Lead Painter's League 2018 - Round 4 - Enemy Sighted!

Round 4 was a themed round, which was to include a support weapon and crew. I had a couple options for crew and artillery, and settled on the Hinterland crew I'd had on the burner for a while. The gun and limber (made by Askari) had been assembled a few years ago. I prepped and based the horses along with the women, primed the lot and painted them to match my Leibhusaren No. 2 force.

End of the Year Randomness

I almost did it.

My goal was to get everything that I had primed (including terrain) painted before the end of the year, and I was close. Unfortunately an unexpected funeral came up and I had to be away from my house for six days while I traveled for that, along with Christmas travel.

My last burst included two kitbashed VSF walkers that I primed about five years ago, some miscellaneous Armorcast toolboxes, a cloth vendor's wares from a Eureka set, two new statues (54mm satyrs I picked up used at GenCon about two years ago, mounted on Hirst Arts bases) three Copplestone Castings policemen, a neat little plastic 'Great Crossbow' from Eccentric Miniatures, some scratch built shantytown terrain pieces I started a couple weeks ago, and a group of nine long neglected figures I plan to use for 40K games.


Also pictured are tents from Miniature Building Authority, (I think that's where the modern gabions are from as well), Ainsty, and a few that I can't recall where I obtained them. I thought they were from Pardulon but if so, I can't find them on their site. This stuff was all painted a few months back, I just never got around to photographing.

Whats left then, as far as primed terrain?

A large set of MDF industrial walkways and storage tanks.
A set of stone corrals from a Rorke's Drift box set.
Two shanty buildings from Miniature Building Authority (which I primed two weeks ago, I should have held off ;) )
Nine or so small sci-fi vehicles from Zombiesmith. I painted them once already but the paint flaked off the resin, so I stripped them and started over.

That's it for 'ready to go'. I have an absurd amount of built, half built, and still in the package terrain, miniatures, and vehicles.

I believe I painted about 158 miniatures, and a couple dozen terrain pieces this year. That might actually be a little light for me since I didn't do the Lead Painter League this year.

I'll be posting individual photos later when I have time to do some set ups. I'm pretty excited about getting the 40K figures finished- they're for a project I've had in mind for quite a long time!

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

Quite lot of non-sequitur miniatures coming off the desk lately.

This entry is Tatiana Romanov in her honorary military uniform, the Vosnesensky Lancers regiment. She is part of the interesting quasi-VSF range from Hinterland Miniatures.

Servants of Ra - Main Characters

At long last the main characters of the Servants of Ra (the Egyptian faction from the game 'In Her Majesty's Name') have arrived.

I'm not quite sure why it took so long for me to finish these last few figures. I started out with the relatively boring robed figures with the idea that it would keep me interested in completing the group- once those were done I let the leaders sit for several months...

The leader of the Servants of Ra is none other than the resurrected pharaoh Akhenaten. I stuck with the 'official' paint scheme, I liked it quite a bit. I may touch up the inlaid colors on the weapon, they look a little rough.

The second in command is the Egyptophile Professor Abir, making an appearance here with his daughter Sairah, the group's premiere assassin.

The remaining figure from the Ra faction is a mummy priest. I didn't really like this figure, but by the time he was painted up I changed my mind.

I hope to get a photograph of the whole faction shortly. I ended up with way more figures than I could possible use in a game of IHMN, but I tend to overdo things when it comes to miniature games...

Eclectic Steampunk Figures

I finished up a commission recently- a variety of VSF/steampunk figures. I'm not sure who makes them all, although the majority are Brigade Games and Midnight Workshop.

And an older pic of a previous batch, entered into the 2014 LPL.