'Resistance' by AdamC: Being Ready to Resist

So I was stuck on the Subject of resistance, see if you like what I came up with.  Here we have alone English officer, maybe home guard, maybe a reservist.  He and his men are keeping watch over a lonely beach somewhere in southeast England...   

He's enjoying his pipe and a mug of tea on a cold morning.  His non-regulation scarf is a reminder of his pervious civilian life no long past, maybe a gift from his wife or daughter, or mother.  They are why he is here...to buy them the time to get out of the path of destruction if needed. 

 

He's packed up ready to lead his men on a conditioning march or training maneuver practicing for the resistance he hopes they won't have to put up. Fortunately for him, others (RAF, and RN) will succeed in their resistance.  He'll do his bit, reporting the bombers he see's over head, maybe directing searchlights or AA fire and having his men ready if the unthinkable happens.   

This 25mm Figure was given as a thank you to Game Masters are one the conventions last year (I don't remember which one) it was Printed by Tim of Trench Coat Miniatures   you should check them out.  

'Resistance' by KerryT: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War

Morning, afternoon and evening all

I've had great fun again with this theme with as usual my initial plan growing bigger, out of proportion to the time I had left and as a result not as complete as I would have liked

Some years ago I printed and painted a Castle and buildings from The King & Country range by Printable scenery. Last year I signed up to their Throne & Ash Kickstarter and for the past few months have been busy printing. About 2 weeks ago, they released a model of a Barbican and this was to be the centre piece of my entry. Then my printer broke and I needed a new part. Fortunately this arrived on Monday, the lower level took nearly 2 days to print though. I managed to finish painting it this afternoon! Phew

The whole shebang from above

Ignore the mess in the background

As the first picture shows, I bought some STL files in the MMF sale and printed off a load of artillery, 2 siege towers (Northern Crusade Miniatures) and 2 traction trebuchets ( Reconquer Designs) and a Ram with crew ( Reconquer Designs). I also found some STL of infantry climbing ladders

 

I've set things up to look like an attack on a walled city with attacking elements being gunpowder artillery, Ballistas throwing rocks, a mine that has caused a wall to collapse and a Ram along with infantry attempting to scale the walls. Defenders have boiling oil and giant crossbow machines

Knock knock

The Barbican

These are not a kind of sheep

Looking down the walls

Atop the Earls Keep

Frying tonight

the destroyed Ram

The mine

Heavy Bombards

All those figures and pieces, along with the walls and towers apart from a small section on the right have been painted in the past 2-3 weeks. I couldn't resist adding some additional troops for effect though in the following photos

English infantry walking on ready to exploit any breakthrough

I, really not sure how to score all of this, particularly the terrain

Figure wise I have the following

2 Ballista & 15 Crew

8 guns/bombards & 24 Crew

5 Heavy crossbows (defense) and 10 crew

7 pots of oil and 6 crew

1 Ram & 6 crew

6 Barricades

1 Destroyed Ram

2 Siege towers

1 Mine/bit of terrain

25 infantry with ladders

In total

86 Foot @ 5 points = 430 points

8 artillery pieces @ 10 pints = 80

2 large ballista and 2 siege towers ( vehicles) 20 pints? = 80 points

Walls - 6 foot long and 15 cms high?

2 rams ? = 20 points

Various barricades and I don't think I can claim artillery for the pots of oil

Theme Bonus points 50

Around 660 points without what I've failed to count points for

Apologies, all a mad rush in the end to get it posted

I had hoped to get some infantry for the siege towers and crossbow defenders done but ran out of time!

1 Squirrel - 100YW English

Thanks for looking

Valleyboy

'Resistance' by PaulSS: We resist the grave itself!

 

Late into the Challenge and the chance to start a new project! 

Chatting at the club we wanted to start playing some classic fantasy Midgard, as well as the new Wargames Atlantic plastic there are also the 10mm prints from Forest Dragon.

I decided to do the restless dead and purchased a few units and manged to get these two units of skeleton warriors finished in time for the bonus round, restless dead resisting the grave!

These are really great sculpts and I think suit my painting style, in 10mm that is blocked in basecoats, wash with soft tone and then reapply one, maybe two highlights.

My target is to get a few more units done before the end of the challenge.

72 10mm figures plus the round bonus should add 122 points to my total.