From GregB - Braganza's Besiegers (65 points)

Braganza's Besiegers, ready to hold the line!

Another Painting Challenge is nearly complete...at this stage one looks around at the rather large pile of "oh, I'll do that during the Challenge!" stuff, realizes that simply will not happen, and instead (a little desperately) tries to focus on at least one or two items to get them done...with that in mind, may I present another Regiment of Renown for my Dogs of War project...here we have Braganza's Besiegers! These are lovely (and hefty!) 28mm metal castings from GW. 

Luka Braganza shouting instructions to his company.

Hailing from the fair city of Miragliano, Luka Braganza and his company are a widely feared bunch, seen at famous sieges in Tilea and other places around the Old World - and always on the winning side! Clad in heavy armour, bearing swords and crossbows and protected by large pavisse-type shields, the Besiegers can hold just about any position, come what may...

Pavisse providing plenty of protection...

A view of some of the Besiegers.

These old Dogs of War miniatures really are great fun to paint - I know I've already said that, but it bears repeating one more time! The sculpts have lovely detail, stunning character and crisp lines that only proper metal figures can have! I'll be the first to concede that these fellow did not fit all that well on to their 20mm square bases - and you can see in the photo that keeping the ranks tight is not really workable due to all the kit. But I just love this group of figures and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. 

Musician close up. Even he is heavily armoured!

Captain Luka Braganza. Love the pistol strapped to his chest!

Bannerman is ready to hold the line as well.

The Dogs of War were just so unique - the Besiegers were no exception. This combination of weapons and armour is just not very common on Warhammer gaming tables, and opponents struggled to deal with Braganza and his lads. Often your missile troops are lightly armoured and equipped, with little expectation they would last in a melee...

The ranks don't quite fit close together...but it still works out nicely.

But that is not the case with Braganza's Besiegers! When charged they could unleash a volley of crossbow fire - as any missile unit might. But thanks to their heavy armour and pavisses, they are really difficult to bring down. As such you had the flexibility of placing this missile unit in the part of your battle line where you might expect the heaviest contact to take place, knowing they will give your opponent some heartburn as they struggle with the riddle of heavy missile troops.

"Take careful aim..."

Scoring wise we have 12 figures here, all 28mm sized, so that should work out to 60 points. 

That is all for this post - although I hope not all for this edition of the Challenge. Hope to be back with at least one more post before the dust settles...thanks for reading!

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Another great old-school regiment! Wethere or not this is your last entry, its certainly been a treat to see all those Regiments of Renown get the love and attention they deserve Greg!

These guys look like a tough line to crack - It would be fun to launch my Beastman Minobus at them and see what happens! Great job and take some bonus points for the flags and details

- Paul

From MikeF - Imperial Guard Vehicles (40 Points)

Moving on for my cyberpunk project, I completed two vehicles for my imperial guard army. This army is a constant work in progress and over the years I’ve continued to add new units and models to it. The new additions for this challenge include a Hellhound tank and a Chimera transport. The Hellhound is actually a resin model from Models and Minis which specialized in 40k equivalent, resin vehicles. Unfortunately, the company appears to no longer be in business. They had some very nice models, and I was fortunate enough to pick up a few of them when they were still trading. I magnetized the three different weapon options for the Hellhound which include the classic flame tank, the chemical tank and the melta version of the vehicle. The Chimera is the standard 40K kit. Both vehicles are painted in the classic Russian olive green colour scheme. It’s simple, looks good and is easily replicable for new units being added years later.

2 x 28mm vehicles for 20 points each for 40 points.

Thanks for visiting!

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Always good additions to any Guard army Mike! The double-Flammenwerfer looks particularly nasty but I'm sure in true GW fashion it manages to explode fiery death onto your own troops almost as often as the enemy! :-) All the extra details and colours you've added really help break up all that green well. Nice!

- Paul

TomL, The Just Rulers, Stompy Robots, Contemplative thinker & Pulp (115 Points)

Visiting the Sixth Sphere: The Just Rulers
Keeping with what seems to be my preference for old TV shows this challenge, I submit from Space 1999 - Commander John Koenig & his brave crew.  

Commander Koenig calmly and carefully guides his resilient crew through 2 seasons of unexpected crisis after crisis,  meeting with and escaping multiple humanoid civilizations their runaway moon just happens to pass nearby.  These are Crooked Dice miniatures (Arc Crew 1 & 2) and were painted in TTC acrylics with a tint or two of contrast paint.  These figures plus the ones used in the Limbo entry complete a pulp game project I started in 2020.  Now to attempt to get a game in... 

 I painted more of the new Catalyst Battletech miniatures for a friend who requested the colours of “Olson's Raiders”.

These were base painted with my airbrush using a few Vallejo Game Colour Air purples and black.  Dry brushed with Titan Bluff and washed with my ancient GW purple wash. Bases are Secret Weapon concrete.  

Leading us to the Seventh Sphere where The Contemplatives rest is another young woman from the Pulp Figures Dangerous Dames pack:

This lady prefers a rational thinking man who can see the bigger picture, so we are here to visit with Albert Einstein

 

 

I suspect Albert would not have liked Space 1999’s concept of a nuclear explosion accidentally powering the runaway moon through space as opposed to destroying it.  Perhaps he would have reused his quote, “God does not play dice with the universe” or maybe he would just accuse the writers of being really lazy.  This fun to paint Boarshead miniature and our dangerous dame were completed with TTC & Foundry acrylics.   


15 28 mm figures * 5 points = 75 points.
Just rulers & Contemplatives * 20 points each for 40 points

For a total of 115 points.

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Another eclectic mix of models this week Tom!

- Paul

From DallasE: 1/48 Sdkfz 222 Armoured Car (20 points)

For this week, as promised, I have a 28mm vehicle. It's a Sdkfz 222 armoured car shown in North African service with the Deutsches Afrikakorps.

This model is 1/48 scale from Blitzkrieg Miniatures. It's actually a 3D print, not resin-cast, but I don't hold that against it. A very nice model, not many pieces, and good detail. I added some stowage as was generally the style with the DAK and all of the other combatants in North Africa.

Decals are from the folder, the Afrikakorps palm is from Company B. I need to snug it down with some Microsol or "Mr. Mark Softer" as it's showing a little silvering.

I like the model and it'll fit in well with the rest of my Afrikakorps stuff. Funnily enough I thought at first that the model was overscale as it's longer than my Blitzkrieg Miniatures Sdkfz 250 halftrack. But it tuens out that it's right on the money - Wikipedia lists the 222 as being 4.8m (4800mm) in length so a 1/48 model would be 100mm long... and that's exactly what this model measured.So well done Blitzkrieg I guess!

Looks about right next to a Perry crewman anyway.

Points:

1x 28mm vehicle = 20 points

Till next time!

Dallas

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An iconic German light vehicle indeed; especially so in Nord Afrika. The early desert war is a playground for scout cars like this (on both sides) when 20mm autoguns are deadly and ATRs are still worth having!

You've done a great job on the paint scheme too - your blended chipping through the (often poorly applied in real life) desert yellow back to the standard field grey is top notch. Lovely job mate!

- Paul 

From KerryT: "Oh what a night"....Victrix Medieval Knights (180 points)

Morning, afternoon & evening all

Well, with the sun shining late this afternoon there's a chance that the PVA will dry and allow me to finish this entry.

I've tried to stay on track this week by completing more cavalry, this time Medieval but somewhat generic.

Victrix Knights

I've mentioned in a previous post that I've wandered somewhat aimlessly through the Medieval period, starting off by painting figures for the Barons War and will end up eventually with the War of the Roses.

Along the way there'll be Welsh and Scottish units to battle the English who'll also scrap with the French. I suppose the main focus will on the Hundred Years War, particularly early on.

