From BobV: WW2 U.S. Winter Infantry and U.S. Paratroopers (200 points)

Happy New Year Everyone!

I am very excited to take part in another AHPC and hopefully excavate yet another slope of the Mountain of Opportunity. Today I present a small squad of U.S. WW2 Paratroopers and the remainder of a platoon of U.S. WW2 Winter Infantry (40 28mm figures in all).

Here are the Paratroopers:

These figures are a few years old. They are Warlord metals painted to a wargames table standard using mostly Vallejo acrylics over black. I finished them with a slightly diluted strong tone wash. I am not entirely happy with them but I still feel a bit rusty after taking the Spring and Summer off (the explosion of spring flowers is covering a serious injustice in basing).

Here are the Winter Dogfaces:

These figures are also several years old. They are an Artizan Designs range and very easy to paint. Like the Paratroops, I am not entirely happy with them either. I have had better luck with face shading by painting a tan contrast paint over a white or grey facial base. Here I washed strong tone over Warpainter Fanatic Ruby Skin base. I found that I have more control with the contrast paint so I will likely return to that method on my next project. These guys also took far longer than I wanted, I was hoping to get them out before the New Year. I ended up burning through more than one episode of "Brews in the Binyard" without hitting the pause button.

For Points I am claiming 40 X 28mm foot @ 5 points for a total of 200 points.

So glad to be back and see you again soon!   

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Hello Bob, and happy new year! So, 200 points worth of 28mm infantry to kick things off? That ought to get everyone's attention! 

While many of the bases here are cold and wintry, it warms the heart to see proper metal castings being painted up for service on the gaming table (and say this as someone who paints buckets of plastic and resin as part of my 30k obsession...) I have always loved the interesting character of the Artizan sculpts in particular, and it is so nice to see more of them ready for action!

You expressed some incomplete satisfaction with the outcome of your brushwork - I would say it sure looks fine, although would gently suggest and increase in lighting so we can all see just how nice they will look in the photos!

That's...200 points for you! Boom!

GregB

From AlexK: 1st Points Drop of the Challenge (64 Points)

Hi fellow painting enthusiasts,

My name Alex and this is my first entry in my first Challenge and is a direct result of Challenge preparations. After several nights of trimming, glueing, sanding and priming I took a few hours off in front of the telly as part of a well earned break (as we all know prep is very tiring!?). As I skipped channels I came across re-runs of 'Band of Brothers', specifically episodes 6 & 7. Now as far as inspirational material goes it is pretty hard to beat and I couldn't help but paint up some U.S airborne....after a bit more prep.

The figures are from the 15mm FoW 'Open Fire!' Set and range wildly in quality from very good to absolute rubbish, but over all I'm quite happy with them. Altogether there are 24 infantry figures and 4 crewed weapons.

This was a nice little project to get me under way and the snow bases were a nice change of pace from the usual sand and dirt.

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First, welcome to the Painting Challenge, Alex!

I remember those Band of Brother episodes clearly and can understand how they could inspire you to your brushes. These paras are terrific, Alex. I like how distinct their webbing and gear is, and the snow bases have a great balance between desolate frozen ground and being snow-covered. 

64 points for your first entry to the Challenge roster. Well done, Alex!