Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge 2016-17

The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge is an annual painting competition in which participants paint as many miniatures as possible from Dec. 20th to March 20th.

Over the past three years I have had a great time as a spectator of the Challenge, marveling at the quantity and quality of the miniatures produced by the participants.  For a variety of reasons I have not had the guts to tackle the Challenge.  No longer!  It has been a tough couple of past months at work.  I need a distraction.

Over the past two weeks I have been spending time cleaning and priming many of the miniatures I plan to paint for the Challenge.

Another motivation for participating in the Challenge this year is that I have a project that I have taken on that requires quite a bit of painting.  My colleague at work (small public university) is teaching a course on the American Revolution.  I have offered to host a miniatures wargame of an American Revolutionary battle.  Last year I hosted two American Civil War battles when the same colleague taught a course on the Civil War.

I have decided to put together a scenario of the Battle of Hubbardton (July 1777) which was a small rear guard action during the Saratoga, NY campaign.

In future posts I will document my progress in the Challenge and in completing the Battle of Hubbardton project.

You can follow the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge here.