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Shaitan's Empire Projects
« on: April 10, 2021, 04:55:42 PM »
Hi everyone

This is a log of all my past, current WIPs and upcoming Empire and Tilean projects. Here are a number of photos of work over the last three or four years. The plan is to amass a Tilean mercenary contingent made up of Dogs of War style units. Some have already been started so one or units below are just consisting of a few models.














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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2021, 06:13:51 PM »
Excellent!  And I like that the lands ship is from Sartosa. :icon_biggrin: :icon_cool: :eusa_clap: :::cheers:::
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« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2021, 07:08:07 PM »
Mate your mounted general on the right , is the best ive ever seen of that sculpt. Also love how you just throw in an unreleased spearman with dont mention it , incredible !
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« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2021, 08:38:11 PM »
H e a v y  m e t a l !

Diggin' it.  :happy:

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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2021, 09:25:35 PM »
Mate your mounted general on the right , is the best ive ever seen of that sculpt. Also love how you just throw in an unreleased spearman with dont mention it , incredible !

Ah wow, cheers mate! Much appreciated. I can't think of many painted examples of him actually. Haha! Was wondering if anyone would spot the unreleased mercenary captain. Spent a long time after him. I had the guy with the engineer sculpted as a commission.

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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2021, 05:25:58 PM »
nice

in my plog somewhere you will find some real rare unreleased, now mostly sold , but i once owned the combat cards mercenary captain , possibly the only sculpt
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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2021, 06:39:14 PM »
nice

in my plog somewhere you will find some real rare unreleased, now mostly sold , but i once owned the combat cards mercenary captain , possibly the only sculpt

Oh really? That's the Kislev looking fella with the handgun/musket, right? Wow, must have been hard to part with him. I only have a couple more of the Empire unreleased. The knight that you have a unit of which I've gazed upon many times and this fella.



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« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2021, 08:52:39 PM »
very nice  :::cheers:::
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« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2021, 07:57:10 AM »
Wow , the unreleased general, can I ask where you got him from and when?

He surfaced in 2010 once on ebay , never again.
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« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2021, 09:16:59 AM »
Wow , the unreleased general, can I ask where you got him from and when?

He surfaced in 2010 once on ebay , never again.

Well I spotted him on ebay about 3 years ago listed as a High Elf general with a Buy It Now option so I didn't hesitate. Wonder how many were made?

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« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2021, 09:34:17 AM »
Jeez lol,

I thought this one was impossible to obtain
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« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2021, 04:08:55 PM »
This sculpt was basically based on Citadel F2 FIGHTER VOLRIK THE BRAVE, but they changed some of the detail , like the feet, added a knife on the waist and swapped the head
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« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2021, 05:35:16 PM »
This sculpt was basically based on Citadel F2 FIGHTER VOLRIK THE BRAVE, but they changed some of the detail , like the feet, added a knife on the waist and swapped the head

Yeah that's right, I used to own him a long time ago but no longer so couldn't compare the differences.

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« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2021, 05:44:21 PM »
And then there's this fella. A bit of a mystery to me. Clearly not one of the four plug in weapon footsoldiers from the Empire catalogue. I can't seen to source him online anywhere. A prototype perhaps? He's stamped with the year 1991 as you can see which is a year early compared to the other Empire lads.




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« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2021, 07:02:15 PM »
Do I see toes popping out from the front of shoes?  At least those Stirlanders don't have them popping out of their heels. :icon_wink:
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« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2021, 09:18:53 AM »
Looks like the plug-in footsoldier 3 with an alternate head.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat1992/cat1992p358empinfantry-00.htm

The head strongly resembles the Battlemasters Empire footslogger heads, perhaps the crossbowmen heads especially. They later did similar plug-in plastics for Heroquest, Wizards of Morcar (1993), and these are really close to your metal mini:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:HQ36.jpg

So perhaps a prototype with that kind of inspiration?

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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2021, 01:34:16 PM »
Looks like the plug-in footsoldier 3 with an alternate head.

http://www.solegends.com/citcat1992/cat1992p358empinfantry-00.htm

The head strongly resembles the Battlemasters Empire footslogger heads, perhaps the crossbowmen heads especially. They later did similar plug-in plastics for Heroquest, Wizards of Morcar (1993), and these are really close to your metal mini:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:HQ36.jpg

So perhaps a prototype with that kind of inspiration?

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Yeah I did see the similarity with the Battlemasters plastic crossbowman before and wondered whether it was a prototype. I did a google search a while back but found nothing. I'm assuming White Dwarf did a section on Battlemasters when it was released as they did of course with Heroquest. With the latter they included photos of the prototype models so perhaps they did the same with Battlemasters?

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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2021, 07:24:47 AM »
Problem solved!

Zygmund, you were right. He is indeed from Wizards of Morcar. An unreleased prototype Man at Arms.




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« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2021, 09:37:48 AM »
Hmmm ... I have two of those with the sword and shield, except the head is half helmeted, and the feathers are different.  Both here have the feathers more openly curled, one slightly more so than the other.  Mine are both lightly spray primed in white, and read "Helblitzen" on one side of slot tab, and "GW 91" on the other side of the tab.
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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2021, 01:41:56 PM »
Hellblitzen means "shining brightly" in German. Perhaps a product line name?
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« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2021, 04:56:13 PM »
Helblitzen was the name for Halberdiers in 3rd edition. Blitz is "lightning" in German. Hell  does mean "bright" in German, but Hel is the goddess of the Underworld in Germanic mythology.  So, Lightning from Hell.
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Re: Shaitan's Empire Projects
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2021, 07:16:03 PM »
Finished my Citadel and Marauder warband (plus Ogre).


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« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2021, 08:30:10 PM »
These guys are so colourful!! Love em😺
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« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2021, 09:25:44 PM »
Thanks very much! Gone for much brighter base colours than usual.