From HayesW 28mm Vietnam Figures (75 Points)

I really enjoyed painting these 28mm USMC engineers, Vietnamese civilians, and some NVA and USMC casualties. This is a mix of figures. The civilians are Empress, the USMC M-60 Team are Gringo 40s, and the engineers and casualties are 3d Breed 3d printed. I think they all look fine together as far as being close enough for the game table!

I’m excited to finally be getting some civilians together. Next up are MACV-SOG! 

11 28mm infantry x 5 points 

8 prone 28mm infantry x 2.5 points

Total 75 Points

Hayes, these figures look just great. The civilians are super and I'm sure will come in handy in games, and the NVA and GIs are really well done, is that a playing card I see peeking out from a helmet band? Fantastic!

Very happy to award you 75 points!

Dallas  

From HayesW - Vietnam USMC Mortar Crew (10 Points)

 

My first post - thanks to a busy Christmas and start to 2026 schedule I decided I better knocking something out! So starting with this 28mm Gringo40 USMC 81mm mortar crew. Love the Gringo40 figures. My “plan” is to complete about 60 28mm Vietnam figures, filling in what I’m missing - crews, casualties, SF, etc. Excited to really get rolling!

2 x 28mm Figures = 10 Points 

Nice first post here Hayes, the US war in Vietnam isn't a gaming subject you often see and I like these two models. The Gringo40 castings look quite nice and you've done a good job with them, they look like they're straight out of "Platoon" or "Full Metal Jacket". Well done and 10 points to open your tally.

Dallas

From StuartL - Final entry for my various duels - 198 Points

Hello all,

This is my final post for the challenge, and I have been working hard to clear my work space, finish off a few bits and pieces and add a couple of final points to my various duels totals. During the course of the challenge, I was involved in three duels, Skullz, Squirrels and Turnips. So, lets see how I got on.

TURNIP DUEL

    

    I had planned to finish off my first force of Turnip28 by the end of the challenge, but sadly I am still 1 Toff and 1 Unit away. I also had an idea for a second force, but sadly didn't have time to assemble and convert the models let alone paint them. So, for the Turnip duel, I have no more points to add. :(

SQUIRREL DUEL

    I have been able to get a few more Squirrels done and off my desk over the past week or so, most of them were halfway done and just needed those last few licks of paint to get them over the finish line.

First of all, some Chaos Marines for my 40K Iron Warriors force. I figure that these are different enough from regular marines to count. Being chaotic renegades, they come packed with skulls, 19 in total.

Next up, a squad of 10 Night Goblins. These diminutive fellows are from one of the Warhammer Fantasy starter boxes, Battle of Skull Pass I believe. They are single piece minis but they are super cool. I really wish I had more of these as they were fun to paint and look awesome. Note the musician has a skull atop his gong. 

These two mannequins are animated constructs for the Showgirls crew for Malifaux.

I painted the three models at the back as payments for trips in Lady Sarah's Limousine a couple of weeks back. The addition of the mannequins means that they now qualify as a full Squirrel point.

The start of a new project for me, 5 USMC for 'Nam. My local model shop (not a games store, a dedicated scale model shop) has started to stock Rubicon models, so I picked up a bunch of marines, some VC and a huey. I plan to work more on these over the summer. The plastic is not the usual type and needs some fancy glue, but they paint up quickly. The detail is a little fine in places, but I like how they look.

These five elves are from a company called Mirliton Miniatures based in Italy. They are pretty old now, I have had them for about 20 years. They are very reminiscent of old citadel minis. These will be used for Saga: Age of Magic.

So, that is 5 Squirrels and there should be one more Squirrel below.

SKULL DUEL

Honestly, the Squirrel Duel has kept me away from painting up many skulls this challenge. I had a large undead army and a ton more Space Marines (and all their tiny skullicious iconography) sat in the 'to-do' pile, but as I couldn't claim any more Squirrel points after painting the first five of each, they have languished there throughout the challenge. As mentioned above, there are 20 Skulls so far in this post, plus a few more below.

This archway is from Reaper Minis. I'll probably end up using it in a D&D game when I need to mark an important exit in a dungeon. The back of the arch is totally blank, but the front has 5 lovely skulls to add to my tally.

582 Skullz

50 Skullz

342 Skullz

154 Skullz

35 Skullz

The above are all terrain kits from GW from around 2006 I think, with the exception of the final piece which is slightly newer.

All of the above including the archway and the skullz on the models in the Squirrel section comes to 1188 Skullz.

The central panel has 46 skulls, with 8 more on either side of it, 7 underneath it and 2 on the back.

As well as the central skull, there are 4 more tiny skulls, picked out in bronze.

There are even skulls in the ceiling.

Each panel measures 2 inches by 3 inches.

For the measurements of these ruins, I have ignored the balconies on top and any odd outcroppings or pillars.

The first building is 8"x6"x6" = 288 cubic inches.

The second building is 2"x2"x3" = 12 cubic inches.

The third building is 8"x2"x6" = 96 cubic inches.

The fourth building is 6"x2"x6" = 72 cubic inches.

The fifth building is 2"x3"x9" = 54 cubic inches.

Total = 522 cubic inches = 2.4 Challenge Terrain Cubes, and more than enough points for a Squirrel

And finally, I have just one more mini to post. 

This fish seller is going to pay for one final trip in Lady Sarah's Limousine to take me out of the studios in style. Having spent the last three months travelling very short distances in a very large car, I am planning to do what any real Hollywood celebrity would do, lecture people on being more environmentally friendly!

My final additions to my score are:

18x 28mm models @5 points = 90 Points

10x 20mm goblins @4 points = 40 Points

2.4x Terrain cubes @20 points = 48 Points

1x Limo ride @20 points = 20 Points

Final Total = 198 Points

For my side duels.

