TFL Painting Challenge: Quick Update

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Must be time to do a quick Painting Challenge update. So, in no particular order, this time we have:

  • Mark Luther makes a welcome return with many, many little ships
  • It's "The Dark Ages": a big entry from Jason Ralls
  • Joe McGin is still in the Congo
  • Carole has some more later Romans
  • A return of his mojo gives Sapper enough of a boost to send in some SYW and Napoleonics
  • There's more lovely Frenchmen from Travis
  • And more lovely eastern front buildings from Chris Cornwell
  • Last, but not least, Mr Helliwell is painting up his winter Germans on the hottest day of the year so far!

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:

TFL Painting Challenge: Sunday Morning Update

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A lovely day outside after last night's thunder and lightning (very, very frightening, oh, Galileo...).

What better time, therefore, to do a quick Painting Challenge update.

So, today, in no particular order, with some shameless advertising, we have:

  • Mr Helliwell with some WW2 stuff in 15mm
  • Lloyd "The Hat" Bowler with some rather tasty Numidians and some 1940s British tanks.  I do hope he's bought my Blitzkrieg in the West: The BEF handbook!
  • More barbarians in 15mm from Carole, plus some 28mm later Roman cavlry
  • Mervyn pops in his second entry in as many weeks: Irish javelinmen
  • Ed Bowen returns to the fold with his first entry of the year: lots of AWI goodness
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Hiett starts a new project: 1940s French this time. I do hope he's bought my Blitzkrieg in the West: France handbook!

As per usual, clicking on the name of the person in the list above will take you straight to their gallery, which will open in a new window.

Today's pictures are below:

TFL Painting Challenge: Royal Wedding Weekend Update

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No, I didn't watch it!

I spent the day hitting people with big sticks: much more satisfying.

Some of you, however, were more productive, and sent in entries to the Painting Challenge. In no particular order, we have:

  • Stumpy with a tank and some dead Napoleonics
  • There's a few WW2 15mm odds and ends from Chris Stoesen
  • Mr Duffell has got his lazy ass in gear (if he'll excuse the expression) and painted some Soviets
  • Blue Moose Ken has lots for us to look at
  • Some scenery and some tanks from Mervyn
  • and last, but by no means least, Travis finishes off his early war German platoon

As usual, clicking on the name of the person above will send you through to their gallery (opens in a new window) and, shock - horror, I've updated the Scorecard too.

Here are today's pictures:

TFL Painting Challenge: a catch-up before the Bank Holiday

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After a couple of quiet days, the entries have suddenly come pouring in...so it's time for a quick catch-up before the bank holiday weekend.

So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Travis with some more wonderful 28mm Soviets
  • More barbarians from Carole
  • More tanks from Matt Slade
  • Some Frenchies and a KV-1 from Chris Cornwell
  • A couple of little bits and bobs from Chris Stoesen
  • More medievals and P&S from Andrew Helliwell
  • There's a bank from Mervyn (let's hope it's not an early branch of the TSB!)
  • And a tank from Ralph Plowman
  • And last, but by no means least, a whole of of basing from Stumpy: all Zulu wars in preparation for OML 2018

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

More Copplestone Barbarians from Carole

Soviet Anti-Tank Gun from Travis

And an SU-122 from Travis as well

A Sherman tank from Matt Slade

The bank of Mervyn

A cast of 'fousands' from Stumpy

TFL Painting Challenge: Mid-Week Update

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Entries continue to flood in for this year's challenge. Not so many taking part, but those who are are hugely active...I can't believe how much some of you manage to get painted!

So, in no particular order, here's the latest batch:

  • Andy Duffell pops in a quick German armoured car in 28mm
  • Lloyd "The Hat" Bowler has been very busy this week: not only are there the usual finely painted 28mm Ancients, but a whole street full of 6mm card buildings, including a Vauban Fort!
  • More Ancients: this time from Matt Slade. Camels and Celts.
  • A terrific entry from Chris Cornwell: six 28mm Russian village building vignettes. Almost made me want to switch to 28mm. They are apparently for sale as well, so if you're interested, get in touch.
  • Travis sends in some farm animals
  • The Hodge-Meister is back with some more Gaslands 20mm vehicles. I bet you don't get cars that colour where he's from!
  • Carole Flint has some rather nice 15mm WW2 figures for us to look at: Panzergrenadiers and British recce elements
  • And last, but by no means least, Jonathan Davenport has a couple of 28mm German AFVs to submit

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

One quick thing: could I ask people to specify how many figures are in the photos they send in. All very well saying to me "Some Napoleonic Austrians", or similar, accompanied by several pictures of densely packed 15mm figures, but counting the bayonets, or the feet, or anything else that gives me a clue to how many there are, is a real pain in the backside!

