From MartinC: The Hobby (515 points)

I've had a productive week and managed to paint quite a lot of things, so straight into it.

1st up we have a Little Moscow Grenadier battalion for my Napoleonic Russians

This was going to be my last Naps for a while, but I've done loads of stuff and so Naps may be back sooner than planned

Next up is my trip to the children's section of the library. For any Brits who grew up in the 1970s and also many Europeans Subbuteo was the game of choice. It was a table football game where you flicked the players around a baise pitch, trying to score. Subbuteo is actually latin for Hobby, the inventor wasn't allowed to call it the hobby, so called it Subbuteo. It was forgotten about except for the odd popular culture reference. 

So for Christmas my Brother in Law got a subbuteo set and I was tasked with painting up 2 teams for us to use.

This is the Barnsley Team from 1997 - the only time they made the Premier Division for a brief 1 season stay

The Subbuteo players are 20mm soft plastic and very dated sculpts - check out the 1970s hair cuts, I'm remembering Kevin Keegan and Malcolm MacDonald.

They needed suitably glorious opponents, so this is the 1996 Port Vale team, easily the greatest team in all world football. We finished 8th in the 2nd tier of English Football,  our second best season in 140 years (English Football league titles are weird - Premier, Championship, 1st division and then 2nd division).

They will provide strong opposition to Barnsley

Both teams need team coaches to get them to matches

I started the Challenge with a large post of the army of Fu Manchu. However they are a bit weak on their own and need some support from a local Chinese Warlord

Pulp Miniatures Chinese Warlord set. He needs a cool name but I'm stuck on Egg Shen (bonus points for getting the cultural reference)

He already has an infantry platoon but now brings 2 HMGs to the party

These are Copplestone and lovely

And 2 heavy mortars. Again Copplestone and one of the crew is eating noodles

Next, told you I'd been busy, are 3 Drawfen monoliths (think these are from CP models)

Just a simple paint job so only a couple of points each, the seated guy in the middle is about 28mm scale. However they will qualify for the Fantasy section.

I'm now finished with the 1st part of the library and need to travel to the Rotunda on Sarah's library cart.

This is a Palantine Enforcer from Necromunda. A Chirstmas present from JamesM of this parish. She is a 3D resin sculpt and very nice she is. I went for pale skin, she is underground, but not sure if it has worked as I wanted, and may touch her up.

All my Palantines have this pale blue trim - think it works well with the black

So in the Rotunda I get to visit the Sci Fi section and meet the Palantine District Commisioner, with his law book. Again from JamesM. Cap is blue lined, but you can't see it.

All good police forces need police dogs and these 3 robo-dogs are great, again JamesM. They are 3 lads, 20mm at shoulder. Should terrify any perps.

My history with Necromunda is, at best, terrible. the phrase "couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo" is about right. 

And finally, I have been building a small(ish) Finnish force for Team Yankee (not a fan of modern tank warfare, so I went for something different). These mortar sections will complete the force.

120mm mortars

81mm mortars

Scores on the Doors (hold tight this could take a while)

Russians

22 x 28mm infantry = 110pts

1x 28mm Mtd officer = 10pts

2x flags                         = 2pts

Subbuteo

22x 20mm footballers = 88pts

Children's books          = 20pts

Chinese 

17 x 28mm soldiers and crews = 65pts

4 x crew served weapons = 40pts

1x flag                               = 1pts

Dwarfen Monoliths

3x 2pts                            = 6pts

Fantasy books                 = 20pts

Necromunda 

1 female enforcer            = 5pts

Sarah's trolley                  = 20pts

1 male enforcer                =5pts

3 dogs                                =15pts

Sc Fi section                     = 20 pts  

Finns

21 mortar crew                = 42

6 crewed weapons             = 24

I'll also need a new points target, so 2000pts it is. Curt was right, I may be a carpet bagger.

TeemuL: I guess I spent the same amount of time to insert all the points to the spread sheet that I spent reading this entry. You really are picking up some steam, Martin, and crashed your points target in about a month. No wonder with this kind of post, that your math is bit off. You have miscalculated your Chinese and the spread sheet gives you nice 515 points with some bonuses included. I could give you some minus points for not including the Library map, though... Your route seems reasonable, so I won't cause any troubles here.

The Naps look great, but those old Subbuteo players steal the show. I encountered this game in 2005 or so and we played a short league with couple of friends. I managed to buy similar set you have, but I haven't thought about painting them. English league system is quite misleading, but if Luton Town can play in the Premier league, I have no doubt Port Vale will be there, too, someday.