Empire Spearmen - Work-in-Progress

Hey.

I was very kindly reminded by Warhammer 39999 that I needed to post again...to which end, last night I cracked open the tub of Empire Spearmen, fixed up all the broken pointy bits and set about painting a few more heads. Here's the unit ("regiment"?) as it stands:The other side of the banner:And with Tycho the Warrior Priest in the foreground:This experience reminded me why I don't paint WFB stuff more often:

• Metal pointy buts are a real inconvenience;
• The models aren't very robust;
• They're too spiky to be able to stand in ranks very easily;
• I hate painting 'natural' tones and I'm not at all good at it;
• The State Troops models have too much detail, and it's really poorly executed;
• I hate painting plumes.

Sigh.

- Drax.

The Empire Lives

Despite being recently rather impecunious, I am not selling my Empire army.

Sadly, I do need to avoid the myriad temptations of new model kits - especially that stem tank!

Oh, for a limitless hobby budget!

- Drax.

The Empire Strikes Drax

Hullo All, and welcome.

I've been blogging about my progress with my Warhammer 40K Imperial Guard army for almost a year now, and (with a bit of persuasion from 73rd over at The Whispering Woods) I've decided to use this new blog as an occasional means of recording my progress with my Warhammer Fantasy Battles Empire army.

My plan (ha!) is to keep this simple and very occasional: mostly because I've never yet played a game of Fantasy and I only paint the miniatures when I need a break from endless Guardsmen.

I'm not planning to add much in the way of gismos - I'm not even planning to change the font to 'Arial' as I normally do - but hopefully there'll be a few pictures up with most posts.

Here's my great cannon to start us off - I hope the slow match detail can be seen:

I've only a couple of units finished so far, but four units are pretty damned close. Watch this space, if you're interested.

Thanks for stopping by,

- Drax.