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.

Warrior Priest on Foot

Evening!

Well, like almost everything else in my Empire force, he's not quite finished, but having stumbled across him whilst tidying today, here's my dismounted Warrior Priest model:

NB: Sorry for the photo quality - they were taken at night.

I love these models - they're amongst my favourite GW sculpts, and I liked this one so much I actually created a D&D (3.5) character for him - great fun to play, back with my awesome old DM before I moved away from Norwich. Good memories!

Hope all's well,

- Drax.

Mounted Warrior Priest

Hullo!
I'm avoiding work.
Again.

Just a quickie: my mounted warrior priest conversion.

I love these characters, and I think this chap's my general at the moment. His cloak and shield are fairly basic greenstuff sculpts - a latenight attempt, but it'll do.

I should point out (for anyone concerned about it): that the basic quality of my painting is because I don't want to spend too much time on these miniatures! Once I've more of them finished (note the disproportionate amount of 'foundation' colours I'm using on them) I promise I'll wash them in something to give them a bit of detail. Honest. It's a chance to try washes anyhow. But not yet!

Here he is (and I know some of the grass is loose):

Caption comp for that last one?

Thanks,

- Drax.

And yeah - I changed the blog title. This one's way cooler.