From RobH -28mm Gallic Warband (100 Points)

My first entry for the 2026 Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge are twenty Gallic Warriors. This is a unit purchase from Black Tree Design that has been sitting in my pile of lead for somehere between 15 and 20 years. The unit deals, and even the Gauls are no longer available on the BTD website. 

20 Gaulic Warriors - 28mm

They are an easy addition to my SAGA Gallic Warband but are displayed here on prototype movement trays for a concept test for Infamy, Infamy. A fellow gamer here in Montreal did a 3D print of the trays for use for a Sharpe's Practice game later this month. 

On New Year's Eve I discovered I had no shields for these figures, which I imagine are lost in the mists of time. I placed an order to Warlord Games for shields that I hope will work with these figures. Howvever I wanted them posted for the Challenge as I am still awaiting an order that was mailed on Dec 5th, departed the country on Dec 16th and still has not arrived in Canada.

I feel your pain on the shipping times Rob, I do. But your Gauls look great, they're very colourful and I quite like the groundwork too. Black Tree models are suitably chunky and fun to paint as well. I'd like to see the movement trays when they're done.

Looks to me like you've painted 20 28mm infantry models here which at 5 points each, equals 100 points for your tally. This one was easy for me to figure out but in future could you please indulge me and list the number and type of models, scale, and points claimed at the end of your post? Thanks!

Dallas

From BenitoM: Boarding Sarah's Yacht Destination Arda (25 points)

I'm back to my galatic exploration duties and will board Sarah's Yacht for the second time in this year's Challenge. My destination this time:  the misterious World of Arda

I'm paying my ticket today with a second wailing woman model, that will be part of the support option offered in the Infamy Infamy! Germanic lists.

This is a 28mm scale model of the Wargames Foundry Germanic Women blister. Nice sculpting full of character as most of the Foundry's minis.

The entry will add 25 points to my Challnege scoring:

1 x 28mm model @ 5 points + Bonus planet@ 20 points

From DaveD - Another fine addition indeed.

From BruceR, FIW Kings Own, Mediterranean Farm, European Townhomes, Coruscant (160 points)

A busy, yet productive week.  I was to travel out of town for work and was stranded at home with a blizzard.  Ha, more hobby up.  Instead of not getting anything done I had a whole extra day on the front end.  I also forgot the head of the war department (she who will not be named) was out of town for the weekend.  Me, the dog, and the hobby, a good weekend.  

I've shifted from AWI to FIW.  Both are fairly similar with my game of choice Sharp Practice.  These are again my favorite, Front Rank miniatures.  I love the bandages on some and gives the campaign look to the unit.

Here are 8 of King George's own with an NCO leading them into the wilderness.

I was a little burnt out on figures as I had hit it pretty hard prior to the challenge so needed a change.   I looked and I had a number of Sarissa Precision kits to build.  I've not done terrain in the Challenge so I figured give it a try.  I purchased this farm for use with "Infamy Infamy" and figured it would work for WWII Italy as well.  The Roman citizens of last week will likely reside here until the hordes evict them.  The kits are fairly easy to build.  I built the kit and gave it a rattle can of light tan.  Added the stone around the compound.  I than used the airbrush to  paint the courtyard and the roof of the buildings.  I use a little black to make the roof have a sort of 3d weathered look.  I did make all the roof components removable as we like to occupy buildings in our games.  As I usually host I inevitably have hostages left behind by other players.   I did give a dry brush with a purloined makeup brush and did the same inside the rooms of the compound.  The farm is 12" x 12" and 3" high.  I figure 2 6" cubes will be filled by this offer.  If not accurate, no worries.

A drunken shaman pilfering the stores.

One went to together so why not two more.  The next builds are listed as Sarissa Precision Destroyed European Townhouse - Dormer and 3 Storey.  These were a little different to piece together.  They are three levels and built in 6 sections.

Here you can see the different tiers.  

