From IanS: 15mm French Napoleonic Infantry, 15mm Pokemon Pike Block, [Ouverdue and Returns](148 points)

Hi, 

For my next submission here are some 15mm French Napoleonic infantry in Greatcoats. For years I thought the term was Grey Coat and assumed that all coats in the Napoleonic wars were grey in colour. Amazing what dyslexia does to ones understanding, for years I was confused as a teenager that we had dildo rails in our home, yes they were dado rails. These figures are from Stonewall and their captian range, they are a really friendly company and at this years Warfare at Farnborough UK, I helped out with setting up the show and had the pleasure of moving Stonewall. So I took the opportunity along with my son to get in first on their stock, and unfortunately cleared their stock of certain codes. The figures will be part of a division for 1812/13.

 

Now for the Library submission, the section this is for is the Overdue and Returns, these figures were started in Challenge 12 but did not get finished as I got COVID. This was a fun project as my kids (20 and 23) were into Pokemon and at the time I was building a Seleucid army. So this unit is based on them worshiping the Great Pokemon God Falinks. The figures are from Outpost which unfortunately is no longer operating. Nice well proportioned figures and paint up well as long as its not me.

 

Pokemon God Falinks

 

Points Being Claimed: 

 48 x 15mm French Napoleonic Infantry at 2 pts each = 96pts 

 16 x 15mm Pikemen at 2pts each = 32pts 

 Library Overdue and Returns section = 20pts 

 Total Points being claimed 148pts

I always like 15mm figures, Ian, and these are very fine indeed. The French are great (many thanks to the painting Gods for greatcoats!), but your pikemen really brought a smile upon my face. The Pokémon God Falinks indeed! Your maths are spot on, so another 148 points for you.

Please remember to resize your photographs though, and a map woud be nice too!

Martijn

From: MarkB Smårgos Torta of Miniatures today [Overdue and Returns](92 points)

 Hi all,

I hope you are doing well! 

I would like to introduce you to the Swedish Smårgos Torta. No this is not a recipe but it goes with this weeks post from me. Here is a picture of a Smårgos Torta for you all.

I have painted up some items that have been siting around my paint table and they have been in different states of completion. So this week I will be making an entry into the AHPC Library under the area called Overdue and Returns. Below is a picture of this weeks submission from me.

 

 

To start the detailed talks lets talk about the spaceship. Which I do not know how to score because it is a 1:50,000 Scale miniature from Brigade Models. This is part of the Neo-Soviet collection and is the Admiral Lazarev Class Battle Cruiser. It is 80 x18mm in size and was fun to paint up.  So I will need the help of the kind judges to give me some points for this entry. Thank you!

I plan to use this and other miniatures for a game based around the battle of Denmark Straights in space using the "Starfighters" Rules from Wiley Games.

Next up is another fun group of miniatures. We have a group of four 28mm Zombies from a box of plastic miniatures that I picked up after playing my first game of Zona Alfa. So these four Zombies will be used with my first entry in a game of Zona Alfa. 

So now back to the main event. 6mm miniatures, today I bring you two battalions of Austrian Infantry from Baccus for the 1809 campaign during the Napoleonic Wars. In total there are 64 miniatures in these two battalions. There is on battalion of German and Hungarian infantry. The German battalion is part of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the Hungarians are part of the 50th Infantry Regiment. 

 

Also from Baccus and for the 1809 Campaign I give you a unit of the 3rd Uhlan Regiment. There are a total of 12 miniatures in this group. 

These are some much needed reinforcements for the main group of miniatures I painted this last summer.

 OK now for the fun part, the scoring.

64 x 6mm infantry @ 1/2 point =32 points

12 x 6mm cavalry @ 1 point = 12 points

4 x 28mm Zombies @ 5 points = 20 points

1 x 1:50,000 scale space ship @ 8 points = 8 Points

 Overdue and Returns bonus = 20 Points

Total for this week: 92 points

I hope you all have a great week. Skål!

Now, when I hear the word "torta" I can't help thinking of my native "taart", which really means cake. Well, overly healthy green stuff doesn't necessarily have to be part of this. To the contrary, even. However, your Smårgos Torta sure looks delicious! As, of course, do your other offerings for the day, Mark. I like the spaceship and the zombies, but pride of place must go to your little Austrians. I really like the crisp painting and the vibrant colours on your Uhlanen, I must say. Well done!

As for scoring, looking back into the depth of the Challenge Archives I find that Battlefleet Gothic spaceships have traditionally been scored as 15mm vehicles. That seems reasonable to me, so we will award it 8 points. That brings your total up to 92 points. Proost!, as we say in Holland, or Schol! for my Flemish neighbours!

Martijn

 

 

From: Brettm Heroquest first edition from the Library of Fantasy [Fantasy Section](355 points)

 Finally decided to paint my original version of Heroquest. I'm still up in the air if I will paint the new version or not. I'm not a huge fan of some of the sculpts. Below is the first edition all painted up as I walk through the Fantasy part of the Library

First up the Heroes

Then the Orcs

Goblins hoping to score a hit

Fimers with those extra attack die

Mummies slowly coming at you

Mummies slowly coming at you

Zombies with the huge cleavers

Chaos warriors and sorcerer

Close up

Blood for the blood god

Close up of the undead

Close up of the green tide.

