From PeterB - Chaos Epic - 42 points

 Morning all from sunny South East England. As I write this I am being blinded by perfect model painting daylight. So, what have I been up to this week? Well, with challenge studios completed (apart from the Directors chair) I am going to have to rely on volume of models now for points rather than bonus points. So, I decided to switch to 6mm?

Yep, last challenge I was painting my Epic Armageddon Chaos undivided army and there is still some left to do. I'm not sure whether I will eventually use the Epic 40K rules for playing with these models (the latest rules don't really cover all the Chaos models I have) so for now I am just painting models that take my fancy and then going from there.

The other issue of course is unless I want to spend a fortune on Ebay, I'm struggling to find original models so this is a long slow project.

Firstly I have painted 14 of what I think are Disc riders of Tzeentch, although they don't look very disc like. I read on a blog somewhere that people weren't initially impressed with the sculpts of these and I must agree (hence why I skipped over them last challenge) but they do have some detail when you paint them.

They are from the original plastic sprues that also had all the infantry options as well.

As I said original GW models are pricey second hand as I'm sure you all know. Proxy models for Epic are also few and far between but I did find these great Sparta APC vehicles from Vanguard Miniatures. They come with double sided top hatches, plain and Renegade, so of course I chose the Renegade side.

They will make great alternatives for Rhino transport for my Marines.

The paint scheme is fairly simple with GW Macragge Blue covered with an old blue ink wash I still have from the 90's. (those old citadel paints really last don't they?)

I am not sure what this guy is officially known as. He was in a pile of second hand epic bits I was donated by a friend. At first I thought he was a 28mm scale familiar, so he was moved to a different box. Turns out though he is from the Epic range, possibly a Demon Prince, or Giant Bloodletter?

He is certainly giant sized for Epic, to the top of his head he is 2cm.

Finally some more from Vanguard miniatures. In the chaos army list there is mention of Death Wheels and I thought these fit the bill pretty well.

The remainder of my hobby time this week gave me no points for the challenge. Whilst I was delving through my Epic models I realised I had not added the flock to the bases of any of my Orks, so once the chaos models had been given a good flocking, I continued on with the hundreds of Orks. Well, at least they are done now...

Far too many to fit in one picture

To the points:

14 x mounted 6mm = 14 pts

12 x 6mm vehicles = 24 pts

1 x 20mm foot figure = 4 pts

Total = 42 points

Minion Miles: wow I really like the epic 40k stuff - keep it coming!

JamesM: 3mm Ultramarine Terminator Detachment (Burch's Bluff) - 75 points

Hi folks,

Having planned for a little while to do some more work on my 3mm Sci-Fi collection, I thought a great entry for Burch's Bluff's would be some of my Vanguard Miniatures. These are actually 3mm Novan Elite Siege Breakers with 'Striker' heavy AFV's.

I've painted them up as part of my 'Calth' Horus Heresy collection. These are good proxies for Ultramarine Terminators and Spartan Assault Tanks.

The nice thing about this unit is I can also use different transport options such as Vanguard Maulers (Land Raider proxies), drop pods or flyers.

Gaming wise, Vanguard are working on their own system, but I have also been thinking about options for Epic40k or for the new Titanicus rules.

These are obviously small miniatures, but given Vanguard make 'truescale' models, these mini's are about 6mm vehicle size.

The infantry figures themselves are lovely.

Which makes it mental that I spent the time doing shoulder pad edging and knee pad colours. Plus weapons. I also added some Ultramarine decals to the Spartan proxies.

The bases are a mix of using miliput for craters and such, along with some of the interesting GW Agrellan Earth texture paints. I black edged the bases as well, just as they looked a bit cleaner.

Total figures:

6 x 3mm vehicles (which are large 6mm size models): 12 points
65 x 3mm infantry (which are 6mm sized models): 33 (32.5 rounded up) points
Location bonus: 30 points

Total: 75 points

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This is a superb little entry here JamesM, although I could be playing favourites and be a little biased towards you since my middle name is James, so technically I am a JamesM as well.  Silliness aside....

Firstly, the figures look great and the details super crisp on them for something so small, I have never heard of the company before but will certainly check them out after seeing these!  Secondly, your painting of them is great!  Super clean and clear for such a small scale.  I also really like the little added details on the bases as it brings come character to the larger bases you are using.

I don't know of many rule sets out there for sci-fi in small scale, but I do know of Epic Armageddon (the last version of Epic that GW put out, probably 10+ years ago) and Greg, Curt, and I have had many great games with it.  It is fast, easy, and unlike any of their core rule sets actually a pretty good set of rules!  I would dig up a copy of those and just use them as a starting point.

- ByronM