'Resistance' by RayR: Winter War 1939-40, Finnish Medic

  

Resistance: Submit a freshly painted figure (or figures) and/or piece of terrain illustrating resistance by a group or individual. The subject can be from history, myth or fiction.

Well that should be easy, any of my Finns fit in perfick!

I missed out posting my Toy Story Theme by a day, so I've made sure I've got the Resistance theme done this time round.

Here we have a Finnish Medic and his unarmoured helpers., all figures are from Parkfield Miniatures.

During the Winter War, Finnish medics worked under extremely harsh conditions to treat soldiers wounded in the fighting against the Soviet Union. Operating in deep snow, freezing temperatures, and often under enemy fire, they evacuated casualties from forests and frozen battlefields using sleds, skis, and improvised stretchers. Despite limited medical supplies and small field hospitals, Finnish doctors, nurses, and stretcher-bearers managed to stabilize thousands of wounded troops, playing a crucial role in maintaining the resilience and resistance of the Finland’s army during the brutal winter campaign.

For the points i will get 50pts for the Theme Round Bonus

and 15 points for all three 25mm figures, making a grand total of 65 pts!

'Empire' From RayR - Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 15mm 66pts

For the bonus rounds I always try and paint something that I actually need or want. Sometimes this isn't possible, so every show I pick up a few odds and sods figures that might cone in handy. But when I saw Empire, I knew exactly what I'd be painting up.

I'd already decided that I'd start my new 15mm project, the Siege of Vienna in 1683, so all I needed to do was decide what unit to paint up.

I began to run out of time so chose a command stand, instead of a unit.

The figures are old Minifigs, that I picked up at Broadside Wargame Show last June and were a pleasure to paint up to be honest. The base is a 60mm circle from the fab, Warbases. 

The base represents Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Commander in Chief of the entire Ottoman army. Pasha personally directed the siege and bore the full responsibility for its conduct and outcome. Due to the failure of the siege and campaign he was executed on 25th December 1683 in Belgrade, by being strangles with a silk cord, which was the traditional method for high ranking Ottoman officials!!!

After that cheerful bit of information, its onto the points, 50 pts for the bonus round and 4 pts each for the cavalry, so another 16 pts, giving a total of 66pts.

'Fellowship' from RayR: Gandulf

Can't believe the Challenge is nearly over for another year???

This being the final Bonus Round " Fellowship"

As soon as I read the name Fellowship I knew my entry would have to be from

Lord of the Rings. I've got a box with all sorts of odds and ends from Games Workshop's range.

Gandulf here was at the bottom still sitting in his red backed blister pack begging to be painted up!

To be honest he was originally bought to be painted up and sold on ebay

many years ago, but I never got around to it.

Another reason for painting up Gandulf was he was quite an easy paint, being all white!!

But the most important was Gandulf was the defacto leader of the "Fellowship" in LotR, not Frodo

and if our defacto leader the SnowLord, Curt himself put on a white wig, he could be Gandulf!!

This entry will be winging its way over the Atlantic soon as my Curtgeld

so a few more points will come my way, only if Curt laughed at my Gandulf/Curt pun that is.

'Water Feature' from RayR: Napoleonic Landing Party

Its Bonus Round time once again. This week the theme is "Water Feature"

I was going to paint up a Native American canoe or a few empty 15mm boats, I mentioned it

to Postie. who had a lightbulb moment.

Hence the boats...

I gave him these two British Napoleonic Landing boats a few years ago, I think

 I bought them on ebay??

So I'm unsure of who makes them?

They could be AB???

There are 19 x 15mm figures

1 x small gun

and of course the 2 boats

They're based on stiff card, that I stuck a few lolly pop sticks to, to stiffen the base

up even more. Then they're coated in pollyfilla, to create the wave effect.

Hopefully they won't warp?

I thought they'd be easy to paint gluing the figures in place on the boats first.

Oh how wrong I was!!!!

It took me double the time to paint these as it should.

But I'm pretty pleased with the results.