Squirrels +6 - 47

Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Dwarves, Fire Giants, WW2 Polish, Daemons, Viridians, Vasa, Junkers, Turnips, Necrons, Tau, Genestealers, WW2 Japanese, Teutonics, Lizardmen, Gnolls, Arabs, Space Marines, Kung Fu Chinese, Wolf's Dragoons, Merfolk, Fishmen, Fish, Mummies, Greek Myth, Peasants, Desert Terrain, Guild, WW2 Africans, WW2 French, WW2 Germans, WW2 Russians, DKoK, Sengoku Fantasy, Fantasy Zombies, Undead Pirates, Blood Bowl Orcs, AWI British, Modern Zombies, Skaven, Iron Warriors, Goblins, Showgirls, USMC, Wood Elves, 40K Terrain

Skullz +1188 - 1575

Turnips - 115 Points 

See you all in the Challenge Review Posts

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This is an excellent Challenge wrap-up, Stuart. I really enjoyed your Turnip28 entries, and am delighted to have another rootish commander in our little community. My favourties of this group has to be your Night Goblins and the dancing mannequin constructs.  Soo creepy and cool. 

Thank you again, for all your diligent work being our Saturday Minion. You helped keep this crazy, shambling monstrosity of a Challenge on the straight and narrow. Cheers mate!

- Curt

Ready Friday. GrahameH 15mm US Armour and Artillery Vietnam - 204 points

 Just adding to my Vietnam collection. The infantry and marine infantry were painted before the challenge so now just adding some support units. These are again for Rapid Fire, but could be used with any rule systems.

First Support for the Marines. This is a “Battalion Landing Team” and consists of a tank Platoon = 1 x M48 Tank, a Antitank Platoon = 1 x Ontos and a Amtrack Platoon of 2 x LVTP5s (Peter Pig - I had four so they all got painted). It is also supposed to have a 105mm gun but I have added that to a Battery that is shown below.

The M48 (Battlefront)

The Ontos (3d printed by Butler Miniatures)

Someone asked me about what I thought of the 3D printed miniatures from Butler. They have got a lot better, but they still have the printer lines. I don’t tend to dry brush or wash my vehicles so they line don’t really show, but if you did I would suspect they would show more. However, they make models you can’t really get elsewhere so sometimes there isn’t a choice.

The 2 x Amtrack Platoons (Made by Peter Pig)

Next up is the Artillery Batteries each gun has a crew of four and I have added a command group and FOO to each battery.

The 105mm Battery (Battlefront)

Then the Big Guns 155mm Battery

Some more armour support next with a HQ unit and 2 squadrons of M48 Tanks (Battlefront)

And finally, I decided to start painting the Armour Cavalry so 3 Sheridan Tanks (Battlefront)

So that is it. Points time 

14 x vehicles = 112

6 x artillery pieces = 24pts

34 x figures = 68 pts

Total = 204 pts

I think there was a dust storm when I took the first pictures. They happen in Vietnam I am told. 

From DaveD

More lovely green and Vietnam mud and dust . I do like the look of the Nam stuff in 15mm . I agree with you BPM just worth it for odd stuff as you say 

From KyleC - USMC squad encountered - 45pts

Entering the Chamber of Darkness we encounter an unlikely of foes... 5 USMC models in black and white..

I actually had no plans to paint WW2 this time around but these showed up free with my latest issue of Wargames Illustrated and challenge to paint in black and white made for a good chance with these models.

Again more tests. And something that I really should investigate further on as it was a fun little project to do. 

Started with overspray ING of white over black, and then a heavy dose of grey contrast paint applied. 

With then Ivory added for the effect to come alive. There are spots I could improve but another aspect of this challenge to me is to balance quality and speed. 

So this was another set of 25pts with 20 for the challenge. Netting me 45 pts here.

And off to the shoreline of the aquifer... 

From GillesW - Drowned in a glass of water! (102 points)

Hi everyone - The title say all ! I have few figures ready for posting this week, and so few points gained.  The rower is slowing, so where is the lash ?

I had planned to paint some different stuff for this week - ok I almost did it - but nothing is based and flocked (lazy frenchjester!) at least I have done more dots on the brown camos of my Marines.

I just been able to "finish" more support weapon for my marines with a Medium machine gun in a "John Rambo"style. The tripod carrier is just running after him.

Of course, when I read the rule book on the USA, I learned that the medium machine guns need three crew, so I'm still missing one crew man. I should read before painting (stupid jester!).

A small addition of heavy mongol cavalry from Essex Miniatures, Donnington Miniatures and Old Glory ranges , as usual I have cut off the lead spears to avoid the "spaghetti" effect .
I painted them with a black undercoat followed by a zenithal light of "The Fang" spray from Games Workshop, then I put an " Agrax earthshade" wash from GW to obtain a dark blue armour, I'm not sure that it can be seen on the pics.

 some ancient archers for my greek cities army:

some of them are coming from my never ending" give them a second life!" project, sprayed once more and repainted.
then two bases of Mycenian swordmen from Magister militum biblical range undercoated on their cardboard and forgot in a box.
I'll use them as change in case I lose a base of spearmen, all my spearmen are double based for an ease of use during the games.

a different test of skintone and one more time the cows paid the toll....
stay tuned......

Great work again Gilles - I find each week I am starting to look forward to the historical variety in your submissions!  From the Pacific in WW2, to the plains of Eurasai, to the ancient Greek city states.  Very cool! I love the heavy cavalry, and the cow hide shields on the swordsmen look great.  As for the MMG team, don't worry about what the rule book says - I'm sure a hard working two-man crew will work just fine with the MG on the table...

That is another 102 points for your Gilles - I do hope you avoid the "lash" on the boat this week...