From GrahameH - 15mm SYW French Artillery and Elizabethan English 900

Not a great year for painting as rebasing some older armies and having to decorate the house. Therefore painting has taken a bit of a backseat. 

I decided to try and finish some bits just to finish off stuff that has been sitting on the painting table for too long. The Elizabethan English I started years ago during a previous challenge, so it was nice to get them done. 

Flags are from Pete's Flag from Ebay and all based on Impetus type bases with a 8cms frontage.

SYW French Artillery 

Three guns each with four crew. 15mm Essex (36pts)

Elizabethan English (15mm Essex)

English Border Horse. 16 Mounted figures (64pts)

I have a few units of these, probably too many, having painted a few units in the past. However, it was either paint them or sell them. So they got painted. 

English Commanders.

General (12pts)

Sub General (8pts)

English Pikemen (256pts)

Each block contains 32 figures. I was going to make it 48 but the thought of painting so many pikemen was too much. Especially as I have to finish off a Dutch and Spanish Army for the same period. I think 32 figures look ok(ish). Four block making a total 128 figures.

English  Arquebusiers (128pts)

Four units each 16 figures.

A regiment is made up of a Pike Block and one unit of Arquebusiers in case anyone is interested, hence the flags a similar. 

English Billmen (64pts)

Two units of these each of 16 figures. The Blue unit I copied from Warlords Pike and Shotte rule book. 

English Sword and Shield (32pts)

A unit of 16 figures. The shield colour is the same as the Spanish unit I painted a few years back so I guess I should change one of them.

English Longbowmen (128pts)

Couldn't be an English Army without some Longbow. These will join other Longbow units previous painted. Four Units here, each of 16 figures. 

Mounted Arquebusiers (40pts)

Unit of 10 figures 

The Artillery (20pts)

Two Guns and four crew each

The Irish 

A this army is intended to fights my Irish I have included a few Irish Mercenaries.

Gallowlas (64 Pts)

Two units of these, again each of 16 figures 

Irish Kern (30pts)

Three skirmish units, each of five figures.

A few figures left over so they were painted. I'll use them as markers. (8 pts)

Total 890 Pts 

Hopefully I'll finish the Dutch Army next. Most of it is already painted expect for, what seems to be, an awful lot of pikemen which |I am not looking forward to. However, I hope they will get me to my 1500 target. 

From DaveD . boom, now there is a mighty points bombe. It’s not often we see those in 15mm either . That’s a real mix of figure options and some tidy flag work too. Let’s call that 900.

From LeeH: Abandoned peasant wagons - 40 pts

I’ve been a bit remiss in submissions the last few weeks, and it's entirely my own fault…well, not entirely, but I am partially culpable. The last couple of weeks have been incredibly busy, both in work and around the games table, pushing painting into last place. Add to that a winter cold that just won’t give up, and you have my rather poor excuse for not finishing anything for a few weeks. I now have several jobs on the painting table, but only these Carts and Wagons got finished in time for today. 

These are all MDF and produced by Warbases. I plan on using them as abandoned wagons or even makeshift barriaciads which is why I have not put them on terrain bases as I have done with other models. These are for use with the 1812 Retreat from Moscow stuff I have been working on, but I guess there's no reason they couldn't also feature in 1939/40... a cart is a cart at the end of the day, and the design hadn't fundamentally changed that much in the intervening century

More Winter War Soviets are on the way for next week. Their 90% done, but waiting for bases and varnishes to dry means I won’t get them finished, and I don’t want to rush and ruin them.   

As for scoring, technically these are 28mm Vehicles, but I think it's a bit cheeky claiming 20pts each for these. Is a vehicle still a vehicle without a power source (in this case, a horse)?? So I think I'll leave the scoring for the umpire to adjudicate on this one! 🤣

From DaveD . Sorry to hear the winter bugs are still at you . You have a hobby with so many distractions , it’s a hard life 😆. But good to see some output . The warbases carts are nice simple little pieces , so I will give ya 40 altogether. Pretty sure Rays lads will be nicking these for for firewood ? Will you do a burning one ?😆

From Darrell H - 8 Late Roman Archers (Points 44 )

I finally finished the last eight speed painted Late Roman Archers to go with the first Legionary unit of my LR army! I say finally as they really do seem to have taken forever due to varnishing issues and the weather (I do a Humbrol Enamel Gloss coat before matting down so it can take time and is weather and humidity dependent).

These eight fellows were originally going to be painted a few years ago, prior to the Vanishing Disaster Incident, which put me off painting the army completely. Until this year.

As the Archers are integral to the whole unit of Legionaries I've included a piccie or two of the lot to give you guys and gals an idea of how the miniatures work together.

