From JuanM: 28mm Anglo-Danish, Late Romans & Viking (60 points)

Juan sends in an excellent mix of figures that range from this Anglo-Danish for SAGA, another base of Legio V Macedonia and a fierce Viking for yours truly.

The Anglo-Danes are 28mm Gripping Beast castings.

The Late Romans are from the Musketeer Miniature range.

And this fine Iberian Viking is from Wargames Foundry.

This group of fierce lads will give Juan 60 points. Wonderful work, Juan!

Also, in regards to the Viking 'danegled' that I set out at the start of the Challenge it seems that I've lost my list of who I've posted castings to and who I've missed (being Vikings they are a bit chaotic). If any of you guys have not received your casting yet please drop me an email and I'll get it sorted. For those who are either still waiting or their Viking, or it is in the works, or its in transit back to me, don't worry you will get your 10 points irregardless. Thanks! Otherwise I will be putting up a post this weekend featuring the models I have received back from Challengers from around the world - I must say, they are all pretty awesome!

From Curt: 28mm Anglo-Dane Warlord, Hrolf Heldrid (20 points)

I thought that since I'm the host I should set a good example and get something done early.  I burned a bit of midnight oil yesterday to get my first entry in for The Challenge. (My wife awoke in the middle of the night with me still beavering away at the hobby desk to which she just shook her head, made a barely audible harrumphing sound, and tottered back to bed.) 

This stand will serve as the warlord to my Anglo-Dane warband for SAGA. I'm calling him Hrolf Heldrid. I dunno why. Just liking the letter 'H' it seems.

In SAGA the warlords are particularly badass so I thought I'd accompany him with a few additional figures to better portray this. The main lad with the long axe is a recent Gripping Beast casting.  The one filleting his foe in a rather brutal fashion is an Old Glory figure. The wounded fellow holding his leg is also an Old Glory casting to which I did a  simple conversion. (Cut away his original spear, drilled out his hand and swapped in a steel rod with a spare Draco from my parts bin.)

Like a complete git I thought that since I'm already bleary-eyed, working under the gun with a high-profile character stand, that this would be the PERFECT occasion to try my hand with my first LBMS shield transfers. As you can imagine this could have gone very, very poorly, but lucky for me they worked like a charm. Highly recommended.

Anyway, there you have it. Hrolf Heldrid, ready to cut cards with any Norman or Viking that cares to come his way (or go down swinging).

These boys will give me 20 points to put on the board. Now I have to get to work on some Normans...