From Bruce R Golems Haunt (45 pts)

 Back to the Chamber of Challenge.  As the adventurers delve deeper into the Chamber they come upon a very quite room.   Whew, finally a safe haven, until some shuffling draws the parties attention to the back of the room.  Poncho the Cleric blows life into his holy relic and illuminates the far alcove in dull light.  All they can make out is some shambling noises and all of a sudden the word "get em".  Into the light comes a little man with an oversized ead screaming take them my pretties.  Arrghh, Zombies in uniforms and carrying some strange type of pole arm.

As a wargame butterfly I've loads of old projects in the man cave.  No Golems, (Frostgrave is a something we like, yet all Golems painted, shame) but remember I had Alternative Armies figures for Flintloque.  I'd gotten my group to play a few games ages ago and picked up some of the boxed set adventures.  This one I pulled off the shelf is titled Lady Wintermore's Fangs. Sixteen miniatures in the Napoleonic theme in the Alternative Armies scale.  So paint 1 or 5 zombies, 5 it is.  Might have to break them out once we are able to game again with a small skirmish game with the group.  Maybe others will fit into the Chambers future rooms.  

So here is a start to the boxed set with the four Russian militia zombies and the big headed little henchman.  

20 points for the Golems Haunt and 25pts for the figures.  Enjoy.

Bruce R.

From ChrisF - Curtgeld Mini 28mm (5pts)

 This is a Grenadier Dungeon Raider #8119 by Julie Guthrie circa 1993. A nice dungeon party figure as he has a couple of bags and some rope as well as the lantern. 

I was able to get some lantern glow on him, better than some of my past results. I wonder how come it takes six coats of yellow for a decent shield or cloak base, but the minute you want just a subtle shade of yellow for a light source, it leaps off the brush with a vengeance and coats like lane marker paint?

With my entry mini done, I'm back to some 15mm for a bit. 

From PeteF: Minifigs Light Infantry for Quatres Bras (120 points)

Old School Battalion

Old school Napoleonic Minifigs are one of my favourite things to paint - I love gaming with them too - but get to do so only rarely. I'm building up the French Minifigs army so that it can take on the Anglo-Allied army that I inherited from my dad and brother. Waterloo at 100ish French infantry battalions seems too much of a stretch but Quatres Bras at 30 battalions is within reach. I'll need  a total of10 light infantry battalions and this one, the 2nd/2nd, is number 7 (the other 3 are primed and ready to paint).

4th Company and Voltigeurs

Most of these minis are from a batch I got a few years ago from someone who could no longer wargame and was breaking up their collection to pay medical bills - an aspect of US society I'll never get my head round. Technically FN68 is a Croation infantryman advancing - but their trousers and pom poms together with the rest of their equipment makes them look a lot like 100 days campaign legere. 

The 2nd/2nd was a pleasure to paint - I tried a new recipe for light infantry blue, which worked and a new approach to doing the buttons, which didn't.  I'm still experimenting with highlights - I want to like the way they look close up and 3 feet away. Not sure if that's compatible.

Carabiniers with Sapper

Santa was good and managed to fit a lot of 7litre Really Useful Boxes down the chimney - some of them color coded blue for the Frenchies. Each one can hold about a division - around 10 infantry battalions of 24 Minifigs each.

Really Useful Boxes of Fun

I was lucky this year and hit the French Napoleonic Minifigs mother load when a wargamer moving away from the state decided to let go of his mostly unpainted Minifigs.  I think there are enough for around 2 infantry divisions and there were a bunch of cavalry too. Maybe I can get started on Waterloo after all.

24 Infantry for 120 points.

The Challenge XI shelf begins to fill. 

From Curt: Lily Hill - Pulp Adventuress (25 Points)

Being too crafty by half, I've landed in the Aquifer, but much to my embarrassment, I've discovered that I'm no where near ready to take on the 'Chamber of Darkness'. So I'm going to call upon our friendly sorceress, Sarah, to teleport me to the 'Hall of Traps' instead.

This is Lily Hill. She is a wilful dilettante, an adventuress, a raider of tombs, and a breaker of hearts.

Lily is a daughter of an oil magnate who desperately wanted a son to take over the family business. Wanting to be accepted by her father, Lily became a tomboy as a young girl, learning to shoot, ride, drive, fly and use very, very uncouth language. Nonetheless, she has grown into a beautiful young woman and has discovered she can use her feminine wiles as yet another tool in her ever growing set of of skills.