Please  note, I am only claiming the points for the 8 Archers as the other 16 models were painted a few years ago!

FromDaveD , lovely work once more Darrell. I too use Humbrol  Gloss , from a pot though I am switching over to using Screwfix Yacht Varnish as a hard protective finish and then a Matt down - we all have our own solutions. You must be pleased to get these done . I’m giving them 44 pts 

from RayR - Vienna 1683 - Polish Winged Hussars 15mm 56pts

  

Sticking with my 15mm project of Vienna 1683 once again.

The Crème de la Crème of the Allied army The Polish Winged Hussars are my next entry.

Unfortunately in the scenario there are only 2 6 figure units, which seems a bit mean to me, so I will be painting up more after the Challenge. I mean why would you not??? 

The figures are from Essex Miniatures

But once again, come with no command, so figures from the Generals packs have been used and converted into standard bearers, but I suppose I could have just used a normal Hussar figure instead?

The photo's I've taken really don't d these figures the justice they deserve.

The pennants and the flag on the left were bought from Ebay from Wargame Designs, while the flag on the right was found online, sorry, I can't remember where?

Two Winged Hussars, the wings were a pain in the butt to glue in place, I had to you a small blob of Greenstuff to hold them in place. Then when I started painting them, I wished I hadn't glued them in place, because they were a bugger to paint the inside of the wings as they were so close together.

One Winged Hussars, we're a doddle to paint up!!

Onto the points 12 figures at 4 points each gives me 48 points!

Ottoman Army under Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha

1st Line (Independent Commands)

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

Irregular Tribal Raw 12 figs

2nd Line indie command

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs XXX

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6f XXX

Timariot Sipahis Blade, Lance Drilled 6 figs XXX

Timariot Sipahis Tribal, bow/carb drilled 6f XXX

(Already painted before the Challenge)

3rd Line indie commands 

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs XXX

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs XXX

Sekban musket, loose Raw 12 figs XXX

Tufeckci musket, loose Drilled 12 figs XXX

Janissary Brigade & Brigadier

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12
Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket/Flintlock Drilled/Elite 12

Janissary Orta All Musket Drilled/Elite 12

Reserve & Brigadier

Sipahis of the Porte Blade, Lance Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Sipahis of the Porte Blade, Lance Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Vizier's Guard All Musket, Flintlock Guard 6 

Great Gun Drilled 1 model 

Great Gun Drilled 1 model 

Holy League under King Jan III Sobieski

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Polish Cavalry Brigade

Lipka Tartars Tribal Cav now Raw 6figs

Pancerni Bullet, armour Drilled 6 figs

Pancerni Bullet, Lance, armour Drilled 6 figs

Hussar Banner Blade, Lance, armour Veteran-Elite 6 figs

Imperial Cavalry Brigade 

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Veteran-Elite 12 figs

Bavarian Cav Brig

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 12 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 12 figs

Saxons Cav Brigade 

Dragoons Regt Dragoons, Flintlock, Drilled 6 figs

Cuirassier Regt Bullet, Armour Drilled-Elite 18 figs

Field gun 1 model

From DaveD . A great start to the day here Ray. Just be thankful they ain’t 3 winged I reckon . I agree that far too few , you need a whole lot more - I know you will ! . That’s a lot of work involved so I’m giving you 56 mate . 

Sunday crew checking in

Here we go again , I am well on the mend following my bout of lurgy last week  . I have a fresh ground coffee in hand while I work my way through the Sunday crews endeavours , over 3000 points worth to entertain you .

 

Paul’s Production line is still producing 

Ray has taken wing and wants a second bite 

Tim’s Saxons are late 

Adam is building a Balkan park 

Darrell has his archers 

Graham and Ian have points bombes 

Lee abandons things 

Tim gets his teasers on

And more besides .

On a plus  I have finished my posting for this week and am cracking in with some extra stuff today .

We are well into the home straight for the challenge as we cross into March , so keep those brushes twirling people . 

Have a good one you lot .

Skull Update

 Skull Tally

• StuartL 239
• TeemuL 171
• BruceR 171
• MattT 127
• DavidB 91
• Barks 44
• ErikP 35
• MikeW 20*
• PaulOG 13
• TomL 11
• GregB 8
• SteveA 7
• Curt 2

*Formal count pending

Notable Skullz

AaronP here to steal your skullz.

StuartL maintains his lead.

I love the attitude in GregB's figure.

Lots of skullz from DavidB

Classical skullz from MikeW.

Fantasy and historical combining from MikeW.

GeoffT's lovely ladies

AndrewG always has a spare.

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90s skull helm from DallasE

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