From LeeH: Abandoned peasant wagons - 40 pts

I’ve been a bit remiss in submissions the last few weeks, and it's entirely my own fault…well, not entirely, but I am partially culpable. The last couple of weeks have been incredibly busy, both in work and around the games table, pushing painting into last place. Add to that a winter cold that just won’t give up, and you have my rather poor excuse for not finishing anything for a few weeks. I now have several jobs on the painting table, but only these Carts and Wagons got finished in time for today. 

These are all MDF and produced by Warbases. I plan on using them as abandoned wagons or even makeshift barriaciads which is why I have not put them on terrain bases as I have done with other models. These are for use with the 1812 Retreat from Moscow stuff I have been working on, but I guess there's no reason they couldn't also feature in 1939/40... a cart is a cart at the end of the day, and the design hadn't fundamentally changed that much in the intervening century

More Winter War Soviets are on the way for next week. Their 90% done, but waiting for bases and varnishes to dry means I won’t get them finished, and I don’t want to rush and ruin them.   

As for scoring, technically these are 28mm Vehicles, but I think it's a bit cheeky claiming 20pts each for these. Is a vehicle still a vehicle without a power source (in this case, a horse)?? So I think I'll leave the scoring for the umpire to adjudicate on this one! 🤣

From DaveD . Sorry to hear the winter bugs are still at you . You have a hobby with so many distractions , it’s a hard life 😆. But good to see some output . The warbases carts are nice simple little pieces , so I will give ya 40 altogether. Pretty sure Rays lads will be nicking these for for firewood ? Will you do a burning one ?😆

From IanS: 6mm French Napoleonic Division (275 points)

Hi,

This post was delayed from last week as I had an incident with a cat who broke one of the battalions. Although some figures were broken I was eventually able to piece them together. Just in case I painted up another battalion but am saving this for another Division later in the Challenge. So here we are again and another French Napoleonic Division, this time its the 6th Division belonging to the 2nd Corps 1812. As with the last Division this is a two brigade organisation with supporting artillery. Again all figures are from Commission Figurines and are MDF. First up is the Division conmander Legrand, fine fellow.

1st Brigade consists of the 26th Light Infantry and 56th Line Regiments, two battalions of 60 figures each. In addition there are 2 skirmish stands.

 

2nd Brigade consists of the 19th Line Regiment of 2 Battalions,  the 128th Regiment of just one battalion, and then the brown coated 3rd Portuguese Regiment, again only one battalion. With an attached skirmish stand split 50:50 between the French and Portuguese. The French regiments are in greatcoat as somehow I have mislaid the figures. Come to think of it I still have not found 2 of the Christmas presents I got from my daughter. First Photo is the three French battalions in greatcoat followed by the Portuguese: 

Last Up is the Artillery a battery of 8pdrs

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Now here is the Division:

There is another Infantry Division in the 2nd Corps but I have already painted this, so next up is the cavalry element and corps artillery.

Points Being Claimed:

500 6mm Infantry figures at 0.5 pts each - 250pts 

24 6mm Artillery figures at 0.5 pts each - 12pts 

6 6mm Guns at 1pts each - 6pts  

7 6mm mounted figures at 1pt each - 7pts 

Total Pts - 275pts

More 6mm Napoleonic goodies, yes! As before, these look so good in their masses, Ian. I really love it that you went for 60 man battalions, very impressive. Also, I like the Portuguese, so seldom encountered outside of the Peninsular theatre. I am looking forward to the cavalry! 275 points added to your total.