'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.

'Toy Story' from PaulSS - From Hot Wheels Max Steel to Gaslands Fusty Rucker

 

I think I was always going to do a Hot Wheels for this round, but I was tootling away painting more stuff for the Barons' War when I got a reminder at 1630 on 6th Feb that submissions for the bonus round need to be in tomorrow. 

I've got a pile of Hot Wheels still in their blister packs - I'm constantly picking up something interesting when I see it - so I grabbed this Max Steel and my stash of bits and set to with the super glue and accelerator. 

The ram, scoop and wheel spikes are all 3D prints while the driver is a wasteland warrior from North Star in a groovy Soviet era style gas mask, he'll need it with no windshield!

The whole thing was given a blast of Khaki primer and after allowing a probably less than reasonable time to dry was base-coated in several rusty browns and then given a wash of Strong Tone. Once that was dry I built up the rust layers adding final blooms of orange and bare metal and painted the driver in a mix of military greens. The exhausts and fuel tank were given extra rust treatment with some Dirty Down and then set about with Tamiya Weathering Powders before a blast of Matt Varnish and photos.

 This rust bucket just made it over the line!

A 20mm vehicle and a 20mm driver plus the theme bonus points should add 69pts to my total.

'Empire' From PaulSS 6mm 1815 French - 132pts

1815 Marked the end of the First French Empire. After a year in exile on Elba Napoleon escaped, retook France and eventually saw defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

Last challenge I started on some 6mm 1815 French to use against my Prussians - you can find my last post here - shamefully I'd not painted another figure for this collection for nearly a whole year .

The first of the new additions is a battalion of French light infantry to join the seven battalions done so far.

The movement trays are from Warbases and allow me to deploy them in either column or line.

The standard is a bit rough, the pre-printed Baccus ones are a bit to big for the figures, so this one was knocked up with paint markers.

The next unit added is a regiment of Chevaux Legere lancers, representing the 6th Lancers, although at this scale they really could be any of them.

The second unit of this light cavalry brigade is the 4th Hussars.

I needed a few more commanders for our General d'Armee 2 games so these represent a CinC plus three Brigadiers 

Finally a battery of artillery comprised of three 6pdr guns and a howitzer.

Fifty 6mm mounted plus 56 foot and four guns with the Empire bonus should add 132 points to my total.