TFL Painting Challenge: Friday Update

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As the end of the year approaches, it's time for everyone to start sending in their last entries of the year...so here's the latest batch.

In no particular order, we have:

  • David Scott with some US engineers and infantry
  • More Dark Ages types from Mervyn: allegedly his last entry of the year
  • Derek "Rockatansky" Hodge is out in the Badlands
  • A huge entry from John de Terre Neuve: some lovely WW2 desert 6mm kit
  • Mr Helliwell is, as ever, still painting furiously: ACW and TYW from him.
  • Egg is still on the moderns: always makes me break the 10th Commandment!
  • Steve Burt has donned an eye patch an stuck the inflatable parrot to his shoulder: arrrr, Pyrates!
  • And last, but by no means least, Ed Bowen has some Shock counters and Deployment points for SP AWI

As always, clicking on the name of the person will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Today's pre-Christmas pics are:

JDTN's huge WW2 desert entry

Including this rather lovely town

Modern goodness from Egg

SP AWI Deployment Point from Ed Bowen

Typical vehicles from Musselburgh.

Time for me to get back to the painting table myself. Last year I managed 1,219 points. This year I'm on 1,204 points, with a unit of twenty-four 15mm infantry undercoated and ready to be painted. If I can finish them before the end of the year, that's me just over last year's score. All hail the Painting Challenge!

Plenty of time to get the last of your entries in: the Challenge doesn't close until midnight on the 31st!

TFL Painting Challenge: Monday Night Update

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Again, apologies for lack of posts since Friday. Very busy weekend, especially with the snow: abandoning your car at 8.30 in the morning with a 10-year old in tow is never a good way to start your Sunday...but fortunately everything ended up going more or less to plan.

Another reason why posts have been comparatively rare is that I am just finishing my next scenario pack for IABSM. The September War, Part 2 is on the way, and should be out at the end of this week. It's another 30-odd scenarios for the 1939 German invasion of Poland, meaning that if you were clever and bought Part One, you will now have sixty-four early war scenarios to play through. Definitely enough to justify buying that early war Polish army...

Anyway, back to the painting challenge. Today's submissions, in no particular order are:

  • Stumpy with huge amounts of basing
  • A few more gaps in his gallery have been filled by Mr Luther
  • It's AWI time for Mr Helliwell
  • Matt Slade has gone all LOTR on us, plus a small matter of a demon prince
  • There's a very familiar looking windmill from Chris Stoesen, plus a handful of Roman types
  • Some lovely WW2 Soviets from Mr Duffell
  • Steve Burt has moved from Africa to the wilds of Wild West
  • And last, but most certainly not least, the painting machine that is the Fat Wally (Kev) grinds on, outputting some more lovely SYW figures

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window).

And I'm sure you'll all be pleased to hear that I've decided to run the Challenge in 2018 as well.

Here are today's pics:

Soviet Mortar Team from Andy Duffell

Frederick the Great from Kev the Great

Confederates from Stumpy

These two look tres familiar: mounted characters from Matt Slade

TFL Painting Challenge: Easy Like Sunday Morning Update

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With under a month to go before the end of this year's challenge, it's good to see the entries flooding in. Remember: the deadline is midnight on 31st December, so it's time to get the last of those units finished.

Today's entries, in no particular order, are:

  • Mr Kay is getting ready for the latest Star Wars movie with some 28mm Imperial Assault figures
  • There's a mass of Confederates, also in 28mm from Joe McGinn
  • Steve Burt sends in his final lot of figures for Darkest Africa, although I think that's what he said last year, and the year before that...
  • The second of today's Steves, Steve Lampon submits some beautifully painted 28mm Napoleonics, although it might have been helpful to let me know how many figures are in each unit rather than relying on me to count their feet/bayonets!
  • It's the return of Fat Wally (Kev), who takes a break from painting figures for other people to produce some 15mm SYW figures for his own collection
  • Mr Hodge has visited Games Workshop. No more to be said.
  • And last, but by no means least, Egg sends in some rather nice looking T-64s in 15mm, having suffered the same varnish disaster as befell me a few months ago.

