TFL Painting Challenge: Update

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With the weather all over the place, it's nice to have a constant to rely on...so here's today's painting challenge update!

In no particular order we have:

  • Mark Luther with some more 6mm 'planes
  • Egg comes in from the cold with some 15mm Soviets and Americans
  • The hat (Lloyd Bowler) sends in three 28mm units
  • Mr Helliwell paints some Prussians and rescues some Soviets from a flea market
  • Kev, our beloved Fat Wally, moves from X-Wing to the English Civil War 
  • Treadhead has some more Napoleonics finished...likely to be the last we see of him for a bit (twins, not jail).
  • Jon Yuengling pops in some more 15mm WW2 kit (I'm still vacillating about that Kfz 13)
  • and, finally, the Mad Padre has finished another two bases of 6mm Napoleonic cavalry

Today's pics are another mixed bag. So many to choose from...

Kev's tribute to his now-deceased spaniel, Alfie

Lloyd's Romans

Prussians from Mr Helliwell

Better put a couple of these in!

Egg's tanks

TFL Painting Challenge: Unprecedented Second Update!

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Well this is a first for this year: so many new entries into the painting challenge that I have had to do a second update this week or run the risk of getting too far behind!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Carole with, you guessed it, yet more Confederates
  • Matt Slade with some wagons and some truly impressive Prussians, all for Sharp Practice 2, released this weekend
  • The Mad Padre, with some 6mm cavalry
  • Mr Plowman, with more 15mm aliens and three strangely familiar 28's
  • Jason Ralls bursts back into life with a large and mixed entry
  • Richard Naylor posts some trees, lots of trees
  • Steve Burt continues to build his Ancients
  •  Andrew Duffell also gets back into the swing of thing with some 28's, including a very nice tank
  • and finally Mervyn makes his regular contribution: more Ancients

That would be a big update even if it weren't the second this week. Makes me quite jealous...and determined to finish the four units/buildings I have on the painting table!

Today's pictures? See below...

just some of Matt's beautiful Prussians

The Mad Padre's 6mm cavalry

Andy's tank (he only sent in the rear view!)

Ralph's Xar...who have me reaching for the 'buy now' button on the GZG website!

Jason's WW2 German artillery: also something that belongs in MY collection!

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Post-Salute Update

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Haven't updated the challenge for a few days, so lots of submissions waiting to be processed. So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Mr Luther with three handfuls of 6mm 'planes and some more terrain for Malaya
  • Andrew Helliwell with some more Confederates in 15mm
  • Carole, also with some 15mm Confederates
  • Andrew McCarthy with an assortment of specialist teams for his WW2 British in 15mm
  • Mr Burt with some Egyptians in 28mm
  • Mervyn pops in an oasis...or is it a lake?
  • Thomas sends in a cheeky fantasy foursome
  • Mr Hodge enters some basing for his minions (or rather, Minions)
  • and finally Owen sends in a plethora of fantasy figures, all in 28mm

Today's pictures are of Mr Luther's terrain for Malaya and, of course, Derek's Minions:

TFL Painting Challenge: Update for the Saturday Before Salute

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Everyone is obviously clearing their painting tables in preparation for stocking up at Salute next weekend!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Carole with some Confederates and Civilian-types
  • Mr Naylor with some Iraqis
  • Double G pops in some Hearthguard
  • WillieB enters two battalions of 28mm Napoleonics...and they are his leftovers!
  • Egg appears for the first time this year: some 15mm WW2 French
  • Steve enters the last of the Mo-Parthians
  • and Mervyn sends in a couple of 1:48 tanks and some 15mm hills

Today's pics?  I think Carole's civilians (I'm a great fan of tail, as it were); some of WilleB's French; Steve's Parthians and one of Mervyn's 28mm AFVs:

Carole's civilian-types:  Blah-blah, baa-baa, oink-oink!

A close-up of WillieB's Nappies

Parthians from Steve Burt

A Hetzer from Mervyn

TFL Painting Challenge: Another Big Update!

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The entries for this year's challenge are flooding in!