Now as for today's pictures...well, they were all so good that I could almost post up everything sent in. Here's a selection:

Just one of Mr Cornwell's vignettes

A 6mm paper terrain Vauban Fort from the Hat & co.

15mm British WW2 carriers from PSC from Carole

28mm SdKfz 221 from Andy Duffell

Painting Challenge: Pre-Weekend Update

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As I actually have a game tomorrow, Saturday, I thought I'd better clear this week's Painting Challenge entries today...and what a lot of lovely entries they are.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Mervyn with a few more skeletons
  • Some good looking vehicles from Travis: support for his Soviets
  • Mr Duffell gets his act together and sends in some Bretons
  • More Soviets, but this time from Ralph
  • That painting machine known as Mr Slade has more Ancient Britons to offer, and this time they've brought their dogs with them
  • Sapper finishes off his Ghaznavid army
  • There are some more Gripping Beast Romans from Carole
  • And last, but by no means least, Egg continues along the road to madness with some more farmyard "scenery": ploughs and everything!

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:

I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Bank Holiday Update

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Vast numbers of entries into the 2018 Painting Challenge coming in. I really must try and do two updates a week rather than the current one!

Still, it gives me the chance to post a Big Bank Holiday Update so, in no particular order, we have:

  • Egg with some Bundeswehr, billboards and, yes, farmyard equipment
  • Andrew Helliwell, fresh from Paris, with some French
  • A truly enormous entry from Matt Slade:  hordes of Ancient British followed by large numbers of dwarves and trolls and the like
  • An almost-equally-enormous entry from Stumpy:  German Fallschirmjaeger guns and such accompanied by some US Cavalry and French Marines
  • Travis has been building fences: lots and lots of fences!
  • A bumper entry from Carole:  Gripping Beast 28mm Late Roman plastics
  • Chris Cornwall sends in a platoon or two of WW2 French infantry along with two BT-5 tanks. I'm tempted to give him double points as he mentions how much he liked my Blitzkrieg in the West; The BEF theatre handbook for IABSM in his e-mail!
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Burt pops in some Minifigs Malburians

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:

And don't forget that the next in the series of my Blitzkrieg in the West theatre handbooks for I Ain't Been Shot, Mum! should be available tomorrow.

This time it's the Low Countries:  Belgium and the Netherlands.

TFL Painting Challenge: Thursday Update

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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:

Iberian Cavalry from the Hat

A Sturmtiger from Travis Hiett. Note the "thrown track" marker that ca be used to indicate the vehicle is disabled

SYW Hussars from everyone's favourite Fat Wally

Shock markers for Sharp Practice/The Zulu Years from Stumpy

A rather nice R-35 from Jason Ralls

Some of Matt and Ralph's Celtic Champions

TFL Painting Challenge: A Monday Update? Ridic!

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Yes, it's a Monday update to the Challenge: occasioned by heavy traffic over the weekend!

In no particular order we have:

  • Chris Cornwell, painting early war Germans for the Wargames Holiday Centre
  • Mr Helliwell with the last of his medievals (didn't he say that last time?) and some ECW
  • A bit of WW1 with some lovely figures from Blue Moose Ken
  • Egg bangs in the support for his Bundeswehr
  • It's Caeser adsum iam forte* from the Hat: Romans galore
  • Travis sends in his final Japanese squad, and some houses
  • And last, but by no means least, Mr Plowman has some WW2 Romanians for us to see. Very nice.

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Today's pictures:

Bundeswehr support from Egg

Blue Moose Ken's WW1 British. The thing about uniform is that it isn't!

WW2 Romanians from Ralph Plowman

Romans from Lloyd Bowler

ECW horse from Andrew Helliwell

*Translation:  Caesar had some jam for tea

TFL Painting Challenge: A Quick Thursday Update

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The sun is shining and it looks like being a glorious day, despite the fact that four inches of snow are apparently on the way.

But we don't care: not whilst there are figures to paint. Being snowed in has its advantages...

Today's entries into this year's TooFatLardies Painting Challenge are as follows:

  • Matt Slade with some wonderful 7TV robots, Avians and aliens, and Napoleonic casualty markers
  • John Haines attempts to keep Mrs May happy with three new houses...and some British AWI Dragoons!
  • More pyrates from Mr Burt
  • A teeny tiny entry from Mr Stoesen: stacked muskets
  • Treadhead has been a very naughty boy: the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition set and some Undead
  • It's Star Wars time for Chris Kay
  • Sapper strikes back with some French Dragoons
  • Travis Hiett adds to his WW2 Japanese force for Chain of Command in 28mm with some support weapons
  • Mervyn has been preparing for a 20mm imaginations campaign, and recycling old skirting boards into flight stands
  • And last but by no means least, Sapper has a jumbo entry: eight Ghaznavid elephants

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Today's pictures:

Just some of Matt Slade's robot women

"Nellie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the painting table"

Japanese 20mm AA gun from Travis

Mr Haines:  somewhere for the above to live!

