Marienburg, Undeadish, etc! (plague)

[ZeroTwentythree]

Re: Marienburg vs. the Undeadish (Variety Update)

One more pic to add. I finally finished the bases on a couple of quickly painted old townsfolk.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

Re: Marienburg vs. the Undeadish

My sleep has been screwed up this week, so I was up late the past few nights. Figured it would be a good time to wrap up enough of the Nightmare Legion to field a basic unit . Still two more 40mm bases to paint, which will have the four command figures and more troops.

Also, just because I wanted to see how my forces were shaping up, I set up a table. I think this helped boost my spirit a bit regarding gaming. I'm still not sure how/what/when I will do in terms of actual gaming. But at least I can feel like I'm doing something that looks pretty decent on a table.

I'm waiting on the owner of the previously posted elf griffin to stop by to pick it up, so I left it threatening a flank in the meantime.

 

[Warburton]

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A very impressive display!

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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Thanks!


While sorting out the Marienburg figures for use in my planned basing scheme, I noticed a couple of cases where I could paint up just a few figures to round out a unit so it would be ready for the battlefield. In most cases, that means 16 infantry, 8 cavalry, or 4 big critters for the basic unit building blocks.

So I painted up one more pistolier, and started on four more dwarf pikemen as a quick break from the undead.

 

[Subedai]

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Lovely work as usual. I'm really inspired by your Marienburgers.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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Thanks!



With these four dwarfs finished, I can now field a full unit. (Maybe a unit photo next update?) Disappointed that the camera really flattened the colors. I'm quite proud of the bright highlights on these guys.

And just to prove that I've finally started painting that Westfalia sample halfling....

While waiting for paint to dry on the above figures, I worked on the Citadel jabberwock. Again, the camera sort of washed out the color. Hard to tell, but I added some nice sickly purples & yellows on this, rather than sticking with the usual neutral greys of most of the undeadish.

 

[Warburton]

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Great stuff. Love the mushrooms

 

[zoggin-eck]

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The table looks great!

Is that a Forgeworld Teclis used as a statue?

Also, have we seen a close-up of the War Wagon?

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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The table looks great!

Is that a Forgeworld Teclis used as a statue?

Also, have we seen a close-up of the War Wagon?

Thanks. I believe that's the FW Teclis. It was glued on a plaque & painted gold, as an award from a tournament long ago. It was in storage and broke in several places, so I pried it off & used it for terrain. Marienburg & the Wasteland were supposedly settled by elves in the very distant past of the Warhammer world, so I like the idea of having some ruins in what has since become blighted fens & marsh.



Here's the rest of the unit of old dwarf spear/pike:

And the now completed Westfalia halfling:

I've been experimenting with more terrain. This was done with a bit of pulled apart steel wool, glued to a base, sprayed with brown primer, and then glued with some clump foliage.

As posted elsewhere, I picked up this "Lord of the Feast" from Hordes.

And this is what it looks like out of the package:

I've got conflicting feelings for it. On the one hand, I love the figure and it's well sculpted. I also like the size (for my project) which is significantly taller than a normal human. I will have to dig up the figure, but I think it should look good with the old Citadel "Death Elemental." But on the other hand, it's seven pieces with mostly bad glue-joints, and little opportunity for easy pinning. It looks like it will fall apart if used for actual gaming. My experience with sculpting, mold making, and casting is admittedly limited, but I think this really could have been designed with better joints and/or in fewer pieces. I go this because I was excited to work on it next. But right now I can't work up the enthusiasm to try putting it together properly.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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Also, have we seen a close-up of the War Wagon?

Found some old photos. The initial war wagon has been done for a while, so I hadn't posted close up pics here. In WFB terms, in the past few editions, I used it as an unSteam Tank. The cannon & crew are removable so I can put other armaments/crew in it as well -- such as the last pic with a warrior priest and enormous statue of the god Manann.

Note about the steam tank... I've always planned to paint a "mural" along the two sides of the hull, but still haven't done it.

 

[zoggin-eck]

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Found some old photos.[/img]

Nice! Thanks very much. The blue looks good. I've never gotten around to painting my steam tank, sticking to a couple of key colours like you have might make it happen...

Thanks. I believe that's the FW Teclis. It was glued on a plaque & painted gold, as an award from a tournament long ago. It was in storage and broke in several places, so I pried it off & used it for terrain. Marienburg & the Wasteland were supposedly settled by elves in the very distant past of the Warhammer world, so I like the idea of having some ruins in what has since become blighted fens & marsh.

