From Brettm: Rebellions and Blood bowl (144 points)

Challenge is drawing to a close, I just now finished my 5th (6th if you count Sarah's Balloon) spot on the challenge map.

Now for Benito's Brook

After reading some of the Benito's Brook posts. Kinda now wondering if this does classify. To me it was against all odds for what the rebels had to do. In a must win situation. So I give to you the Pathfinders from Rogue One A Star Wars Story

Front view of the Pathfinders

Really like the guy in the middle with the "hoodie" like jacket

Kept it simple with the goggles

These were my first Star Wars legion figures. While I don't plan to play Legion, I do plan on using the figs for other scifi rulesets. Especially Galactic Heroes. 

Also up, the Lizard men team for Blood bowl.

All of them lined up

A bit closer up on half of them. Second attempt on painting eyes. I have yet to actually try on a smaller human figure

Painted a few with some field lines on their bases

Extra tokens that come with each team. Not sure what these would be worth.

Total in points 6 pathfinders and 12 Lizardmen for 90 points. Counting Legion as 28mm that is. Benito's Brook for +30. Assuming my math is right at 120 points. Not sure how the Snowlords peak works, I am working on the next Challenge to get me to it or take Sarah's Balloon if needed. def down to the wire though.

An interesting mix of nicely painted figures for this post. Legion figures are scored as being 40mm; I'm going to score the four large tokens as 2 points each and the smaller ones as 1 point each. That should give you a square 144 points.

As for how Snowlord's Peak works, given how close to the line we are I would suggest emailing him to let him know you are ready to be tasked.

TamsinP 

From RayR: Sarah's Balloon Ride No3 - Moll Catpurse (15pts)

Another trip on Sarah's Balloon as I race to Awdry's Atoll to pick up some extra

points in the Challenge.

Moll Catpurse is one of Col Bill's Belt Fed Girls and can be found

here

That should be 10 points for the Balloon ride and another 5 for Moll.

Does anyone else find it highly suspicious that none of Ray's posts have been affected by the bug?

More seriously, that's a great figure and well painted Ray. Hardly a sandbag though...

TamsinP

From MikeW - Odds and Ends #2 (91 Points)

I can't believe its the 10th March already and if I remember correctly the challenge ends on 21st March, Yikes!

Luckily I have just met my target but I am presenting today a number of figures that I have been working on over the last couple of weeks that do not really fit into any other posting - really because they were left overs that needed re-modelling, that I found after the main post was done or simply I fancied painting a piece that I found in the bottom of my spares boxes or at the foot of the lead / plastic mountains....

28mm Medieval Foot Knight

So to start off we have a 28mm Medieval foot knight, I believe the figure was given away with entrance to the 2003 Salute event (at least that's what I says on the base), I don't ever remember being given it, so assume that was why it was in the bottom of the spares box on its wrapper still...

A view of the shield

A nice little figure, I undercoated in black and dry-brushed it with steel paint to get the chain mail effect, then added deep red robes and other details. I used an old Warhammer Bretonnian transfer on the shield and based the figure in my normal manner.

4 x Stirland Militiamen

Next is a group of Warhammer Empire Stirland Militia and another mounted Knight, there are a whole bunch of these Militiamen in my plastic pile, looking at another 10 on my workbench - which may or may not get done next week.

Focus on Swordsman and Musketeer

Focus on standard bearer and crossbowman

I can't take any credit for the flag, the basic design was taken from the internet and I made it into a flag using Microsoft Paint. The knight, was a bit of a challenge and I had to change heads and find a new tail for the horse, but it has turned out good in the end.

Stirland Mounted Knight

And another view...

Sticking with Warhammer Fantasy, next I have a group of seven giant spiders, to go with the spider Riders I did in the last AHPC Challenge. These little plastic guys are really, really old - originally  believe I had 10 of them, acquired in a bring and buy sale at a Wargames Show, maybe 20 years or more ago. I've painted them green and individually based them - with a view that they would generally accompany the Spider Rider units whenever they are fielded.

Mysterious Plastic Spiders, anyone recognise where they came form?

I've always assumed that they are Games Workshop but they didn't get used as they never seemed to be part of any Army Lists - these days I don't care so much about official lists - they look good so I'll use them!

Moving on to Warhammer 40k, I found a couple of partial frames of plastic Space Marines, I fancied doing a paint job on them and here we are. Over the years I have had 2 or 3 Space marine armies, all but the first Ultramarines, each army has been spirited away via eBay - except the first which was so bad I binned them!

Three 'Blue' marines from a yet to be named Spacemarine chapter, from the front

And from the other side

What can I say, I like Space Marines and I like them in blue. this time I have left off the Ultramarine iconography, if I do more, I may create new chapter with its own background - some sort of sons of Ultramarines but different!

