TomL, Traveling to Paradise (55 points)

It is time to enter Paradise at the First Sphere: The Inconstant. Leading us here is another Pulp Figures miniature from his Femme Fatales set.

 

Looking at my pile of potential I realized I had one group of figures who gave it their all, working for the betterment of others in spite of their past history but just couldn’t win in the end.

Blakes 7 was a show I came to years late and first watched on YouTube - boy would 1978 me have loved this show!  These figures are with Beast in the Broch miniatures (formerly associated with Crooked Dice).  All models were painted using TTC, Foundry and GW acrylics & washes.  Gan’s figure has the stripes sculpted in which was rather helpful.

Points for this post are: 55
Inconstant - 20 points.
7 * 28mm figures = 35 points.   Not counting the computer (sorry Peter Tuddenham).
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Blake's 7 was a show just before me time also, but alas I have never delved back to enjoy it. I guess with Dr Who, the original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek and Star Wars I was sufficiently entertained!

- Paul

From PeteF: Really The Last Post - A Mixed Bag of Chambers (164 Points)

 As I completed my "last" post yesterday I felt a gnawing disappointment that I'd not completely explored Curt's delightful dungeon. Five rooms remained empty and I was stuck with the thought...what if they could be finished in a day? So as I watched tv last night - and straight after breakfast I was painting individual bricks on La Haye Sainte - my entry for The Oubliette. 

I owned this model back in my youth as a result of an abortive day trip to Windsor Safari Park. Somewhere near Uxbridge the car blew a tire and we spent most of the day by the side of the road and in Uxbridge itself where toy shop was found and the Airfix Waterloo Battle Set was used to assuage my sadness (score, right?). That particular set has been lost in the mists of time but a few years ago I inherited an unbuilt Waterloo Farm House when my brother passed away. He never got around to assembling and painting this iconic piece of Airfix nostalgia and I've had it primed and ready for around 3(?) Challenges... my memory isn't what it once was.

I'm not sure painting the individual bricks was the most efficient approach to this model, especially in a time crunch. But there you go. When I prepped the model I used bits of Lego as jigs so two of the roofs can be easily removed to house soldiers. The whole thing is a bit big to use in a Black Powder game but the individual structures will come in handy along with my other Airfix houses for representing Belgian towns and villages.

Excluding the jutting wall the model is 12"x8"x3" which I estimate to be worth 27 points plus 20 for the room for a total of 47.

I'm going to write and upload photos as I go today. The clock says 9 hours and 40 minutes and there are four rooms left.

Next up is this shrine like object which is my entry for the Tomb. It was a generous gift from a fellow wargamer - I had mentioned to him that I was thinking about doing some fantasy mass battle gaming and he gave me some of his old stuff. I believe this is part of an old GW starter set (hopefully more of it later).

This is likely to see use in Kings of War as a Portal of Despair (mwahahaha) for my Nightstalkers army. I've put clues to various horror movies in the game pieces. This one might even get a second clue if I can figure out how to use LEDs to make the mouth area flicker like the TV screen in Poltergeist. It's a bit obscure but that's the idea.

At 100mm, This is quite a big object so I'm scoring it at 10 points (equivalent to a 54mm foot figure) plus 20 for the room bonus. Added bonus is 26 skulls!

The clock is ticking - AHPC page says seven hours to go - 3 more rooms to clear...

Now to the laboratory - this was the hardest chamber of them all for me to find a suitable mini. After digging around on the shelf of shame I came up short - but then remembered an old box of Heroclix I'd got for my son and which he had given back last time he cleaned out. 

The Hulk is the result of an experiment gone wrong and this version - some kind of robot hulk - is the result of yet more tinkering by misguided scientists. Not sure if I'll find a game for him but he was fun to paint - I enjoyed highlighting the green and will use some of the other Heroclix for practice. I broke out the Turbo Dork for his shiny green machine parts.

I'm scoring him as a 40mm figure (he's 50mm foot to elbow)plus room bonus. With 2 chambers to go the clock says 5 hours 39 minutes. But I have to take a break to cook dinner.

Sticking with the green skinned theme and knocking out another chamber - here are some goblins (night goblins?) from the same source as the shrine thingy. With time so tight I only did these three - I was given enough for a large unit of Saga levies or a regiment of bowmen for Kings of War. In Kings of War there's a goblin tribe - the Red Goblins - that help out the ogres so I gave them red hoods and slippers. Like the pope.

These are nice old school sculpts with lots of character - maybe I'll work towards a full green skinned army - they're fun to paint.

3 minis and a room bonus for 35 points. One room to go - I checked the clock and there's 3 hours and 48 minutes left of Challenge XI to finish the final room.

And here is the final figure for Challenge XI - a female paladin for The Kinght's Solar. She's an old school figure - I can't remember the manufacturer. Maybe Citadel. The pack comes with a mounted on unicorn version of the same mini which I'll save for another time.