As always, clicking on the name of the painter in the list above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Today's pictures just give you a taste of the goodness that's been loaded up today: I could have posted every photo. 

28mm Victrix Numidian cavalry from Mr Lampon

15mm Prussian Fusiliers (36th von Munchow) from Fat Wally (Kev)

15mm T-64s from Egg

Finally, I'm just debating whether to run the Challenge next year as well. Who's up for it? Answers to admin@vislardica.com.

TFL Painting Challenge: Quick Sunday Update

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It's been quiet here lately: everyone too busy with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and that last surge of work before Christmas!

Not long to go now before the end of this year's Painting Challenge, so all those of you sitting on completed stuff need to get to actually sending them in. Remember: the deadline is midnight on the 31st December, so only five weeks or so to go!

Here's a quick update. In no particular order, we have:

  • Neil Hooge sends in some Indian Mutiny figures from his sickbed. His advice: never try and paint straight lines when on medication! Get well soon, Neil.
  • Mr Helliwell has been rooting in the garage in a desperate attempt to cut down the size of his lead (or in this case, plastic) mountain. Some ACW figures from him.
  • There's an unusual mix of cave-persons and F&IW settlers from Mr Duffell
  • Joe McGin sends in some lovely Highlanders and a ton of Union infantry
  • And last, but by no means least, Treadhead sends in three baddies, a swarm of 6mm tanks, and a great looking 28mm farm compound. The latter two items came straight off the 3D printer...perhaps giving us a taste of what the future holds for us all

As always, clicking on the name of the person, above, will take you to straight to their gallery (opens in  new window). 

Here are today's pictures:

Treadhead's barn: straight off the 3D printer

Highlanders from Joe McGinn

F&IW Settlers from Mr Duffell

Finally, Mark Luther has also been busy filling in a couple of gaps in his gallery. Here's a shot of some of his Burma '44 collection...

TFL Painting Challenge: Pre-Warfare Update

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Bit of a choice this morning between writing my shopping list for Warfare or updating the painting challenge...but duty won out, so here we go:

In no particular order, today's update includes:

  • Sapper with some more lovely 28mm figures: this time ECW cavalry
  • New entrant David Scott lands with a bang as he submits a whole company of 15mm British airborne troops together with a load of other Late War Brits as well. If his experience with painting British Paras was the same as mine, he can now be found in the corner of the room mumbling "Dennison smocks, Dennison smocks"!
  • There's some more Soviets from Andy Duffell and some much earlier Frenchies as well
  • Mr Helliwell also mixes his periods: some WW2 Germans and a few WoR command figures
  • Mervyn sends in the Maiden Guard for his ancient Indians, with the young ladies in question finished just in time to hit the tabletop tonight
  • A huge offering from Lloyd Bowler this week: the Hat finishes some more small ships, and then going mad on his Latins with three 28mm Roman units
  • Chris Stoesen equips some of his boats with crew
  • Mr Burt pops in some more Darkest Africa figures.
  • And last, but my no means least, Carole Flint joins Steve with some British infantry and French freebooters for the Congo.

As always, clicking on the name of the person, above, will take you to straight to their gallery (opens in  new window). Well worth a browse, as there are some lovely paint jobs to be seen.

And talking of lovely paint jobs, here are today's pictures:

Praetorians from the Hat

Sapper's ECW Cavalry

45mm Soviet AT Gun from Andy Duffell

TFL Painting Challenge: Tuesday Update

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About a week since the last Painting Challenge post, so a quick Tuesday update to make sure I keep on top of things.

Only eight weeks until the end of the year, so it's time to get painting/ photographing/ submitting to make sure you don't miss out on all those points amassed over the last ten months. There are still several 'regulars' who haven't submitted anything yet this year...

