From SanderS: Little Red Riding Hood (10 points)

Hoi,

My first post for the Challenge this year is a small one. Two very nice figures made for the Belgian Mordheim enthusiasts "Owlhammer" they have ordered some very cool and characterful miniatures in a Old World Gothic Mordheim style of which the fist I have painted is this unlikely duo: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. 

After some consideration I decided to indeed give the girl a red cloak and hood because it just seemed fitting. The Wolf, in the lore the group has devised, is a defected Knight if the White Wolf, (templar of Ulric) who has attached himself to the girl to keep her from harm. I intend to use him as a champion in my Middenheim Old World army as well as in Mordheim.

Points are easy on these as two 28mm figures net me 10 points.

Hope you like these as much as I do.

Cheers Sander 

Sander, I just love these models and your paintjobs! They are so characterful and "of the period" (that is, the 1990s and the fantastic output from the GW Studio). You had a great idea to paint this model as Little Red Riding Hood, it's just so fitting. And I also love the lore behind your Knight of the White Wolf too. Ten points to open your account!

Dallas

From MilesR: A Rather Eclectic First Post (480 Points)

I am a little slow off the mark this year, and that's after a rather slim showing in last year's challenge.  I've had some issues with Rheumatoid Arthritis in my hands which has required me to learn a new way to paint.  Don't worry, I'm still a poor painter but just a bit slower.

My first submission is a rather mixed lot of 28mm and 10mm figures.

First up is the start of a Warband to use for games like Mordheim at the club.  These are all 3D printed figures which were mostly designed for 10mm but I "embigended" to 28mm and I think they came out fine

This is a motley warband of 6 Dwarves and 3 non-Dwarves.  I used army painter speed paints for these and I think they came out fine for club play>

A close up of the three "non-Dwarves" - a human pistoleer, a Orc bruiser and a goblin scout.

The Dwarves come out super stocky when enlarged to 28mm, but I really like the look.

Next up are 8 Varagian Guards.  A few challenges ago, I painted up a Byzantine skirmish forces to use with Barrons War.

These are 8 metal figures from a long forgotten manufacture that I found in a drawer as I was redoing the game storage closet.

These were also painted with Army Painter Speed paints, which I have grown fond of for fantasy-type paint schemes.

Lets shift scales and go full on "Lord of the Rings".  LWTV is embarking on a big 10mm scale LOTR the rings project and you'll be able to figure out what armies I've been assigned in this post.  First up is the start of a large Easterling Army.  These are all 10mm 3d prints from Wakes Emporium (the infantry and Trolls) and the cav are made by Greenskin Miniatures (their Araby line)

There are 20 lance armed heavy cav and...

Just 12 Horse archers - don't worry more are on the way.

10 Armored Trolls, these were really fun to paint up

there is also a 2 figure command stand.

The heart of any Easterling army is it's Infantry and I've complete 8, 18 figure bases.  These were painted up to look like the ones in Peter Jackson's movies

I'm maybe 1/4 through what I need to complete - it will be a big army

Opposing the Easterlings is my other assignment - Dwarves.  These are from the new Wargames Atlantic 10mm plastic Dwarven set and represent 1 full sprue.  I have 2 more to paint up

You can't beat the price (274 minis for under $30 bucks but some of the casting choices are odd - some shields are really think.  Its hard to see from three feet away but pretty glaring while painting.  I do like the Ram Cavalry.

OK so what the tally?  Well, Curt and my minion have one decision to make.  The 10mm trolls are much bigger than 10mm

In fact they are 25mm high so, I'm going to suggest that we score them as 20mm figures, which is 4 points per figure - I'll leave the final decision up to my betters

The total figure count is:

17x 28mm Inf @5pts = 85 points
10x 20mm Trolls @10pts = 40 points
38x 10mm Cav @3pts = 114 points
144x Easterling Inf @2pt= 144 points
93x Dwarven Infantry @1pt = 93 points

Total 476 Points

At the start of this post I mentioned learning a new way to paint. My RA results in my hand loosing its grip on a brush and it clattering down on the workbench maybe every 10 minutes or so, which can be frustrating.

The solution was as simple as it is effective and my brilliant wife came up with it.  I used an elastic wrap to essentially pin a brush to my hand and then hold and manipulate the brush like I'm using chopsticks.

