The most significant
thing that's happened this week is that all the figures I ordered have arrived,
most of them in a big box yesterday morning. Because of that I haven't had time to get round to them yet,
but at least everything has arrived. I have to say how impressed I am with the speed of
West Wind's order turnaround, though, and Warmonger weren't far behind them
either. But most of all I am pleased to say that I have kept on track this week and not
run out of enthusiasm yet.
That all means that as of now I am in the position of being able to finish any of the armies, and I
suspect because of that I will be concentrating my efforts over the weeks ahead
on specific faction to get some of them finished rather than taking the
current scatter gun approach to all and sundry. We shall see.
Anyway, here's the
progress so far:
Great Kingdoms
The pegasus from
Fireforge has arrived and even without assembling it I can see it is a lovely figure. I hadn't appreciated it was resin
when I bought it, but this just means it has really clear detail, and will need an especially good wash before
priming. The model comes with optional horse barding, which is a great feature.
To make a better match with the Eastern Princes army I'm going to use for my Great Kingdoms, I will use a non-barded version, and replace the shield to
match those of that army's hearthguard.
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| Pegasus parts |
I've assembled the
sacred ground monument and added milliput to make the cross more substantial.
The steps have been textured with chinchilla dust to make them look more like
stone.
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| The monument |
Lords of the Wild
The snake-men have
arrived but are still in their boxes for now. The only progress has been on the
titan for the Rise of the Spirits ability.
I added more filler
and small stones to the base go give a better impression of roots bursting up
through the ground, and a bit more fine detail, sealed in with a coat of PVA glue. More fine detail to be added next when it's all dry.
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| The PVA dries... |
The Horde
A few days after the
arrival of my West Wind order, the few figures I ordered from Warmonger
(Foundry) turned up very promptly as well. These are lovely figures, and meant
that I could get on with the war chariot early this week.
The first step,
after cleaning up the figures, was to attach the boars to an appropriately
sized base. I've used a 75mm round base, the same size as for my monsters.
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| The boars on their base, undercoated |
I filled the voids
in the chariot wheels with milliput, and attached the wheels to an axle made
from a kebab stick, which was fitted to the bottom of the chariot body. I had
to adjust the chariot pole to make it a little longer to better fit with the
boars. I built a yoke out of more bits of kebab stick and milliput and then
let all the parts fully dry.
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| Chariot components |
While this was
drying, I modified the chariot crew. The driver's right hand, from which I had
already cut his weapon, was drilled to fit a whip which I made out of thin
brass wire bent to shape and fitted to his hand with a tiny bit of green stuff.
I removed as much of his left forearm as I needed (most of this will be
invisible when he is inside the chariot) and added a new left forearm with an
open hand, taken from the bit box. The hand had to be enlarged a little bit
with green stuff so as not to look totally out of proportion. The intention was
that this hand be holding the reins when the chariot is finally assembled.
The warrior in the
chariot is a splendid orc figure from Warmonger. I trimmed his base to fit
the chariot and cut off most of the cleaver held in his left hand, as there
wouldn't be room for it in the chariot, and this would be largely hidden
from view when he is fixed in place.
I fitted the two
crew into the chariot body, making good around their bases with green stuff. I
attached a pair of matching shields to each side of the chariot body, and a
smaller one to the front, more for decoration than anything else. Because the
chariot model is equipped with javelins, I took three spare spears and made a
quiver for them out of green stuff, which I attached to the outer rear of one
side of the chariot body.
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| Chariot side view, showing the driver with his whip |
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| A view from the other side, showing the javelin case |
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| And from the front. Note the driver's enlarged left hand |
I added
a skull design out of milliput to one relatively flat side of the Sacrificial
Stone which is this faction's Sacred Ground.
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| Skull design, not quite straight, but that gives it a bit of personality |
The Undead Legions
The skeletons and
the mounted hearthguard have arrived and are in their boxes ready for assembly. Having assembled one very fiddly figure I can already see that this is likely to be the most time
consuming part of putting this army together.
Other than that, the
only progress is that the crypt now has a base (though no texture yet).
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| The crypt |
Masters of the Underearth
I am very impressed
with West Wind whose figures arrived within days of ordering. These dwarf
crossbowmen are a little on the chunky side, and needed a bit of flash cleaning
off, but they are very expressive and I
do like them. They are sold in packs of 10 so, needing 12, I bought a command
pack to go with them - thinking that these would be specific command figures
for the crossbowmen - which sadly they weren't. However, I was able to convert
one of them to suit the unit better, adding a crossbow from the Frostgrave
Warriors set and (though this figure is a bit of a midget in the unit) found
one odd old dwarf figure with a crossbow to make up the numbers.
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| Spot the midget |
A few days later the
single dwarf ordered from Warmonger also arrived, making one of the two
destruction teams, but I needed another one. So I took one of the West Wind
command team figures (the standard bearer), cut off his weapon and standard and
re-equipped him with a couple of scratch-built and highly unlikely looking
double-barrelled pistols made from plastic tube, green stuff and plastic card. To distinguish
the destruction teams from the other figures, I put them on 30mm
bases.
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| Destruction team #1: Warmonger |
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| Destruction team #2: converted West Wind |
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