Good Grief!!! What have I gotten myself into now????

I've been challenged to a Painting Competition by a Mad Irish lady. 

What the hell I hear you ask? and why is there a picture of a Mouse Wizard on your blog???

Anne from Anne's Attic, fancied a challenge and chose poor old me to be her arch nemisis.

One of her conditions was that she'd pick the figure and after a blog vote, that horrible Non-Historical figure above was chosen, would you believe over a nude figure, boobies and all, 

what are people like???

I do believe I've got as much chance as England winning the next World Cup, as Anne's followers will vote for her out of pity. 

I know my erstwhile colleague Fran will certainly not be voting for me, just to be a git.

So there you go. 

When the figures are painted, Anne will be putting up a Poll on her blog for you to vote on, 

the loser has to paint a figure for Fran of his choice, I've asked him what he wants 

and will paint it up at the same time as the mouse!!!!!!

The 2nd Annual Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge

 "The 2nd Annual Analogue Hobbies Winter Painting Challenge"

I contacted Curt via his blog Analogue Hobbies, and have joined in the fun and games of his painting competition.
To enter the competition Curt will very cunningly get a 20 figure Viking unit painted for free, as to enter the contest each contestant has to paint up a Viking figure and send it back to him, earning an exrta 10 points. Here's a link to the rules.

Basically, whoever earns the most points will win a prize. Curt has come up with a scoring matrix to dish out the points.

Scoring Matrix

5 points per 25/28mm foot figure

10 points per per 25/28mm mounted figure

10 points per 25/28mm artillery piece or limber model

4 points per 20mm foot or unmounted horse figure

8 points per 20mm mounted figure

8 points per 20mm artillery piece or limber model

3 points per 15mm foot or unmounted horse figure

6 points per 15mm mounted figure

6 points per 15mm artillery piece or limber model

At the moment I've got 4 squadrons of NYW Horse all ready and raring to go, so once they're all painted and based I'll send off a few photos to Curt, to put up on his blog and I'll earn myself  36 points per squadron!!!

It all kicks off on 20th December and finishes on the 20th March.

So good luck to all you guys who entered. I'm out to win, so bring iot on guys!!!! But seriously my major goal is to beat my pal Fran, The Angry Lurker and I'm sure the feeling is mutual!!!!!