From AdamW: A clash of clans (the Just Rulers) (64 points)

 As the challenge gets close to the end I have concentrated on finishing the last few Spheres of Heaven to make a full set. 

This entry is for 'The Just Rulers' sphere.  I tried to think of a just ruler that follows a code and the law, and I thought of the great Samurai leaders. They led by example in combat so, to me, they were 'just'.

One of our group wants to put on some Samurai battles. Luckily I don't have to paint any armies as they are a fiddly bunch.  I had planned to paint a load of 3D printed buildings for the challenge, but now terrain doesn't count I've left that till later.

The 15mm figures here are all bits I had with the aim of making some command groups and some other interesting bits and bobs. So an existing project rather than something new.

My entry is for the two command areas, but I have lumped in the other bits to save putting up another post.

The figures are a mixture of Peter Pig, and Museum miniatures. The latter are a bit bigger so I've kept the two types separate.

1st Command group

If you're not on the list you're not coming in.

2nd Command group

Wishing they had worked harder at school.

Big loud drums and those conch things.

Peter Pigs smaller drum...Although carrying it while its being played doesn't look fun.

Small weapons/camp scene.

Samurai confronts the Amazon delivery man.

Points

9 x Command group figures @2pts = 18pts

The Just Rulers bonus @20pts        = 20pts

13 x other foot @2pts                      = 26pts

Total                                                    64pts

Oh, these are nice Adam! What a lovely bunch of varied figures. I love the command groups (the map is fantastic!), but the odds and ends are very great too. The chaps with the drums and the two porters are very nice indeed! As I love how you set up the figures in their little dioramas (very atmospheric), I'll use my last Friday prerogative and give you something extra for those, so 70 points for you. Good job!

Martijn

From AdamW: 15mm Chinese rocket battery (The Inconstant) (66pts)

A quick last minute entry for this week.

 After a long time in hell I have finally reached paradise!  Some rapid painting and basing and I present my entry for the first Sphere, the Inconstant, something which may try its best but often falls a bit short.

For this I present a battery of Chinese rockets in 15mm.  Throughout history rockets always seem to be fairly erratic and inconstant in their accuracy, so they seemed a good subject.

In our rules we usually make them less accurate than other artillery, but more deadly if they hit.

The rockets and most of the figures are Museum miniatures, with three Lancashire games figures added for variety. 

Points claim

15 x 15mm crew @2pts = 30pts

4 x artillery pieces @4pts = 16pts

Inconstant bonus @20pts = 20pts

Total 66pts

A very fitting subject for The Inconstant, Adam! They are very nice models, and you did a great job on them. Now let's just hope they will not backfire too much... 66 more points to you.

Martijn

From RossM - 15mm Late Medieval Cavalry & 2mm Punic Wars: (76 points)

So it begins...

First post here, and it's a small entry to ensure continuation in this year's Challenge. 

Two bases of Scurrours for my growing ADLG Lancastrian force. The figures are from Museum Miniatures and fit in well enough with the bulk of the army that are from Gladiator Miniatures. 

The red in the pictures isn't that far away from the red on the miniatures and now realising that it is a step too far and into the realms of garishly bright. It will help me remember that they are on the gaming table in ADLG and other games. 

The red and dark grey (Black) are to represent the colours of the Percy's; although in the Wars of the Roses fiction that I am currently reading, the Percy's are described as wearing blue and yellow, not red and black. I am not a scholar of this period so any thoughts or info on this would be appreciated. 

These are entered into the Challenge as a Historical entry (941.2) and will gain points as 

 

15mm cavalry x 4: 16 points

Historical Entry: 20 bonus points

Next is an entirely new scale for me;  2mm something that at one stage I wouldn't have even entertained painting. Well painting isn't entirely the correct phrase, its more like dabbing with colour.

The miniatures are from Irregular Miniatures and were an idea my friend and fellow gamer. His idea was that I paint a Carthaginian and Republic Roman army and pick one, he would supply the figures. 

There are six stands of figures here, four skirmishers and two cavalry, with the furthest away cavalry being started the week before the Challenge so they are not included. All are based on 60mm front and the depths will vary as below: 

Skirmishers: 60 x 15mm

Light and Medium Infantry: 60 x 25mm

Heavy Infantry: 60 x 20mm

Cavalry: 60 x 30mm

Elephants: 60 x 40mm

Above the cavalry from the rear and then below from the front. 

These are entered into the Challenge as a Front Desk and New Acquisitions entry (902.2) and will gain points as 

 

2mm bases x 5: 3 points (0.5 per skirmisher stand and 1 for the cavalry) 

Historical Entry: 20 bonus points

My Challenge Library Card is below;

This takes the points for this entry to

15mm cavalry x 4: 16 points

Historical Entry: 20 bonus points

2mm bases x 5: 20 points (2.5 per skirmisher stand and 5 per cavalry stand) 

Historical Entry: 20 bonus points

Totaling: 76 points (15.2 percent of my Challenge total of 500)

Looking forward to posting more entries soon. 

