AHPC XIII - 6th Submission

 

This week saw my 6th submission for AHPC XIII, a bunch of 15mm cavalry for my Early Imperial Roman army. 

Full post here

These were submitted for the "Swords & Sandals" studio.

Numidian light cavalry:

Roman Auxiliary cavalry:

The next studio will be "Fantasy" - I have some figures primed and ready for that, but I will do the Gallic cavalry first.

Wednesday Workbench 25 January 2023

 

I've reached the slow-point with this batch of figures - basing. At least I only have the drybrushing and static grass left to do, so they will be finished tomorrow. 

You may be thinking "there aren't as many cavalry figures in that photo as you showed last week", and you'd be right. Given the time that basing was going to take (mostly due to slower drying at this time of year), I realised after finishing the Romans that I wouldn't be able to get the Gallic cavalry done in time. Their horses are finished, so it's just the riders that need painting, so they will be submitted next week.

I've also primed a few figures for the next studio visit, but I'm unlikely to get any of them painted in time to submit this week.

AHPC XIII - 4th and 5th Submissions

 I didn't get quite as far as I'd hoped to this week, but still managed to get two entries submitted. Only three figures, but next week should see a much bigger points grab.

Entry # 4 - Ralph & Rosie

This pair of bold adventurers are from Artizan's Thrilling Tales range, and were submitted for the "High Adventure" studio, completing the four studios I needed to visit to move onto the Blue zone.

Full post here

Entry #5 - Rebecca Cameron

This is another Thrilling Tales figure which I submitted for the Westerns studio, my first in the Blue zone.

Full post here

The next studio in the Blue zone is "Swords & Sandals" - I should have the figures done for that this week - rather a lot of 15mm cavalry. If all goes well, I might also have an entry in for the studio after that - Fantasy.

Wednesday Workbench 18 January 2023

 

I've finished painting a handful of figures for the next two studio locations I'm visiting (High Adventure and  Westerns) - no progress pics on those. I've started work on a load of 15mm cavalry - these were prepped and primed for last year's Challenge, but I didn't have time for them then and never got round to painting them until now.

The first two strips are some Numidian cavalry which I'll be submitting for the "Swords & Sandals" studio; the next 16 figures are some more Roman cavalry and the final 16 are Gallic cavalry. These are all for my Early Imperial Roman army. They could all be submitted for "Swords & Sandals", but I can only finish a few in time for submission on friday, so I'm going to focus on the Numidians; the Roman and Gallic cavalry will get submitted next week as a non-studio entry.

AHPC XIII - First 3 Submissions

 First of all, apologies for the lack of posts recently. I was ill over Christmas up until New Year and it had left me wiped out. For about a week afterwards I was recuperating and catching up on all the stuff I hadn't been able to do while ill.

I managed to get back to painting just over a week ago, but not in time to get a submission in last Friday.

The start of my illness wasn't too bad. Bad enough to stop me travelling to Sussex for Christmas, but not bad enough to prevent me from finishing my first entry.

Entry #1 - Klegg Hai!

I had fun painting this trio of alien mercenaries for Judge Dredd games. You can find the full post here. Having decided to participate in this year's Challenge Map frolics, these were my submission for the SciFi studio.

Entry #2 Judge Dredd Bust

For the next studio on the map, Black & White, I decided to paint up this bust of Old Stony Face. The full post is here.

This was the 50% scale bust - I still have the 75% and 25% ones which have been primed.

Entry #3 German AFVs

The next studio to hit was "Under Construction". Normally for the Challenge you can't submit any figures or models that have been started (ie more than just priming) before it begins. This studio does allow you to submit work which had been started beforehand but you don't get points for those models/figures, just the studio bonus points. You might remember that I hit a bit of a block with these three vehicles back in August - this studio was the perfect excuse to break through that block. I did get a few extra points though as I also painted the commander for the StuG and the loader for the 37mm in the 251/10. I submitted this entry in the same post as the Dredd bust.

I've started work on figures for my next two studio visits - High Adventure and Westerns. If all goes well, I should have a bigger entry for the "Swords & Sandals" studio as well next Friday.

