From SteveA: Gaslands, KoW, Terrain (121 points)

Heya painting peoples!

I am chasing challenges with this post,  going for 3 Library Challenges as I wander thru the AHPC library seeking to slay the gray...and chip away the pile of unpainted shame...

Ever since ByronM got me hooked on the table top visuals that 3D printing can bestow upon a Kings of War  table scape where upon the minis were shrunk to 10mm scale so more minis fit within the units bases, thereby making the battlefield appear more epic....I have continued to add more units to my Army and craft more terrain for the KPW 10mm battle field.

A unit of 10mm Trolls will now bolster my KoW army building options, and and a dollar store Halloween Skeleton-snake decoration converted into an "ancient bones within the hill" terrain piece will now provide an obstacle for unit movement and block line of sight  for some upcoming KoW battles

To further complement my "scrubland"  terrain for 10mm KoW battles, I also crafted and painted up a couple hills and some smaller clusters of trees.

If you were pondering over ideas about how to create some variety of scatter terrain with some low-profile base that were both cheap and not a collection of square corners.. I can suggest trying an idea I found when viewing war game hobby yootoob videos - use old CDs as bases for some of your custom terrain pieces.

Hills, Trees and old bones are rather Nature-ish. . so these pieces I think will enable me to check out a "Nature" book from the AHPC challenge library.

Shifting creative gears and jumping across genres......

Music is Art, Art is Music...the creative forces cannot be stopped, nor can they be 'shushed' into quiet submission by beleaguered AHPC  librarians. .. Thereby the risen dead Bone Heads band rocked out in the AHPC Library and grabbed me an "Art" book from the shelf  .  

The Bone Heads are 4 minis created by Ral Partha waaaay back in 1985 as part of there Imports line..  These guys are from the same blister pack of  2 skeletons on guitar, 1 Skeleton drummer, and 1 skeleton dood strapped into the drum kit to hold all the drums together.

The Gaslands car is a converted toy matchbox car - a $2 child's toy reimagined via the power of DYI mini-craft--  with some parts from NorthstarFigures 'Implements of Carnage' bitz sprues and a healthy application of trash bashing with plastic I saved from the recycling bin and reworked with files, knives and glue...

Also painted up for this week is a smattering of scatter terrain - piles of oil barrels and car tires that can used to pretty-up a Gaslands table, and can also to suggest where car lanes exist before collisions and weapons fire alters the flow of game traffic.... and I suppose these barrels an tires could also lend well to other games where there was still shooty-shooty-bang-bang, but less vehicular explosions ..

Considering all the  Terrain I painted for this post simply as a pile of terrain stuff to store between days when the dice are not rolling,  and imagining  if converted it all into a liquid, this assortment of terrain could fill a 6x6x6 inch cube cup..  Hmm ..  not a brew I'd drink nor a cup shape I'd recommend as best design to avoid chin drenching spills...  so I will leave these terrain items intact and ready for game, and give into my feeling there are 20 points of terrain here.

So here on my last proper Thor'sday post before the AHPC Library closing time.. I run a  few more zig-zags around the map so I may ring more challenge bells, and (elder thing powers be willing)  I will have a few more items painted and posted before the  Free-Fire days within the AHPS library  shoots out all the important structural parts of the library walls and it all comes crashing down in a heap of well painted minie among bookish ruination wrought of the next few chaotic days that will conclude this fun challenge.

121 Total Points

15 pts = x1    Gaslands Car, Vehicle 20mm
10 pts = x10  Trolls(KoW), Foot Figure, 10mm (10x1pt)
16 pts = x4   Undead Skeleton Metal Band, Foot Figure 20mm (4x4pts)
20 Pts = x1 cube, 6x6x6 inch of Terrain cube
Challenge Library 
20 pts = S3 "Art" (Undead Metal)
20 pts = S3 "Nature" (scrubland terrain)
20 pts= S4 "DII"  (MatchBox toy car converted to Gaslands battle car)

TeemuL: Yes, old CD, a tried and tested method to have non-warped and rather strong terrain base. All those Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedias and installation CDs from the 90s have a new life! The second mixed of the day, let's see...

Terrain looks good, I like the snake skeleton and the skeleton band, too. I can imagine a skeleton band playing in the background of a Gaslands race. I guess all the terrain here could be used with Gaslands? The red car, nicely built, and probably very fast. Good job Steve! I hope you reach your target during the Free Fire time.

From SteveA: 10mm characters and terrain for Kings of War (30points)

This week I competed the last  of the minis I needed to have a fully painted 2000pt Despoiler force for Kings of War, with a few extra minis to have some options to change between games.  A magus conclave for ranged attacks, and a couple mounted commanders and a spell slinger I can attach to regiments.

