The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge
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Monday, 9 March 2026
From DavidB - Into the Trenches (215-points)
From AaronH - Star Wars Imperials x 13 (65 points)
This week I managed to finish 12 Imperial Snow Troopers and 1 Imperial Officer for Star Wars Legion. I'm waaaay behind this year as my work decided that I needed to travel for the last two months. As you'll see at the end, I have not made a lot of progress against my goal this year.
First off are 12 Snow Troopers. These are a mix of the official, soft, bend, terrible official sculpts and 3D prints.
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| The three in the center are official sculpts. The guy on the left, being all dynamic and stuff, is a 3D print from Squamous. |
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| The rear view. These are set to get new hard plastic sculpts in the next few weeks. The new releases have been great, so I'm looking forward to the replacements. |
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Next up is an imperial officer. She is the old, soft plastic and is, colloquially known as Becky. I have no idea why.
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I was aiming for a more grey-green. I can see it in my minds-eye but I just couldn't pull it off on the model. |
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| She and six of the Snows are for Rhys to take to Adepticon in two weeks, where we'll be playing in the World's tournament. |
That's 13x5 32mm models for 65 points.
Very nice work here Aaron, the Snowtroopers look ace. The ones with heavy weapons look suitably scary. I also like the subtle colour difference between the armour and the capes/cloth. I also quite like your officer. I suspect you were going for a bit more field-grey look here, that's how I've painted some of my Imperial officers. If that's the case might I recommend Vallejo German Uniform?
In any case it's 65 points for you!
Dallas
From SteveA: Bolt Action US Army/Marines (60 points)
This here is the beginnings of my Bolt Action WWII Pacific Theater US Army/Marines. Its my first attempt at painting WWII soldiers, so hopefully I did justice to the uniforms using a variety of Vallejo, AK, Army Painter and Citadel Paints.
To inform my target color palette googled up images for "WWII US Pacific Theater uniforms" and watched HBO's "The Pacific", and then soon released the sprues of Warlord Bolt Action US forces I had used to build these minis appeared to assume the climate of the European Theater and if I am creating a Pacific Theater force, then my future mini builds for this army ought to undergo some uniform conversions to better reflect the heat the soldiers in the Pacific had to endure. So for the sake of my own head canon story for this force, these troops I painted here are newly arrived reinforcements from the mainland and have yet to start tearing off sleeves to better adapt to a tropical battleground.12 x 5pts 28mm Foot Figure = 60 points
Squirrel = My other submissions this year are 28mm 40k Space Marines and 10mm American Civil War Union forces.
Steve, these are some great looking Pacific Theatre US infantry and Marines! The Pacific is the one theatre I've never gotten into with my own WW2 gaming and painting but you've set a great example with these American troops, they look very "cool" (jungle temps notwithstanding) indeed.
Sixty big points for your tally!
Dallas
From NormS: A WWII Soviet 2 man base in 28mm by Norm Smith (10 points)
I am presently working on a 20 man Napoleonic unit that will fetch me 100 points if I can get it done it time for the challenge ending (a holiday is looming, so the race is on!), but at the moment that would still leave me 10 points away from my 400 point challenge goal …. So I have injected those needed 10 points here.
These are the new Soviet WWII sculpts in plastic from Warlord Games. They gave a promotional free sprue away on last months Wargames Illustrated Magazine, so I though I would have a dabble, making them up as basic riflemen, though the sprue has all kinds of options from sniper to panzerfaust armed troops.
These are based at 40mm wide by 30mm deep and it was intended as a bit of a trial to see how a smallish two man base would look / work for the Rapid Fire Reloaded rules for my smaller table and against my current terrain.
The base is plastic (from Kallistra). As the figures are free standing and do not have their own puddle base, I thought a plastic weld glue between plastic figure’s feet and a plastic base might give the strongest bond.
Anyway, here they are easy to put together and I quite like the look. Whether or not they become the next project ….. who knows!
Total for submission 10 points
Thanks Norm.
Very nice work here Norm, and a good use for freebie figures as a test to see if you want to spend your own money on 'em. In my experience though the answer has usually been "yes" which leads to a new project... but you do you! Anyway I quite like the uniform colour you've used and the groundwork on the base also looks great.
Ten big ones for your account, may they stand you well!
Dallas
From SanderS: Bring on the big gun! (30 points)
Hoi,
Time and inspiration are seriously lacking this Challenge for me, but yet I managed to finish two little pieces to keep going. First up is an Empire Hellblaster volleygun for The Old World.
This is a great model and I had so much fun painting it for my Middenheim army, with the blue carriage and all the accessoires on the base.
Last is an unitfiller for my Bretonnian army, I think it's a resin 3d print from Highland miniatures. I have desert-themed it for the Araby Crusade part of my force.
I have no idea how to classify the unit filler so am not counting it for points so just the crewed weapon for me today.
Cheers Sander
Sander, I'm loving the throwbacks to Warhammer Fantasy Battle here! I have some triggering memories of playing against GregB's Empire army and its Helblaster (eek), man that thing was a deadly piece of ordnance. Yours looks fantastic in Middenheim colours, I pity the enemy who faces that thing. As far as the Bretonnian unit filler... it looks to me like about as much work as an infantry model, so I'm awarding five points.
That's 10 for the Helblaster, five each for the crew and five for the filler base, total 30 points.
Dallas




















