Ha, thought it was so thanks for the info and the in-universe explanation is cool Glad to hear you saved a damaged model. The Teclis one wasn't my favourite, but for some reason I really wanted it at the time.

Shame about the Hordes model. I know my enthusiasm has dropped off because of similar, fiddly to assemble models.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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Been busy with other things this past week, not much progress on miniatures. But I've still tried to find some time to do a little painting. Working on this...

I've been slowly hunting down various larger than human skeletons. Here's the skeletal fruits of my necromantic labors.

The big fella in the back is the Reaper Colossal Skeleton (Bones version.) Nice figure, and nice price for the Bones version. Almost too large for regular gaming.

The shorter figures on either end are the skeletal ogres from Ral Partha Europe. I really like these, and would like to find more skeletons that match this size, so I could form a unit of at least four without duplicate figures

The three in the middle are (from left to right) Skeletal Cyclops from Grenadier/Mirliton, Skeletal Giant from Reaper (arm not glued on yet,) and Skeletal Troll from RAFM (weapon broke off in the package, I need to fix it.) These three scale pretty well together, and all three are well sculpted and well cast.

One more on my list is this from Iron Wind Metals (so possibly available from Ral Partha Europe as well?) I have no idea how large it is: http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product ... ts_id=8186

Still keeping my eye open for other options.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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One of the great things about these "bare bones" (or nearly so) skeletons is that they paint up quickly. Finished another unit of skeletons, plus the three giants.

I forsee some "desperately outnumbered defenders" battles in the Marienbugers' future. Quick roll call, counted in units.


The Forces of the Somewhat Less Than Living:

7x Skeleton Infantry
1x Skeleton Guard
3x Skeleton Giants
1x Undead Dragon
3x Undeadish Infantry
1x Undeadish Cavalry
2x Undeadish Ogres
1x Undeadish Giant
1x Vermin Swarm
1x Vermin Beast
1x Jabberwock

Partially Complete:
1x Skeleton Infantry
1x Skeletal Knights (will they ever get painted?!)



Field Army of the Generally Accepted as Being Alive According to Common Definitions:

4x Swordsmen
2x Spearmen
1x Handgunners
1x Greatswords
1x Knights
1x Pistoliers
1x Ogres
1x Speardwarfs
1x Wood Elf Scouts/Archers
1x War Wagon
?? Giants
plus misc. artillery (not sure about working these into the game)

Partially Complete:
1x Handgun Dwarfs
1x Elf Light Cavalry
1x Great Orcs
1x Halfling Scouts

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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One more pic. Finally finished this crewman for the War Wagon after... years. Something must be wrong with me. I had planned on painting him in bright, clashing colors, but ended up with a more subdued palette to go with the wagon.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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I've been procrastinating on these, but really think that the Undead need at least one unit. I've painted up two to see how they look & get a feel for the process of painting them. I really like these figures, aside from some of the skulls sculpted into the armour, and the bat-winged shields. I did end up replacing some of shields and cutting off a few bat wings from helms. I'm already tempted to get a second unit of these. (Still tempted to do a second unit of the converted heavy skeletal infantry, too.)

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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I have a mere six Great/Mercenary Orcs. I really like the figures, but it's difficult to fit them into my collection/budget unless I find bargains. Below are the painted ones together. Four is the minimal I need to put a unit on the table under my current plan, so I'll finish the last two at a later date.

 

[Firebreather]

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Fantastic stuff, loving the colours on the orcs and the rusting on the undead calvary

 

[demi_morgana]

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Yeah, awesome!

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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Thanks!


I swore I was going to finish the black knights before moving on to other things. But then a few Westfalia samples appeared in the mail and they naturally jumped to the front of the line! At least they're only a small distraction. I haven't decided what livery colors to use yet.

 

[ZeroTwentythree]

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I went with purple & grey for something different and striking. I still need to decide on a symbol/blazon/device/badge/whatever-you-call-it for the standard and possibly on other figures in the future.

My fondness for this range of figures just keeps growing. They look nice in photos online, but they are even better in person. The proportions, the crispness & detail, the poses, the concepts -- all awesome.

On the one hand, I'm looking forward to the Kickstarter, but on the other I've got to come up with some money to pledge towards it. I think I'm going be digging through my existing collection to sell off some stuff to fund a shedload of halflings.


While waiting for putty to cure on another project, I cleaned up some recently stripped Oldhammer figures, and took the plunge and assembled the Lord of the Feast. I ended up covering the awful arm joint with a band of putty. That should help reinforce it too, since I didn't pin it.

My thought is that the Lord of the Feast will join the Life & Death elementals in their old rolls in Warhammer, as "daemons," or lesser avatars of various gods.