From Kerry T - "Bear with me" - Highlands Miniatures heavy dwarf cavalry - (120 points)

Morning, afternoon and evening all

I think I'm turning into a zoo keeper or something as I had camels in my first round and goblins riding wolves in the second. Well this time its bears

Highlands Miniatures Dwarf Heavy Cavalry

Fantasy purists will be having apoplexy I know, yes Dwarves are not meant to ever be mounted but the temptation to send dwarves into battle riding on the back of something is just too great in my view. C'mon, I'm short and anytime I can stand on something and so look down on somebody else is an opportunity that I'm not going to overlook

Yes far too tempting, even if they do run away!

I love the look of Highlands Miniatures and at their last Black Friday sale waded in and bought some STLs. The lighter cavalry riding rams are likely to be next

I just love these figures and had great fun painting them up but they did take a lot more time than I had anticipated. I decided on a blue and yellow colour scheme for no good reason.

I'll have you know that I consulted my many historical uniform books and could not find any reference as to how Dwarven cavalry should be attired. I wanted to give them a uniform look but with some variation and decided that with the exception of the musician they should wear identical coats. 

Now I'm not sure if they were around in Napoleonic days but if they were I'm sure they would have adopted the convention of displaying the drummer in reverse colours. I also assumed that each trooper caring for his horse err I mean bear might take a bit of artistic license and decide to give his mount an individual looking coat

 

I mean bears aren't exactly docile so being able to pick yours out by the colour of his coat by not getting too close to others seems a sensible idea and probably has an historical basis.

Similarly having a white bear for the officer is also likely historically authentic

Polar Bear leads the charge

Charging in echelon

Painting the cheque was my idea of fun, yeah right

So in summary

12 Mounted figures @ 10 points each = 120 points

1 bear err I mean squirrel

Many thanks

Best wishes 

Valleboy

From Millsy:

Dwarf heavy cavalry on armoured bears! What's not to like? These are absolutely smashing mate, in every sense of the word.

The blue and yellow is a perfect counterpoint for all the steel and grey/brown coats of the bears. And the beards are properly oversized to the point of being a real risk to your ability to fight. Love em!

120 smashing points!

Cheers,
Millsy

From Mike W - 28mm High Elves & British Sudan Infantry (130 Points)

So this week has not been as productive as I'd hoped, with real life commitments getting in the way.

However I did finish 2 batches of figures and I have quite few 'in progress' on the workbench - more 28mm Arthurian Cavalry, some ECW types as well as some AWI figures and a bunch of Warlord Epic 15mm Carthaginians...

21 x Highland Miniatures, Aegean (High) Elves

Another view of the unit

And another....

But this week's main event are 21 x 28mm High Elves, which are 3D Prints from Highland Miniatures. They were a joy to paint and as such I have tried to align their colour palette withe the classic Games Worksop figures I completed earlier in this Challenge.

The command team, I love their long flowing hair, caught in the wind.

Group of four elves, in a variety of clothes
but all with the same colours to bond them together in a unit

I was originally going to leave their waist sashes white but these did not scan well, I then tought of doing them in turquoise blue but that would clash with the rest of their outfts so in the end I settled on yellow sashes.

Four more elves, in a variety of positions.
The figures come fully moulded with a set of inter-changeable heads to allow added variety

Another group, bases are 25mm MDF squares

Final two Elves

And a close-up on the standard bearer,
symbol was taken form an online illustration.

The other batch of figures that I completed were 5 x British 'Post Office Riflemen' from the 1885 Sudan Campaign. 

Five Riflemen in Sudan

These 28mm figures are old Wargames Factory guys, they are a bit crude, sculpt wise,  compared to more modern plastics but I fancied doing them due to an obscure family connection to this little known unit. 

Two riflemen in close-up

Two little guys shooting - I'll refrain from saying that
'the postman always shoots twice!'
Oops! I didn't!

Close-up of the final figure - although rough and ready,
by today's standards,  the sculpt does the job

It turns out that my Great Grandfather was a Post Office worker in 1885 and we'd always been told he was a Rifleman. He would have been 19 years old at the time of their second Sudanese campaign in 1885.  However, I have not been able to find any records of his service - so we are now thinking that this was a bit of a rather over-embellished story!

POINTS

21 x 28mm Elves @5 Pts                  105 Points

5 x 28mm British Infantry @ 5 Pts     25 Points

TOTAL                                              130 Points

I always like Wargames Foundry, even though the sculpts may show their age a bit. These are very good too, and I like your paint job. A pity that you couldn't find anything about your ancestor, but perhaps in the future you will be able to confirm his heroic history! Those Highland Miniatures Elves look great also, in their somewhat traditional but rather splendid colour scheme. They are great designs, and the fully painted unit looks marvellous. 130 points it is.

Martijn

From KyleC - Tomb - Skeletal Force - 985pts

 Ok so apologies.. I had hoped to have some of this painting done sooner, but February has been a tough month to get through.. more so than January and that was quite bleek. And being as how it was all bleek it was a good time to get into the Undead force I have been printing in the background here. Or at least the Heroes and Core Units for it. 

And um.. yeah it might be a bit of a points dump as well here.. but it was more that it all fit the chamber criteria best so... sorry?

So it is for a new game system ( to me anyways ) that our local club wants to get into post lockdown. Game is called Oathmark. It has the old fantasy battle feel for it, but with the ability to mix and match units and races based on how you build up your kingdom. I picked undead/humans for the most part, with the main reason being I had a ton of Skeleton Files from Patreons that I wanted to print up, and then I got a bit carried away! 

So here is the Lord of the Kingdom, Ostoc Bardolf of Festerthorne, Head Lich Priest of the kingdom. Model is from Warploque Miniatures Digital range ( and excuse the blurry shots.. am trying to relearn the proper camera here.. not quite there yet ). 

The rest of the characters have yet to be named, but taking suggestions! 

His backup Lich Priest by Highlands Miniatures

Revenant General by Loot Studies

Vampire Lord by Loot Studies

Vampire Lord by Archvillian Miniatures

The 3 amigos.. of Revenant Captains

Skeleton Champion by Asgard Rising

Revenant Champion by Archivillian Miniatures

Then I did up 3 units of each Archers, Soldiers ( Sword and Shield), and Spearmen. All being a mix of Warploque and Highland Miniature files. Each unit was 20 models. 

And then of course the Tombs from which they crawl out of.. I had planned to paint up a church to go with it, but then one of the Kickstarters I have backed announced that we will be getting a church from it.. so the one I have is tiny in comparison, so it got back burnered for now. 

The larger tomb entrances I found on thingiverse, so not sure where they are from exactly. Caretaker skeleton by Warploque. And Viking burial tombs by Asgard Rising. 

All told it is 191 models, and half a box of terrain pieces? So that's about...

191*5 = 955 pts

Half a box of terrain = 10 pts? Maybe less?

Chamber Challenge = 20 pts

Giving this post 985 pts there about? I had thought about doing up one more unit to make it 10 full units to show off, but my airbrush decided to spit its dummy out and have a fit, and I don't have energy to deal with it right now to work on another unit. 

Expect more from this army in the following posts, and chambers, as they seem to fit nicely for level 3. And more so that I have a lot of the more special units to tackle.. just have to adjust without an airbrush potentially... 

Unholy crap! I'm getting all the treats today! That is one heck of a points bomb, Kyle. And one heck of a backdrop for the photos - will we be seeing all those 3D-printed buildings painted up sometime soon?

Tamsin