From RayR - Haitian Revolution - Spanish Infantry and Commanders (125 points)

 

Finding any information about the Spanish army in Haiti has proved to be quite difficult.

I do know they fought in 2 major battles, The Battle of Gonnaives and the Battle of Saint-Raphael , both in 1794.

I did find a picture online of the Batallon Auxiliar de las Tropas Espanolas de la isla de Santo Domingo.

Which looked pretty fancy, with their light blue cuffs and facings.

So I decided to paint them up as that unit, with the longest name EVER!

The figures are from Trent Miniatures, now sold by Skytrex and Warlord.

The command are from Front Rank, as Trent don't sell Spanish command figures.

Also from Front Rank are these three mounted Colonels.

Two are painted in the same uniform as the infantry, while the last figure is painted up in the normal Spanish dress of a General.

I found the Spanish flag image online, its not specifically for this unit, I don't even know if they carried a flag or not, but I think it adds a little panache to the unit.

Brigadier General

Mounted Infantry Officer

Field Officer

There are 19 x 25mm Foot figures @ 5 pts each = 95pts

and 3 x Mounted 25mm figures @10 pts each = 30pts

Total 125 pts

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Great work on these fellows Ray - smashing uniforms all around. Projects like this are one of the things that makes the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge so much fun - interesting ones that I never would have considered myself. 

Have to say, much as the light blue facings are lovely, that Spanish general sure looks dashing - what a great uniform...although I expect wearing that outfit in the heat and humidity of Haiti may have been a bit of a challenge!

GregB

From PaulSS: Hostess of The Gem (Lady Sarah's Star Yacht) - (25 points)

Like a truculent teenage we again need transport, so we call in to visit those delightful ladies at The Gem to arrange passage on Lady Sarah's Star Yacht to Vogsphere.

This delightful darling was more than willing to help.

This is another figure from the Brigade Games Brothel set based on the characters in the HBO Deadwood series. great sculpt from Hicksey.

A single 28mm figure with the location bonus will add 25 points to the score board for me.

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Fine brushwork as always Paul, and I'm confident this will more than cover the toll for passage on Lady Sarah's Star Yacht. 

GregB

From Kyle C: Chaos Dwarf Oathmark forces (365 points)

 

Ok yes, I have been a bit behind the others for posting/commenting/etc.. apologies for that.. No idea on why work has been a complete pain this year but it has really cut into my holiday/new year painting time significantly! 

That said, I had a recent Etsy order fall through ( customer had an emergency and cancelled his order before it was ready ) of Warp Miniature's Chaos Dwarves. Sitting on them for a bit, and then said well.. this would look nice all painted up.. so here is my initial take on it! 

So I bought a few bottles of GW contrast paint, and set to work! 

Considering that they are a bit cartoony to begin with, and followers of chaos, I figured some nice out there colors for their beards would not be out of place. And I think they worked nicely to contrast the more bland aged copper and browns I used elsewhere. 

So I did end up printing a few more to make full units of 20 here. Originally there were just 3x 10 units ( 2 cc and 1 ranged ) but upped the count a bit more there. Also added some Bulltaurs, a cannon ( just the crew painted so far ) and some more Heroes and adventurers. 

The adventurers here were a lot of fun to paint up. Some might call the duo on the left a tribute of sorts, while the right ones hunt monsters or are a bit more wild.. 

I now prep the last of the heroes, including one on a massive mount, the cannon itself, before starting in on the Kobolds ( Hobgoblin substitutes ) that are numbering over 100 atm.. 

All in, this is 67 infantry (335 pts), and 3 calvary (30 pts) making for 365 pts total here.. Hopefully the next post will come sooner, and as always thanks to Curt and others here for encouragement to get back to painting! Even if it is making a new grey pile to paint instead of tackling the ones that have sat for a while lol. 

Oh and the movement trays will all get done once they all arrive as am missing enough to cover the full force atm. 

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Very nice Kyle - I've heard good things about "Oathmark", and you join the list of Challengers who highlight the quality of the figures with fine brushwork (even if they are Dwarves). As for motivation, well, you are in a "safe space" - all of us have struggled at that moment of really wanting to game with figures, but also not quite really wanting to start painting them yet. AHPC was made to still such feelings, and replace them with fiery determination to press on! A 365-point-bomb drop would show to me, at least, that you are moving forward with sufficient "oomph" - well done.

