'Toy Story' from GeoffT: Teddy & Friends

Hello Challengers,

These miniatures are Folk Horrors by Gardens of Hecate.  They are amazing miniatures, but I found them super hard to paint, I tried to copy the sculptors paint methods of lots of highlights and washes and highly contrasting browns.  I probably learned a bit, but did not produce a shadow of the original inspiration.

One of the minis looks like an angry teddy bear, probably one of those expensive ones by Steiff.  Angry because his bow tie is missing.  Thus the Toy Story theme claim.

There are 26 miniatures varying in size from about 12mm to 54mm.  They are nominally 28mm scale and based onto on 24 bases, and the weeny ones are triple based.  So I think I’ll call them 24 x 28mm foot if nobody objects.  Plus an additional 50 points for the dear teddy bear brings the total up to 170 points.

Kind Regards

Geoff.

'Empire' From GeoffT: Fifty shades of brown (490 points)

Hello Challengers.

Normally I paint small numbers of brightly coloured figures for skirmish games.  This year with change of bonus format, I’m taking the opportunity to bulk paint some figures.  Most seem to be brown.  Here we have a massive pile of brown figures, I got them second hand in a box labelled 1914 British.  They are 28mm in a variety of brands.  There seems to be gas mask wearing cavalry, trench raiders, lots of officers, dismounted cavalry and some guys with different hats.  Not being a button counter, I’m not sure I can validate they are all 1914, but also not being a button counter I’ll happily use them right through and into the interwar period anyway.

For those that have not already counted, there is 

70 x 28mm infantry = 350 points and 8 cavalry in 28mm for 80 points and 10 points for the MG.  With fifty points for an Empire theme should bring that to 490 points, just shy of half way to may annual target.

Now I need a palate cleanser, something not brown.

Kind Regards