Senior Cadian Officer

Finally I have a metal Imperial Guard Officer to go with the Cadian unit I have been adding to during this Challenge. I really like the pose on this figure, portraying an arrogance of a senior Officer and just wanting his men to get the job done. I particularly like the riding crop behind his back!

Rear View

The Great Coat is piped and lined with Red and he wears a gold breast plate - befitting such a noble officer.

What next? I have some more Balkan 17th Century infantry nearly ready to base and complete and then the last stretch will be a new project that I'm excited about - 28mm Elizabethan Skirmishes - something that the club I belong to is dabbling in. Hopefully some of these at the end of next week!

POINTS

1 x 28mm, Imperial Guard Officer @ 5 Points = 5 Points

3 x 28mm, Space Marines @ 5 Points = 15 Points

7 x 28mm, Giant Spiders @ 5 Points = 35 Points

4 x 28mm, Empire Foot Soldiers @ 5 Points = 20 Points

1 x 28mm, Empire Mounted Knight @ 10 Points = 10 Points

1 x 28mm, Medieval Foot Knight @ 5 Points = 5 Points

TOTAL POINTS 5 + 15 + 35 + 20 + 5 = 90 Points



That's certainly a mixed bag Mike, and well worth the wait while you dealt with the effects of the pic-eating bug. 

Nice work all round. Putting the flag together yourself warrants a bonus point, so that's 91 points for you!

TamsinP

From IainW: 28mm Cooke's Crevasse (New Army) Early Imperial Roman Onager (52 points)

Last September I went to my first tournament, knightsfever in North London to play To the strongest! With my Italian wars figures as Venetian condatta as the armies had to be medieval (mine were pretty late medieval!) I have to say I really enjoyed it, it was a great learning experience and I managed to not lose every game!
 I wanted to have another go this year,the only slight  problem being that the theme is Rome and its enemies and I have neither, plus the tournament is in June, so three months earlier!
As I didn't have a Roman army I thought I'd better get some, I picked up an army box of warlord plastics in their post Christmas sale and then remembered that some years ago I picked up a couple of DBA armies back when I bought things on Ebay, put in a low bid and if no one else bids you get a bargain that you don't really need!

Well now was the moment I needed them, here is a newline Numidian onager ,I've painted the crew as Roman's in tunics with their shields and helmets stacked against their pila ( those bits came from the warlord plastics sprue)
The PVA is still wet but it's going to do!
So the onager or wild ass is a stone thrower,  I guess limestone? Which fulfills the location for  30 points, 2 x 28mm figures 10 points and a crew served weapon at 10  points giving a total of 50 points. Hawkins hill next as I desperately try and scramble up the mountain in time!
All the best
Iain


That's a nice stone-thrower Iain. I'm going to add a couple of points for the separate scutae and pila.

TamsinP

From NoelW: My Sergeant Spots A Bluff : Burch’s Bluff (15 points)

Remembering the armies we almost encountered the last time we were in this neck of the woods, we scale the cliffs of Burch’s Bluff, sergeant first. Most surprisingly, he survives. He doesn’t grab an unexpectedly friable lump of rock and plummet to an unfortunate demise. He doesn’t stumble upon a trigger-happy army in a hidden valley and have his jodphurs riddled with buckshot. He doesn’t rub against a strange cactus, inhaling peculiar fumes which make him believe he can fly. No hazard. No harm. Odd, but there it is.

In the distance below us, though, we sight strange creatures and machines crawling across the plateau.

Cautiously, we skirt around them – all except for my sergeant, who, filled with a new confidence after his remarkable damage-free climb, shouts an affable greeting towards them…

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I suppose these are not strictly Horus Heresy figures, not being Imperium, so I’m going to maintain that these orks (and one Tyranid) were traitors to their races, unusually joining the human rebellion for the fun of it. They're bits and pieces that've been left over in the "Epic box" as I finished the Imperium for earlier posts. (I say "finished"...)

We have one ork vehicle, one Tyranid equivalent to a vehicle or war machine, 

15 foot figures (including two command bases – these are my “vignettes” this time - and three cavalry orks, mounted on boars.

Scoring: 2 6mm “vehicles” = 4 pts; 3 cavalry = 3 pts; 15 foot = 7.5 pts. Perhaps a whole .5 for the banners? To make a total of 15 pts.



Are you going soft Noel? Or has your CO had a word about the casualty rate among your Sergeants? Curious minds must know - did he survive this incident?

Cracking work as always!

TamsinP

From JezT: Sarah's Balloon - Angry Geisha (7 points)

Dear All,

A simple approach to assaulting the Peak from me ... used Sarah's Balloon to land at Bromley's Butte and then down the Path of Imagination and finally this 5th post to use the Balloon service again to float up the Peak.

Technically this figure has self-identified as a female figure, but hope the gender is clear? I have added some extra features on to the model.. Anyway this figure now represents an angry Geisha .......

The extra features were to model the longer hair, add in a kimono waist slash and bow and paint up in more traditional female kimono patterns along with the classic Geisha face make up.