GregB

From BruceR: All aboard Lady Sarah's Star Yacht for the Death Star, OOP Citadel, Front Rank Sauerkraut (150 points)

Back for another Wednesday and kicking off with another ticket to ride on Lady Sarah's Star Yacht.  For admission to the cargo hold and maybe the co-pilots seat I present Amelia pilot extraordinaire.  This is my 8th and final crew member for Stargrave.  Amelia is from Victoria Miniatures and a freebee from a past Adepticon.  Hopefully she will travel again this year to the Windy City.  I again created the base with table junk to blend with the other crew members.  Tally ho with laz pistol and power sword. 

Once we land on the Death Star our space pirates look for an ancient artifact used in primitive times.  The item is worth billions of credits from collectors and could only be found where all items Of Questionable Design can be found.  This little gem sat on my shelf for likely since the early 90's.  As I finally completed a green skin army the infamous LEAD BELCHER Goblin Organ Gun Multiple Cannon from a group of Machineries of Destruction, was no longer in the mix and it sat there, until.... AHPC.  Doing some google research it appears I do not have all the correct crew, but the extras do have big balls.  It's also missing some wheel blades.  Fun to paint and little graffiti added.  The Lead Belcher is a multiple weapon, comprising three small bombards and one howitzer.      

The Citadel Lead Blecher and crew:

There end my travels for this week.  Now on to the Sauerkraut.  I finished my New Jersey Blues last week and intended to get a start on completing the Front Rank Hessians I had in the pile.  I admit I paint best in groups of 6-8. I had finished 7 of the Hessians and was able to play Sharp Practice 2, which recharged the batteries.  And painted up the other 6 for a gang of 13.  This with the other 20 I have for SP2, 4 groups and an officer AWI.  Look out rebellious colonists.

   

The Group

Thats a wrap for my Wednesday.   Hope everybody has a great week.  Keep painting and playing.

20 28mm foot                     = 100 pts

Travel on the Star Yacht     =   20 pts

The Death Star                    =   20 pts

28mm artillery                    =    10 pts

Total                                    = 150 pts

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Fine work once again Bruce. That old Citadel gun is very fun to see, and work on the Hessians is very, very impressive, another fine display of brush skills. 150 points for you, well done.

 

GregB

 

From AlexK - More Superheros and space adventures (101 points)

The pull of Atomic Mass Games "Marvel Crisis Protocol" is still pulling strong and most of the last month has been spent painting more Marvel characters. Over the last weeks I have painted in no particular order, Ms. Marvel, Ms. Marvel Embiggened, Bob; Agent of Hydra, Clea, Sin, M.O.D.O.K, Killmonger and Baron Mordo. I still have 10 more characters left to paint and then I think I can call this project done.....for now. The bigger characters like M.O.D.O.K and Ms. Marvel are really good fun to paint and in Ms. Marvel's case quite a challenge. A model with only 3 bold primary colours should be simple on paper, but getting the colours to transition between light and shadow turned out to be a lot harder than I had first imagined. Points wise I think I'm good for 8 x 40mm figures, so 56 points. I also can't help think I'm missing a trick by not submitting these for the planets challenge, but that's a problem for future Alex who will be in no doubt scrabbling for points mid-march.

As a little side project I have also jumped into painting a crew up for Osprey games "Stargrave", a miniature agnostic sci-fi skirmish game were you write the backstory for your crew and do exactly as you please. This format is increasingly beginning to become much more appealing to me due to it's lack of limitations and I'm much happier letting my imagination run riot. So up next we have the first 5 members of the crew for the star ship "Enlightenment".

The "Enlightenment" is a prison transport ship that was transporting prisoners between local systems toward the prison satellite station "Infinity VI" when the galaxy was plunged into civil unrest and contact with the station was lost leaving the "Enlightenment" travelling star systems looking for a new home. The crew consist of a mixture of prison officer, detention droids and several members of cargo. As is usual, orange jump suits are reserved for the prisoners as tradition dictates. It has been good fun trying different skin tones, uniforms and kit bashing to create a cohesive team. That is another 4 x 28mm crew figures for 20 points and a scratch built detention droid that stands 40mm tall for 7 points.

