Trench Crusademachinehammer in Austria-Hungary-style

[Freddy]

Now guess what, I also happen to have ,,Trench Crusade at home", and based on Pictors Studio's cool thread, maybe I will create a thread for it.

Once upon a time, there was a game called Warmachine very popular around here, but I did not like the models, well, basically the design in general, and started an alternative ww1 style army for it so that it also fits w40k just in case. Warmachine died out before I managed to finish, and now I am standing here with an alternative ww1 army, which, at least, thanks to past-Freddy, I can use in 40k.

The other part of the story is that my regular gaming buddy really does not like the newly released N5 rules for Infinity (especially after I beat the sht out of his new army with my nearly-unchanged USAriadna    ) and decided to go for a new skirmish ruleset for our regular skirmish games. This happened to be Trench Crusade. And from then on the two stories are merged, I will use my old WM army as, at least the base of my Trench Crusade army. The rest will be sculpts and conversions, if the game proves to be worth to play regularly.

I will run them as New Antioch, sadly these steampunk and alternative ww1 stuff rarely go past the good tommies-evil gerries cliché, no one cares about little old Austria-Hungary. ...no one but me! I am here to chew bubble gum and Viribus Unitis, and I am all outta bubblegum.

So, these guys are the basic infantry, ignore the 40k sergeant. They will make Yeomen with standard armour, bolt action rifle and bayonet. Three squads, more than enough of them for a 900pts game




What is a ww1 game without machine guns, I have two!


...and I can not have more, so this bad boy will count as an automatic rifle.


Grenade launcher.



Contrary to the popular belief, the girls best friend is actually the polearm.


And the warjacks. Will make nice heavy armoured infantry.

[Tom Dulski]

 great work, I really dig the bases.

[Freddy]

great work, I really dig the bases.

Thank you!

+how is that this game does not have any Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

The war jacks are very, very cool!

[Freddy]

The war jacks are very, very cool!

Thank you!

And here is my Sniper Priest. As the guy is blind. he does not need a scope on his sniper rifle.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

What is the orange sculpting material?

[Freddy]

What is the orange sculpting material?

Fimo Kids. I gave it a try as it is softer than Fimo Soft, suits figure making (at least my style) better.
Each Fimo types come in a wide range of colours as decoration makers often do not paint it. I always choose some moderate brown so that I can see the small details, it shows in pictures and it is clearly distinguishable from other puttys. Turns out Fimo Kids has more toyish colour palette, what seemed in the webshop as a moderate tan, turned out to be bright orange. If I mix it with some leftover brown Fimo Soft, it turns darker, just like mixing paint- you can see it on the figure.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

So you bake the sculpt after?  I have a bunch of fimo but never tried anything as small as a fig.  It mostly got used for large mardi gras costuming.  I am gonna give this a try.

[Freddy]

So you bake the sculpt after?  I have a bunch of fimo but never tried anything as small as a fig.  It mostly got used for large mardi gras costuming.  I am gonna give this a try.

Yes, I really like FIMO as it is not the "race against drying time" like other putty, you can put it down and continue on the next day. You can buy a Fimo softener for it, so you can set the fitting softness. There are two drawbacks though.
-it does not like paint- it starts to "sweat". To me it is not an issue as my FIMO sculpts go to casting. There is a special lacquer seal (made for Fimo) which has to be applied before any other paint layer and then it is OK, I use that.
-plastic parts really do not like the oven, only put the FIMO itself into the oven. When converting existing figures I use greenstuff or milliput.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

I never had a problem with paint on Fimo.  I just prime in black acrylic which probably does what the TM lacquer does.  Granted always worked on mardi gras mask ornament which tend to be around 4-6 inches in size. (filled with Aluminium foil). Maybe get to it this weekend, I want to make some steam punk ?spider? drones.  The war jacks are inspiring.

[Spinal Tap]

Only just seen this thread - doh.

Look fabulous.

May I ask, is casting an expensive process? Can't see me doing it but I'm intrigued that a hobbyist does such a thing.

[Freddy]

Thank you!

May I ask, is casting an expensive process? Can't see me doing it but I'm intrigued that a hobbyist does such a thing.

I do not do it myself. There are people who do it for money. Price depends on the quality, you can do it on the kitchen table yourself cheap, simple and bad quality (losing the money you spared 10 times in time correcting miscasts- did it for 10 years, had enough), or someone with a vacuum chamber and professional gear does it in "shop product" quality. There are no ecomomical magic loopholes here the later costs a bit above the cheaper plastics (so still way below GW ), so basically what you would pay for it in a shop (minus package and shop fees- a bit below) But it depends on a lots of things, taxes, general cost of workforce etc. Sadly the guy who made my earlier casts quitted business, so I am now in a search for a new one.

[Freddy]

A couple of conversions. Lieutenant with sniper rifle, some GW bitz and my sculpts/cast resin bitz.



Heavy Armoured Infantry: Afterlife models with head swaps and some minor additions:


And two group shots of my Antioch and Heretic warbands.

[Freddy]

The figures from the previous post got painted.

[Freddy]

Priest conversion.