From TamsinP: 15mm Thirty Years War Croats (96 points)

It appears to be the day for Croats - who knew. Here is a very colourful unit of TYW Croat cavalry from Tamsin.

Take it away Tamsin:

Here's my second entry for the Challenge - the Croats.

After my rather sober Ronin with his muted browns, I present a rather more colourful bunch of hooligans for your entertainment. These are Croat/Hungarian/Cossack light horsemen for use with my 30 Years War armies, based for FoG:R. The figures are 15mm Donnington Miniatures.

Although there are only 24 of them, it took me 3 days to paint them (admittedly probably only 4 hours per day), but the lack of uniformity and amount of details to paint was time consuming. It was only when I was taking the photos that I spotted that the mix of figures in each "regiment" had become a bit skewed - at least each group has at least one of each rider type!

Wow, yes, they certainly are a cacophony of colour - excellent job Tamsin.

These lads will give Tamsin a very tidy 96 points. Well done!

From BenG: 20mm Napoleonic French Casualty, Napoleonic Croates & 20mm WWII Soviets (44 points)

From Ben:

Here's the latest from my workbench: More 20mm Soviets and some Napoleonic infantry.

The Napoleonic morale marker (above) is another one from the Schilling range, to be used with the the battalions I'm making. 

 

The mortar and crew are by PSC and the AA machine gunner and observer are from Crusader (I think).

I'm only claiming 4 of the HaT 4e/1e Provisional Croatian Regt. for the Challenge, as I'd painted the elites and a couple of the marching poses before I entered.

Excellent work Ben. It's great to see one of the more unusual Napoleonic formations - that Croatian uniform is quite nice with the green jacket, yellow/red facings and white waistcoat. 

This selection of figures will give Ben 44 points.