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t the swiss confederacy during the italian wars and resulted in a decisive french victory establishing the dominance of french gendarmes and artillery over the swiss phalanx tactics in celebration francis requested he be knighted on the battlefield by the chevalier bayard iain had suitable miniatures for both the king and chevalier chevalier bayard real name pierre terrail 1473 1524 seems like one of those larger than life figures of history known as the knight beyond fear and reproach though he apparently preferred just the good knight he was considered the epitome of chivalry and most skillful commanders of the age he boasts some rather excessive headwear and fashionable mustard leggings iainw painted king francis himself here they are based together having been dispatched over the pond to join curt s italian wars collection so by a long way my lowest challenge output yet just a handful of miniatures but i had anticip ated a small tally and set a low target and judicious use of the theme rounds meant that i managed to hit my 200 points in the closing week if anything i ve fallen deeper into a miniatures hobby lull in the months since barely picking up a brush and seemingly little able to motivate me that doesn t feel like a problem to me at the moment instead i ve been leaning pretty heavily into a multitude of board games and card games more social than just sitting upstairs painting and very much more accessible both in terms of access to people to game with and requiring less time and focus away from the table but i ve been a miniature gamer for so many years i ve no doubt that i ll just take this little hiatus but be back at it when i find something to inspire me i do have the rather excellent operation market larden event coming up this weekend where i get to enjoy some frankly stunning looking games using my favourite rulesets which might get the creative juices flowing posted by phyllion at 21 36 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 28mm pulp 28mm scw 35mm superheroes 7th ahpc empress miniatures flags of war knight models statuesque miniatures terrain tuesday 18 october 2016 i aten t ded well it s been a while more than five months since my last post but no need to worry i ve not fallen off the ends of the earth or been taken by dimensional horrors yet no it s just been a deeper summer lull than usual for me with little miniature hobby enthusiasm to post about due in parts to other hobbies distractions and general life stuff including quite a few games of netrunner both in my local meta and travelling to a couple of organised play events but i ve been languidly back at the brushes in recent weeks to the the point where i ve actually finished something huzzah yes another two requetes for the scw started months ago sat idle for the summer and finished off over the past fortnight but beyond these i ve not been totally idle after the last ahpc i dug out all of my terrain for a good sort out into worthy completed pieces bits that needed some repairs or a refresh to meet current standards and stocktake the many bits and pieces that i ve picked up over the years one of the new pieces that i built was this walled apple orchard this was my first dabble in using the crazy cheap trees that can be sourced from china on ebay while a bit uniform and of dubious colour i tarted mine up with some paint and reckon they came out ok as good as model railway trees on the cheaper end anyway while i could have squeezed a couple more trees onto the base i left it a bit roomy to easily fit miniatures on giving the effect of an orchard while hopeful the trees would get less mauled with usage i did briefly consider doing the trees separate to the main base too but felt it unnecessary i also knocked up another coir mat field as more area terrain always comes in useful and reworked a kitchen garden veg patch that i made years ago and a whole host of other repairs including re basing and re foliaging my hedgerow set in a nutshell what i ve been up to miniatures wise but as they say winter is coming which means we re heading full tilt for the analogue hobbies painting challenge for that i ve got miniatures to prep including a new project with that brother of mine gharak you should definitely see more of me over the winter months posted by phyllion at 21 14 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 28mm scw empress miniatures ramble terrain saturday 30 april 2016 a new distraction it s all been a bit quiet from me here since the end of ahpc vi reason for that is i stumbled on an active netrunner community locally and decided to take up the many opportunity for some gaming with cards a new interest that came out of nowhere android netrunner is an asymmetric cyberpunk living card game by fantasy flight games one player plays a mega corporation looking to advance their agendas while protecting their secrets and servers their opponent plays a plucky runner looking to hack servers and steal secrets for reasons including profit and anarchism it s huge fun to play from both perspectives with the asymmetric design offering hidden information bluffing and clever plays galore this past month i ve been enjoying throwing myself into learning the game which has a well developed meta game the theme and depth complexity seems to draw an older crowd compared to its competitors and the local players have been invariably friendly welcoming inclusive and generous with their time in showing new players like me the ropes and i appreciate ffgs lcg format no blind packs and artificial rarity of cards nonsense i m fortunate that there s two regular local meets a week and a group of players that play over lunch at work those opportunities mean i ve played something like 50 games over the past month a bit embarrassing compared to how infrequently i tend to actually get minis onto the table it s not entirely fair to compare with wargaming of course with a nr being a 20 40 minute game and hugely more transportable a nr is a great game definitely recommended by me but where does that leave wargaming well no change really i ve been at it for 20 years and it s always been a hobby that s waxed and waned with competing hobbies and pressures on time post ahpc i ve been surveying my terrain collection and have been fixing and rebasing various little used pieces to bring them up to scratch i ll continue with that until my enthusiasm gets fired up to paint some minis my fresh copy of the new version of lardy rule set sharp practice is a likely candidate for that posted by phyllion at 22 07 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels netrunner saturday 9 april 2016 sixth ahpc march 2016 and final tally the dust has settled after the manic last week s of the analogue hobbies painting challenge votes have been cast and prizes awarded as things should be the challengers are able to shuffle back into the sunlight for another nine months my first entry in march was my curtgeld for the challenge for which i drew on our shared interest in the spanish civil war that s what i ve been painting for most of the past year and curt s own collection has been a great inspiration so here s my rendition of eric blair better known by his pen name george orwell from his time serving in the spanish civil war he s from artizan designs thrilling tales range they ve managed a very good likeness in december 1936 