Painting Challenge: Major Update (and Captain Impressive!)

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Seems like ages since I updated the Painting Challenge, but it's only been about a week. Must be all the work for the publication of the BEF handbook for IABSM yesterday that makes it seem longer. Anyway, to business: in today's update, in no particular order, we have:

  • Matt Slade with a cornucopia of colourful creatures
  • More 1/72 medievals from Andrew Helliwell
  • Some more terrain from Mr Stoesen
  • A big entry from Stumpy: Napoleonics and ACW
  • Blue Moose Ken has some lovely 28s to show us
  • There's a whole bunch of Modern vehicles from Chris Kay
  • Sapper strikes back with some French Dragoons
  • There's a cracking first entry from Travis Hiett: Lieutenant Tanaka's WW2 Japanese platoon in 28mm
  • And last, but not least, Derek is still at the Mad Max 20mm vehicles

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Today's pictures:

A cracking first entry from Mr Hiett

Mongol types from Blue Moose Ken

French Dragoons from Sapper

More modern cavalry:  Chieftains from Chris Kay

Would these stop the Chieftains? Some rather nice anti-tank guns from Mr Hodge.

Frenchies from Stumpy

TFL Painting Challenge: Quick Update

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Lots of entries in already this week, so a quick update to avoid a backlog!

In no particular order, we have:

  • Chris Stoesen with more scenery
  • Joe McGinn sends in his first entry of the year: and it's a big one from the Congo!
  • Two quick submissions from Mr Slade: some rabble rousers and some casualty markers. Wonder if they're connected...?
  • Andy Duffell sends in another 28mm tank
  • Egg is also back: two 4ground houses and some modern Canadians in 15mm
  • Carole is back to the 15mm sci-fi, with some lovely GZG hardsuit wearing infantry
  • And last, but not least, is Sapper, with some more Prussians and a nasty surprise for Edward II.

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and I'll update the Scorecard tonight.

Today's pictures:

Sapper's Edward II and entourage

Cabbages from Mr Stoesen

A Firefly in 28mm from Andy Duffell

TFL Painting Challenge: This Week's Update

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Sorry about the lack of posts recently: real world and too much time spent on the next Blitzkrieg supplements!

Let's see if we can end this drought with a quick Painting Challenge update.

In no particular order, we have:

  • Carole Flint returns to the Congo
  • The first of the year from Andy Duffell: a rather nice Somua, even if it is wearing the wrong colours
  • Sapper has some more SYW Prussians
  • A huge first entry of the year from Mr Davenport: almost 900 points in one go!
  • Mervyn moves from Middle Earth to Cimmeria
  • More pirates from Steve Burt
  • And last, but not least, some WW2 German Pioneers from Chris Cornwall

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and I've updated the Scorecard as well!

Today's pictures:

Andy Duffell's Somua in 28mm

Carole's European types for the Congo

Nice knights from Mr Davenport

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Sunday Update

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I can't believe how quickly some people are racking up their scores!

I haven't had a moment to paint hardly anything so far this year, and yet there are already three people on around 500 points. Impressive stuff.

Here are today's entries:

  • Having vowed to leave the Mad Max madness behind, Derek Hodge sends in another set of post-apocalypse vehicles
  • Matt Slade adds some more plague-carriers to his Deathguard collection, along with a few Gripping beast champions to maintain his sanity
  • There's lots of tiny little tanks from Jon Yuengling: IDF in 3mm
  • The Hat is back! Lloyd Bowler with some longbowmen 
  • Also back for the first time this year is Treadhead, and he has lots of tiny little tanks as well: his all sci-fi
  • Late entrant last year, Steven Lampon, starts 2018 with a vengeance: some lovely Highlanders (are these finished? I don't think so!) and some figures for Beyond the Gates of Antares
  • John Haines sends in some more Napoleonics
  • And last, but by no means least, Andrew Helliwell adds even more figures to his medieval and ECW collections.

As always, clicking on the name above will take you straight to their gallery (opens in a new window) and, shock/horror, I've actually updated the Scorecard as well!