After constructing them I gave it a black rattle can and the inside a light-colored spray trying to keep some black to denote soot or blast marks.  I hand brushed the wooden floors and then used the airbrush again to hit the lower brick and the upper levels.  This turned out to be too smooth even though I again tried to leave some black showing.  I decided to dry brush some highlights and liked the end product.  These are each are 6" x 71/2 " x 7.  Each building fills a 6" cube and I'd be happy with that if approved.  

Here is the Dormer.  

Here is the 3 Storey

Inside half

Both forming the start of the block.  I have one more of each to build.

For the finale this week I jumped into the Warp Maelstrom last week into the middle ring and Greg shot me to Coruscant.  Hmm, good v. evil, or imperial.  Well primed from some time ago is an Italian officer from the Empress Miniature Range.  I had painted the tribal lads for my FFL force in Africa and never returned to the officer.  Well, the Kingdom of Italy in the Abyssinian Conflict should work for imperial.   

Tally for the week.

9 28mm King Georges men         = 45 pts

Mediterranean Farm 2 cubes        = 40 pts

Townhouse Dormer    1 cube       = 20 pts

Townhouse 3 Storey    1cube       = 20 pts

28mm Italian Abyssinian officer  =  5 pts

Planet Corsucant (via Maelstrom)= 30 pts 

Total                                             =160 pts

Sorry if the post is somewhat disjointed.  World events has me slightly discombobulated.  Able to grind out hobby, not so to formulate story.

Stay safe and well.

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Great work here Bruce. I have to agree, Front Rank are tremendous sculpts, and a joy to paint. Well done on those. I also salute your terrain efforts - I can almost never bring myself to paint terrain, or to faff around with those prickly Sarissa kits. But your efforts show great results! How awesome to have that terrain available for your gaming, and it looks great. Finally, your Italian officer is spot on for the theme at Coruscant!

Great entry today, well done. 

GregB

From BenitoV: A Ticket to Ride Sarah's Stellar Yacht (25 points)

Good day, fellow starship travellers. Following my short trip to the doomed Death Star, I'm now about to board Sarah's Stellar Yacht with destination  Babylon 5.

 

I tried to pay my ticket with Dogecoins but unfortunately (for me) Sarah seeems to have more sense than many fund managers (and a well known space traveller and entrepreneur) and doesn't like to be carried away by a trendy, senseless and speculative investment. So instead of a crypto, I'll pay my ride with this wailing Germanic Tribe model made in solid, hard metal. 

 

The model belongs to the Foundry "Rome and its Enemies" range and it's a leftover from my XIth Challenge core project. The pack includes seven Germanic women in different poses and a sort of a witch/sorceress that I already painted last year.

My plan is to use these models for my Infamy! Infamy! German Tribe unit. These models may have several purposes in these rules, either being a part of a nice vignette for an ambush/deployment point or becoming a straight support option ("wailing women"), used as a rally point for shocked/routed units.

This entry will add 25 points to this year's personal Challenge score:

1 x 28mm model @5 points + Sarah's Stellar Yacht Bonus (20 points) = 25

From DaveD

Now remember of course that wargamers are reverse alchemist turning gold in lead ! mind you have done a find job there - 25 points it is.

From AlanD - Pompey the Great's Hubris [Death Star] (30 points)

 Paul OG and I have been working for a while on a Roman Civil War project for Infamy! Infamy!, set around the lead up to the battle of Pharsalus in 48BC. Paul has been working on the hard-bitten veterans of Julius Caesar, while my army is the colourful, multi-cultural and not terribly good force led by Pompey the Great.

Inspired by the 'Hubris' theme of the Death Star, I finally painted the man himself, from the Warlord pack containing Pompey and Crassus.

Pompey certainly fits the definition of hubris, despite the dominant tradition amongst ancient authors to depict him as some sort of noble victim of treachery. The guy was a monster, earning the nickname of 'the teenage butcher' when he first used military force to gain the attention of Sulla in his civil war with the Marians. As a great example of his hubris, Pompey pushed Sulla to grant him a triumph in 79BC, meeting Sulla's objections that he was way too young with the comment that 'more people worship the rising sun than the setting'. He even attempted to use elephants to draw his chariot in the triumph, but they didn't fit through the gate into Rome. I would have liked to have seen that.