Did all their bases a way I saw on I believe it was a FB post. Gives it the dungeon like look I feel like. We have 16 Orcs, 12 Goblins, 6 Fimirs, 12 Skeletons, 6 Mummies, 6 Zombies, 4 Chaos Warriors, 1 Chaos Sorcerer, 4 Adventuring Heroes. Total of 67 figures at 5 points each brings up 335 points. Plus the additional 20 for the Fantasy section of the library. Total 355

 What a great collection of Heroquest miniatures, Brett! I have been looking at Heroquest myself recently, as there is a Dutch version that I might get the juniors to play, and your miniatures sure are inspiring! They have a very distinct, old worldy style to them which your great painting fits very well. Those goblins with their oversized kitchen knives!.Well done and another 355 points on the slate for you.

Ah, please remember to resize your photographs and your labels... And a map would be nice too!

From MilesR: A Whole Bunch O'Stuff (416 Points)

 This will be a rather random set of mini's for this week's submission - both in terms of scales as well as periods covered.  Let's Start with the big boys first:

12 28mm Byzantine Bucellarii or Armored Horse Archers.  These have always been my favorite troops from antiquity and I've always had fun with them on the table top.

These mini's are 28mm plastic models from Fireforge Miniatures and were a joy to both assemble and paint.  About 90% of the painting was done using the Army Painter speedpaints which I am growing very fond of.

This completes my Byzantine forces for Barrons War outside of a few leader figs I may throw in.

Next up are 48 10mm "Heavy" Orcs which I had 3D printed by a friend

They were fun to paint up and a nice break.  Technically these Orcs are big and top the scales in at 15mm but lets still score them as 10mm - why?

Because their opponents - Dwarves are labelled as 10mm figures but really tip in at 7mm - well they are Dwarves after all.

Same 3D printing source and a lot of fun to paint up.

Lastly - an initial down payment on my "Big Project" for the year - the Russo-Japanese War in 10mm.  These are the new 10mm RJW line from Pendraken and they are superb figures.  

There are 18 bases of Japanese Infantry, 10 cav and 4 machine gun bases - this is a little over a division and a half

Brace yourselves, your going to be subjected to a lot of 10mm RJW figures over the course of this challenge.

I've got close to 2,000 of the little buggers to paint up.  I'll be running this as a campaign at Historicon this year and they'll also likely find their way onto a Little Wars TV episode this summer.  

Well that's all for this submission, lets figure of the final tally:

12  28mm cavalry = 120 points

64 10+mm Orcs = 64 points

80 10-mm Dwarves = 80 points

72 10mm Japanese Infantry and 8MG crewman + machine guns  = 80 92 points

20 10mm Japanese Cavalry = 40 points 60 points

Grand Total: 384 Points

Ha, I was starting to wonder where you were, Miles. Almost 250 figures in one go, that's more like you!  And great figures they are too. All are quite great, from the Byzantines through the orks to the little dwarves with their distinctive shields, but I really like your RJW figures. Looking forward to seeing (much) more from them in the future! 

You have short-changed yourself a little as 10mm cavalry are 3 points, not 2, and then here are the 4 crew-served weapons at 3 points each for a total of  416 points!

Ah, one minor quibble: please remember to lay-out and resize your photos...

Martijn

From MartijnN: The Tuesday Tome, Volume III

 Greetings Humans!

I am very sorry, but we have to interrupt this ridiculous "traditions and delicious foods I am not allowed to touch anyway" nonsense for a far more important subject: me.

I am Lucca. I have adopted this bunch of confused humans about half year ago, and I am of course a Labradoodle. I understand that this male human, Martijn, who is supposed who be my Master (although we all know who is really the calling the shots here, don't we: me) has to do some things for you today. I suppose it has something to do with these tiny thingies he insists on colouring each day; for some obscure reason he won't have me play with them (but I still managed to snatch one of them when he wasn't looking, ha!), and he doesn't even want me touching his paw with mine when he is doing that, would you believe it? There is also some female human here, which he seems rather fond of. Well okay, he can cuddle her occasionally, but let's not let things getting out of hand; I will intervene if necessary. I really should be the only woman is his life, and cuddling is for me, right? You have to have a firm hand with these humans, or else they will do whatever they want and misbehave. I have noticed you have one among you who does have that firm hand, I actually think I might quite like this Tamsin lady! Maybe she can share some tips with me for keeping these humans in their place.  

Anyway, you can have my Master (Humouring him of course, I might get a treat for that) for the Tuesdays, but I will insist on my three walks a day. At least. And excuse me, I now have more important things to attend to. There is this amazing white fluffy stuff in the garden, must go check that out.

Ah, one more thing. My human informs me that these Tuesdays Troopers have been very busy and he will be presenting you some more of these papery things you humans call "books" today. Personally I don't see the point in these, apart from the fact they smell funny and you can tear them apart quite nicely, but apparently I am not meant to do that. There seem to be an awful lot of things I am not meant to do. Anyway, here you go:

- From master Miles: "The first principles of carpet bombing"

- From master Brett: "Advance heroic questing for beginners"

- From master Mark: "The Return of the Overdue Swedish Salad"

- From master Peter: "Shoring up your batteries way below zero"

- From master Greg: "The Old Contemptible"

- From master Ian: "Pokémon with Pikes"

- From master Thomas: "Smashing the Anvil"

- From master Simon: : "Resistance: strategies for documentation and suppression"

You can go now and have some fun with these. Be good boys and girls and you may find some treats!