From Geoffrey T: Library Rampage (New Acquisitions, History, Children's Books, Overdues, 170 points, 1 skull)

 Hello Challengers and happy new year to all.

After a belated start to the challenge with visitors for the festive season, I am now underway with two submissions, both for the silver bayonet game.

The first is a new acquisition, which is two monsters for the Canadian war of 1812 supplement written by Ash Barker.  Brand new miniatures from North Star to go with a brand new supplement.

Here we have a Wendigo and a Baxbaxwaluksiwe, the latter of which I have never heard of before.  It is quite bizarre, covered in many hungry biting mouths.  It was quite hard to paint.

The second submission is some napoleonic Spanish fusiliers I sculpted moulded and cast myself.  They are pretty basic.  They lost a fair bit of sharpness when drop cast as well.  But still making your own figures makes one feel like a real naploeonic wargamer.  These I am claiming as historical, because I even looked in a book to find the uniform design and colours rather than just making it up.

Third I have classic protagonists from Children's books, goats and trolls.

Here is 5 goats from Eureka Miniatures.  Livestock is surprisingly useful in a number of games.  Sharp Practice 2, Ghost Archipelago and here I expand my collection of goats for Forbidden Psalm's expansion campaign.

Then we have three trolls.  One troll can be defeated by three goats.  I do not know how 5 goats goes v 3 trolls.  These will be used in Frostgrave and silver bayonet, and anywhere I use a cobblestone gaming mat.

They are from Grenadier miniatures, of which I picked up a hundred or so old metal minis at a game shop moving sale, they dredged out their old stock and put it on sale.  I was stoked.  It is what I like to buy anyway, to get it on sale was great.

Finally for this week I have five old skool miniatures to add to my 'slow grow' Warhammer Fantasy Battles 3rd edition armies.  These are certainly Overdue projects, by about 30 years.

Four empire halberdiers my marauder miniatures, circa 1991 or so.

One skeleton standard bearer from Grenadier, about the same age.  I was quite pleased to pick this one up as I was short a standard for one unit and had been using a gibbet as a substitute.

This skeleton also has a skull for the skullz challenge.

Total for this post is

40mm - Five monsters about 40mm tall = 5 x 7 = 35 points

28mm - three fusiliers, four halberdiers and one skeleton = 8 x 5 = 40 points

15mm - 5 goats, nominally 28mm scale but quite small = 5 x 2 =10 points

New acquisitions, History, Childerns books and Overdue books shelves = 4 x 20 = 80 points

Grand total = 165 points and 1 skull.

King Regards

Geoff.

From Millsy: Silver Bayonet is such a great game and its wonderful to see others playing. I've not yet managed to get my hands on the new wave of minis but your wendigo in particular is seriously tempting me Geoffrey!

Having cast my own minis way back when I started gaming I can attest to how much fun it is. Kudos to you for going the extra mile and making your own minis though, that is seriously impressive especially given the elegance of your sculpts. These are fit to grace any table and worth another 5 points bonus for being your own work.

The Empire halberdiers are also gorgeous and a subject dear to my own heart. Please can we have more???

From BruceR: Marauder Mercenary Ogre: 28mm Eastern Front Italians: 1980s: Studio Challenge: (78 pts)

Time again for the Wednesday production.  I feel somewhat owing to our Wednesday Minion Miles.  Between Millsy and I thought a couple challengers named Miles I didn't realize, our very Minion was renowned TV host direct from Youtube, Miles of LWTV.  Without knowing, I garnered an additional point ashamedly referencing a game played using LWTV's Ravenfeast. Simply to show the use of table dressing figures.  Oh, the pain, the chagrin, the shame.  Cheers Miles and thanks for the point. 

Oh well back to Wednesday offerings.  

I have to admit the challenge seriously helps me get things done.  What it also does is tempt me to look at miniatures I have not touched, used, or even intend to use.  This due to the offerings by all the participants bringing forth such a diverse selection of hobby.  Isn't it great!!!! (I'm still on the fence about vegetables) Ha. 

So, I didn't want to grind out another section of Italians as they sat looking at me primed and ready to go.  Instead, looking around the dungeon my eyes fell on a Flouncy Marauder Ogre Mercenary primed on my wall of opportunity (some completed and some not).  Well, why not, this bugger has sat on my shelf for many a year and I don't know if I purchased them all in a boxed set or separately it's been so long.   During my WHFB days (which started in 1988 Ft. Carson. CO) I would take one to jazz up a unit and fill four empire soldier slots with a similarly armed Mercenary Ogre.

