From ChrisW: A regular potpourri of stuff [172 points]

 

Fourth and final post for this week, it has been a good week. This week production was certainly helped by the missus being busy outside of the house thus allowing me to focus on a variety of projects. The down side of all this production is the pain in the neck that all this painting has caused. But hey, who really needs to be able to turn their neck, better to just move ones body.😫

Up first is a s scene from Chivalric romance story, a Dragon and a Knight fighting over a fair maiden, but who is the lady routing for? I ask because of the position of the lady and her expression she seems to be grinning while she watches the knight being attacked. I was given this vignette by a friend who found it in a second hand store. It sort of looks like a set from Thunderbolt Mountain, but it may just be some 'collectors' pewter set. When I got it they were all securely fastened to the base, but I was able to pry the knight off, which made painting all of them that much easier. 

Up next are 15 Pulp Figures Mud men. These are relatively new in the catalogue and to my mind are a welcome addition to my pulp collection. I have plans to do some Tales of the Gold Monkey island hopping adventures. From my very limited research of the real Mud men I tried to paint them as per images that I had found. I initially assumed that I would paint them in a mix of flesh and 'mud' but the pictures I found shows that the mud really seems to adhere to them. So I tried for a subtle approach with some shadowing and patches of flesh wash but mostly keeping the mud intact(except around the feet) The weapons were a challenge as I could not find many images of them with weapons beyond the bows and some clubs. I did find a nifty video that showed off the bows (palm trees) but any weapons that I saw were pretty rudimentary and with bark still on them, so I painted mine brown with green highlights.

Time to leave this section for now and journey to the True Crime section. In what might become the start of a new theme for me this year, I pulled out some primed Blue Moon Victorian figures and in particular one specific chap, Jack!

So, a good week that sees me reaching my target of 2000 points. Considering the rough start I had I am quite pleased to have achieved this so soon.

 So the totals

•   17 points for Vignette of 2x 28mm foot figures + 40mm dragon?
•   20 points for Romance section
•   75 points for 15x Mud Men
•   40 points for 8x Victorian foot
•   20 points for True crime section
  

Total 172 points

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Squirrels to date [16]

1. Hammers Slammers
2. Ikwen alien infantry
3. Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
4. New Swabian league armoured vehicles 
5. Rats
6. Scarabs 
7. Mercenary Sci-fi vehicle
8. NAC Sci-fi vehicles 
9. Foo dog statues
10. Terracotta warriors  
11. NSL Bikes
12. Generic sci fi vehicles
13. Civilian sci-fi vehicles 
14. Egyptian cultists  
15. Mud Men 
16. Ladies of the evening (and Jack)
    

Just loving your work in this post Chris and I apologize for the late editorial comments. First, the knight and dragon diorama is great, it has a real old-school Ral-Partha kind of vibe, I really like it. The Mud Men are also very cool, Bob Murch sculpts are always great and you've painted them really well, the masks are so bonkers and cool! The Blue Moon Victorians are awesome and obviously you've put plenty of effort into them - I always find it challenging to paint these one-off individuals and you've made them look great.

I'll concur in your points calculation!

Dallas

From ChrisW: Queen Victoria and some Egyptian cultists [135 points]

 

Up first is Queen Victoria and two companions, Abdul Karim and Muhammad Bakhsh (or at least my version of the trio) Not certain where the Queen figure came from (she was a slot based figure?) and she is a little simple with very subtle details. She is panted in many shades and highlights of black, black/grey and grey, with the overall outcome that she looks uniformly to be dressed in black...😑

For her two companions I sadly did not have any figures in proper uniform so I painted the two in somewhat fanciful outfits. One is from Pulp Figures (green) and I think the other is from Statuesque miniatures. I tried to make her look pale because she always looks so pale in pictures, but I think she may be a bit too corpse like.

Eureka Egyptian cultists

The red cloaked cultist were the easiest to paint as the colour scheme came to me very quickly. However the 9 other cultist took some experimentation and some thought before I was able to get them done. 

The Acolytes

The Anubis level

The inner order of Horus

The Great Leader

 

That is it for this post, I may have one more left in me for this Saturday.

So the totals

•   15 points for 3x 28mm figures Queen Victoria and companions
  
• 100 points for 20x 28mm Egyptian cultists
  
•   20 points for Famous Person bonus

Total 135 points

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Squirrels to date [14]

1. Hammers Slammers
2. Ikwen alien infantry
3. Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
4. New Swabian league armoured vehicles 
5. Rats
6. Scarabs 
7. Mercenary Sci-fi vehicle
8. NAC Sci-fi vehicles 
9. Foo dog statues
10. Terracotta warriors  
11. NSL Bikes
12. Generic sci fi vehicles
13. Civilian sci-fi vehicles 
14. Egyptian cultists 
    

Third post of the day for you Chris and a nifty change of pace with some Victorian peeps and cultists! I like the cultists too, they'll come in handy for everything from Pulp gaming to Indiana Jones or even fantasy. Great work on these.

135 big points for you!

Dallas

From SylvainR: Tray 9 - 6mm Early WW2 Allies Minors Tanks & HQs + Italian tankettes (95 points)

I spent the previous week in New York celebrating 20 years with my wife, so production was halted, but this week I have a tray of newly painted WW2 goodies.