So that should be

38 for the figures

2 for the gun, its not that big really...........Oi, none of that either!!

16 for the boats

50 bonus points

106 in total???

'Mercenary' from RayR: Baron de Kronberg Hussars

This was probably the easiest bonus round in this years Analogue Hobbies Painting 

Challenge,"Mercenary"

I could have painted loads of figures for this round, I bet most of us could have?

I chose to go back to my 15mm Beneath the Lilly Banners French army.

The Baron de Kronberg Hussars made their first appearance in the French army in 1692.

They had 2 squadrons and were commanded by a Hungarian in French service called Baron de Kronberg or Cornsberg. They were later in 1693 known as Mortani. 

They were a shortlived unit when Kronberg fell into disgrace and left France. In 1697 they ceased to exist.

Now here's the dodgy thing, There is no information on their uniform at all.

So I made it all up!! Shock- Horror! I thought red and yellow coats looked cool and it'd be a  complete contrast to the rather boring grey coats of most

of the French army.

The figures are from my favourite goto for the 1690's Essex Miniatures!
This is the same unit that Sir Sidney Roundwood recently painted up in the Challenge!!!

'Sport' from RayR: Lacrosse

Its Analogue Painting Challenge Bonus round again and I've gone all 

Native for the "Sport" Bonus round.

I will admit to being stumped at what to paint up for this round, I even considered 

and placed a few bids on ebay for some various Bloodbowl figures. I pretty glad I lost the bids!

I remembered back in the midst of time, 2012 to be precise I painted up some 15mm Indian 

villagers here. Some of these were playing Lacrosse, so a seed was planted.

I had a few (ok, a lot) of unpainted Indians wallowing in the dead lead pile, so I went to work

with a scalpel, file and drill, chopping off warclubs and such and came up with these 4 chaps.

The goal was quite a simple build, its made out of the three straightest twigs

I had in my Twig box, painted, inked and drybrushed and  stuck on a Warbses base

and will be used as decoration 

in any games we play involving an indian village.

He's my fav, not a lot of conversion work on him I'm afraid, he came straight of the 

packet of Redoubt Torch carriers.

As did the chap on the right.

All 4 figures are from Redoubt Enterprises.

Just for interest, here's how I made the Lacosse Sticks.

I cut and bent some soldering wire to shape.

Then folded a piece of plasterboard scrim in half, I fed the wire into the fold and 

and cut to shape. I then had to cut a thin fine line and glue it to the bottom of the net.

Easy!

Well it wasn't that easy, I super-glued my fingers together 3 times!!

Oh the things we do for the hobby!

'Reconnaissance' from RayR: That way

Its Bonus round time again. Curt seems to bamboozle me each year with his choices for

bonus rounds and this year, its no different.

I always try and use figures I've already got or I can use in any of the periods

I already own. Luckily I already had these figures in my unpainted pile. 

The figures are from Redoubt Miniatures Scout pack, with 1 addition, the chap with the white face.

Obviously as they're a Scout pack the fine fellows would have been sent out to recon

the area or track their enemy, but they can also be used as normal warriors.

I really like the Redoubt Indians, they're so full of character and life.

I tried out the Army Painter Strong Tone on these, its a bloody godsend!

I shall be using this a lot more often from now on.

30 points for the figures plus an extra 5 for the luvvly shading plus the Bonus round bonus of 50 points makes a grand total of 575 (Editor: WTF?).

'Monstrous' from RayR: Monstrous Trio

Here's my entry into the Monstrous bonus round.

Frankenstein, Dracula & Death

All three are from The Dr Who collection from Black Tree Designs.

This was for me another difficult round, unfortunately I couldn't find anything to

fit into it from my lead pile. So a quick email to Black Tree and these naughty boys

arrived in the post a few day later.

I do like the Frankenstein and Death figures, I'm not so keen on poor old Vlad.

He's a bit of a bore really being all in black.

But what other colour can he be?

Dracula

Death once again a tad on the black side, but hey what you gonna do?