Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 2024 + Paint What you Got

This year I entered the AHPC XIV event. Never having entered anything like this I managed to do it twice without thinking. I joined Paint What You Got as well. I had followed both events in previous years and thought I could paint what I had - got lots of this. And also add some new materail via AHPC. The AHPC has about 80 odd entrants and is well established. I had not realised that AHPC includes challenges. Optional I hear you say! Except in my case the Library Challenge was so enticing my plans fell apart as I painted things and made models completely at odds with my wargames armies plan. In the end I managed some new units notably my Rebel Light Infantry for Schleswig Holstein. Meanwhile for Paint what you got I managed to get some of my German allies of the Rebels done. Although Prussia was dominant in its support for the rebels other German States sent contingents as the support was made official by the German Confederation. Thats it for now.

2023 themes

2023 proved to be very much a year for 1848 armies and especially Danes and Prussians. This meant my Italian Wars of Independence armies suffered as a result. Added to that I got distracted again by other subjects - notably sci fi where I don't normally dwell. Here is a selection of figures plus my TACFOS Sci Fi encounter as well as one of my grid wargame experiments - an 1848 scenario using the portable wargame rules by Bob Corderoy. The full stories can be found at my wordpress blog - the wargaming erratic