First, a small units of Italian L3-35 tankettes captured by the Greek army. All the miniatures are from GHQ.

I tried to simulate the rough terrain of the mountainous areas where the Greek army was able to fend off the Italian offensive.

Below, a close-up from behind on a single tankette. The plowed ground behind the tracks turned out well on this one.

Since I did not have any L3-35 for my Italian desert army, I made a company with some extra tankettes.

To complete all my Allies minors armies, the only units left to paint were battalion HQs. I added national flags to the name tags as a visual cue. The first three HQs are for the polish army. So far, my HQ vignettes are mostly colonels getting out of their staff cars and using their binoculars to observe the front. This time, I added a little bridge with a little river flowing underneath for the "general". I also started to add sign posts, often indicating famous battle sites. The tank battalion commander has two tanks ready to move forward. The names are those of Polish officers who fought the German invasion in 1939. The miniatures are a mix of GHQ, CinC and Heroics & Ros.

The next three battalion HQs are for the armies of Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. For the Netherlands, I simply picked the name of a high ranking WW2 officers. The Norwegian name is the maiden name of my mother-in-law, whose grandparents came from Norway to settle in Saskatchewan. The Belgian name is for Arthur Kepenne, a gentleman and retired policeman I met in Belgium in 1989, who fought the Germans in 1940, was captured, survived as a prisoner of war in Konigsberg. He was adamantly pro European Union, the only way, in his mind, to avoid future wars. I just wanted to honor his memory with this small vignette. I made the Norwegian terrain very rocky while I wanted some water for the Netherlands.

The last three battalion HQs are for the Greek army. Papagos and Pitsikas, two Greek officers, fought hard against the Italian and German invasions. Sangarangos is for a good friend and fellow wargamer in Regina. Again, very rocky terrain for all these bases.

 

The base for Sangarangos has a sign post indicating the village where his parents grew up that reads "Vogatsiko". You can see the colonel commandeering an abandoned Italian truck.

This is our gaming group in Regina, made into battalion HQs. I will add my name later, when I will get to work on the late war Canadians (see the "master plan" below), namely the "Vandoos", the Royal 22nd Regiment, composed of French Canadians. For the other Canadian HQs, I intend to use the names of our friends and fellow wargamers from Winnipeg. I hope this is OK with you guys :-).

The completion of these battalion HQs means that the Allies minors project is now finished, with a total of 7 trays.

I can now strike off another project from my "master plan".

Points claimed:

- 40x 6mm vehicles at 2 points each = 80

 - 30x 6mm foot at 1/2 point each = 15

 Total = 95 points

This will also count towards the "Really Little Guys" duel.

Thanks for reading!

Great work here Sylvain and I love the personal touches you've given your models. The family tribute is a lovely touch and I know anyone in our group would be honoured to have a namesake amongst your work. The 6mm-scale signposts are amazing - I'm assuming you've printed them out and stuck 'em on rather than hand-lettering - very clever. Excellent to see this progress on your grand project!

95 "big" points for you!

Dallas

From ChrisW: Even more 15mm Sci-fi stuff - Civilian and military [108 points]

So, time for some generic vehicles, some civilian vehicles and some NSL hover bikes.

Up first are the generic military. They are painted in a neutral camo green colour, so theoretically I can use them for any army. The jeeps, trailers and ATV are all from GZG, while the communications vehicle is a matchbox toy. 

The civilian vehicles are also from GZG 

The Mule from the Serenity movie!

Note the dollar store 'gem' for a light

These really were fun to paint. The 'mule' was primed white then painted with a new Vallejo yellow Xpress paint that covered the vehicle very nicely. For the orange vehicles I used an old GW foundation paint for the orange base, then a mix of orange paints and a wash of GW Carroburg crimson and some final dry brushing highlights.

Finally here are some New Swabian League (NSL) hover bikes. It seems I have bought rather a lot of GZG bikes, at least 1/2 dozen per faction (six factions) so I have plenty left to paint. Here are 8 NSL bikes.

The base colour is the same that I used for the main NSL fighting vehicles, minus the brown camo.

So the totals

•   40 points for 5 ish 15mm vehicles (8 points each) (counting the trailers at 4 each)
•     4 points for 2x 15mm generic drivers
  
•   32 points for 4x 15mm civilian vehicles
  
•   32 points for 8x 15mm mounted figures (4 points each)

Total 108 points

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Squirrels to date [13]

• Hammers Slammers
• Ikwen alien infantry
• Hanuman (Alien) vehicles 
• New Swabian league armoured vehicles 
• Rats
• Scarabs 
• Mercenary Sci-fi vehicle
• NAC Sci-fi vehicles 
• Foo dog statues
• Terracotta warriors  
• NSL Bikes
• Generic sci fi vehicles
• Civilian sci-fi vehicles
  

I like the variety here Chris! Every tabletop needs some civvy scatter vehicles and these ones look great. The not-Flying Mule from Firefly is super. Good idea to paint some "generic" drab vehicles that can fit into any faction as well. Your 15mm motor pool continues to expand!

108 for you :-)

Dallas