Like the first round I've sculpted some minis to paint, but unlike last time I have a handful already in my possession to start the challenge. 🤞Fingers crossed🤞 that the rest arrive in a timely fashion or I am SOL.
Lately, I have put my gnome sculpting aside and aimed my Sauron-like eye at sculpting fairytale Germans. The range will include many staples of traditional fairytales as well as conventional troop types for wargaming. For this OWAC I plan to use them as proxies for a 4th ed Empire army. I sculpted various standard tops so others can choose ones that are more thematic to their force. For my army though, I think I am going with a goose theme. All the banners will have gooses on top.
My tentative armylist:
Characters
General with Light Armor, Lance, and Shield mounted on a Griffon 225 pts
Hero 65 pts
(maybe a few other characters for good measure)
Troops
Handgunners x12 w/ command 116 pts
Archers x 12 96 pts
Spearmen w/ shield x 20 w/ command 154 pts
Halberdiers w/ light armor x 20 w/ command 198 pts
Greatswords w/ light armor x 16 w/ command 162 pts
War Machines
Cannon 100 pts
Total 1142 pts
That's 87 models! That's going to be tough. It's doable but it will mean a constant output of minis. No chances for breaks. Starting to miss my slightly expensive dark elves already.
So! Now the models I have on hand.
At the top of the order I have some characters. These should fill my hero and spell caster roles.
| Left to right: witch, wizard, prince and princess |
Next, I have some archers. I have at least ten with a handful of extras.
After them, I have halberdiers.
| this pic shows their poses better. |
Armed Women. Their role is a bit ambiguous at the moment - maybe flagellants? rank fillers in other regiments? baggage train attendants? armed citizens in scenarios? We'll see.
Finally, I thought that I would share a bunch of pics of greens to tease what will hopefully be coming later. Many of these are WiP pics I took, so they don't represent how the minis looked when I crammed them in the mail last Wednesday.
| A few handgunners and spearmen |
| Cannon crew |
| Huntsman |
| musician for handgunners |
| cannon crew |
| cannon crew |
| cannon |
| dog handler |
| Opinicus (Off-brand griffon) |
| zwiehanders |
| another dog handler |
| assassin |
| 1 of 3 dog poses |
| Horses (still working on these, maybe they'll get knights or wagons) |