Judging from the many renaissance figures to come before me someone can better educate me on the proper way to paint cut cloth as denoted on this friendly beast.  He was primed a sand color from days gone by and I now highlighted him with some dry brush white.  From there I used contrast paints to start.  I used Dark Oath Flesh, Blood Angels Red (thinned with medium) and Aethermatic Blue for the major colors.  The hat was Black Templar highlighted with black grey Vallejo.   Some white, some brass, and yellow (Iraqi sand with the old GW yellow ink I still have from yes the 80's).  Once completed I felt he needed a touch more, so I blacklined some of the clothing items to set them apart and this seemed to help. 

Enough blathering here he is for your review.  An Ogre about town, seen in all the fancy places, and dressed to kill.

I did want to show him off more than the old unit fillers, so he got the base treatment.  Milliput and wood plank From Happy Seppuku base texture stamp.  Quick paint and wash.

Here are his mates painted over the years to fill those empire slots.  I still have one more setting on the ledge of opportunity, who know.

Flouncy and his mates (who do not count) upon research appear to be from the late 80's GW Marauder figures.  So my 1980s Challenge Studios Set.

After his flaunciness I did the grind.  10 more Eastern Front Italians (poor saps).  The poster read, "come and sun yourself on the black sea, rest, relax......"  

These again are my project of Great Escape Games Italians from the eastern front.  

Avanti, Avanti:

Points:

Base to feather Flouncy is 50mm.  He is in that 7-10 point range.  

One Flouncy call it      8 pts  

1980s Studio               20 pts

10 28mm x 5               50 pts

Total                            78 pts

Minion Miles: Mention another LWTV product and you get more points - yes it's shameless self promotion.  The Ogre is fantastic!
         

From RossM 28mm Undead and Livestock - 90 points

Ten days to go and only my second entry to this year's AHPC; hangs head in shame. It has been a hectic first few months in 2022 and the result of this is real life has overtaken hobby time. So now that the excuses are over with here are the first few pictures for this week's entry:

Three different sets of Undead figures from three different periods of gaming, starting with the retro figures from Citadel and Marauder Miniatures back in the late 80's or early 90's.

The shields are from more recent plastic Games Workshop figures sourced from a rummage on the internet for bits and bobs. 

Next are six archers from Oathmark's plastic skeletons including one metal Champion figure. Easy to assembly, paint well and look the part as individual figures for skirmish games or ranked up for larger type games. The recommended base size of 25 x 25mm just didn't look right, the figures don't have the heft for my eye on this base size. 

Another hero and musician are next to me on the painting tray just now and looking to see these done before the finish line. 

The last Undead for this entry are from Northstar Figures Rangers of Shadow Deep range and won't be the last from this line to be painted here. 

The central figure is a Shadow Knight, and in game terms I have no idea what this means. However, as a

figure for tabletop gaming, the miniature rocks. Great sculpt with a sense of power in it; you wouldn't want to meet this on a dark night on your own. 

The Shadow Knight's armour was a bit of an experiment in using Contrast Paints over metallics; in this case Aggaros Dune over Army Painter Plate Mail. To bring the highlights out on the armour the same colours were used mixed to layer upto Plate Mail on its own as the final highlight. 

With the skeleton's either side of the Shadow Knight, they could easily be seen crossing the fields surrounding the Barrow Downs in a mist shrouded, haunted landscape. 

Lastly, are the Mouflon Sheep from Warbases. These are for general use in both fantasy and historical skirmish games regardless of period. 

So, in terms of points this gives the following:

Retro Undead - 2 x 28mm infantry - 10 points

Oathmark archers - 6 x 28mm infantry - 30 points

Shadow Knight and followers - 3 x 28mm infantry - 15 points

Arda bonus for Shadow Knight and followers - 20 points

Livestock - 3 x 28mm figures - 15 points

Sub total - 90 points

Running total - 120 points from 750 (16%)

Being realistic at this point I have about another 140 points worth of figures nearing completion that can be finished by the end of this Challenge. A bit disappointed, however, I have enjoyed painting the miniatures that I have and that is what this is really about. 

Cheers for now. 

From DaveD, Good to see you again. life gets in the way of important things sometimes . nice skellies indeed