From Kerry T - Sheep, Welshmen with a proper Men of Harlech and a few others - 410 points

Morning afternoon and evening all

Apologies but I missed last week's Friday deadline and I suspect only just made this weeks by the skin of my teeth. Thank you Millsy for your forbearance

Maybe my opening picture leaves me open to some jibes - because its a picture of sheep -yes I know there's no way my Aussie mates are going to miss out on the opportunity to rib somebody living in NZ (and a Welshman at that) when he mentions sheep! But here we go.....

Baa Baa Black sheep have you any wool?

Flocking hell, that's a Baaaahhd joke.........

I'm going to claim this as my children's books entry - its a nursery rhyme after all and how many of us in our early years didn't have a book of nursery rhymes?

Hmm.... how many points do you reckon I can claim for this? If you do a quick Google you'll find that there are apparently 25.14 million sheep in NZ, I reckon at least half are in the picture above...

So who looks after these sheep? I hear you ask...

Well its obvious innnnnnnnit...

Little Bo Peep

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep so now she's gone on a bender...

No idea where this figure came from but if you closely at what you see pouring out from the jug then you wine aficionados will clearly see that is a perfect NZ Pinot Noir colour.. nectar of the gods...

Trust me, I know I've just had a few glasses...

Now talking of gods leads me on to the next subject - yes - gods - otherwise know as Welshmen...

Footsore Miniatures Late Medieval Welsh

Please note these are not running away, they are Welsh, we don't do that, they have just turned  face 

So what's the difference between Plaid and tartan?

Google says.... "

Both plaids and tartans are woven strips that meet at 90 degree angles. Tartans have an identical pattern if stripes rubbing vertically and horizontally. resulting in overlapping square grids. Regular plaids are not necessarily the same in both directions, with variation in colour, size, and /or pattern of stripes"

Don't ask me I just put paint on them

Welsh Knights pack from Footsore

2 packs of Welsh Hearthguard from Footsore

See the man 3rd from right, his bloody sword arm fell off just after I took this photo

Hopefully this lot of handsome valleyboys will count as my local history bonus

Now I'm sure you've all heard Stanley Baker and his mates sing "Men of Harlech"  in the film Zulu...

If you think that gives you goosebumps then the original Welsh version surpasses that by so much and will make your heart stop. I wish I could sing it for you and record it here

"Wele Goelcerth wen yn flamio a thafodau tan yn bloeddio, ar y'r ddewrion ddod i daro'n unwaith eto'n un"

(Behold a bright beacon flaming and tongues of fire shouting for the brave to come fight once again as one....)......

..."Wele faner Gwalia'i fyny....rhyddid aif a hi"

(See the flag of Gwalia on high....freedom she shall have")

Welsh commander, champion and standard bearer

Ye olde Tom Jones and the bishop

Now having posted the Welsh, we'll go down a notch and post some pictures of English 😁

Bloody Miniatures ECW cavalry

Bit of a rush job painted in 3 days

The Lobsters

The Flashing blades

The Moss Troopers

and finally the Troopers

These are such lovely figures and so well advertised by Captain Blood on the Bloody Miniatures site . Its really good to hear that he's expanding the range now to produce units rather than just figures for skirmish sized games, For the moment these cavalry have been based singly but in time I anticipate incorporating and probably re-basing them for cavalry regiments in close order.

Final offering, more Victrix Normans , this time painted up as  Andalusian/Moorish cavalry for the Reconquista. Shields by LBMS transfers - its extraordinary to think that this is the same pack of heavy cavalry painted up in an earlier post, well done Victrix

Thanks as always for your encouragement

In summary

1 Flock of a million NZ lamb shanks - say 15 points?

1 female figure for Lady Sarah's library cart bonus  = 20 points

Children's book bonus = 20 points

18 x 28mm Footsore Welsh Medieval figures @5 points = 90 points

Local history bonus @ 20 points

12 x 28mm Bloody Miniatures ECW cavalry @ 10 points = 120 points

12 x 28mm Victrix Andalusian Cavalry @ 10 points = 120 points

Total 405 points

Squirrel x3 

Many thanks

From Millsy: BOOM! That's quite the points bomb Kerry and contains a boat load of beautifully painted kit. I've been waiting almost a week to see these sheep after our chat for starters. Love the detail on the plaid and the shields especially, and I'm a little gobsmacked at the level of quality here given how fast you churned these out. You neglected the 5 points for Little Bo Peep herself so that lifts you total for the lot to a stonking 410 points! Cracking effort mate. 

