Hoi there,
Yes people this will be the last regular Saturday before the "Open Season" of the final Challenge week starts this Monday. So what does the crew have in store for you this day? Well I will tell you kind Challengers:
- Teemu is on a roll with two different posts regarding Civilians and very small undead.
- MarkG goes choochoo with a train!
- PeteB has a lovely vignette to show us.
- MarkE goes on sale with some cans of fizzy pop!
Let's dig in everyone !
Hoi there,
Today we will be going easy and lazily into the weekend and the them round but before we have a look at that here's the offerings of the Saturday Scoundrels for you all to enjoy.
- Teemu has a green-theme going today and what a nice mix it is!
- JP returns to Ancient times with some Marian Romans and Ancient Saxons
- Edward kicks off his 6mm Waterloo painting with some very small horses.
- MarkG continues down the long road of Civil War
And who knows what the crew will throw in more this day?
Have a good one people!
Hoi There,
Another Saturday has sneaked up on us and we will be having a nice and quiet start of the wekend with:
- Teemu who trevels both to the Eastern Front and the Wild West of the States
- Christophers embarks on a journey of Odyssean proportions to Ancient Greece.
- Peter than takes us back to the USA with some more Wild West in a grand scale!
- Mark takes us back East with some more excellent Czechoslovak Legion.
Come on Saturday Scoundrels get those brushes going!
Hoi there,
The Saturday crew has done their utmost best to bring you all a brilliantly divers set of entries.
- Mark forges on with his Russian Civil War project
- Martijn has more WW2 French troops in store for us.
- Teemu is on a roll with flying carpets, Eldar and Peninsular troops
- JP has a fitting finish for his Ancient Germans.
- Peter goes large with some archers
So get it while you can people and be inspirated!
Cheers Sander
Hoi there,
Yes yes, it's Valentine's Day, the perfect day for your loved ones to show you they love you by leaving you alone so you can paint figures just the way you want it!
The Saturday crew has some lovely stuff in store for us, amongst this is:
- Teemu revisits an old love
- Mark just loves his Russian Civil War project
- Martijn has not just found 1 new love but 2!
- JP sure loves his Cimbrians
For the rest of you: open the paintpots and get those brushes cracking and paint paint PAINT!
Hoi There,
Another Saturday has come round and apart from some excellent entries from the regular Saturday crew we might also see some other terrain oriented posts today.
- We have some excellent Napoleonics and Warmaster figures by Rafa
- Martijn shows us his brilliant Roman Cataphracts
- Teemu has painted up those excellent old GW figures of Lumpin Crooks fighting Cocks.
- Mark is back with some salty Russians for his Civil War project
Perhaps there will be more posts but we will have to wait and see.
Cheers Sander
Hoi there,
Today the Saturday Scoundrels all seem to have gone squirrel hunting, with most of them showing several different subjects within their posts, save for some diehards who keep relentlessly working their main projects. So what do we have in store?
- Kristofer goes boom with some excellent artillery
- JP throws in some more Ancient Germans in the mix
- Pete goes large with the Romans in 54mm
- Rafael goes small with some Warmaster Lizardmen
- Mark continues into the colourful side of the Russian Civil War
- Teemu Squirrels all over the Challenge with a delightful smithering of hobby goodness.
Enjoys today's crop people and have a good weekend!
Cheers Sander
Hoi there!
As Saturday has yet again come round this week we have a truly epic start of the weekend for you all. Not only do we have some excellent entries from the Saturday Scoundrel Regulars, but his Coolness the Snowlord himself graces us with his presence!
So what exactly has been scheduled at the moment?
- MarkE kicks the day off with some Blood Bowl shenanigans!
- Kristoffers has some more of those brilliant Reiter in store for us to gaze at.
- Samuli is on his way to a certain Doooooom...
- JP sees his Germanic Hordes grow to Epic proportions
- EdwardG Has some Scots in a field...
- ChristopherS shows us some Thureophoroi.
- And there's some Devilry Afoot with the Snowlord joining us indeed!
