From: TomL, AHPC 16 final call

Time for the AHPC 16 final roll call.  Had a lot of fun as always painting and looking at everyone else's work.  Managed to get quite a jump on the Battletech plastic mountain:

 

The only mech's I didn't paint were my lone Gothic battletech box.  Maybe this summer or next challenge.  Hopefully this eliminates much of the grey from our club's battle fields.

Completed only few units from my ACW Warlord Epic boxes. I actually managed to partially paint 4 CSA sprues on vacation and was thinking I would crush my objective. Alas getting time to complete the details after vacation proved difficult. Luckily the theme rounds made up for that. 

 

Thanks again to Curt, Sarah, Sylvain and the entire Minion Team for their time in running this.  I shall miss looking at all the painted miniatures everyday.   Hope to see you all again next year.

Tom 

 

From: TomL, CSA & the High Priestess for 210 points

I partially painted several confederate sprues of Warlord Epic while on vacation leaving the fiddly stuff for home.  This is the last of those that will make the challenge. This is the 5th Texas:

 

 

Eventually I will dig up another metal command strip and paint up a second command stand in this uniform and split this large group into two regiments.

Painted in a similar way to previous regiments, this currently larger unit of 100 figures * 2 points is worth 200 points.

I realized I hadn’t painted a single Bob Murch Female Adventurer this challenge.  Obviously the only thing to do was to grab a few from primed pile.  So I present some misunderstood, often underestimated female cultists.  The High Priestess and her equally evil assistant:

The dagger was painted with a dark purple/green color shifting paint that obviously does not like an overhead led light. Two 28mm cultists for 10 points.  Duels remain unchanged. 

Skulls - 21
BSRoD - 42
Squirrels: 8 

Thanks again Sylvain for your attentive and supportive minioning as well as the others on the minion team who bounced all over as needed, and of course Curt & Sarah.  All the work that goes into organizing and supporting the challenge is deeply appreciated.  It was fun. 
Cheers,
Tom 

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A great final entry, Tom. While I very much admire your Reb infantry, I have to say my heart is with those Bob Murch female cultists (those sculpts are so characterful). Such a tough gig, being a cultist, but you've made them quite glamorous here. Well done! 

Until next time! 

- Curt

From TomL: The final Lances (60 points)

I will be back for one last post this challenge but this is the last stompy robot post.  Squeezed more painting time in last weekend than expected and finished the remaining lances of Battletech I was given to paint.  

First off is another unit of Bluestar Irregulars:

Followed by a generic inner sphere scout lance:

 

Finally a Stormhammer lance for the Lyran Rangers:

 

Since all these mech's will be heading home to their owners this weekend, I figured a AHPC16 class picture was in order:

 

Score:12 Mechs @ 5 for 60 points.

12 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

I have not been tracking Squirrels but for fun I figured I would look back and count (Cartoon Pulp Figures, BT Innersphere factions (Steiner, Grey Death Legion, Olsons Raiders, Somerset Strikers), ACW Union, ACW CSA, SF TV Pulp).

So my duels will end here: 

Skulls - 21
BSRoD - 42
Squirrels: 8   

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Sylvain: Another great bunch of robots. All your mechs look awesome in their respective house "livery". I can understand your satisfaction of having completed your painting objectives. I'm glad you had a great challenge. Bravissimo!

 

 

From TomL: More Strikers (20pts)

You guessed it, another Battletech unit.  This is my second painted in the Steiner Striker colors - red with an vague inverted triangle shape in white. 

 

A black wash over the base Vallejo Italian red followed by a TTC red triad highlights. The inverted triangle areas were painted grey, then titanium white with contrast basilicom wash. 

Hoping to finish at least one more CSA ACW unit but painting time has been consumed by unexpected work this month.  

Score:
4 28mm figures @ 5 for 20 points.

4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: There is no such thing as painting too many robots... By the way, good job with the paint brush. The colors are crisp  and neat. It has been an honor to be your minion; "à la prochaine". 

 

 

 

From TomL: More Legion of Death (25 points)

This is the second Lance of the challenge painted as the Grey Death Legion. This unit has no battalion indicators but we do have more decal skulls!