Therefore needing a quantity of mounted knights and well before I bought my resin printer I bought some of the plastic medieval knights sold by Victrix. At the time I really wasn't sure what I was going to do with them and also bought the available shield transfers.

The figures really are very nice and give a good sense of the movement in a charge and there are lots of variations with 6 charging horse types

I put them together ages ago, well before the challenge and had undercoated them black as I would normally do. The shield transfers though need a white background and a subsequent second undercoat in white followed. Unfortunately this needed to be repeated in several coats and has left me with the feeling that I have spent ages painting these.

Not being a great modeler I found the process of cutting and applying the transfers a little difficult and tedious which took away some enjoyment of completing these figures

This coupled with the need to match the horse type to the individual matching transfers and also to the horses' caparison further constrained the freedom to do what I had wanted

There's a nice mix of heraldry in the designs

On reflection now I think if I bought more I'd probably paint the riders before mounting them and probably also paint the underside of the horses and the inside of the caparisons before mounting them on bottle tops for ease of access.

Unfortunately some of the gloss on the transfers shines through, I'll have to do something about that

Attempting to ride down some Scottish painted earlier in the challenge

Hold, hold, hold

That all sounds more negative that I indented it to sound, don't get me wrong these are lovely figures and superb value for a box of 18. Because they're a tiny bit bigger than other ranges I felt it best to mount 3 of them on bases with a depth of 8cms rather than my usual 6 x6. This is something I would certainly consider again as it does give them a better line of charge effect.

Here are a few pictures that show the various transfers and unfortunately in these pictures you can see the hurried paint jobs on some of these!

I'm not sure that I'll buy any more of these even though I do like them, I'll see how I get on with - I think the rush of painting and basing them has detracted a little from the usual enjoyment. Perhaps I should give them another try, without rushing this time and maybe aim for particular individual or named heraldic shields

Thank you once again for looking

In Summary then

18 x 28mm mounted knights @ 10 points -= 180 points

1 Squirrel

90 can opener side challenge points

Valleyboy

From Millsy:

Brilliant work Kerry!

There's something so very engaging about a group of charging knights, especially when they are each painted differently. It accentuates the sense of dynamism when you can pick out each miniature so clearly and see the flowing caparisons on the horses and the matching tabards on the knights.

No wonder your were wondering at the effort required last week when you mentioned these were undercoated black. The brightness of the colours must have taken a LOT of work but the results speak for themselves.

180 points added to your tally mate.

Cheers,

Millsy

From RichardM: More Egyptian Infantry and Mahdist camels and cavalry (435 points)

For this week’s efforts I’ve done the remaining two battalions of Egyptian Infantry that I bought in my initial order from Pendraken - the decision to get more will be put off until later this year.   I’ve also turned back to the Mahdists with the debut of their camels and more light cavalry.

Firstly the Egyptians and not much more to say about them.

Then we have 45 Mahdist camels and riders.  I have done 15 of these with the colour patched jibbah and the rest in plain clothing.  

The plain clothed ones.

And those with coloured patched jibbahs.

And finally 60 more light cavalry. Again, I have done 30 of these in patched coloured jibbahs and the rest in plain clothing.  Firstly the patched ones.

The plain ones.

And another shot of the patched ones

Once again all are Pendraken and the flags have come through the generosity of a gentleman on the Colonial Wars FB group who put them up for anyone to use.

Points for this lot are:

Two battalions of Egyptian Infantry - 120 figures = 120 points

Camels - 45 camels at 3 points each = 135 points

Light Horse - 60 mounted at 3 points each = 180 points

Total is 435 points

From Millsy:

OK, your win Richard. I'm absolutely fresh out of superlatives to describe your 10mm colonial work. You can read any of my previous minion commentary and everything I've said to date would apply here as well and then some.

Simply smashing and it's a privilege to minion your stuff mate.

Cheers,

Millsy