So another year of teh Analogue Hobbies Painting Competion has been completed. Once again Mike W & Grahame participated with varying degrees of success. I'm sure Grahame would agree with me that it gets harder to find the time to devote to painting to such a tight deadline for 3 months solid!
Hopefully others fom the club will join is in future years!
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| Mike W came 11th and Grahame 21st out of a field of 89 scoring participants! |
Well this is my last post for this challenge, as ever it had been fun and as the name implies - challenging!
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in running the challenge, great work! And let's all join the two wee guys below and raise a glass to all our beloved minions...
As the title of this post suggests I have literally looked to clear all those stray items on my workbench that have stalled and hit a backwater in the last few months.
First off are two Warlord Games ECW Highlanders who along with their compatriots are being readied for a potential future game. These two seemed to have been waylaid at the pub and were missed when I completed their friends last summer.
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| Two Highlanders celebrating the end of this year's challenge! |
Although the figures give a sense of wearing tartan, actually bottled out trying to pait full tartan on these guys. instaed after doing a base colour of green or blue, I used marker pens to draw lines in a chequered pattern over the base colour. I tried to make the lines follow the flow of eth cloth but didn't worry too much about making them too acurate.
A couple of spots in contrasting colors before applying a varnish - the imporatnat thing here being it was an oil based varnish as the markers were water soluable and using water based varnish literally wipes teh lines out! Once the varnish was dry (overnight) I was then able to apply Army Painter washes & Inks to add shading to the cloth and it turned a dodgey child like tartan into something that is in my opinion tabletop passable!
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| The reverse view |
Below is a test figure I did based upon a sprue of figures on the front of a magazine some time ago, I forget now if it was a Perrys or a Wargames Atlantic product....
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| Later War MP34 infantryman |
Finally painted and based!
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| Another view |
At my Wargames Club we are gearing up for a campaign set in the Marion Wars (Mary Queen of Scots) period of Scottish history. The crossbowman below us another figure that got separated and lost from his parent unit on my workbench...
.... yes, my workbench can get quite chaoticat times and usually only gets sorted and cleaned when my wife puts her foot down!
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| Completed Crossboman |
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| He could be on either side of teh conflict |
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| Five more Zombicide Survivors |
For some reason, I always struggle with doing the survivor figures in these post Apocalyptic games - the monsters always seem more fun to paint. That said I'm almost decided to use North Star figures to provide the Survivors for scenarios I put on as I will develop stats cards for them to be Mining Corporation Marines, providing security for the Corporations mining sites - I like the figures better and I find them more fun to paint!
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| In case you wondered, Commander Amadi in the Yellow Power Suit and Madame Singleton to his right |
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| Left to Right: Cloud, Emma & Val |
As mentioned on Monday here is my follow-up post showing the balance of the GW Plague Monk Unit that I was working on, trying to get it finished by the Challenge Deadline...
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| The 5 x 'Regular' Plague Monks, showing their right hand side |
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| And their left hand side, each is armed with two hand weapons |
Well we're now into the Free Fire section of this year's challenge - I can't believe how quickly the time has passed!
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| You can see the boils on the right hand figure, painted in light flesh with a red ink wash and then highlighted yellow. |
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| The 2 x Clan Rats leftover from the last submission |
This week I have returned to another Warhammer Fantasy subject, namely Skaven, as I still have a bunch of figures needing painting.
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| A mix of Pole Arms and Hand Weapons, these guys will be split into regiments in due course according to weapons |
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| I have left the bases clear of vegitation to try and give these figures a little different look and feel. |
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| The arrayed forces of Good, mostly Humans with Elves and some others |
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| The Evil horde, comprising of Greenskins, Undead and various other monstrosities! |
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| Elven Imperial Foot backed up by Human Militia |
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| The Great Undead Horde, who turned out to be impervious to missle fire! |