Right, onto those who have. In no particular order, today's update includes:

  • Sapper with some lovely 28mm figures
  • It's been a while, but Treadhead is back, with swarms of spaceships
  • Mr Hodge sends in some tanks and some terrain
  • There's a rather nice Soviet Fortified Region MG Platoon from Andy Duffell
  • Mervyn adds to his GdA collection, but doesn't know what to paint next...
  • Painting for Fall In, Mark Luther re-does his Highlanders, and some trees for them to hide in
  • And last, but my no means least, Mr Burt pops in some more Darkest Africa figures.

As always, clicking on the name of the person, above, will take you to straight to their gallery (opens in  new window). well worth a browse, as there are some lovely paint jobs to be seen.

And talking of lovely paint jobs, here are today's pictures:

Hessian Musketeers from Sapper

15mm T-55s from Derek Hodge

Spaceships from Treadhead

Soviets from Andy Duffell

Scorecard will be updated tonight.

TFL Painting Challenge: Post-Edinburgh Update

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Lots of entries waiting for me to process on my return from Auld Reekie so, in no particular order, we have:

  • Grand Maestro Slade with a one off character model and some Mongoose 2000AD Judges
  • Three tanks from Stumpy
  • John de Terre Neuve sends in four 20mm WW2 guns/tanks and a host of 32mm fantasy figures
  • Five tanks from Mr Hodge
  • Lloyd "The Hat" Bowler has some more 1/600 ships completed
  • There are four Mordheim (RIP) figures from Carole Flint
  • Mr Stoesen gives us some rocks
  • No picture, but Mark Luther has completed ten feet of roadside trees in 6mm just because he wanted some that were reddish-brown. As he says: it's a sickness!
  • And last, but by no means least, Andrew Helliwell has re-based and shroffed up an entire army

As per usual, clicking on the name of the person will take you through to their gallery (which will open in a new window).

Today's pictures are below:

1/48 T-72 for the Chechen war from Stumpy

It's an American towed AA gun in 1/72 scale from John de Terre Neuve

Judges, from Matt Slade

TFL Painting Challenge: Mid-Week Update

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The publicity I gave the Challenge at the weekend seems to have worked nicely: enough entries to warrant an update already, and it's only Thursday. This includes a new entrant, Steven Lampon, showing that it's never to late to join the Challenge!

So, in no particular order, here are today's entries:

  • Steven Lampon is new to the Challenge, but opens with an impressive 668 point entry featuring some gorgeously painted figures
  • Lloyd "The Hat" Bowler returns: taking a break from his Romans with some tangential 1/600 ships. Beautiful.
  • The man-machine that is Matt Slade visits Middle Earth and Faerie: a mix of figures from the maestro
  • Ed Bowen sends in American War of Independence goodies
  • There's more re-basing from Mr Hodge
  • Andy Duffell submits some houses for the table's edge
  • And last, but by no means least, Carole is still in Darkest Africa

As usual, clicking on the name of the person will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window). I'm updating this before work today, so the Scorecard won't be refreshed until tonight.

Here are today's pictures:

Some lovely Carthaginian types from Mr Lampon's first entry

Very clever: table's edge terraced houses

Charlie Foxtrot, submitted by Andy Duffell

1/600 paper ships from Warartisans, built by The Hat

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Saturday Update

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A nice variety of beautifully painted figures feature in this week's update:

  • Carole has some Congo-style adventurers in 28mm
  • Steve Burt is also still on an African theme
  • A game of AK-47 has Mr. Hodge re-basing, and he's put together a couple of lovely terrain squares for WW2 Normandy
  • There are a couple of camels and their handlers from Matt Slade
  • Mervyn has been barnstorming in 28mm and painting Bavarians in 15mm
  • There's chicken coup and a few militia from Chris Stoesen
  • More 28mm Japanese from John Haines, with a few explorers and monsters in 15mm on top
  • Mr Luther has been painting hard for the 20mm Sharp Practice French and Indian Wars game he is running at the forthcoming Lardy Day GA:  11th November, 10am-7pm, free of charge, Giga-Bites, Marietta, GA
  • Andy Duffell has broken his drought
  • And last but by no means least, Mr Helliwell has been painting HYW and 7YW figures

As per usual, clicking on the name of the person above will take you direct to their gallery, which will, open in another tab.