Today we have:

  • Doug Fitch with various WW2 German figures in 15mm for use with the Blenneville or Bust! scenario pack (I'll look forward to receiving your AARs for publication on this site!)
  • Carole has been painting houses rather than figures: six of them to be precise
  • Mr Luther has been churning out impressive amounts of jungle terrain for the Pacific. He's looking at Malaya, so doubtless loved my Slim River AAR and the Fall of the Lionsgate scenario pack
  • Chris Stoesen pops in some AWI figures
  • Kev sends in another brilliantly painted X-Wing spacecraft. This one is painted de-cloaking: looks amazing.
  • Sapper keeps us traditional with a couple of large 28mm Ancients units pictured in action at Roll Call.
  • Owen sends in loads of figures from a fanyasy setting that, for the moment, escapes me
  • Mr Helliwell demonstrates that particular breed of madness with which we are all familiar: he has now painted, and is still painting, more Confederate infantry than will fit on his tabletop
  • The Mad Padre sends in his first entry of the year: some rather nice Unionists in 28mm
  • And finally Mr Hodge sends in some more bases (obviously), a few 15's, and what he claims are the last of his GwÅ·r y Gogledd for Dux Britanniarum. We shall see...

Phew! Now, pictures:

15mm Panthers from Mr Fitch

Indian Bowmen from Sapper

Kev's De-Cloaking Spaceship

Scorecard will be updated tonight.

TFL Painting Challenge: Huge Post-Trip Update

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Just back from a week north of the border, and have returned to find my inbox brimming with entries into this year's challenge.

Here are today's updates in, as always, no particular order:

  • Doug Melville with a huge 6mm War of the Spanish Succession entry
  • Koen makes his first appearance of the year with some 28mm French for Dien Bien Phu, some 28mm WW2 infantry, and some 28mm fantasy types
  • Kev pops in a few more spacecraft for X-Wing
  • Thomas joins Koen on the Dien Bien Phu front
  • Another massive entry from Carole: aliens and ACW
  • Mervyn sends in some zombies and some bats
  • Mr Helliwell posts some more of his 15mm Rebs
  • Owen ends in a mixed bag of a ship, some 15mm cavalry and some 28mm infantry
  • Lloyd Bowler shows us his Warlord Romans
  • Stumpy has masses of 28mm British WW2 infantry and some tanks
  • and last but my no means least, Steve Burt sends in some more cataphract types

Well that's taken me more than an hour to sort!

Today's pictures are from Carole, some of her Kra'vak; from Doug, some of his 6mm figures; and from Steve, some cataphracts:

Doug's British Dragoons and Horse for the WSS in 6mm

Carole's Kra'vak command in 15mm

Steve's Cataphracts in 28mm

TFL Painting Challenge: Update

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This year's challenge is ticking along nicely: plenty of people sending in their achievements on a regular basis. Here's this week's batch:

  • Carole sends in two entries: some more alien Kra'vak, and some American Civil War troops for Sharp Practice v2
  • Mervyn also sends in two entries: some Gallic cavalry and some more 19th C Egyptians
  • Steve Burt has twelve Parthians to add to his collection
  • Mr Yuengling adds more to his Normandy forces
  • Ralph Plowman sends in a small but beautifully formed set of White Dragon Miniatures
  • and, finally, Mr Luther returns to the fold with some more 6mm aeroplanes

Today's picture is of Mr Burt's Parthians and Mr Douglas' Gallic cavalry:

Parthians in 28mm from Navigator

Gallic cavalry in 15mm

Plenty of time to get your entries in, especially if you have entered in the past but have yet to do so this year. So come on, get painting and get photographing!

TFL Painting Challenge: Sunday Afternoon Update

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A fairly quiet week in the painting challenge, but still enough to justify a cheeky Sunday afternoon update.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Carole taking a break from her sci-fi with some 19th Century figures for Sharp Practice 2
  • Andrew McCarthy with lots of WW2 kit, also in 15mm
  • Matt Slade is also WW2, but 28mm: some very fine Artizan Germans
  • Mr Naylor goes 20mm, with three Soviet AFVs
  • It's back to WW2, somewhere near Caen, for Mr Yuengling
  • And finally the great Gatzemeyer sends in some Anglo-Danish

Today's pics? Mr Naylor's Soviets and the Double G's Anglo-Danish warband:

TFL Painting Challenge: Quick Tuesday Update

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Quick Tuesday update for the TFL Painting Challenge, including two first-of-the-year entries.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Dave Humm, the first first-of-the-year, with some nice Confederates and a terrible pun
  • Mr Plowman paints some Robo Monkeys...must be for Q13
  • Carole's entry, lots of aliens, is definitely for Q13, because she says so
  • Andrew Helliwell pops in another regiment of 15mm Confederates
  • Mr Douglas has some more Ancient Brits on offer
  • and finally, Owen, the second of the firsts, has a mix of fantasy figures

We'll go Reb for today's pics:

Dave Humm's Confederate cavalry

Andrew Helliwell's Confederate infantry

TFL Painting Challenge: Another Big One!

