PaulS: Mobile Armour(y) (60 Points)

 There were plenty of options for the Armoury entry, but given that part of this year has been spent painting up a new Tallarn Guard army using parts from Reptilian Overlords, it made sense to use this opportunity to add a few tanks into the mix. One is a repaint of the Hellhound I did a few years back and the other is Reptilian Overlord's Russ equivalent.

I sold my old guard army as I didn't want two different forces hanging around, but I kept a couple of the Forgeworld tanks like this Hellhound

The Russ equivalent is called a Caiman and it comes with so many bits to make the different variants. There are some more in the queue as well as some spare turrets to do different variants and give me options. Each turret costs about £1.50 to print... so why not? This one encountered some printing problems that caused the turret to tear, so rather than binning it I filled the gaps, added some weld lines and made it look like battle damage that has been badly repaired while in the field. At the time I wasn't in the mood to try and print a new one, so that was easier ;)

Two tanks and the Armoury points, should be 60 points to the score, which should tip me over me over my original goal of 500 points, which I'm impressed by. I truly didn't think I'd get this much done... certainly not this fast! Next goal will be 1000 points.

PaulS: The Chicken King cometh (50 Points)

 I hope you all had a good Christmas and are having as good a new year as is possible when locked down (for those in the UK at least). It seems I've been pushed further down the rankings, so I need to pull my finger out and claw my way further through the dungeon and back up the rankings!

The next pair are the Chicken King and his giant rooster, George. I found these on MyMiniFactory and just couldn't help but make this my entry for the Hatchery as he seemed ideal for a crazed wizard or villain in an RPG. He also gave me massive flashbacks to Chicken Kicking in the Fable games :D

Given that I can easily print more, this is also my Curtgeld for the year too, so that should bring him up to 50 points for the duo

From: Jeff B - Sgt Guinness - Ingenieure vorwärts! - "Hall of Traps"

 Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure Vorwarts!

Here is my very first submission ever! This is the first Challenge I’ve entered though I’ve been following it for quite some time. I’m certainly not worthy compared to the extremely talented and very imaginative painters before me. However, I felt I’d give it a go as I needed inspiration and motivation to get some projects moving.

For this first chamber "Hall of Traps" I went with the lying in wait / stalking angle of the “Trap”.

A German pazerschreke team and 81mm mortar with FO lay in wait while supporting German Engineers take up positions to ambush unsuspecting allied armor and infantry slogging their way through the dense Normandy bocage country, June 1944.

Figures are 15mm Peter Pig and the FO team is Old Glory, all purchased about 20 plus years ago. They’ve sat in the same box I put them in once I primed them, doomed never to see the light of day, until now. The 15mm club project had fallen apart and they languished...

The mortar crew, FO, and panzerschreck team have the white infantry piping on their epaulettes while the engineers have the orange piping associated with that branch.

The paints are mostly Polly Scale with a few Vallejo and craft store paints. The figs are based on washers and the basing is wood glue, sand, and ballast painted over with craft store paints and flocked with 25 year old static grass. I’m not happy with how shinny and bright green the grass came out and will need to to something else with the remaining figs to be painted.

(14) 15mm figs + 1 mortar @ 2 pts each = 30 pts + 20 for the chamber of “Traps” = 50 pts.

                                             Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure vorwärts!

                      

From PaulSS: [Sarah the Sorceress] Princess Brenda (25pts)

Princess Elizabeth c.1945 was the freebie given away at Partizan 2012 and it's been shamefully sat in my backlog ever since.

But, I've managed to navigate my way across the dungeon from The Aquifier through to The Hall of Traps and now need to get to The Larder pronto. "Brenda" is offered up in exchange for a swift transit across the dungeon.

I think, like the majority of Partizan figures the sculptor is most probably Martin Baker.

For those interested in the colours used, her hat and battledress tunic and hat are from a base of VMC English Uniform, the skirt, shirt and tie are from VMC Khaki.

A single 28mm figure and the Sarah the Sorceress bonus will add 25 points to my total.

From SimonG: HYW Longbow Men - Completing My Archers Ranks (40 points)

 For my tenth and final stand of English Longbow men in my Impetus 600 point army I fielded my one and only set from 1st Corps . 

Compared with the Perry and Front Rank I mostly use these are definitely on the skinny/Elven side with rather large heads. The multi part construction is also quite a pain to assemble and they seem to be made of a very hard metal that is awkward to drill. One of the assemblies even defeated my ability to correctly string the bow -- first time I've had this happen. He's the chap on the front right, that string should be taught and behind the arrow, but no way I could find to drill that out and trying to glue in separate lengths of thread would have made a mess so I'm stuck with this loose string :-(

Nevertheless they painted up well and I like the range of facial characters.

