The Cult of the Mourners

 Finally done. I still have a few ideas, but I need more time (and miniatures).

Back to the foot knights!

The last trio

I had one flagellant left to convert. I have simply swapped the head, replaced the flail by a spade, and glued a few bits on the robe. You've already met his two acolytes.

The gravedigger

Another acolyte of the cult of the Mourners: the gravedigger. A classic Mordheim miniature, and a welcome change in the Warhammer Empire range.

 Next time, a true Mourner!

The New Mourning

Another fanatic meant to reinforce my regiment of mourners. Neither shovel nor pickaxe here, but a candlestick. 

 

The original miniature is an old Citadel fighter holding a stick. I have simply replaced the hands holding a pole to support the chandelier of the AOS Scriptor Mortis model.

See you soon with a gravedigger 💀

And ten!

 I have finally found some time to paint a 10th mourner to complete the regiment. It's an homonculus bought on one of Andrew May's kickstarter campaign. Still a few flagellants waiting for conversions, but that will suffice for the moment.

And the whole regiment:

More Mourners

Another batch of Mòrr's maniacs, concluding my forced (but welcome) leave. Four flagellant conversions, using bits from the WFB, W40K and AOS ranges. 

 

For the standard bearer, I have included the starting point to paint the banner: one of the panels of Louise de Lorraine's room in the Chateau de Chenonceau. 

And the usual family shot:

I still have to prepare and paint at least one additional model to consider the regiment finished. Hopefully by the end of the month!

Picks and shovels for the White Lady

A strange cult follows the army of the White Lady: they call themselves the Mourners, a gentle nickname for maniacs armed with picks and shovels, ready to kill and bury (not necessarily in this order) anyone showing not tenough respect for their deads. 

While one can easily figure out the lethality of pickaxes, using shovels as weapons may seem more dubious. Well... as Cain once said to Abel: au contraire mon frère!

Detail of a miniature of Cain murdering Abel taken from f. 10v of Bible historiale complétée moyenne (the 'Bible Historiale of John the Good').

For consistency, I wanted to be close to the colour scheme of the spearmen and archers, but this time, the brown tones were for the robes and not for leather. So, instead of highlighting the basecoat (VMC Chocolate Brown) with VMC Flat Earth and VGC Bone White, I have tried to soften the transitions by adding an intermediary tone, VMC US Field Drab.

And the whole band... for now!

The Dirty Eight

No pressure for the sixth month of the OWAC III, as I had already reached the 1000-point threshold in May. So, I came back to my initial plan (meaning before introducing the cannon-bell and its crew), and painted the bunch of beggars and fanatics I had prepared last December: the dirty eight.

A golden opportunity to finally use some of the ugliest miniatures of my Citadel pile: the C46 villagers (I know I know, nobody forced me to buy them). Anyway...

Let's start with two modest conversions, to represent the standard bearer and the musician. You'll recognize the usual bits of the flagellant plastic sprues.

MM62 - CZ6	MM62 - CZ6
C46 - Bolg	C46 - Bolg

Enter the beggars:

C46 Travelling Players - Beggard	C46 Travelling Players - Beggar
C46 Militia - Wiggle	C46 Militia - Wiggle
C46 Villagers - Beggar	C46 Villagers - Beggar
C46 Villagers - Leper	C46 Villagers - Leper

 And finally the only two fanatics of the bunch! (F2 fighters I assume designed by Aly Morrison):


The dirty eight!



Ready to fight (well... sort of)

The hermits

Second part of April's entry to the OWAC, I've used some flagellants, initially bought for my Pfeildorf army, to build a regiment of gunners, inspired from John Blanche's illustration you can find in the artbook "Blood on the Reik".

Gerontius, the Blind Priest (Blood on the Reik)

I wish I could produce something like Gerontius, the blind priest, but my sculpting talents being what they are, meaning inexistant, I've simply trimmed down some details, removed the flails and the clubs, and glued some bits from the Empire handgunners and free company boxes. Et voilà!


Fear the wild bunch!