Author Topic: King's blog (Read 119302 times)

Holland · « **Reply #25 on:** August 09, 2008, 04:13:02 AM »

holy heck why are you people sooooooooooooooo much better then I am

ps @ king here's a though, why not take those awesome models and go and sign up for the sigmarite Empire and the Marienburg campaign site. That way you can go out and play against other empire players and wont feel bad playing against them

Ad A Dglgmut · « **Reply #26 on:** August 10, 2008, 01:02:17 AM »

Sweet looking force King!

Those shields look really good with those figures, and your conversions are topnotch. I really like the arabian ogres to.

Pistol Pete · « **Reply #27 on:** August 11, 2008, 02:26:57 AM »

Y'know, those spanish style pantaloons were a stroke of genius. They look much better on those guys than the original slash and puff pants you were going for.

King · « **Reply #28 on:** August 30, 2008, 07:06:31 AM »

Ok it is about time I update this blog a little

I have recently been working upon two main characters for my army. A mounted warrior priest in the form of a witch hunter general and general of the empire in the guise of a king (fluff will follow some time later). As I write this I am starting to paint them as well as hopefully finish my swordsmen unit filler

So here I present you, Marshall Gerhardt Sturm, witch hunter general of the church of Sigmar

.....and Hernan Cortez, general of the empire and 'rightful' king of the newly discovered lands, according to Imperial decree

Obi · « **Reply #29 on:** August 30, 2008, 10:32:44 AM »

Awesome! I love your witch hunter. Where did you get the hammer? Am I correct in thinking that the head is a bret men at arms part? Because I want to make some witchhunters myself, you see.

King · « **Reply #30 on:** August 30, 2008, 10:53:14 AM »

Yes Obi it is the bret men at arms head with a little bit of GS topping

As for the hammer, I believe it came from the chaos warrior sprue (it's a relic from a defeated foe, you see........

)

Your Mother · « **Reply #31 on:** August 30, 2008, 11:54:08 AM »

Looking good.

King · « **Reply #32 on:** September 05, 2008, 02:33:14 PM »

Well, since I will be off for a holiday week in London starting from today, I taught about posting new WIP pics of my two characters (alternating generals) in order to last for my week in absence

I have ordered some of Imperial forge's decals to adorn them with once the painting is done. Comments on the painting scheme as well as anything else are welcomed as they keep me motivated and boost my spirits

warhammerlord_soth · « **Reply #33 on:** September 05, 2008, 03:41:16 PM »

Original idea, great execution, no time to nitpick :

Your Mother · « **Reply #34 on:** September 05, 2008, 11:08:49 PM »

Very well done.

Otaku · « **Reply #35 on:** September 06, 2008, 01:18:28 AM »

Great job. Your conversions are getting better and better! Keep up that G S work

Siberius · « **Reply #36 on:** September 06, 2008, 12:18:52 PM »

Those are very cool poses, very nicely painted and very unique!

King · « **Reply #37 on:** December 21, 2008, 10:35:25 AM »

So a little bit of an update. Unfortunately I did not have any chance to paint or convert anything new, or finish up those I started due to severe work restrictions

Anyway I thought I would keep my blog living by posting a few pics of two ships I bought locally (these need some conversion work to be up to standard, especially the small cutter) & which I am working on, or trying to at least

Together with these two ships I also bought a proper sized dragon (even though it may seem a bit chaos tainted) I hope you enjoy

The mother ship:

The cutter (secondary ship - still needs a lot of work to be done)

The Dragon

I have included one of my swordsmen for scale purposes

Von Kurst · « **Reply #38 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:23:20 AM »

The Malta is a really nice size. Lots of useful deck space. Good find!

innerwolf · « **Reply #39 on:** December 21, 2008, 09:58:47 PM »

Your models look very nice( specially Hernán Cortés), but I have problems with two of them:
-The ogre on Rhinox is too bottom heavy. The arms and torso don't match quite well with the oversized butt IMHO
-The pegasus head on the Karl Franz horse looks a bit oversized. Maybe it's because of the huge mane, but I have the impression it has more to do with a too long neck.

I hope my advice helps you.

King · « **Reply #40 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:22:55 PM »

So as always it seems it takes a long time for me to post new updates to my army. I still have had no time to paint yet but I did have time to knock up some conversions. First up are some pikemen (these are very much WIP)

King · « **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:33:46 PM »

Second in line after these 'long shafts'

is the artillery batch (which I bought from therealricksalomone). Thanks Rick

These are also WIP

Mortar

Cannon

Helblaster

Cannon

For those of you who have not realised yet, my empire army is based on the historical Conquistadors & the fluff for them is that the majority of them are mercenary Estalians, working in the Empire.

King · « **Reply #42 on:** March 09, 2009, 06:27:33 PM »

New updates, even though the last updates all concerned conversions rather than painting (recently I really do not have the muse for painting, I really don't know why). Anyway for those of you who might be interested in the progress of my Estalian army (I hope there are some of you out there at least

), this is the king of Magritta (or my take of him). I have a slight problem with this character which is still heavily WIP. Can anyone give me some insight upon whether or not the cross on top of the crown is unethical or even offensive in a game such as Warhammer? I really like it but cannot see a way to justify it being there (I don't want to pull it off

). Anyway I wanted a regal pose for him, not a warrior pose, as I do not really see him as a heroic combatant type of character. The page will be positioned as looking at him (attending him) whilst holding the horse. I will add a quiver full of arrows to his horse & also an ornate sabre in its sheath, strapped to the back of his horse later on. As I said I did not aim at the supper killing character look at all. Here are a couple of pics of him (one of the pics sees him next to my other character, Cortez). Any comments about him are much appreciated.

stareso · « **Reply #43 on:** March 10, 2009, 01:26:26 PM »

Your characters are so full of...character

? I am almost humbled into kneeling by his majesty (or majesties in this case)

Your Mother · « **Reply #44 on:** March 11, 2009, 12:49:59 AM »

really nice, I say keep the cross.

Colonel Goth · « **Reply #45 on:** March 11, 2009, 01:32:14 AM »

Could always add a little green stuff and make it in to a Fleur de lis, Bretonnian influence from the crusades etc.

Siamtiger · « **Reply #46 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:49:10 AM »

Find another weapon arm for the king, it is to big.
The conversion looks quite cool, though.

King · « **Reply #47 on:** March 11, 2009, 02:37:43 PM »

Siamtiger you mean the arm or the weapon is too big? (I already cut the middle part of the mace out & in fact in the photo it shows that it is smaller than the original version)

You all think I should keep the cross? So its not offensive? In what way can I justify it? Can it reasonably stand for Theos - meaning god/diety, as it is a t symbol after all?

Siamtiger · « **Reply #48 on:** March 11, 2009, 02:47:49 PM »

The elbow is to large, but the problem is the scales of the used parts. Its a mixed of truescale and heroic scale, that does not work, because it makes the head look smaller than it is.

King · « **Reply #49 on:** March 11, 2009, 03:04:13 PM »

Hmm I understand

I will see what I can do for it, either cut it down a bit or else change it completely. What really nags me is the fact that the metal hand has a very big palm which I can't get rid of as that would mean to get rid of the bow too & that is a large chunk off the model

not to mention the hell of a job that would entail. Thanks for the suggestion though, I think you are right.

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