Lily has developed a deep fascination of ancient cultures, and so has undertaken several expeditions into uncharted jungles and mapless deserts, looking for artefacts and treasures of lost civilizations. 

These adventures often get Lily into tight scrapes, but she is more than up to the task of getting out of them (or making them even worse).

'Nazis... I hate these guys.'

Lily Hill will give me a total of 25 points, which includes the Sorceress bonus.

Before I take on the 'Hall of Traps' I'm going to take a detour and make an addition to one of my many standing projects. Hopefully more on that soon.

-Curt

from PaulO'G: Nurgle Blood Bowl team (2 points)

 This is one of those WIP projects that wasn't quite done when the challenge period started, but I had a lot of fun finishing them. Reilly has another team in a similar position - our painting rate was slowed because we were too busy playing with them on the pitch most days, so not an entirely vexing situation :-)

These are GW figures which the Lad bought for me for Father's day...last year, so its great to give them some attention with us enjoying the new edition of Blood Bowl.  I went with a non-green Nurgle look and doing all the washes and glazes on the pustules was fun (I even got to use my 1980-something tentacle pink paint at last!). I also enjoying playing the GW Oxide technical paint to get the verdigris look on the armour.

So the only actual models started and finished during AHPC are in fact the 2 balls, which are disgusting Nurling beast creatures (and have funny rules for them also).  And thus I claim just two points for this submission.

Recently watched Peaky Blinders, thus the "Red Right Hand" on the team captain

From ScottM: Russian Heavy Weapons (140 points)

This post is composed of two parts. All the figures in this post are from the Plastic Soldier Company 28mm Russian Infantry Heavy Weapons box. The first part is my submission for chamber #1: the Hall of Traps. Here's two teams of AT rifles lying in wait to bag a couple of the German invaders.

The second part of this post is the remainder of the box. First is a few bases of machinegun teams.

It wasn't till I had the figures assembled, glued onto the bases, primed and started painting that I realized that on the bases with the walking figures, both figures are supposed to be pulling the machinegun. Oops!

Next is a lone AT rifle carrying trooper.

And finally are two 50mm mortar teams and two 82mm mortar teams.

 So that should be:

4 - 28mm foot figs + Chamber #1 bonus = 40 points

20 - 28mm foot figs = 100 points

For a total of 140 points

from RayR - Haitian Standard Bearer 5pts

 My duck is broken, I've managed to get my first entry into the 11th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge before the end of the year, but its only a tiddler.

I had a spare Haitian Rebel/Slave figure, so chopped off his sword and drilled and pinned a flagpole.

As for the flag, there is a reference online saying the Slaves carried a flag of a Moor head on a white field in 1790.  https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ht-hist.html

I'm sure I got the flag from Stuart on Dust, Tears & Dice Blog, but I may have found it online?

Can't remember?

Oh well, should be a massive 5 points!

KenR - Hall of Traps - Bradford City Season Ticket - 25 pts

 

I would like to present the new seating for Valley Parade (the home ground of the English Football Team Bradford City). Many people, like myself have been trapped in the endless cycle of buying Season Tickets watching rubbish football and falling further and further down the football league, do I give in ? By jove no !

So rather than having the option of sneaking out at half time whilst pretending to make a phone call, fans will be encouraged to remain in their seats through a new range of reclining padded chairs enhanced by luxury leather restraints.

The anguish shown on the face of the figure is modelled on an actual Bradford fan after losing 2 nil to Accrington Stanley on a cold, wet, windy Tuesday Night in November when Accrington brought 17 fans. 

The figure itself is 28mm from a game called Malifaux, its one of 6 figures I got in a box set for a Jack Daw crew and the remaining figures will feature as I try and get through the Chambers. I make this 25 points, 5 for the figure and 20 for the bonus. Next up the first unit from my Allied Italian Legion.

Bruce R 40pts for 4 more Old Sweats Battle of Little Bighorn

 Home for Christmas has some painting being done.  Here are four more foundry Old Sweats for our Battle of Little Bighorn project.  Named on Foundry's page Horn, McDonnell, Cocoran and Conner.  Foundry has dismounted figures in the same character and this is great.  Maybe not next, but will attempt to get them done during the challenge.  

Here are Horn, McDonnell, Cocoran, and Conner.

The group in full.

The group with the dismounted in the painting line.

Okay, back to the "Chambers" for a side gig.

So 40 pts for 28mm Cavalry.

Stay safe and enjoy the painting.  Bruce