From TomG - Epic ACW and a trip to The Larder Challenge Chamber - 73 points

Hi all, I hope you've all had a good week, and that the universe has treated your painting sessions kindly. Having taken a few days off painting due to poorly kids and grown ups in our house, I was greatly relieved to hop back in the chair and get some colours down. 

First on offer is the next stand from my Warlord Games ACW sprue, this time including the command strip. As I have zero confidence with banners, I made up a placeholder just so I got a feeling for what may one day be when I can print some off. 

These guys are turning out to be more fun to paint than I thought, and it is converting me to want to look at more 15mm (or there abouts) scale gaming. My only other experience is Flames of War, and that's mainly vehicles. 

I tried to keep a variety of colours in use for their uniforms, in an effort to give them a campaign look, but I know that I may benefit from a simpler scheme when I get a lot more of them. 

Our courageous leader got a small amount of extra detail, but not much, however I love how he came out. 

My only issue was that I ended up finding the highlights got super desaturated as I went along, but luckily it's not present in the finished article. 

Oddly the cannon crew were the first things I painted but I didn't post them with my other chaps as I wanted to tweak them.

Mostly those tweaks were the red details and repainting the cannon to a darker bronze tone, but I'm not sure this was the right thing to do. What do you think? 

So now we move back in to the Chambers of Challenge, and after a lengthy campaign it's time to hit up that Larder! 

This little number comes from, the now dead and unsupported game, Guild Ball from Steamforged Games. It was classed as terrain for the game, however it'll now function nicely as a challenge entry, forever to live on the shelf of unknowns. 

As painting it goes, the colours were fun to play with, and I even you to use my Christmas gifts of some Pro-Acryl paints, namely purples and oranges. The chicken is my second bird of Challenge XI and I'm sure it won't be my last 🤣

Anyway, I hope you like what I had to show you and I have scored it as follows:

20 x 15mm infantry = 40pts

1 x 15mm mounted/officer = 4pts

1 x 15mm artillery piece = 4pts

1 x small scenic (under 6" area) challenge entry = 25pts

Total - 73 points