From JohnS - Slaughterloo Undead Todoroni - (125 points)

Hello Challengers! I'm so happy to be back, and painting again. I have missed the last couple of Challenges due to work pressure among other things. You would think that running a games retail business would be all fun...anyhow, since I have a tendency towards workaholicism, the AHPC is a brilliant way for me to switch my brain to a related but relaxing activity.

To that end I present my first entry, the Undead Todoroni from my favourite silly game, Slaughterloo. Longtime challengers will remember my fascination with the Fantasy Napoleonic world of Valon, Alternative Armies' setting for Flintloque skirmish and Slaughterloo mass battles games.

"Slap me with a mouldy flipper, it's the Undead Todoroni!"

Every Napoleonic nation has an analogue in the world of Slaughterloo. From the BritOrcs of Albion, the Ferach Elves of the Emperor Mordred and the Undead armies of the Dark Czar of the frozen Witchlands, plus many more. The Todoroni are from the Nepolise client state of the Ferach Empire. Giant toads, they are great singers, fantastic cooks but not the greatest soldiers.

When the Nepolise troops joined Mordred's Grande Armee du Norde they were decimated by the Dark Czar's army. The Dark Czar is never one to waste a good source of zombies so the Undead Todoroni were umm, born? re-born? Animated!

 

 

 

 

Lead by a Vampire Officer, with discipline provided by the Kommisariat Graviski Bureov (KGB) Liche, they stumble into battle under their tattered flag, trying to keep time to the unearthly squealing of the company accordion player (to be honest his playing only seems to have improved with his death), perhaps with the taste of their last delicious meal in the ghost of their memories.

Todoroni come in two sizes, imaginatively known as Big Todoroni and Little Todoroni and generally serve in different units but the Dark Czar has lumped them all into the 777th Croaked Line.

The rare Undead Big Todoroni

The more numerous Undead Little Todoroni

The most commonly viewed aspect of Undead Todoroni. They're not brave.

This was a fun unit to paint using the DaveChop method (like SlapChop but taught to me by Dave) which gave me a really great effect in a very reasonable amount of time. In fact these figures triple my entire 2024 painted figure output.

24 x 28mm figures @ 5 = 120 points

2  x 28mm prone figures @ 2.5 = 5 points

Total Points Claimed 125

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Welcome back to the Challenge John! It's wonderful to have you return to us from your busy work life so we can see what you've been up to. Slaughterloo is one of those games that has always eluded me but you've done a magnificent job on these Nepolise Undead Todoroni (giant dead frogs, ewww). Your interpretation of the DaveChop has served you well and I love to hear that you've tripled your 2024 output. That's what the Challenge is all about! I look forward to seeing what else you produce for us over these next few months.

- Curt