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I wasn't expecting to do another update before the weekend, but so many entries have come in that, if I don't, I run the risk of being overwhelmed!

So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Doug Fitch with lots of 15mm WW2 goodness
  • A first entry in 2016 from Paul Baldwin: terrain, infantry and cavalry
  • Mr Clarke sends in a huge entry of twelve house and two outhouses in 28mm
  • Thomas Nissvik also makes his first appearance this year, with ten rather nice 28mm Vietminh infantry
  • Mr "Hat" Bowler attempts to claim 600 sq ft of painted and primed basement floor...but has to settle for the 105 28mm Romans and a ballista that actually count towards his total
  • Carole attempts to complete her Corporate Ashigaru force with another platoon and their support weapons
  • Neil Hooge is another 'first time in 2016' entry: he sends in some (great sounding) 15mm British Victorian infantry mounted on terror birds and ostriches...but the piccy is so dark you can't see the detail :(
  • And finally Jon Yuengling pops in four 15mm WW2 vehicles for his early war Germans.

Today's pics are from Mr Fitch, some of his WW2 Germans; Mr Baldwin, his Napoleonic French infantry; and from Thomas, his Vietminh:

Mr Fitch's WW2 German armour: great camo scheme! 

Mr Baldwin's cracking French infantry

Thomas' Vietminh

TFL Painting Challenge: Huge Tuesday Update

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An absolutely enormous update today!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Mr Hodge is continuing to morph into a "baser" rather than a wargamer, with a massive amount of sabot bases
  • Carole sends in two entries: all 15mm sci-fi figures from GZG. We've got three platoons of infantry, support drones, command...the lot
  • Mr Douglas pops in a couple of 15mm units: some Sudan types and some more ancient Brits
  • Ralph Plowman also goes 15mm GZG, painted so inspirationally that I've had to go out and buy a platoon's worth myself. He should be on commission!
  • Andrew Helliwell stays with his Soviets: a platoon's worth and some lend-lease carriers
  • Sapper sends in three entries comprising a large total of 28mm figures: Samurai and Seven Years War
  • Steve Burt submits some rather lovely Parthians. It must have been baking hot in all that armour.
  • Our glorious leader, Mr Clarke, sends in three entries this week, all from the AWI, and adding up to a most impressive total
  • and finally I'm loving Mr Davenport's entry: Napoleonic Brits in numbers, and also some AWI infantry

So many entries to choose from for today's photos...but here's a selection. You can see the whole lot in the individual's galleries.

Jon's Napoleonic Brits

Mr Plowman's Xar

Carole's Power Armour Troopers

Sapper's Irish in French Service

Scorecard will be updated tonight..honest, it will!

TFL Painting Challenge: Monday Update

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Hello all, and hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Today's entries for the painting challenge are:

  • Mr Davenport with a dozen 28mm buildings (and an impressive wargames room, if I may say so!)
  • Ms Flint doesn't add any Space Orcs to her total!
  • Doug Fitch arrives on the scene with some 15mm WW2 figures
  • Mark Luther sends in an assortment of 20mm Far East types, and some of his little 'planes too
  • Treadhead turns in some terrain
  • Stumpy pops in some Zulus and lots of French Napoleonics. Re-based, but still counting half.
  • Andrew Helliwell sends in some more ACW 15s
  • Mr Yuengling gets ready for a fight around Caen with some 15mm WW2 vehicles
  • And finally Mr Ralls sends in some rather jolly 28mm figures and transport.

Today's pics? Well I think we'll have Mr Davenport's room; and the Jason Ralls boat pics (vessel and crew etc)

First stop on my world tour!

Rather large boat and crew by Jason Ralls

Scorecard will be updated tonight: promise!

