From GavinB: Wrapping up the AHPC 16

I can not believe that the challenge is already over. unfortunately I hate that I had lost my painting mojo during these few months, and I really wish I could have painted a LOT more, but I guess life gets in the way sometimes. It was still great to see what everyone else was up too and I really hope I can find my mojo by December, when I'm in high school. So I can sign up for this wonderful challenge again!

The Collection Grows...

Thanks Curt, Sarah and all the minions for putting this event on. Can not wait to see what everyone does next year!

Happy Painting,
Gavin B

From GavinB: A Strange Assortment of Figures (15 points)

Recently I have been playing the outstanding VR (virtual reality) survival game: Into the Radius (ITR) on the PSVR2. In ITR you are an explorer of the Pechorsk Radius exclusion zone, you have to manage your equipment, clean your guns and scavenge for food to survive. Additionally, there are many different hostile creatures in the Pechorsk Radius, so you want to try and stay quiet and conserve your ammo. Into the Radius is inspired by the book Roadside Picnic, and the actual stalkers that venture into the Chernobyl exclusion zone. ITR is so immersive and realistic, you have to manually load each bullet into the magazine and into the gun, etc. that you could easily lose hours into playing it. With how passionate I have become about this game, I thought is was only right to make a miniature for it. So I used the promotional art for the game as a reference for the figure to see what the main character looked like for a 3rd person view 

The Miniature was made from an old apocalyptic figure I had lying around then I made the backpack and necessary adjustments with green stuff.

I painted him up using a lot of muted colours to match the feel of the world, and slapped him on a base I feel like I did a pretty good job for a 6:30 am paint job!

Next on the agenda to paint was a fellow from the Dark Souls Franchise, the Boreal Outrider Knight. With all of the plate amour on him I felt that this was the perfect opportunity to practice my NMM. Additionally he carries an ice sword so I had to do some lighting effects as well, and I was really happy with the result. His base was then made out of blank playing cards that were cut into tiles with a marble texture painted on, then smeared with dirt and mud. Measuring him up he is a little over 54mm.

I'm still facing an unfortunate loss of painting mojo, so sorry about the random selection of miniatures for this post. I'm mustering up the courage to hop back into my Wars of the Roses project.

Happy Painting!

POINTS:
1 28mm figure: 5

1 54mm figure 10

POINTS TOTAL:
15

Your post-apocalyptic survivor looks great Gavin, I love the greenstuff work on him and the paintjob makes him look suitably prepared for anything that come his way in the Radius. I'm not familiar with Dark Souls but your model looks very cool, the last pic shows the work on his icy sword and the OSL very well, good work! And I am hopeful your mojo makes a reappearance as I'm looking forward to seeing your WOTR project!

Fifteen added to your tally!

Dallas

From GavinB Wrapping up the Walking Dead (10 points)

    This is my 2nd Year at the challenge, all though I must admit I have suffered from the serious infection of Painting Mojo Loss, but I am going to try to fight though it, and hopefully I will have a swift recovery...

    My mom and dad got me the Walking Dead All Out War Collectors Edition from Mantic Games last holiday, I am almost done with it now, over a year later. I usually paint a survivor and a walker at a time, so here is Brian Blake (the governor) and a walker in an apron. I'm not particularly happy with how Brain turned out, the shading was pretty bad on pants. But I feel good about the Walker.

POINTS:

2- 28mm foot figures: 10 points

Happy Painting!

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First, welcome back to the Challenge, Gavin!

I understand being in a painting slump as I've really not picked up a brush since last March, but I usually find that once you have a few figures behind you it all comes back with a gusto.

These two characters from The Walking Dead are excellent, but I agree that the walker really stands out. You did a terrific job on the decaying flesh and her gore-spattered apron. Yeeash. 

20 points to start towards your Challenge target. Well done!

- Curt

GavinB: Wrapping Up the AHPC 15

And with that, the challenge is over... its been really fun to post my work up here for others to see, and to view the wonderful paintings of the other wonderful participants! I want to again thank Greg, the minion for Wednesday, and, Greg, if someone like myself can paint Wars of the Roses liveries onto some infantry figures, so can you! So don't be afraid, buy yourself some of those wonderful perry sculpts and get painting!! Also thanks to Curt and Sarah for letting me into this supportive community you've built! I really grew as a wargamer during this challenge, before I had only been working on wars of the roses. But now, at the end of the challenge I have three different projects that I'm working on simultaneously, Turnip28, WoTR, and The Walking Dead All Out War.