More might be coming along somewhere along the day so keep your eyes on this spot!
As we are talking about an Epic start to the weekend, yesterday evening I had the incredible luck to be able to attend a concert from the truly amazing Dutch metal formation Epica in Köln. I couldn't wish for a better start so I thought I'd share some of that with you guys.
Have a good one!
Welcome dear Challengers to another great day in that greatest of Hobby Events our very own nook of the wargaming world: the AHPC!
We have a great mix of styles and offerings for you today amongst which are:
- JP is on a roll and brings us some Old School RPG goodness and some Cimbrians
- Samuli has some excellent Nap[oleonics in the cue for us
- Teemu keeps on Slaying it!
And possibly more to come who knows? Keep those brushes moving people and get your entries in to your local minion of duty!
Cheers Sander
Hoi there dear Challengers,
Now some say being a Minion in the AHPC is some sort of extreme punishment, made up by that omnipresent and omnipotent Evil Dorklord his Coolness the Snowlord himself, but to be fair I volunteered so none of the above is true in my case. That said I am much honoured to be allowed to help put up the excellent posts of the Saturday Scoundrels this Challenge and a lot there is to look forward to indeed.
So without further ado we will commence this Saturday's posts in a good hour or so with some awesomeness planned already: The First Transport is away!
Have a great Challenge everyone and enjoy!
Cheers Sander
| Señor Oliverios' Retainers |
| Señor Oliverios leads from the front |
| Rear view of the party |
| Before and after capture, showing the touchup on the hat |
| The band from overhead, showing the labels |
| Springing the ambush on some French invaders (the French I bought at a con and need to rebase) |
April 1898: The Trans-Pecos of Texas is a land of extremes, hot days, cold nights, desolate terrain, sparse population and barely suppressed lawlessness far from everywhere. American and Mexican garrisons soak in the beaching sun, attempting to maintain order as bandidos and Comanches cross the border as suits their own nefarious purposes. Those caught on the wrong, side of the border may yet still face what passed for justice in these parts - or be used as coin to trade for those caught on the other side.
| The prisoner waiting to be exchanged |
So begins the setting for today's game of (heavily) modified Legends of the Old West. When I first began wargaming, about thirty years ago in the late 1990s, blogging was the province of self-created websites. Ian Croxhall's The Amazing Adventures of the Red Shadow was one of the sites I had bookmarked and routinely read through for new games featuring the Algerian Goumiere scout and the various misadventures of the French, Germans and Italians across the North African littoral. One of my favorite scenarios was The Red Shadow and the Salami Exchange, which featured the French and Italians attempting to exchange prisoners and the Mujahidine crash the party. Hilarity ensues, naturally.
| Side profile, perhaps as a mug shot? |
I've always wanted to adapt that to a setting that suits my collections, and the US/Mexico border was the best fit. However, the setting required an unarmed figure to serve as one of the prisoners being exchanged. Fortunately, I had just the figure, already mounted on the base and just needing primed, flocked and painted.
He's a 28mm Wargames Foundry figure from the Old West pack OW166 - Mexican Villagers (2nd from the right above), painted in about 2 hours Friday night after work. I went a bit lighter for his clothes, using Delta Ceramcoat Antique White and then Reaper Linen White, washed with grey and then rehighlighted. His straw hat was a Reaper triad (Chestnut Gold, Palomino Gold and Buckskin Pale), which I washed with Army Painter Soft Tone to bring out the details. He was the first figure I had painted since the last Challenge, and having caught Bargain Bob's Basement Bunker version of the various diseases circulating around California for Christmas and New Years, getting started painting anything was a real effort. It's not efficient by any means, but it was fun just working on a single figure.
| I love how sullen his expression came out |
Despite lint-rolling my photobooth to remove all stray flock and static grass and making sure my miniatures were well lit, the photos turned out rather disappointing, especially compared to shots from today's game. They have a yellow tone and colors are washed out, which does not usually happen when taking gaming photos using the exact same iPhone. The edge of the base in the photo above should be jet black, and so should his hair. Upon reflection, I suspect the problem may be that the black background and high lighting overwhelm the iPhone camera at standard settings and wash things out.