blair a democratic socialist and staunch anti fascist set out for spain to fight for the republicans entering catalonia from france he encountered the conflicting factions supporting the government in barcalona and joined the worker s party of marxist unification poum sent to the quiet aragon front he initially saw little action only deprivations visited on the loyalists from lack of supplies having recnently married his wife eileen o shaughnessy visited him there he traveled to madrid intending to join the communist party s international brigades there he was appalled at the factionalism dogging the republican cause and denunciations of poum from the communist press and resolved to return to catalonia instead back at the front he was wounded in the neck by a sniper and ruled medically unfit to serve longer blair being 6 2 was probably a factor you can identify him in the photo below standing a head taller than his comrades by june poum had been outlawed as a fascist organisation that hindered the republican cause and as its members were arrested and put on trial blair fled to france and then back to england so why a gambler daredevil or risk taker well i thought as a published author setting aside his burgeoning career to participate in an unpopular foreign conflict for his beliefs was quite a colossal gamble and actively seeking combat to fight for what he believed in was undoubtedly risky he travelled specifically to fight not as a writer though he later wrote classics about the conflict i painted him as best i could to fit in with curt s existing scw collection choosing appropriate colours as best i could and using more subtle skin tone to my usual the base is left bare for curt to match i couldn t resist giving him a patch showing his allegiance to poum a white hammer and sickle on red for the challenge theme round gamblers daredevils or risk takers i entered a diorama of a downed spanish civil war republican fighter whose pilot managed to nursed his beloved mosca into a crash landing the republican pilots of the scw were doubtless daredevils gamblers and risk takers outnumbered they started the war with obsolete planes and were quickly up against the german condor legion and italian legionary air force supplied by the rebel s allies the rebels superior air power innovative and controversial use of it contributed to many of their successes and to republican defeats the plane is a polikarpov i 16 type 10 fighter nicknamed the mosca fly by the republicans and ratta by the rebels more than 250 i 16s were supplied but the soviets to the republican air force this is a 1 48 scale kit from czech company eduard i was originally looking to build a reconnaisance or light bomber intending to do a larger plane but under scale in 1 76 but the scw is less well served by kits compared to wwii so i went for this larger i 16 in quick build weekend edition it s got a pleasingly soviet functional look it s snub nose making it look a bit like an oil drum with wings i was really chuffed to snag one for a mere 9 with delivery too unfortunately the decals weren t usable but i painted on the main markings i built the kit as is as google fu d pictures of crashed i 16s seemed to be impressively whole they must be pretty sturdy so i just knocked some bullet holes in and had fun doing some mangled landing gear and a shrub that had been clipped as debris the embryo for this idea was originally to be my curtgeld a thought to do a scw pilot as daredevil for curt i ditched that idea quickly when i remembered that curt had already put on that scenario http analogue hobbies blogspot co uk 2014 09 worst case scenario 12 condor down html the pilot miniature is from the scw edition of painting war magazine a really neat miniature though much skinnier and more finely detailed than the main 28mm scw ranges mine also had weird casting issue of horizontal lines all the way down the front it looked almost like 3d printed minis do i got most of them off eventually lastly the theme entry was a gamble for myself i only got the pilot the weekend before the deadline and ordered the i 16 the following very fortunate it arrived by thursday to build and paint and that i could find enough time to get it and the pilot done curt s impromptus extension bailed me out there next came a scw schneider m1908 70mm mountain gun submitted on the final day to provide some heavy firepower for my nationalists a squat little thing in a fine empress kit each spanish infantry battalion had one of these and unlike many support weapons there were actually enough for the peninsular army to receive their allocation they were typical detached and brigaded together into batteries i couldn t find that much about them online nor many pictures of either real ones nor painted miniatures the camo is conjectural but a saw a b w photo of one in a camo scheme and the green khaki colours seemed most likely to me it received a heavy dose of chipping and more weathering pigments than the photos suggest this was a real bugbear on my painting desk i blitzed through the crew while on holiday at the start of this month but the gun took me ages working at it on and off the hassle of basing it up after painting not my favoured method but i m pleased with the result i then cast about for something to quickly work up for the finale i received these pulp miniatures cowled cultists for christmas as my secret santa got me evil hooded cultists as well i settled on doing these in a colour scheme of grey robes and will save the classic purple for the hooded cult i feel like these need a decal of some kind to break up their robes and will keep an eye out for something suitable i imagine that and the other half of the group will form a not necessarily evil cult that may work to aims that aren t so blatantly nefarious as global domination annihilation or the attempted summoning of elder beings perhaps they like knitting or something and here s everything assembled into a challenge group shot with my winter tools a small host compared to most challengers but i m satisfied that i crept past my target and am delighted that the challenge served to get a whole bunch more of the spanish civil war project finished my tally made it to 15 scw infantry 1 scw cavalryman 1 scw crewed artillery piece 1 scw polikarpov i 16 crashed 3 napoleonic guerrillas 4 pulp cultists 7 gw plaguebearers and 1 curtgeld all in 28mm there s nothing like consistency with that i ll just repeat again my massive heartfelt thank you first to curt who is generous enough with his time to organise and shepherd us through the challenge over the winter months it s a great pleasure to be able to participate once again this time my fifth challenge also to curt s excellent bunch of minions whose amusing commentary and enthusiasm was appreciated by all and really gave this challenge some new facets and to resident statistician miles because what isn t improved by a resident statistician and finally to my fellow challengers whose outstanding work keeps my enthusiasm and creativity up across the whole year here s to ahpc vii posted by phyllion at 17 10 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 6th ahpc aircraft artizan designs empress miniatures history kit pulp figures sunday 20 march 2016 sixth ahpc february 2016 february definitely wasn t a classic month for my ahpc vi entries unfortunately the home improvements for 2016 really took hold and sapped ...