Empire army – Warhammer the old world – part 1

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.

Empire Steam Tank – finished!

After adding some dust and soot I glued the tank to the base with superglue, and with that I’ll consider it finished. I was a fun build and I really like the steampunk style on things.
Here’s some pics of the finished build!

I’m ´quite happy with how it turned out and also happy with the base as it was the first time I did something like that.

Empire Steam Tank – part 3

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.

Empire Steam Tank – part 2

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!

Empire Steam Tank – part 1

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.

Dwarfen Mountain Holds – part 2

Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes.
I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.

The Ironbreakers was assembled first.

The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.

Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.

I just have to paint him with white beard and all.
I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.

Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old.
It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.

Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.

Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.

I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.

Dwarfen Mountain Holds – Building an army – part 1

Some time ago I bought the Mountain holds battalion box, which I haven’t started building yet. I also bought a few other boxes.

The first one was the King and Thane with shield bearers.

I could say that it’s fairly easy to build and being quite new, it is.

The three shield bearers.

The king built as well! I opted for the Odin helmet and great weapon.

I also thought it would be best to paint the shield bearers first, but after checking the fit, I had to rethink that a bit. More about that later.

There’s also a Thane figure, that I for some reason forgot to take pics of.

Next up is a set of Hammerers. A box with 20 figures that can either be built as Hammerers or Longbeards, or 10 of each with full command. I choose the latter option.

With them done I moved on to building some cannons.

The kit is a bit old, but went together pretty well. It’s possible to either build 2 cannons or 2 organ guns, or one of each.

Each crew member can have different arms which gives them a bit of variation.

It seems like I’m forgetting to take pics, but here’s the next one I’ve built.

After checking GW’s site about Grombrindal, I found out that the Slayer is one of the versions. I just have to paint his beard and hair white.

Here’s a pic of how the army looks like right now.

Next up will be these two boxes.

Once they’re built and painted I’ll have well over 2000 points or closer to 2500 even.

Orruk Ardboyz – part 4

Painting the figures seems to take longer than I had anticipated. Everytime I look I find more parts to paint or fix somehow. But now it looks like I’m getting there, at least with the grunts and the shaman.

Soon time to finish off the soldiers as well. Then all the bases need some kind of dekoration in the form of dirt and grass.

Orruk Ardboyz – part 3

I started out painting some of them with ordinary yellow, then I decided to use the Speed Paint version, that looks a bit darker.

On those aleady painted red, I painted yellow patterns.

Then I painted some more red, leaving some parts yellow.

My girlfriend suggested that I should paint the helmet jaws in metal. So I did a test.

On some I left even the shoulder pads yellow, as I wanted some of them to look a bit different.

The I took a pic with the boar riders as well.

On those with yellow shoulder pads, I painted some details in black.

I think it’s starting to come together. I’ll paint some more jaws in metal while I’m painting the weapons and other metal parts.