From JeremyM: Psykers and Alien Eggs in the Hatchery (60 points)

 So I'm now ready to descend to the next level of the chambers and I'll start this post by paying my dues for the transportation. Now I recall from my very first post in the challenge this year (an ork that I offered to give to PeterD) that Mr. Campbell complained in the comments that no one was giving him anything at that time. I haven't followed everyone's posts to see if that has changed, but perhaps we can rectify that.

I have two imperial guard psykers both are 3d prints. The original is the male, the female is a kitbash I made by reposing the arm, swapping the head, and shrinking the model just slightly.  I recall Curt's Sisters of Battle army was kind of dark grey and red. So the female psyker was meant to reflect those colours and is a gift, while the male is more blue toned and will be added to my guard army. I had a hard time thinning the red paint to go over her red armour so it didn't turn out quite as nice as the blue tone on the other but its passable I think.

And now for my post for the hatchery. Anyone who has seen my other posts will be shocked that with this chamber I'm back to the aliens themed posts. So here are two sets of alien eggs from prodos games.

I decided to go with a green undertone followed by a heavy drybrush of off white. I know the originals were more predominantly white but I kind of wanted the facehuggers that are emerging from within to stand out a bit more, and green seemed like an obvious choice that also showed up in a bunch of inspiration images online.

So that's 4 28mm figures (the eggs already came based and are pretty simple), 20 points for the transport, and 20 for the room putting me at 60 for this chamber.

BUT WAIT PSYCH CURT.... the model is not a gift for you. The other reason I created her was that our dear sorceress Sarah played a psyker a few years ago in a game of Dark Heresy. So guess what Sarah, the female psyker is for you, enjoy!

BruceR Snowlord's Treasury Chamber 28mm Pirates (50 pts)

 The secrets of the Snow Lord's Treasure eluded the band of adventurers.  No "unpainted" treasures could be found in the bin of lead or resin.  Alas, all painted for prior Frostgrave adventures.  Ahh, my eye lit upon these Chinese pirates from Foundry miniatures, some crates from Bad Squido Games, and an idea was born.

The Spider Tong has waylaid an English steamer and liberated its cargo.  What is this, no gold, no weapons?   Boxes and bags of Opium, the English treasure.  The idea from the Opium Wars with the English carrying it's scourge/cargos to China from India.  

30 pts 6 28mm figures

20 pts for the chamber

50 pts total

From MartinC The 3 Stooges and Friends (80pts)

 Hope you are all well. My 28mm Vietnam project is rattling along nicely. Like all projects it is growing out of control. What originally started as a small fire team scale action has grown to a full platoon of USMC (with additional support), 2 platoons of Vietnamese (with support), a helicopter and these beauties

These 3 M113 transports are from The Assault Group and are lovely resin castings. They are only £8 each. Looking a images there is little in the way of markings but all seemed to be named and these three are Larry, Mo and Curly.

they will provide useful support and transport and great targets for RPGs

It is also that time of the year when those random figures that have been painted up during the challenge but not posted get their time in the sun

1st up this 54mm Barbarian figure is from MrLees and is a beautiful figure

Really enjoyed painting it

Next we have Jesse "The Body" Venture fighting an invisible Predator. This is a great Hasslefree figure

It is always a great disappointment to me that these guns don't really exist in this form. They just don't make power cables long enough

Finally a random Grey Scale Landsknecht figure. Painted this when I doing the grey scale para.

Suited my sense of fun to paint the most colourful soldiers in the world in black and white.

Scores

3x28mm vehicles = 60

1x54mm figure = 10pts

2x28mm figures = 10pts

80pts. 

Right I have some USMC to paint

From: AngusW - 28mm 'Saxons' - The Armoury - 55pts

 From the 'Hatchery' I've entered, 'the Armoury'. We've here some Saxons warriors, purchased at the Battlefield show a number of years ago. I've a few others of these, I now have enough for a small warband.

I've no idea what the manufacturer is. They are very nice sculpts, but lots of them needed pining arms to bodies, shields to arms etc. I won't be in a rush to do more pinning as I found it rather tedious.

x5 Warriors @ 5pts each (25pts), x1 Leader on horseback (10pts)  + The Armoury (20pts)

from RayR - The Chamber of Challenge - The Shrine of St Cuthbert 40pts

 

Its Chamber of Challenge time once again!!!

And I'm in "The Shrine"

Shrine: Dearly beloved Challengers, let us bow our heads, and create … a religious-themed entry in this chamber. A model which is worshipping, praying, genuflecting, preaching, pilgrimaging, scourging, crusading, venerating … or maybe just visiting parishioners for tea. Clerics welcome!

I've gotta say I'm mighty pleased with how my Shrine turned out.

This wonderful piece of kit comes from the very talented team at Debris of War

And is available for the great price of £35

You wouldn't believe how long it took me to paint this up!!!!

This is its 4th and final incarnation, I originally tried to paint it up like Andy's from Debris of War,

see below, but I just couldn't get it looking as good. So in the end I gave up and went grey.

I then spoke to Andy on the phone and he told me how he'd painted his. It was so simple I couldn't believe it. But I stuck with the grey anyhow.

I based the Chapel on a large Warbases base.

And added basing flock mixed with PVA to make moss and painted/placed on.

I added a few MDF gravestones, covered with a thin wash of Polyfiller, then inked them. Just to add a 

bit of decoration.

