I have some of those archers. They bring back so many memories of gaming of old.
Meanwhile, my cathedral 'film-set' interior is coming on alright, slowed only by the need to produce some new figures for a council of war story to precede the next mahoosive campaign battle.
I was given descriptions by the Portomaggioran player, which I will quote here.
'Alessio' (Lord Alessio Falconi, the player's own character and ruler of his realm)
'is large with blonde hair. Politician and charming but his main aim is the increase in power of his city.'I gave two options - modifying an existing figure or using a newly made one.
The player chose the painted figure. Good choice (he's my W-E avatar!)
'Hakim' (Wizard Lord, creator of the Coloussus)
'is an Arab with black tash and goatee, I use the paymasters model. Light wizard uses a lot of words but says little not to fond of priests in general.''Ned' (Condottiere Ned Black)
'is another large man with black hair and carries a blue and white Eagle. Wears gold armour. Empire born tends to be direct but a skilled general.''Hans' (Artillerist, Hans Weidmuller)
'is normal size with brown hair and wears the colours of portimaggo (yellow and red) quiet and a little deaf in his left ear.''Marcus' (Tilean Noble, Marcus Portelli)
'is an older man balding with a sharp temper and bad rep outside of his cavalry units who adore him.'So I came up with these ...
I didn't like Marcus, however (who I had scraped some hair off to make him balding) and asked the player if he could be completely bald so that I could use this figure (my favourite of all these).
The player loved it.
I also needed a dismounted, chatting version of young Lord Silvano of Pavona.
And a similar one of the halfling Lord of Poliena. I scoured the web for an hour seeing if I could find one. I couldn't. So I scoured my bits boxes and, perhaps bizarrely, decided to quickly convert a bloodbowl figure ...
Here are the Portomaggiorans completed:
And here are the others:
'General' Marsilio has been left with hardly any command by his employer, all foot soldiers, which is why he has dismounted and chosen to use the massive axe in battle as a suitably hefty infantry weapon. The 'captain' is actually just a unit champion, but he had obviously been a soldier for sometime, probably in Empire employ, and was happy to put the money into looking the part. The halfling featured in an earlier story mounted on a pony and armoured like a Bretonnian knight. Here you can see he has decided if he is to serve in a besieging force (an army of 6000 pts with no horse soldiers - the horse have been sent away for strategic reasons) then he might as well go the whole hog and equip himself like a foot soldier.
Perhaps confusingly, the Portomaggioran player and the Pavonan player both have Empire armies in blue and white. I tried therefore to make a slightly different shade of blue for Lord Silvano. Also, Verezzo's colours are blue and yellow, which when combined with the yellow and red of the actual city of Portomaggiore (the blue and white is Lord Alessio Falconi's family livery), leads to even more potential confusion. Ah well.
I'll post the cathedral interiors soon, although I might put the link to the story with the pics in when it is done.