Still plenty of time for the rest of you to get your entries in.

Today's pictures:

Derek's terrain tiles for 6mm Normandy

Some armed Liberated Ladies (including one who clearly went to the wrong sort of school) from Carole for the Congo

Some gentlemen to take them to the dance, from Mr Burt

More modern Africa:  Andy Duffell's light industrial building and occupant

A rather nice Sarissa farmhouse, and a pigpen from Warbases, both from Mervyn Douglas

TFL Painting Challenge: Big End-of-the-Week Update

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Well the need to do a Painting Challenge update snuck up on me today. Checked the InBox and there were suddenly masses of entries needing processing.

So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Maestro Slade with another GW abomination
  • Some recce units and re-basing from Mr Hodge
  • Chris Stoesen has some docks for his pirates to play on, and a few figures as well
  • John Haines continues his quest for bushido
  • There's a whole load of Soviet people-carriers from Egg
  • Odds and ends from Jon Yuengling
  • Mervyn smashes in a second great mass of re-basing
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Helliwell adds figures by the score, including enough to put him at exactly 1,000 20mm ACW chaps.

As always, clicking on the name will take you straight through to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Today's pics are below...

Egg's Soviet People Carriers

Matt's Monstrosity...although I'm not sure the unit markings are quite right ;)

Loving a bit of Samurai action from Mr Haines

Keep them coming!

TFL Painting Challenge: Mid Week Round Up

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Pleased to say that enough entries have come in to make a mid-week round-up a bit of a necessity: saves me being flooded at the weekend!

All the regulars are smashing their entries in, but it would nice to see some of the less frequent contributors picking up their brushes, paints and cameras as well. As I've said before, Christmas and the end of this year's Challenge will be on us before you know it, and that lead mountain won't paint itself!

Anyhow, in no particular order, here's this week's update:

  • Steve Burt is still in Darkest Africa
  • Plenty of 15mm sci-fi goodness from Carole
  • Matt Slade is off to the Crusades, twice
  • Mr Gilbride has an accident with his pillbox and the devil of a time with his church
  • It's talk like a pirate day from Mr Stoesen
  • Mervyn has suddenly realised he can get points for re-basing...
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Helliwell has some Austro-Hungarians, Gallowglass and a ruined building for us to see

As usual, clicking on the name above will open their gallery in a new window. I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Here are today's pictures:

Home-made ruins from Andrew Helliwell. Click on the pic in his gallery to see the recipe.

Piratical jump-off points from Mr Stoesen

Black Tree Arabs from  Matt Slade

Darkest Africa from Steve Burt

TFL Painting Challenge: Huge Update

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Morning all. This is what happens when I leave the Challenge for more than a week:  huge numbers of entries!

That's all good though...the more the merrier...but it would be nice to see some of the less frequent contributors upping their, er, contributions. Come on everybody: it's September already. Time to get those points totals up to record levels. All you have to do is beat what you did last year by one point...

Anyway, onto today's entries. In no particular order we have:

  • Jon Yuengling with a mix of scales and periods
  • More sci-fi goodness from Carole Flint
  • Super-painter Matt Slade pops in two entries: some Crusader-period Arabs and, in contrast, some GW tanks
  • Fresh from a night out with Yours Truly, Mr Hodge sends in more of his micro armour for Normandy
  • Mervyn falls short of expectations. Well, his entry is a unit of dwarves...
  • A colossal entry from Mr Ralls: all WW2, all 28mm
  • Sapper has more Hittites and a handful of Romans
  • Chris Stoesen sends in more pirates than would fit on a dead man's chest
  • Stumpy bases some more Frenchies
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Helliwell has been clearing his lead mountain of Germans and Romans

As usual, clicking on the name above will open their gallery in a new window. I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Here are today's pictures:

28mm British Softskins from Jason Ralls. Loving the windows.