My top two favorite miniatures I painted this year

This has been a really great first challenge and I cant wait to come back next year and see all of your wonderful paint jobs!! 

Happy Painting, and have a splendid summer!

GavinB

From GavinB: A Mixed Bag of Goodies For My Final Submission of the AHPC 15... (40 Points)

 This has been a really fun 1st painting challenge for me, and Greg, you have been an excellent minion, and always have such kind, thoughtful things to say about the miniatures that I've painted, thank you. It has been a real pleasure to participate here and show fellow miniature painters my okay paint jobs! As mentioned in the title, I painted like, 4 different genres of miniatures for this post!

First we have an extra unit of perry archers to add to my Salisbury retinue, There is not a whole lot of things to say about these little fellows besides the fact that they were a blast to paint, because in my opinion painting infantry in the wars of the roses is very fun, though many would disagree.

I attempted a new method to painting faces, I'm fairly happy with it!

Next On the list we have The knight class from the board game adaptation of the videogame Dark Souls, now, there are three kinds of people, the ones who absolutely love the Dark Souls games, the ones who hate the Dark Souls games, and the people who have no idea what Dark Souls even is! I am really proud of how this knight turned out, I tried a lot of wet blending techniques going from dark up to light shades of metal on all of his armor bits!

Another Knight! I was cleaning up my hobby desk one day when I found this little metal 28mm crusader looking miniature that I had bought a while back and decided to paint him up! I did not paint him to look like one in particular, I just had some fun painting random colours on, I guess he could be a fantasy fellow for D&D or Rangers of Shadow Deep.

And lastly we have Lee from The Walking Dead All Out War Collector's Edition, and probably the best character from all of the walking dead, followed closely by Clementine of course!

And that is everything for my final submission of the year! But looking back at previous challenges It seemed like people all made a wrap-up post showing everything they painted during the challenge after It was over, but I am really not too sure how it all works, so... maybe Ill see you all again one more time before next winter! 

POINTS TOTAL:

8 28mm foot figures for 40 points!

Happy Painting!!

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Hi Gavin - glad I could minion your last entry of your first challenge. Congratulations on getting to the end - many challengers don't make it on their first try!

As a WotR aficionado myself (and there are many others here) I appreciate. One can see your love for the period in that you strung their bows - impressive!!! And yes your new face technique looks good. Amazing what a few cheek, nose and chin highlights will bring out on these lovely sculpts.

I like your other models too, and the Templar Knight looked familiar. I went back through my files and found that I painted the same one back in 2019! Your splashes of colour really bring him to life - may he fight valorously for you on the tabletop!

40points well earned and congrats again on completing your first challenge! :-)

- Paul

From GavinB: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone of 28mm and Into 1/16th Scale (30 points)

Last week I was lucky enough to find a fair listing on eBay for one of the discontinued models from Miniart, the French Knight. Once I received the model I made a few edits to sallet with green stuff, as it was not in the style that was most common in the wars of the roses, and I was planning on painting this fellow as a retainer of Edward IV. I had never painted a model larger than 30mm so It was a real joy, I had a lot of fun focusing on all the little details and trying some new techniques. In the end I was pretty happy with how he turned out... so lets have a look!

It was a LOT easier to paint the Sun in Splendor on a 1/16th guy rather than a 28mm guy

  
Now, I do not know how many millimeters are in a 1/16th scale figure, I tried searching it up but to no avail, so to help you out in scoring this guy Greg, I have placed a 28mm Perry miniature next to our soldiers legs that way you can get an idea of how many points to award. (really sorry to add another thing to you busy list of to-do's...)

        And that wraps it up for this week, thank you so much for reading!

POINT TOTAL:

1 1/16th scale foot figure for ? points!

Happy Painting!

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Hi Gavin - thanks for sharing this unusual project with us. I maintain that heraldry is hopelessly confusing  no matter what the size of the model is, and I have a lot of respect for those who attempt it (and understand what they are doing). I have a Hundred Years War project that is utterly frozen as I have zero idea how to approach the heraldry...

But enough about me! You clearly know what's up - right down to messing around with "green stuff" to get the right helmet. Good show!

In terms of scoring, we thankfully have some precedent here. There have been a couple of instances of 1/16 scale figures in Challenges past - they were scored at 30 points, so that's what we'll go with here!

Thanks Gavin, we look forward to what comes next! 1/6 scale perhaps? :) 

GregB

From GavinB- New WoTR Army, Disturbing T28 fellows, and The Walking Dead, Oh My! (145 points)

And I swore to myself that I would not be a wargames butterfly, and yet here we are... 

