From BruceR - Lady Sarah's Star Yacht, Silver Bayonet Occultist, (25 points)

I managed to finish off my current Silver Bayonet pile.  I'm sure something new will pop up to take up space on the painting table.

I'm using the Occultist from North Star Miniatures to commission travel on Lady Sarah's Star Yacht to travel from Caprica to Glorantha.  

I painted the French Silver Bayonet miniatures as a group and it is quite different to paint individual character miniatures, when you are used to painting units.  I carved out the Occultist for the space travel and will post the other members of the French force.  This Occultist is a great figure and will do double duty for TSB and SP2.  

Occultist

1 25mm foot = 5 pts

Lardy Sarah's Star Yacht =20 pts

Total = 25 pts

Thanks all.  Stay well.  BruceR

 

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Very nice Bruce, I've no doubt Sarah will be pleased to coordinate travel on her yacht courtesy of this fine work. Neat to see some of these North Star figures getting some attention in the Challenge.

 

"Occultist" - maybe I should write that into a tax form this year to see what happens? 

 

GregB

From PaulSS: 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment - (123 points)

Another regiment of infantry musters for the Confederates with the 14th Virginia Infantry Regiment advancing to the fore.

All the figures are from the Perry Miniatures American Civil War Confederate Infantry 1861-65 set, the troops this time assembled in right shoulder shift. 

The pair of standards are from Flags of War, I'll likely go back and redo the pair of units I did earlier in the challenge now that I have a stash.

Some close ups of the individual bases.

I also finished off the last few Confederate infantry figures I had, creating a command stand that will be the foundation of a Mississippi regiment at a later date.  

Twenty four 28mm foot figures with three standards should add 123 points to the board for me.

American Civil War Duel Totalizer: 69 foot (412pts)

Napoleonic Duel Totalizer: 8 foot, 2 mounted (100pts)

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Impressive painting as always Paul - smooth blending, clean lines, and an incredible rate of production. I am also impressed by the appearance density you achieve with three 28mm figures on the base. What size of base do you use for this project? Might be an idea I need to steal for my Franco-Prussian War figures...

GregB

From RayR - Haitian Rebels (190 points)

 

Its back to the Haitian Revolution once again.

These 38 25mm mainly Trent Miniatures we're started last month and painted alongside all the figures I've posted so far and some not yet seen!

3 of the units are made up of 8 figures with a Commander and standard bearer.

The commander figure started out in life as a Wargames Foundry Pirate and in true French Revolutionary style, had his head chopped off and replaced with a suitable bicorned head from Trent.

There isn't much info on what kind of flags the Rebels/Slaves would carry, if at all?

But I wanted them to have some anyway, this one is the Voodoo symbol for Papa Legba, 

Papa Legba is a lwain Haitian Vodoo, who serves as the intermediary between the lwa and humanity. He stands at a spiritual crossroads and gives (or denies) permission to speak with the spirits of Guineé, and is believed to speak all human languages. In Haiti, he is the great elocutioner. Legba facilitates communication, speech, and understanding. He is commonly associated with dogs. Papa Legba is invoked at the beginning of every ceremony. Papa Legba has his origins in the historic West African kingdom of Dahomey, located within present-day Benin.

Exactly the same as the unit above, all are Trent minis expect the Commander, who again is a Foundry Pirate with a Trent mini head replacement. The standard is the Voodoo symbol of Baron Samedi.

Baron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the loa of Haitain Vodoo. He is a loa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetiere, Baron La Croix and Baron Criminel. 

He is the head of the Gede family of loa; his brothers are Azagon Lacroix and Baron Piquant and he is the husband of Maman Brigitte. Together, they are the guardians of the past, of history and, heritage.

The third unit are all Trent miniatures, the commander is from their Vendee range and is infact Jean-Niclas Stofflet a Vendee Rebel Commander. The figures looked so good I didn'r want to chop his head off, so just painted him with brown skin instead. The standard is pretty simple, its a white flag with the word Liberte, on one side.

The last 8 figures, no command or flag for these poor chaps!

Well ok, there is, I based the chap on the right up as a spare commander, but he can be thrown in at any time to make up units of 8.

A close up on the flags, thanks gawd for Microsoft Paint!

Nothing to be seen here.....

A close up on commanders.

And the lot squashed together, from the front..

and the back!

These will be added to the ever growing Haitian Revolution collection, One day I'll get a game with them!?!

38 x 25mm figures @5pts each

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If there was every going to be a member of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge to highlight a "great elocutioner", of course we all knew it would be Ray. Very nice work here, and interesting bits of context and background for a unique gaming setting. Well done!

GregB

From BruceR - Companie of the Silver Bayonet, Heros of Glorantha, German AT (95 points)

Here is my final unit for The Silver Bayonet.  Le French.  Again, I really enjoy these miniatures and hope we can play a few games and if not, I will work them into my Sharp Practice games.  I really enjoyed the Heavy Cavalry trooper, the Old Guard (love the pipe), and the Sapper (eye patch), dang I liked them all. Great Stuff.  

Here is the whole group, used the females earlier so will not points those figures.  This group of Heros (Glorantha) travel across Europe investigating the supernatural happening on behalf of the Emperor Napoleon.  

Officer

Veteran Hunter

Grenadier

Sapper

Heavy Cavalry Trooper

Supernatural Investigator

The three units, Spanish, British, French, came in a prerelease package that included a veteran hunter and a ghoul.  I managed to complete these as well.

