From Dallas: Great Unclean One in the Lair of the Great Beast (40 points)

Well if this doesn't qualify as a "great beast" I'm not sure what would... it's Forge World's absolutely magnificent Great Unclean One, Greater Daemon of Nurgle. It's a massive resin casting that I picked up at a swap meet/bring and buy thing locally, likely about five years ago.

The detail on the model is great, and by great I mean disgusting...

Unfortunately someone's gotten to the GUO's backbone, or maybe he's just cracked apart back there...

So many open sores... no way this dude is getting in a hotel swimming pool.

The right hand and sword with tongue wrap were a separate resin casting. It assembled very slickly.

Had to apply some gloss varnish to his guts.

It's a pretty large model, sure to be the centrepiece of my Nurgle Chaos Space Marines force, if we ever get to have a game again...!

So I'll count 20 points for the GUO and 20 for the room bonus. Last up is the Hall of Heroes, then I will be petitioning the Snowlord to assign my last task. Some sub-optimal planning on the Heroes model has caused a small delay but I think the wait will be worth it, just for cool factor... we'll see!

Stay safe everyone!

From MartinC Kurdish Irregular Infantry (50pts)

 Another post to round off the weekend. These figures are actually Northstar Spanish Civil War Morrocan infantry being passed off as Kurdish Irregulars for my WW1 Ottoman Army. They will be the last figures in the force until I can find some good cavalry. Not convinced by Tiger Miniatures or Matchlock esp as cavalry are expensive. 

These work well and the stripey trousers and head scarves make a change from the the beige of the Ottoman regulars

I may increase these to a full platoon, although cavalry 1st

So that is 10 x 28mm figs = 50 pts

From GregB - 10mm French Line Lancers for Franco-Prussian War (32 points)

French Lancers in 10mm for the FPW - figures from Pendraken.

More 10mm Franco-Prussian War? Yes! More 10mm Franco-Prussian War. I'm on a bit of a roll with it, so
I want to keep it going. These 10mm figures are meant to represent two regiments of French Line Lancers, ready to ride to glory in the summer of 1870. The castings are from Pendraken - as always, a joy to paint, but with one sort of mysterious feature, one which I could not quite bring out in the photos...

Beautiful sculpts as always from Pendraken - but take a really close look at the musician, if you can.

Cavalry was very important to the armies of 1870, but the era of cavalry regiments closing to contact and having a decisive impact on the battle itself was coming to an end. Of course, no point wasting you time advancing those views in the summer of 1870, right? These brave fellows will run down any enemies foolish enough to mess with Imperial France! What should they be scared of? A bunch of foot-sloggers with black powder muskets? No,...they have rifles you say? Breech-loading you say? How many shots per minute? Backed by breech-loading artillery? Well...I'm sure it will all work out in the end - debrouiller, as the French say. Instant glory awaits. You should charge that Prussian line right now.

Maybe check the musician in this photo? No...a bit blurry...

These are based for the "1871" game rules, where a single base represents two squadrons of cavalry or so, and two bases together represent a regiment. Of course, as with the infantry, the scale of the game can be increased or decreased, so different combinations are possible, but the intent for now is that these will represent two different regiments ready to fight in some of the early engagements near the French/Prussian border.

Yellow facings for this unit.

It was difficult to find clear uniform references for the Lancers in this period. The relevant Osprey book is a bit of a disappointment in this regard, so in the end I bodged it a bit. One of the regiments has yellow facings and collars, the other red...I think I ended up exaggerating the amount of colour on the facings, but it helps when the figures are in this scale.

To battle! Vive L'empereur!

Ok...so I mentioned at the outset there was something odd about the musicians. Can you spot it? Probably not...but each bugler is missing his right forearm - a flaw in the casting, I suppose. And pretty odd that both musicians had that issue. But you only get one bugler per pack, and I didn't want to order new packs of Lancers just to get more musicians...so the "ghost bugles" will help lead these riders to battle on the table!

Score-wise, we have 16 cavalry at 10mm size, so that should work out to another 32 points. Thanks for reading! I hope to finish some more FPW stuff before this edition of the Challenge concludes!

From: Jez Todd Week Seven AVBCW Vehicles - 50 points

 Dear All 

Hi from the end of week 7 of the Challenge. This week continuing the AVBCW theme and managed to add a couple of vehicles. We'll be playing using Bolt Action rules and want all my squads to be mobile.   

Adding in a couple of Warlord models, the 1940 Beaverette Armored car - painted up in a Police dark blue to be part of my mythical armed police squad. This was a 1940's Lord Beaverbrooke inspired "bodge up" using a civilian lorry and to try and cover up losses from Dunkirk, perfect for the setting! Also a standard truck. I also managed to paint up the First Corps excellent petrol attendant set. 

Just put these together in a couple of diorama shots. I think 50 points for the two vehicles and figure plus added 5 for the petrol pump paraphernalia.  