Cheers,

Alex

 

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Hi Alex - well, I must confess, I just can't do superheroes...but that's OK, it is good that there is a ton of variety to the hobby and to subjects that motivate the participants in The Painting Challenge. Whatever my hopes for Marvel's executives to be placed in a rocket and launched directly into the sun while the rest of the company simply plunges into bankrupcty, I know great brushwork when I see it, and you have done a fine job here on these heroes - who other Challengers will surely recognize. The colours are brilliant, and each character is quite distinctive (even though Marvel writers will make all of them exactly the same in 15 seconds, but I digress). Well done.

 

And another Stargrave crew! It is fun to see this set of rules taking off amongst many Challengers, and it seems like a set of rules I should check out for myself. Once more, your brushwork is top shelf, and the back story sounds fun and engaging (so, the opposite of Marvel). I'm particularly blown away by that "Dentention Droid" - how cool is that thing?! I'm going to score that up as a 28mm vehicle, so you will get some bonus points for your excellent conversion work all around on that Stargrave crew - hopefully supporting Future Alex...

GregB

From PaulSS: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Vogsphere) - (112 points)

 

My next entry to the challenge is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment the second African-American regiment in the Union forces and made more famous in the 1989 film Glory.

Why Vogsphere? Well here is a tale of heinous bureaucracy, instead of the $13 per month paid to their white comrades, they were only paid $10 and had a $3 stoppage for clothing that was not withheld from the pay of white enlisted men.

A Congressional bill authorized equal and full pay to those enlisted troops who had been free men as of April 19, 1861. 

Not all troops of the 54th met this criteria, Colonel Hallowell had them swear "You do solemnly swear that you owed no man unrequited labor on or before the 19th day of April 1861. So help you God".

Heinous bureaucracy foiled!

All the figures come from the American Civil War Union Infantry 1861-65 set of plastics, and I've assembled the infantry in this unit at right shoulder shift, the African-American heads are from the supplementary set available.

The standards are from Flags of War.

Having completed Vogsphere I throw myself into the Great Abyssal and journey to the Inner Ring

Eighteen 28mm figures and a couple of standards with the location bonus is 112 more points on the board.

American Civil War Duel Totalizer: 100 foot, 2 mounted, 4 horses (641pts)

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

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Good morning Paul - Only one Regiment this morning? You were hinting at a big week this week, and I was expecting a corps or something at least. At any rate, once more we are treated to your fine brushwork in the ACW setting, on a unit of some renown at that! Very well done - 112 points for you. 

GregB

On Squirrel Patrol - Side Duel Update #3

Hello fellow Squirrel enthusiasts.

First of all my apologies for being a couple of days late with this update, real life got in the way a little, but have no fear, I have compiled a list of our usual Squirrel chasing painters and tallied their scores.

Please sir, can I have a point please?

Top Squirrel baggers TeemuL and MikeW continue to set the pace for the side duel, though KerryT is trying to close the gap a little. However, I am afraid that I am going to have to declare the first penalty in this contest. It has come to my attention that one painter has forgotten to properly label his posts. Yes, you are right to boo and jeer. The rules were made clear earlier in the challenge and this type of behaviour cannot be allowed to continue lest it set a dangerous precedent. As the Squirrelfinder General, it is my sad duty to issue a Yellow Card to the culprit. Let it not be said that I am not without mercy though. The responsible party will still be allowed to claim future Squirrel points (properly labelled ones), but they have forfeited their opportunity to claim the unlabelled point. Perhaps they will think of the repercussions of their actions in future.

Penalty! Improper labelling!

Oh, but who is this ne'er-do-well, this rapscallion, this tearaway? Why, it is none other than the Snowlord himself!! You can find the offending post here if you are curious.

And with that out of the way, on to the more positive news of the current scores. We have quite a few more points on the scoreboard, but no-one in double figures yet. Get those brushes working everyone.

A question was asked on a post by IanS if he could score points for Napoleonic Line infantry and Light infantry from the same nation. Unfortunately, no. It is one point per army, even if they do have different uniforms.

Keep hunting those Squirrels folks, and don't forget to label your posts.