The Pompey here is older, paying the consequences of his hubris in underestimating Caesar and embroiled in a civil war that will cost him his life. 

Nice work, Dux, with your usual lovely basing. I've always wanted to know more about the Roman Civil War and have been enjoying the Cicero series of novels by Robert Harris. I get the impression neither Pompey or Caesar were likeable...

Barks

From BenitoM: The Final Charge (50 points)

Personal and work issues have disrupted my painting schedule over the past three weeks. So in the nick of time I had a short window to paint my last batch of minis and marginally reached my Challenge target of 500 points.

 

The three mounted and four warriors and the four foot warriors are part of the mixed Germanic tribes cavalry unit for my Infamy!Infamy! army.

Earlier in the Challenge I painted three mounted warriors and now the unit is finally completed: 6 mounted and four foot.

 

These mixed units allows for a lot of flexibility in the rules, as they can attack as a single unit or to use the foot as an independent unit. Here below I present the full unit in the base. These bases are produced by Warbases and are specifically designed for Infamy. The models are all metal minis from Wargames Foundry, good sculpting with a lot of character, no flash and little mould lines.

This entry adds 50 points to my Challenge score (3 x mounted @ 10 points = 30 + 4 x  foot @5 points = 20) exceeding now marginally my 500 points target for this year's competition.

BruceR, 28mm Gallic Cavalry, 60 pts,

Here are six cavalry figures I took out of the bin and I've had them for at least 10 years if not longer.  These were purchased with a friend who thought "look these Wargames Factory figures are cheap as chips so lets build X.    I bought 2-3 bags of plastic.   Whatever the plan was it didn't happen.   I freely admit I prefer metal figures.  So now Infamy Infamy has me in "need" of another noble cavalry unit.  

  

Now I have painted far more than I thought I would entering the Challenge.  Covid, empty nester, no travel may have been a catalyst.  I'm fearful of next years need to estimate a goal.  

I did prime a number of figures ahead of time and this is the last batch of primed prior to the Challenge.  I did get the urge for other periods and got sidetracked and painted out of line.   

These figures did not have shields in the bag I found them in, as I had obviously used them somewhere else.  So I found some shields and transfers around the cave and behold Gallic Nobles.  I realize the shields might be more for foot, yet my theory is any shield is a good shield if somebody is trying to kill you.   

The transfers are LBM and the shields are metal, I think were extra from Warlord blisters.  Now the figures are not great.  Early plastic and not much character.  Plus gluing heads, arms, weapons, just makes me shudder.  To each his own.  

Infamy Gallic Noble Cavalry

Stay safe.

6 28mm mounted 60 pts.

AlanD - More from Dacia! (60 points)

I have some eclectic entries on the way this week, but the first is the latest batch of 12 Victrix Dacians for Infamy. Not too much to say about these that I haven't already said about previous entries, but I hope you enjoy the eye candy. Oh, and the shield decals are from Little Big Men Studios, and I think they look so nice that I am no longer feeling ashamed about not painting the shields.

AlanD - Yep, More Dacians...(75 points)

 

Here's another 15 Dacians for my growing Infamy force. I am enjoying painting these Victrix figures a lot.

I almost always paint shields, and have been recorded (literally, thanks Paul) saying uncharitable things about decals. However, Dacian shield designs are so complex and symmetrical and my need to get these on the table to smash some Romans are such that I sent off an order to Victrix for some decals. As a result, expect to see fewer archers and blokes with falxes, and more spearmen with shields now that they have arrived.

And with another 75 points I plod a little further towards my goal!

I'm with you, Dux, on hand-painting shields under normal conditions but with groups like the Dacians  you really do need to use decals. I think these chaps should do a smashing job of clobbering Romans.

Tamsin