From JohnE - 28mm Second World War Vehicles - 42 Points

As primarily a Second World War gamer, the bulk of my "pile o' shame" consists of vehicles - lots and lots of vehicles. In an attempt to motivate myself and ostensibly others in 2020, I created the #vehicluary hashtag on Twitter (feel free to liberally sprinkle groans, boos and thumbs down) with the idea of devoting all of January hobby time to vehicles. As one might suspect, it got zero traction.

However, being a stubborn git, I rebranded it in 2021 as #danktankuary (feel free to liberally sprinkle praise, cheers and thumbs up). "This is it!" I thought - one of the greatest hobby hashtags of all time. Viral in no time.

Alas, again, I rolled a zero BUT I am continuing this year with DANKTANKUARY (see "stubborn git"). Here are my first "Dank Tanks" for this year.

Here's a French AMC-35 from Shapeways. This was sprayed with the MIG French Armor Colors. Not the greatest print, but on the table it looks ok.

Next is a Warlord Jagdpanzer IV, sprayed with AK Real Colors and foliaged up with Green Stuff World Tall Shubbery. This was my first time using these AK acrylic lacquers and, apart from the odor, they were a complete delight to airbrush.

Points Summary:

2x 28mm vehicle @ 20 points = 40 points

Total = 40 points

From DaveD

Now that's a fine pair. The AK products are good to use i agree and you've got a great result. Love the camo and foliage too  - which handily I have a pack of and will nick that idea! I will give you 2 points for tank commander too. 

From PeteF: Various Command Stands, ECW Shot and a Shapeways NCO (110 points)

For submission 18 - which may be my last of the challenge - I tied up some loose ends. 

First was a Napoleonic Russian General and drummer which I made into a command stand. I was hoping to get this submitted last week but my cat attacked the general's horse and broke its legs. I had to use greenstuff and do some drilling - hopefully it's not too visible.

Next is a 3D printed 30 years war NCO from Shapeways. This cost nearly 5 bucks excluding shipping but I wanted to see what the state of the art was as an experiment. The surface is quite bumpy - there is a resin that comes out smoother that wasn't available for this particular model and does cost a bit more. Verdict: Shapeways won't be displacing the existing manufacturers and artisans just yet - although the figure would work fine as a game piece.

By December this year I am hoping to have both sides painted up for Wetzel's Mill - a battle in the AWI southern campaign shortly after Cowpens. These are a few command figures and stands cobbled together from some Perry metals and Warlord sprues that I bought as a job lot online. The Banstre Tarleton figure is the Warlord mounted general that comes on the artillery sprue with a Washington's guard head from the Continental Infantry sprue.

Finally I completed some more mostly dressed in green shot for a Pikeman's Lament army that will be completed sometime in Challenge XV.  These are from Warlord's King & Country set. 

4 Mounted (3 Warlord Plastic 1 Warlord Metal)

14 Foot (1 Warlord Metal, 1 Shapeways Resin, 3 Perry Metal, 9 Warlord Plastic)

110 points

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Thank you for this Pete, a lovely post and nothing to taxing for my addled brain, points wise.  I was interested to hear about the 3D printed miniature, clearly the way things are going, but somewhat heartened to hear that we are not there yet.  Another 110 points to the tally, but can you finish the last remnants that you have on the painting table by Tuesday?