From MikeF - 21 x 28mm Tyrant’s Legion Auxilia - 105 points

 I'm still rolling with the grunts for the Tyrant's Legion! The majority of the soldiers in the Tyrant's Legion were poorly trained and equipped conscripts conditioned to die selflessly for Lord Huron. In the rules, they have the worst armour save available and combat stats available. I again went outside of normal GW offerings and picked up a 20 man squad from the Mad Robot Miniatures "Grognard" selection. These are heavily modeled after the original Rogue Trader guardsmen and they work perfectly as Legion Auxilia. Their armour barely covers their vital organs, they have absolutely no equipment, packs or ammo pouches and even their lasgun looks like a glorified flashlight. I imagine the group of them crowding around a single USB port waiting their turn to charge them. Mad Robot Miniatures are very modular with separate legs, torso, arms and heads. They have a stunning variety of options, including a few that some old school guard players with instantly recognize. They are also not cheap. Quality is very good and there was very little flash to clean up. They're made of resin, so hot water treatment will quickly straighten out any rifle barrels that come bent.

I painted them with the standard light grey uniforms, dark grey armour and blue weapons. As I start putting them on the shelf with the other units, it's really starting to come together as an army. I'm hoping to have a few tanks painted up for next week and maybe some actual Astral Claws marines painted before the end of the challenge.

The squad leader's torso is actually from Anvil Industry

I thought a view from the back would be good, as I think its the side the enemy will most often see.

That's 21 x 28mm miniatures for 105 points.

Thanks for visiting!

Great looking miniatures Mike.  Love the detailing on your officer and the simple but effective basing.  It maybe you who gets to watch their backs as they stride across the table to victory.

From AndrewG - Rise of the Robot Army part 1 - Drone Team (30 points)

 

Several sci-fi skirmish game scenarios I’m playing involve fighting nefarious robots, cyborgs, and drones, so I went digging through the pile of opportunity last week to see what I had readily available that might be useful to create my own horde of evil mechanical minions. I found lots of useful stuff, but this is a project that will grow over time, so I figured I’d start small with a drone team and their handler.

 

Since I’ll be using models from several different manufacturers for this project, I needed to choose an overarching colour theme to tie them all together. After all, robots like uniformity and who am I to challenge them? Recalling an image of an old copy of ‘I Robot’ I saw not too long ago, I settled on a dark turquois / deep teal as the base colour for my clanker horde.

The handler is a plastic Northstar Stargrave Crew figure more or less straight out of the box. The metal hoverbots are from Hydra Miniatures’ Retro Raygun Robot Legion line of figures, and the drone gunship is a decades old WH40K Tau mixed metal/plastic model. All went together fairly quickly, though the hoverbots can be a bit finicky to assemble as their servo-claws come separately and needed to be carefully pinned for better long-term stability.

 

Last, the industrial display base is a simple 3D print of a free stl file I found on Thingyverse. I gave it a base coat of olive drab, then some metallic dry brushing followed by a bit of rust and weathering effect. Overall, I’m happy with how they turned out and look forward to making the next unit.

Points-wise, I’d suggest the following:

1x 28mm figure = 5pts

1x gun drone (20mm figure) = 4 pts

5x hoverbots (10mm mounted figure) = 3pts each

1x display base = 0 pts

Total: 24 points

A great team of drone Andrew, I like the uniform blue consistent between handler and handlees.  of course with robots, you never are sure who is controlling whom.  I’m never sure on the points for drones and the like, so I’m rounding this up to 30 points since I think you’ve short changed yourself.

From SylvainR: Last of the 6mm Late War German (52 points)

I was afflicted with an eye infection last week and realized how important perception of depth is when painting miniatures. I had to stop production, but was able to finish these just before one of my eyes shut for a few days (now I'm fine). So I don't have any D&D models completed this week but I have the last elements of my 6mm late war German army: ten battalion HQs (BHQ). 

