From AngusW: Native American Indians (Pendraken) (120 points)

 With the US Cavalry trooper now complete they need some opposition. I've bought 200 mounted native American Indians so I thought I'd try and paint 3 batches of 60 to get the bulk done. Painting 60 at a time did not sound a lot until I started.

I don't like painting horses and I don't like painting flesh. These seem to have taken a long time to complete. With the end of the challenge looming I have the next 60 undercoated with the aim to finish with an AHPC points score comfortably over my target.

60 x 10mm cavalry @2pts each = 120pts.

Sixty horses at a time? Ouch! Your efforts have paid off, these look great. Only got to do it another couple of times!

Barks

From AngusW: US Cavalry Troopers and Infantry (Pendraken) (40 pts.)

If you have loads of cavalry you need some horse holders! For now, these horse holders and their dismounted troopers are the last of the US Cavalry for my Pony Wars project. 

Next, I have 60 Indians started, it has taken me three nights to paint horses. As usual, when painting cavalry I lose the will to live painting horses various shades of brown.

20 @ 10mm Infantry @1pts each = 20pts.

16 Horses & 4 Holders @ 10mm @1pts each = 20pts

Losing the will to live is character building. We're just jealous you're only losing it 10mm at a time. I do hope the end result was worth it! I do like your horse-holder mini vignettes.

Barks

From AngusW: US Cavalry Troopers (Pendraken)(200 points)

In an effort to try and reel in my daughter and her friends I've chosen this winter to focus on getting together enough figures to play 'Pony Wars: B Troops Ain't Coming Back'. After wrestling with which scale to choose I decided upon 10mm (Pendraken is local to me, I also feel like I'm helping the local economy plus Leon is a lovely chap).

To start the challenge I thought I'd get the bulk of the US Cavalry done and masochistically set off and did 100 cavalry troopers. To be honest, that many in one go became a bit of a grind. I think I'm going to do batches of 50ish next time.

The biggest problem I have with them has been taking pictures. 100 troopers will not fit in my little lightbox thing. I have attempted three photo shoots to take the pictures, they have all turned out disappointing. I tried my DSLR with flash, without flash, with LED lighting, with natural lighting and finally just with my iphone with the troops under the natural night.

The pictures below are DSLR without flash and have been through lightroom to try and take out the orange hue cast by the light.

100 x 10mm cavalry @2pts each = 200pts.

That's a very impressive squadron! I hope we get to see more of your Pony Wars. A big bite like 100 cavalry all at once can be a grind, but it is rewarding once done.

Barks

From: AngusW - 28mm 'Saxons' - The Armoury - 55pts

 From the 'Hatchery' I've entered, 'the Armoury'. We've here some Saxons warriors, purchased at the Battlefield show a number of years ago. I've a few others of these, I now have enough for a small warband.

I've no idea what the manufacturer is. They are very nice sculpts, but lots of them needed pining arms to bodies, shields to arms etc. I won't be in a rush to do more pinning as I found it rather tedious.

x5 Warriors @ 5pts each (25pts), x1 Leader on horseback (10pts)  + The Armoury (20pts)

From: AngusW - 28mm Cows for Chamber of Darkness - 40pts

 Continuing my theme of painting more fluff for the table I embarked on some Friesian Holstein cows. I think they are probably from Warlord, but I got an unboxed sprue from ebay.

It's odd how you look at a cow then when asked to paint it, it's really tricky getting it to look right. In retrospect, I would have done sheep.

Next into the Larder...

Score: x4 28mm cows = 20pts + The Chamber of Darkness 20pts = 40pts in total

AngusW - Wrecked 8th Army Trucks (40pts)

Whilst casting round for ideas for interesting scenery pieces for a desert table, I stumbled across these wrecked trucks from AnyScale Miniatures.

I don't like painting vehicles. I tend to get despondent half way though, but I'm fairly happy how these turned out.

Wrecked CMP F60L

Abandoned Bedford OYD

That should be another 40 points... Next up some Saxons I picked up at Battleground a couple of years ago.