From GrahameH: More of the same: Light Horse and Cold War (220 Points)

Saracens - Turkomen Light Horse 15mm

Thought I'd completed this army having done these but then found a unit of infantry. No idea that I had bought them, so will now have to paint them next week. Oh well!

Anyhow 24 Light Horse - all Legio Heroica 15mm Figures

24 Turkomen Light Horse

One Unit of 6 Turkomen

And Another

Cold War Soviets (Again) 

Round bases arrived at last, so the support weapons got based.

Again 15mm Battlefront and Army Armies- 15mm

10 Regular Russian Infantry Figures (including 2 prone)

Soviet Support Weapons

 

Anti-Tank Crews - Battlefront

Mortar Crews - Army Armies

Russian Paras - 15 Figures and one truck with 4 crew

Russian Paras

One Squad or Platoon or Company - depending on rules - Battlefront

Para Mortar Crew - Army Armies

A Russian Truck. I think its QRF - Crew in back Army Armies. 

I like the Army Armies figures and just when I thought I was getting the lead pile down they advertise they they intend to do Cold War Canadians!!!!!!

Tanks (15mm) - Guess who forgot the deadline for the armour entry. Never mind just pleased to get theses done. Three T-60 and Six T-35

3  X T-60 Tank (or tanklets) Zvezda 15mm - Battlefront Crewman

Side View

The Command Tank

6 X 15mm Zvezda T-35s - Crewmen Batttlefront

Side View (in case you didn't guess)

Command Tank

That's it for this week. No idea what to do next week apart from the newly found Saracen Infantry.

Anyone need a painting partner for Curts figure - I live in the UK and will try my hand at painting anything (although might not be as good as what has been posted by others on this blog).

GrahameH

More of the same is fine by me Grahame, these are all fantastic. Those T-35s are hulking beasts, and nice touches on the slogans - are they decals with the kits? Pity you missed the Bonus points, but I'm glad to see them all the same. Your Russian infantry look great, particularly the paras, and the Turkomen are very dapper in their colourful robes and moustaches. 

By my count, that's twenty four 15mm horse, ten 15mm vehicles, three crewed weapons, and twenty six other crew/infantrymen. I'm counting the mortars as a crewed weapons +2 extra crewmen each, and the anti-tank weapons as a pair of infantrymen, which seems fair to me.  

A very respectable 220 points!

From GrahameH: Completing Armies (494 Points)

Well this is the first time I have entered the challenge and this is my first post. I decided that
the challenge might not only help me to reduce my ever increasing lead pile, but hopefully. assist me completing the armies I started but for various reasons never finished.

First Up 15mm Sarmatians (Riders are Old Glory, Horse Essex) 236 Points

58 Mounted Figures and 2 Foot

 

One of the Unit

I had previously painted the Light Horse and some other generals, so now that the Heavy Cavalry is completed this army is finished.

24 X Mongols Horse Archers (15mm - Legio Heroica) 96 Points

24 Mongol Horse Archers

A unit - 4 Units each of 6 Horse Archers

Again now that these are done this army too is complete.

Finally 15mm Cold War Figures 

I have based these singularly so I can use them for Rapid Fire and Bolt Action Modern rules. Crewed weapons are based together. Most of the Russian Vehicles have been painted already and I intend to start on the West German vehicles shortly.

These Figures are mainly Battlefront, but I have added in some Army Armies which are little larger, but not too much. The Army Armies figures I think are in winter clothing while the Battlefront miniatures are in summer. However, I think they mix OK.

15mm West German Infantry (Battlefront) 70 Points

35 West German Infantry - based for Rapid Fire & Bolt Action Modern

A small Coy - the support weapons have been painted but await basing as I ran out of the large circular bases

HQ Coy minus support weapons and Transport

15mm Russian (Battlefront and Army Armies)

120mm Mortar and 3 Crew - 25 Infantry Including 1 lying down totalling 54 Points

 

1 X 120mm Mortar and 3 crew at the back.  some Infantry including some support weapons (26 Figs)

Army Armies Figures - these are going to be my Engineer Coy

Battlefront Support Weapon - 2 Army Armies snipers (and blurred) in the rear

Having nearly finished the normal Russian Infantry, I found I had a loads of figures left so I painted them as Russian paratroopers. Now I need to buy even more figures to finish the regiment and therefore add to the lead mountain!!!

15mm Russian Paratroopers (Battlefront) 38 Points

Russian Paratroopers in Camouflage that you can't see too well in the photo

Anti-Tank and Aircraft Teams

A poor photo in an attempt to show the camouflage - its there believe me!!

Total - 2 X 120mm and 3 crew each. 15 other figures (including 2 lying down)

That's it two weeks work and I've just primed some tanks and horse archers (not from the same army)

GrahameH

Holy smokes that's quite the points bomb to kick off your participation in this prestigious event, and today's Friday crew entries! Lovely work - I find your style very clean on these 15mms, and neat camouflage on those Russki paras. I'm quite jealous actually, I've not got the knack of 15s msyself. And really nice basing too, i'm impressed your colour scheme is the same across the ancients and near-moderns, just mixing the tufts up, yet suits both well. Finishing off armis is just what the Challenge is for.
And is that a little hex base to pick out the West German officer? Itself a little tribute to our Snowlord. 
A great first entry, 77 infantry and 85 cavalry/crewed weapons in 15mm, which will net you a very tidy 494 points by my count

Phil