WK's Renaissance fantasy project - Witchhunters and more released (10/02)

[Pil]

I've decided to follow through with the idea of converting the complete set of the action poses with sallet helmets and offering them as an additional choice for core infantry troopers. Since they are fairly uncomplicated conversions, these should be able to go straight into a productionmould, so it shouldn't take very long to get these released.

The last 3 went together a lot faster than the first one I did. Here 's a picture of all 4 of them:

Very cool conversions! There are still some mould lines on the sallets

If I would start a dwarf army with these I'd prefer variety but there's plenty of that already, great work!

[white knight]

Yes I know, I still need to clean the mouldlines. 

They all add to the already existing variety and their faceless nature makes it easier to have repeat models in the same army than with the full face ones.

[white knight]

For some reason I forgot to post these, although they were finished around the start of the year. They are the command figures for the core infantry, as always by John Pickford. These have been mastermoulded and productionmoulded and I should have castings ready in a couple weeks.

We've got three bodies: captain, standardbearer and musician and three heads that should be interchangeable with eachother as well as with those of the infantry set. The captain and standardbearer get some further options for customisation.





The captain has three weapon options - a sword, a pistol and a warhammer - and two different shields inspired by period iconography and the obligatory skull (it felt weird not having included one in any of the figures before as I hear skulls are the cool thing to do). His feathers will have more of a curve in the final castings:







The musican is a pretty traditional design, a drummer, 'nuff said.



The standardbearer has three different standard options, two of which reflect the design of the captain's shields. These should fit without much difficulty on the bodies of the first infantry set (WKD-01) if you like more variety and the halberds and pikes from that set should fit on the standardbearer's body, turning him into a pretty good captain or sergeant figure.

[clam]

Oh yeah!

I'll be needing those, so please make sure to let me know when castings are up for sale.

[white knight]

The moulds have been made, so I should have some in a week or two if nothing goes wrong.

[Blue in vt]

  Hubba hubba!

Damn...I see a need for another dwarf pike block coming....

Blue

[clam]

The moulds have been made, so I should have some in a week or two if nothing goes wrong.

Awesome - and what could possible go wrong now

[white knight]

Don't tempt fate.

Meanwhile, mastercastings of the second zweihänder batch arrived, which means the zweihänder sets can leave for productionmoulding early next week.

[Hubbynz]

Really digging the captain....very dynamic

[white knight]

With only a couple hours before sending the figures off to the mouldmaker for productionmoulding, I found myself with the choice to duplicate one of the bodies in the unitfiller set or make a set of 3 with 4 heads.

Or I could use the flambergé sword from one of the other figures and attempt a small conversion to create a minor variant...

[Blue in vt]

The more variants the better in my book...I love the flamberge!

Cheers,

Blue

[clam]

I'm probably late (to affect your decision) - but that's a big "yes, please" from me, too.

Fantastic convertion

[white knight]

Here's to hoping my hamfisted conversion attempts turn out okay in the moulding.

[The Gray Ghost]

Wow Fantastic stuff

[Blue in vt]

Hey Seb.  Any update on the zweihanders?  I would love to
Squeeze in a team for the LPL. But time runs short!

Can't wait!

Blue