It works surprisingly well and now I'm looking forward to painting again.  Of course my training required MANY trips to our local Chinese restaurants to practice with chop sticks, but that is just the kind of sacrifice I'm willing to make for this hobby.

Sorry for the long winded post.  Next up will be some 28mm North Vietnamese Regulars from Empress Miniatures - you can see them in progress in the last picture.

 

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Sylvain: Miles, I don't know which impress me most, your productivity or your resilience. It takes a dedicated hobbyist to train its art at the local noodle shop (Karate Kid style: "noodle up, noodle down"). And the results looks fabulous! The individual figurines ooze character while your rank and file units show conformity with their army. The floating banners are a nice touch and are worth an extra 4 points, for a total of 480. Joli travail!

 

From SebastianR: Rats! (100pts)

Balls have well and truly been dropped. I was doing great for the first month of the year, but the final weeks of the challenge are upon us and I'm not going to get to the challenge filler pieces. So no bonus points for me. Only rats.

An attempt at weirdstone

I had to make a bunch of wooden floor bases out of greenstuff and milliput to match the ones I already had. Probably not worth the effort, but still happy with them.

These guys will be my gang for the long promised 3rd season of our ongoing Mordheim campaign.

That's 20 28mm figures for 100pts

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Rats it shall be! The distractions from our hobby goals can, at times, be as challenging as our hobby distractions - if that makes any sense...? All this to say is that I expect many will relate to not quite meeting our Challenge goals - certainly I can! I had so much stuff I was going to get done...

But rats are one way to get a nice 100 point pop! And full marks - even now, you are taking a trickier road by messing around with milliput to make wood-plank bases. Well done!

100 points it is!

GregB

From ArthurS: Mushrooms in Averland! (40 points?)

 Hello everyone,

I am sorry my posts have been a bit delayed lately, due to school and other hobbies. But luckily I finally had some time to do some painting.

I started painting my Averland warband for Mordheim and I painted these cute little mushrooms.

For my warband I chose black and teal. I know these colours don’t really fit Averland but I just thought they were a nice colour combination.

The figures are all plastic North Star Frostgrave knights miniatures and a converted Blood Bowl Halfling which I liked a lot. One of the reasons I like this warband for Mordheim is that you can add Halflings.

The mushrooms are 5 small ones and 1 big one with a frog on it. I thought it would be a nice idea to give the mushrooms a hardcoat (gloss varnish) on top to make it look a bit more magical.

Counting points is a bit tricky, because while the Frog magician and the Mordheim warband are all 28mm figures (6x 5 = 30 points) the little mushrooms are far smaller. I measured them and they are about 15mm so I reckon 2 points each? (5 x2 = 10) Together that makes 40 points to get me off the 5 points I have now. Curt persuaded me before the Challenge to set my target at 300 points instead of my own estimate of 100 and I do doubt that I am ever going to reach that 300, the 100 would be possible I guess.

Groetjes Arthur

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Greetings Arthur!

Great to see what you’ve been working on! I do like your teal and black colour scheme .. who cares if not exactly approval, you like the colours and that’s the best thing 😊

The magical mushrooms are aces, and I bet they will be well used as tabletop decor or objective markers.

Don’t worry too much about a 300point goal, Curt also talked me into that goal and I now know that there’s no way I’ll be meeting it … so you and I will be very happy with achieving what we can!

Thanks for sharing these

- Sarah

From MattT: Sisters of the Burning Heart ( 75 points )

I have not ventured through the mean streets of Mordheim for quite some time.  The next time that I do I shall be accompanied by these Sisters of Battle.

I have gone for a very limited autumn palette. I took inspiration from other paint schemes on the internet and one of these colour cards you can also find on the internet to help me keep a restricted colour scheme. I have seen lots of U tube painters recommending them and I can definitely see their value.

Really happy how the robes came out, less so about the blackened armour but edge highlighting is a pain and I don't enjoy the process. I rush it and I think that shows.

15 x 28mm = 75 points

I still think your black turned out okay, and the colour scheme is great, Matt! A very fine paintjob, and your Sisters of the Burning Heart look very good. The highlighted robes are an absolute  succes. The good citizens (or should that be denizens?) of Mordheim should better watch out! 75 points it is.

Martijn

From SanderS: Finishing the Abyss! (210 points)

 Hoi,

Today I would like to try and finish the rounds of the Abyss with some cool old school Warhammer and Mordheim figures. Without further ado and guilding the lilly let's head over to Gluttony!

