Deathwatch squad #1

Hi everyone,

I am quite late with what I was suppose to finish these last few days. My family and I are moving to Germany at the end of the year, so the preparation of the move, work and other stuff did not give me enough time to finish my ongoing projects.

Nevertheless, I still managed to take a few pictures of my finished Deathwatch unit. I started to paint this unit back in 2016. This is the kind of things that make you realise that time really flies and that I abandon some project to take on others. This is a habit I really ought to change. That said, I took nice pictures of this unit that I really like because of the shoulder pads from different chapter you can had.

As I built this unit using the new tactical squad, bases are bigger than old ones and so the marine do not fit all in one picture... So let's have a look at the first batch:

Deathwatch Crimson Fist Marine

Deathwatch Blood Angel Marine

Deathwatch Mentor Legion Marine

WIP: Empire Archers

Hello everyone,

I decided to add a new unit to my Empire army: the archers. This is a unit you never think of when building an Empire army when you have access to handgunners or crossbowmen. To be completely honest, I saw Bretonnian archers on Ebay and always thought they looked really cool. It was the unit given with the base box of the fifth version of Warhammer, back when Bretonnians were still considered as army worth updating!

After buying a few, I told my self it would be cool to add archers into my Empire army, so I am building Talabecland archers with the same color scheme as the rest of my army. Even if they look quite different, I think they blend well with the rest.

Great makeover #4 - Empire War Wagon Crewman with Man Catcher

Hi everyone,

They often say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, here are two of them:

Great makeover #3 - Empire War Wagon Crewman with Hochland Long Rifle

Hi all,

A new chapter of the series: Empire - The Great Makeover. I dug out an old picture of the Hochland Long Rifle that I used as a champion in my handgunners regiment. Let's spot the differences:

WIP: Empire War Chariot - Ball & Chain

Finally!!! I finished the last one (well until I buy the last crewman on Ebay) of my War Wagon crewmen. This guy has a pretty straightforward approach to killing as he uses the ol' ball and chain. Nothing spectacular there, just another killing machine ready to crush some skulls. I will soon start to work on the chariot itself in order to have it ready by the end of the year.

WIP: Empire War Chariot - Blunderbuss

Hello everyone,

Let's continue today with this little guy I finished last night. I personally really like this weapon as this fires a shitload of lead balls, rusty bolts, bent nail and other assorted scrap metal. Imagine having a Renaissance-style flamethrower firing scrap metal at you. Add to that a dragon-shaped nozzle and you have seriously awesome miniature:

WIP: Empire War Chariot - Hochland Long Rifle

Hi everyone, let's present today the Empire's own sniper rifle: the Hochland Long Rifle. This guy will be the third crewman for the Empire War Wagon. I am finishing them one by one, and writing this, I just realised that I could not find the sixth crewman with a halberd. I'll try looking in my bitz box, but is seems that I have lost it... Another Ebay search to be done I guess...

WIP: Empire War Chariot - Man Catcher

Ok guys, I am finishing one by one every crew member of the war chariot as I received my my spray can of Matt varnish this morning. I hope to finish everything this weekend so I can present a photo of every of these guys. Let’s start with the man catcher, one of my favorites:

WIP: Empire Great Cannon (plastic) - new servant

Hello everyone,

Just a quick update today: one extra servant for the Empire artillery. This is for the plastic great cannon. I am almost there!

Hellblaster volleygun

Hi guys,

So I finished entirely my first piece of artillery for my Talabecland army: the Hellblaster volleygun. I just had one servant left to paint. I am really happy with the result and giving a new life to my first love is quite refreshing!

I should soon be done with the remaining pieces of artillery. My goal is to have finished by year-end all the artillery, one unit of swordsmen, one unit of spearmen, one unit of archers and the surprise for which I am hoping to post pictures soon.

WIP: Empire Swordsmen

Hello everyone,

Everything is running smoothly and I had one evening alone last week to do as much airbrushing as I could. I have to admit this was a little boring as I only applied two colours, but on a LOT of minis. In total, I painted over 70 minis in one shot, among them a little surprise that I have prepared in secret! In the meantime, I was able to finish 4 of 16 Empire swordsmen, which are really easy to paint. With my airbrushing method I think I can finish a unit in one week.

Enjoy:

WIP: Cursed Company #2

Hi guys,

Today, we have a lot of pictures. I worked a lot this weekend on these Cursed Company homemade skeletons and assembled quite a few with all the bits and parts I had in my bitz box. As I like every mini that I buy, I tried to save as many skeletons as I could from the conversion, so I still have a few skellies left for my undead army. In total, I am left with 11 Cursed company skeletons and 8 regular skeletons. As I like to believe these guys have been turned a long time ago and wandering the Old World ever since, I have tried to had as many details a I could and to make them look very different.

Enjoy!