AlanD - Third Century Legionaries (48 points)

 Happy New Year everyone! May your spray varnish never fog and your brushes stay pointy.

I'm continuing to clear my decks of my 'last' 3rd Century Romans from A&A Miniatures. After painting some units I had a number of figures left over - not enough for a whole new unit, but enough to use as markers or to extend the frontage of my units so they can be used in different games systems. Unfortunately, this also meant trying to copy shield designs I had painted a couple of months back, so it has been a bit of a pain. Anyway, here are the first 8 of these chaps.

My next submission should complete my C3rd project, in so far as any of our projects are ever completed, and I look forward to posting some photos of the whole army.

ChrisF - A witch for the sorceress (27points)

 This is a 15mm Witch by Blue Moon. I'm offering it to the sorceress for transport from the Hall of Traps to the Golem Haunt. She's quite a lovely lady with delicate features and a spell finger that most assuredly means business.

I changed her location as the lighting wasn't working for shot from the front.

I tallied points as 20 for the transport, 2 for the mini, and 5 bonus as she is a witch. 

Happy New Year to all!

BruceR 28mm WWII British Recce vehicles 80pts

Who of us is not a wargames butterfly.  To WWII and Chain of Command.  I had the armored car and a friend printed up the dingo scout cars.  Dig through the bits box and find figures to cut up and use as crew.  Add some boxes and tarps and ready to rumble up the highway.  Daimler armored car is warlord games.  A couple of the figures are Black Tree.  Stowage from the bits box  

28mm vehicles 4x20=80pts

From DaveV: First Entry - Sedition Wars Vanguard Samaritan

As a first-time entrant to the Challenge, I am really looking forward to the experience; I have lurked with interest for the past several years.. This figure is my Price of Entry; I am sure it will go to a good home!

I usually paint very slowly, but I hope to use the Challenge to spark some slightly accelerated finishing of projects. This is a 28mm resin figure and separate resin cast base from Studio McVey, once available separately for their now-OOP space combat board game, Sedition Wars. As a resin figure, it's a cleaner casting than the kind of awful restic used in the actual board game models.

Primed black with airbrushed zenithal highlights, this figure was completed in glazes of acrylic washes, with some extra attention for the visor. Only 5 points; it should properly be part of the The Armoury category, but that's a second level challenge room.

I used a scheme similar to Master Chief, in the same colours as the boxed set models I had previously painted. 

PaulS: The Guardian and the Curator (35 points)

 These two were christmas presents for friends, so I had to hold onto them for a while, but they fitted this theme anyway as one is guarding the Child and the other strives to locate and save artifacts (cultural theft in some people's books, but what the heck).

Both of these are 3d printed figures from the ONE GOLD PIECE Patreon. This is the cheapest one I've one at £1 a month for a few interesting dwarf or halfling figures. The last couple of months have also included werewolves and hobbit houses in there, so it's a real bargain for some really interesting fantasy figures.

The Dwarfalorian (as I'm calling him) was  blown up by about 400% to become a beast of a figure (a Dwarf equivalent of 54mm I guess) as I fancied painting something larger than normal. He came out surprisingly well. I may have to try blowing up a few other figures and using them to practice blending on after the challenge.

This is a scale shot of the dwarf next to one of the cultists (scale reference only) from the last entry.

I also painted up this halfling equivalent of Indy. He's a nice little figure

Given that I'm not sure what the dwarf would count as points wise, I'm going to say 10 for him, so with the halfling and the theme bonus that is another 35 points. Oh and happy new year!

PaulS: Come join the cult! (30 points)

 I was going to save these for a later Dungeon room, but there is a gap in the flow and I've used one of these in a scale shot in the next entry... so they need to come out to play now :D

These 6 cultists came from a patreon (sadly I forget which one. I'll add it later if I can find it again). They were a fantasy thing, but I had some pistol hands kicking around and wanted a Dagon cult group to face off against my red cultists in a pulp 7TV cast. There are some supporting models coming later in the challenge to round them out a bit.

That should be another 30 points to the total. Technically 2 are women, so could go into Sarah's side challenge :D

PaulS: Mobile Armour(y) (60 Points)

 There were plenty of options for the Armoury entry, but given that part of this year has been spent painting up a new Tallarn Guard army using parts from Reptilian Overlords, it made sense to use this opportunity to add a few tanks into the mix. One is a repaint of the Hellhound I did a few years back and the other is Reptilian Overlord's Russ equivalent.

