I think I didn't show you these carachters I finished between December-January. They are
12 characters from four provinces, three of each kind: Elector Counts, BSBs, Engineers and Captains. The reason for this is the huge army will be divided in some kind of corps d'armée (mainly, by provinces); then, there will be more than one General and one BSB per army.
Reikland and Stirland got 4 of them; Averland and Wissenland 2. Unlike large contingents we include (Ostermark, Reikland+Altdorf and Middenland), the last Magnus’ contingent will include at equal parts troops from Averland and Wissenland (also from the City State of Nuln), so in this case the ‘state’ characters present a duality of schemes. More comments about the models below:
Reikland:
Stirland:
Averland & Wissenland:
WIPs and closer pics of the Elector Counts. The Generals are assembled with pieces which come from plastic sprues, mainly General of The Empire plastic sprue and General on Griffon. Also the Averland EC got the cloak from the a resin Kurt Helborg. I had some troubles trying to find a suitable horse for 2 of the Elector Counts, because I didn’t want to use the typical Empire barded warhorse. My first idea was to use the horses of Kurt Helborg and Ludwig Schwartzhelm, but as soon as I tried to fit the pieces I wasn’t convinced.
I ended up "confiscating" the horses that pull the Celestial Hurricanum. I simply filed the chains and straps and added some reins, which come from the sprue of Demigryph’s, cutting it a little bit and giving them shape so that they fit around the neck of the horse. I replaced the small “flaming” skulls in the head of these horses; the Stirland one got the skull with a laurel wreath (Kurt Helborg's horse) and the Griffon from the Grand Theogonist's staff in the case of the Reiklander.
BSBs. The Reiklander and the Wissenlander are metal versions; the Stirlander is made from the multi-component plastic sprue of Empire General, using the head of Volkmar the Grim to give it more character. I just added some green putty to fit his neck.
Captains. All sacred metal models.
Engineers. Note that I have painted the edge of the base in Steel Legion Drab instead of black. The reason is that, like in the Steam Tank or the War Machines cases, it will not be included in any regiment and, since the imperial miniatures painted by Rogers and Diosko have the edge of the base of this color, we will achieve uniformity of the bases (in the rest of the miniatures it won’t be necessary, since I will make the corresponding movement trays). Once the battle is over I will repaint it in black to match the rest of my minis:
Also, you have plenty more pics on our blog
. Hope you enjoyed it!
Bonus pic, don't run Stirland BSB is watching! (dedicated to the procastinator ability I unhappily own
):