I play a lightly bent version of KoW with 10 mm minis rather than 28 mm minis on base, and I use Depoilers as proxies for units from the rule book's Varangur army list. Same rules and points as the real KoW rules, but a different look on the game table.

For the Magus conclave, which serve as an artillery unit, I roughly applied a base layer of spackle in an effort to create the impression that the five mages were collectively summoning up a swirling mass of chaotic energy from which each turn one among them could channel a magically lobbed ranged attack.  (So I am hoping this pieces does not look like five guys in bath robs standing on a badly mowed lawn.)

I also completed the first of the 10mm terrain I am working on to enable me to host a KoW game upon a wargame table kitted out to look more like a combat among the ruins within the lost wooded scrub lands, rather than a battle upon the endless blasted barren plains (which is the kindest theme I can think of to describe the shameful horror of a naked game table top).

Both terrain pieces feature some spare bits and bobs ByronM gifted me, and both pieces  make use of old CDs for the base bottoms.  I reimagined a slightly miss-printed castle corner tower into a lone tower a top a jutting mound, and I fashioned some extras from a bag of tiny trees into a wooded hill.  

The tower is 6 inches high and a CD is 5 inches wide, so I am thinking the two terrain pieces combined neatly fill a 6x6 inch cube. 

10mm figures - proxies for Kings of War
Despoiler Lord On Steed (Mounted) 2x2pts = 4pts
Despoiler Mage (Foot Figure)    = 1 pt
Magus Conclave  (Foot Figure) 5x1pt = 5 pts 
Tower and wooded hill (Terrain) 6x6inch = 20pts
Total 30 points

From TeemuL: I really like the look of 10mm Kings of War. In the past I took a quick glance to KoW after WHFB was blown away, but at least then the theme was very thin - there was practically none. I liked the special rules of differenct factions in Old World, Dwarfs mistrusting Elfs, Orcs hating everyone, Elfs hating Orcs and ignoring Dwarfs etc and all that lacked from KoW, at least then. But I'm quite sure, if I ever get into KoW, I will do it in 10mm! Byron and you have done a good job influencing me. :)

The minis look good, as good as guys in bath robes can look... The tower is terrific and your claim for terrain cube sounds reasonable. Both of the terrain pieces are great and using old CDs for this purpose is always heart warming - I do that, too, one of the rare materials, which are thin, cheap and won't warp.

From SteveA: KoW proxies and another Skeleton Cav (Under Construction) (61 Points)

This week I knocked the dust off a couple old partly painted projects that have been in my "get back to this soon" pile for over a decade, and completed some recently printed minis I had started to paint a few months before the challenge.  So I am moving to the Under Construction studio this week to ding a few extra challenge points.

Following up from 2 undead skeleton Cavalry in my previous post, this week I completed an old GW Skeleton Box set Skeleton Cavalry conversion I had created a long while back by using green stuff to Zombify the skeletal horse model.

   Back when I had briefly played an Undead army  for Warhammer fantasy battle, I had notions that the Skeleton rider on the Zombie horse was the leader of my undead cavalry unit, whom all the other skellies on boney steads followed.  This model had been partly painted for over 2 decades before the remaining painting efforts were completed this week 

For Kings of War games I play with ByronM we use 10mm minis fixed atop the same sized regiment bases as used for the proper 28mm  KoW  ( to give a stronger impression that our battles are well attended)

For my KoW force, I had dug into an old box of miscellaneous minis to find a 54mm Demon to use as a proxy for a large monster unit.   This demon model and been partly painted and stripped of paint several times since the 90s, before I had started a new paint job on it last year but not finished until this week.

Also, in summer of 2022 I had applied a sparse few dabs of paint atop a base coat for some 10mm Despoiler Charioteers and Ogres minis,  (3d printed designs by Forest Dragon)  and this week they received their overdue finish. 

This Week's Total                                                      61 points

 x1 Skeleton Calvary  (Mounted Figure, 28mm)     = 10 points

 x1 Deamon                (Foot Figure, 28mm)            = 10 points

x11 Despoiler Ogers  (Foot Figure, 10mm)           = 11 Points

 x5 Despolier Chariot (Mounted Figure, 10mm)    = 10 Points

Studio: Under Construction                                     = 20 Points

From TeemuL: I didn't realize before, but there are two 10mm KoW players in Team Thor's Day and they are playing against each other. I should have noted this earlier, but at least these two posts are published next to each other. The skeleton rider looks good, but the proxy monster is an ace, something for the lizards to chew! I scored the deamon as 54mm mini, so then he is worth 10 points and your calculations correct.