from RayR - AHPC14 - Challenge Wrap up

My last post from the Challenge, originally posted on the AHPC blog on the 23rd March.

Well that went quick, didn't it?

Can't believe the Challenge is over for another year.

I'm already thinking about, what I can get ready for December and Challenge 15.

Thanks got to Curt & Sarah for all their hard work setting up and throughout the Challenge. Thanks to my Minion Teemu, and to all the other Minion's, I know how much time it took out of my painting schedule, when I was a minion!! Lastly a big thanks you to all you other Challengers who all help to make this Challenge what it is today. Especially those who found the time to comment on my posts, I really appreciate the encouragement.

Austrian Lothrengin Infantry & Bavarian Arco Horse

Ottoman Infntry, ElCid statue, St Dominic fountain, Highland Cattle, Star Wars AT AT's

Haitian Revolution Infantry and Cavalry

This year 25/28mm figures were dominate. I painted up...
127 x 25mm infantry figures

20 x 25mm Cavalry figures

The rest were various scales

2 x 1/1200 scale ships

1 x 54mm figure

3 x 2/6mm figures

In total 153 figures.

I always try and aim for a top 30 finish and top 10 finish would be preferred, but I'd have had to paint up another 600 points worth for 10th place, so was not achievable. I'd like to think my illness played a big part in that, but I'm not convinced that I could have painted up another 600 points worth of figures, if I had another month to paint!!!

Here's my performance so far in all the Challenges

Challenge II 4940 points 1st
Challenge III 2586 points 4th
Challenge IV 1227 points 17th
Challenge V 691 points 37th
Challenge VI 681 points 36th
Challenge VII 1093 points 24th
Challenge VIII 662 points 40th
Challenge IX 2274 points 8th
Challenge X 1687 points 11th
Challenge XI 2260 points 8th
Challenge XII 2168 points 7th
Challenge XIII 1111 points 27th

Challenge XIV 1160 points 25th

AHPC 14 - Star Wars Darth Vader - 54mm

I'm still posting up a few more back posts from the Challenge that finished a couple of weeks ago, here's a strange one from me today!!

What's this? More bloody Star Wars!!!!

This was going to be my Sci-fi Bonus round entry, but I'm not gonna make it to the Rotunda Upper Level in time, so its just gonna have to go up as it is.

I thought I'd try and be clever and try and do a spaceship base, it didn't quite work? Mr Vader's plastic base was very thick, so I thought I'd make it into a step, which kind of worked although I'd have to claim it was a battle damaged ship.......

Once again, Mr Vader came as part of the box of Star Wars figures I bought a couple of years ago. He is a 54mm Hasbro figure.

No its not a wonky light sabre........or is it?

Points mean prizes so I shall claim 

10 points for 1 x 54mm figure

APPC12 - Cybertron - General Grievous

Second time lucky?

For my entry in the Cyberton Bonus round, I have painted up the part Kaleesh, part Cyborg General  Grievous, from Star Wars fame.

Grievous, born as Qymaen jai Sheelal, was a Kaleesh male Warlord who served withinthe military forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems as a commanding officer during the Clone Warsin the final years of the Galactic Republic. 
The man who became known as Grievous, had sustained severe injuries in a coordinated incident that required extensive reparations to his destroyed body, which resulted in his willing submission to cybernetic enhancements and reconstructions, as well as secret alterations to his brain, that rendered him more mechanical than organic as he received greater abilities as a result.

The General was part of a joblot of Hasbro figures I bought last year, he probably should be a little lighter in colour, but he's had a hard day today and is in need of an oil rub down, hence he looks a little grubby.......

1 x 54mm figure @ 10 pts

20 pts for Cybertron Bonus round

So all in all 30 points?

AHPC 11 The Chamber of Challenge - The Golam's Haunt

 

Another step closer to the Alter of the SnowLord....

The Golem’s Haunt:

 “..IT WALKS…!!” Paint something re-animated, stitched-together, bolted-together, re-created from steel, clay, earth, etc.

Well If anythings made out of nuts n bolts its CP3O?

This is my first venture into the land of Star Wars and may not be the last???

I bought an unpainted selection of Star Wars figures from a friend Tony over the summer, just

incase I fancied doing something different.

C3PO Is a 54mm Hasbro Star Wars Command figure and like I said I do have more to paint, can I fit anymore into the Challenge??????

The Golden one should earn me 10 points as a 54mm figure and another 20 for the Bonus round!

Zulu Wars Diorama

I finished making this diorama last week, which was quite apt as it was close to the 133rd anniversary of both the Battle of Islandlwana and Rorke's Drift. It was made for my Dad on his 70th Birthday. I try and make him a model a year, either for Christmas or on his birthday in January.

The figures are Plastic 54mm but I haven't a clue who made them, (do you?). I searched the web for answers, but just can't find them anywhere. I bought them when I was on holiday in the Lake District, SHMBO, dragged me out of bed early on a Sunday morning for a visit to a Boot Fair, where I found these figures, for the princely sum of £1. There were another three figures in the bag, but they were damaged and to be honest I couldn't be bothered to fix them, and  I would've needed a bigger base as well!! So I just kept to the 8 figures. 

The British are painted to represent the B Company,  24th Foot, (The 2nd Warwickshire Regiment of Foot)

At Rorke's Drift, eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded. Seven to the 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, one to the Army Medical Department, one to the Royal Engineers, one to the Commissariat and Transport Department and one to the Natal Native Contingent.

Lieutenants Chard and Bromhead were both awarded the Victoria Cross, as were the redoubtable privates Alfred Hook, Frederick Hitch, Robert Jones, William Jones, Corporal Allen, James Langley Dalton and Pte. John Williams. Surgeon Reynolds got the Cross for tending the wounded under fire; and the Swiss volunteer Christian Schiess - the first to a soldier serving with South Africa forces.

I entered this into the Analouge Painting Challenge, and was awarded 100 points!!!!