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Offline Captain Dob Van Dwi

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2009, 04:34:44 AM »
I love eggs and bacon :icon_razz: :biggriin: As for the stuff............ IT ROCKS! :eusa_clap:
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2009, 05:15:32 AM »
I've never seen any like this army before, well done! :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2009, 05:58:29 AM »

with a huff and a puff...
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2009, 09:22:44 AM »
Okay si I've started on the regeneration of this army a bit now. Essentially the main work is to re-base the models and update the painting of those that look bad...

Over the weekend I managed to rebase the Knights, one Cannon Crew, the free Company of all Doom and the Pigasus. I also went over the knights to improve their painting;


Why these models, well i'm off to a 500 point tournament next year and wanted to update the models i'm thinking of taking first! See the potential army lists here and the army shots below



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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2009, 10:36:19 AM »
Yeah!  :icon_cool:
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #30 on: December 14, 2009, 03:23:19 PM »
At first I though 'well, that guy must be non-native, as he got both sigmar and pigeon wrong'.... But by scrolling I found out the truth! I absolutely love the piggin bombs.
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #31 on: December 14, 2009, 04:20:03 PM »
I am a great fan of your engineer! He is the most fantastict model I have seen in years.

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2009, 07:38:18 AM »
 :ph34r: :Ohmy: Nuf said
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2009, 04:51:38 AM »
The knights should have pig-face bascinets.  :icon_mrgreen:

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2009, 05:17:43 PM »
Brilliant  !
To try to come up with an idea to theme an army after seeing this, seems unnecessary and I feel so ...uncreative.

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2009, 06:27:43 PM »
The knights should have pig-face bascinets.  :icon_mrgreen:

Thats a good idea!

I love this army so much. I would never have thought it was possible to get plastic farm animals to fit with an Empire army. Its unsettling and brilliant at the same time. Its just so... Mordheim!
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2009, 09:17:30 PM »


Fantastic, I love the pig in the free company unit. What pigs did you use? (West wind?)
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2009, 12:09:07 PM »

Brilliant  !
To try to come up with an idea to theme an army after seeing this, seems unnecessary and I feel so ...uncreative.

Well I found it helps to have a good group of mates who can help you with the thinking and a large quantity of beer!

I love this army so much. I would never have thought it was possible to get plastic farm animals to fit with an Empire army. Its unsettling and brilliant at the same time. Its just so... Mordheim!

The idea was born from our roleplay adventures which is a great way of finding out about the wierdness of the Empire, just like mordhiem. Speaking of which, the free company with the pig will soon be bustin' some heads in our club morhdhiem campaign!

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Fantastic, I love the pig in the free company unit. What pigs did you use? (West wind?)

The pigs are from a childrens farm animals set from the Early Learning Centre!
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #38 on: December 21, 2009, 02:43:53 AM »
This makes me happy inside.
I thought he should act responsibly and just kill himself.

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #39 on: December 21, 2009, 08:12:50 PM »
Ok...

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #40 on: December 21, 2009, 11:17:24 PM »
I don't know how I have missed this the last few weeks!  I have actually been gathering small plastic pigs and decapitating them to create a pig headed marauders unit for my DOW army. Bravo sir.
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #41 on: December 21, 2009, 11:54:07 PM »
I am suddenly reminded of the old chaotic dwarf boar centaurs, they were mean looking dudes. steveb

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2009, 02:51:50 AM »
These are awesome mate, had me rolling.  Great work.

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #43 on: December 23, 2009, 10:21:20 PM »
brilliant work. I'd suggest seeking psychological help but you certainly don't need any help with your modelling work  :ph34r:

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #44 on: February 10, 2010, 08:40:29 AM »
Okay so i;ve dug this thread up and given it a dust off for a small amount of progress.

I now know who my doubles partner is so i've been able to finalise a list. He will be taking an all skink skirmishing lizardmen force so we need a few big units to last in combat. I will thus be taking a ubnit of swordsmen led by a warrior priest, a unit of knights and for a bit of fun a Hellblaster.
I know people don't think the hellblaster is a good unit but I have the most awesome lunk with them. I think he average number of shots I roll for is about 26. I have rolled 30 about 10 times and 90% of misfires result in 30 shots! I love em.
I had to find and fix my hellblaster and give it a coat of paint but I reckon it is ready for war now, once I sort out some crew of course!