Going down:  15mm Polish tanks from Jon

Continuing the descent: micro armour SdKfz's from Derek Hodge

War wagons of a different sort: Hittite chariots and infantry from Sapper

TFL Painting Challenge: Sunday Update

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Here are this week's entries into the TooFatLardies Painting Challenge:

  • Mark Luther takes a break from writing his amazing battle reports to paint up some more microvehicles and produce 450 square inches of paddyfield
  • There's a cracking stone barn from Treadhead, printed on his 3D printer
  • Mr Helliwell pops in a few WW2 German vehicles in 15mm
  • There's three ship's boats from Mr Stoesen
  • Matt Slade is still on those Deathguard Pox-thingies, but adds a bit of balance with a second submission of pilgrims
  • The first of our Japanese entries from Mr Haines
  • Mervyn has a few Austrians ready for the tabletop
  •  And last, but by no means least, Mr Duffell has our second Japanese-themed entry: a graveyard and temple dogs

As usual, clicking on the name of the submitter, above, will take you straight to their gallery (opens in  new window)...and keep them coming: it's September already!

Today's piccies are below:

Mounted Samurai from Mr Haines

Where they will end up if they are not careful, from Mr Duffell

Superb 3D printed stone barn from Treadhead

Ship's boats from Chris Stoesen

TFL Painting Challenge: A Large One!

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Plenty of entries still flooding in for this year's painting challenge. Plenty of time for you to get painting and photographing if you haven't entered anything so far.

Here, in no particular order, are this week's entries:

  • Mervyn has some Saracens and Greeks to display
  • Mr Slade sends in a cornucopia of GW Deathguard nasties
  • There are some African huts from Carole
  • Stumpy has been basing like crazy: more Napoleonics and ACW types
  • More Hittites and SYW dragoons from Sapper
  • Ralph Plowman sends in some very odd entries: busts and the like (not that sort!)
  • There's a couple of tanks and some pirates from Mr Stoesen
  • Andy Duffell has definitely gone Japanese

As always, clicking on the names above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Here are today's pictures:

Friday Painting Challenge Update

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Lots of lovely entries already this week, so I'll do an update today rather than waiting until the weekend.

In no particular order, we have:

  • John Haines with more Japanese footsoldiers
  • Two periods from Mr Ralls: Cold War in 15mm and WW2 in 28mm
  • Steve Burt finishes off two of his darkest Africa forest tribes
  • Matt is having a mid-life crisis and has gone 40k mad!
  • Chris Stoesen also sends in two periods: pirates and an M1 Abrams tank!
  • Loads of Germans from Mr Helliwell, who seems to have forgotten that there is only one true ruleset for WW2
  • Ralph sends in a shamble of zombies
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Hodge has been feeling very productive: lots of 6mm WW2 figures and armour, and some much bigger mutineers as well

As always, clicking on the person's name will take you to their gallery (opens in a new window), and today's pictures are below...

40k madness from Mr Slade

A shamble of zombies from Ralph

Cold War vehicles from Jason Ralls

TFL Painting Challenge: Humungous Update

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A very large update today, both in terms of number of submissions and the size of those submissions: a most impressive effort from everyone.

So, in no particular order, today we have:

  • Stumpy bases vast amounts of 28mm troops: almost four hundred points' worth
  • Keith Davies adds an armoured element to his IABSM/CoC forces
  • There's more Cold War goodness from Jason Ralls
  • John de Terre Neuve sends in some Epic miniatures
  • A small entry from Steve Burt:  pygmies for Africa (did you see what I did there?!)
  • Mark Luther fills in some of his gaps
  • Mr Hodge has allegedly had his fill of Mutineers
  • There are more barbarians from Ms Flint
  • Mr Davenport bulks out his BEF armour
  • A truly enormous entry from Sapper: fourteen units worth. Thanks be that he labels everything so beautifully!
  • And last, but by no mean least, Egg sneaks in at th last minute with some Cold War goodness of his own

As per usual, clicking on the gallery owner's name will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Very hard to decide upon today's pictures...so many to choose from. Here goes:

Always room for Egg's Cold War armour:  Soviets and Canadians

Armenian Cataphracts from Sapper

British Heavy Dragoons from Stumpy

Derek's Mutineers

Barbarian Priestesses from Carole

TFL Painting Challenge: Latest Update

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Good steady stream of entries coming in at the moment. Today, in no particular order, we have:

  • Carole with some more barbarian types
  • Chris Stoesen with three 15mm ships
  • Cold Wars West Germans from Jason Ralls
  • A large entry from the Hat: 15mm Vietnam Australians, sci-fi 'copters and some Romans from Mr Bowler
  • A large-but-small entry from Derek Hodge: who's just finished a 5-day blitz on his 6mm forces for Normandy '44
  • Mr Burt pops in some more Africans
  • And last, but by no means least, Mervyn takes a break from re-basing for GdA to send in some Austrian skirmishers and some Picts.

As always, clicking on the name of the painter will take you to their gallery, which will open in a new window.

Today's pictures are below:

TFL Painting Challenge: Another Huge Update

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We've all been very busy over the last couple of weeks: lots of entries into the painting challenge.

So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Mark Luther with some more kit for Burma 1944, and the start of a microarmour WW2 Hungarian army.
  • The great Gatzemeyer has some more Anglo-Danes for his warband
  • John Haines pops in some more AWI infantry
  • Carole sends in a stronghold: a camp for her HOTT renaissance army
  • It's time to go out and get a new cabinet, as Andrew Helliwell bursts his old one at the seams with another sixty TYW foot figures
  • Chris Gilbride returns to the challenge for the first time this year with a big entry consisting of various terrain pieces and some WW2 Soviet tanks
  • Where would we be without our weekly entry from Mervyn: this time it's Numidians, Congalese and terrain
  • Matt Slade showcases the new Warbases 15mm sci-fi terrain. Lots of of pics!
  • More modern Danes from Doug Melville
  • And last, but by no means least, a big entry of African tribesmen from Jason Ralls

As per usual, clicking on the names above will take you to their gallery (opens in a new window).

Today's pictures are below:

Painting Challenge: Monster Update

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Loads of submissions this week: good stuff, keep it up!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Lloyd Bowler returns with more aircraft than you can shake an 88 at
  • Loads of cannibals and pygmies from Mervyn
  • There are StuGs from Mr Davies
  • And more medievals from Mr Helliwell
  • Steve Burt joins Mervyn in Darkest Africa
  • Carole has a new renaissance army
  • It's rød grød med fløde from Doug with his modern Danish battlegroup
  • And, last but by no means least, a trip to Mars with Matt Slade

As is now usual, clicking on the names in bold above opens that person's gallery in a new window.

Today's pictures are as follows:

Here's Doug's modern Danish battle group: see his gallery for close ups

Da tank from da Vinci:  part of Carole's newly painted renaissance army

Gloucester Gladiators from the Hat!

Keep those entries coming!

TFL Painting Challenge: A Large Update

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People have been busy! Plenty of entries flooding in. So, in no particular order, in today's update we have:

  • Andrew McCarthy finally gets off the mark with some WW1 British infantry
  • More WW1, but this time from Carole: some Scots
  • Chris Kay pops in a platoon or so of 15mm modern British infantry
  • Thomas sends in three figures
  • Mr Helliwell is still dabbling in the 1/72 medievals: a mass of longbowmen to be exact
  • Mervyn is back to Dux, with some Irish in 28mm
  • Mr Luther sends in a hodge podge of bits and pieces in a variety of scales
  • There's more Darkest Africa from Mr Burt
  • Koen pops in some beautifully painted French for Indochina, and some American Civil War figures as well
  • Stumpy has kept his painter busy, meaning he has loads of rebasing to share
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Slade is back with some engineers, artillery and a few civilians

As always, clicking on the names, above, will open their Gallery in a new window.

Today's pictures are below:

A close up of some of Koen's Paras

Don't look at the figures: just look at Stumpy's re-basing!

Matt's engineers: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb!