Empire of the Dead Brotherhood Part 2 Complete

Finished off the last four members of the Brotherhood boxed set on Monday night whilst watching the final hours of the kickstarter some fantastic concept artwork has been shown especially for the Nemo themed group.  I'm really chuffed for Andy and Wendy they have ran a fantastic kickstarter and I'm so glad it reached all of its goals. There is going to be some very impressive miniatures coming out later in the year. I can't wait for June to get my backer stuff !!

In the meantime it gives me chance to catch up on the figures I already have. Next up will be the vampires a few more criminal types i've made a Dredger type character for the first Sherlock Holmes movie he's not quite as scruffy looking but he's big! I need to get hold of the zombies set and a few more of the Gents and Jackanape characters to complete the EotD collection so far.

There was a lot more work to do on these brother's namely the red clothing, torch's and armour. Not set on the torch's yet they look ok. However I feel they need something but I can't put my finger on what they need so any suggestions please make them!

First up the leader of the faction 'The Deacon' lovely pose on this miniature and he looks battle hardened with the scar down his face also carrying a holy relic to smite those of evil inclinations. I painted the cloak separately and attached it afterwards quite like how this guy turned out lots of nice little details like the cross on the sword hilt  and breastplate.

Another character for the faction 'The Confessor' another nice sculpt with lots of little details the eye patch suggest another character who is battle hardened. Slightly less ornate but still has the sheathed sword, mace and torch for burning the unholy!

The last two Brothers are both armed with crossbow. The brother with the torch and eye patch is my favourite of the crossbow armed ones.

A shot of the four additions.

Shot of the entire group so far.

The Knight Marshall

There is a third character for the faction 'The Knight Marshall' which sounds very Paladin like. There isn't a specific figure been done yet. So its quite open to interpretation. I've got into thinking of perhaps a fantasy monk type character but I'm still undecided at the minute.

From the rulebook the description is as follows.

The Knight Marshall is the warrior of the Faction. He is God's retribution on the unholy, a holy spirit manifested in physical form. He prefers to fight the enemies of God face-to-face.

So Paladin type? monk with mystical powers? what do you good folks think. I'm looking for ideas.

Empire of the Dead Brotherhood part 1

Being snowed in has at least given me the opportunity to get some miniatures finished this weekend, I nearly have the whole set done but the other four need a few more bits finished off as they have torch's, armour and swords in scabbards which all need finishing off.

Anyhow here are the first four Brothers ready to vanquish evil. I see my Brotherhood as the church's soldiers in disguise so as to not alarm the population. I decided they would wear a red uniform underneath there monks robes which they used to hide there militant bearing and armaments. Not so visible on these first four but you'll see what I mean when I get the other four done.

They can choose from quite a variety of gear including firearms but the basic set has most of the Brothers armed with Crossbows, swords, maces and revolvers. The Requiem kickstarter will add various firearms plus a some more crossbow armed brothers.

First up is a crossbow armed brother I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed painting robes and they are quite easy to make look effective. I decided to paint them brown so as to look like monks habits and be more incognito. This Brother is taking aim. Seeing as red was going to be the uniform under the robes these four brothers had to have red added as a spot colour to tie them all together somehow. I decided to paint Quivers, Pouches and the leather thongs that are on the bottom of some of the maces. Some of the Brothers have eye patch's (still being done) which have been painted red as well. More on those later in the week hopefully after the next paint session.

Second Brother armed with Crossbow. more of an advancing pose than a combat one but its nice to have different poses.

First of two brothers armed with mace's and revolver's I wasn't to keen on these miniatures at first but the revolvers after painting them up have changed my mind and I quite like them. This guy just had a little pouch painted red.

The second brother from the set armed with mace and revolver more of a close combat type pose on this one. I painted the thong on the bottom of the mace red to tie it in with the others.

Group shot of the four so far.

Requiem Kickstarter is doing well and as the time of writing this post is nearly approaching the 75'000 mark which once reached will unlock the next Limited Edition figure 'The Specimen' this guys isn't showing in the ladder yet but has been added so that the weapon and head conversion sets will be more permanent additions to the range. As it stands those who've pledge at a Requiem level will stand to get 10 Limited Edition figures once finished. I'm hoping we hit the 90k mark as I quite like the idea of The Phantom, Raphael and Great Uncle Thulu sound brilliant as figures.

Heres the armed brother set add some much need firepower and filling most gaps in the range for this faction.