Byron's Duke Wilhelm of Gusseldorf - Leader Month (255 pts)

This month was another slow month, at least in terms of painting. I got a job! and relocated to Washington just across the Columbia. So I have been very preoccupied. I anticipated that I would be busy so I planned on only getting one model done. 

Without further ado, I present Duke Wilhelm of Gusseldorf upon his trusty Opinicus, Rudolf. 

A little more ado - I sculpted Wilhelm and Rudolf. I wanted Wilhelm to have a real old school vibe so I had pictures of the AD&D bard model from Citadel up to use as a reference. He is a noble so his cloths had to be a tad fancier than the typical fanciness of medieval Germans. Therefore, he has a bigger hat than any of my other models, many layers to his sleaves, and boots with medieval up and downies around the top. I sculpted Wilhelm to have an alternative sword option, but I chose the lance option for him. 

Rudolf is an opinicus, which is like an off-brand griffon. The difference being that opinicuses (opinici??) have feline front paws instead of eagle claws. There are lots of griffon models out there, so I wanted mine to be a tad different. The other big consideration was the base size. In old warhammer editions monsters were, almost exclusively, on 40x40mm bases. So, Rudolf here had to fit on a 40x40mm base. From a design standpoint, I also wanted Rudolf to have an old school vibe. A lot of monsters today are rather chonky. The most recent permutation of Karl Franz, for example, appears to be riding a factory farm chicken with cat legs attached at the rear. Older monsters were leaner and ganglier so that's what I went for.  

Empire General w/ shield, light armor, and Lance ...... 105 pts

Griffon ..........................................................................150 pts

Total                                                                                255 pts

AdamH's Brets - Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour... (295 points)

...for the entrance to this post is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived!

So this final month was a light one for me, because I hit all of the other months (i.e. didn't use my joker) then technically I didn't need to paint anything for this month however I didn't want to lose my momentum and I still needed to paint a model to finish the Grail Knight unit:

Also since I was done with the challenge I thought I would paint the best model in the Bretonnian line, perhaps even the best model GW have ever produced...
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Are you ready for this?
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I'm not sure that you are...
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OK fine, since you kept scrolling this far, I present to you...
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King froggy frogerson! Master of the whole of Bretonnia, the most fearsome warrior to ever step... foot? in the old world.

So there we have it, my entire month of painting in these two models:

My submission for this month is:

45 - 1x Grail Knight

0 - King froggy frogerson

For a total of 45 points.

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What is that you say, you want to see more of one of the models? I think I know what you mean and I have your back don't worry:

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Hmm... more?
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OK sure:

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Still not enough?
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fine:

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Man you really love this frog don't you? I don't blame you, he is pretty rad.
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Well here is the french view:

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Oh crud...
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It seems he got snuck up on by something a little meatier... I suppose you want to see that now as well:

So yea I may have also painted the lord for my army, I used the old Louen Leoncoeur model simply because I liked it. I don't plan to run it as him though, just as a regular Lord on a Griffon. Although if you have this model and have a keen eye you might notice that something looks off/different with the right arm. The model I had was missing this piece so I had to sculpt a new one myself. I would be keen to hear what you think. Now that it is painted I think it looks OK, although it was a bit touch and go when I was sculpting it.

So therefore my actual submission for this month is:

100 - General of Bretonnia

150 - Griffon

45 - 1x Grail Knight

0 - King froggy frogerson

For a total of 295 points.

So there we have it, it looks like I made it through the challenge. I had a few touch and go points and had to pull a few long knights of painting but I am quite proud of the army I have ended with. Still a few little touch-ups here and there but I will go into those in a bit more detail in my wrap-up post. Until then best of luck to the other challengers, I can't wait to see all of the glorious pictures of fully painted armies!

- AdamH