From TeemuL: AHPC XVI Wrap-up

It took longer than I thought to get this wrap-up post published, but other life has been busy - post poning everything during the Challenge has a price. :) Cleverly I had stored all the painted minis in one spot, so it was easy to gather them all.

I had a high goal, mainly based on the number of AHPC, and when I have usually gathered quite a lot of bonus points, the return of the theme rounds caused a slight drop on my points. But like others have said, the new system is less stressful, although it has fixed dates and the posts are on different blog area. There are pros and cons, I'm happy with either.

Being mostly a painter and not a gamer nowadays helps squirrel hunting and once again I made nice effort on that duel and finished third. To be able to win the squirrel hunt is not really possible, I should be able to paint a lot more to gather enough 25 point squirrels, but it is still fun. Especially, when there are not really any gaming related needs to get specific minis painted. Squirrel hunting and "maps" overlap a little bit, they sometimes work nice together, sometimes not. It might be easier to have just one of them? But like I said, I'm happy with both and even my metal level Resistance entry is just to humour people. :)

In addition of hunting squirrels I hunted quite a lot of skulls, finishing third in that duel, too. I managed to be on first position briefly after painting Nagash and Warmaster Undeads, but in the end I run out of skulls. Or I focused on squirrels. Or just finishing primed minis. Like squirrel hunting, I have participated Skull Duel many times, usually making a good effort, but never really thought to actually win it. If there is Shako Duel next year, I'll participate in that, too, but most likely won't be close to win it.

Next some close ups of the output:

Warhammer 40K with British Napoleonics. It was nice to finish a whole unit of Nappies and start my Eldar force. Old Chaos Dreadnought was nice to paint, too!

Here we have fantasy minis with cowboys, the Slayers were a pleasure to paint and the generic fantasy/history minis are nice addition to my collection.

Creatures from Middle-Earth and Glorantha, I hoped to paint more of LotR, but collecting squirrels was fun, too.

Start of another Delmonteland force for Insurgency Wars and storage pots.

I guess this is the history section, ancients and WW2.

Arabian Nights Dogfights, third one would have meant a squirrel! :)

Here's a bonus photo from Helsinki Design Museum I visited on Tuesday. Some inspiration for all who hand paint the shields, this is from 1800s, probably seremonial.

Thank you Curt and Sarah, all the minions and other participants! It was nice to read your posts and look at your painted minis, thank you for all the comments, I should have commented more, but quite often I browsed your entries on phone and it is just not that easy to write on that thing. See You in December!