From MattW: Lady Sarah, Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, Yellow Brick Road, Gift Shop (302 points)

 Lady Sarah Limo, Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, Yellow Brick Road, Giftshop

A busy week at the desk, almost 5 days with 8 hours a day, getting sick of painting Romans, but I have nearly broken their back…never again attempt 80 miniatures at once rather than batchs… so a break next week after I post the remainder and a change of gears to ww2. I have completed the Green studios so I am heading into the Blue for a turn about. 

Lady Sarah

First up up A ride in Lady Sarah’s limousine if possible from Under Construction to Fantasy, I offer one cranky german…”my wife found out I purchased more models” ..miniature from the Foundry Germanic range. 

28mm Female Miniature 5 points,

Lady Sarah limo ride 20 points

Fantasy Studio 

I think this is the second Gandalf GW I have painted, the first is dismounted in my sons collection and this is where this one will end up also. A lovely sculpt, although the Shadowfax miniature may sag with weight  as time goes on. 

Mounted 28mm miniatures 10 points

Fantasy studio 20 points  

Swords and Sandals Studio

What is more epic than a Roman units in a  story…..

Maximus Mounted with Bob, again I am not a fan of this sculpt, very small compared to the rest of the Warlord range, I think I will gift this to one of my gaming mates 

28mm Mounted figure and Bob 15 points

A Roman Ballista again from Warlord games

3 28mm figures figs artillery piece 25 points 

Four scorpions from Warlord Games 

12 28mm figures and four artillery 100 points

An Onager again from Warlord Games 

3 28mm figures and artillery piece 25 points 

Sword and Sandals Studio 20 Points

Points for Swords and Sandals studio

28mm Roman’s 165 points

Studio 20 points 

Yellow brick road

Then a stroll down the yellow brick road, a repainted matchbox car ready for car wars

20mm vehicle 1x 20mm figures 15 points + 4 points figure 

Yellow Brick Road  20 points 

Gift Shop

A visit to the Gift shop, a fine gift for my online Scottish fellow red headed friend JamesM, 

I hear he is a fan of Spear Chuckers (lol) so I thought a fitting figure for his collection! 

28mm A fine Red Haired Germanic Chieftain miniature 5 points 

Gift Shop 20 points 

Total points

Lady Sarah Limousine                                                    25 points

Fantasy studio                                                                 30 points

Swords and Sandals                                                      185 points

Yellow Brick Road.                                                        39 points

Gift Shop                                                                        25 Points

Total Points.                                                                 304 points

Side  Duel

SPQR total points                                                        165 points

Cheers

Matt

Well, those Romans are the star of this show, Matt! Lovely artillery. Just one little correction to your points claim - the driver of that "carrocodile" is a half figure and gets half points.

Tamsin

From DaveD - Clearing out the real estate - 30 points

 After a few session of green stuff  I decided I wanted to clear out the buildings “to do” .

First up some 10mm resin from Pendraken for the ACW collection . 

Then the 15mm 3D printed items I had picked up last year to add to the Normandy collection . The water tower is a nicely different piece and provides a bit more height to the table too at around 7 inches tall . The “Gare” and the Garage both are very evocative of French buildings. The others will go together as parts of the expanding townscape. The next game we are due to play is Carentan so I am looking forward to seeing that table set up. 

I also found an old pill box piece in the stash so that got completed too 

JamesM had found a 15mm French infantryman in his stash so I have turned it into a classic 1st War Memorial that you will find in French towns (it’s when you read those that you realise the price France paid in WW1)   - it’s mounted on an 6 sided dice with a bit of tile grout added . 

The buildings are worth 27 points in terms of volume , plus 3 for 15mm war memorial figure . Total of 30 points 

Next up is to break out the airbrush …

** edit - I have set up the various buildings for a quick layout to work out what’s next to do for it . More yards and gardens 

Nice work on the buildings, Dave, and a good job converting that figure and dice into a memorial.

Tamsin

From BenitoV: Dark Age Warband... and back to the 80's (67 points)

Two new set of entries this week. Firstly, a new unit of warriors suitable for almost any Saga warband of the Dark Age period. 

This project started as an Anglo-Danish warband for a campaign we played just before Christmas; but frankly speaking, these models can fit nicely in any other warband of the same period, Vikings, Saxon, whatever.

The models are from the Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age Warriors range, in this case just straight from the box, no conversions. The same models were used last week for my Late Roman army levies unit. The shields are transfers from Little Big Men Studio.

For my second entry, I walked my way to the past and visited the 80's studio, using for this purpose a model I found in the deepest layer of my lead pile.

 

Saruman and a glittering ball, not for the NY Studio 54 but for Middle Earth's Isengard. The Palantir was the predecessor of the mobile phone, alas heavier and with less mobility from what I saw in The Two Towers film.  The scene represents Saruman in the act of conjuring Sauron and I'm quite happy with the painting work of the eye in the Palantir (in this case, very much inspired in the Peter Jackson's films).

 

 

The model belongs to the older Middle Earth/Mithril range of models (produced when Peter Jackson was a very young man) and I found it at home packed in the original blister, after close to 40 years since buying it. I collected the whole Fellowship of the Ring at that time to be used with the LoTR RPG game; unfortunately the project never took off, as my gaming group's interests shifted to Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

I estimate 67 points for this entry, including  a couple of points (?) for the Palantir:

8 x 28mm warband models @5 points = 40 points

1 x 28mm Saruman @ 5 points  + 2 points for the Palantir = 7

Bonus 1980s Studio = 20 points

Subtotal = 67 points  

Nice generic dark age warriors and that's a great old school Saruman! With four Green zone studios under your belt, will you now be moving into the Blue zone? Straight to Superheroes or will you hop along the yellow-brick road or take a limo ride?

Tamsin

From AlanD - Parsnips and Partisans (95 points)

First up this week, I've been working on another long-running project, painting figures for Partisan warfare in the Balkans in WWII.  After my last contribution of inter-war armoured cars, this Italian AB41/40 from Blitzkrieg Miniatures looks positively futuristic. Since the model came with two turrets, I cunningly made it with two options.

First, this AB41 is from a German Schutzpolizei unit, with a commander converted from Warlord Games figures. I've seen a photo of one with the Schutzpolizei badge painted on the front, which I've tried to replicate here. Paul O'G has criticised the commander's shortsightedness for the way he's holding the map, but really he is shielding his eyes from the bright Bosnian sunlight.

The Partisans also made use of a number of AB40/41s, which they either captured after the Italian surrender or from the Germans in 1944-5. I gave the second turret a Partisan commander, but also made a Partisan flag from the foil off a wine bottle to drape over the Polizei insignia at the front. It isn't a perfect solution - you can still see the German Balkankreuze - but the idea is this has been so recently captured that they haven't had a change to paint over the German markings yet... 

My second entry for the week is another unit of miserable Fodder for Turnip28, which I now realise I forgot to spray with a bit more filth. Squelchy.

As for points,  that should be 60 for the Parsnip People, 5 for the two commanders, 20 for the armoured car and maybe 10 for the additional turret, if we call it a crew-served weapon? If that sounds right, then 95 points please Tamsin!

I must confess to still being bemused by the appeal to some people of root-vegetable corrupted soldiers for gaming. Still, whatever floats your boat.

As for the turret as a crew-served weapon...oh, go on then!

Tamsin