TFL Painting Challenge: Thursday Update

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Lots of entries in this week: the challenge is really hotting up already this year.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Stumpy with a fistful of re-basing
  • Matt Slade with a huge weed monster!
  • Andrew Helliwell with some more Soviets in 15mm
  • Andy Duffell pops in a Kiwi or eleven
  • It's all Andrews today, as Mr McCarthy sends in some nice looking late war British tanks and a handful of Germans
  • Derek Hodge submits some more for Dux and Sharp Practice 2.
  • Mr Clarke has gone painting mad this year: this week sees 64 newly painted and 48 re-based 28mm troops hitting his score
  • Mervyn adds some skeletons and an awful lot of stone wall
  • Mr Gatzemeyer builds a Saxon village
  • Chris Stoesen cuts and pastes some paper terrain buildings
  • And finally Kev, of course Kev, has painted some more X-Wing ships

Today's pics?

Well, let's have a pic of some of Stumpy's later Romans, a pic of Rich's von Schtabbin, Mr Gatzemeyer's village, and a Brucie-bonus pic of Mr Helliwell's Soviets:

Stumpy's Romans

Baron von Schtabbin's Regiment by Mr Clarke

Mr Gatzemeyer's rather nice Saxon village

Andy Helliwell's SU-57s in 15mm

TFL Painting Challenge: Pre-Weekend Update

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A cheeky Friday update to clear the decks before a busy weekend. Today, in no paticular order, we have:

  • Chris Stoesen with a selection of paper buildings in 15mm
  • Steve Burt with a fleet of ships
  • Our glorious leader, Mr Clarke, with some more infantry and artillery
  • Mervyn switches back to 15mm with some ancient and then colonial Brits
  • Mr Plowman paints a single sci-fi tank...but then he does paint them so well!
  • Carole also goes sci-fi, with some scout vehicles and scenery
  • And finally Kev is still on his X-Wing kick: loads more ships

Today's pictures are from Steve, his ships; and Carole's sci-fi kit...

468 points' worth of Wizzkids ships

468 points' worth of Wizzkids ships

Some nice kit from Critical Mass Games via Carole

Points will be added to the scorecard tonight or tomorrow.

TFL Painting Challenge: Entries Flooding In!

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Loads of entries again today: excellent work everybody!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Stumpy with a teeny bit of re-basing and a very nice Rourke's Drift lavatory
  • Chris Stoesen makes a welcome return with a building in 15mm
  • Ms Flint adds some bugs. I rather like them, and might get some myself
  • Mervyn goes up a couple of sizes with some Riders of Rohan
  • Mr Clarke, the man himself, pops in more than a handful of 28mm figures
  • Matt Slade makes his usual modest entry: 52 goblins and (in a Sheffield accent) a cave troll
  • Richard Naylor finishes his Egyptians and adds their mummy...I mean, adds a mummy
  • Mr Helliwell turns Russian, with a Soviet infantry platoon and supporting SU-122
  • And Mr Ralls proves he is still with us for this year's challenge with a mighty entry of various 28s

Today's pictures are one from Mr Clarke (I know which side my bread is buttered) and one from Mr Ralls:

He didn't say who they were, but here are some nice 28s from Mr Clarke

And here are Jason Ralls' Teutonic Knights. I do love a bit of Teutonic Knight!

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Update

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It seems like the end of January has driven you all out of hibernation: lots of entries submitted over the last few days.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Mr Naylor, with some Fez-wearing Egyptians
  • Mr Duffell joins us again with some In-juns and a few WW2 chaps as well
  • As does Keith Davies, but with some little buildings and some considerably bigger Napoleonics
  • Mark Luther takes a break from playing fantastic-looking Chain of Command games to submit some more micro-aircraft (click here to see his flickr album: very much worthwhile)
  • Treadhead also returns, also with some Napoleonics
  • Derek Hodge is another come-back king: with some nice looking guerillos and a host of re-based fantasy stuff
  • Sapper pops in some more Ancients
  • Mr Plowman sends in some great-looking sci-fi figures from Shapeways
  • And finally Kev continues his crusade to field every possible X-Wing spacecraft possible with another fleet's worth of entries

As usual, Scorecard will be updated tonight.