Today's pictures:

Militia Bowmen from The Hat

Skyraiders from Steven Lampon

Treadhead lives up to his name

Mr Slade and his Plagueburst Crawler

TFL Painting Challenge: Big Weekend Update

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This year's Painting Challenge is really starting to take off now. Loads of entries came in over the weekend, with more and more of the regulars starting to appear.

So, in no particular order, we have:

  • Neil Hooge with some Mexican Cuirassiers
  • More elves from Mervyn
  • More pirates from Steve Burt
  • Ralph Plowman is back with some rather nice Warlord Celts
  • More 28mm Germans from Chris Cornwell, whose name I am finally spelling correctly!
  • A single miniature from Carole, but it's a very nice one
  • Doug Melville has another couple of 28mm WW2 AFVs and some infantry
  • Blue Moose Ken is back, with a variety pack of figures and scales
  • It's the first entry of the year from Sapper: and a cracking entry it is too...medieval knights and longbowmen in 28mm, some Arabs and some Prussian Fusiliers
  • And last, but by no means least, Chris Kay continues his Star Wars theme with his first entry of the year.

As always, clicking on the name of the person above will take you straight through to their gallery (opens in a new window); and, also as always, I'll update the Scorecard over the next few days.

Today's pictures are below:

Knights, but not in white satin, from Sapper

A couple galliots from Blue Moose Ken (wooden models)

A shieldmaiden from Carole

Celts from Ralph (despite the lack of finished basing!)

Some of Chris Cornwell's Germans

TFL Painting Challenge: Tuesday Update

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A good, steady flow of entries coming in for this year's challenge, with a lot of people getting off to a flying start.

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

  • Carole with some more 15mm sci-fi armour
  • More walls and fences, and some figures, from Chris Cornwall
  • Mervyn has been listening to Queen, and apparently painting elves as a result
  • There's a  mix of Japanese furniture and Napoleonic farm animals from Mr Haines, his first entry of the year
  • More 20mm medievals from Andrew Helliwell
  • Stumpy is back: ACW and Napoleonics to the fore
  • And last, but by no means least (as you'd know if you've met him) is Mr Slade, withe a couple of German WW2 AFVs in 28mm.

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

Plenty of time still to enter the challenge: so pick up your brushes and get started. It's almost February already!

Today' pictures are below:

A StuG from Mr Slade

Frenchies from Stumpy

And some Brits to fight them from Mr Haines

TFL Painting Challenge 2018: First Update of the Year

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Good to see that so many of you have made such an early start to this year's challenge. Makes me feel slightly guilty about not having visited the painting table for a couple of weeks!

So, in no particular order, we have the first entries of the year from:

  • Andrew Helliwell, with a mixture of pike and medievals
  • A quick Somua APC from Jon Yuengling
  • More pirates, me hearties, from Steve Burt
  • Carole Flint has built a stronghold for Hoardes
  • New participant, Chris Cornwall, starts his challenge career with some terrain and a few random Germans
  • And last, but by no means least, Doug Melville smashes his way into the year with twelve rather lovely 1/56th WW2 vehicles

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

Today's pictures are a few of Doug's APCs...

TFL Painting Challenge: Last Minute Entries

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Three entries sneaking in just before the deadline...

  • John Haines with some AWI militia cavalry
  • John de Terre Neuve with some scenery and small-scale tanks
  • The Hat bangs another twenty-four twenty-eights into his pot...and gets so excited he forgets to tell me what they are (don't worry, I guessed!)

And here they all are:

Militia Cavalry

Monte Cassino in 20mm

Anonymous Hellenics from the Hat

TFL Painting Challenge: Enormous 31st December Update

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And the last minute entries come pouring in, including a couple of "here's my entire output for the year in one go" submissions.

In no particular order, we have:

  • The name's Bond, Geoff Bond, with everything in one go, and a whole load of WW2 kit dating back to OML
  • A huge 'lots of terrain' entry from Koen, surely enough for him to win his littel side-contest with Thomas and Owen
  • Doug Melville sends in large amounts of all sorts of things
  • Regular Andy Helliwell has what must be his final entry of the year: more 15mm pike and shotte types
  • Another everything in one go entry, this time from Jim Catchpole: bronze, bugs and I can't find another "b" for his colonials
  • Andy Duffell sends in some more Soviets
  • And last but my no means least, four more post-apocalyptic cars from Mr Hodge

As always, clicking on the name of the person in the list, above, will cause their gallery to open in a new window.

There's still time to get those last minute entries in.

Here are today's pictures:

WW2 German Vehicles from Koen

More WW2 German Vehciles, this time from Doug Melville

ECW in 15mm from Andy Helliwell

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!