I took a few pics with some figures in to help you guys with its size.

These figures do not count as points.

Also added for effect were loads of Debris of War tufts along with Javis Ivy/climbing weeds

Peek a boo!

In the Chapel set not only do you get the walls but a font, an alter and a small coffin/shrine.

So its down to the points.....

The ruined chapel measures

9.5 inches in length

5.5 inched in width

4 inches at its highest 

Then you have the tiled floor, Alter, Font and Shrine.

Math is not my strong points so after speaking to BigLee and Tamsin, both suggested

20 points, (which I was pretty gutted with!) 😭

And then another 20 for the Challenge Bonus.

Making a total of 40 points

From MilesR: Good Lord, Not Another Stalingrad Related Post (1,720 Points)

 

Ha! made you look, this entry only really has 172 points!

The grind continues - In this submission there is yet another full Soviet Infantry Company  in 15mm scale.  The figures are from Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) and I'm almost done assembling and painting the Battalion box.

The company consists of 3 platoons (2 equipped with rifles and one with SMG's).

The 1st platoon, complete with 50mm Mortar section

The 2nd platoon and behind it the Company HQ (3 figures) plus the Companies heavy Machine gun section.

Lastly the 3rd Platoon.  These are based using the "no-painting" basing technique and I think blend in well with the terrain.

I am short of 50mm Mortars and will need to scratch build some.  I've got plenty of crew from the PSC box so hopefully they will not look too silly.

For a change of pace - how about some Germans.  8 snipers from Peter Pig.  The bulk of the German forces are being provided by friend and club member Tony M.  Thats a real boon for me as he is a MUCH better painter than me and it makes this project a bit more feasible to pull.

A little light armor support for the Germans in the form of 3 Panzer II's.  These are also Peter Pig models.  I really like PP's infantry but the vehicles leave me a bit cold.  They all have molded on storage which limits their utility for larger games.  If you only need one of two then these are fine models.

In terms of points this submission has 74 Infantry at 2 points each and 3 tanks at 8 points per panzer so that nets to 172 points.

I'm getting pretty close to done with the Stalingrad project and think, maybe a little break is in order.

Hmmm, what to do next.  maybe something of aquatic nature from a past undertaking?  Why, yes that is the ticket.

From EdwardG: A sprint through three Challenge Chambers! (78 points)

 Hello all,

I hope everyone is having/have had a great Sunday. Today is the first warm(ish) day of the year. The wife is already making long to-do lists for the garden in the coming weeks. So I can foresee hobby time taking a slight battering. So with this in mind I made a conscious effort to get the three Chamber entries that have been sitting around on my desk for a while finished off. 

First up, the Chamber of Darkness! I am sure everyone is now well aware that this is a grey scale challenge. I must admit, I have never tried painting in grey scale, but I found it to be a very interesting experience. There is something simple, yet tricky, when using such a reduced pallet. In hindsight, I am quite please with my entry, but tbh, he certainly is not the best grey scale figure I have seen. I am in awe of the skill of several of my fellow challengers. 

My entry is a strange figure, he is made by Foundry (I think) as part of their Gallic Priests/Druids pack. He is a short 28mm figure, nearer 25mm in size. When I first found him lurking at the bottom of the lead pile I thought I had a figure of a dwarf, which would have been most odd as I am purely a historical gamer! 

Next up on my sprint to get as far through the dungeon Challenge Chamber crawl as possible before the Spring time of the Garden. Is my entry to the Larder! I have to admit, I struggled with this one. I finally decided to take the larder theme and stretch it a little, in the hope that I could paint something that could squeeze in. 

My entry is a simple one, it is as a generic 15mm camp for one of my many DBA armies. In DBA the camp is something to be either defended to the last man or used to bait and switch an opponent into falling for an overly complex and totally flawed plan. I think it is a great, if poorly written and edited, set of rules and my gaming friends and I have a wonderful time playing it. The actual wagon is from a Mirilton set, that I bought with the idea to one day create a Communal Italian army complete with Carroccio. Sadly to say, that army has never managed to make it to the table. So in an attempt to bring some of the lead to life, I thought to use the wagon for this piece. I had misplaced the traces, and thinking back I am not sure if it ever came with them. So I improvised some with a tooth pick that gallantly sacrificed itself under the knife. 

I only took one photo, as it is a very simple vignette.  

Finally! I have made it to the Second Level!! 

In an attempt to keep this going, I managed to finish off my entry to the Hatchery as well this morning. It is another figure from Scythe, as I had no figures with any kind of bird in the lead pile. The figures in the game act as avatar character pieces for the players. Each one represents a faction and has some kind of animal. Luckily for me, the avatar for the Crimean Khanate has a falcon. The figure is made of a soft plastic, and was a struggle to paint compared to my normal metal figures. The details are not very well defined, but I think I managed to get an acceptable figure out it. The faction colour is yellow, hence the main colour choice for the mini. I have now painted 1/5th of the Scythe set (from two different factions), and so now I think I am required to finish the set although sadly I am not sure I will be able to do them all before the end of the Challenge! Possibly something for Challenge XII...

So as for points total. I think I have the following: 

3 x Challenge Chambers = 60 points

2 x 28mm mini = 10 points

1 x 15mm vehicle/camp = 8 points 

Total = 78 points! 

Stay safe and hope to post again soon!

Best,

Ed :D