From QuinnM: New Old World Models (155 points )

The last couple weeks for me have been really hectic and busy. But I have been able to squeeze in some painting time. 

To start with, I finished up with my unit of Jade Warriors which are from the new Warhammer fantasy faction Grand Cathay. Normally I don't like buying GW new because it's soo expensive. But around Christmas I got a good bonus and decided to treat myself with some of these new models. They are highly detailed models almost to their detriment as doing anything fun or unique with them (at least how I paint) would be too time consuming.  

So for the Jade Warriors I painted them up in a lighter green and highlighted with teal to make them very vibrant and pop and normally I paint things in a much darker style. I think ultimately they turned out really good and look great all ranked up. 

I ended up doing two units all totaling 25 

10. Halberdiers 

And 15 with sword and shield. 

I've already submitted one for points so it was left out of the photos with my freehand Banner

Also, I was reached out to by a 40K player to paint up his army of white scars for him. I don't do a lot of commission stuff but he was just running a simple paint job so I agreed to do it. Ultimately, I think the final result on the first unit went better than I expected as I've never done white armor before. Always was scared of messing it up. 

And here are two more heroes for my Warhammer quest that I painted up and realized I forgot to post. These guys are like a month old at this point. 

Point wise this week.

31x28mmfootman@5points = 155

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Sylvain: Good progress on your projects! I am especially interested in your Cathay army. It's always interesting to observe how a British game maker "sees" what an ancient Chinese army is. There is lot of jade in there and you rendition is splendid. I also agree with you about your White Scar commission: they turned out good. This should provide you with hours of fun game play. Fabuleux! 

 

From QuinnM: Warhammer Quest Cursed City (201 points)

For my first weekly post, I actually have a decent collection of different types of models. From rats to skeletons zombies and bats These all come from Warhammer quest:cursed city board game a revamp GW tried to do on their old Warhammer quest IP that flunked a while ago.

I picked up this game with the intention of painting and playing it with one of my friends. someone I played hero quest with over the course of covid. Now that he's moving out of province in a bit over a month, my plan of slowly painting these over the first month of the challenge has changed and I have been madly rushing to get them all painted myself so that we can play through the game before he leaves. So these are some very quick and dirty models. They're all done through the slap chop method. Which I have never used before.

I used three different contrast paints to give a bit of a gradient and then touch them up afterwards with a highlight. I went for a sepia tone look kind of inspired by The monochrome nature of old horror movies as all of the creatures painted could certainly be found somewhere in a horror movie. And ultimately, I am very happy with the final result. 

So for points this week as some of these models are collections of animals, they all work out to be about 28 mm models. Leaving me with 

37x28mm footman @ 5 points = 185 points

8x15mm footman @ 2 points =16 points(This is for the little tokens) 

Totaling 201 points. 

And I will finish this up with a some close-up shots of the individual unit types. 

 

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 Sylvain: You are truly a master of lighting. I can imagine a full moon shining bleakly on these foul creatures. Your photos are splendid and the dark background helps bring the ambiance of death and despair that you are conveying. Joli travail!

From SanderS - Fellowship Part I (50 points)

Hoi,

You've guessed it, more Heroquest! Okay, strictly speaking, these are not real Heroquest figures but an assortment of figures I am going to use for the game. There's some Frostgrave plastic henchmen, a Hasslefree figure, Otherworld Elf Sorceress, Zealot miniatures Dwarf and a GW Warhammer Quest Elf.  

So here are the Henchmen to start with, they can either function as mercenaries to the heroes, heroes in their own right or crooks to fight the adventurers.

Now on to the title figures: in my pile of unpainted figures there are quite a lot of groups of miniatures that you could designate as a "Fellowship" these are the first. A group of the 4 main archetypical Dungeon explorers: a Dwarf, Elf, Barbarian and Wizard.

10 figures of 28mm makes for 50 points if I am not mistaken.

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What a nice bunch of figures. The colour scheme really brings them together and if you hadn't said they were from different manufacturers I'm not sure I would have noticed. I like the blue bases on these as well, it really makes the finished figures 'Pop'!

