Showing posts with label Foreign Legion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign Legion. Show all posts

Friday, 18 March 2022

From LeeH - Foreign Legion Casualties (14 points)

My final entry to the Painting Challenge is a small group of Legionnaire Casualties. With these completed, I have achieved all of the items on my pre-challenge planner (it's not just random, I always have a plan!). It has been a wonderful Painting Challenge and I remain in awe not only of the painting skills of many of the Challengers but the output of some of the leaders (you guys are machines!). I’ve had a great time and got everything I wanted painted, and a bit more, so once again the group motivation of the event has served its purpose.


These models are from Blue Moon and are wonderfully detailed for 15mm figures. I only need a few of these and will be using them as set decoration rather than as casualty markers. I was going to base them individually but as they are purely for decorative purposes I decided to base them on little multi-figure vignettes. I will be using these inside the Desert Fort that I painted earlier in the Challenge to add a bit of life (and death) to the scene.




Points wise, I’m only claiming 1 point for the completely prone figures (because I only have to paint one side!), but 2 points for the figures that are sitting up or crawling because they are more 3d. So I make that a modest 14 points bringing my Challenge total to a respectable 923. Not my highest challenge total, but as I said, I have painted everything I wanted to, without getting too stressed in the process.


Now I am going to sit back and watch the mayhem of the last few hours of the Challenge and marvel at the wonderfully talented painters that have taken part this year. All that remains after that is to clean up my painting desk and get all my figures out for the traditional wrap-up shot. Kudos as always goes to Curt for running this amazing crazy event, and the incredible Minions for their tireless effort which keeps the runaway train on the tracks.

(And yes, I’m already planning for AHPC XIII).

From DaveD - an excellent completion entry there Lee. It's been a real pleasure to watch the creation of this project! 

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

From Barks: Camelorum virumque cano (44 points)

Exterior, Fort Djelibeybi, night. An unusually warm evening breeze wafts exotic scents to our heroes.

Caporal Milsois: Mon dieu, Mon Commandant! Can you hear… music?

Commandant Docherté: Oui, Caporal! It is… strangely familiar.

Caporal Milsois: It sounds like a sousaphone!

Commandant Docherté: Sacre bleu! I have heard this before! I was lost in the desert and I followed the music of this haunting, erotic polka. I found a gorgeous dusky maid wearing a veil, with the deepest, brownest eyes, the longest eyelashes, and an oddly fetching hunch… When I awoke, a friendly patrol found me all alone.

Caporal Milsois: Mon Commandant, let us follow the sousaphone! Allons-y!

Exeunt omnes.

Dear reader, I shall draw seven veils over the subsequent scene.

Observe how the eyes follow you





Nic Robson gave me a very wary look as I bought La Légion Étrangère Camel Sousaphone off him at CanCon last month.

"Don't judge me!" I screamed in his face, "You sell this!"

About 24h after I had ordered the above, I found these two 15mm Naked Camels from Irregular. I shall call them Michael and Dave.


1x 28mm 5 points
2x 15mm camels 4 points
Including Millsy & Docherty 5 points
Docherty's Dock 30 points

And he wept, for there were no more lands to conquer.
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By Paul

Impressive! Of course, Long John and friends toured the whole of their Treasure Island only to find that X no longer marked the spot.  Got any cheese to trade for the gold? :-)

Lovely camels and why am I not surprised that the Sousaphone is a Nic Robson special?  Not sure that those camels are in fact Michael and Dave - not enough lipstick is showing for them being stranded in the lonely desert. But given the lack of skulls I shall grant you the benefit of the doubt!

PS Nice Alexander the Great Quote! Of course, Shakespeare would probably wax lyrical about the "Undiscovered Country"...

PPS But doest thee Cranium virumque cano?