From SanderS: Part 2 - The Statue of a Famous Person. The Green Knight (30 points)

 Hoi,

As I said in my other post earlier today, I have a Green Knight figure to paint for Herman (I have one myself) and got it done for today's post. 

He fits this category specially since I think he's one of the most famous characters from the Bretonnian army range as well as a famous figure out of the tales around King Arthur. I read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during my teens and should really read it again but have such a long "to read pile" I haven't come round to it yet.  

As for the figure, I have painted it as much as possible as per the instructions from Herman, it's actual owner but with a bit of artistic license. To me this is one of the coolest figures in the range still and have loved seeing it used in Battle Reports online. 

Arthur and I played our first game of The Old World last week and his Goblins beat my Dwarfs using their loony fanatics who decimated my blobs of warriors in no time. 

We are pretty heavy involved in TOW at the club as well and I will be playing my next game this Friday. If you are into Bretonnians as much as me, try out the fan-made Moussilon supplement (you can download it through Broheim.net) which has some excellent background stuff and lists for a very tasty "evil-Bretonnian" force. 

Now points are easy 10 for the Green Knight and 20 for the location making another 30 for the list.

Cheers Sander

Sylvain: Your justification for "Famous Person" is well argued and your miniature is brilliantly painted. Two good reasons to add 30 points to your tally. You make me want to visit Bretonnia... Congratulations on Arthur's victory. I'm sure there will be more gaming and painting in The Old World.

 

From LeeH: General George S Patton (Library: Statue of a Famous Person) (25 Points)

The painting Mojo has been a bit limited recently, and it's entirely my own fault. I’ve managed to pile project on top of project until finding time to paint has become a bit limited. That is not necessarily a negative, because I have played far more games - both in person and remotely via Zoom - than I usually would. And I have been working on my YouTube channel and writing some articles, so it's not like I have been idle. Add on top of this a work schedule that has doubled my workload and finding time to even think about painting has been difficult. 

I have been trying to work my way through the Challenge Library but have reached an impasse. Eventually, I decided to do the ‘Statue of a Famous Person’ and I found this model of General Patton, but I didn’t want to just paint it as bronze or stone. So my ‘Statue’ is one of two options: either a waxwork statue of the man, or my 28mm model is in effect a miniature statue?? Ok, I’m stretching the definition for this section but you get where I am coming from. 

General Patton is one of those characters who seem to stride across the pages of the history books. He certainly had a talent for war and an ego to match, so powerful that it easily reached across the intervening 79 years since his death. Reading anything about this man's life and ambitions one has to ask how different the world would have been had he lived? 

1 x 28mm Foot = 5points + Challenge bonus = 25 Points. 

Lee.. love the painting of old Patton here.. and well it doesn't have to be a statue itself so to speak, so I think this works well for the context of a Famous person. Great job, and 25 pts added for you!
Kyle

From MartinC: Bit of a Wander About [Local History][Statue of Famous Person][Sarah's Library Cart] (441 points)

So more painting has taken place, no gaming this weekend - it does have a habit of getting in the way of painting.

Lets start at the beginning. My Russian army is nearing the 1st phase of completion, i.e. I have no plans to paint more than I have in the pile, but there are some glaring holes and my opponents have more than me, OK that's not true but my next project is to paint Bavarians, so I'll provide my own opponents. The next 2 units are Russian Ulhan regiments. These were a tough painting challenge and the reason I waited 17 years to paint 28mm Napoleonics

Tartar Regiment, love the colours

The pennants look really great

This is what I will see as they plough forward into the enemy

The 2nd regiment is the Polish Regiment. Very similar colour scheme with different hats.

I got both regiments out of a single Perry plastics box i was given for Christmas from DaveD, plus a spare sprue fro Perry's. Overall very pleased with them.

Next up a few 10mm truck from Pendraken for my 10mm Spanish Civil War collection. This is also pretty much complete. I have enough for sensible sized battles, but I know Dave and JamesM, so I suspect I will need a few thousand more to make them happy.

There is no specific paint job for these, they are just trucks.