A tidy 50 Points to add to your earlier entry. You're clearly having a productive week! 
Lee

From DaveX: Warhammer Quest Rats and 20mm Taliban (44 Points)

This week I got around to painting some Warhammer Quest (1995) Rats that I have had primed for a few months.  I have rebased them onto 20mm Square GW Bases as they come on this horrible thick plastic pudding base.  I chopped up some left over plasticard to create a flagstone cross dungeon cross ruins sort of effect.

I decided to mix up the colours and give them some variation and I think it looks really nice. I love the look of these Old School Plastic minis.  There are 12 in total coming to 60 points.

Rats!

I used a variety of colours

Probably my favorite critter

This week I also quickly painted up another 5 Taliban giving me a handy 20 points bringing this weeks total to 80 points.  

Taliban using a suspicious package and 4 Riflemen

Very nice rats! Your basing and variety in colours is naturalistic and hides the uniformity of the sculpts perfectly. You can never have enough rats. Similarly, you can never have enough modern baddies, and the suspicious package person is sure to give drone feed operators agonies of doubt. Sadly, I'm going to downscore the rats as 15mm equivalents which will leave you with 44 points.

Barks

From:PaulS: Selected Works, Part 2 (202 points)

Back before Christmas I took the dive and subscribed to the 40k magazine, Conquest, as it seemed like a good way of trying to get back into 40k with regular deliveries of hobby fun. I was interested to see how the painting guides worked over time and what they felt was a good intro to the rules and background. So far, I'm actually really impressed with it as an intro system for kids. Back when I first started we had Heroquest as a gateway drug, with extra adventures in White Dwarf... About 30 years later and I'm still throwing money at GW...

Years ago I had a Red Scorpion force made up of all the Forgeworld kits, which was hellish expensive and was sold not too long after completion for various reasons of disinterest. I always liked the colours, even if they are slightly puritanical when it comes to genetics. When it came to selecting a colour scheme I reverted back to what I knew.

The figures were all finished weeks ago, but the rubber and resin to cast the bases didn't turn up until last Monday waiting for all these lovingly crafted bases to be immortalised

Casting these turned into a series of disasters. First half the rubber didn't set properly... then some of the resin didn't set properly (probably due to bits of non-set rubber being present?). Demoulding then destroyed half the bases as well... things were nearly thrown. In the end I got enough bases out of it so disaster was averted... but some of my favourite bases were lost :(

Aaaaaanyway, onto the show and tell!

Primaris captain in Gravis armour from the starter set. Another should be along at some point from Conquest, so I can play around with poses and equipment later.

10 Primaris with Bolters of varying designs. a number of these are the easy builds that came with conquest. Issue one was 3 of these, plus a brush and 2 pots of paint for £2. It would have been rude not to buy extra copies to bulk out the force. You'll notice that throughout the force, all of the baseline infantry have their heads covered. Bare heads with power armour just seems like a dumb idea to me, so one in three of those figures are still on the sprues as their helmet is stuck on their leg.

For a bit of fast attack we have 4 of the easy build Inceptors. Two more of these should turn up throughout the course of the Conquest series, eventually giving me two squads of these guys.  The OSL on these was done with some light dry brushing of the blues and was surprisingly effective.

Recently the series added a squad of easy build aggressors to the army. These I really like as they still seem to be able to move in their chunky armour, unlike most of the old plastic Terminators (not counting the relatively recent Space Hulk ones)

5 Hellblasters will add a bit of punch to the force. Again, the OSL was all dry brushed on. 

 5 Reavers ready to sneak up and murderize any Chaos that turn up. These were from the Kill Team box as the ones that came with Conquest were easy-builds with pistols and knives. This will give me some extra bits and pieces to stick on the duplicate set of easybuild reavers when they turn up, stopping them all looking the same.

I know I said no bare heads, but the Lieutenant is my one exception to this as I really like the model. I know a lot of people still moan about the Primaris, but to me they look how a Space Marine should look; towering over the regular humans and able to move freely, rather than constantly in a squatting pose that makes some of them shorter than a Cadian infantryman. 

I had a Contemptor dreadnought kicking around from the Horus Heresy board games, so I decided to add him to the lineup as well. As this was the plastic Contemptor, the pose was a bit naff, so a bit of hacking later and he is now striding forward and twisting at the waist to look a little bit more dynamic than the very static pose they decided to go for.

