First Crusade pilgrims - Impetus basing

[starkadder]

Be gentle.
They're still a work in progress and my first figures in a very long time. I need to add a few more weapons, a bit more shading and brush off excess flock. I am emerging from a very bad place and these provided a bit of therapy. Eureka, Foundry, 30 year old Minifigs, Heroclix - a total mish-mash just for fun.

[subedai]

To use the word eclectic doesn't even begin to describe that lot. Interesting mix and very nasty, but in a good way.

[Little Odo]

I really like the vibe I am getting from these - dirty, down on their luck but willing to ransack a town to get them back on their feet. Nice work.

[Franz_Josef]

I like Santa.

[starkadder]

I like Santa as well, Franz Josef. I thought he was a very appropriate pilgrim. It's in his own interests after all. I figured he was younger during the First Crusade so I gave him some hair colour.

There are three or four one-armed people in there, Bezzo. The Heroclix Fury/witch types sometimes only have one arm (I presume so the three figures can be clumped together on the base). Pilgrims with severe injuries and deformities would have been well-represented in the First Crusade, particularly the People's Crusade. They had cut and pillaged their way through Europe in a very unpleasant fashion as it was. Then they were cut to pieces by a bunch of appalled locals.

There's also a one-legged beggar figure in there that's over thirty years old.

I thought I could employ quite a few figures from 25-30mm in an interesting way. The height variations led to some strange combinations.

[Blackwolf]

Lovely stuff mate The basing looks beautiful too

[Mason]

These look great.
First figures for some time, eh?
Certainly does not show.
 

A great mix that works really well for the subject.
 

And here's hoping that you have left that 'bad place' behind you now.
 

[starkadder]

Photo 9
the guy behind the Bishop.

I can't remember the manufacturer but he's an artillery figure covering his ears and screaming. I'll see what I can do. Do you want carrot?

Thanks everyone who's looked and commented. It's well appreciated. You may have awoken a slumbering monster, not so much Smaug or Cthulhu but Gertrude Gormenghast.