Lead Painter's League Has Begun!

   Over in Germany, there's a little miniatures forum known as the Lead Adventure Forum. In this wonderful place, to which all good little gaming boys and girls should belong since it's free and all, there is an annual competition to determine the Greatest Painter of All Time and Space. Or something like that. If you limit time and space to Earth, in the present day. And if you only consider the painting of groups of small figurines, typically metal, plastic, or resin. But you get my drift...

   The competition is a weekly head-to-head matchup that lasts for ten weeks. Forum members (did I mention it's free?) can vote on each pairing. This season there are 32 gladiators in the arena, and I, your humble blogger, am one amongst their number.

   Last season, I came in a disappointing 34th out of 40, with only two wins. Most of my losses were well-deserved, but I felt like I could have done better on a few pairings. I hope to improve my record to five wins this season. I'm off to a good start this week (the entries are posted newly every Sunday, voting is open until the following Saturday).

   So, if you are interested in little toy soldiers of varying sorts being painted by a variety of painters - some of whom are incredibly skilled - you should certainly check it out. I won't share my username in order to avoid seeming as if I am trolling for votes. I'm not. I just want to broadcast the knowledge about the contest far and wide.

LEAD PAINTER'S LEAGUE

Season 9

Fjodin's 15mm - VSF/Colonial Gruntz

   Fjodin has made some really interesting cards for Gruntz rules to bring in VSF or colonial games. You can find more information here. Very interesting. And good looking!

Happy Easter!

And while the eggs are beautiful, and the hunt is fun, and all of that wonderful stuff, please don't forget the real joy of Easter: the Risen Christ, who suffered, died and was buried, but rose again on the third day, in accordance with the Scripture, that all may know that He was truly the Son of God, the Messiah, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.

SCW MGs Plus!

Requetes Machine Gun Team

15mm Spanish Civil War

Peter Pig figures, with head swaps for two to make requetes

25mm Gurkhas

Painted by Tom Lytle

Cargo/Troop Truck for 15mm Sci-Fi

This started life as a Hot Wheels Brand "Star Wars Tusken Raider"

Primed it black and re-painted. Makes a big chunky off road truck.

This post was scheduled before Good Friday.

Things are happening around here...

...I promise!

   Working on several projects. Lots of Dystopian Wars Federated States ships. Got a good bit of 15mm sci-fi in hand, working on painting it up now.

   I promise I will start putting more pictures up.

   But first I have to get set for the Lead Painters' League competition. It's on the Lead Adventurers' Forum. I entered last year but didn't do very well. This year I hope to improve on my somewhat sad finish. The first three entries are submitted, and the competition officially starts next Saturday. Please go check it out. Lots of great painting, and mine is there too.

   I need to consider what to paint for the Round 5 bonus and Round 10 bonus. Round 5 I need to have some sort of non-equine animal. Five of them. That earns me bonus points. Putting five riders on them gets me an additional batch of bonus points. So I am thinking riders. I have:

• 25mm gashants for Space: 1889
• 15mm Savannah Lords (crocodiles) on woolly rhinos (Khurasan)
• 15mm Salamen on terror birds (also Khurasan)
• 25mm frog warriors on giant toads (Eureka)
• 28mm savage orc boar boyz - need to purchase

   For Round 10 the bonus theme is women. I have very few female figures, and what I have got, don't make a cohesive 'team' as required by the rules. So my thoughts are these:

• 25mm Amazon types.
• 15mm Sisters of Battle proxies
• 25mm frogs (from Eureka), painted in feminine colors.
• Maybe some kind of Warmachine female unit? Cygnar by preference.

What is the collective wisdom of the tribe?