Greetings all, welcome back to those previous participants and a hearty new welcome to those new. I think this is my third time participating, so hopefully some of you will know who I am by now. I sporadically blog over here normally, but I tend to run out of energy to post in both places during the analogue challenge. I am also normally quite good at getting something published before Christmas but this challenge it's all been a bit of a rush. With Christmas and work both keeping me super busy, I barely even had time to get models prepped before the start of the challenge! I did however manage to clear the hobby area (dining table) of anything Christmas related and start prepping models by early evening boxing day. I even ran out of mdf bases before the week was out so I hope my order from Warbases arrives soon or progress will grind to a halt again and I will be actually stuck in a hobby limbo.
I do try and complete the challenge theme each year and this one at first glance did worry me a little. Did I have enough to cover these themes? I like to plan ahead, so an evening spent delving through my massive to do pile and I think if I crack on, I can definitely get to paradise as it were. (I also have a stack of Bad Squiddo lady miniatures sat waiting from a kickstarter that I can use to skip a few steps if need be.)
So my first stop on my travels is at Limbo. Back in the first lockdowns in 2020 I, like many others, buckled down into my hobby to keep my sanity. I treated myself to a giant resin kit as a centre piece of a fantasy barbarian army. I had got myself a woolly mammoth. The kit came with a crew of dwarfs which were dumped in my bits box. The howdah itself was left empty so that I could use the piece for different armies, the space being big enough to put two or three models including their bases in there. This way the model would be multi-purpose. I always felt like I needed something specific though that actually looked like it was steering the beast in some way.
With some Christmas money I have purchased some Victrix Celtic Chariots. The sprues have some great looking crew models on them, more than is needed for the kit. A banner bearer is made up of various spare bits as well and I now have a crew.
The whole thing can be slotted in to the howdah ready for battle. I might tweak the reigns a bit at some point, but for now I am super happy with how it looks.
For my second stop for Lust I take a trip to Middle Earth. In my first challenge I had painted up a Balrog and two of the original Fellowship, Legolas and Boromir. The original idea was to try and collect enough models second hand from ebay and shows cheaply enough to play the entire campaign from the first book published by GW. Progress after the first attempt at finding the models however has been extremely slow. This year though some models have been found.
Most of us know the tale of One Ring to rule them all, how Sauron could control the minds of the rulers of Middle Earth by feeding on their Lust for Power, (I even have been quite enjoying the Amazon show, although I do admit it has issues). The rulers of men were trapped by their own Lust and became the Ring Wraiths, cursed after death to walk the land searching for the One Ring to appease their master.
I will admit these models did not need a lot of effort to paint, there really isn't much to work with when a character is one big black walking cloak. I am looking forward more to painting some more of the characters and finishing off the fellowship.
To points, two locations, 20 x 2 = 40 points
Five Ring wraiths at 28mm and three Howdah riders at 28mm, 8 x 5 = 40 points
Total 80 points.
For the skull duel, the barbarian banner has two skulls and the druid has one skull on his staff (There is another on the staff but it still has flesh hanging off it!)
3 skulls.
A right hearty welcome to you too, Peter! Wow, that mammoth is absolutely fantastic. The crew you have painted seems to fit really well and it all makes for a very impressive piece!
You have taken quite an unexpected take on Lust, but I can't find fault with it. The ringwraiths may have been simple to paint, but the effect is good nonetheless. Nice background picture too!
On a side note, please remember to resize your photos, it saves your minion a lot of work ;-). No points deducted for that though, so 80 points it is!
Martijn
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