A return to the Empire - update (4/10) - Abandoned Gatehouse

[white knight]

A touchup of an old paintjob and additional conversion on a kitbatched footknight. The figure uses parts from the knightly order sprue with legs from an old command model. Originally I had only glued on the plastic fur cape that came with the knights set, but before partially repainting it, I added the extensions with the claws over the shoulder to make it look more like the old metal knights panther (which are also being touched up currently). I should have extended it all the way as it doesn't blend all that well into the plastic, but oh well, too many things to do to revisit this a third time.

[voltan]

so do you have a whole unit of them?

[white knight]

No, didn't have enough legs. But now with the plastic greatswords sprue, I've been thinking about making a unit of them.

But still need to finish revamping the mounted ones.

[white knight]

My first warrior priest... with a twist.

He's supposed to be an imperial dwarf warriorpriest, converted from an Alionas miniature. Additions include the plastic hammers, new face and head, new breastplate, sculpted holy book, icons on the shoulderplates and some smaller mods. This is an attempt to reconcile classic marauder feel with present day empire iconography, using a basemodel that is neither citadel or marauder. I think he came out ok. The original mini had a beard which got removed and replaced with a decorated breastplate. A beardless dwarf would be odd though, so I decided to hide the lower half of the face with a neckguard (which is typical of WP's anyway) and show just a hint of hairgrowth. The original head was pretty small too, so I bulked it out and resculpted the face. His shoulderplates received one of those german crosses and a twintailed comet.





The conversion before painting:


Some more  pics:




the original alionas mini:

[Thantsants]

Major improvement on the original!

I like your nice inclusive Empire - Sigmar love us all - short or tall! 

[white knight]

and green or white. 

[phreedh]

Very nice WK, the conversion is great! Could do with a slightly stronger shading on the hands (fingers) but that's just me whining really. Top notch, as usual! I'm warming to your bases, btw... didn't like them at first but now I really do.

[white knight]

Very nice WK, the conversion is great! Could do with a slightly stronger shading on the hands (fingers) but that's just me whining really. Top notch, as usual! I'm warming to your bases, btw... didn't like them at first but now I really do.

The trouble with the hands is that they are sculpted as mittens (no fingers) and I just painted on the fingerhighlights to simulate their shape coming through the gloves. I should have converted the hands too, but as I was aiming to get this figure done in time for a painting contest on the Bugman's Brewery forum, I didn't bother.

[phreedh]

The trouble with the hands is that they are sculpted as mittens (no fingers) and I just painted on the fingerhighlights

Yeah, noticed that afterwards. =)

[white knight]

Three more marauder dwarves, all three are converted using greenstuff.


The bandana-headed figure got an all new hat and a real beard.


A hard figure to modify without cutting it up. I ended up giving him a beard extension, a feather and a bowtie sash.


Dwarf with crossbow. I didn't think the original figure really fit the theme (looked like a smallfooted dwarf in a dress really). So I added landsknecht shoes, puffy sleeves and a jacket.


The pikemen so far:

[white knight]

A couple more classic Marauder figures from the heavily sought after MM15 series. Two halberdiers. I quite enjoyed painting these figures.

[DeafNala]

Both VERY COOL! I love the reddish coloration of their noses...gives an indication they just might have had a drop or two of the pure. The Lad waving his fist has the proper Dwarven attitude. VERY WELL DONE!

[Thantsants]

Lovely stuff as always! 

[white knight]

I couldn't resist the temptation to slap some paint on a couple mastercastings. Bit miffed that the camera ignored the extra care I put in the highlighting and shading, but what are you going to do... Quite happy with the sallet helmet though as my metals usually suck.







And a comparison shot with some Marauder dwarfs:

[oldskoolrebel]

Lovely WK, really nice. I love the old school dwarves, although I'm not too sure about their pole arms

Go on tell us how you paint that blond hair.

Cheers
Andy