Short and sweet post here, this is the miniature I originally bought and imported at great expense, only to leave it unpainted and ignored until I got a more suitable miniature (painted for last years challenge).
For 'The Pit of the Pendulum' chamber, I went with the terrifying option. These three figs are 28mm plastic from Mantic Games. They're from their Nightstalkers army. From left to right they are: a Banshee, a Screech and a Shade.
My latest entry for the Chambers of Challenge sees me entering the Armoury, which sets the target of a unit in armour. In this case, I have selected a small group of Dwarven warriors wearing chain-mail, since everyone knows Dwarves make the best armour.
These minis are all from Northstar's plastic Oathmark range and I have to say that I love them to bits. The set comes with spears, bows, hand weapons and shields plus a wide range of heads. The trumpeter is from the same range, though is one of the metal command set available alongside the plastics. There is also a more heavily armed and armoured dwarf kit (not pictured here), that allows for an even greater range of options.
Here comes a complete 180 from my last post of dwarfs, the start of my newest army for Warhammer Fantasy: Goblins! I started the army with a theme in mind of Goblins and Spiders after seeing an Age of Sigmar table at Cancon 2019 with a very similar concept. The army is being made up of forest dwelling goblins that live in and around the giant breeding caves of the monstrous Arachnarock spiders who these goblins have begun to worship alongside Gork and Mork. Whilst these may be only typical Night goblins, in my head these goblins live inside the Spider breeding caves, as opposed to outside and around the caves, and are the ones providing offerings to their 8 legged god.
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| Had a lot of fun making a mock phalanx formation with the spears. |
As we enter the Chamber of Challenge into the hall of traps these two little hobbits stumble along and have gotten themselves caught in a web!
What horrors await for them in the pit of the pendulum!
I hope to have most of my challenge themed around the solo game rangers of shadow deep where I hope to use most of these figures in my adventures.
For the price of entry I completed a Warhound Titan for Adeptus Titanicus. I advised Curt at the beginning of the challenge that I would be painting this for Dallas Ewen should he complete the dungeon challenge. Hopefully this serves as sufficient motivation. It will also save me mightily on any postage!
I painted it in the style of the War Griffons legion to match a new titan maniple he's painting. I tried to match Dallas' painting style as much as I could, but I decided to leave out the weathering and ground work. I find that weathering techniques are a very particular taste to each painter and the ground work helps unify units into a larger army. As this model is intended to see the gaming table, I fully intend for the new owner to complete the weathering and groundwork to their own taste.
The model itself is a Lucius pattern Warhound titan. Games Workshop only makes the Mars pattern, so this model is actually a 3D print ByronM made for me a while back. I have a 2nd identical one which I'll be painting up as Legio Ignatum later in the challenge.
For points, I looked back at a previous challenge and saw that Curt awarded 12 points for one of GregB's warhound titans, so I'm going with that.
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| The model came as a single print which is pretty impressive. |
For the nautical theme of the Aquifer I present a Grundstok Gunhauler from Kharadron Overlords. In the Age of Sigmar, some dwarfs (or Duardin™) have left their ancestor holds and taken to the sky in giant floating cities that are patrolled and supplied by a fleet of Sky Vessels. The Gunhaulers function partially as artillery platforms and partially as screens for larger ships in the Kharadron Sky Navy.
Hi folks,
Given all the events of this year, plans for the 'For Joshua' charity gaming project in honour of my little boy have been more or less put on hold. Whilst I've spent a lot of time this year basing up the various donations, I've not painted many more of the 10mm figures I had still to do for my own contribution. I decided to start this years AHPC with some progress on these. January looks to be a tad busy, so not sure how much more I'll get done!
These are 10mm metal figures from Magister Militum, and in keeping with my 'Bretonnian' theme I've gone for a unit of 'mounted Sergeants'. These mail clad lancers are more 'medium' cavalry than heavy, and probably get all the dirty jobs the knights don't feel are honourable enough.
They still, however, carry the colours of the kings army with his red and green on the shields and flags, while their connection to the land and the Lady of the Lake is signified by their dark blue clothing.
I did consider doing these chaps on three smaller 50mm rounds, but in the end decided to go for a single ranked unit. I believe that these twelve 10mm mounted troops come in at 24 points.
When I first saw this rooms I thought I don't have anything to fit this one... and started looking for a female mini... not finding any I ordered some... which only just arrived. Then I started thinking... and the line "... Stitched together" struck me and I figured I throw this one out and see if it sticks!
I had a number of brigs to build but with 8 Brigs already painted I didn't need all of them. I had already converted two of them (part of 4 actually) into a "Small Merchant" merchant vessel you can see how here: Brig to Small Merchant.
The ship came together nicely and painted up a nicely as well. I decided to put a bit of blue paint on her hull because I don't think any military ships had that paint but it was commonly used on house ect in the time.
Points wise She is of similar size to a frigate so 18 Points seems about right. Miles has suggested double points for sails... I will suggest an extra 5 points for rigging and sails for this ship but I leave that to Curt and the minions Still this should net me about of 38 or 43 Points (assuming this is accepted as proper for this room).
Painting has been slow over the holidays, with lots to do, but little getting done... I have been assembling and priming more than painting over the last few days, but I have managed to get a few really quick things painted.
First up is a unit of Stormtrooper Snow Troopers for Star Wars Legion. While they are relatively plain, that is how they are supposed to be, as you can not do a whole ton with white before it doesn't look white.
Overall, two very simple and basic submissions, but at least it is a few things complete!
