From FrederickC - AHPC XV Rounds Complete!

It is hard to believe that Spring is finally here, and yet it seems like the Solstice  was only a few weeks ago rather than three months. This is my fourth year of active participation, and I am very happy to finish in fourth place in the standings. I want to thank Curt and his crew of Minions for organizing and running the painting challenge, especially my Saturday Minion, Sylvain. I also want to thank all those who left comments on my posts (in no particular order - JamieM, SAS Wargames, TomC, Peter Brian, Teemu Laaksonen, MartinC, peter, DaveV, Adam, Bluewillow, caveadsum1471, Curt, Tom L, BruceR, Greg B, RichardM, Ray Roussell, Barks, Millsy, Norber, valleyboy, Emjenic, Dave D, Sander, Dallas, Peter Douglas, Robert Herrick, SimonG, JP, david bromley, Geoff T, Moiterei_1984).

With the removal of terrain from the scoring, I had to do some quick hunting through the storage boxes to find some old projects that were ready to go, so this year was a mix of new figures acquired in the latter half of 2024 and figures that have been in the 'Pending' basket for decades. I have always found the challenge to be very useful in getting me to stop ignoring those miniatures that have long been sitting around waiting for some paint to be applied. I am already looking at some other long forgotten projects to get ready for next year.

For my collection of Second World War figures I painted 48 French, 38 Sikhs and Punjabis, 34 Poles, 28 Germans, 8 Soviets, and 1 Italian, along with twenty-four motorcycles, four armoured cars, two machine guns, and two mortars. All of these were new acquisitions, most of them being 3D prints.

 

Soviets, Germans, Sikhs, Punjabis & an Italian, French, & Poles

 

For my collection of First World War figures I painted 34 French, 32 Germans, and 30 Canadians with two machine guns. The French were new, but the Germans and Canadians have been around for at least two decades.

 

French, Canadians, & Germans

 

The rest of the challenge projects were a real mixed bag from Historical to Fantasy to Old West consisting of 112 American Civil War Union and Confederate cavalry in 15mm, 49 Númenóreans, 24 Roman gladiators, 21 Old West gunslingers, 4 Star Wars characters, and 2 theme related miniatures.The oldest were the ACW cavalry from 30 years ago, followed by the Númenóreans which were patiently waiting for only 15 years. The rest were new acquisitions from 2024.

 

A rather eclectic collection.

 My congratulations to all the other participants. Whether you made your target, or not, you all put paint to minis, and that's what it's all about. Now that the pressure of painting has passed, I can go back and read all the posts I missed. My best to all, and we will see you again in about 9 months for AHPC XVI. 

The mandatory self-portrait