Here you have the full ranks including the stakes -- looks quite impressive I think, certainly you'd think twice about charging at them!

So for eight 28mm figures that should be good for another 40 points towards my tota;l

From DrQ: Storming Adventurers' Landing (60 points)

Down to level 2!

I'll admit that "A chance to paint a landing on a home or foreign shore to collect some points" had me a bit perplexed. My Kharadron Overlords are less about landing or invading than creating floating trading empires or mining for magical metals. When inspiration hit, it came in the form of a scene from Apocalypse Now:

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Can't you just hear Wagner in the background? The horror.

So yes, based off of some your encouragements from my previous post (LINK), I've finished up a unit of 40k ork Deffkoptas.

Perhaps in the future I'll even mod a few of these to include surf boards so that they indeed can surf the beach upon completion of their objectives. Also, in a glaring difference from my Kharadron sky vessel from the other day, the bases are just clear plastic flight stands. This is intentional. I know that the basing for many of these models has changed since the old Assault on Black Reach box I have, and I'd rather measure twice and paint once as it were. 

As far as points, four of the five of these are new (the one in the back right having been posted earlier). They are effectively cavalry in the size and function, so 10 points each plus 20 for the area bonus is 60 points total.

From here I'm heading to the Shrine, where some unconventional clerics await...

From SidneyR: Troubadours from "The Pit of the Pendulum" (30 points)

 

"One, two...ah, one-two-three... No, no.  We go on 'four', not three.  Always four, never three.  It's been that way since Valencia in '84.  Let's go again.   ...  Ah, one, two... one-two-three... NO, WE GO ON FOUR, never 'three'... Let's take it from the top...again..."

Fernando Cantante, Frustrated "musician", 1688

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When Curt suggested a Chamber for Challenge XI based on torture, my mind stumbled towards the everyday horror of playing the violin as a young boy, and the terrors that created in my family.  Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, lingering in the family home for hours would suddenly leave, making their excuses quickly.  The world has few horrors to match a young, enthusiastic, yet hopeless, musician armed with a cheap violin.  And so this Challenge submission was born.

Ladies and Gentlemen, esteemed Challengers, if you ever visit an army camp in late seventeenth century Flanders, and these two travelling musicians appear, prepare to flee - quickly.  Regiments which are steadfast under the heaviest fire dissolve in chaos before the musical repertoire of Señors Fernando and Antonio Cantante. 

From Cadiz to Milan, from Antwerp to Naples, the brothers Cantante have plied their musical 'gifts' for many diverse audiences.  The takings in their battered hat, proffered enthusiastically, are rarely high enough to bring an early end to the evening's 'entertainment', at least until the brothers start singing.  At which time, enough florins and guilders usually trickle into the hat to persuade them to move on. 

War may be terrible, but if you are faced with an enthusiastic but hopeless pair of musicians, even the hottest of cannon fire is perhaps preferable.

I've had these two figures hanging around the painting table for years.  They started life as a Games Workshop C46 Villager (with the viol) and another figure from, I think, a medieval tavern set. I swapped one of the heads for a Redoubt seventeenth century head, and added a lot of green stuff to turn the medieval outfits into something perhaps 'more 1688'.  The drum is from Redoubt, and the collection of discarded uniforms (clearly from a soldier hurrying away from the terrifying noise) is from Dixon Miniatures.

I've added another of the Laarden 'Character Cards' for the tuneless Troubadours - keep collecting folks, many more to come this Challenge!

As regards points, Fernando and Antonio are in 28mm, so 5 points for each brother and 20 for completing 'The Pit of the Pendulum', in truly terrifying fashion.

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AdamC: Aquifer Black Seas Cutter

This ship was part of a prize I received for my United States Navy that was my main project last challenge. Normally they come as a set of six but this came alone with it's base.

It's a handsome little model ship all metal including the sails. This makes it a bit top heavy but the resin base helps mitigate this. 

The cutter is a bit smaller than a Brig so I'll call her 8 points (Brigs have been worth 10 points in the last challenge) and maybe 1 more point for the very simple rigging the sails are part of the model so nothing extra for them.  Then it's 20 points for the Aquifer. Happy New Year everyone be healthy and safe in 2021.

From ScottM: Golem's Haunt - Manticore (25 points)

For Golem's Haunt I needed to come up with something that was 'created', for want of a better word. I went with a Manticore, a magical creature created in some wizard's laboratory. At least I hope it was created in some lab, as I don't want to think about that 'encounter' if it came about naturally. This 28mm fig is from Wizkids and their Nolzur's Marvelous Miniatures line. 

So that should be:

1 - 28mm foot fig + Chamber bonus = 25 points