From StuartL - A Terrifying Tale of Turnips - 25 points

Hi all,

    I managed to get another entry finished off this morning, and I have just enough time to get it posted before I start work. A few years ago, the game Turnip28 squelched onto the scene and was quite popular for challengers. I worked on a small force myself. However, I was always one commander and one unit short of finishing my army. Today, I am proud to say that I have completed my last entry for that force.

'He's a Very Naughty Boy'

One day, Farmer Brown was in his field tending his turnips. He would always stand in the same spot and watch his turnips growing. As they didn't grow very fast, he would stand there for a very long time.

Now, on that particular day, as he was standing in that particular spot, he saw a particularly peculiar figure. Dressed all in robes, carrying a long staff and with a body made up of a spongey green plant.

"Mornin'," said Farmer Brown. "Lovely day for turnip farming isn't it?" 

".....," replied the newcomer.

"I guess so," said Farmer Brown. "Do you have a name there stranger?"

".....," replied the newcomer.

"The Moss-iah? Well, that's a new one on me," said Farmer Brown.

".....," said the Moss-iah.

"I'd never really considered that," said Farmer Brown.

".....," said the Moss-iah.

"But who'll stand here and watch the turnips grow?" asked Farmer Brown.

".....," replied the Moss-iah, handing Farmer Brown a gun.

".....," said Farmer Brown as he took the Moss-ket.

    First up, we have the Moss-iah. A strange figure moving slowly through the boggy marshes of Turnip28. Rumour has it, that if you stand in the same place long enough, he will appear and enlist you into his entourage. 

    

    Next, we have the four Moss-keteers, sworn to protect the Moss-iah at all costs. Equipped with their powerful black powder moss-kets, they are not to be taken lightly. As their motto says, '.....!' 

    The Moss-iah model is an old D&D cultist figure, while the Moss-keteers are Warlord Games AZW British. All of the figures were painted and then a mix of green paint, PVA glue and flock was used for the moss. Once that had dried, I added some washes and drybrushes to give the moss more colour.

    In terms of points these are just 28mm infantry, for a simple 25 points, plus another Squirrel point.

  My ongoing duels information:

Skulls - 218 (+0)
BSRoD - 16 (+0)
Squirrels - 14 (+1) - D&D Animals, 30K Militia, Plague Clowns, Afghans, Robots, Anglo-Saxons, Medieval Polish, Clan Smoke Jaguar, 81st West Africans, Undead, 10mm FPW French, Daemons of Khorne, Modern Vehicles, Turnip28

From DaveD , A second bite of the cherry for Stuart or maybe it’s the turnip . I like mine roasted .. anyway a decent bit of output , the greens have worked well . 25 points it is .

KentG 38/40mm Black plague Zombicide (80 pts)

I’ve been puddling away at my Zombicide minis in between everything 

Else sometimes while waiting for something to dry

Or just for a change, finally got enough gathered for a post

The figures aren’t as good as the minis I normally paint in as the sculpting

But still some of the minis are pretty jolly cool.

Being that I have almost the complete Kickstarter of this with lots 

If add on and I mean lots this will take me years to paint.

Out of this batch these are probably my favourites 

 Ok to the points now I might have it wrong but here we go

Minis are 38to 40mm high

11 @7pts = 77pts

From DaveD . A nice palette cleaner indeed there Kent . Also changing up scale I think helps between regular stuff . As usual your colours pop . The jester type figure is a personal favourite - so I’m making it 80.

From SteveG: miscellaneous ancients. Points 90

  miscellaneous ancients this week.  

Thorakitai on left. Kitbashed.   Aventine on R 

Victrix Greek archer

these 2 are from Vendel Thistle and Rose, metal,  but have had their fantasy heads swapped for perisan plastic ones 

Aventine Thracians 

4 x Aventine metals.  Lovely guys IMO 

the 4 Aventines and 2 kitbashed Victrix ones from Dacians and Thureophoroi kits 

Archers of Elam. Founght as Achemenid Persian Satray troops 

as well as for Seleucid army 

mostly from Victrix Persian archers, heads from WA Army Builder box.
Quivers are off Warhammer Elves.

From DaveD. A fine bunch of various ancients indeed .the Aventine metals are excellent , and you have done then a real justice .For the various kitbash I’m rounding you to 90

Friday KentG 28mm Barons was French mounted (125pts )

This week I’m still doing barons wars minis all from Wargames Atlantic, 

Some of my most favourite minis to paint at the moment,

I was going to do some easy generic knights but then got a little

Carried away spending 8-10 hours each on two of the figures which are the first

 two below, All these knights I have a foot knight already painted in my collection.

This knight below I had already painted the same pattern on a Victix knights miniature

But was a little concerned that I wouldn’t be able to replicate it on this smalls miniature

But once I put my mind to it there was no turning back, every colour even the tiny squares

 has three layers to it, one of the tricky parts was adding all the black lines on the checked pattern 

This next knight drove me rather mad to start with and it took two weeks 

of having it sitting on the table to realise I needed to go for a darker first blue

As I needed three layers but not a bright or light blue finish

In the end the hardest part was getting enough of a flow on the silver grey fine lines

 either side of the thick line and keeping it as close to the same thickness as I drew it across the folds of horse rider and shield, in total there are 18 thin lines on the miniature and far more wee lions once again all in three layers

Anther generic knights which I have foot and mounted sergeants and foot knigh

To go with

The hardest part on the figure below was just getting the striped 

Pattern to look consistent, it was a little harder than I thought

Below is generic minted sergeants which I can use to any side

I now have these in mounted and foot with a knight just above, I have another 

Box of these which I’m not sure I’ll get to.

Below is crazy horse eye the wee beasty is in a rather nasty frame of mind

I don’t normally paint eyes on my foot but horses I do I think they just add enough 

To make it worth while, 

Well that’s another week down really happy with these figures

Pts wise

12 x 28mm cav @10pts each  total 120pts

From DaveD . Kent , I was looking forward to seeing something from you , these don’t  disappoint . Great colour combos . There is some complex work there so 125 it is .