AHPC9 Day 69 - Wednesday Workbench 27 February

This pic shows my workbench first thing this morning:

These figures were for my "Fellowship" bonus round entry. I finished them this afternoon and the post has been submitted.

After a bit of a break, I have started work on the rest of the 15mm WW2 Russians:

I should finish painting the "in progress" board tomorrow morning, allowing me to make a good start on the other board, probably finishing them on Friday. That just leaves the infantry support weapons (Maxim guns and mortars) which I'll be doing over the weekend. Monday will see a big basing session and they should be ready to submit on Tuesday.

AHPC9 Day 68 - Tuesday Update 26 February

Only 22 days left of the Challenge! I guess I'd better keep the pace up.

After last week's disappointment, I have had three entries submitted this week totaling 403 points.

My first entry was some early WW2 Aussies:

*linky-link*

My second entry was some 15mm WW2 Soviets

*linky-link*

I finished up the day with some 28mm pulp figures:

*linky-link*

These have seen me jump to 4th place with 2586 points, 414 points away from my original target (639 points if I exclude my bonus points from theme rounds). Once the results of the final bonus round are in, I will be increasing the target to reflect my bonus points total. 

AHPC9 Day 67 - Cor Blimey, Guv'nor!

Well, blow me down with a feather - this old rust-bucket came third in the "Water Feature" bonus round. I will admit that I thought (and hoped) I might get an "honourable mention", but never thought I'd garner enough votes for a top 3 spot.

You can see all the winners here: *linky-link*

AHPC9 Day 65 - Saturday Workbench 23 February

The early war Aussies (well, the Warlord ones) are all finished and I've submitted the post for next Tuesday. I realised that I wouldn't have time to finish the Perry plastics as well, so decided to move onto something else that I could get enough finished for in time. As you can see, I went for the Wars of the Roses project...


...just kidding! I went for the 15mm WW2 Soviets.

Let's take a quick look at all the boards:

Two rifle platoons

AT rifles, "spares" two scout squads, "spares", Tank rider platoon

Mortars, Maxim guns, AT and infantry guns

Artillery crews

I started work on the two rifle platoons yesterday evening, and finished painting them this afternoon.

I've given them a coat of Klear and will be doing the basing once these are done:

I've started work on the guns (edge highlights and tyres). They should be finished quite quickly leaving me time to make a start on the crews tonight. I think that they should be done by lunchtime tomorrow. At that point I'll add stick the crew figures (and shell crates) to the gun bases. I should be able to add the basing gunk late tomorrow, then finish them on Monday. While I'm waiting for the gunk to dry, I'll be able to work on something else, probably my entry for the fight (and final!) bnus round.

AHPC9 Day 62 - Wednesday Workbench 20 February

Finished (other than basing) on left; WIP on right

Oh, heck! There are just four weeks left until the end of the Challenge! *whimper*

I'm getting rather annoyed by this virus. I was in full swing yesterday and first thing this morning, then "Ha! You thought I'd gone, didn't you? Here, have a large dose of lethargy and inability to focus.". As a result, I haven't managed to finish painting the third batch of Warlord plastics today. Hopefully I'll be OK tomorrow and can get them finished then.

I'm in a little bit of a quandary about which project to go for when the early war Aussies are out of the way. There are two good sized projects waiting in the wings, and I would like to do both but doubt I'd have time for that. The projects are my 15mm WW2 Soviets and my 28mm Wars of the Roses army. It might be the case that I do some of each over the next four weeks.

AHPC9 Day 61 - Today's Submission

As the early war Aussies weren't going to be ready for submission today (I finished painting the second batch of 10 this morning, and have started on the third batch this evening) I spent a couple of hours this afternoon painting up a couple of figures for my pulp collection:

The post can be viewed here: *linky-link*

Yes, two 28mm figures for a whopping ten points!


When the third batch of Aussies are painted, I'll do the basing on them before I start on the Perry plastics. All together they should add another 350 points to my total. I should be able to get a few other figures painted up for next week's submission, but I haven't decided what yet.

AHPC9 Day 59 - Water Feature Bonus Round

Today saw the entries for the fourth of this year's bonus theme rounds posted. And what a varied bunch they are.

You can view the full gallery here:

*linky-link*

It is recommended that you use the links in the right-hand sidebar to move between posts as Blogger sometimes skips if you hit "newer post" or "older post".

My entry, as you saw in Wednesday's workbench post was a cargo ship:

*linky-link*

Things I realised when painting this ship:

1. It would have been best to do the priming and base colours before assembling the ship.

2. Poundshop masking tape isn't just low tack, it's virtually non-existent tack. This caused some problems when I was airbrushing the white stripe on the deck sections (the stripes on the superstructure were hand-painted).


The ship is a 28mm MDF kit from TT Combat. I also painted up some deck equipment (not shown in the pic above) from Pulp Figures.


ps don't forget to vote for all the entries you think deserve a vote.