From SebastianR: Tanks! (88 points)

Part 2 of my, "look I did actually paint something" posts, a bunch of 6mm vehicles for Team Yankee.

10 Abrams

2 Carnations and a Carnation proxy

2 Shilkas

2 Gophers

2 Spartans for blowpipe teams

6 FV432s for a mech platoon

7 T72's and definitely T72's honest guv

6 T72's in what one blog calls MERDCski camo

8 BMP1s for a mech platoon

 As always flocking will be done once temperatures allow varnishing.

That's 44 6mm vehicles for a total of 88pts

That's all from me this year. I'm away for the rest of the challenge time. I wish I'd managed to get more done and stick to my plan, but best laid schemes and all. Hopefully see you all next year where I can be more productive.

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Sebastian - On behalf of the Benevolent Snow Lord (tm), his Divine Lady (tm) and my gang of scurrilous Minions, thank you for being part of AHPC XV! We all wish we can paint more, and it is that wish that will keep us all going! 

This parting post of mechanized might is lovely - nothing like a bunch of tanks racing around and shooting each other on the gaming table, right? These are very nice, well done. 

88 points for you!

GregB

From SylvainR: 28mm "Tao" Bikes for Grim Dark (50 points)

 

 

The D&D cleric went through some sort of warp gate and ended up in a grim dark world, far in the future, where there is only war... The truth is that I ran out of prepared and primed D&D figurines to work on and it's still too cold outside to spray primer. But I found in my "to do" boxes these nice "Tao" bikes lying around that JeremyM gifted me some time ago and I thought it was time to finish them.

These 3D printed minis are from cults3d and I don't recall there was ever an "official" speed bike model for the faction of the "Greater Good". So these are not canon but their look contributes to the "greater cool" (1.5 on the DJS (Dad Joke Scale)).

I can't wait for JeremyM to organize another Grim Dark game in his garage. I will send these bikes zipping around the battlefield and watch them die too soon in a fiery ball of fire traveling way above the speed limit...

I used the same color pattern that I adopted for my Tau army 9 years ago. I thought that the Citadel "Liche Purple" I used back then was supposed to be the exact same color, but somehow the purple on these newly painted models turned out a lot darker. A different batch? The effect of time? Anyway, they look similar enough and they will all be firing at a same enemies.

There are two patterns of speed bikes. The one below looks more in line with the design of models currently offered by GW(tm). However, I prefer the pattern above with a big gun at the front and the head of the rider barely showing above the "hood". It says: "speed"  all over the design.

Points claimed:

5 x 28mm "mounted" figurines at 10 points each = 50 points

Total = 50 points

Thanks for reading!

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Brilliant stuff Sylvain. I hear you on GW's paints...I have experienced on a number of occasions how the same paint looks different when coming out of different bottles. I have often wished I could kick the GW paints to the curb for many reasons, but the fact remains they are the simplest and easiest to access in terms of supply...and my OCD compels me to consistency, even though some @sshole accountant at GW will surely tell them to slightly alter any paint formula if it can save five cents...

I have had occasion to try "Grim Dark" and it is indeed great(er good) fun! I am sure these fellows will zoom into some manner of entertaining oblivion on the table for you! Good hunting!

GregB 

From BruceR - Fire Giant towards the end; Reaper Bones; (10 points)

I was off on vacation week before and when I returned, age has caught up with me.  My back acted up and I could not sit to paint.  So, some projects might not get done.  I'm on the mend and I had been doing some brush work on this last Reaper Bones Giant I had.  This is a King and will go well with my previous Queen or Princess.  We have played alot of Frostgrave in the past and might have to break it out again with  the addition  of these giants.  I believe a friend has even created a scenario for ACon in the past which was published in the Frostgrave magazine. 

I base coated in white and gave it a dark wash.  I used a combo of speed paints and acrylics to complete base layers.  Another lighter wash and some highlights.  I did add a little blood spot from smashing some annoying adventurer.  Not a ton of different colors used, but enough to make him seem regal and fierce at the same time.

I went with the coal like skin again.

I thought his cloak green (Green Dragon?) would
contrast the other colors and I liked it.

A size comparison  with a Rangers
 of Shadow deep figure I submitted earlier.

Thats it for this week.  Hopefully a few more odds and ends for the finale up coming.  Hope you like this beastie.

He stands over 54mm so I would submit 10 points for a single figure.

Total 10 Points?

Take care.  Bruce

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The end of Challenge XV looms - the back aches (and other aches) are coming for all of us, I'm afraid...well done to soldier on and get this colorful fire giant done. Your results show the importance of good preparation and base coating in order to get the best results with speed-type paints (often a reason I can never use them!) and it is quite striking on a figure such as this one with the great assortment of detail.

And looking at that sword...I sure feel bad for whichever character became the blood stain...

10 points it shall be!

Greg

From SebastianR: Rats! (100pts)

Balls have well and truly been dropped. I was doing great for the first month of the year, but the final weeks of the challenge are upon us and I'm not going to get to the challenge filler pieces. So no bonus points for me. Only rats.

An attempt at weirdstone

I had to make a bunch of wooden floor bases out of greenstuff and milliput to match the ones I already had. Probably not worth the effort, but still happy with them.

These guys will be my gang for the long promised 3rd season of our ongoing Mordheim campaign.

That's 20 28mm figures for 100pts

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Rats it shall be! The distractions from our hobby goals can, at times, be as challenging as our hobby distractions - if that makes any sense...? All this to say is that I expect many will relate to not quite meeting our Challenge goals - certainly I can! I had so much stuff I was going to get done...

But rats are one way to get a nice 100 point pop! And full marks - even now, you are taking a trickier road by messing around with milliput to make wood-plank bases. Well done!

100 points it is!

GregB