'Resistance' from DallasE: 28mm Plains Warriors

 

OK, taking a break from the grimdark to return to the project I SHOULD be working on, and that's the models needed for the Little Bighorn game I have planned for later this year. I have MORE than enough models from the Foundry, I just have to get paint on them.

The models here are a mix of packs - some from the Young Bloods, and some from the Dog Soldiers packs. Above L to R we have Bear Licks With Tongue, Three Fingers, and Wolf Looks Back.

Here are Running Rabbit, Goes Walking, and Little Crow. As you can see from the photos these models are all characters and don't really lend themselves to "assembly line" painting like the Seventh Cavalry models do. But I did the skintones the same on all of them - GW Doombull Brown highlighted with Ratskin Flesh. I hate the name of that paint but I think it gives a good Indigenous fleshtone.

Lastly we've got Pawnee Killer, Touch the Sky, and Plenty Coups. I did put warpaint on a few of the models but I may go back and do a few more as I like the look. As for the theme - Resistance - I think these models are spot on. If you know anything about the Plains Wars you know they were wars of resistance by Indigenous people against white military action and settlement. The apex of the resistance was of course the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where a coalition of Indigenous warriors wiped out - to a man - five companies of the US Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer (often referred to - incorrectly - as "General Custer" owing to his holding the rank of brevet brigadier-general in the Civil War).

Well there's the first bunch of Plains Warriors done. Only about 40 or 50 more to go...? Shouldn't be a problem this summer as long as I can stay away from Khornate distractions. We'll see.

Points:

9x 28mm infantry = 45 points

Resistance bonus = 50 points

Total = 95 points

Cheers,

Dallas
 

'Resistance' by KerryT: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War

Morning, afternoon and evening all

I've had great fun again with this theme with as usual my initial plan growing bigger, out of proportion to the time I had left and as a result not as complete as I would have liked

Some years ago I printed and painted a Castle and buildings from The King & Country range by Printable scenery. Last year I signed up to their Throne & Ash Kickstarter and for the past few months have been busy printing. About 2 weeks ago, they released a model of a Barbican and this was to be the centre piece of my entry. Then my printer broke and I needed a new part. Fortunately this arrived on Monday, the lower level took nearly 2 days to print though. I managed to finish painting it this afternoon! Phew

The whole shebang from above

Ignore the mess in the background

As the first picture shows, I bought some STL files in the MMF sale and printed off a load of artillery, 2 siege towers (Northern Crusade Miniatures) and 2 traction trebuchets ( Reconquer Designs) and a Ram with crew ( Reconquer Designs). I also found some STL of infantry climbing ladders

 

I've set things up to look like an attack on a walled city with attacking elements being gunpowder artillery, Ballistas throwing rocks, a mine that has caused a wall to collapse and a Ram along with infantry attempting to scale the walls. Defenders have boiling oil and giant crossbow machines

Knock knock

The Barbican

These are not a kind of sheep

Looking down the walls

Atop the Earls Keep

Frying tonight

the destroyed Ram

The mine

Heavy Bombards

All those figures and pieces, along with the walls and towers apart from a small section on the right have been painted in the past 2-3 weeks. I couldn't resist adding some additional troops for effect though in the following photos

English infantry walking on ready to exploit any breakthrough

I, really not sure how to score all of this, particularly the terrain

Figure wise I have the following

2 Ballista & 15 Crew

8 guns/bombards & 24 Crew

5 Heavy crossbows (defense) and 10 crew

7 pots of oil and 6 crew

1 Ram & 6 crew

6 Barricades

1 Destroyed Ram

2 Siege towers

1 Mine/bit of terrain

25 infantry with ladders

In total

86 Foot @ 5 points = 430 points

8 artillery pieces @ 10 pints = 80

2 large ballista and 2 siege towers ( vehicles) 20 pints? = 80 points

Walls - 6 foot long and 15 cms high?

2 rams ? = 20 points

Various barricades and I don't think I can claim artillery for the pots of oil

Theme Bonus points 50

Around 660 points without what I've failed to count points for

Apologies, all a mad rush in the end to get it posted

I had hoped to get some infantry for the siege towers and crossbow defenders done but ran out of time!

1 Squirrel - 100YW English

Thanks for looking

Valleyboy

'Resistance' by MarkE: 28mm Blood Bowl Humans

We've done the balls, we have an Orc team, and now to play provide Resistance I've finally finished the boxset human team to get on the field (with some red highlights because we can't have da Orks going too much fasta).  Ok it's a bit of a stretch to fit in the theme, but old school GW was always about stretching a theme anyhow.  Once again sticking with the Army Painter Speedpaint line, except for the gold metallics. Now for the introductions:

First the Line, Upfront Resistance

Next: The Throwers

Next: The Catchers

And last but not least, providing in your face Resistance: The Blitzers

And Finally a shot of the whole team, ready to take the field:

Lets tally up that paint score:

            

                12 x 28mm figs @ 5 pts each = 60 points

                    plus 1 x overly stretched theme bonus = 50 points

                    Total = 110 points

Cheers, 

MarkE