Eve Of Challenge Post

 

Yes, folks - tomorrow is the start of AHPC XIII. I am once again participating as a, errr, participant and also doing minion duties. For those of you who follow the Challenge, I am not going to be the Senior Flight Attendant this year. Instead I will be the Senior Studio Tour Guide, to fit in with the theme of this year's Bonus map.

As you can see from the photo above I have my painting desk set up and ready to go in the morning. I haven't decided yet what figures will hit the table first - I have a few choices. Whatever I decide on, it will have to be something quick so that (if possible) I can get a post submitted on Day One. The next one will also need to be a quick job as I will be heading off to Sussex on Friday morning and don't want to leave figures partially painted.

Before setting the painting desk up, I took some photos of what I've primed and 3D printed since my last post:

Primed Stuff

That's the three Judge Dredd busts I printed a while ago, the Kleggs (replacements for the missing parts were received a couple of weeks ago) and some 3D printed figures from 2nd Dynasty. For the last set, I decided to try printing the pre-supported models intended for resin printers - they looked OK-ish, but once primed I realised how bad the layer lines are on them:

As there is no way of overcoming that with painting, I'm going to scrap those. Having seen them primed, I also printed one figure without the pre-supports but using the ones from the slicer software. I haven't primed it yet. I suspect that I will end up having to find someone with a resin printer to print them for me to get a decent quality for painting.

I'm still printing out Traveller cargo containers:

Sealed

Controlled Environment

Standard

I've got all the Sealed and Controlled Environment containers I'll ever want; I need a few more to fill that board of Standard containers. And then I'll want to fill one or two more boards of Standard containers! When these are done (sometime tomorrow) I will have on each board: 6 x 2 Ton, 6 x 4 Ton and 2 x 6 Ton containers. Any extra containers I print will be the 4 Ton ones.

I also decided to try re-scaling some of the small "crate" size items to container size:

Quad Gas Cylinders, 1 Ton

Gas Can, 4 Ton

Yesterday, I was coming to the end of a spool of filament. there wasn't enough left to do any containers, so I thought I'd print another grave bike. Each bike takes 3 prints (the bike, the windshield and the stand). I'd printed one stand and underestimated how much filament was remaining - I didn't think there was enough to do the rest of one bike, but enough to print another stand. When that was done, I had enough left to print a third stand - if I'd estimated better I would have had enough to print one complete grav bike.  However, with two complete bikes already printed (one I have posted, one I haven't) I decided to print two windshields. There was still a bit of filament left so I did a quick print of something else, changed spools and then printed two bikes. Here are the three bikes you haven't seen before:

Over the next three months, I will mostly be blogging twice a week - you'll get my Wednesday Workbench posts and on Saturday's there will either be a post of my submissions for that week (my assigned posting day is Friday) or a progress update.

Paint Table Saturday 10 December 2022

 

And...I'm back. I haven't had anything to post, apart from 3D prints. I still don't really, but thought that I ought to post something anyway.

At the moment I'm getting myself sorted for the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge which begins in just over a week. That has meant getting the various bits together for my main project. Then deciding that I need to reprint some of them. There are a couple of parts that I'm having a big problem with; hopefully I'll finally get them right this week.

I ordered some more primers and paints and they arrived a few days ago:

That should be enough to see me through the Type S Scout Courier.

3D Printing

I've carried on with printing Traveller cargo containers, in between printing other things.

Standard Containers:

Sealed Containers:

Controlled Environment Containers:

I've also printed some alternative partitions and bulkheads for the Type S Scout Courier with the doors fused in place - they should be easier for painting.

The Beowulf Kickstarter campaign I backed has released the ship files and also most of the stretch goals - not bad when you consider that it's less than a month since the end of the campaign. I've been printing some of the smaller items.

Grav Bike, Emergency Low Berths & Air Raft Van 

Rampart Light Fighter

I've shown it on the stand but I've also printed landing gear in case I decide to put it in a hangar diorama.

Well, that's all for now folks!