Next up I need to summon the librarian extra-ordinary to move me to the centre of the library. So I need a suitable female figure. A classy woman needs to be well accessorised, shoes, bag, jewelry and a bazooka

She is another Hasslefree figure with a simple conversion to add a bazooka and shell case from the bits box

She definitely has the post apocalytic feel, although I do see her hunting out alien invaders.

So now I'm in a new room I should post some figures. 1st up is the Local History theme. Coming from Staffordshire but living in Newcastle gives me lots of opportunities. Hadrians wall, Flodden Field, Border Reivers, The Coldstream Guards, Northumberland Fusiliers and the Durham Light Infantry. I'm sure there are more I've missed out but I wanted to paint something for a project I'm working on. I have a bit of thing for the back of beyond, especially between the world wars. During the Russian Civil War the Britsh invaded near Murmansk, initially to stop the Germans and eventually joining with the Whites. One of the units that fought there was the Durham Light Infantry

I acquired these following the sad passing of our friend Scotty. They are lovely figures, no clue who makes them. 

Couple of mortars and a Vickers. This completes the figures I have for the force, it is a sensible size with a lot of machine guns.

Finally the Statue of a Famous Person. 

This is Irena Sendler, a nurse inthe Warsaw Ghetto. She rescued, along with the network she set up, 2500 children. There is a movie about her staring Anna Paquin. The figure was the figure at the last Partizan and a nice figure to end this post with.

I should post my journey around the library, Teemu moans if I don't

Scores on the Doors

16 x 28mm Ulhans = 160

6 x 10mm trucks = 36

20 x 28mm Brits = 100

9 x 28mm weapon crew = 45

3 x crewed weapons = 30

2 x 28mm women = 10

Sarah's Library Cart = 20

Local History = 20

Statue of Famous Person = 20

total = 441pts

TeemuL: Very kind of you, preventing me from moaning. Your brushwork makes me happy, too. Especially the Ulhans, but if it took 17 years to start them, the end result is well worth the wait. And the Durham Light Infantry, too, but the lady with bazooka is ready to take them all - and be victorious. Good progress on the Library Map, only a couple of more to go! And if you have more of these "gameless weekends", you'll be shattering your target in no time at all.

From MartijnN: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson [Famous Person] (86 points)

Having completed Section 1 of the Library we move on to Section 2 and ask Lady Sarah to drop us off at the Statue of a Famous person. Two, actually.

Once again two figures I bought on a whim and do not expect to use anytime soon. I was browsing the site of CP models because I wanted to buy some spears, saw that they also produce figures and threw some in that I fancied, mainly to beef up  the order a little. And once again the Challenge came to the rescue. Thus, I have for you Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.

They are nice, simple figures that were fun to paint, again using mainly contrast paints.

And then I have a follow on of last week's post. I really thought I had completed the Union forces for Champion Hill, and only when drawing them all up for the post did I realize that I was a Union unit short. So, I started digging through my stash of opportunity and unearthed enough Perrin figures for not one, but even two units. So here they are.

For some reason my bases always show up very yellow, but they are a lot greener in real life. I prefer these rather simple bases for small scale figures. They are  a bit old-fashioned perhaps, but effective. The flags are from Pendraken and from the Warflag.com website. And yes, I have been cutting corners here. I consider painting black belts on dark blue coats at this scale a waste of time, and you really don't see it on the table. I did paint them on officers and drummers, but even in the close up photo's that's hard to discern. 

I had also not yet painted a figure to represent General Grant. Turner Miniatures produce numerous STL files for the ACW that I had purchased long ago, and I had printed some generals in 10mm. So here we have Grant with some staff officers, ready to take on Pemberton at Champion Hill.

I also found a covered ox-drawn wagon, which I painted at the same time. I have added some crates and sacks from Perfect Six Miniatures. They are formally 6mm, but I thought they complemented the wagon nicely.

That means that I can now play the Altar of Freedom Champion Hill scenario. I do have some odds and ends left, I found another Confederate unit, I have some casualty markers and the like, but nothing really essential. Actually quite unusual for me (being the proverbial butterfly), and rather a nice feeling, to finish a project!