Each BHQ is basically a little diorama and the officer is given a WW2 historical name. Not famous names, except maybe "Rundstedt".

On the left, the BHQ for the motorized panzergrenadier battalion, on the right, the BHQ of the armored panzergrenadier battalion. I found a remnant of a railroad in my spare parts and it does add a nice point of interest to the mini-dioramas.

BHQs for the Pz.IV battalion and Panther battalion. For the latter, the vehicle is actually an observation Panther with a fake wooden gun. For these two dioramas, I tried to simulate the "bocage" of Normandy with thick and bushy hedgerows.

BHQs for the Puma reconnaissance battalion and the Sd.Kfz.251 reconnaissance battalion. The collection I inherited had enough reconnaissance vehicles for 3 divisions. That will give me options, I guess...

 

BHQs for the Luchs (only 100 built) / Aufklärungspanzer 38 (only 70 built) reconnaissance battalion and the Tiger I battalion. For the huge Tigers, the two of them could only fit at an angle on the base, offering very limited "posability" for these beasts.

 

HQs for divisional support. The scenery on Vietinghoff's base came out nicely. I just realized while taking the picture that the vehicles are driving on the left side of the road. I also realized that the command truck is an AEC Mammoth captured from the British in the desert. Oh well... That would explain driving on the left side... I might replace the truck for something more "German" later. For Rundstedt, I went for a less crowded base, with only two small vehicles, which helps emphasize the importance of the Marshall in the middle front.

Above, a picture of all the elements completed for my late war German army that I worked on between October and December. This army is now officially finished! Yeah!

 

I can now mark off another army as done. So far I was able to maintain a production pace of 2 armies per year. Only 8 more years to go! :-)

Points claimed: 

23x 6mm vehicles at 2 points each = 46 points (I'm not counting the overthrown wagon)

12x 6mm foot infantry at 1/2 points each = 6 points (I've included the drivers of the Kubelwagens and officers on half-tracks)

Total = 52 points

Thanks for reading! 

 What the last of the Late War Germans.  Are you mister Completeness?  Do you have every Tiger II ever made?  Surely there must be something else to paint.  

 

All teasing aside once gain a fantastic set of mini dioramas.  Having seen your inflamed eye glued shut on Friday night, I am amazed that you got these finished.

 

 

 

From DallasE: Chaos All-Stars Blood Bowl Team (55 points)

OK! So for the longest time (since like 2011 or so) I have only had one painted Blood Bowl team, and these Chaos All-Stars were sitting primed in a Plano case. But my recent New Year's Resolution (host more games!) and a Chaos Dwarfs Blood Bowl team I received as a Christmas gift prompted me to get off my azz and get these guys painted. Of course I also went out and bought the Blood Bowl Third Season box set :-|

These of course are the old metal Chaos All-Stars. I can't remember the copyright dates on the base tags but they do appear in my 2004-05 comprehensive Citadel Miniatures catalog, I think they are the 1994 version of the team. Here are the Chaos Warriors.

I had thought of using numbers from the decal sheets in the Third Season or Chaos Dwarfs team box, but a look in the decal folder revealed a couple sheets of Team Yankee Soviet decals and they sized out just about right.

There's eight beastmen on the team too, four sculpts with two examples each. Good variety.

These guys got similar decal treatment.

With the purple and yellow team colours I was going for a kind of Minnesota Vikings look.

But I haven't formally named the team yet.

Look at this! I even painted eyes on the Beastmen! The whites are Corax White and a fine-tipped technical pen I have works great for the pupils.

I'm looking forward to getting these guys out on the field this year. Might even pick up another Chaos Warrior (Lord Borak?) or maybe a beastman mutant or metal Minotaur or Troll, although those are getting to be $$$.

Anyway, that's 11 28mm models x5 points each = 55 points. 