 

As before, base colors are from the Vallejo Model Air range, while the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo metal & model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear orange.  The tiny death head skull decals are from Fighting Piranha Graphics. 

Score:
25 points for 5 figures

10 Skulls
5 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: You are so consistent with the quality of your paint job when painting these robots that I would really like to see a picture of the whole collection, or maybe some robots in action during a game. I love the japanese banner (sashimono) on the back of one of  your robot. It elevate the style of your lance. Bien joué! 

 

 

From TomL: BattleTech Steiner Strikers & 19th VI (142 points)

First up is another Battletech unit.  These are painting in the Steiner Striker colors - red with an inverted triangle in white. 

These were 3D printed to plug the gap in a friends Catalyst KS collection.  Some of the details were a touch shallow so I did a black wash over the base red followed by a red & slightly orange highlight. The inverted triangle areas were painted grey, then white with a final contrast basilicom grey to add some depth.

Finally got a chance to finish one of the ACW CSA units I started while on vacation. This is the 19th Virginia:

 

As before, the base colors are done with contrast paints, details and highlights used Vallejo & TTC acrylics with a final coat of Vallejo Game wash.  

Score:140
4 28mm figures @ 5 for 20 points.

60 epic figures @ 2 for 120 points. 

4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

 

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Sylvain: You are consistent and productive. I have seen your robots and your ACW many times already and can only reiterate how impressed I am with the attention to details and the look on the table. I will add two points for the flags. Extraordinaire! 

 

From TomL: Grey Death Legion (20 points)

This is the first Lance of the challenge I plan to paint as the Grey Death Legion.  The green (mostly round) circles indicate this is the second battalion.

 The base colors were from the Vallejo Model Air range, while the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo metal & model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear orange.  The tiny death head skull decals (11!) are from Fighting Piranha Graphics.  

 

Score:
20 points for 4 figures

11 Skulls (assuming decals count)
4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain: Tom, your camouflage on these miniatures is just well balanced, just a few small spots of darker color but it immediately says: "military". The decals add a nice touch and your golden color cockpits give the feel of a scifi world. Bravo!

 

 

 

 

From TomL: ACW 9th Georgia CSA Infantry Regiment (120 points)

Taking a break from the BattleTech figures as I finally finished another ACW unit.  When building my forces I look for units that fought in the more famous battles I am likely to recreate. This is the 9th Georgia Infantry Regiment. At one point it had 10 companies and saw fairly continuous action from 1862 through the end of 1864.  Most CSA units did not carry state flags in battle but the Warlord Epic stands have two flag bearers so I include the state flag. In theory it helps to identify the unit on the table, assuming you can read these flags at this scale.

 

The base colors were done with contrast paints, details and highlights used Vallejo & TTC acrylics with a final coat of Vallejo Game wash.  

Points are 60 epic figures @ 2 for 120 points.

 

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From DaveD Sylvain: Another lovely unit. You produce them like Picasso churning up art work. I like how you varied the pants and the hats, showing discrepancies in uniform. Bravo!

From TomL: Olson's Raiders (20 points)

This BattleTech unit is another lance painted in Olson's Raiders colors using the disc camouflage stencil.   

 

 

Base colors were Vallejo Model Air, the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear. 

Score:
20 points for 4 figures
4 points for the Stompy robots of death duel. 

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Sylvain: Robots! Big and small! I love robots and I'm always happy to see more of them! 

 

From TomL: Somerset Strikers (25 points)

Continuing on with my attempts to use different stencils I have my second  BattleTech unit.   This is the “Somerset Strikers” lance.  Their normal camouflage is a yellow tiger stripe over black.  At this scale using the tiger stripe stencil was a failure. I repainted using the disc camo stencil and cleaned up the black manually.  I am happy enough with the final result but the stripe stencil is going back in the model drawer.
 

 

Base colors were Vallejo Model Air, the weathering and weapons were done with Vallejo model colors. The cockpits were finished with Tamiya clear.
Score:
25 points for 5 figures
5 points for the Stompy robots of death duel.

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Sylvain:  Another batch of mighty robots! As usual, you did an amazing paint job on these, and it's very inspiring that you are trying new techniques. Excellent travail!