Remind me never to go on holiday again: far too many entries to the Painting Challenge to be dealt with quickly!

To start with, however, a couple of gentle requests. First, can we remember to clearly mark or list your entries please: counting legs, or heads, or spear tips to work out how big a unit is can be a real pain. Secondly, can you try and keep image size down to under 1MB please. No problem if you can’t, but just means I can down- and upload things more quickly and in multiples.

Anyhow, on to today’s entries. In no particular order, we have:

• Travis with a whole series of WW2 figures, including the first of his Winter War Americans

• Matt Slade with more painting than you can shake a stick at. A host of WW2 desert war Italians and Brits; a mythological Greek kickstarter, some Space Marines…it’s a cornucopia from the painting machine!

• Mr Luther fills in some of his gaps, and adds more ‘planes and terrain

• There are also more ‘planes from Steve Burt, along with some Romans

• Chris Kay sends in a couple of WW2 jeeps, and a couple of very strange post-apocalypse specials

• There are three 15mm Napoleonic units from Sapper

• Seven buildings from Mervyn

• More Germanic types from Joe McGinn

• Chris Cornwell sends in some medieavals

• Mr Helliwell is back on the Prussians, or are they Hessians…and are those chaps with them Normans?

• Ed Bowen makes a welcome return to the Challenge with his first entry of the year

• There’s another convert to Contrast paints: Fred Blogs and his Indians, and a few other bits and pieces

• Chris Stoesen serves up two sloops (yes, it is a Victoria Wood reference!)

• Carole sends in a Papal flag-bearer

• And last, but by no means least, Mr Plowman has three sci-fi vehicles to display

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

Here are today’s pictures (note that these are only a tiny fraction of everything that’s been sent in, so gallery viewing is highly recommended):