'Empire' From ChrisW: Miscellaneous figures & empire theme (210 points)

 

My first post of AHPC XVI

I am happy to be back in the challenge and happy to finally post up something. This year I have the same goal as I did in my first challenge, to paint up all of my Back of Beyond stuff. Well in that first challenge I painted up two figures and a few vehicles. So three years later I am starting off with 12 Chinese Warlord figures, a massive increase in production, who knows maybe this will be the year! 😏 

Now this years challenge has started with a personal challenge as my back has been giving me some trouble, especially when sitting and painting. So while I am keen to paint stuff, I look at my painting area with rather mixed emotions, that whole pleasure/pain battle. 

At any rate I have gone through the first season, and 6 episodes of  season two, of  Babylon 5 (my usual background noise to start any major painting project) and I have emerged with a mix of items.

 First up I have 6 Foundry gladiators. [30 points] 

In an earlier AHPC I did quite a few of these and thought myself done with this genre, but these were at a really low price at a bring and buy (along with two chariots) and well I could not refuse. Now these are relatively recent acquisition, maybe only a year or two ago, unlike so much else that I hope to paint this year.

Five male gladiators and one female gladiator in the back row.

Next some Epic 40K Orc vehicles and Squigoths. [42]

So these are, of course, very old models. I picked most of these up during the 'the great sell off' of Epic miniatures back when GW decided to terminate the line. Many of them have sat in a box or up on a shelf still wrapped in their blister packs. A buddy of mine kept looking at them and rattling off what money they would bring in such mint condition. None of that for me it is only mon-nn-yyy, who needs that...No, I would rather have the 'joy' of trying to paint such small things at the age of 65.  

It seems to me that all these figures were just waiting for contrast/speed (etc) paints to come along. While these types of paints certainly help a lot I have not found them to be the one coat solution. But they get one started!

Some of the Imperial guard vehicles had been painted before (a pair of old Bane Blades & the 6 Gorgons) but I completely redid them for this challenge.

Eight Squigoths

The big guys, Battlewagons!

Epic 40K Imperial Guard [28]

These are some of the oldest minis that I have

Baneblades, original (blue and yellow) & later fancier models

 Now we journey to the Back of beyond for some Chinese Warlord troops [60]

So, that is it for this post. I have decided to take a little more of a relaxed approach to this years challenge. In the past I have been a little crazed, trying to get as much as I could get done each week, staying up far to late to try and max out on production, but not this year. I may not even have stuff ready to post every week, who knows? 

Painted figure points are: 160

• 90 points for 18x 28mm figures 
• 70 points for 35x 6mm vehicles

Then there is the Empire theme round bonus of 50 points

So a total of 210 points.

Also, this week I count 3 squirrels.

Gladiators base figures, then three others...

1. Epic Orcs
2. Epic Imperial
3. Warlord Chinese

Then one female figure (not certain if we are tracking that this year)