I sold my old guard army as I didn't want two different forces hanging around, but I kept a couple of the Forgeworld tanks like this Hellhound

The Russ equivalent is called a Caiman and it comes with so many bits to make the different variants. There are some more in the queue as well as some spare turrets to do different variants and give me options. Each turret costs about £1.50 to print... so why not? This one encountered some printing problems that caused the turret to tear, so rather than binning it I filled the gaps, added some weld lines and made it look like battle damage that has been badly repaired while in the field. At the time I wasn't in the mood to try and print a new one, so that was easier ;)

Two tanks and the Armoury points, should be 60 points to the score, which should tip me over me over my original goal of 500 points, which I'm impressed by. I truly didn't think I'd get this much done... certainly not this fast! Next goal will be 1000 points.

PaulS: The Chicken King cometh (50 Points)

 I hope you all had a good Christmas and are having as good a new year as is possible when locked down (for those in the UK at least). It seems I've been pushed further down the rankings, so I need to pull my finger out and claw my way further through the dungeon and back up the rankings!

The next pair are the Chicken King and his giant rooster, George. I found these on MyMiniFactory and just couldn't help but make this my entry for the Hatchery as he seemed ideal for a crazed wizard or villain in an RPG. He also gave me massive flashbacks to Chicken Kicking in the Fable games :D

Given that I can easily print more, this is also my Curtgeld for the year too, so that should bring him up to 50 points for the duo

From: Jeff B - Sgt Guinness - Ingenieure vorwärts! - "Hall of Traps"

 Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure Vorwarts!

Here is my very first submission ever! This is the first Challenge I’ve entered though I’ve been following it for quite some time. I’m certainly not worthy compared to the extremely talented and very imaginative painters before me. However, I felt I’d give it a go as I needed inspiration and motivation to get some projects moving.

For this first chamber "Hall of Traps" I went with the lying in wait / stalking angle of the “Trap”.

A German pazerschreke team and 81mm mortar with FO lay in wait while supporting German Engineers take up positions to ambush unsuspecting allied armor and infantry slogging their way through the dense Normandy bocage country, June 1944.

Figures are 15mm Peter Pig and the FO team is Old Glory, all purchased about 20 plus years ago. They’ve sat in the same box I put them in once I primed them, doomed never to see the light of day, until now. The 15mm club project had fallen apart and they languished...

The mortar crew, FO, and panzerschreck team have the white infantry piping on their epaulettes while the engineers have the orange piping associated with that branch.

The paints are mostly Polly Scale with a few Vallejo and craft store paints. The figs are based on washers and the basing is wood glue, sand, and ballast painted over with craft store paints and flocked with 25 year old static grass. I’m not happy with how shinny and bright green the grass came out and will need to to something else with the remaining figs to be painted.

(14) 15mm figs + 1 mortar @ 2 pts each = 30 pts + 20 for the chamber of “Traps” = 50 pts.

                                             Engineers Forward! - Ingenieure vorwärts!

                      

From PaulSS: [Sarah the Sorceress] Princess Brenda (25pts)

Princess Elizabeth c.1945 was the freebie given away at Partizan 2012 and it's been shamefully sat in my backlog ever since.

But, I've managed to navigate my way across the dungeon from The Aquifier through to The Hall of Traps and now need to get to The Larder pronto. "Brenda" is offered up in exchange for a swift transit across the dungeon.

I think, like the majority of Partizan figures the sculptor is most probably Martin Baker.

For those interested in the colours used, her hat and battledress tunic and hat are from a base of VMC English Uniform, the skirt, shirt and tie are from VMC Khaki.

A single 28mm figure and the Sarah the Sorceress bonus will add 25 points to my total.

From SimonG: HYW Longbow Men - Completing My Archers Ranks (40 points)

 For my tenth and final stand of English Longbow men in my Impetus 600 point army I fielded my one and only set from 1st Corps . 

Compared with the Perry and Front Rank I mostly use these are definitely on the skinny/Elven side with rather large heads. The multi part construction is also quite a pain to assemble and they seem to be made of a very hard metal that is awkward to drill. One of the assemblies even defeated my ability to correctly string the bow -- first time I've had this happen. He's the chap on the front right, that string should be taught and behind the arrow, but no way I could find to drill that out and trying to glue in separate lengths of thread would have made a mess so I'm stuck with this loose string :-(

Nevertheless they painted up well and I like the range of facial characters.

Here you have the full ranks including the stakes -- looks quite impressive I think, certainly you'd think twice about charging at them!

So for eight 28mm figures that should be good for another 40 points towards my tota;l