AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - French Limbers & Wagons 62pts

 

This was posted on the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge blog over a week ago. The Challenge has now finished.

Last week I posted up two artillery pieces, this week its their limbers.

The models are a bit of a mix? The limbers are MDF and from Warbases, while the horses are from Redoubt Miniatures.

I wanted the bases to mimic the pill bases that myself and Lee used for our cavalry, so I ordered some in from Warbases once again.

The guns in the pics don't count,  they're just for show, so its 20 pts for the 4 horses at 5pts each 

and whatever Curt or the Minion in charge wants to give me for the 2 limbers. I'd say 5 for each??

Next up, we have two abandoned wagons.

This one is a 3D print that I bought from a model shop in Dartford.

And I've no clue where this one comes from?

Its metal and pretty heavy, it may be an old Minifigs model, but I'm not sure?

I plan to do loads of these type of abandoned wagons for the Retreat, but only managed these two and of course the one dead horse.

I'll claim 10 points each for the wagons and 3 for half a horse??

Talking of horses, here are another 3 dead ones.

They're all from Tiger Miniatures, that me and Lee picked up at Warfare last year.

Again I'll claim 3 pts each for them. So in total

30pts for limbers and teams.

23 for the wagons and horse &

9 for the dead horses

Making a grand total of 62pts, which pushed me up to 16th place with 1204 points in total.

AHPC15 - Retreat from Moscow - Limbo Bonus Round - Wagon's not so Ho! 25mm

The Abyss

First Circle: Limbo

This is where previous projects have stalled. Submit something that has been partially worked on from before. Yes, this can include terrain. :)

I've had these wagons for some time, they came to me from Dave Crook, who's friend Eric had passed on. Dave was helping Eric's widow sell on his massive collection. I already used some of the figures from this collection in previous Challenges. Some of my Ottoman's for example.

So here are two abandoned wagons, I'm not sure what make either are, to be honest?

The first bigger wagon, is a heavy lump of metal and include a dead horse and soldiers who sat down exhausted and never got up again.

The soldier is from Perry Miniatures and the horse is from Tiger Miniatures. Myself and Lee raided their bits box for a handful of horses that we could use as casualties. 

The horse needed quite a bit of filing to get him to lay down convincingly!

For the smaller wagon, again I'm not sure of the make? Or to be honest if it fits in with the 1812 period?

I've included another two dead figures, another chap who sat down and never got up, and another who fell.

So to the points....

20 points for the Limbo round = 20

2 x 25mm figures = 10

1 x 25mm dead figure = half points either 2 or 3, lets not do halves??

1 x 25mm horse - again 2 or 3 points?

2 x  25mm Wagons = 40pts 

( I do feel bad taking 40 points for the wagons, though????)

I'll leave the total to you Teemu.

Teemu gave me an extra 2 points!!