From SteveG: Ancients on the final turn (210 points)

Coming into final bend of a long race. Just enough energy to keep up the pace. Hopefully can come home with some good entries. 

Here's a mix of stuff all completed this week.  

Ist up some famous ancient commanders

Sitalces of Thrace

mostly an Aventine figure w a new head ( 2 actually) 

Ptolemy ( Aventine ) 

Cassander ( Gripping Beast) 

Lysimachus of Thrace (Aventine) 

Seleucus ( Aventine) 

Phillip II of  Macedon ( Aventine - kitbashed) 

Resin Warfare Itallic Horse

various dudes

phalangites by WiP and Victrix

Illyrians - various

Carthaginian Citizen Militia  - various 

and to finish off the 2nd of the recently released Battlecat Carthaginian elephants but done as Ptolemaic.

So looks like 
infantry 5 points x  36  = 180 
cavalry 10 points x 1 = 10 
elephant 20 points x 1 = 20  so 210 points .  

From Millsy:

If you feel like you are fatigued Steve it's is definitely not reflected in either the quantity or quality of your output! Having been largely focused on one subject myself I do understand how it feels though.

Another superb batch of Ancients mate, especially the second nellie which is just beautiful. Well done once again. This lot takes you past triple your original target. Cracking effort.

Cheers,

Millsy

From KentG: Samurai Lord and 28mm Medieval slingers (75pts)

First up another command figure Fireforge resin miniature

Another nice figure 

All the slingers are 3D prints, broke one this morning just picking it up

I know a lot of people like this stuff but it’s really not me, hope they get to the

 customer in one piece 

For points  this week

13 foot @5pts each

1 mounted @ 10pts

Total 75pts

From Millsy:

Another lovely effort with the brush mate. Those smooth blends and muted tones on the slingers are just wonderful. It makes their samurai offside pop even more than he might otherwise with the saturated red.

I've found the likelihood of a break with 3D prints is very unpredictable and often down to the resin and how much they were cured. Some are just flexible enough, others feel flimsy from the get go. If a customer sent you them that's on them as I know how fanatical you are about safe packing.

Good stuff Kent. 75 more points for your tally.

Cheers,

Millsy

From Millsy: Late Roman skirmishing archers (100 points)

G'day All,

The weather has improved, the annual audit is done at work and life is good from a hobby POV. Things are moving along nicely once again in the Late Roman department now that varnishing can happen. Consequently I've got a bunch of skirmishing bowmen to share this week.

These are leftovers from both the Gripping Beast Late Roman and Dark Age infantry sets which I didn't want hanging about so painting them up for To the Strongest! made the most sense. They're sufficiently generic they could pass for any number of protagonists for the period I think which is always useful.

20 x 28mm infantry = 100 points

Next week will see the last of the Late Romans - a pile of cavalry, a little artillery and some command. I'm super excited to have them all done as I have a series of games on the horizon. Let's not think about how freshly painted troops typically perform eh?

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Millsy

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Great to see some more Romans rolling in Millsy. I have really enjoyed following this project during this edition of the Painting Challenge, and it has been great fun to have you as part of the Thursday crew!

As for the performance of freshly painted figures...well...I hope the dice gods will reward your efforts with favour and good luck! But in the event you end up marching off into miniature Adrianople, at least they'll be nice an varnished as they go down...

Another 100 points for you - thanks so much!

GregB

From GrahamB - Loads more Ancients (555 points)

More IT problems have delayed me posting these. I can’t find the settings on my iPad to enable me to upload photos to blogger so I have resorted to uploading photos from my telephone.

Anyway, in the meantime I have still been painting more ancients for my classical army’s for the Mithradatic wars and other Successor army’s. Firstly here is a unit of Successor Agema heavy cavalry. They can also serve as Cataphracts.  I don’t know the manufacturer as they were bought 2nd hand and given long spears from Aventine Miniatures and a spare Victrix Greek standard.

Secondly I have completed a small unit of 4 Scythian horse archers who will see service with various armies. I think they are A &A miniatures. The riders have separate legs and torsos allowing multiple poses.

Next are two Caesarian Roman units from Wargames Factory so have been in the plastic pile for years. I have enough Caesarian Romans already mainly in Red, so these have yellow and white tunics as well as a variation in shields to represent either Pompeys troops or imitation Legionaries or even Italian allies of the Romans or Successors.

Next up are a unit of 16 Greek Hoplites from Victrix Miniatures. They paint up and rank up very easily.

I have added three units of 6 generic ancient skirmishers, a mix of spare metal figures and cobbled together plastics giving one unit of bows, one old slingers and one unit of javelin men. 

Finally I have completed a unit of 16 Theurokitai from Aventine Miniatures for service with my Successors. They could also double up as imitation Legionaries.

So 16 x 28mm cavalry @ 10 pts = 120 points and 79 foot 28mm figures @ 5 points each = 395 points giving a total of 555points.

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That is...a lot of horses, a lot of riders, and a lot of guys...for a lot of points...

555 points it is!

GregB