Topic: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch (Army) - Love is in the Air

[Artobans Ghost]

This guy is beautiful 👆That face !

[JAK]

Lance-Constable Coalface - amongst other things he worked as a Midnight Mechanic before joining up.

[GamesPoet]

All those infantry types are looking wonderful!

[JAK]

Lance-Constable Bauxite -  a troll who just gets a mention. Before and after slight modifications.

[JAK]

Sergeant Detritus – The original sculpt was made after seeking permission from the artist Paul Kidby to make and display it on the web; which was given provided it wasn’t used in a commercial way. Now that Mirco Art are making their (to me useless) commercial versions of Paul’s art work and the fact I felt our model was a little too small I have made him a bit taller with a few detail changes.

[Artobans Ghost]

These guys are amazing. The facial expressions are priceless.

[JAK]

Ruby is Detritus’s wife. She was originally made at a sculpting workshop given by one of the ex-Clarecraft sculptors, Mark Alying. It wasn’t a planned event so the figure was made from memory without any reference material; hence she is slightly oversize and doesn’t look anything like the Paul Kidby drawing she was supposed to be based on. The outfit however was very like a Discworld Cosplay (although not of Ruby) seen on the Web at that time and so she was kept and finished as this costume. She is another reason why Detritus had to be taller. 

[Zak]

haha cool 

[Doc J]

Whaaaaat ? thats crazy 

[JAK]

Constables Downspout and Pediment. They are gargoyles and spend their time sitting still on look-out duty on roof tops. They are paid in pigeons. It is rare for them to come down any lower than the 1st floor of a building so it must have cost a lot of pigeons for you to see them today.



For those of you who have seen the film ‘The Hogfather’ you may recognise the actual props from the film they are based with.

[JAK]

Acting-Constable Cuddy - He made Detritus’s cooling helmet. In the original book cover painting done by Josh Kirby, Cuddy doesn’t have a beard, so I had to give this figure a shave. When he died on duty he was buried without the customary arrangements – he wasn’t buried with funeral weapons to defend himself from any entities found in the afterlife. Not really required because Dwarves don’t believe in them, but they may unfortunately (for them) believe in Dwarves. When Carrot ‘killed’ the Gonne he placed it in Cuddy’s grave.

[Artobans Ghost]

A shaved dwarf! Until now unthinkable.

[JAK]

Sergeant Cheery Littlebottom - the first dwarf on the force to openly admit to being female leading to the use of make-up by some members of the force and also the welding of high heels onto boots. She is a trained alchemist and started the Watch Forensics Department.



Now painted the WiP shown on Page 3 of this thread.

[JAK]

Constable Brakenshield – Due to Dwarf-Troll animosities he likes a long handled axe to ensure he can reach a troll’s head.

[Doc J]

Im not sure its long enough 

[Midaski]

Im not sure its long enough 

It's to kill trolls, .......... not attract them. 

[JAK]

Sergeant Fred Colon



Corporal Cecil Wormsborough St. John Nobbs - he has a certificate to prove he is human and a fondness for weapons although if you’re in a fight, he won’t be.



Now painted the WiPs shown on Page 3 of this thread.

[Doc J]

Fred colon looks interesting Macedonian armor and Landsknecht clothes?

[JAK]

Fred colon looks interesting Macedonian armor and Landsknecht clothes?

Fred’s well past retirement age so he’s got the experience of 50+ years of military type service and fashion styles to know what he’s comfortable in.


Captain Delphine Angua von Uberwald – Carrot’s girlfriend for most of the month but at full moon she’s his …….                She has a bag, of spare clothes and mouthwash, with handles that can easily be gripped by someone with a muzzle.



This figure is so like Angua on the original ‘Men at Arms’ book cover that she has been painted as such rather than trying to make her match the unit. Another tribute to the late Josh Kirby.

[JAK]

Lewton – became a private investigator after being thrown out of the force for taking a bribe. He can be found in the Discworld Noir computer game where (Spoiler Alert) he needs to get bitten and become a werewolf if you wish to succeed and find the treasure, the Tsortese Falchion.

[General Peakatrov]

For those of you who have seen the film ‘The Hogfather’ you may recognise the actual props from the film they are based with.

I'm so happy you've started finishing up the core group, they look just how I picture them! How on the DIsc did you get some props from the Hogfather set???

And how far through your list are you? Is CMOT Dibbler gonna be coming as "support staff"?

[JAK]

Having had a time scale/deadline with the painting competition has certainly helped me to actually finish figures; so here are 43 of the city Watch and a few unit/hole fillers so I must be half way there by now. I was fortunate in that most of these figures were part built or I had a base figure to use – a benefit I don’t have for a lot of the remaining ones.



The competition will be repeated next year - I hope I will be near to finishing by then 

How on the DIsc did you get some props from the Hogfather set???

And how far through your list are you? Is CMOT Dibbler gonna be coming as "support staff"?

They came from the ‘Tooth Fairy’ via a friend and a Convention.

There are two versions of CMOT in our collection – they might become hole fillers in the future.

[Artobans Ghost]

Incredible! Nothing less than incredible.

[Zak]

wow great work 

[Rowsdower]

Great job
Seeing Anuga reminds me of the bit in 'Thud' [I think it was 'Thud'] in which her and another lady constable realise they could make a lot of money if they charged men to watch them as they stumbled about in a pool of mud