Cheers for now

A true day of firsts here then... as we have another first entry from the Sunday Crew! Welcome aboard Ross!

Great entry as well with the WotR entry to kick things off. Like you, I am also not well versed in the history of it, but I do like the models and timescale! Great period to paint up!

For the Punic wars.. 2mm... wow... am struggling with 8mm marines, I can only just think how difficult painting 2mm models would be.. and to make them be recognized on such a base! Massive achievement there for sure!

Though for points, I have to adjust it a bit. As the judge's mighty calculator is a bit different for 2mm bases. They scoring 5 pts per 60x30 base. So taking the bases as half that, and you having 4 half bases ( skirmishers ) and 2 full bases ( calvary ), you will have a few more points.. So I have updated your calculations above to reflect that!

Great job and thanks for contributing today!

Kyle

From GrahameH: Another 15mm Mix

 I am still focusing on getting some armies finished. So some more 15mm Midianites, Galatians, Prussian Napoleonic Cavalry and Early Republican Romans.

15mm Midianites (Essex Figures)

I can honestly say I am a bit fed up painting camels, but these, apart from some to be used with the baggage, are the last of them. Same as last time 16 double crew camels. 

                             

I felt that natural colours on the saddle cloths were a bit dull so I painted them brighter colours, so they would stand out more. However, not sure that was a good idea, so I painted the generals cloths in duller colours which now seems better. Oh well, live and learn, and they aren't too bad.

Next the General, two Sub-General (spot the old DBM players) and three camels on their own. I have started painting figures that are left in the packs once the army is completed. They can act as Heros in Too the Strongest rules or just extra baggage, but more importantly I don't want loads of unpainted figures hanging around and I can't bring my self to throw them away.

Points wise (see if I can get it right this time)

2 X Camel units of 16 camels (each camel = 3 figures) 96 X 2 = 192 pts 

The General (9 Figures) = 18 pts 

Sub Generals (10 Figures) = 20 

The "Extras" (6 Figures) = 12 Points 

Total = 242 points 

The Early Republican Romans 

I have now finished this army apart from the camp, which I will probably do after the challenge has finish. For some reason I think I am wasting time painting terrain when I could be painting figures!!

Three units of Triarii (Chariot Miniatures). Each unit is made up of 16 figures, rather than my usual 24, as they tended to operation in smaller units. I painted my Early Imperial Army red so, for a change, I painted this army white. 

Then finally some Italian Allied Cavalry (12 cavalry) made by Essex Miniatures. These figures come in the same poses, so I turned their heads at different angles just to try and make the figures look different. Many a figure has been decapitated by turning them too far. 

Another army finished (well apart from the Marching Fort). 

Triarii = Each unit 16 Figures (32 points) - 3 units = 96 pts.

Allied Cavalry = 12 Cavalry = 48 pts

Total = 141

Galatians

A mentioned before I was going to sell this army, as I didn't really take to the figures, but I hate parting with figures, but I already had an Ancient Briton Army. So I thought I could use these as a small Galatian army, which I think is what Museum Miniatures call them. I read somewhere that the units on a table should never be more than the tables length multiplied by the tables width. I have a 6 X 4 table, therefore the total units on the table should be 24. 12 units per army, plus perhaps some skirmishers. So I thought I give this a try, but for some reason my armies seem to become large than this. No idea why.

The Last of the Galatian are some Skirmishers (3 to a base, 15 bases)

The General and Extras (13 Figures)

Some Galatian Cavalry (Essex Miniatures - I am a bit of an Essex Fan-Boy) 16 Cavalry

And finally three Scythed Chariots. 

Apparently Galatians used these, although I'm not sure they has as many as I have painted? Added the reins too. It would seem I hate doing reins as much as I hate painting camels.

Skirmisher (15 bases each of 3 figures = 45 figures) 90 pts 

General etc (13 Figures) = 26 pts 

Cavalry (16 Cavalry = 32 Figures) = 64 Pts 

Scythed Chariots (3 made up of 5 Figures and the Chariot - 10pts for the Crew & Horses, 5 for the chariot) T= 45 pts

Total = 225 pts 

Napoleonic Prussian Cavalry (AB Figures)

My treat for painting the above, painting some more Napoleonics 😊

This is the the 6th Hussar Regiment (2nd Silesia). Some Prussians seemed to have two names just to confuse ME. (32 Cavalry). This regiment was painted as it was Green, and not BLUE, having got bored painting  a load of blue on Prussian Infantry prior to the challenge). You can obviously see now I get bored very easily. 

The 5th (Pomeranian) Hussars (back to Blue) (32 Cavalry)

64 Cavalry = 256pts 

And that is it until next Time.

Total 

Midianites = 242 

Roman = 141 

Galatian = 225

Napoleonic Prussians = 256

Grand Total = 837 pts 

Minion Miles: Now this is a post worthy of exclamation! 15mm Nappys FTW!  I came up with a slightly different total 846 points but thats your fault because I had to add up all the infantry and cav to get it in the spreadsheet

From GrahameH: Mixture of Stuff, but mainly 15mm (1447 Points)

Made it. My first post just in time (again). I am always impressed by the challengers who plan for this event every year, knowing exactly what they are going to paint, and have everything ready to go on the starting date. Although, I say every year that this time it will be different, I am going to plan etc, I never do. It may be because I always seem to be painting, having more opportunity to paint and collect rather than game. This, and I get bored easily, it seems every year, I am already in the middle of painting a number of armies. So it was this year, therefore, my first entry is a bit of a mish-mash. 

Early Republican Roman

These are 15mm Chariot Miniatures figures. This is not a new army but having watched the Yorkshire Gamers You Tube video I decided my army was too small. I am now down to the last few units, but below are some of the units I have managed to complete during the challenge.

These are Roman Hastati. There are 16 figures to a unit as I wanted to make them smaller than my usual units of 24 figures. Total Points = 64pts 

Next some Velites. I was really short of these as the army expanded, so I had to paint a further 39. Points = 78 

15mm Galatians (Museum Miniatures)

This wasn't a complete army, and I was going to get rid of it as I already had a Ancient Briton army, but I hate selling painted soldiers so I thought I just buy a few more units and use it as Galatians. I think that what the figures are supposed to be anyhow. 

Each unit is made up of 30 figures, as they warbands, so I add a few extra figures and put them on deeper bases. There are four units, the ones with white shields are naked fanatics (I have taken the picture of them at an angle to save their modesty and to try not offend anyone). Points 240

15mm Midianites (Essex Miniatures)

I decided that regardless of how much is currently I have on my painting table, I need something new to give my the feeling I had achieved something extra during this challenge. So having spent a couple of days going through my metal mountain (yes it is that bad), I decided that some camels could be fun. They weren't and I still have a few more units to paint. 

Anyhow the camels. Currently, I have painted one Scout unit (12 X Camels). These are camels with single rider (48 points). Then four units of 16 camels with 2 riders (although 3 on the units have a leader who is mounted on a camel by himself  (so that's 3 units at 94 pts and one unit at 96 pts). Points total 378 pts. Sorry about the pictures but surprisingly the sun came out in the UK and I didn't notice. 

The Foot Warriors. There are three warbands (30 figures each), a bow unit (18 figures) and a skirmish unit (9 figures). Points = 234

WW2 Italian Paratroopers . The "Folgore" Brigade (Battle Front Miniatures, and some 3D printed vehicles)

I really enjoy putting Rapid Fire units together in 15mm so below is part of the "Folgore" Brigade in North Africa. I had already painted the first Parachute Battalion so I have added another two Battalions, an Engineer Battalion, an HQ (vehicles are 3D prints) and 2 20mm AA vehicles (Battle Front), during the challenge. 

Para Battalion X 2 = each of 34 figures = 136pts

Para Engineers = 36 figures and 1 gun = 76pts

2 AA Vehicles, each with 2 crew = 24pts

HQ 2 vehicles and 3 figures 22pts 

Grand Total = 258pts 

Photos of the two Para Bns are first, which are much the same and the Engineer Bn at the end (has more flamethrowers).

Prussian Napoleonic (AB Figures)

I couldn't do the challenge without painting figures for my favourite period, Napoleonic. Not sure I made the right deciding a few years back to base my figures on General de Brigade units. They take ages to paint and are expensive to collect. However, once done I do like the look of them in their big units. Anyhow two Prussian Cavalry Units completed each of 32 figures. 

The first is the 3rd Brandenburg Uhlan Regiment and, the ones in a lighter blue coat, the 2nd Neumark Landwehr Cavalry (I had to replace some of the lances that broke off - the only problem I have with AB figures is lances, swords and bayonets are very delicate). 128 Pts 

Finally something different for me - Games Workshop Gondor Infantry 

Just fancied something different and these have been sitting on the shelves for years. A quick paint job, and another sneaky 60 points 

                            

Nearly forgot I also painted 3 tents for the Midianites (5pts)

So really finally I think that works out at 1205 points and a very big apology to the Friday Minion. SORRY. 

Friday Minion: Holy Smokes Batman, what have we here? This seems like waaaay too much maths for first thing in the morning, but I think we got there. 

It would be super helpful to my Friday morning minion brain to get the number of figures per scoring category claimed as a summary at the end of the post, because I came out with quite a different points tally. You can also break up your post into more than entry. 

I make this out to be:

15mm infantry 359 models x 2 points each = 718

15mm cavalry and gun: 141 x 4 points each = 564

15mm vehicles 4 x 8 points each = 32

28mm infantry 12 x 5 points each = 60

Half a terrain cube for another 10 points

=1384

That leave us to deal with the extra 63 camel riders, at say 1 point each, for another 63.

I make that a grand total of 1447 points.

Of these, I particular appreciated the desert war Italians, with excellent definition, colour choices and groundwork they're a great looking force. The ancients hordes are very nice too, particualrly those Galatians with their jaunty shields and those Prussian cavalry with all their fluttering pennants look wonderful. 

You may not have had a plan for the challenge, but you've made astounding progress this past month - what's next?