Points wise think this is just 5 points for the figure as it is my second time to use the balloon. Sorry not sure on the figure manufacturer - maybe North Star?

Quite pleased with myself that I managed to at least attempt the Peak. Interestingly this is the first figure I have painted for the Challenge ever that I dont have immediate plans to use in a game and is literally for the "pleasure" of painting and the Competition - is that a good thing or descent into madness ..... who knows!

Regards Jez



Very nice work on the angry lady Jez. I particularly like the print-work on her kimono, so I'm going to give some bonus points for that.

TamsinP

From TeemuL: Magma Hound Terminators (12 points)

There seems to be a queue to the Snowlord's cave at the Peak, so while waiting for the official appointment and announcement, here are two Magma Hound Terminators for my Kill Team team.

They are old metal from 1995 or so, I believe they were sold as Abaddon's bodyguard. I have total of 4 of them (and Abaddon himself), but since Kill Team uses individuals instead of squads, here are the first two. Purple and gold, black guns and brownish skulls.

Like I said, these are old (and small), so 5 points a piece?


Woof-woof! Those do look rather splendid Teemu.and they have purple. That deserves a couple of bonus points in my books.

TamsinP

From PhilH: Springing Up, then Pausing for Refreshments at Hawkins’ Hill (36 Points)

And to wrap up my speedy Challenge Island tour, I dash up Hawkins’ Hill, pausing only briefly for a refreshing jug of local wine. It’s a well-trodden path to Snowlord’s Peak.

Hawkins’ Hill demands a model from Challenge VII or earlier. Crikey do I have a lot of models that would fit the bill. But no time, no time, I needed something done fast to reach the Peak on time. So just one mini.

Well ladies and gentlemen, I believe this model has been bought, prepped, primed and based since circa AHPC 2. Or maybe even predate it entirely. Bought as part of an old Peninsular war project, that I was working on when I first started blogging in  2011. And I think the last. I I from the pack to paint. I may be slow, but in time, I’ll get there.

The shawl was too tempting not to add a pattern to. 

She’s from the Perry Miniatures Carlist War range, a useful set of civilians. Probably stretch to a country bumpkin in the SCW. I don’t know why she’s not wearing any shoes, must be uncomfortable.

And with that, eight Island locations marked off, to Snowlord’s Peak and whatever devilish task our Snowlord sets me.

And he's home! That's a very nice young lady you've painted for your own island location. I do hope there's more wine where that came from - I may need some myself if the pic-eating bug carries on much longer!

I'm awarding an extra point for the freehand design on the shawl.

TamsinP

ps - good luck at Snowlord's Peak - you're cutting it rather fine!

From RossM - 28mm Romano Brits (20 points)

This submission returns to a project that was started in last year's AHPC: Romano Brits for SAGA.

The figures are from Gripping Beast's Wolftail warriors; which, granted the tails have been dyed a dark red rather than left grey/brown.

The shield transfers are from Little Big Men.

In game terms, these are worth 1 point; for the challenge 20 points

The points tally so far:

4 x 28mm figures - 20 points

Running total:  268 (53.6%)

Slowly getting there 😎

Cheers for now

Sorry about all the delays with this and the hassle you've had with the disappearing pic bug, but it was (for us) well worth the wait for these lovely Roman-Brits. Cracking work Ross! 

TamsinP

Tamsin's Friday Flights of Fancy #11

"Good morning Lady, Gentlemen (and Ray). We are now entering the last few days of our voyage - we do hope so much that you have enjoyed your trip with Snowlord Airways. Flight AHPC X out of Challenge, Blogland is currently cruising at 53,678 points towards our target altitude of 64,308 points. By my calculations, that means that (including today) we need to average 1334 points per day to achieve our target altitude."

"Hang on a cotton-picking minute!" I hear you say. "(64,308-53,678)/7 is 1519 points per day!"

"And you would indeed have been correct. However, you clearly haven't seen Curt's update (the post before this) - we've been granted an extra 24 hours and will now finish on Friday 20 March at midnight CST. A further calculation shows that we just need to average 156 points per Challenger." 

"So far, 23 of our passengers and crew have reached or exceeded their personal target altitudes, and another 18 are within 156 points of doing so."

"We are still having issues with pics having disappeared from posts when we go to do our minion stuff on them, whilst still appearing when you look at them yourselves. My previous advice seems to work sometimes, but not always. What I would now suggest, if you have an affected post, is to write a new post and insert the pics one at a time."

"In terms of today's entertainments (pics bug allowing), we have the following confirmed or potential skits:

IainW has Romans throwing stones
PhilH will be doing a wine tasting atop his Hill
RossM has some Brits pretending they are Romans
TeemuL is letting the (volcanic) dogs out

and if I can persuade another crew member to cover me for a few minutes, I hope to present a show of 1920s ladies' couture."

"Toodle-pip!"

TamsinP
Senior Flight Attendant