Time for some paint! I used Speed Paint for all the basic colours. Mainly focusing on the warband.
Adding colours for bows and other weapons.
Building up layers with Citadel colours.
The archers also got a little more colours.
Not much left to do and I feel it’s hard to see any differences between the pictures.
Soon time to add bricks to their bases.
One of the things I’ve been working with is my Empire army. And part of that are the militia.
As I plan to participate in the game Mordheim as well, I decided to use some of them as a Warband. I also wanted to have a group of bowmen skirmishers.
In the box there’s quite a few options both for weapons and figures. Something I think is very nice. Here’s a pic of the box.
I started with the figures that are supposed to be bowmen.
I haven’t planned to have any command for this group, but still I made one of the figures so he can act as a champion if needed.
I did a few loading a new arrow and a few that are shooting.
With the heads in place they looked like this.
I’m quite happy with that little band of skirmishers.
Next up was my warband for Mordheim. A friend helped me make a list and then I wrote a note on what weapons they should have.
Trying to sort out which weapons I needed. The blunderbus is for later use, once I can improve their equipment.
The Captain and two figures done.
Four more figures on the way.
Some time later I had assembled 14 figures!
My archers!
The rest of the militia group, almost done!
Here’s all of them done!
Then all of them got black primer.
And then some dry brushed zenithal.
Next, painting them!
I tried 4 different colours for the side panels.
I went for the colour on the mid panel. I also painted the armour on the horses. The other panels was painted blue and the frame red.
I used Averland Sunset to paint a lighter shade on the panels and used Aloic blue and Mephiston red on the other parts.
I painted one horse white and the other one black with white on the lower parts of the legs and hofs.
I used gold/bronze for the heads and black metal on the wheels and other metal trim.
To spice it up a bit, I painted the tongue and eyes red and the teeth white. I also painted some details with bronze on the rifles.
I still got more to paint but I think it’s taking shape and the heads look kinda scary! 🙂
This is a resin kit from Forge World. I bought it directly from GW so there was no fancy boxart.
I started with removing the casting block and cleaning up the parts to the wagon. I also glued the wheels.
Some of the parts was slightly bent, so after checking how to correct that, I managed to straighten the parts. Then I could start glueing the parts together.
A while later I had glued both the wagon and the horses.
Then it was time for the figures. It took a while to clean them up.
There was a few spots to address on the wagon.
The engineer got assembled.
Quite nice figure, but his sniper rifle was slightly bent. Even som parts on the other figures was bent.
Luckily it only takes a few seconds in hot water to make the resin soft enough to bend in the desired direction.
Since my compressor is out of function at the moment, I decided to use an ordinary brush to paint black primer.
Drybrushed grey primer.
And lastly white primer.
I find it a lot easier to paint the primer with an airbrush, but I think this will work. Next I’ll start adding colours for Marienburg, which mainly in red, blue and yellow.
The steam tank was the first part of my Empire army. In the same box there’s also different infantry troops. Here’s the command group.
And the, at the time, headless hillebardiers.
For some reason I didn’t take a pic of the finished soldiers, instead I contindued with the spear soldiers.
I brought the box to build the rest of the troops including the state missile troops but I forgot the bag with bases for the other figures. Anyway I finished the soldiers with sword and shield. The pic is from the weekend build meeting we had last weekend.
I then opened up the box with gun and mortar.
Quite fun kit to build! I’m looking forward to painting them later.
Then I started building the box with pistoliers.
They was also fun to build even if the horses required some work with the seams.
There are a few details that needs to be added to the horses and figures. Something I’ll do once I get sorted with my workbench at home.
Making the base.
I used Magic Sculpt to make the stones. I flattened the clay with a brush handle and then cut pieces that I then pushed onto the surface. Trying to shape them to look like stones.
After that had dried properly, I used Vallejo’s dark earth goo and smeared it out over the rest of the base and some inbetween the stones.
I then painted the earth with Mournfang brown.
The stones got a wash with Agrax earthshade och then was drybrushed with grey. The dirt was drybrushed with Zandri dust and Ashabti stone.
Grass and more paint was added and then some tufts.
I put the tank on to check how it looked.
Considering I don’t usually do bases like this, I think it turned out quite nice.
I think I’ll add a few yellow splashes to represent flowers of some kind and do some dirt weathering on the tank.
After pushing in the sides and glueing them a bit at a time, I managed to sort the gaps. I used glue goo to sort the rest.
The engineer commander was drybrushed with grey and then white.
Then I started painting him with red, blue and yellow.
I painted the steam tank sides in black and the upper and lower parts in dark bronze. The shields was painted blue and then most of the ornaments was painted in gold.
More colour was added to the figure.
Painting details took quite a while and here it’s almost done.
Adding skin colours and some details to the tank I’ll consider it done.
The only thing left to do is to sort the base!
This tank is part of the Empire batallion box for TOW (the old world).
Here I’ve already assembled the turret, boiler and a few other parts.
According to the intructions there’s an option between these two parts.
It wasn’t until after I watched a video where someone built the Age of Sigmar version that I realised the head was an option for the top of the chimney.
After some tim I had assembled enough to start painting.
The wood, some of the metal parts and the inside of the side panels got paint.
Next I painted some Retributor Armor on the gun and other parts mainly on the interior.
The boiler and chimney also got metal colours, and the gun was glued in place.
The dials was painted white and also later got red to mark maximum pressure or whatever.
The inside of the walls was given a wash of Nuln oil and then some dry brushing with grey.
Here’s a test fit.
All the bronze parts got a wash with Agrax Earthshade and then I drybrushed with brons and silver. Here everything is ready for assembly.
Next I assembled the sides.
My idea was to have the top part removable but after dry fitting it looked like this.
As can be seen there’s small gaps in some places.
In order to sort that it looks like I have to glue the sides to the top and hold in pressure until it dries. I think minimizing the gaps is to prefere.
Sometime it’s just time to take a step back and decide that you’re finished with what you’re doing. At least that’s what I had to do with my Black Orc team.
Here they are in all their glory!
Here they’re doing a bit of Phil Collins dance moves! 🙂
I’m quite happy with how they turned out! 🙂
Next I’ll finish my Gnome team.
More details was painted, like theeth and horns on their masks.
The ghoul on Varag got some colour.
Their shoes was painted in white and red.
A lot of details was added here and there, getting closer to being finished.
I added some dirt, grass and black rim to their bases, and all the player got hand painted numbers.
Good enough to be called done, but as usual I found a few things I wanted to sort before taking the final reveal pics!
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