From KentG: 28mm ACW Confederate limber, pirates, peasants, science fiction romance, gift shop and Sarah's cart (points 216)

 Well surprise surprise another week has sped bye, as I write this.

It is the first of Feb and I almost wonder, is time passing fast simple because of the amount of painting we are doing?, as if we are turning the hands of time with each brush stroke in this post we have a few different figures which I really  enjoyed painting.

We start with a 28mm six horse Perry Miniatures Confederate the gun and Limber plus 3 figures by the gun are from their plastic artillery set the rest are metal. 

After doing the 6 horse limber for the union I was mad enough to decide lets make this one longer and add an artillery piece.

I don't know how often I say it but I do love painting Perry Minis.

Next up we have 4 figures from a peasant set 3D printed by Wargames Atlantic I'm entering these into romance section of the Library and Sarah's cart the Lady with the can of food is for Sarah's cart the rest are part of a love triangle but the green eye of envy has hit.

You cheeky wench you try and use food to steal my man from me well I won't have it, if I can't you you nobody will. I'll blow you and this piece of skirt into the next life Bang bang.

Now with the use of Sarah's cart I'll do the science fiction entry into the library.

We have a lone figure from the doctor who world 28mm Cyberman

We have another couple of pirates from Irregular Miniatures I hope to get a bunch more done before the end of the comp. I really enjoy these so full of character.

Lastly we have the first 3 x 40mm figures these will be entered into the  library under gift shop. They were a gift to me and once painted they will be an unexpected gift back.

There is almost the full set of these by Eureka Miniatures these are a real nostalgia moment, many years ago Eureka miniatures sent me one to paint and display, so when a friend gave these to me just before the comp I was like, I know these and was quite excited. It comes with tables and chairs and animals so should be very cool when they are all done. 

              Points

            1 Confederate limber 6 horse 6 figures 60pts

                                           1 limber               10pts

                                           1 cannon             10pts 

                                            Total                    80pts

            7 x 28mm foot  = 35pts

            3 x 40mm foot =  21pts    

                                                  Total 136pts

            Library points 

            Romance 20pts

            Gift shop 20pts

            Sarah's cart   20pts

            Science fiction 20pts

                                                    Total 80pts

            Grand Total of 216pts

From Millsy: What a weird and wonderful collection of stuff you've presented us with here Kent. It's great to see the Cyberman at last following our chats, and the limber is beautifully done BUT the pick for me is the WA peasants. They're both very well painted and the story you constructed around them actually made me laugh out loud.

From TomL: Romance, Library cart (55 points)

Flo MacShane

Leading us via the library cart to the Romance section is another Bob Murch sculpt from his "Daughters of the Empire" pack.  Flo is here to help these star crossed lovers decide if hanging out in an ash wasteland is really a great life choice.

Tank Girl & Booga

 

 

 

Sadly its all a wasteland.

Tank Girl and her nuclear enhanced main marsupial squeeze are doomed freedom loving fighters struggling against the man in all his self-serving ways. Booga and TG were sculpted for a charity event and sold via Frothers UK. The background is an actual coal ash waste area in Illinois. 

This rare second post of a week is for 55 points.

3 28mm figures for 15 points.

Library cart for 20

Romance for 20

From Millsy: A rare second post and certainly worth the effort Tom! I particularly like Booga who looks great in his Quadrophenia t-shirt. Bob Murch stuff is always fun to paint and the Frothers minis look great alongside. I'm fascinated by the background you chose too, really evocative and likely a first for the Challenge!

From KentG: 18mm Westphalian AB miniatures unbased (108pts)

 For this post we have more of the 18mm AB miniatures painted as Westphalian's. AB's are so nice to paint they almost paint themselves. I am now in the final stretch of this commission.

first up we have ADC's took a bit to find the right information

 on these and I'm still not quite sure I got it perfectly right

I used the same blue I use for my 28mm French which I think works.

we have 8 x Chevaleger

Next up 4 Guard Du Corps

and then 24 artillery crew and 6 guns

                    Points unbased figures

                   18 x cavalry 4pts each =72pts -(25%) = 54pts

                    24 x foot 2pts each = 48pts (-25%) = 36pts

                    6 x artillery 4pts each = 24pts (-25%) = 18pts

                        

                                                            Total 108pts

From Millsy: More lovely work in 18mm from you mate. I know you don't enjoy these from our discussions but you cannot argue with the quality of your work regardless. Cracking stuff and thanks for doing the math for me!