As for books (apart from the obvious recommendation to read all  Sherlock Holmes stories. Twice at least). Dr. Watson suffered his wound during the Second Afghan War, but honestly I have never read a book about that one (yet). So something else suitably Victorian will have to do. That is A Tidy Little War by William Wright, about the British invasion of Egypt in 1882. I have this as an e-book, so here's a random stock photo:

I enjoyed reading this. The conflict is, as might be imagined, not very well known over here (if at all), so I knew next to nothing about it. Wright writes a good overview of the war, with ample attention to the Egyptian side, and a healthy criticism of British colonial policy which blatantly disregarded any rights the Egyptians thought they might have had, without going all woke about it. A very balanced book I thought, with the right level of detail. Combine it with the Osprey Campaign about Tel El-Kebir and you have a nice summary of the conflict.

The map:

Score:

2x 25mm foot @ 5 = 10

40x 10mm foot @ 1 = 40

3x 10mm horse @ 2 = 6

1x 10mm vehicle = 6

2x 10mm crew at 0,5 (50%, as they are only half painted) =1

Famous Person bonus = 20

Total of 83 points

TeemuL: Isn't it nice to add something to a finished army? :) Good work finding those missing minis and some extras from your archives of unpainted minis. And the command stand is excellent, the blues and browns work well together here, good job. Two units, a command and a wagon to your Union forces, to finish a project again! I hope they do well in their first and following battles.

And 10mm cavalry is 3 points, so couple of points added to the total.

From PeteF: Le Petit Caporal - My First Minifg of Challenge XIV - Famous Person (25 points)

 

Halfway through January and I'd not removed a single Minifig from Lead Mountain.  Time to fix that and at the same time honour our good friend Ridley Scott. I'm not sure that the director fully captured the complexities of the life of the Corsican Fiend/Colossus of the Nineteenth Century - depending on your point of view.

This sculpt is an old rendering of "Jupiter Scapin" (look it up) from the 1980s. It is in God's True Scale - 25mm.  It depicts the The Corsican Ogre standing in his greatcoat - a garment that earned him the soubriquet "Redingote Gris" because he was always seen wearing it on campaign. 

This depicts Boney before he became Fleshy.  I do wonder what The Man of Destiny would have made of Ridley "fast-and-loose" Scott's rendering of his life.  Based on comments in Napoleonic Wargaming Facebook Groups (and those people know things), The Devil's Favourite would likely think the film somewhat inaccurate - At least The Monster would  have a good answer to Scott's "Were you there?" question.

My white cat has been using the light box for napping (geddit?). Apologies for the less than professional hairs that keep making it into my pictures.  

This is one single 25mm figure for 5 points and for a shameless points grab, the library section bonus of 20 points for a total of 25 points.

If you have any other names for The Tiny Tyrant - please include in the comments section.

Great work here Pete, and your cat is not the only one to enjoy the spotlight treatment... at least thats what I assume my cat is doing as she tries to jump up whenever I prep my photo area! 

Wonderful work on Le Petit Caporal, and a great entry for the section. Well done!

25 pts added!

Kyle

From SimonM: Donald Loves the Bomb by "Red Star Coven Miniatures" [Famous Person] (35 points)

This 28mm scale resin model of 'Donald Trump plummeting to a thermonuclear death' was produced by "Red Star Coven Miniatures" and could be purchased as Donald Loves the Bomb from their Masters Of War range. Sculpted by Darren Edwards, I picked up this two-piece kit of the former President of the United States just over three years ago, and am sad to report that it is now Out Of Production (OOP).

Despite coming with a plastic flying stand, this figure was always destined to be a statue of the controversial politician, so I purchased a resin plinth from an "eBay" seller to use as a pedestal, and super-glued it to a plastic 65mm circular base. The stone altar was primed using a couple of coats of "Vallejo" Heavy Bluegrey, shaded in "Citadel" Nuln Oil, and dry-brushed with (more) "Vallejo" Heavy Bluegrey.