Great work on these veterans who have spent far too long waiting to be painted (pot calling the kettle black there).  I love the Vikings purple colour combo, but these guys definitely need a name/logo/mascot.  Have they played their first game yet?

 55 points it is

 

From MartinC Bob Gnarly and the Bambi Wood Elf Stripper (190pts)

 Hope the title has sparked your curiosity.  But first the undercard.

Bavarian artillery, 2 6lb and a 12lb gun.

These are mainly Perry figs with a couple of kitbashed figs as I had a spare gun already. Perry ACW plastic gun set was helpful here.

And I've had a new cutting mat

Next up a Warlord M20 scout car. Really need a gunner but the one with the set was a bit rubbish

Still no stripper yet.

The Bloodbowl mania continues, we have started a league to see how that works.

Couple of lizardmen players, they could be star players or the start of a lizardman team, I have figures i could use.

Next up is the Khorne team. These guys get extra experience for causing injuries, to keep the blood god assuaged 

Marauders, the backbone of the team. All have frenzy

The Blood Spawn, big guy, big hitter, also with frenzy

Khorngor. Beastman blitzers, no frenzy!

Blood Seekers, tough, strong and with frenzy. Basically this team is mad.

We have recently spotted that some of these resin teams come with star players

The Khorne team comes with Lord Borak the Despoiler. A massive guy but very expensive to field.

Finally the main event. I present Bob Gnarly.

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The Khorne team comes with this player, can't find him in the star player list, any guidance would help. He is a great figure on roller blades. So he is being fielded as an experienced marauder with +1 speed

I have a wood elf team made from repurposed resin wood elves. The figures are all in ballet dance poses, odd enough, but I needed an extra player and finding suitable figures in dancing attire and poses is hard. So I present Bambi the wood elf stripper

As you can see, she is definitely a stipper, her main armour is boob tape

The pose is very dynamic and I really like it. Would be better with bigger pants, although there was a nude option, and I dread to think.

Scores on the doors

1x28mm vehicle 20pts

3x28mm cannon with crew 75pts

19x28mm bloodbowl figures 95pts

There are times is I wonder if I really want to pick up that From:MartinC rock to see what scuttles out.  Not this week however, that title had me hooked.  A typical all over the place post Martin with lot's to enjoy, or make you avert your eyes.   Fine stuff all around but I think my favourite is Bon Gnarly.  He's going to have a challenge with those rollerblades on a field however, he should have limited mobility unless he's on a floor or paved surface.  I concur with your tally.

 

John B: Tuesday Terrors: King Stephen - A Partizan Freebie (5pts)

Ok so this week just a filler piece and its "squirrellite" at under 25 points so I missed that - oops.

Anyway in keeping with my own challenge to clear some of my mountain, I have painted this freebie from a Partizan Show. Only trouble is its someone elses mountain clearout so I haven't really reduced my lead pile.

Its a funny old world.

King Stephen and Queen Matilda were at the sharp end of the "Anarchy" a period in English history when the Norman conquest was over but succession was not a straighforward thing especially with so many factions having the need to control both England and Normandy not to mention growing external threats like France.

I opted to paint Stephen with Citadel Contrast Colours with Warp Lightning green, Baal red and Tallassar Blue the key colours. Stephens hair is Vallejo Game Colour Bone white with Citadel Seraphim Sepia wash while the crown is Vallejo Game Colour polished gold over citadel iyandi darksun. Fleshtone is Vallejo flat flesh with seraphim sepia over wash.

Matilda (again a partizan freebie) was a previous years AHPC entry but joins him for a final shot.

Total points = 1 x 28mm figure = 5 points.

Great work on this partizan freebie John, nice vibrant colours befitted of a King.  I am nowhere near organized to keep a list of my colours used on any particular figure.  He looks great up against Matilda too.  Great potential for gaming in the Anarchy, also great background reading in the Brother Cadfael mysteries.

That's 5 points and a tiny bit of a squirrel.