Thursday, 9 February 2012

WIP 15mm Empire War band

Hi guys, while I've been working on the Norse, I've been planning my next War Band, and have decided on Empire, probably Averland, I will use these old Museum Landsknecht figures and give most of them head swaps from some old Gothic knights, the knights are to small but have big heads so the fit will be good, and they will all get a re paint.





Wednesday, 8 February 2012

WIP 15mm Norse War band

Hi guys, the Norse War band almost finished, just have to do a couple of details on these figures, have to do the base on the Jarl, find a warewolf to lead the wolf pack, do 3 or 4 bowman, and paint up a yeti and I will be done, the converted Celts turned out pretty nice.
Group shot
Jarl Ragnar the Red and his Huscarls, Erik halfstride, and Jorg Bloodaxe.
Jarl Ragnar the red (still need to finish his base)

Jorg Bloodaxe (if you meet Jorg in battle you will find out how he got his nick name)

Erik Halfstride (he walks with a limp from a battle wound to the thigh)

Shaman, Thordal the strange

The Norse Marauders.






The wolf pack.



Saturday, 4 February 2012

WIP 15mm Norse Marauders

Hi guys, finished the green stuff work on the Norse marauders, 4 figs got a head, weapon and shield swaps, the whole warband is ready for an undercoat.







Wednesday, 1 February 2012

15mm Mordheim style war bands projects

Hi guys, a preview of my next project, some 15 mm Mordheim style war bands, I am finding my concentration challanged painting big forces, so I decided small groups is the way to go, I plan on doing a few of these, but here are the first 4, Norse, Chaos Circus freaks, Bretonnian, and undead, most of the figures will be converted, and some may be replaced or more figs added, we will see.
The first group will be the Norse, just need to find a nice Wulfen figure, I will probably use Splintered light werewolves, I will heavily convert the marauders, (5 figs on lower right) they are celts at the moment, I plan to change the shields to a round version, add fur caps, helmets, and give them axes, the Jarl, 2 Huscarls, Shaman and snow troll are all from copplestone castings, I will only do minor conversions (if any) to these superb figs, the wolves are from Black Raven foundry, and will not be converted.
The Bretonnians will require a bit of work, I'm not sure were the bowmen are from but they are rather nice and will stay in the group, the 3 knights are from Museum Miniatures (I think), I may replace these, they are slightly smaller then the bowman, I may just build up their bases, not sure, if I keep them they will need, head changes or at least head crests added, and the surcoat lengthened. The men at arms are from Essex and suffer from their usual dwarfism, I'm sure I will replace these, which is a pity, they are not bad poses, I will need 3 squires to round this group off, I will discuss the other groups later.




Not a group, but i got this lovely Khurasan giant ape for my 15mm fantasy collection, he's a beauty, more on him later.