Armour/Armoured Build Winners

The polling booths for the Armour/Armoured Build closed on Saturday night over on The Guild. I didn't have a chance to enter, but an amazing 53 members submitted 73 entries!

So, without further ado, the winners' podium!


Wiking & Piers came in joint 3rd place with
A desert veteran

and From East & West

Keith in 2nd place with his German tank hunters

Mausmann finished in 1st place with his Stug III's

My personal favourite was 6mmfan's Nuclear Missile Silo

Enough of that, part iii of my Rogue Spear campaign will be up by the end of the week...

Lead Painters' League - Season 8 has started!

Round 1 of Season 8 of the Lead Painters League is underway over on the Lead Adventure Forum.
If you're not familiar with it get yourself over there to see some fantastic eye candy (as well as people going through their lead mountains at a cracking rate!)

In summary, paint up a team of miniatures, you're randomly paired off with another contestant, everyone votes for their favourite in the pairing and then onto the next round. There are ten rounds after which a league table of sorts has been established. There are bonus points for matching themes in three of the rounds. The theme from round 1 is 'The Realms of Fantasy'.

I'd urge you to join up, take a good look and vote - you've still got a few days to do so.

Like previous years, I won't be telling you any of my favourites, but I will highlight a few match-ups where I reckon the opponents are very closely matched:

Heroes of Crystalia vs. Hear Me Roar

Chaos Marauders vs. Germans

Adventurers vs. Second Breakfast

Wonderful selections to be seen elsewhere of course, definitely looking forward to seeing what's in future rounds as well.

The Checkpoint

As the lead element of Team Two are making their way back to base, Yuri Orlov and his bodyguard are stuck in a traffic jam right ahead of them crossing a bridge at a roadblock.

The mercenaries must get through the crowds away from the chasing Rainbow team and through the checkpoint, keeping Orlov safe.

The logjam at the bridge has been caused by a new checkpoint - swiftly set up to look for terrorist suspects 

Orlov's bodyguard get out of their cars - they'll look to hijack other cars at the far end of this traffic

Orlov's in the Mercedes and he urges his men to advance quickly across the bridge

Three well-armed police officers await at the far end

As the engagement begins, civilians start to pour out of their vehicles. Near the back of the traffic jam, they get in between Rainbow and the second mercenary group, making life difficult for the counter-terrorist team. 

Orlov's men force their way through the civilians and take control of the truck at the far end of the bridge

Rainbow work their way around the civilians and annihilate the mercenaries taking cover behind their car

The police gain reinforcements as another patrol has arrived, and they square off against Orlov as they get the truck in gear. The police officers' fire forces the mercenaries 

However, the two late arrivals are actually working for Orlov they gun down their fellow officers, allowing Orlov and his men to run to the checkpoint

The Rainbow team get through the panicking civilians without too much trouble and have almost caught up with Orlov

Their fire takes out the mercenaries, as the traitorous police dive into the checkpoint hut for cover

But before Rainbow can follow up and capture him, two of his bodyguards recover enough to escape! 

Rainbow fail to catch their quarry, but only by the skin of his teeth!