What else could I put forward to the Gluttony circle but an Ogre? This is a resin Ogre (can't remember what make) for my Marienburg Mordheim warband, hence his fancy armour and clothing. Yes I know that Marienburgers usually wear very flashy coloured stuff but my scheme is black and red which I think is rich yet brooding and hence cool!

After Gluttony we enter the circle of Greed and for this round I would like to offer up the Mayor of Mordheim (one of the NPC models created for the old Mordheim range). I used yellow and purple to show his wealth and gaudiness.

Now we enter the Circle of Wrath and for this I chose some of my Bretonnians, more specifically 4 tester figures I have done up for my Khemri/ desert crusade part of the army. If you know a bit about Bretonnian Lore, you have read the story of how a huge Bretonnian Army starts a crusade into the part of the Old World that is called Araby to fight a local tyrant that tried to conquer the Border Princes. Anyway they represent the Wrath of Bretonnia. I said testers because I used crackle paint and pigments on them for the first time ever.

I really like how they turned out and want to get cracking (pun intended) on the rest of the army. 

I AM GREGARIUS!  (Part I)

If you are a fan of Warhammer 40K or the Horus Heresy, you will be familiar with the Alpha Legion of Chaos Space Marines and the quote above. I feel a bit like a Alpha Marine when I see any of Greg's posts since we have a very similar taste in miniatures indeed. Greg is painting up a gorgeous 30K force; I try to do so too. He posted these same figures and they were in my painting cue too and I hope to finish a few more Gregarius posts before the Challenge's end.

On we go into the circle of Heresy and for this I chose one of the figures I really wanted to have for a long time and only recently obtained through the help of a friend (thanks Jeroen) and here he is Marco Colombo! He was the first Old Worlder to visit Lustria and strike up good relations with the lizardmen but his journal, which he published when returned to the Empire, made him a figure that was deaply distrusted and due to his claims of the origins of Dark Elves, Skaven and other such races was dubbed a heretic for his statements. 

Whatever the story may be I really like how the paintjob worked out and he's my favourite of this whole bunch! 

From the delightful Marco we no visit the most violent and nasty pair of vilians ever to walk through the ruined streets of Mordheim: Ulli and Marquand. They are two characters from a Mordheim comic book released back in the day and digitally to be read here. I could have used them in the circle of Treachery as well but it's their scenes of unexpected, random and brute violence that always shocked me when reading the comic. 

These are figures from Wargames Exclusive in resin so not the original GW versions, but those are almost unobtainable pricewise! I like how they turned out a lot and am looking forward to include them in our campaigns. 

We still have 2 circles left to go and next up is Fraud. Remember that Mayor of Mordheim? How do you think he got so rich? Yes that's right; he had his scribe swindle, bribe and commit all thinkable kinds of fraud to gain it. So for this circle it's only right to include the Mayor's secretary. 

Colours are very toned down and dull to complement and contrast with the Mayor's gaudy outfit.

Finally we're up to the Circle of Treachery and I think the Dogs of War Mercenary General serves this circle really well. Mercenaries do have a reputation for changing sides when offered more money don't they? And this bugger really looks fishy. 

I am building two different Empire armies, one Middenheim themed and the other Lustria/ Estalia/ Tilea based. It's the latter army that this general will join and I tried to keep his colours in sync with the rest of the army that I am now painting. 

After all the pretty pictures we are left with counting the points, a rather daunting task for sure.

- 3 mounted figures is 30 points

- 8 foot figures is 40

- 7 bonus circles is 140

totalling 210 points... 

Well back to the paint desk for me! 

Cheers Sander

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Wow, what a spectacular Old World entry Sander!.

Those two ogres look brilliant, the swordsman in his ersatz puff-n-slash Landsknecht garb and the 'Mayor' looking quite the wealthy burgher in his straining waistcoat and purple robe.

Isn't crackle paint cool? Well, these Bretonnians look equally so (though they are struggling in heat I'm sure) as they start their campaign in roasting Araby. A great beginning on a wonderfully themed army, Sander.

I also really like your Dogs of War characters, especially the Marco Colombo which I don't think I've ever seen! So cool! Again, beautiful work on his Renaissance garb and various arcane bits of equipment.

210 well-earned points for you Sander.

- Curt