1 figure on foot plus a final room bonus for 25 points and the end of a fun day chipping away at the shelf of shame. Apologies if this has been too many pictures! Left with 3 hours to spare... maybe there's another mini?

Grand Total: 164 points

La Haye Sainte: 47 points

Portal: 30 points

Laboratory: 27 points

The Orcs' Pit: 35 points

Knight's Solar: 25 points

And then I got some help

A Big Thank you to Curt and his minions as well as everyone who has participated in Challenge XI. We only get one shot at this journey of life and I'm grateful to have spent some of it painting alongside this merry crew.

From PaulSS: [Lair of the Great Beast] Parisienne Mob - and Bob (75pts)

 

The past few weeks have been given over to packing for our impending move back to the UK, but there is time for one last entry before the challenge draws to a close.

Lair of the Great Beast: Yes, we know the map says ‘ Lair of the Spider’, but the spider was forced out by several things which are monstrous and nightmarish, terrifying and humongous.  Shhhh…. If you’re very quiet, they may not notice we’re here… Do up a figure describing one of these great beasties.

Do not provoke the Parisienne Mob, waking this beast will result in carnage on a scale never before seen.

This is a great collection of figures from the Eureka Miniatures French Mob set.

This beast is certainly angry about something, cake maybe? You can even furnish them with Guillotine if you so desire.

There's bags of character in this set, the knitting crones, the beefy armed potato saleswoman, the child on his fathers shoulders and a trio of veterans.

Provoking this beast is ill advised!

Also, this is Bob Wainwright, Bob's not entirely sure why he is here, but there are wheels to be made so he's going to make them.

Bob's left over from the set that included the armourers I did earlier in the challenge. Also from Eureka Miniatures.

It's traditional to do a round up of the figures you painted over the challenge, so, they are all* included in this photo ;) 

(*Not quite true, these figures in this entry are going to be bubble wrapped and put in one of the final boxes to be sealed)

Our container comes on Tuesday.

Ten 28mm figures, plus 5pts combined for the "saw horse" and child  and the location bonus will add 75 points to my total.

I've tagged Sarah the Sorceress for this post two as four of the nine mob members fall into the category

28mm Napoleonics Duel Totalizer: 28 mounted, 152 foot, 3 guns, 1 boat.

I'm very happy with my total of approximately 1693 points, I never thought that I'd be able to prepare for the move and get so much done. 

It would have been great to have completed all the Chambers of Challenge location but, it was clear these past few weeks I was never going to get done "The Hall of Heroes", "Graveyard Beach" and finally present tribute at "The Altar of the Snow Lord" with all the packing that needed to be done.

AdamC: Shore fortress and Ladies for a Teleport? home (12 or 22? Points)

 This will be my final post not counting a wrap up and group shot sometime next week. 

We have a small shore fortress another 3d Print courtesy of Arofan it will make fine shore terrain for Black Seas.  

I have a harbor attack scenario it will be perfect for.

Here we have the last two (three) ladies from the Griping Beast pack. 

This mother and child is one of my favorite pieces form he set.  I can imagine that she is looking after the men of her village as they troop away, her daughter crying on her shoulder. 

I kept the outfit simple. She may be seeing her man off but she's got work to do latter and she's ready to get to it. 

Last we have an older woman who looks like she is moving cautiously perhaps at night on her way to the privy or hoping some raiders won't notice het. 

Her "Lower" clothing are simple and a little dirty but her shawl is a fine purple with a white boarder clearly she a woman of some standing or she accidently took her mistresses' shawl in the dark.  The fort is small I'll claim 2 points The ladies are 5 points each as 25mm figures.  I don't know if I get the teleport points (20) when I don't have a dungeon destination but perhaps Sarah The Sorceress and drop me at home or at least outside the dudgeon?   Thanks to all especially Curt and the Minions,  for another lovely challenge. 

BruceR, Sarah the Sorceress, 28mm, 5 pts,

A peasant villager or the evil queen with a basket of apples? 

I'd done this figure in anticipation of using her for teleporting and did not find the right moment.

So here is an offering to Queen Sarah without a request for movement. 

This is a Wargames Foundry figure from a villagers packet.  

I'll use her in SP2 fights as a character to be interacted with or escorted through the Iberian peninsula. 

 

5 pts

Stay Safe.

Hit the finish line.

 

From JonathanO: Enchantress - Sarah the Sorceress (25 points)

 In order to reach the Lair of the Beast, I will need to rack up some more frequent flyer points with Sarah the Sorceress.

This is the mysterious Lady Margaret.  She is a supporter and guide for the Twins in Armour that I painted in an earlier challenge:

http://analogue-hobbies-theme-rounds.blogspot.com/2017/01/armour-from-jonathano-twins-in-armour.html

This figure is from Hasslefree Miniatures (Lenore the Enchantress of Evermore).

25 more points, including the bonus.