From RichardM: Sudan resting camels and British 10th Hussars (162 points)

This is a shortened week as I need to leave Friday morning for a game, dinner and overnight at a mate’s house and then we are all going onto Cancon on Saturday morning.  Cancon is Australia’s largest wargames event and is held over the Australia Day weekend in Canberra which is about a three hours drive south of Sydney.

The offerings this week are some resting camels and the British 10th Hussar regiment for the Sudan. 

The camels will be for the centre of the square formed by the dismounted Camel Regiments when they go into action.

Again the figures are 10mm Pendraken.  I have changed the dry brush colour used on the bases and while I don’t think it is apparent in photos, I am much happier that it gives a good compromise between the cloth I will be using (the third photo below is the closest representation) and the greyer colour that I have seen of the land in photos.  I am also forming the view that I need to look for some dry bush tufts while at Cancon to give a bit of a lift to my basing for the project.

Resting Camels

British 10th Hussars

Points:

Hussars.             24 * 10mm mounted = 72

Camels.              45 * 10mm mounted (but without a rider) = 90*

Total: 162 points

* instead of 3 for a mounted 10mm I have subtracted 1 for the rider figure that is missing

From Millsy:

More beautifully painted colonial stuff is always welcome Richard. This project is causing me all sorts of issues with willpower I'm happy to admit.

Painting something well at this scale is hard enough but to then do it consistently for large units is another level mate. Just brilliant!

162 points for your tally. What's next?

Cheers,
Millsy

From AlanD: WWII Romanian Cavalry (120 points)

Truly, wargames projects are never finished.

A couple of years ago I 'finished' a large force of WWII Romanians in winter gear. Since then, they have given me great enjoyment in a series of games of Battlegroup, mostly against my friend Marty's Hungarians and Germans.

So, when Great Escape Games added to their already lovely range of Romanians with a couple of packs of cavalry, I obviously needed to add them to my army. These came out just around Christmas, following their summer cavalry packs from a year ago. I have been eagerly awaiting these, and now my force gains a squad of cavalry to add to their recce assets.

As much as I like these figures, it's worth mentioning that they were absolute swine to prepare. I have never encountered mounted figures where the riders were more incompatible with their horses. To get them to actually sit on their mounts, I had to spend an inordinate amount of time carving bits off their greatcoats, saddle blankets and packs, and then using greenstuff to cover the gaps. This is a bit poor, and I think reflects the hasty use of the horses from the summer cavalry packs without taking the care to see how the new riders would sit.

Anyway, I'm pleased with the result, and can now definitively call my Romanians done (!)

12 figures for 120 points please Millsy!

From Millsy:

Never a truer word was spoken than your first point about things being finished. I'm equally guilty as you'll see next week.

Cracking brushwork on these horsey boys mate. The uniforms are both appropriately drab without losing visual interest and the mix of skin tones on the horse flesh really lifts them up a notch or three.

Very nicely staged and photographed too and the mono pic at the end is a great touch.

120 points it is Alan. Can't wait to see what's added to the project next :-P

Cheers,
Millsy

From KentG: 28mm Crusades, Baron's Wars & French foot knights (405 pts)

So it’s taken me a couple of weeks to get some figures out

 I made the mistake of doing two many in one go but that does mean the rest of the figures 

Won’t take as long to do, and then of course life got busy. 

First up I have some Perry metal crusades figures

These will be part of my new project where I’ll paint both sides to play Lion

Really happy with the shields, 

they are all hand painted, took a bit longer than I thought 

But worth the extra effort, the banners are of the photo copier at work 

then hand painted over top

The black shield with orange serpent is my favourite 

Spent to long adding more details 

The priest will be fun to use in some of the senecios I have a couple of other

 figures to paint but some need fixing as they broke in transit 

Next up are 8 Perry plastics which a customer wanted added on to a job

They are for his ever growing French army, a quick fun job to do

The figures below are from the footsore miniatures 

Baron's Wars range they were donated by Footsore to me to paint and sell 

As part of the Ukraine project I’m running to build tiny homes 

 It was very generous of them and the money raised from selling them will go to

 Changing lives, I love the idea that our hobby can give hope to someone 

Who has lost their home in a war, and in 8 weeks enough has been raised to build 

the first two.

