Pokrzyw's Empire Army - Month 4 - Calm and madness - Rank and File 3 (290pts) - OWAC IX

"Tileans are the best crossbowmans in the Old World, of course the price of hiring a regiment is also impresive. 

"Flaggelants are travelers across the Empire, joining armies as they march to battle. Their madness gives them superhuman strength and resilence. They fight with fury and determination beliving in doom of the world."

Plans for April:

I lost March month and try go get back to business. Flaggelants looks to be easy win, tileans are a bonus from previous week. Both units has a place in my heart as both units were present in my best and only one playing this army in 5th edition.

Realization:

I don't remember how hard was yellow colour in the pre-contrast times ;) I'm not very proud of effects, but still not bad from the distance. As I predict flaggelants painting was really fast, tileans take more attention. I'm far away from my workshop and I forget to take the banner for tileans. It would be added in next days.

Gallery:

Flaggelants rear part ;)

Saint book could be effective weapon

The same vibe as dwarven slayers

Hold the line

Aim

Green feathers break a little bit yellows and reds

Points:

• 15 flaggelants  - 150pts
• 12 crossbowmans (light armour, banner, musician) - 140pts

Plans for May:

halflings..halflings..

Ian's Mordheim - Three flagellants and the Geisslerlieder

Pie jesu Domine, Dona Eis Requiem

Pie jesu Domine, Dona Eis Requiem

Pie jesu Domine, Dona Eis Requiem

On blistered feet

Still marching on

Hands held in prayer

All hope is gone

Lash on your back

With pure intent

Welts on your skin

The punishment

Raise your whip and flay your flesh

Join our congregation

True believers come with us

In corporeal damnation

To feel glory

When sinew is stripped from bone

And to feel closer

To he who made this our life

Embracing the shame

Of sins that you've seen

It won't go away

You are so unclean

The pain and the guilt

It all seems so sad

The penance is just

Or deeds gone mad

Raise your whip and flay your flesh

Join our congregation

True believers come with us

In corporeal damnation

To feel glory

When sinew is stripped from bone

And to feel closer

To he who made this our life

So many lies to bestow upon yourself

Smiling through tears and screams

With wounds so fresh

Guilt ridden, all for nothing, wretched still

Mortification of the sinful flesh

Raise your whip and flay your flesh

Join our congregation

True believers come with us

In corporeal damnation

    - Flagellants’ Song, Apocalypse Orchestra

Edit: As I already painted a leader in each warband, this entry will count as my "leader month".

Tom's Sisters of Battle: Month Six - Wildcard (196 points)

A biker screams forth under the rousing sounds of Sister Leeta's guitar...

Straight into THE LAST MONTH - trumpets sound, warhorns blare - no messin'!

A second biker has joined the fray 👇 

I'm super pleased that I managed to paint at least one more bike (for a grand total of....two), and even more pleased that it matches the first one 🙃  

Tom's Sisters of Battle: Month Five - Troopers

A pict showing the Sisters purging the foul Ork.

Well, MAY. A month of finishing off the Sisters sculpts and roundly ignoring any Militia models... 

I did, as penance though, paint this biker which I am really very pleased with! Especially the rams head on the shoulder pad. I'd love to paint up the two others that I have, but this one was a chore, so we'll see what the final month (a Wildcard - where anything goes) can rustle up....

I think maybe I should dirty down those yellow exhausts a bit more, and I could maybe paint a fleur de lis on the real mudguard... But these things are more likely for the next model :)

I have tried to upgrade my photographing game, by borrowing some Big Lights, and then playing around with some free Android apps - namely BackgroundEraser which has enabled an automatic cut out of the model from the background which I can then place on a stock white background and hence eliminate shadows and have all the pictures with a standard background. 

I ummed and ahhed over the cost of these next two models, but in the end I bit the bullet and brought them (thanks to some overtime at work). I've erased the cost, due to shame, but in the interest of disclosure they worked out to be £50 for the pair... I was so enthused to get started on them that I neglected to take a proper timestamp for them, so I hope these ebay screenshots will suffice....

And here they are! I'm very pleased with both of them :)

Sister Jayne 👇

Sister Gabbs 👇

Here's a photo of how they look both together with my regular pict set-up. You can really see what I mean about standardising the background!

And a nice shot to compare the old (1988) minis next to their modern Satyr Studio (2022) counterparts, and some just about out-of-production GW models

Another duplicate sculpt, this time of Sister Heidi. I  really like how her hair came out, and it kinda makes me wish I'd painted them all with white hair...

Sister Ray 👇

Sister Morphine 👇

Up next, this Witch Hunter Acolyte 👇I wanted the cheques to tie him into the Sisters a bit more, but maybe I should have painted the green robe white like the Preacher from previous months instead. Anyway, I think it looks a bit more heat resistant in green 🙃

Finally, flagellant militia. I did do a push to at least get some of them painted!👇

I think I wanted the blue hair to be reminiscent of woad dye. I was also toying with the idea of some holy warpaint, but the motivations for this unit are super low so it was a case of keeping it simple. There's a LOT of duplicate sculpts, but that is to be embraced! Hopefully I can paint a few more in June...

The second 👇 In hindsight maybe the strap round the mouth should be a different colour - probably black or a dark red...

The third👇

The fourth 👇

And finally, an impeachable Inquisitor! 👇

Here's a pic of my new photo set up. The lights I have borrowed from a friend (who is a ceramicist, and needs to take good photos for his online shop ), and the tripod I've borrowed from my partner...

In it you can see all the terrain I was painting last month, almost all specifically for these pics, although I didn't really have an idea of how I wanted them to be set up. 

I kinda wish I'd painted another set of stairs so I could join the two and have gangways between them, and so a larger display area. Maybe for the army shot in July eh?

And now the resulting cropped image, with the shadows and black point deepened a little bit (all done on the phone with the stock Google Images app) 👇

This is all of the Drew Day Williams sculpts together.

And now the links back through the Challenge, and this months figure breakdown:

Intro: Army list - link

Month one: Leaders - link - 227 points

Month two: Troopers - link - 280 points

Month three: Troopers - link - 290 points

Month four: Troopers - link - 224 points

Month five: Troopers - 281 points

48...Sister on attack bike (points are for a regular Sister with heavy flamer)

140...Sister Jayne

.........Sister Gabbs

.........Sister Heidi

.........Sister Ray

.........Sister Morphine 

4...Militia

4...Militia 

4...Militia 

4...Militia 

23...Acolyte (points are for a Missionary Champion) 

54...Inquisitor (points are for a Confessor)

TOTAL: 281 

  

This puts my Sisters force at a comfortable 1302 points, so the last month of the Challenge is a no pressure month. I have been slowly painting militia taken from the hive world of Necromunda to assist the Sisters (as part of another challenge), but I will show these next month along with an insidious threat which you can peek at below :)

I'm aiming to paint the rest of the flagellants and hopefully another bike, but I may get carried away with the xenos 😬. Either way, it's definitely non committal 😂 , but there will be Things to See!

Cheers!

A xenos infestation is uncovered!