From KerryT: Dwarves and Oliphaunts (132 points)

 Morning, afternoon and Evening all from a stormy NZ

If your reading this on Tuesday February 14th then we still have power at home and my post will have been completed. As I've started writing this on Monday evening, cyclone Gabrielle is just about to reach its peak in the East Coast of NZ and many parts of the country have been hard hit again by unseasonable weather.

Thankfully my wife and I feel safe and comfortable in our home at the moment and are prepared for a probable power outage and as I write we have a few flickering lights and the worst thing that's happened to us is that a small tree has come down in the garden. Many people have not been so fortunate particularly those whose homes border the sea where tidal surges are causing problems and expected to peak at 2am.

Under the circumstances being concerned as to whether a post with pictures about toy soldiers  will make a deadline seems trivial.

I thought I might do things backwards this time and track my progress to date on that all important studio map that I failed to show last week. This time as its so far from The Book studio to the Fantasy studio I've kindly asked Lady Sarah to send around her Limousine. The Fantasy studio will be my second blue studio and my ticket this time is the lady below

Hopefully this will help Tamsin

I think she needs a little more make up to cover what looks like a scar!

I found this miniature in my odds and ends box and have no idea who produced it. I suspect I picked it up on a visit to an UK show possibly Salute or Partizan or maybe even Vapnatak as a door entry give away figure. Its got to be a good few years old as I haven't been to the UK since before the Covid outbreak. When I found it I thought it was apt as its a lady with dragons but I doubt Daenerys Targaryen was the inspiration behind it. 

Next up are three Oliphaunts that I must have picked up more than 10 years ago from Old Glory 15s- at the time my intention was to produce mass fantasy armies in 15mm as I felt the GW stuff was too costly. The inspiration for these came from the Mumakil in the army of Harad. Like many other projects lots of figures have been painted up including adventurers, dwarves, orcs, goblins and even a unit of Hobbits but the project has stalled. In addition the plan of converting these to look more like their GW counterparts never got off the ground and I'm also unlikely to purchase 15mm Arab figures and pass them off as Haradrim warriors. Given that these are the last of the 15mm fantasy figures I have unpainted I thought I'd just paint them up.

The camera never lies, I filled those bloody mold lines but I can see them

Charge

My last entry are more dwarves, my first round entry were from Westwind but these are from the Oathmark range sold by Northstar. 

These are the metal rather than plastic figures

Why do all my figures run away?

I had planned to add another 20 odd of the plastic Dwarf Infantry but at the moment they're still on bottle tops and the Light and Heavy infantry are undercoated and still in a box somewhere. I felt I had no chance of getting them done as well this week so they'll have to wait. Some closer ups of the metal packs

OAK 101 Dwarf King & Musician

OAK 102 Dwarf Champions

OAK103 Dwarf Heroes

In summary then

Modern mother with dragons @ 5 points & Lady Sarah's Limousine 20 points = 25

9 Oathmark metal dwarves @ 5 points = 45

3 15mm Oliphaunts @ 4 points (gulp) =12 points

9 15mm crew @ 2 points = 18 points

Fantasy Studio Bonus @ 20 points

Total = 120 points

1 Squirrel (Oliphaunts and crew)

Hmm, I have been planning to produce a unit of 15mm Napoleonic Young Guard at some stage but at only 2 points per figure and all the effort that will be needed I won't contribute enough of my share to that 91,000 points target that's been set.

I'm pleased this entry made the deadline particularly as I doubt I'll get one ready for next week as I'm away on holiday provided the weather settles and the beach house we're renting has not been washed away!

That's a lot of different, but very nice stuff Kerry! Having consulted the arcane tome of lore, The Minions' Guide to Scoring Precedents, it appears that elephants (aka nellies, oliphaunts, heffalumps, mammoths, Mumakils) are scored as vehicles so these 15mm ones are 8 points each rather than 4.

Tamsin