Veteran Hunter

Ghoul

On to another era.  I got together last week with a couple of gaming buddies, and we played a WW2 Bolt Action scenario from WSS magazine.  A great scenario depicting the allies (US as we didn't have Canadians) trying to clear the Germans from their festung of the area around Dunkirk.  The allies had a troop of tanks, with the Germans using hidden setup and loaded with panzer Faust.  The Germans were to have a Pak 38, I looked up and there was a Rubicon box teetering on the pile of shame.  So, get the glue, get the airbrush, I couldn't finish the crew so used extra spotters as crew (when you are in retreat everybody is a front liner).  

So, after we played, I tried to glue the crew together from Rubicon, and being a mostly lead/metal fan (age) I put them aside and pulled out a bag of Empress Miniatures of a Pak 40 with crew in smocks.  I painted these three plus gun and figure I will only use one gun at a time and can shift the crew.  Or draft spotters again.  I did attempt to follow the guidance of Moiterei from his blog in painting the autumn smocks, happy with mine, but no comparison to his. 

Empress Pak 40 on the left and Rubicon Pak 38 on the right.

I did paint the helmets as Herr, figuring they were in support and given smocks to help hide their very helpful AT guns.

  

11 x 25mm foot = 55 pts

Glorantha = 20 pts

2 25mm AT guns = 20

Total = 95 pts

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Very nice work Bruce. Painting any sort of German camouflage from WW2 is a total brain melter, so I think you have some excellent results here. Also quite enjoy the character of those Napoleonic figures - may favourite is the heavy cavalry trooper. Those fellows look scary even when dismounted!

GregB

Weather Delays For Wednesday Minion

Northern Ontario in January...may slow posting today...

Good morning all, particularly the members of the fine Wednesday crew (yes, even Ray). Just a slight public service announcement for you, advising of possible posting delays due to a fairly healthy dump of snow that arrived overnight and continues this morning. While "snow days" are lovely in many ways, the need to go out and shovel for good chunks of time does tend to back things up on the posting side. 

Not to worry, the dazzling work of the Wednesday folk will be seen - but apologies in advance for any delays. 

Cheers!

GregB

From PhilH: Loyal to the Republic at Istvaan V (45 Points)

Landing at Istvann V: loyalists or betrayers, with a Spanish Civil War Project on the go? Perfect, I have a couple of dozen People's Militia prepped, based and ready to sling paint onto, so I fished out a handful and got to work.

Along with baffling politics and endless factions and theIR TLAs, the SCW has extrordinary tales of ordinary workers seizing and collectivising their companies and demanding the government distribute arms for them to defend hard-won rights and freedoms from ultraconservative traditionalism erring on fascism. While inexperienced, barely-trained, hurridly organised and lacking much semblence of military discipline, they managed to throw back Franco's battle-hardened Army of Africa and modern allies through their bravery and sheer will to resist.

These join the other motley defenders of the Republic in my collection. They're the start of a platoon of members of the anarcho syndicalist CNT-FAI union, wearing blue workers' overalls with red and blackcaps and neckerchiefs.

They're from the unmatched Empress Miniatures range, I think with a couple of headswaps as I had some duplicate packs. I'm going to need to paint quite a fewmore of these up. Five 28mm figures and the planet bonus is 45 Points, thanks Milady Tamsin. This also represents my first squirrel. Squirrel! Still lagging behind on my side duel with Challenge newcomer JohnE though.

 

Good to see you return to the Spanish Civil War with these five lovelies! Another 45 points for you, young man!

Tamsin

From PhilH: It All Starts with a Hero at Glorantha (27 Points)

As soon as I saw the Challenge Quandrant, I knew that whatever my original plan, it would enable me to raid the part of my Hobby Stash from a long time ago in a Galaxy far far away...

Where better to start my journey but with a hero: everyone's fresh-faced Jedi wannabe Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. This is one of...four(!) versions of Luke I have in the stash, from a much more recent screen appearance than the original trilogy.

Oh and this opening post also offers some pleasing foreshadowing as I continue my journey aronud the Quandrant, not just of more Star Wars content to come, but some specific minis as I visit a certain planet. No prizes for guessing. I've been struggling to keep up with everyone's posts this year, but it seems a few of the AHPC XII crew are on Star Wars content, so hopefully you won't be fed up of it by the end.

He's a 3D printed miniature by Skullforge Studios, who is one of the most prolofic designers of Galaxy Far Far Away and content for other universes. Star Wars .stls seem to be at the forefront of the 3D printing boom in the hobby, as everyone seeks out their nerdiest niche characters and units from decades of SW content. Having quite a few, recommend Skullforge, though it helps I offload the hard work of printing them to my brother.

He's a late entry in part because Christmas and things, and I needed to source the right 'Luke's Lightsaber green': the fifty shades of feldgrau in my rack were not helpful. I went a bit heavier on the OSL for this one, as the scene the mini is inspired by is particularly dimly lit. Watching too many YouTube painting channels recently, I've also been trying to work on my methods and approach, including thinking of lighting with a zenithal base. Its not all come out in the photos but I'm pleased with the outcome.

I believe it'll be 7 Points for scale creep Star Wars Legion scale, and 20 for a hero at Glorantha. Where next?

Phil had two posts which were in draft state until sometime after midnight in the UK, so I told him I'd post them this morning.

That's a cracking Luke figure, and the OSL looks good. 27 points sees you avoid the Great Cull.

Tamsin