From Kerry T: Once more unto the breach (205 points)

 Morning, afternoon & evening all

When I started this challenge I envisaged that I would paint a fair chunk of my English and French 100 year war armies, focusing mainly on French Mounted Knights and more dismounted English Knights and Men at Arms. Last year I prepped some Perry Plastics and metals from their Agincourt range though they remain well down the painting queue.  The main reason for this is that I've developed more of an interest in the Edwardian phase of the 100YW. In short I've listened to too many audiobooks from authors like David Gilman, Griff Hosker and lately Dan Jones (Essex dogs) and others. Listening to audiobooks while you paint can be very distracting and easily set somebody like myself off on tangents and plays havoc with my painting plans.

Early on in the challenge I somehow wandered back into the Reconquista so displacing my Claymore Casting figures that continue to sit untouched on their bottle tops where they've been for the past 6 months or longer.  I hope I can get a few knights painted in the next week. The only substantial post depicting newly painted 100YW figure I've managed so far was for last week's Resistance bonus theme centered around a siege. I didn't manage to get all that I wanted done in time for that so this week I've decided to add to the scene or scenario by producing more English foot and a few French foot.

An overall view of the siege

The siege towers move closer

This week's figures are all from the Medbury Miniatures 100YW range which I had previously printed. I wanted some figures that I could use to populate the siege towers . I decided I would base them on 3 x 6cms bases in the hope that they would fit but also come together to form a standard unit usable in an ordinary game

Last base lower right doesn't fit as his sword is held upright

I decided to base others on single bases in anticipation of creating retinues for the recently released Ecorcheurs game written  by historian Rob Jones and released by Groping Beast. This is what comes of listening to too many audiobooks and wanting to send your figures on a chevauchee through French lands. 

Some are based singly and others in smaller than usual close order bases

In the audiobooks I've been listening to, the men in the retinue of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent seem to feature prominently along with those of William de Bohun, Earl of North Hampton - this made selecting an English retinue quite easy

Thomas Holland's retinue

This is where its handy to have a brilliant minion - normally we in the "Down Under" group meet on line on a Tuesday and Thursday evening for a paint  and chat. On Thursday I mentioned to Millsy that I was going to try and paint off a banner for Thomas Holland because I'd already used the one I had previously bought in a close order unit. Less than 10 minutes later he's got Chat GTP to make me one from scratch that will pass muster, Its in the picture above. 

Cheers Millsy, I think you should award yourself a flag bonus!

I hadn't given much thought to the French opposition so I gave them shields from some closely related French Nobles  that looked similar. The only problem is that having made these a few months ago after a bit of research, I can't remember who they are! all I know is that looking at the picture above they're a bit fishy! They may even have been from Luxembourg

Anyway, if my fictional audiobooks are anything to go by then its certain that Thomas Holland's men were good in a scrap so let's chuck them into the breach

Have at them lads

The reception is hot

The shield transfers are home made

Meanwhile those based in close order find themselves in the siege towers (if they can fit)

In summary

41 x 28mm Foot figures @ 5 points = 205

No squirrels on account of the fact its hard to kill a squirrel with a sword!

Many thanks and best wishes for the last week of the challenge

Valleyboy 

From Millsy:

Holy cow, another belter of a siege entry mate! After last week I thought you might take it easy, especially with golf on the cards too but I was WAY off the mark. Another 40+ gorgeously painted miniatures to feast our eyes on and a continuation of the narrative from last week complete with commentary and a storyboard. Do you ever sleep?

You are most welcome re the banner, it was an absolute blast working through that together in real time. It certainly looks the business. What a world we live in now right? From pitch, to concept, to reality in the time it takes me to put the bins out. Twelve year old Millsy starting out gaming couldn't have imagined what was ahead.

This lot nudges you back into top slot on the points roster but only just. Can you maintain the rage?

Cheers,

Millsy

From KillianF: Medieval Medley plus many extras (185 points)

Good day all,

Between a return to work and a minor illness over the last few weeks I've found it hard to keep up. I have however managed to finish the following:

3 weeks' work

Medievals (Medbury Miniatures)

5 mounted hobilars

2 mounted knights

2 dismounted men at arms

2 archers

I 3d printed the blue and yellow shield on the left, which resulted in a straight layer line 3/4 of the way up. This actually assisted in dividing the shield for painting!

Excellent faces as always from Mr Medbury

The colour scheme is deliberately anarchic, but I tried to pull all the shields into something similar. I will add some heraldry at a later date, and refine the mounted knights a bit more. These guys will see duty mainly in SAGA as Scottish or French, and also Midgard.

Napoleonics

5 Austrian Uhlans

On a whim I decided to smash out some of my 28mm Austrian Napoleonics. The cavalry are my favourite branch of this army, and Uhlans are my favourite cavalry type. Interesting uniforms, interesting history.

So here's 5 Uhlans of the 1st Regiment. 

 

Fellow on the right is missing a plume. Worse things happen in battle.

They are 3d prints by Piano Wargames. Before I print more I'm going to digitally remove the lance and leave a hole for brass wire: the resin lance bend at very slight temperature increases, and hot water straightening only lasts 24 hours or so. I went with a few varieties of horse colouration, my favourite being the piebald on the left. Overall an interesting painting experience: these are my first Napoleonics complete, so figuring out how to achieve each colour was a bit different to my normal, more freestyle, approach.

Afterlife (Anvil Industry)

4 Unity Council Special Operatives & Gabriella Aguilar

I've always had a soft spot for Anvil Industry's Afterlife range, and they've spent the last four years or so updating them as part of their digital range. These guys are essentially stealth suited deniable operatives, up to all sorts of dirty trick.

They were painted by priming black and then drybrushing a couple of layers of grey up to a very light coat of near white. They then received an all-over wash of Payne's Grey ink (possibly my single favourite colour) mixed with AK Interactive matte varnish (as seems to be tradition with all the Anvil Industry models I paint....). The lenses and weapon sights were then painted with titanium white, given a very small black wash at the edges, and finally Tamiya Clear Yellow was applied over the top. Like my zone raiders, it's not very tactical. However it does give them some colour, and ties them into the scheme I've used for the rest of my Unity Council faction, who all likewise have yellow visors.

I painted Gabriella with a deliberately darker skin tone. A paler skin tone would have increased contrast, but I've just painted several dozen models with white skin and I wanted some variety. The base is Vallejo Cavalry Brown, highlighted by mixing the brown with Vallejo Beige-Red and then Titanium Buff. 

Epic Armageddon 

6 Steel Legion Chimera IFVs

I smashed out these for my small Steel Legion army. These are 3d prints available online for free (Mk Hand Industry). For absolutely no good reason I magnetised the turrets. Epic is, in my opinion, the correct scale for Warhammer 40k: it actually gives a sense of scale. I tried to add a camo pattern by spraying tan over the brown basecoat through medical gauze. It didn't quite work as planned unfortunately, probably because the spray cans are too high pressured. Still, the tan colour works, so I'm rolling with it. They will get based at some point, to match the Steel Legion infantry currently being painted.

Spaceships

And lastly, I painted two space ships. 

 

They are more 3d prints, from a designer called Grand Fleet Admiral, that have been hanging around on my desk for about 2 years. These will likely see use in the second edition of A Billion Suns. The schemes have been kept simple, so they were pretty quick to paint. My airbrush is out of commission at the moment, so I used a dry brush followed by white ink to paint the engines. Quite a nice and simple project to clear some models off the desk. I have no idea what the claim points wise. Probably 2 points a piece?

Points

7x 28mm Medieval Cavalry: 70

4x 28mm Medieval Infantry: 20

5x 28mm Austrian Napolenic Cavalry: 50

5x 28mm Afterlife Infantry: 25

6x 6mm (technically 8mm) vehicles: 12

2x small scale spaceships: 4

Total: 181

Squirrel points: +3

Squirrel Total: 10

(Zona Scavengers, 10mm Black Orcs, 10mm Skeletons, 28mm Goths, 28mm Elves, Dwarves and Orcs, 28mm medievals, 28mm Austrian Napoleonics, 28mm Afterlife)

Thanks for reading!

Killian 

From DaveD . Hey Killian , you are early today ! Good job . It was good to catch you on the chat this week . This is a great mix of things .I am always a fan of any lancers , te colours on Austrian ones are cool. Definitely worth replacing the lances with a metal version . think the space ships are my personal favourite . 185 it is with a little spaceship bonus.

From PaulSS: More Barons' War rolls off the production line - 115pts

This week Victoria and I have had a weeks vacation in Cornwall, but I took the paints with me so that I could continue adding to the collection.

All the entries this week are 3D prints from Medbury Miniatures and Reconquer Designs.

 

I picked up from Medbury a set of Knights at rest and Knights at prayer, this command stand features a mounted and foot knight at rest with a knight at prayer doing homage to his lord.

As usual for Medbury, beautiful figures with loads of character.

Of the remaining two figures from these sets, I used the Knight at rest on foot to make a lower level character and the other praying knight just on a standard base to fit in a unit where needed or use as 'dressing'

The crested helm and additional plate on the second knight puts him rather later than the 1264-1265 period of the rest of the collection and he may never get used, but still a nice piece.

From Reconquer Designs is this set of fleeing villagers, five figures, two carrying children, a pack horse and a hand cart.

These are very nice although I think that the detail is probably a bit to fine for gaming, I already broke one of the shafts on the hand cart.

The last couple of sets are the remaining 32mm prints that I spoke about in my earlier post when I painted the 28mm versions of them. I was not going to paint these, but as they represent the last unpainted Medievals that I have I thought it would be rude not to.

Another set of tanners, I did not do a big single vignette like last time, with some of them done on individual bases this time around.

Lastly a Spanish shepherd with three mastiffs to guard the sheep.

So, that's the Barons' War project done for now, every figure painted! I plan to not buy anything else until the new Wargames Atlantic releases come out in the form of those command stands.

It seems a stretch to claim the hand card as a 28mm vehicle, but if we roll into that 20pts the dogs, children, tanning equipment and such like then one 28mm vehicle, one 28mm mounted, 16 28mm foot and a pack horse will tally 115pts

From DaveD . Finished Paul , Finished well that’s wonderful and while on your holiday too. That’s dedication .I will  run with that points suggestion .