AdamC- High Class civilians, the Royal Flautist and Ruffians (61 points)

 This is a set of Brigade Game figures given to me as Christmas gift.  A very nice set for background color on the table.

 The Great lady herself in her finery with purse and fan in hand ready to go shopping or perhaps under take a secret mission for some hidden agent

 The bows gave me a little something to work with in terms of contrast using two different shades of violet.

 I'm pleased with the fan and I think the Persian rug print out came out well for the bases.

 Her servantes.  Clearly these guys are in a livery, I did orange waist coats green breaches and coats with Yellow facings.  I used Dark Gray as a "Lace" color on the facings and cuffs.

 Rear view or the same men not much to add.

 We have one more waling to or from work or perhaps follow her ladyship when she goes out

 You can get a realy nice look at his cuffs on this shot.  These are great sculpts my only wish is that the company made some dynamic version where they fellows had grabbed weapons to defend the house.

 So this figure has already made an appearance as the opening post of the challenge by the Snow Lord himself. Here is my interpretation.  The miniatures is from Eureka

 I wanted to give the impression of the player (Friedrich the Great) was on a marble tiled floor and I am fairly pleased with the results.

Close up on the floor and the two dogs.

 Two more Brigade Games figures from the Town Militia set.  The follow on the left is a great background character a town crier.  The one on the right is very much armed and ready and should be a nice addition to a pirate crew or group of clubmen

 These three Ner'do'wells are from Crusader minatures they call them the "wild rovers"

 In the center we have a favorite of mine a short rotund fellow.  He's not quite a dwarf in his proportions but he's close.  I feel he isn't really the sort who drinks and knows things but I think he does know how to hit things.  He's also a case in point that the wrong sort of people wear open vests.

 One could make the same argument about his form fitting pants.  He's a great looking figure and I think he will be a favorite.

 This is the figure I picked up the pack up for.  This young bravo will be a perfect fit for Inigo Balboa from the Alatriste Novels.

 I have a full En Guard Warband based on the characters from that novel but I didn't have a good figure for young Inigo.

 That lack has been remedied with this bare foot pistol wielding fellow.

 Another good pirate/ruffian Figure with a pistol and cutlass.

I tried to do some brighter colors here as most of my guys tend to have muted colors and you need the occasional fellow with some flash a purple vest and red head scarf seemed to provide some nice color.

So we have eleven full sized 25mm Figures so that should be 55 Points.  I don't recall how Curt scored his little pups and music stand so I will defer to the judge.

MilesR: Adam - these are really well done - I really like the basing - especially the rugs - +1 points for that.  As for Friedrich and his dogs - I'll award you the same 10 points the Snow Lord himself got - that's very heady company you keep.  I believe this brings you to a very hefty 61 points

From MartinC: A Very Random Post (155 points)

I've had a very busy week, the York Show last Sunday, 2 days of prepping the figs I bought, a fantastic game of Zombicide with Blaxkleric by video on the Analogue Painting Challengers Google+ Community on Saturday night and all day Sunday I was fighting the 3rd Battle of El Teb with the Old Guard Wargames club, plus a quick game of Impetus (My first) with me and DaveD as Rep Romans vs Pete and John as Carthage. Dave was recklessly brave and I was resiliently tough. We won. Yay us. More details on my blog.

Enough of the excuses, this is what I've painted

Midianite Camel Archers. These were originally from warlord with 2 archers per camel. I was never happy with this so I bought some camels from Irregular Minatures at York. Repainted the archers and put them on the camels

Resin Staff Car - also from York show. Can't remember the company

Steam Punk Sailors out of a Northstar lucky bag. Gave the bases a Martian colour with brick red ink

French Foreign legion - Unfeasibly Miniatures. These are nice figs.

That is 16 infantry, 6 mtd and a staff car. If I get a wriggle on there will be some more before deadline

MilesR: Random indeed but very nicely done!

From RayR Monday 25mm Woodland Indians (60 points)

Another 12 Woodland Indians for my new Donnybrook collection.

These are Perry Miniatures AWI Indian Warriors.

Packs AW30 and AW31

I've changed their flesh colour for these 12, I've used Vallejo Saddle Brown

Its a bit more red than the last tone, a bit more injun!

 These should earn me 60 points to my total!

MilesR: I really like the Perry AWI stuff and you've done the Indians proud 

From DaveD - Sudan , a bitsa week. (190 points)

This last week has been a bit of an unplanned week as I picked up a selection of figures at the York wargame show. This combined with the planning for putting on the first large Black Powder based Sudan game  (which was a refight of the 3rd battle of El-Teb - Link to report here ) meant I ended up deciding  to prep and complete this stuff within the week . The horses were done in thin oil and were quick dried overnight in the boiler cupboard and then once touch dry being hit with spray varnish - don't believe all you read on oils taking weeks to dry.

First a conversion piece - this is made from a spare camel and a Perry Bashi Bazouk figure. I remade the saddle in milliput and added in a wire rope rein - this was soldered on the camels head and into the figures hand. The represents Major Kitchener in his role as an intelligence and scouting officer in the early Sudan campaigns.  

next , 6 Mounted Infantry . By Wargames Foundry... well 6 horses and 4 riders are , two other riders are Perry ones ( but I am sure they were both sculpted by the same person  as they are almost identical , of course you will have to wait and see what I did with the two officer figures. Plus a mounted commander which is from the lead pile which I am sure is Empress Miniatures. I just fancied doing this one as he was wearing his patrol jacket . Makes a change from khaki.

