too sure if this mini is from Mortal Gods game or an Old Glory Miniature. Looks like a Roman Slave boss or gladiator trainer?

Some Zombicide Black Plague miniatures. First we have Falstaff, inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula movie...

Next is, Lady Faye, inspired by Kristen Stewart(Bella of Twilight movie)?

Hey! It's Redcap Rodney from Zombicide Black Plague, too!

I have a couple North Star Miniatures from Frostgrave Wizards II

A couple "kitbash" North Star Miniatures from Oathmark Human Light Infantry set. I used some of the wizard arms to convert them into wizards for my Four Against Darkness Solo RPG.

I have some Next Level Miniatures, cleric, warrior and a thug.

Lastly, some drones from Beyond The Gates of Antares. Concord drones

Ok. That's it for this turn-in. To the points!

28mm x 27 = 135pts.

A great variety pack here Brian.  Lots to love, but I like those kit bashed wizards the best.  Those conversions worked very nicely.  I want to make sure I've counted everything correctly, so here's my head count.

• 8 ghouls
• 3 Aliens
• 1 Roman slave boss
• 3 Zombicide figures
• 2 Frostgrav wizards
• 2 Kit-bashed wizards
• 3 Next level figures
• 5 drones which I will counts as 28mm figures because I don't know else else to count hem as.
• Total 27 minis