Donnybrook - 28mm Ebor French Officer

 You may remember back in December I had the pleasure to be a Minion in the 

8th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge, which is run by that mad Canadian fellow Curt!

I received this excellent looking fellow in the post the week before last.

As a pressie for all my hard work in trying to destroy all Curt's and Miles' hard work!

I'm still having nightmares over them files!

I'm sure Col le Campcloche will do his duty on the field of battle.

Thanks Curt, the figure is a beauty, and my photography doesn't do him justice.

AHPC 8 - My Group Shot

 Hi All

My rather meager haul for this years Challenge. All 25mm figures from me this year apart from 2 figures. Here we have
11 x Horse ( 1 not in the pic)
39 x foot figures
1 x Wagon
10 x Pigs
12 x Geese
1 x Artillery Piece
6 x small terrain pieces
&
2 1/72 scale figures

With these figures a managed to get to the dizzy heights of 40th place, which is my lowest placing in the Challenge so far. Next year I'll be aiming for a top 20 place, which is gonna be some going as 20th place this year made 1220 points!!!!

Changing the subject.......my Mrs hates that T-Shirt!

The Last of the Mohicans

Flight Bonus Round

Donnybrook English Horse

Mounted Civvies

Big Freakin Gun Bonus Round

Oliver Cromwell

Oink!!

Musician Bonus Round

Childhood Bonus Round

1/72 scale DAK

King Louis

French Grenadiers

Monstrous Bonus round

All for One

Cardinals Guard

A Wagon!

Cheers!

AHPC 8 - The Cardinal's Guard & a Wagon

This is most probably my last post of the Challenge, I don't think I'll get my last figures finished.

So here we have 8 x Redoubt Enterprises Cardinals Guard to fight my previous entry the 

Four Musketeers.

 These are excellent multipart figures. I bought some odds and sods at a show a few years ago and then my daughter bought me some figures for Christmas.

What's great about these is, as they're multipart you can chop and change body's, legs and heads

and come up with different poses.

Check out the 3rd and 5th figure, they're the same body, with different head and legs!!

Lastly I wanted a few wagons to use as barricades or scenery pieces. I strted painting up 2 wagons

but only finished this one. Its a Col Bill's ECW period wagon

and can be bought for only £5.50. Its made out of MDF and was very easy to put together!

Just for scale, one of the Guards standing next to the wagon, its quite a large piece!!

I earned myself 55 points for this entry.

AHPC 8 Bonus Round - Monstrous Bonus Round

Here's my entry into the Monstrous bonus round.

Frankenstein, Dracula & Death

All three are from The Dr Who collection from Black Tree Designs.

This was for me another difficult round, unfortunately I couldn't find anything to

fit into it from my lead pile. So a quick email to Black Tree and these naughty boys

arrived in the post a few day later.

I do like the Frankenstein and Death figures, I'm not so keen on poor old Vlad.

He's a bit of a bore really being all in black.

But what other colour can he be?

AHPC8 Bonus Round "Childhood" 1/32 DAK

Back in the 70's when I were a whipper snapper, I was fascinated with history and anything related to soldiers, strange eh?
I had a massive collection of books that I used to copy and draw soldiers from. I'm not that good at drawing but used to love it. I also, probably like most of you reading this, had a rather large collection of Airfix 1/32 scale WWII figures.

Me and my brother Lee, used to spend hours setting all the soldiers up, behind Lego barricades
and a home made wooden fort our Dad made for us, then we'd take turns to throw marbles at each others troops.

Any you knocked over became casualties of war. We'd always end up with the heavy machine gun

figures left. Or the "Laying downers" as we used called them. Trying to turn them over

using a marble from 4 feet away is very hard!

My favourite troops were the DAK, or as I used to call them the German Africa Corps 

(Corps as in corpes)

I was fascinated with them, (still am I suppose) especially the German army uniform, but mainly the German helmet and field cap.

They were always my first choice when picking out an army, while my brother loved the British Commandos.

I used to own a FOW DAK army, which I very stupidly sold at a show 1 year, bloody idiot!!

I do still have my collection of old bendy Airfix figures, but decided not to paint them, instead I bought 20 odd figures from ebay for the colossal sum of 99p and chose my two favourite figures to paint up for this round. 

Not sure what I'll do with these?

Maybe paint the rest up??

My favourite ever pic of the DAK.

Drooool!

AHPC 8 Bonus Round "Musician" Donnybrook - Dancing duo

Another bonus round entry for the Challenge

For me this was the easiest Bonus Round " Musician"

It was the only round I knew what I'd paint as soon as I read the list.

The figures are from Col Bill's Depot Battalion sold as "17th Century Musicians and Dancers"

They can be bought here at Col Bill's for only £5!

They're not going to do a lot of fighting but should look the part, as

a bit of scenery, but you never know they could be hired assasins

scoping the village out??

AHPC8 - The Return of the Bloody Pig

Back in 2016, I won a prize draw over on Edwin's blog "Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist" 

My prize was a £10 voucher to spend at Bad Sqiddo Games!!

Here's a pic taken from the post Bloody Pig, that crops up in my Top 10 very often. They must

be a popular item to buy over at Bad Sqibbo.

I've been wanting to paint these little piggies for a while now, so i took the

plunge and put paint to brush. These are a pack from Ristul's Extraordinary Market, sold 

by Bad Squibbo Games in the UK for just £10.50.

The set includes 10 Pigs of various sizes. 1 large, 4 medium & 5 Piglets

Also included are 6 pieces of resin Farmyard terrain.

They're all based on various sized Warbases MDF bases.

My fav little piggy......rolling in the mud!

In reality the pigs are Fantasy based, but I've based the paint scheme on Berkshire pigs. 

one of the oldest breeds in England.