From TamsinP - 'Boys in Blue' 6mm ACW (120 Points)

But not Prohibition era coppers this time. Instead I present you with some Orkish Russian Space Marines of the Spanish American Civil Wars of the Roses against the invaders from Mars.

Nah, let's be serious for a minute. Or at least try.

6mm ACW Union Infantry - Eight Bases

These are the first 6mm figures I've painted for about 3 years. I'd forgotten what it was like painting such teeny tiny shininess. It wasn't that bad.

I actually had four of these bases so, so close to being finished for last Saturday but didn't quite make it in time. So, you're getting them this week along with another four bases I painted up alongside the NSL power armour.

The two batches were painted and based slightly differently, but not so differently that you'd notice particularly. When I last [painted some 6mm ACW I was using Revell Aqua Colour paints, but have since switched to Vallejo, so I needed to find the most appropriate colours to use.

The First Batch:

I actually used three different lots of static grass (summer, meadow and moorland grass) on these to give some variety as with 6mm good basing helps with the overall look of the units.


The Second Batch:

This will teach me to look at the bases before taking photos. It looks as though I must have splodged a bit of the paint I was dry-brushing with onto the skirmishers. That will need to be touched up at some point.

The figures are all from Baccus, as are the flags. I did go over the edges with a gold pen to disguise the white of the paper.


So, eight bases of 28 figures in 6mm at 0.5 points each should be 112 points to add to my tally.

Hmm, can I very quickly paint up a 28mm foot figure to take my weekly total over 200 points?


From Curt:

Ah, these look wonderful Tamsin! Painting these little blighters one definitely has to be clean and neat but I think one of the essential things in doing micro-scale is to nail-down the basework as it can often make or break the whole aesthetic. With that being said I think you've really done a great job on how you've approached the basing of these figures Tamsin. The mix of foliage and tallus helps to accent the figures but does not overwhelm them. Great job! 

I'm awarding you another 8 points for the eight sets of flags in this entry, so with this you've more than achieved your 200-point week. Well done Tamsin.

Also, with this entry you've managed to regain your lead from Alan and Ian, but with only a 41 point spread. I have a suspicion that we will be treated to a running battle between you three over the next few weeks!

Now, I with both you and Alan having submitted sub-15mm entries I need to get a wiggle on so I'm not completely shamed in our duel!

From TamsinP - 15mm Neu Swabian League Strom Gepanzerte Sturmtruppen (84 Points)

A bit more 15mm SciFi goodness for you. This time a bunch of 15mm NSL power armour troops from GZG.

At the club, there are only a couple of us playing 15mm SciFi and we have settled on Gruntz for our ruleset. We've also opted for group basing for the ordinary squads of infantry, for ease of play. It also means you can use 3 or 4 figures on a base to represent a squad of 6-8 troops. Troops in basic infantry squads normally have the same weapon, but each squad can also have 2 support weapons attached. I'm using 20mm hexes for squad attachments (none on this group).

It's a bit different with power armour troops, as their armour allows every trooper to carry a support weapon, but you have to pay for each figure with them rather than once for the whole squad.

You can also have specialists with heavy support weapons (or engineers, medics, artillery observers etc). I'm mounting these on 30mm hexes or 40mm for crew served weapons and small vehicles such as grav bikes.

Leaders are mounted on 40mm octagonal bases.

But that's enough background blather, on with the post.

This entry consists of 42 figures and will either represent a company (one base = 1 squad) or a reinforced platoon (at 2 bases = 1 squad). There are a commander, 5 specialists (3 missile launcher troops and 2 sub-commanders/observers) plus 6 plasma gun squads and 6 SAW squads.

Commander and Sub-Commanders:

To help with identifying bases for record keeping, I've added markings on the left shoulder (company, platoon, squad) and rank markings on the right shoulder.

As you can see, they have various arm positions - the arms come on sprues and are very fiddly (and easily lost when they ping out of your forceps!). This is really good for creating some variety in the unit as there are only 2 body variants.

On their backs they have jump packs which are also provided on sprues. The commanders have the version with sensor and comms modules on top.

Missile specialists:

Just in case they encounter any enemy armour or bunkers, it's useful to have these missile launcher troops. These guys have jump packs with sensor modules only.


Which leaves the basic grunts of the company. Each squad will have 4 troopers armed with adapted assault rifles and 2 with squad attachment support weapons - either a heavy plasma rifle or a SAW. Their jump packs have shoulder mounted rocket/grenade launder modules for a bit of extra firepower.

Plasma Squads:

SAW Squads:

I will probably get a couple more packs of the support weapons to base up as specialists and maybe as all-SAW/plasma squads.

I do have about a company's worth of their non-power armoured comrades to paint up at some point. I am tempted to try painting them all up for next Saturday...

So, 42 figures should give me 84 points. I won't be greedy and ask Curt to take into consideration that they are much bigger than standard 15s.


From Curt:

Very cool figures Tamsin. I have an ancient copy of 'Gruntz' in my rules library and should give it a perusal as I have a lot of these types of figures kicking their heels doing nothing.