I also took this opportunity to 'pick out' its metal plate with a smidgeon of "Vallejo" Gunmetal" and (another) dose of "Citadel" Nuln Oil. Finally, I finished off the plinth was some strategically placed trickles of "Citadel" Agrax Earthshade and Biel-Tan Green, before giving it a last, light dry-brush of (more) "Vallejo" Heavy Bluegrey.

With the pedestal finished, I super-glued Donald to the bomb (which was much easier said than done, as the businessman didn't fit at all snuggly upon his ride), and applied two layers of "Vallejo" Heavy Sienna to the ensemble. I then layered him with "Vallejo" Bronze. washed the model with “Citadel” Agrax Earthshade, before giving the Republican a dry-brush using (more) “Vallejo” Bronze.

To help weather the statue, I subsequently applied various amounts of “Citadel” Nihilakh Oxide in between the sculpt's joints and ridges. These areas were later roughly blended back in with the rest of Donald and the bomb using a (third) dry-brush of “Vallejo” Bronze. Lastly, I drilled a deep hole in my plinth and used a piece of an old broken plastic spear shaft to attach the ex-President to it.

Obviously, I thought this objective/scenic piece would make an excellent submission for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge's Famous Person Library desk, as the man seems to appear in the national news every day currently.

In addition though, I felt I might as well pigment this 53mm tall scale resin model of a Titan by “Crooked Dice Game Design Studio” as I used exactly the same painting scheme as Donald Trump's statue. The base miniature can be bought as SKU: MINI 94 Titan A (Reaching) from their Villains and Monsters range. However, despite the multi-piece kit containing two separate arms, I decided to 'field' the mechanical monstrosity carrying a Hammer and shield taken from the company's metal Titan Weapon Arms (SKU: DEAL 85) instead.

Two x 28mm scale foot figure = 10  Points

Famous Person Books Bonus = 20 Points

Total = 30  35 Points

 

Ah, Donald. Oh dear. Oh well. But whatever your feelings, it's a fine model and you did a fine job on him. I'll leave it to the Head Librarian to decide whether the statue deserves a place in The Library and where, but I do think you've earned your bonus! The titan looks great as well, I love the patina effect! However, as you state it is a large figure I'll score it as a 54mm figure. So 35 points for you.

Btw, love the library stamps on your map!

From FrederickC - Strolling through the Stacks [Fantasy][Children's Books][Maritime][Local History][Statue of a Famous Person][Romance] (331 points)

 I spent this week wandering around the shelves at the Challenge Library, as well as rummaging through my boxes of figures, kits, etc. to find suitable projects to fit the requirements of the various sections. I was able to complete six in time for Monday's Musée des Fossile, including a few with items that go back close to half a century. I hope you enjoy my meanderings.

For the Fantasy section I painted a group of twenty-two 25mm Games Workshop Easterlings consisting of a captain, a banner, four spear and shield, eight sword and shield, and eight archers. These were in the queue for last year's challenge, but the clock ran out before I could get to them. The miniatures were second-hand that need some cleanup and repair to get them ready to paint. They got an overnight soak in rubbing alcohol (2-propanol), followed by a scrub with a stiff toothbrush to remove the previous paint job. Two of the archers had the upper half of their bows missing, and these were repaired with pieces of florist wire. They were painted using Vallejo acrylics, plus a wash of Citadel Seraphim Sepia on all the armour, shields, boots, and gloves. Finally I went in with some 'Old Gold' to highlight the raised areas of the armour and shields.

A Shadow in the East

Complete group of 22 Easterling Warriors

Command and Spears

Archers (Can you spot the repaired bows?)

Swordsmen

Our next stop is Children's Books with a Rabbit Stormtrooper from Archive Miniatures. It was sculpted in the late 1970s by Neville Stocken after he produced a line of unlicensed Star Wars miniatures shortly after the first movie came out. (More on this in a later submission. 😉) He modified many of his original sculpts and released them as 'Star Rovers'. The majority of the figures stand somewhere between 33mm and 35mm tall, not counting the bases.

Here comes the Easter Stormtrooper

Hopping down the lane.

All the other Stormtroopers

Think he is insane.

Hiding thermal detonators,

For little children to find,

Is a dangerous thing to do.

He must be out of his mind.

