AHPC XII 5th & 6th Entries - Mongols & Georgians; Crashed Starship

 Both of my entries got posted yesterday.

15mm Mongol and Georgian Cavalry:

The post can be found here: linky-link

28mm Crashed Starship:

The post can be found here: linky-link

Both posts include continuations of "The Adventures of Oscar" and "Extract from the journal of TamsinP" for your entertainment.

I've started work on the next batch of figures. I'm alternating weeks - one week will be a chunk of WW2 Japanese; the next week will be something else.

I'm currently well ahead of schedule for achieving my 1300 points target, so if I finish a batch early, I can use the "spare" days to work on things for my final few entries.

Paint Table Saturday 29 January 2022

 

I finished the crashed starship terrain yesterday afternoon, and took photos of it for my Challenge submission this morning. The 15mm cavalry was completely finished and photographed on Thursday. Both entries have been submitted and should get posted sometime tomorrow.

As you can see, if I have got a few bits on the workbench right now. This afternoon I have given my "dirty work" airbrush a thorough clean - it's drying out right now.

At the back, you have this lot:

I did some priming yesterday of the Japanese reinforcements which arrived last week. Last night I assembled the Type 97 Chi-Ha tank. The kit also allows you to make the Shinhoto variant; as I had the top-deck and most of the turret parts for that one left over I decided to make it up as well, to use as a dug-in (pretty much buried) anti-tank emplacement. I got those primed today.

I've also dulled down some more aquarium plants with brown ink wash and varnished them. They're for adding to larger bases.

Some shinies for my "secret project" arrived a couple of days ago, and another item for it has been dispatched. No photos, or my plans may be revealed!

Wednesday Workbench 26 January 2022

 

I've got a couple of things on the go at the moment. I've finished painting the 15mm cavalry, varnished them, popped them off their painting sticks and glued them onto bases. 

I'll be adding basing texture tomorrow, but they'll need time to dry so that probably means it'll be Friday that I get to add static grass to finish them.

I've also part-filled the two "planters" from the MDF Plaza kit with a bit of 10mm blue foam in the bottom and then some texture paste over it.

At the back you can see something that I've been working on for the past week or so. It's some of the "Crashed Starship" terrain from Blotz. Over the next couple of days I will be airbrushing and weathering it.

AHPC XII 4th Entry - WW2 Japanese Pt. 2

 

My 4th entry got posted yesterday: linky-link

It consists of the second rifle squad for my Japanese core platoon:

A FOO Team:

and a Type 92 70mm Infantry Gun Team:

The post also includes two silly tales - the next installment of Oscar's time-traveling adventures and a return of "Extract of the journal of TamsinP: Time Traveler, Society Girl and Adventuress".

Work on my next two entries is progressing well; I'm hoping that both will be ready for Sunday.

Paint Table Saturday 22 January 2022

 

I finished the Japanese last night, took photos today and have submitted the post in good time for publication tomorrow.

With that out of the way, what's on the workbench now?

Some 15mm cavalry is what! So far I've done the base colours on the horses; later tonight I'll apply the wash and should finish detailing them tomorrow. Then it will be on to the riders. If all goes well, these will be finished by Thursday.

But what's in those bags? Ahhh, that's something I started work on a couple of days ago, but you'll just have to wait until they're done to see.

During the week I placed a couple of orders and they both arrived this afternoon:

Some paints from SnM Stuff and some goodies from Warlord.

Another pack for Mega City One and some reinforcements for my Japanese. The other pack above the tank? Errmmm, well, that's for a secret project.

While I was taking photos of the Japanese earlier today, I also took the opportunity to take photos ofthe MDF terrain I'd assembled in something resembling a layout:

That's a very cramped 80cm x 60cm. I had thought I might want to order some extra pre-fab buildings, but it looks as though I might not need them.

Wednesday Workbench 19 January 2022

 

I've done very little painting since the weekend. All I've done on that front is to basecoat and wash the next batch of WW2 Japanese:

That doesn't mean that I've been idle. Oh, no, sirree - I've been busy de-spruing, cleaning up and assembling a load of MDF terrain. This is what I've assembled so far:

That's everything that was in the "white box bundle" I bought from TT Combat at last year's SELWG show.

I've also de-sprued some MDF scatter terrain:

The bits in the bags are from Blotz, the rest is from TT Combat. I'll be cleaning the bits up (at least, those that need them) and getting them assembled tomorrow.

As a result, I have quite a stack of sprues to snip up for use with damaged buildings:

Of course, tomorrow I will also be painting those Japanese in between bouts of MDF work.

I'm not sure when I'll get round to working on the terrain. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get them primed and painted during the Challenge.

AHPC XII 3rd Entry - 15mm Ancient Germans

 

I managed to finish the basing on the ancient Germans in plenty of time to submit them yesterday. They got posted last night: linky-link.

In terms of scoring, these have put me back on track for my target of 1300 points, making up for the lack of work done over the holiday period.

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to finish the Japanese in time to submit them yesterday - I was waiting for the basing to dry before matte varnishing them, but it didn't happen in time so I did the varnishing this morning.