From IainW: 28mm Napoleonic Austrian artillery and limbers (360 points)

In an effort to balance the Napoleonic arms race in my shed I am happy to present eight Austrian artillery pieces, three horse artillery pieces, two from Eagle miniatures and one from Perry. Two 12lb from Eagle and three Frankenstein cut and shunt home cast 25mm Prince August carriages with some eBay purchased wheels from long ago and plastic/resin barrels.  I needed to lengthen the carriages aa the Austrian pattern is longer than the French. The crews are a couple of Eagle figures and the Perry handlanger team that have been promoted from hauling guns to crewing them! The other team are from Trent miniatures sold as revolutionary Austrian artillery crew, although to my mind they're more like seven years war but they're done and the Austrian artillery branch were notoriously conservative! They're a bit chunkier than Perry but nice figures, the Eagle figures are less good in my opinion and I won't be buying them again as they cost the same as Perry but at least they're done! The four limbers started out in two cases as 25mm British limbers that I ended up with when purchasing a load of bits of artillery for my war of three Kingdoms armies and were knocking around when I needed to have some Austrian limbers but wasn't able to spend any money! With the addition of foamboard box and resin wheels,  a new central pole I had two Austrian limbers, two spare warbase mdf French limbers got the foamboard box treatment and I had four limbers. I just needed some draught horses, three spare renaissance Hinchcliffe draught horses got me started, the other five are home cast Prince August 25mm horses with the addition of Perry plastic horse heads and necks that you get spare with their medieval horse sprues. The riders legs started out as British light dragoons, the torso's French chasseurs with the detail carved away, the arms are from the Austrian cavalry set and the heads are Austrian Landwehr, all Perry. With the addition of string, card, wire and a few spare bits of 3d tack, I  merely had to stand back, pull the handle and cry "give my creation life!" Or not as perhaps I got a little carried away, but they are undeniably Frankenstein limbers!

There's also a spare French draught team that missed it's comrades' post but is here now.

Eight times thirty gives me 240( artillery)

Four times twenty five is     100(limbers)

Plus the draught team            15

Total                                          355

So that goes towards both my total and the Napoleonic duel, next up probably more Napoleonics but I have started some late Romans! 

All the best

 Iain 

Well, limbers seem to be becoming quite a feature this Challenge, Iain, and these Austrian pieces are very much the part. I really like your artillerymen too, they look great in their indeed somewhat obsolescent outfits, and I'm sure they will serve you well. However, I am really taken with your creative  kitbashed/ DIY/converted limbers, and you have certain given them life! I feel that such a valiant effort and great result should be rewarded, so I'm rounding your total up to a nice round 360. Excellent job!

Martijn

From TeemuL: Ral Partha and Prince August (50 points)

Random set of old Ral Partha and Prince August miniatures from late 1980s and early 1990s, all based on 25mm mdf bases from Warbases. Several of these are females, so I'm joining the Sarah's Choice competition again. These models come from variety of sources, mostly some bargains, when someone (or someone's mother) sells old game things and toys for ridiculously low price on internet market places, or some clever trades (like 20 plastic glade guard for 20 metal random miniatures). Some of them had never seen paint, some of them I stripped and then painted. These would be good for RPGs or some skirmish games or may be as objective markers, civilians etc in various games, but unfortunately I'm not expecting to play any of those games. However, this Challenge always drives to paint some random miniatures in order to get the lead pile smaller. They are much faster to paint than GW models for example, so I don't complain. :)

 

They are bit different, but unified bases and quite limited palette gives them a group feeling, they could easily be in the same world and area. They have mostly the same skin color for example and so on.

First three zombies, Prince August UN7, they have seen better days, but still going strong.

 

Druid, Prince August CH13, and Houri, Prince August CH16, Druid here is my favorite of this bunch.

Two clerics, Ral Partha AD&D 11-002, 1988 - 30 years old!

Enchantress, Ral Partha D&D 1990, after I had painted and washed, I finally understood what she is carrying - a cat! It was just a very strange object before, but paint does miracles. I don't know if she should be holding something in her raised hand or not, could be broken.

Female thief, Ral Partha Basic Heroes box 1991, she has a dagger behind her back!

And Kender rogue, also female, Ral Partha 11-014, one of the two in the set.

If you look very closely, you can see, that I took some extra steps and painted some makeup on some of the females...

10 25mm miniatures gives me another 50 points and 1 Squirrel point from "25mm general fantasy" genre.

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Some lovely old figs there Teemu - 50 points it is!

Ev