For the tournament we are attending each army requires a back story. Mine is centred around the Cult of Pigmar (our WFRP characters and the swordsmen unit in the army) and how they ended up being allied with some lizardmen...

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Tales of Pigmar; Pigmar's Lustrian Adventure Part 1: The Journey Begins

After a night of drinking it is not uncommon for the Cult of Pigmar to have ‘obtained’ some money or the services of a local militia, ruined a pub or two and started a riot. Imagine then of the night that led to them finding themselves sporting the mother of all hangovers, with the command of a unit of the Empire’s finest knights, proud owners of a new hellblaster volley gun and on a boat sailing from the ruins of a small port on the river Reik…

“Feckin’ hell” Hagar, the trainee Warrior Priest’s voice grated through the minds of those unfortunate enough to have woken up, “my head feels like it’s been stamped on by a wyvern”

“Yeah yeah, with an orc on the back wearing giant slippers and a kraken hat, we know the story…” groaned Konradin, humble thief and purveyor of historical artefacts, ducking to avoid the pint pot Hagar had launched his way.

As the rest of the gang rose they began to notice where they were.

“I’m sure there was a bar there and those ships definitely weren’t…” Ragen, the most observant of the group, tailed off as he slowly realised that perhaps last night hadn’t exactly ended well

Hagar turned around and came face to face with a stern looking man in fine armour;

“My Lord Hagar” began the stranger, “We loaded the equipment this morning sir, the engineer wanted to show it to you but apparently he gets sea sick”

“er, good, good work” stumbled Hagar, desperately searching for any memory of the night before.

In an attempt to keep up the front that he knew what he was doing, Hagar sidled over to the ship’s captain and asked in a hushed voice “where exactly are we sailing to?”

“Lustria”

“Feck”


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Hope you like it?

Part 2 will be written by my doubles partner and will introduce his army and explain why the Cult are not killed by the skinks and how they ended up allied!

I also reslised that my larger 3000 point empire army was illegal! I had too many heroes and so a bit of a re-think means I needed a mortar. Rather than use a boring bog-standard mortar I decided it was time to dig out and use a classic;


Being such a classivc mini I decided to give it a bit of effort hence the base

C&C welcome as ever

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #45 on: February 12, 2010, 03:26:32 PM »
So a busy evening last night and i've painted the hellblaster crew. These guys have an extra level of highlighting than I have used to date. They are therefore the 'test-pieces' for when I get round to a re-paint of my whole empire army!




In the process of painting these I have decided that they are two of my faviourite mini's, the scaling seems more 'correct' that most and the poses are just so 'real', especially the second one who is just stood having a drink as his mate sorts out the warmachine!

I also took the opportunity of having a semi-decent photo set-up, er,  set up to take army photos of the doubles tournament list as it stands at the moment. I need to base the hellblaster crew and get hold of an engineer model to stand in for the third crew member.
I'm after the engineer with repeater pistol. PM me if you have one for trade?




C&C welcome as ever

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #46 on: February 12, 2010, 03:58:11 PM »
Bravo!   :eusa_clap:

I'm sure there's a special place in hell for you, but it's brilliant work!

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #47 on: March 05, 2010, 12:06:20 PM »
Thanks, I think, JGraham!

I got and finished the Engineer who completes the hellblaster crew and hence the 500 point force i'll be using at the upcoming tournament;






I'm really proud of this guy, he's one of my best painted minis!

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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #48 on: March 05, 2010, 01:40:54 PM »
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Re: Grand Army of Pigmar
« Reply #49 on: March 05, 2010, 03:15:07 PM »
Interesting, not sure fully what to make of this, yet don't mind me.  However, the piggin bomb figure is quite well created.  The knights actually are pulled off well, too.  Not thrilled with the steam pig, if thats what it is called, and its a bit too futuristic looking for WFB, yet thats just one view.

By the way, I like your painting style.  Looks like Ostlanders! :icon_biggrin: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
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