*phew*

That is the end of the Space marines, so here is a crowd shot of them all together

This, combined with the initial test batch that were completed before the challenge started, I've for a reasonable size force made up of things just from the starter set, Conquest, one Kill Team kit and two characters. Not bad. Not bad at all! The plan is to try and keep on top of the monthly deliveries and paint the 4 issues worth of stuff before the next batch arrives. The marines are caught up, except for the three characters who were on the painting table as the challenge started. Must finish them soon...

Oh, those bases I was having problems with? Messing around with the rust effect has been great fun and has taught me even more about the Modelmates stuff. If you brush it on very lightly and scrub it around a bit, you can get some really nice burnt effects, rather than rust. I need to try a wash of blue underneath this to see if it looks like scorched metal

After all that, I also managed to complete 7 doorways for Warhammer Quest that I undercoated about 3 years ago!

In summary, we have:
- 7 doorways at just under 1 box, so probably about 15 points?
- 29 figures at 5 points each for 145 points
- 1 dreadnought. Not sure if this counts as a vehicle or what?

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Great post, Paul!

Your Primaris marines look fabulous. I'm really taken with the dark grey and yellow livery you've come up with, especially the striping on their helmets. Personally I find the whole Primaris fluff to be ridiculous, but I do like how these Space Marine models actually resemble what a 'normal' Marine should look like next to regular humans. I wish they had just adjusted the scale and called it a day instead of cooking up this stooopid storyline (and with that hopped-up, armoured accountant, Roboute Guilliman behind it, the whole thing becomes immediately suspect). Whatever, the models are still cool.

Even though you had some hard sledding with your base project I must say they look pretty darn nice to me. I really like the weathering effects you achieved with that Modelmates stuff. Notes being jotted down...

Digging through the Challenge archives I found that we traditionally give 15 points for Dreadnoughts, so all together (with and extra point each for the infuriatingly bespoke bases) this gives you 202 points. Quite a tidy bomb there actually. Well done Paul!

From SanderS - Some more Heroquest stuff (68 points)

Hoi There,

While I know it is Ray who is the Moaning Minion (now there's a nightmare vision: imagine an ethereal version of Ray haunting the ladies loo at your local Wizarding High-school?! Because let's be honest Hogwarts is but a high-school compared to Unseen University I am sure), I realise I am becoming somewhat of a croaker too.

Sadly I have still not managed to really get going on the painting. I have prepared more then enough figures to last me all year but somehow real life keeps throwing spanners in the work. The latest spanner came in the form of a freak wind-storm with gusts of 8 on the scale of Bofort making short work of one of the sheds I've build in my garden.

All the same I have been trying to get some painting done and have managed to finish some more Heroquest related figures and a 1:72 vignette.

First up are some Greenies. These are figures that came with the original Warhammer Quest box. These I will use for the Heroquest games at school and at home by dividing the group.

The next two figures are figures used by two of my pupils. The Female figure is a Blood Elf named Baroness Blackwood used by Vanessa and the other one is Collin's henchman called Cor Netto (Collin's main character is a Chaos Ice Magician called Icicles) they've asked me to paint these figures and here's the result.

Both 4 of the Orc archers as well as the figures mentioned above where used today at the school club as you can see below.

Last up is the vignette I have mentioned. It is made by Hagen Miniatures and depicts Sergeant Charles Ewart of the Scot's Greys capturing his Eagle at Waterloo. It's a nice little vignette and I am so happy to have finished it.

Points wise 11 x 28mm figures amounts to 55 points and 1 foot and 1 mounted 1:72 figure amount to 12 points so that should be 67 points added to my total.

Cheers Sander

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Wow, sorry to hear about your recent wind storm. It's a pity about the shed but it's good that the damage was limited just to your garden.

 I really admire that you've taken the time and effort to paint figures for your students' characters - I think that's just wonderful. Both Baroness Blackwood and Cor Netto are excellent, especially Netto's skin(!) shield and the Baroness' striking red skintone. I'm sure they must be delighted with the figures.

I was just going to ask you about your 1:72 Napoleonic project but then you came in today with this beautiful Waterloo vignette. I didn't know that there were manufacturers that were offering vignettes in this scale, so this is quite educational for me (I sense a few hours of fun online perusals coming on). Your vibrant reds and blues are set off strikingly by the grey charger - excellent work.

I've popped in another point for the French Eagle (it only seems proper) so 68 points to add to your roster's total. Well done Sander! 

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