AHPC11 - Sarah the Sorceress - Old Hag

For the final time this Challenge I call upon her Highness Sarah the Sorceress to transport me from

the Graveyard Beach down to Level 4 and the Alter of the Snowlord.

The Altar of the Snow Lord: In this final chamber our very own Snow Fiend will select a challenge for you, as a tribute to the painting Gods. 

Not much to say about the Old Hag really?? She's a Front Rank figure and will blend in with the million other civilians I've already painted up over the years.

I did paint up a few female figures early on in the Challenge, just incase I needed them for the Sarah the Sorceress transport duties. Lucky I did, as I'm running out of time to get something painted for my Alter of the Snowlord post!!

5 points for the Old Hag

20 Bonus points for Sarah the Sorceress

AHPC11 - Chamber of Challenge - Debris of War - Graveyard Beach 62 pts

Sorry folks but I've kinda ignored the second word Beach and gone with the first word, Graveyard.

 Graveyard Beach: Spooky, ghostly, undead and undying things arrive, or resurrect, here under 

Challenge Mountain. Bonus points if combined with a watery or nautical theme.

Its been an interesting Challenge for me this time around, I seem to have got the terrain bug?

Debris of War make a fantastic Graveyard set, but I wanted mine to be more rustic with a countryside look, so I bought their gravestones and different walls.

My original plan was to make a permanent model but after having a chat with Postie, I changed my mind and made it modular otherwise I think I think it would get broken. This way I can store it more easily.

The Debris of War gravestones were rather elaborate affairs only for the upper class. I wanted some plain ordinary worn out looking ones, so I bought some MDF ones from Ebay. I painted them with very watered down polyfiller to give them a stone look. I even left some unbased  to lean against the walls.

This dashing looking fellow was going to be a Ghoul/Zombie in my Shrine post, but I changed my mind and painted up the Col Bill's Ghosts. So he's moved into the Graveyard as an extra figure.

I'm not sure of the manufacturer as he and some other chums were gifted to me by me ol pal Fran, before he buggered off back to Ireland. He's part of a collection climbing out of toxic waste barrels!!

The Gravedigger is a Foundry figure from their SYW Prussian  labourers, sorry I can't find the pack on their site? The wheelbarrow and coffin are from Black Tree Design here

Now here's the really difficult bit.....the points!!

The base boards are 16 x 16 inches x 0.5 inch

The walling measure 4 x 14 inch x 1 inch high

There are 27 based Gravestones with another 5 unbased.

1 x 25mm figure

1/2 x 25mm figure

1 x coffin

1 x wheelbarrow

If the base walling and Gravestones are piled up the should make a rough box of 16 x 8 x 2.5

making a total of 1.5 boxes. giving me 30 points

1 x 25mm figure - 5 points

1/2 x 25mm figure - 3 points

1 x coffin - 2 points

1 x wheelbarrow - 2 points

Challenge Bonus - 20 points

Making a total of 62 points.

This pushed me up to No10 in the Challenge chart, the first time I broke into the upper echelons this time round with a 1477 points total.

AHPC11 - Warfare Ottomans - Anatolian Sipahis

Back to the Ottomans and back to Warfare Miniatures!

I bought a cavalry force from Mr Hilton with some Christmas money, they arrived in early 

January as the horses had only just been caste. 

As with the infantry I asked Barry for an idea of a small Ottoman army, here's the 4 point Donnybrook force Barry suggested.

Ottoman Cavalry force

Unit of Elite Sipahis of the Porte - armoured, lance, pistols and shield - 3 models
Unit of Drilled Balkan Timariot Sipahis - armoured, lance, pistols - 6 models
Unit of Drilled Anatolian Sipahis - sword, bow - 6 models
Unit of Recruit Tribal cavalry - bows - 9 models

They are beautiful figures, which come to two parts, so you can get a real mix of figure poses.

And they paint up so well. 

There are 6 x 25mm figures giving me a total of...

60 points!

These 60 points pushed me up  to No11 in the charts, with 1415 points.