 

 Next 6 mounted Bashi  Bazouks , used as scouts in the weekends battle. A kind of irregular Ottoman cavalry - like cossacks but even worse by all accounts..

 

I had a set  of old school "Arabs of the market" castings from Connoisseur Miniatures so I thought these will serve nicely to add to the civilians selection . The 4 larger market stalls are resin pieces with new paint jobs - the smaller one is part of the Connoisseur set,  its metal - with a cover made from a piece of old handkerchief and set with PVA prior to painting.  While the detail is and style of these old sculpts may not be to today's standards with a simple paint job and at typical table distances they still work well as set dressing in my opinion.

 

 

The bustling markets with the other civilians from the collection

So its 14 mounted and 10 foot figures and 5 market stalls (2 points each?).   it looks like a much reduced total off 200 points .. well I have had the last two weekends off from painting. I am sure Martin, Miles and Alex will be glad to hear I start back at work this coming week too..

Initial work on the new man cave has started with window replacements completed - the electrical  and lighting solutions designed, costed and contractor engaged. Flooring up next...

MilesR: Yet more inspired work but I'm afraid I must be a rules lawyer and point out terrain doesn't count outside of a bonus round.  I feel bad but can't count the wonderful stalls so it's still a nice 190 points.  As we may come down to the wire points total wise, I will spot you ten points vs my tally as that seems to be the sporting thing to do! 

From PeterM: Regiment of Austrian Cuirassiers & some more Infantry

Hi everyone again!

Here I am again something finally painted... =)

One base musketeer 11th Regiment with a pioneer in his skin apron. I love these guys ;)These are good professionals in the military sapper case. They received a good salary (many times more than the privates). In combat, their task was to destroy the small key objectives (gates, parapets, gun inventory).And he is not white like the rest, it makes me happy! (Sometimes you get tired of one white)

 And finally the last three cuirassiers base for my №3 regiments Crown Prince Ferdinand.I love the Austrian sticks for banners! (they are almost like candy ;) )

And in the end I will show you the whole regiment.

 I really like this combination - red, yellow, white and bright green! It looks very much alive!)

  

According to my calculations, I scored 120 points! 

6 infantrymen, + 9 cavalry.

Thanks to all!) See you next week - will be infantry;)

MilesR: The calvary is really exceptionally well done - thanks for the group shot!

From LeeH - Greek Archers and Successor Elephants (36 points)

The Challenge always proves to be a huge inspiration and spur to painting activity for me (I'm sure many of the participants would agree). That gentle combination of healthy competition and peer pressure does wonders for curing me of my usual inertia! This year has proved no exception and in under 10 weeks I have managed to paint a whole 6mm Pyrrhic army. Of course I can add a few peripheral units later on but the core of a good solid army has been finished. I'll post some pictures on my Blog in a few days but before that here are my final units.

First up two units of Greek Bowmen. These light units will provide a nice screen to my forces hopefully inflicting some damage on my enemies before the heavy infantry crash into each other.

The last units are a little special. I painted some Elephants for my army earlier in the challenge but realised rather too late that I had painted the wrong models. So I immediately went online and ordered the correct elephants from Baccus.

I decided that this time I would base my Elephants three to a base rather than two as previous. I think this looks a lot better, and certainly increases the intimidation factor when these units advance on the enemy.

Twenty four bowmen will net 12 points and six elephants each with four crew should net me another 24 points. A modest submission but every point is a step in the right direction.

MilesR: My math shows 36 points 48 inf (24 bowmen + 24 crew) and 6 Ellies.  These really are superbly done

From AlexS:Few warriors of Epirus. (230 points)

I continue to prepare by February 25, when the game will be held at the tournament system "To the Strongest!" We in the city planned a small event on the same day. And it is possible that it will take part Pyrrhus of Epirus. So I try paint this interesting and diverse army.

That's part of my job. I was inspired by the work of LeeH and EricM. I thank them for inspiring examples of the miniatures for a given period.

Hero

Agema

Epirus phalanx

Generals

General view

31 inf - 155
7 cav - 70
total 225 points

MilesR: Great work - love the phalanx.  I threw in 5 points for all the nice shields

MilesR - MONDAY!!!!

Yeah we got a big steaming pile of Monday Goodness lined up for you.  So pull on those hip waders and get ready to wade through a giant mound of miniature madness.

You're intrepid Monday reporter is back from the UK and looking forward to getting some more time on at the painting desk.

As for today we've got all sorts of tabletop piece d'art for you to gaze upon in the 9 posts that are queued and ready to go.  There are rumors that even more Monday goodness is in the pipeline.

So far we got

- Ellies

- Native Americans

- Calvary of many types

- A car

- Phalanxes

- Austrians

- Persian rugs and a fiddle playing dog lover

- Spooky Organized Skeletons

- and more, so much more

Despite only having 4 100+ points bombs, this Mondays tipping the scales at around 1,000 points - looks like the teams decided to take it easy on those other little days of the week.  I wouldn't count on the Monday mercy to last must longer...

So buckle-up buttercups, the fun's just getting started...