From JamieM - Kings of War Ice Naiads (160 points)

In a rarely seen (for me anyway) feat of focus, I’ve kept cracking on with my Northern Alliance for Kings of War. I herewith present a Horde of Ice Naiads.

These are a mixed kit from Mantic where they reuse their Sea Naiad figures and add resin (and now 3d printed) parts to change them into Ice Naiads.

Fairly simple paint jobs, I decided that I wanted them to be wearing leather outfits a bit like the outfits in the Dune films.

Cheeky bit of multibasing and I quite like the way the blue hair/tentacles flow across the unit.

In game these units are annoying as they hinder others attacking them and regenerate and so they hang around whilst their more "hitty" friends pile in to smash up the entangled unit.

And I thought people might be amused at the fact that these are only ready as I had to go for a day to my kids’ swimming gala which meant I only watched when they raced, which gave me plenty of spare time. So I took a paint station and the paints and brushes and got some "Carhammer" painting in whilst catching up on some downloaded series.

Simple for the scoring - 30 x 28mm figures for 150 points.

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Focusing consistently on one project? I would suspect this had been some kind of hack, right up until the whole part about "Carhammer", which was the best and most hilarious part of this submission! I've been known to obsess about painting, but this level of commitment is tremendous, and should be applauded. 

Oh, and I hope the whole swimming gala went well. :-)

Lovely work on the Naiads - sounds like they are real pests on the battlefield! I have tossed in bonus points in order to acknowledge the effort on the hobby side even with 1-to-1 scale life events getting in the way!

GregB 

From BrianC: A lot of everything! Kings of War Undead, Alternative Armies 15mm, Gangs of Rome, & More! (306pts)

Well, it's been awhile. Life happenings. But, when I had some time, I try to paint what I can. I'm not sure if I will hit my goal this season. I painted a mixed range of 15mm and 28mm miniatures from a mixed range of tabletop miniature companies. Let's get to it!

Alternative Armies 15mm Automata Infantry (15)

Cool Mini or Not Besiege 15mm Mulfin Set (36)

 

Alternative Armies Rogue (15mm)

 

Kings of War Dwarf Champion (28mm)

Frostgrave Wizard Apprentice (28mm)

Wargames Atlantic Gangs of Rome 28mm (6)

Next Level Miniatures Dwarf Bar Maiden (28mm)

Mantic Games Undead Infantry 28mm (25)

Mantic Games Undead dogs 28mm (3)

Bolt Action American Infantry 28mm (2)

Rumbleslam "Fang" 40mm

I will end it here. I'm hoping to finish painting more Undead infantry and Saxons.

POINTS

15mm x 52 = 104pts

28mm x 39 = 195pts

40mm x 1 = 7pts

TOTAL = 306pts

Wow Brain, that's a lot of kit painted.  Must feel good to get them finally ready to go.  Lots to love, but I especially like that Dwarf Champion. who appears to be clad in a deep sea diving helmet and the Frostgrave apprentice.  306 points to your tally.

From JamieM - Northern Alliance for Kings of War (95 points)

This weeks submission is for some troops and a character for my steadily growing Northern Alliance army for Kings of War. Whilst spring is tentatively raising its head early in the UK (after approximately 93 days of rain), it is still winter and so a good time to paint snowy figures.

This first set are Pack Hunters. Much like my previous entry, these are humans living in the frozen North and they carry bows to hunt. In packs, one assumes.

I went for bone bows for the most part because there is a lot of brown on their furs and so it’s a nice spot colour.

I went for red for the arrow feather as it seemed like it would pop and perhaps there’s something to having feathers the colour of blood?

This forms a regiment for Kings of war and are a unit of troops allowing fun stuff to also be taken. Like this fella.

A chimera with a rider. I swapped the axe they carried for a spear - I mean, how on earth are you going to get close enough to hit someone with an axe when you’re on top of this thing?!?!?

From the back you can see it’s a delightful mix of creatures. And there are two things that struck me as especially brilliant about this model. The first is that one of the heads is a goat. Not a bird of prey or wolf or anything, a goat. I should imagine it’s quite a handy head to have whilst not eating your enemies in battle as it increases the range of food the beast can eat a hundredfold!

The second thing is the entirely practical saddle harness. It was only whilst painting this model that I realised that as the sculptors of mythical beast riders don’t have reality to stymie them, they can sculpt entirely inadequate harnesses and nobody can tell them they’re wrong. Not so the sculptor of this bad boy - this is the kind of harness I’d want if I were to ride a three headed mythical creature into battle! There’s no way those straps are coming loose.

Photo of them together. For points I was going to go with 15x5 for the 28mm pack hunters and claim 20 points for a vehicle for the chimera and rider?

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Brilliant work Jamie! While I maintain a sort of vestigial addiction to the classic Warhammer style "one-base-per-model", I think "Kings of War" is tremendous and the multi-based figures make a whole ton of sense. Your archers highlight all of the charm one imagines that comes with life in the high arctic - colourful furs, lovely bows etc. Bone-coloured bows make sense, as one imagines bone might be the primary material available to them to construct the bows in the first place! 

But the Chimera steals the show! What a lovely beastie - and the commentary about both the goat-head and the totally safe harness is spot-on. I'm sure he is just lovely to ride, be that into battle, or into town for a quick latte at the cafe. "Can I pet the goat?" "No, dear..."

Your scoring proposal finds merit with me - 95 points for you!

GregB