Hello everyone, sorry its been a while! For my birthday I received the Wars of the roses supplement for Hail Caesar 2nd edition and decided to start a new division. (Ill take any excuse I can get to paint more WoTR Figures) This time I choose to make Richard Neville, 5th earl of Salisbury, and I figured I'd try a new basing system too, because I'm not very pleased with the way I did them in the previous division 

Anyway I made two test bases of troops, one of bill and the other of bow, and I was pretty happy with the results. When I start a new project I always get exited about making the command base, So as soon I finished the test figures, I pulled some Green Stuff, multiple boxes of perry plastics, and a 100mm base and got to building. At first I planned on using the metal Perry miniature of the earl of Salisbury on foot, but it just didn't feel right, I wanted him on a horse, so I built a new Salisbury from the mounted men at arms set and sculpted a bevor onto his face that way it resembled the metal foot version of him. After the other fellows were built I smashed some  modeling compound onto the base making it appear as if he and his his men were charging down onto a road. And In the end I was very pleased with how it came out!

17 x 28mm foot figures (Including both the unit bases and command base) for 85 points

2 mounted figures for 20 points

Totaling 105 points

This man at arms really adds some personality to the base!

I bit of string always make archers look a lot better!

And The Command Base:

CHARGE!!!

A close up of Richard

My attempt at hand painting a flag...

Turnip28... On my last post I had made a unit of Fodder for the Parsnip Pustules 91st. Well now its time to give those guys a toady to command them and who better to lead the Fodder into battle than  Peeves! (Or "Little P" as his men call him) But with Peeves's little stubby legs he cannot maneuver about the battlefield quickly to keep up with his men, and with the size he is, he would end up getting lost under the legs of the soldiers and no one would be able to hear his commands. So this is when his handy "assistant" Jim comes in, Peeves rides on Jim's shoulders which kills two birds with one stone, now he sits up above everyone else and Jim's lanky legs let him travel with speed that Peeves alone could never accomplish.

Peeves was built entirely out of green stuff (aside from his hands and pan on his belt) and Jim was just a zombie miniature that I had kicking about with a basinet plate glued onto his face and I did some repositioning of his back and arms. I'm not really sure how much points these two are worth because Peeves is kind of small so I will just not score him and say:

1 28mm figure for 5 points

Oh Jim How did you get yourself tangled up in that barbed wire 

I have one last quick T28 figure and then it will be onto the walking dead. In turnip 28 a lot of people represent battered units with teeth tokens which I will probably switch back to, but I just wanted to try something different so I made a poor guy bleeding out in the mud to represent the battered units. I used a lot of greenstuff to change the position he was in and to make that classic T28 style helmet. Then I caked on a lot of mud and blood!

1 x 28mm Foot figure for 5 points

Ouch!!

Does someone need a hand?

Okay sorry about how long this is, but we are at the final section don't you worry! The Walking Dead All Out War! and this weekend I really got the itching to paint up these wonderful miniatures. So I primed a batch of walkers and Clementine, who is obviously one of the best characters in the walking dead, along side Lee Everett. To your relief there is not a whole lot to say about this bunch so...

5 x 28mm Foot figures for 25 points!

I do not want to be that deer !

And Clementine:

Thanks for reading my post, sorry it was a long winded one, I know that you have a lot better things to do than listen to a strange person talk about what he's been painting. And I also apologize for the lighting inconsistencies, I got a special lighting box for taking pictures and I am still figuring it out.

POINT TOTALS:

24 28mm figures for 120 points

2 Mounted figures for 20 points

The total points of all of the miniatures is 140 (If my math is right!)

Happy Painting!

Gavin

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Well done Gavin! As you indicate in your headline, this is quite the assortment of painting to take in - and it is all of very high quality. I am always tickled to see some Turnip28 stuff - and "Peeves" looks like he will fit right in with his lot. And we all enjoy seeing more Zombie, and Zombie-adjacent content. 

But I truly tip my hat to your WOTR stuff. I am totally captured by the idea of that period, but the banners/livery is so intimidating to me that I chicken out every time before I try it, and I have a lot of respect for those willing to tackle it. You have done fine work on the fellow who was "the Kingmaker" - at least, I think he was? Anyway, it looks tremendous. I am tossing in a few bonus points for the hand-painted flag - bravo, and thanks for sharing all of these photos and the thoughts which accompany them!

GregB