The figures are great and a real joy to paint

Well that’s it another week down

Points wise

81 X 28mm foot @5pts each = 220

Total 405

From Millsy:

Another wonderfully painted points bomb Kent! I'm struggling to pick a favourite from this submission so I've settled on three...

1. The Footsore religions minis because you've nailed the robes and kudos to Footsore for being so generous!

2. The Perry plastics because your colours are glorious and bring so much interest to what might have been another batch of beige/brown padded jacks.

3. And finally priest simply because you've really made him pop and he's such a cool sculpt anyway.

Brilliant stuff and another 405 Challenge shekels which takes your tally to an impressive 1350, just 150 shy of your initial total and we're still in January!

Cheers,
Millsy

 

From StephenS: Kingpin (Greed) (27 points)

G'day,

A quick post and another single mini offering this week in the form of Wilson Grant Fisk, known through out the Marvel Comics and Cinematic Universe as Kingpin.

For fans of Daredevil, the broken sign he is standing on reads 'Nelson and Murdock'.

One of the most feared and dangerous crime lords in the Marvel universe, one whose greed for power and influence drives him to try and own it all. He will always strive to be the cities crime overlord, despite the numerous defeats we know he must eventually suffer at the hands of our comic book heroes.

The model is a 40 mm plastic figure from Atomic Mass Games for their Marvel: Crisis Protocol line.

Together with the location bonus, this should net 27 points please.

I am hoping to switch gears and start painting something more historical this week.

Cheers,
Steve

From Millsy:

This is wonderful work Steve. The starkness of your highlights on the white suit works so well for the subject matter, giving the miniature a feel like it's stepped right of the page or animated screen! Your flesh tone is great too really pushing the hard lines of his face to reinforce the Kingpin vibe.

You choice of Greed is spot on for me. There's cannot be many folks greedier for power, wealth and respect than a gangland boss.

Super stuff and I'm looking forward to seeing more. 27 points!

Cheers,
Millsy

From Barks: Who ate all the pies? (Gluttony) (44 points)

I painted a yellow Nurgle marine for the Challenge a few years ago- they're wonderfully ridiculously overdetailed, and quite draining to paint. But I enjoyed it, and a few more have landed in my pile of potential. Last year I painted a lot of zombies, and some had a more orange tint that I liked. So this is a new Nurgle lord that I'm using for 'Gluttony'. He's a cheerful chap, generously handing out Grandfather's gifts. I quite like the cartoony splashes of vibrant colours.

I'm very happy with the hot pustules on his knee. Ready to burst!

His cloak is crawling with maggots.

To get to this circle, I summoned these Ynfernael Hulks from the Descent boardgame. Over a white undercoat I painted the same orange as the marine (Army Painter Speed Paint 2.0 Zealot Yellow) and drybrushed them black then grey. I'm not quite satisfied with the eyes.

That's three big boys; each is on a 50mm base. I'm claiming 8 points each, and +20 for the Glutton.

3 x monsters 24 points

Gluttony +20 points

Can opener side duel +8

From Millsy:

The title of this post made me laugh out loud and for that you have my thanks Barks! If there's anything more appropriate for the Gluttony bonus then I have no idea what it is.

He's absolutely revolting and I love him, from the tip of his hideous pestilent horns to the tips of his disgusting pus filled boots. The saturated green really gives off a vibe of something clearly not right and the yellow armour is a great choice as it really works and I'm sure I've never seen yellow Death Guard before.

Chuck in a couple of creepy lava monsters and you're earned a tidy 44 points. Nice one mate!

Cheers,
Millsy