I quite like the fellows with the white ('please, shoot me') coms modules on their jump packs. They are probably issued with preemptory wound badges. ;)

Good work!

From TeemuL - The Last Arrer Boyz (25 Points)

These guys won't need much introductions, some good old greenskins with bows. They would have been quite boring alone, because you all have seen them week after week, so I decided to add some scenery. No more white background, enter green background with cardboard buildings! Yes, the buildings are quite elfish, but these greenskins have most likely conquered them. I believe the buildings are genuine GW products from the same era as the figures. I don't really know, I bought them few years ago and they were old then.

First two more goblins, again with unique hoods. Left one looks little bit like a stereotypical cartoon native American, the right one is simpler with a black trim.

 Then three big uns, still in perfect harmony, no individuality here.

Group shot of all the five between buildings. As you might have guessed, these are the last ones I have. I do have some close combat orcs and goblins still unpainted, I hope to give them some attention during this challenge. They are not next in line, I need to paint something else first.

And then last one is a bonus picture, all the orc and goblin arrers I have painted during this challenge (and 5 old ones in the back row, which I painted years ago). Starts to look like an army, eh?

From Curt:

Haha, from the title of the post it sounds like the title of a great Sergio Leone film!

Excellent work Teemu. This little side project of yours has taken a lot of us back to our first years in the hobby - right down to the bright red bows, patterned hats and sawdust basework. Wonderful stuff!

Well done.

Bonus Points Awards for 'Victorian' Theme Round

Hello folks!

Below is the new roster after tallying the points from the 'Victorian' bonus round. I've been playing with different ways to display the rankings. I like the look of this one but tabulating and logging it hurts my noggin. Anyway, my thanks to all the participants who submitted entires - it was a great round.

Also congratulations to Paul for meeting his Challenge points target - well done!

Finally, just as a reminder Saturday (today) is the deadline for submissions for the 'Myth' theme round, so remember to get your submission in to me as tomorrow is the posting.

	Challenger	Points Target	Previous Points	Theme Bonus	New Total
1.	Millsy	2000✔	2042	100	2142
2.	DaveD	2250	2000	65	2065
3.	MilesR	2000	1357	170	1527
4.	MarkO	1000 ⬆ 2500	1431	55	1486
5.	MartinC	1000✔ ⬆ 2000	1398		1398
6.	AlanD	1500	976	67	1073
7.	IanW	1000✔ ⬆ 2000	1046		1046
8.	AdamC	1000	800	196	996
9.	TamsinP	1500	910		910
10.	AaronH	650✔ ⬆ 1500	908		908
11.	GregB	300 ✔ ⬆ 1500	829	55	884
12.	JohnM	1000	716	105	821
13.	GillesW	1000	724		724
14.	BrendonW	1000	645	70	715
15.	ClintB	1250	710		710
16.	ByronM	1000	606	57	663
17.	SanderS	500✔ ⬆ 1000	564	60	624
18.	Curt (3rd)	750	515	80	595
19.	MartinN	400✔ ⬆ 750	484	55	539
20.	PaulS	500✔	484	55	539
21.	JamesR	750	454		454
22.	RichardM	700	425		425
23.	MikeP	500	359	65	424
24.	SamuliS	1000	415		415
25.	JamieM	500	344	60	404
26.	SteH	750	330	70	400
27.	BrianB (2nd)	500	261	130	391
28.	BurkhardS	1000	335	55	390
29.	JaccoK	500	314	75	389
30.	SeanS	1000	313	55	368
31.	ScottB	600	298	55	353
32.	SimonM	500	268	80	348
33.	MichaelA (1st)	1000	170	170	340
34.	DavidB	750	334		334
35.	JuanM	500	262	55	317
36.	RichardC	500	237	70	307
37.	KevinH	300	239	55	294
38.	MichaelF	501	292		292
39.	DavidL	750	289		289
40.	RobP	500	208	60	268
41.	RoyW	750	187	80	267
42.	TeemuL	500	267		267
43.	StefanK	750	205	60	265
44.	RayR	300	197	55	252
45.	StefanoS	300	236		236
46.	MarkG	750	235		235
47.	PeterT	500	222		222
48.	PhilH	500	215		215
49.	PeterD	1000	173		173
50.	AnneO	500	165		165
51.	VincentC	500	160		160
52.	PeterB	1000	140		140
53.	SebG	500	80	55	135
54.	TobiP	500	132		132
55.	IannickM	600	75	55	130
56.	EdwinK	1000	105		105
57.	BenG	400	93		93
58.	RossM	500	54		54
59.	ChristopherS	500	54		54
60.	KevinS	500	42		42
61.	RobH	200	35		35
62.	Evan&GrantH	200
63.	FranL	600
64.	JeremyM	300
65.	Kawe	200
66.	MarkE	500
67.	ScottS	1000
68.	SidneyR	750
69.	StacyS	300
70.	SteveM	800
71.	SylvainR	300