 

 

 Moving on to the second room at the Challenge Library, we come to the Maritime section. It made me wish I had bought some Thornycroft LCAs for my Bolt Action Canadians. While hunting through the 'bits and bobs' box for something appropriate, I came across a white plastic sailboat from the Reliable Toy Company. The mast and sail were long gone, but the rest of the boat had potential as a naval longboat. Some scratchbuilding was in order to fashion seats, oars, and a tiller out of popsicle sticks, round toothpicks, and the rounded ends of coffee stir sticks. For the paint scheme I copied a longboat that ferried me and my fellow grenadiers from the frigate Rose to the docks in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The longboat measures 15cm in length, which makes it approximately 1/56 scale. It would be suitable for some of the Royal Navy landing parties seen in other challengers' submissions.

Halifax celebrated its 250 anniversary in 1999

20-gun frigate Rose in the background

 

 

After assembly, but before painting

Beached on the shore

With oars deployed

Our second stop in this room is Local History. In this case, not a history of Winnipeg, but some figures for a game produced by two hometown designers, Jeremy (of Black Magic Craft) and his friend, JP (not the one in the challenge). The game is called 'Idols of Torment' in which Heaven and Hell have collapsed into each other, and different factions try to harvest the Lost that wander through this region.

 

 Our local group of gamers, the Fawcett Avenue Conscripts, got involved in playtesting the rules and providing Jeremy and JP with feedback and suggestions on the mechanics of the game. The figures I painted for this submission are a set of eight 40mm 3D resin prints of the Lost that were 'test of concept' of the final design. They are now available on sprues. My inspiration for the paint scheme I used was the look of the 'Army of the Dead' from the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Starting with black primer, I gave the figures a drybrush of white using a soft brush, followed with a wash of Citadel Biel-Tan Green. I think it makes them look very ethereal.

 

 

 

We'll now wander along the back shelves for a Statue of a Famous Person. While searaching for something nautical, I came across a 54mm figure of an officer with raised binoculars. If I recall correctly, this was a miniature that came with a 1/32 scale plastic kit of the M50 Ontos that my father had built in the late 1960s. The figure was still in its original brown plastic, but it needed some repair to fix the large void in the middle of the back. I originally thought about making him George S. Patton, but with my last submission being a unit of French armour, I am calling  him General Leclerc  de Hauteclocque, who commanded the French 2nd Armoured Division in Northwest Europe in 1944-45.

 

Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947)

 

The last stop on our stroll today is the Romance section, for a love story between a princess and a pirate.

" Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!”

 “Who's scruffy-looking?

- - - - - - - - - -

"I love you."

"I know."

 

The figures I painted are two old-school 25mm Star Wars miniatures of Han Solo and Leia Organa from West End Games. They were painted with Vallejo acrylics, with a wash of Citadel Reikland Fleshshade on the skin areas. In the background is a plastic model kit released by MPC for 'The Return of the Jedi' which is approximately 1/78 scale. A bit small for the figures, but it works well on the game table.

My Library progress thus far, with more stops in the queue already:

 

The points being claimed are as follows:

25 x 28mm foot figures @ 5 points each = 125 points

 

1 x 28mm vehicle @ 20 points each = 20 points

 

8 x 40mm foot figures @ 7 points each = 56 points

 

1 x 54mm foot figure @ 10 points

 

6 x Library sections @ 20 points = 120 points

 

Just a quick note to all those who have left comments on my last two submissions, to which I have not replied. Early in the new year I fractured a bone in the little finger of my right hand. I have to wear a splint on it 24/7 until the bone knits back together. It has been a rather painful experience, especially in the first week of wearing the splint. It hasn't impacted my ability to paint as I am left-handed, but it certainly messed up my ability to type on a QWERTY keyboard. Typing my submissions is the best I can do for now.

Sylvain: Frederick, I feel exhausted running around the Library with you. So today you invented (unless I am proven wrong) the "Bonus Theme Point Bomb". I don't remember ever seen 120 points of bonus themes in one post.

You really bring us in many universes. I really enjoyed the bunny-trooper.

Should I hide in the basement next week dodging another point bomb?

Well done!!