| F Troop, 7th Cavalry escorting the prisoner to the exchange on the bridge over the Rio Grande |
For those interested in his fate, Loco Sanchez was duly handed over to the Mexicans, put in the prisoner wagon, and taken to the jail in El Paso del Norte. However, when negotiating the narrow streets, the wagon bucked dodging a small child. Gunfire from the Mexican garrison killed the wagon driver guarding the prisoner, probably by mistake. Sanchez jumped down from the wagon, made a run for it, and was then shot while attempting escape, bleeding out in a dark alley.
| He's making a run for it! |
| Life is cheap in the Trans-Pecos. |
Scoring:
In the meantime we've got a bumper crop of hobbying to look at including:
Fourth and final post for this week, it has been a good week. This week production was certainly helped by the missus being busy outside of the house thus allowing me to focus on a variety of projects. The down side of all this production is the pain in the neck that all this painting has caused. But hey, who really needs to be able to turn their neck, better to just move ones body.😫
Up first is a s scene from Chivalric romance story, a Dragon and a Knight fighting over a fair maiden, but who is the lady routing for? I ask because of the position of the lady and her expression she seems to be grinning while she watches the knight being attacked. I was given this vignette by a friend who found it in a second hand store. It sort of looks like a set from Thunderbolt Mountain, but it may just be some 'collectors' pewter set. When I got it they were all securely fastened to the base, but I was able to pry the knight off, which made painting all of them that much easier.
Time to leave this section for now and journey to the True Crime section. In what might become the start of a new theme for me this year, I pulled out some primed Blue Moon Victorian figures and in particular one specific chap, Jack!
So, a good week that sees me reaching my target of 2000 points. Considering the rough start I had I am quite pleased to have achieved this so soon.
So the totals
Total 172 points
Squirrels this post +2
Squirrels to date [16]
Up first is Queen Victoria and two companions, Abdul Karim and Muhammad Bakhsh (or at least my version of the trio) Not certain where the Queen figure came from (she was a slot based figure?) and she is a little simple with very subtle details. She is panted in many shades and highlights of black, black/grey and grey, with the overall outcome that she looks uniformly to be dressed in black...😑
For her two companions I sadly did not have any figures in proper uniform so I painted the two in somewhat fanciful outfits. One is from Pulp Figures (green) and I think the other is from Statuesque miniatures. I tried to make her look pale because she always looks so pale in pictures, but I think she may be a bit too corpse like.
Eureka Egyptian cultists
The red cloaked cultist were the easiest to paint as the colour scheme came to me very quickly. However the 9 other cultist took some experimentation and some thought before I was able to get them done.
| The Acolytes |
| The Anubis level |
| The inner order of Horus |
| The Great Leader | |
That is it for this post, I may have one more left in me for this Saturday.
So the totals
Total 135 points
Squirrels this post +1
Squirrels to date [14]
So, time for some generic vehicles, some civilian vehicles and some NSL hover bikes.
Up first are the generic military. They are painted in a neutral camo green colour, so theoretically I can use them for any army. The jeeps, trailers and ATV are all from GZG, while the communications vehicle is a matchbox toy.
The civilian vehicles are also from GZG
| The Mule from the Serenity movie! |
| Note the dollar store 'gem' for a light |
These really were fun to paint. The 'mule' was primed white then painted with a new Vallejo yellow Xpress paint that covered the vehicle very nicely. For the orange vehicles I used an old GW foundation paint for the orange base, then a mix of orange paints and a wash of GW Carroburg crimson and some final dry brushing highlights.
Finally here are some New Swabian League (NSL) hover bikes. It seems I have bought rather a lot of GZG bikes, at least 1/2 dozen per faction (six factions) so I have plenty left to paint. Here are 8 NSL bikes.
The base colour is the same that I used for the main NSL fighting vehicles, minus the brown camo.
So the totals
Total 108 points
Squirrels this post +3
Squirrels to date [13]