1940 Campaign French - Part 8: Painting Challenge Home Straight
Yesterday, with an enormous sigh of cyber-relief, I submitted the last of my efforts for the 12th Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. This final entry netted me 315 points (including a bonus), and so - with a grand total of 760 points - it enabled me to exceed my stated target of 650. Whoop! Here's the overview (I'll keep the blurb brief):
Senegalese Tirailleurs:
These are Warlord's metal set of ten figures, with two additional plastics from Wargames Atlantic, their fezzes re-sculpted to match. They've all got covers rolled-up over their headgear, leaving only the red tops visible.
Fire Support Teams:
Again, these are from Warlord's excellent 'Support Group' box (as are the observer and the standing medic, below) - a medium mortar and a Hotchkiss MMG.
Assorted Specialist Troops:
Here you'll find a sniper team, an AT rifle team, and various miscellaneous loaders, spotters etc. to parcel out amongst them (these are all Warlord metals)...:
...also a medic dragging a casualty (this one's a 3D print from Eskice), plus an observer/radio op and medic from Warlord:
Three Motorcycle/Sidecar Combinations:
The middle one is a 3D print (from Eskice; the same as the medic, above) and the two flanking it are the beautiful sculpts from Crusader Miniatures.
AMC 35:
This one is a resin print of a cheap and cheerful [read 'free and pretty ropey'] STL file; origin unknown.
It works well from a distance, but the details close up (like the prow-mounted tools) are very blobby, and the track assemblies are designed - designed! - to go on backwards. And I absolutely did not have to take them off and swap them over once they were already painted. Nope. Not me. Nosiree. 
Two Laffly S35T Heavy Artillery Tractors:
These are great models from Mad Bob Miniatures, although I've added a plasticard French towing sign to the top of the cab:
Fordson Trucks:
And finally, two more requisitioned civvie lorries - to accompany my colourful other one. As before, they're both repainted Lledo Fordson trucks:
And that's it for this year's Painting Challenge, but would you belive it? - I've somehow yet more French toys to get painted.
Time to put the kettle on, methinks...
These are Warlord's metal set of ten figures, with two additional plastics from Wargames Atlantic, their fezzes re-sculpted to match. They've all got covers rolled-up over their headgear, leaving only the red tops visible.
Fire Support Teams:
Again, these are from Warlord's excellent 'Support Group' box (as are the observer and the standing medic, below) - a medium mortar and a Hotchkiss MMG.
Assorted Specialist Troops:
Here you'll find a sniper team, an AT rifle team, and various miscellaneous loaders, spotters etc. to parcel out amongst them (these are all Warlord metals)...:
...also a medic dragging a casualty (this one's a 3D print from Eskice), plus an observer/radio op and medic from Warlord:
Three Motorcycle/Sidecar Combinations:
The middle one is a 3D print (from Eskice; the same as the medic, above) and the two flanking it are the beautiful sculpts from Crusader Miniatures.
AMC 35:
This one is a resin print of a cheap and cheerful [read 'free and pretty ropey'] STL file; origin unknown.
It works well from a distance, but the details close up (like the prow-mounted tools) are very blobby, and the track assemblies are designed - designed! - to go on backwards. And I absolutely did not have to take them off and swap them over once they were already painted. Nope. Not me. Nosiree. 
Two Laffly S35T Heavy Artillery Tractors:
These are great models from Mad Bob Miniatures, although I've added a plasticard French towing sign to the top of the cab:
Fordson Trucks:
And finally, two more requisitioned civvie lorries - to accompany my colourful other one. As before, they're both repainted Lledo Fordson trucks:
And that's it for this year's Painting Challenge, but would you belive it? - I've somehow yet more French toys to get painted.
Time to put the kettle on, methinks...