Today's pics? Treadhead's Napoleonics, Mr Luther's 'planes (well, some of them); and Derek's Guerillos:

Napoleonic British infantry from Treadhead

Continuing the Napoleonic theme, Derek Hodge's Spanish guerillos

And just a few of Mr Luther's 1/285 aircraft

TFL Painting Challenge: Sunday Update

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Entries have been slowing down lately: but then there's lots of people still to make their first submission of the year.

Today, in no particular order, we have:

  • Mr Douglas with three separate entries in the same week, including some re-basing
  • Andrew Helliwell sends in another platoon of WW2 Germans
  • Matt Slade submits for the first time in 2016: slamming in sixty-five beautifully painted 28s
  • Carole completes her 15mm sci-fi infantry company with a platoon and some support weapons
  • Kev's entry is a toy re-painted for use with X-Wing:  looks fantastic
  • Jon Yuengling sends in his first submission of the year...very welcome, even if I had to guess what it was!
  • And finally Richard Naylor sends in some more terrain: rocks and a yards worth of graves.

Three pics today as I can't decide between them:

Some of Matt Slade's baddies from Crooked Dice

Carole's 15mm Support Platoon

Kev's Conversion for X-Wing

TFL Painting Challenge: Quick Sunday Update

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Many of you are still very slow off the mark this year...unlike some of the below, who seem positively prolific!

So, today, in no particular order, we have:

  • New entrant, Oracle, with a couple of 28s and some re-based 6s
  • More X-Wing craft from Kev
  • Some drones from Carole
  • Continuing the sci-fi theme, four beautifully painted 15mm infantry from Mr Plowman
  • Lots of 28s from Mr Davenport who, for a new entrant, is already piling on the points
  • And finally Stumpy makes a return with a mix of new painting and re-basing

Today's pics are, unusually for me, both examples of re-basing: first up Oracle's 6mm WSS French, then Stumpy's Napoleonic Brits...

TFL Painting Challenge: Weekly Update

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Things are starting to motor along nicely now, with twelve people (including me) now having sent in their first or even second and, in one case, third, entries for the year.

Today, in no particular order, we have:

  • Paul Blankenship with his first entry of the year, and it's a monster one comprising lots of tanks a a few bits of terrain
  • Carole also sends in her first entry: some nicely done 15mm sic-fi infantry
  • Sapper has painted some more Egyptians
  • New entrant Jon Davenport makes his first appearance: some Hessians in 28mm (don't worry about the cat hair on the table!)
  • Mr Naylor sends in his first three entries for the year: sic fi again, but different scales
  • Mark Luther adds to his already gigantic collection with some more 6mm tanks and 'planes...and, no, Mark, there is no such thing as "enough"!
  • Our own favourite Fat Wally adds some more Star Wars kit to his gallery
  • and, finally, Mr Helliwell pops in his second entry of the year: more Germans

Today's pictures are some of Mark's tanks, some of Mr Helliwell's Germans and Jon Davenport's Hessians:

Some of Mark Luther's Jagdpanzer IV 70s in action

Andrew Helliwell's command post/objective marker

New entrant Jon Davenport's Hessians in 28mm

As always, you can see everyone's full roster of submissions in their galleries, and the Scorecard will be updated tonight from my home PC.

TFL Painting Challenge: First Entries for 2016

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There are some of you obviously determined to start the TFL Painting Challenge 2016 off with a bang!

Already we have entries from:

  • Sapper, with four (yes, four) submissions already
  • Mervyn Douglas, with more for his Sudan collection ("they don't like it up 'em!")
  • Andrew Helliwell, who continues the post-Xmas theme with a platoon of late war Germans put together from the leftovers
  • Ralph Plowman, with some rather nice new figures from the new Moongrunt range from GZG
  • Doug Melville, with some Aeroneuf ships
  • and last, but by no means least, Kev "Fat Wally" Lowth with some lovely X-Wing Star Wars ships

Today's pictures will, I think, all have a sci-fi theme. Here are Ralph, Doug and some of Kev's entries:

Ralph Plowman's figures from the new moongrunt range from gzg

doug melville's aeroneuf submission

some of kev's x-wing models

Remember that you can see all the entries in the various people's galleries.

NB  The scorecard will be updated tonight, once I can load the numbers onto my home PC