Hello all. Despite the rigours of real life, there always time for a quick update to the Painting Challenge...and what an update it is. Lots of inspirational paint jobs to admire and emulate, and a volume of work that's nothing but impressive.

So, for today's update, in no particular order, we have:

• Travis with some more 28mm WW2 Japanese...now joined by some 28mm late war German vehicles as well
• Matt Slade & Ralph Plowman have, between them, produced some lovely Celtic Champions
• The first of two "first entries of the year" : Kev "Fat Wally" Lowth is back with some more SYW Hussars
• And the second "first entry of the year" award goes to Jason Ralls, with a host of WW2 kit in two different scales
• Stumpy has been basing like crazy
• Mervyn has an assortment of fantasy figures for us
• The Hat, Lloyd Bowler, has sent in a lovely unit of Iberian cavalry
• And last, but never least, there some Sharp Practice markers from Carole.

As always, clicking on the name of the gallery owner in the list above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window), and here are today's pictures: