From TomL: The final Lances (60 points)

I will be back for one last post this challenge but this is the last stompy robot post.  Squeezed more painting time in last weekend than expected and finished the remaining lances of Battletech I was given to paint.  

First off is another unit of Bluestar Irregulars:

Followed by a generic inner sphere scout lance:

 

Finally a Stormhammer lance for the Lyran Rangers:

 

Since all these mech's will be heading home to their owners this weekend, I figured a AHPC16 class picture was in order:

 

Score:12 Mechs @ 5 for 60 points.

12 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

I have not been tracking Squirrels but for fun I figured I would look back and count (Cartoon Pulp Figures, BT Innersphere factions (Steiner, Grey Death Legion, Olsons Raiders, Somerset Strikers), ACW Union, ACW CSA, SF TV Pulp).

So my duels will end here: 

Skulls - 21
BSRoD - 42
Squirrels: 8   

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Sylvain: Another great bunch of robots. All your mechs look awesome in their respective house "livery". I can understand your satisfaction of having completed your painting objectives. I'm glad you had a great challenge. Bravissimo!

 

 

From TomL: More Strikers (20pts)

You guessed it, another Battletech unit.  This is my second painted in the Steiner Striker colors - red with an vague inverted triangle shape in white. 

 

A black wash over the base Vallejo Italian red followed by a TTC red triad highlights. The inverted triangle areas were painted grey, then titanium white with contrast basilicom wash. 

Hoping to finish at least one more CSA ACW unit but painting time has been consumed by unexpected work this month.  

Score:
4 28mm figures @ 5 for 20 points.

4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: There is no such thing as painting too many robots... By the way, good job with the paint brush. The colors are crisp  and neat. It has been an honor to be your minion; "à la prochaine". 

 

 

 

From TomL: More Legion of Death (25 points)

This is the second Lance of the challenge painted as the Grey Death Legion. This unit has no battalion indicators but we do have more decal skulls!

 

As before, base colors are from the Vallejo Model Air range, while the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo metal & model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear orange.  The tiny death head skull decals are from Fighting Piranha Graphics. 

Score:
25 points for 5 figures

10 Skulls
5 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: You are so consistent with the quality of your paint job when painting these robots that I would really like to see a picture of the whole collection, or maybe some robots in action during a game. I love the japanese banner (sashimono) on the back of one of  your robot. It elevate the style of your lance. Bien joué! 

 

 

From TomL: BattleTech Steiner Strikers & 19th VI (142 points)

First up is another Battletech unit.  These are painting in the Steiner Striker colors - red with an inverted triangle in white. 

These were 3D printed to plug the gap in a friends Catalyst KS collection.  Some of the details were a touch shallow so I did a black wash over the base red followed by a red & slightly orange highlight. The inverted triangle areas were painted grey, then white with a final contrast basilicom grey to add some depth.

Finally got a chance to finish one of the ACW CSA units I started while on vacation. This is the 19th Virginia:

 

As before, the base colors are done with contrast paints, details and highlights used Vallejo & TTC acrylics with a final coat of Vallejo Game wash.  

Score:140
4 28mm figures @ 5 for 20 points.

60 epic figures @ 2 for 120 points. 

4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

 

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Sylvain: You are consistent and productive. I have seen your robots and your ACW many times already and can only reiterate how impressed I am with the attention to details and the look on the table. I will add two points for the flags. Extraordinaire! 

 

From TomL: Grey Death Legion (20 points)

This is the first Lance of the challenge I plan to paint as the Grey Death Legion.  The green (mostly round) circles indicate this is the second battalion.

 The base colors were from the Vallejo Model Air range, while the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo metal & model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear orange.  The tiny death head skull decals (11!) are from Fighting Piranha Graphics.  

 

Score:
20 points for 4 figures

11 Skulls (assuming decals count)
4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: Tom, your camouflage on these miniatures is just well balanced, just a few small spots of darker color but it immediately says: "military". The decals add a nice touch and your golden color cockpits give the feel of a scifi world. Bravo!

 

 

 

 

From TomL: Olson's Raiders (20 points)

This BattleTech unit is another lance painted in Olson's Raiders colors using the disc camouflage stencil.   

 

 

Base colors were Vallejo Model Air, the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear. 

Score:
20 points for 4 figures
4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel. 

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Sylvain: Robots! Big and small! I love robots and I'm always happy to see more of them! 

 

From TomL: Somerset Strikers (25 points)

Continuing on with my attempts to use different stencils I have my second  BattleTech unit.   This is the “Somerset Strikers” lance.  Their normal camouflage is a yellow tiger stripe over black.  At this scale using the tiger stripe stencil was a failure. I repainted using the disc camo stencil and cleaned up the black manually.  I am happy enough with the final result but the stripe stencil is going back in the model drawer.
 

 

Base colors were Vallejo Model Air, the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear.
Score:
25 points for 5 figures
5 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain:  Another batch of mighty robots! As usual, you did an amazing paint job on these, and it's very inspiring that you are trying new techniques. Excellent travail!

From TomL: BattleTech (20 points)

Most of my time last week was absorbed by the Empire theme but I did finish my first stompy battlemech post of this AHPC.  This Catalyst BattleTech unit is painted in Olsons Raiders color scheme.  This is my first of several planned units using various recently purchased stencil camo patterns. 

As my first attempt at using stencils with my airbrush it was quite a learning experience.  Mostly due to my relative inexperience with airbrushing and a bit of a shake in the stencil holding hand. I am happy enough with the final result for the "disc" camo.  

 

The “third hand” magnetic holders attached to my exhaust hood really made it possible.  I used AK Duo Exo purple release paints at first.  Both colors are excellent base/primer coats but failed miserably to spray through my finer airbrush nozzle.  Switching to similar colors in Vallejo Air line was a much better experience using the camo stencil.  Finished up with various Vallejo acrylics and Metallics on the details and a drybrush of Deck Tan for weathering.

Miniatures in the battletech miniature lines vary in size by quite a bit but to keep it simple have been scored as 28 mm.  So for points:

4 BattleTech figures at 5 points for 20 points.
4 Stompy Mech Duel points

 

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Sylvain: You make me want to collect Battletech figurines! Your attempt at using your airbrush for camo proved fruitful. I like when Challengers share new techniques, it means that the hobby is alive and evolving. These new additions will certainly bring doom to rival clans! Bravo!

 

From DavidB: White Scars 40k (140 points)

  Hu- Black Thunder

I am off for Duty this weekend...Should be my last medical review in the military. I think I may slam some energy drinks and a few pots of coffee before the EKG test tomorrow( for science). I would say this is the last of my 40K White Scars, but there will be more just not necessarily this challenge. What follows is the entire box from the Leviathan 10th edition box of Warhammer 40k. I got a rulebook, terminators, and some other miniatures I had to add. I barely got them completed today...well Friday as i am still burning the candle at both ends. These were all undercoated black with a zenithal highlight of white ink. The White Scar chapter insignia on all the models is from Pop Goes the Monkey.

Just a couple of the many skullz in this submission and you can also see how the white ink will mix with the other colors even though the ink was applied over the summer months.

My new Lt Knives for the White Scars. Wearing the lighter phobos armour, he looks pretty tough in posing and the addition of tyranid carapace to his armor. Honestly beside the rulebook hew is the reason I wanted the starter box. I was half thinking of making him and a few others Iron Snakes, but decided that all would go to the White Scars.

I really thought hard about making the terminator capt an Iron Snake, but I decided he would be a nice addition to replace KoSorro Khan on occasion.

He does look pretty sharp in the red cape and i actually do not mind the scenic bases. 

My White Scars are apparently foes of Necrons and Tyranids.

The terminators are a welcome addition to the White Scars and I cannot wait to unleash them on Razor.

The Ebon Keshig are a 30k unit for the scars and I use black for the robes and tabards on my force. I painted a couple of the terminator shoulder plates black for that reason and each marine had different red decorations added to them.

Especially the helmets with different dags on the helmet.

The terminator Librarian and Apothecary are welcome additions to the force. I almost made the librarian an Iron Snake, but I painted him as a white scar. I am not quite liking the blue in the terminator armor and may revisit him later, but he will soldier on with the Scars as is for now until I decide different. I couldn't let him be the only White Scar to fight Razor as a primed only model!

It could be just eliminating the red trim and turning it to gold as the back view is pretty good.

A slightly blurry photo of the sternguard  with the snazzy black tabards.

They too have a lot of red added in decorations including the helmets. besides the terminators they are another welcomed unit to the White Scars.

The Incinerators are a new Unit of Primaris troops with flame throwers. I haven't even read on what they can do  yet. They too almost went to the Iron Snakes, but the Sgt's mohawk decided them as White Scars.

His mohawk and that drawing of the Knife...He isnt going to use technology but instead tried and true!

The alternate build is an Incinerator with grenade...good visual reminder that my troops do have grenades to use!

My first Primaris dreadnought. I rather like this one and with the lascannon and rockets it will be nice support for the fast moving White Scars. 

Mostly clean and sharp, but still plenty of detail.

I like the Ad Mech power plant.

The tally....

one dreadnought- 20 points and 6 skullz

terminator capt-5 points and 17 skullz

Lt Knives-5 points and 6 skullz

apothecary- 5 points and 6 skullz

terminator Librarian- 5 points and 14 skullz

terminator squad- 25 points and 34 skullz

sternguard squad-25 points and 23 skullz

incinerator squad-50 points and 24 skullz

(note that the incinerators needed 10 guys to beat the skull count of 5 sternguard)

that is 140 points and 130 new skullz

Legion tally unchanged at 8 units or 22 legionnaires...these are 40k not 30k!

stompy robots of death- got another one for 4 

skullz just jumped from 29 to 159 

I have no idea where I am off to next as a bunch of butterflies are occupying my desk...it could be anything including more space marines!

Great looking White Scars here David! But with all the talk about Iron Snakes do I sense another Chapter project in the making...? I really like the ichor dripping off of Lt. Knives's sword, very cool. And the Tyranid "parts" on the bases really make these guys look battle-hardened. White can be a b*tch to paint but you've done a great job on these models, the red dags and cloak really pop too. Great production and 140 points for you!

Dallas