The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Saturday, 20 March 2021

KenR - 28mm Wars of the Roses - Last Post - 142 points

Well this was a bit of an unexpected entry, I had planned out the Challenge to a tee and honestly thought "that lot will see me over my target" . So when I finished my Legion and totted up the point being 12 short of my target was slightly annoying, but every cloud has a silver lining.

I spoke to Gareth Lane and Chris Breeze on the Yarkshire Gamer Reet Big Wargames Podcast about their #worldwarroses Project which will see players from around the world battling out a Wars of the Roses game over a weekend in march and I said I would do a little retinue to show my support for the Project.

So I had bought and primed the figures last month with the intention of painting them up post Challenge but needing points I started to paint, I did the Command stand first really quickly and decided to plow through the unit of Archers in quick time and the varnish dried on them 10 minutes ago.

So points wise I have two 28mm mounted for 20 points, 24 foot at 5 points each for 120 and a couple of points for the two flags, the 142 points will take me nicely over my total.

The livery is for an earlier period (Earl of Chester) but the figures have been done as a generic Cheshire Retinue. I have figures for a unit of 24 Bill men and 16 Dismounted Men at Arms. I've always wanted a Front Rank army, I love their figures, I've painted them for others in the past but these are the first which I'm keeping. After that who knows but I have no plans to Go Big with Wars of the Roses (stop laughing) but you all know I've said that before.

So that's it for another year, thanks as always to Curt for organising this wonderful event, I really look forward to it every year and I'm already thinking of a big Project to do next year. Thanks to everyone who has commented on my posts, I tried to keep up putting a comment on each post myself to encourage everyone but the volume of posts (it seems like there has been loads more individual posts this time, Millsy ?) and work meant I couldn't keep up.

I'll do a Challenge Wrap photo next week.