From Barks: Knights of Rohan (100 points)

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!

Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!

spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,

a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

... Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them.

The Return of the King. JRR Tolkien, 1955

These Rohan Royal Guard have been hanging over me for at least ten years and I'm happy to get them done. AHPC XI has been great at delving deep into my lead pile. I painted them with the rider attached to the horse.

I have used a lot of GW Contrast paint here, and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The cloaks and shields are Dark Angels Green without shading or highlighting. Similarly, the horses' coats are one pass of Contrast only:

Snakebite Leather

1:1 Cygor Brown: Contrast Medium

Aggaros Dunes

Black Templar

Gore-grunta Fur

8x mounted 28mm: 80 Points

Knights Solar: 20 Points

GW Side Challenge: 80 Points

From PeteF: Old School 15th Dragoons completed for The Gallery of Ancestors (105 points)

Way back in the mists of time, around the mid 1980s, my Dad painted 10 Minifigs French dragoons as the 15th regiment - nice pink facings & turnbacks. For some reason when he painted French cavalry units he would just do 6 or 10 figures - with his Anglo-Allied army he painted the units on a scale of 25:1 - which means I have a lot of British Light Dragoons and Kings German Legion Hussars. 

Bugler painted by my dad in the 1980s

For 100 Days Campaign/Quatres Bras project I'm doing cavalry units of 12 or 18 figures depending on how many were at the battle - the dragoon regiments were quite big so I'm doing 18 of them for this regiment. I added 8 men and 9 horses (extra horse so I could put the bugler my dad painted on a gray one) to complete the unit.

2nd Row painted by my dad

In a way all my Minifigs units could qualify for the Gallery of Ancestors since the Bloody Little Soldiers (as my mum called them) were part of my childhood and many of them lived in a giant cabinet in the dining room for 30+ years. The remaining soldiers were boxed up last year when new carpets went in. They will travel out here to the US whenever I can finally make it to the Old Country for a visit. Darned pandemic.

Minifigs are always fun to paint - although I use acrylics I can still smell the humbrol and oils that my dad used. I would have brought the humbrols out here but could never work out how to ship the tiny flammable tins across the pond.

9 horses and 8 riders plus a room bonus for a total of 105 points. 

From KyleC - Warp tribute for Sarah - 75pts

So I need to get to the tomb as I have quite a few skulls that are in need of painting.. And I mean.. A lot... 😂 😂 😂

Right and now the tribute.. And their followers.. 

Triple threat here of bad ass take no prisoner ladies here.. All of these are the resin mercs by Forgeworld that I have painted up for a local mate here in exchange for a shed load of terrain for the home gaming... Which was really cool to get!

Quite a few followers.. From what I am told its almost the entire merc force for Necromunda.. So each got to be painted slightly differently and freely in the end. 

Both sets were painted separately but figured I would post them together here. And no idea why the first photos are so hazy.. Probably muggy lens on my cell phone again.. 

But yeah... So 10 28mm figures for 50 pts and a 40mm dog(?) for 7 pts and Sarah's tribute for 20 pts. Giving me 77 pts to finish January... And I say that as I hadn't know how well January was for me for painting until I was chatting with some mates about it.. Seems I have painted a "few" models this month let alone in the comp so far... 

So I lined them all up together on the display counter and was pretty impressed.. Only the Fowls were missing as they are being used for playtesting Honk with my buddies kids.. 

But then there you would see a full 170 models painted for January... Like.. Um.. 😂 😂 Yeah.. And February I am planning another few large projects.. Let's get crazy here yah??? 🤔 😂 

From MartinC Anzacs (80pts)

 My WW1 collection is expanding and will now not just to Dunsterforce but also cover Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and across to Afghanistan. So I need more stuff. 

I picked up these figures from ebay and are Wargames Foundry Anzacs. They are quite nice but lack variety. The main variety is that one of them is a colonial adventurer equipped and dressed appropriately.

There are only 16 of them so I will need more.

Scores on the doors

16 x 28mm = 80pts

From GregB - Curtgeld Figure: "Tolerance", Inquisitorial Public Affairs Specialist

Meet "Tolerance", Inquisition Team Member.

We are well underway with this edition of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, and I am late with my entry figure, the so-called "Curtgeld". This is pretty shameful on my part, but to Curt's great credit he only reminded me gently and didn't use the word "moron" even once while doing so! Lucky for me, I had already set aside the figure in question well in advance of this edition of the AHPC, and the theme lined up well...MikeF has been painting up a fantastic Inquisitorial band for his 40k collection - and has arrived at the Altar of the Snow Lord Himself - so to hopefully inspire him further, I thought I would paint this figure for him, to join the retinue of his terrifying 40k Inquisitor Grayfax.  Thus I present "Tolerance", Inquisitorial Assassin Public Affairs Specialist.

Plastic figure from GW's "Elucidian Starstriders" set.

This is a 28mm plastic figure from GW. I believe it was part of some kind of Kill Team set...the Elucidian Starstriders. I was never into the background of any "Kill Teams", but I thought these figures were so cool so I picked some up, as there are many neat character-types that will be fun for 30k and 40k gaming. This specific figure is a member of a Death Cult Local Climate Justice Awareness Council. Given the spirit of our times, and hers, I am ditching the GW name and designating her as "Tolerance" instead, as she would appear to capture the spirit of this sentiment in her times...and increasingly ours. 

Not sure what is up with that body suit, but I assume that provides...lumbar support?

When painting a one-off figure like this, it is fun to experiment. So for this figure, I thought I would give GW's new "Contrast" paints a try. Oh, I've used them here and there on small, specific spots (like coloured hoses for Titans etc.), but this is the first figure I have painted where nearly all of it was done with Contrast Paints. Or, I should say, it was supposed to be...I find the effect of the Contrast Paints can be interesting, but also terrifically underwhelming in some ways, so there are a few spots where my more standard painting techniques were used. Still, it was fun to try something new - it is a painting "Challenge" after all. Many folks are coming up with some pretty neat results using these new paints...I just need to practice more!

Good luck with the Snow Lord's Challenge!

So Mike, I hope "Tolerance" here can inspire you to complete the Snow Lord's Challenge, and then help Inquisitor Grayfax impose the Emperor's Social Justice on wargaming tables set in the grim darkness of the far future. For points, this will be five points, plus the Curtgeld bonus. 

Cheers everyone - thanks for reading! Stay sane!

KenR : The Chamber of Darkness : The Bouncer 27 pts

 

I'm continuing to stumble through the upper reaches of the Chambers whilst others sprint through the Finish Line ! I've got a couple of weeks off work at the moment so I might get ahead of schedule and be able to dip into the Chambers at bit more towards the end of March.

I quite enjoyed my little greyscale adventure and the figure suited it nicely. Most football clubs have bouncers to eject you from the ground for causing trouble, at Bradford City we employ them to make sure you don't leave 😉  This lad has an extendable noose just in case someone slips out, they can be rapidly caught and returned to their personal seat and be restrained for the rest of the game 🤣

To keep the Bradford City theme going from my previous posts in the Chambers I've allowed myself a tiny bit of leeway adding a claret and Amber club tie to the lad.

The figure itself comes from the Malifaux game and the Jack Daw crew which I have used so far throughout the Chambers. The model is massive just over 50mm tall so I have claimed the extra points for size, so 10 for the model and 20 for the Chamber.

I had assorted fun trying to photograph this fig, but managed some semi reasonable shots in the end. I'm just finishing the basing on 32 Principes and have got a lovely Burger Van model from Ainsty so I can complete Level 1 with my Bradford City theme, Bantam Burger and Chips anyone !

From SimonG: Invoking the Assistance of Baba Yaga for Transport to The Orcs Pit (27 points)

So who better to transport us away from the Armoury and the might of Cold War Russia than that most famous Slavic witch and practitioner of cartomancy -- Baba Yaga!

This is clearly not Baba in her "old crone" disguise -- maybe this is a glamour but she certainly looks the part and I did my best to dress her appropriately, down to her Louboutin heels and her summery daisy pattern skirt. Once again this is a Black Rose Wars 38mm figure -- in this case one of the principal characters that you play in the game. 

It's a good scuplt in concept let down by a) some weak design elements (especially the hands), b) a generally "soft" cast, especially on elements like the jewelry and c) challenges in construction and casting -- a fair amount of filler was needed again around the shoulder girdle area. Her hut is a very nice model however!

Once again I enjoyed trying out a mix of "realistic" and "magical" effects on this one and it came together pretty well I think. It's all traditional Citadel paints, washes and very limited highlighting. For once this is a case where my "excess of eyeliner" eyes are apposite -- plus I even gave her a bit of extra eye makeup!

I think that makes another 27 points -- 20 for a Sarah transport and 7 for the figure plus whatever bonus might accrue for this being a bona fide witch!

from RayR - Sarah the Sorceress - Sarah's Choice - Verthandi 25pts

 

I call upon her Highness Sarah the Sorceress, please transport me from the Guardroom to 

the Armoury on Level 2?

My second Witch from Macbeth is Verthandi , she's a bit younger than her sister Urthr, by around

 64 years! She is from Black Tree Design's Macbeth set.  Which I can't seem to find on their website???? I've carried on with the green skin tone, with goes quite well with the shock of red hair!

Verthandi should earn me 5 points with the Sarah Bonus of 20, making a total of 25 points!!