Have a great week. Cheers all Jez

 

From ByronM - Cruel Seas box set (80 points)

Today's submission is yet another side project that has been sitting around in a box since I bought it....  Cruel Seas.  I played this one with Curt a few years ago, liked the game, so picked it up.  It then sat in the box.

I pulled it out this week as a break from another project that I am working on, that I am kinda stuck on.  I figured a break from the other project would get something painted and online since it has been a while.

Here are the German S-boats.

Here are the British Vospers, both type 1 and type 2.

Nothing on these was fancy, I just followed the painting guide included in the box, and tried to keep everything clean.  Overall they look ok, but I may weather them a bit, just not sure about how it would look at this scale, as anything done would be way to large to scale, so I just left it for now.  

More on these coming, as I have a few more ships being 3d printed right now.

As for points, I looked back and Curt has been scoring these as the equivalent of 15mm vehicles, so 8 points each x 10 = 80 points.

From PaulSS: 1st (Royal) Dragoons (120pts)

Having been on a slow burner these past three weeks, the 1st (Royal) Dragoons are (almost*) ready for inspection.

The figures are all rather lovely sculpts for Brigade Games done by Paul Hicks.

Here is a view that the British Generals and Infantry were more than used to in the period as they gallop off into the distance after their fox.

Some close-ups of a few of the bases.

These have been a long time on the painting table, as one of life's natural infantrymen I find painting cavalry can be rather a chore and these seemed exceptionally so. It's not the horses that take the time, it's all the fuss that goes into the riders.

*I have an order wending it's way to the US from GMB Designs, so the ensign will get his colours soon after that arrives, at the moment he's just gesticulating open handed at the Rupert.

I have the rest of the Union Brigade "on deck", but will paint some infantry next as a palette cleanser.

Twelve 28mm cavalry figures will add 120 points to my total and should take me just over my target for the challenge, it's all gravy from here on in!

28mm Napoleonics Duel Totalizer: 26 mounted, 73 foot, 3 guns

From SimonG: Two Stands of HYW Mounted English Men at Arms (100 points)

Returning to my ongoing HYW project in 28mm I offer up the only stands of mounted men at arms on the English side. These two Impetus based stands represent Sir John Fortescue (blue banner with the white stripe) and Sir Thomas Rempston.

Both of these captains served in the late 1420s Joan of Arc period campaigns and Fortescue went on to a famous career as a judge in the court of Henry VI and in the Wars of the Roses -- he left a substantial written record in legal thinking and is buried in St Eadburgha's Church in Ebrington .

Rempston had a far more colourful HYW career and was active at many of the major battles of the last period of the war -- all in all he's a good and very useful Captain base for this period.

The figures are all Perry plastics with the exception of Fortescue which is a modest conversion of the Count de Vendome from the Agincourt French mounted command metal set -- I cut off the shield and tried my best to remove all of the moulded in heraldry (uugh!).

The horses for Rempston are all Perry wheras four of the five for Fortescue are Front Rank -- the Perry boxes are short of mounts relative to riders and the Front Rank mounted knights are very stiff poses so the mix works well -- although these horses are a bit "plough horse" like relative to the Perry's.

Flags are my own laser printed onto paper on foil and the surcoat and jupon are all hand painted. 

Ten mounted figures certainly is a fair amount of work and I'm glad I don't have to do any more but am pleased with how they came out -- anyway that's ten 28mm mounted figures at 10 points each for a total of another 100 points.

Next up I'm going to learn how to use an airbrush (or not, if it turns out to be too hard!)

From PaulSS: Definitely not these droids (20pts)

Chum Drew has recently bought an Elegoo Mars and when we recently met up for a socially distanced walk he handed me a bag of droids he'd printed off for me to paint up and add to the Star Wars: Legion collection.

These are the first five, there are a similar amount in the backlog that will hopefully get done in time for a future post on the challenge.

There is something about the GNK "Gonk" power droids that I really like, with a Gonk, you'll never be without a charge for your communicator.

I already have a R2-D2 from the "Escape  Pod" set so, this one was done in a predominantly beige and yellow scheme as a generic R2 unit.

Not sure of the designation of this astro-mech, but he's about 2/3 the size of the R2 units.

Usually seen scuttling around star-ships and large facilities, this mouse droid is probably going to find the Batuu terrain of our battlefields a little hard on his tiny wheels.

Finally a C-3PO, I already have one of these too, so this one was done in silver. Unfortunately, when painting the base I managed to knock his left arm off that pinged into the distance and remains unfound.

A doting husband just know the perfect gifts for his wife. Flowers, chocolates, Imperial war machines all help you maintain that special place in their heart.

Although not claiming ant points for this I thought I'd share a couple of pics of the AT-ST that Victoria has painted.

No doubt this will be causing great destruction among my rebels on a battlefield in the near future.

There are more pictures of this beast over on Scrivland.

It's difficult to gauge the points for the five droids, the Legion figures are scored at 7pts each, but I think 20pts for the five of them is fairer as none of them are that big.