So as you know i've been working on my own little world, literally, so i thought it was time to give the undead of this world a break and focus more on things with a pulse.
This world centres around a series of novels I have been writing for about a year now and my main focus on the vampire counts site is the horde of Bail Kor, a deamon with necromantic powers. So this new painting log is focusing on his victims/nemisises (spelling?) the Shieldbreaker clan, who are the extended family of the series protagonist Oscar.
There was a small mention of these fearless dwarves in the Bail Kor thread but they were simply a footnote that deserved a much larger amount of attention. So now im giving them their just deserts by giving them this painting log. Specifically the members of the Shieldbreaker clan who travel to the town of Stow, a safe haven along a mountain pass called the Silverpath, which is essential for the flow of precious metals into Dupelcopf, ancesteral home of the Shieldbreakers.
Thankfully they do not stand alone in defending this town from the ravaging undead. They stand shoulder to shoulder, (or should that be shoulder to waist), with the men of Stow, tough mountain men desperatly defending their homes and their families by voluntering to serve under the Lords of Stow as militia, using their numbers to supliment the training and efficency of the registered soldiers.
To start of my Defenders of Stow I will be using a box of Empire Militia, Empire Soldiers and Dwarven Warriors. I already have a model for Oscar and Elnor, but they may be remade depending on my whims.
I bought the models this morning and having looked through them i decided to start cranking out some militia. Only to discover I was being drawn subconsciously to the box of foot soldiers. So I decided to start making these first so that I could have some spare bits to play around with when making the militia.
For some reason I also have a very rogueish pirate model, but realising that Stow was TOTALY land locked i decided to just make him an exotic traider that may appear in the story at some point.
If any empire players would be kind enough to kick me for this feel free to do so, but I equipped the foot soldiers with Halbierds because of the image of a court filled with halbierd wielding guards. (and maybe the fact that the main general attacking Stow is a strange mutant half dragon thing called "Harold the Herald" see the Horde of Bail Kor thread for a pic) The militia will be given a variety of weapons but for image purposes im staying away from black powder weapons as much as possible because i dont think that they would be able to get their hands on that kind of gear to easily, except of course for the exotic traider mentioned above.
The dwarves are going to be armed similarly to how they are in the book, with the full variety of hand weapon, shield and great weapon. I mention a cleric (dnd fans) in the novel as well and thankfully ive already done this model as well by converting a dwarven slayer.
The main image of the shield breaker clan is the "broken shields" which i will post a pic of as soon as my SD drive starts playing for the home team again.
As you know im no stranger to a challenge and ive set myself a nice little target. My cousin has invited me around for a large battle on his brand new battle board during the summer holidays (less than two weeks away) so I am going to get this done by then so that we can begin the summer of glorious gaming by deciding the fate of Stow.
the captain of the force (still to be named)
and his knees
the loyal men at his command
and their leader (the only one with a good head on his shoulders buh dum tish)
mean militia men
and their archer buddies
the exotic dealer
and his hair
the Shieldbreaker Clan, still in the box but still angry enough to kick your face in
here are some of the pics from the force so far
This world centres around a series of novels I have been writing for about a year now and my main focus on the vampire counts site is the horde of Bail Kor, a deamon with necromantic powers. So this new painting log is focusing on his victims/nemisises (spelling?) the Shieldbreaker clan, who are the extended family of the series protagonist Oscar.
There was a small mention of these fearless dwarves in the Bail Kor thread but they were simply a footnote that deserved a much larger amount of attention. So now im giving them their just deserts by giving them this painting log. Specifically the members of the Shieldbreaker clan who travel to the town of Stow, a safe haven along a mountain pass called the Silverpath, which is essential for the flow of precious metals into Dupelcopf, ancesteral home of the Shieldbreakers.
Thankfully they do not stand alone in defending this town from the ravaging undead. They stand shoulder to shoulder, (or should that be shoulder to waist), with the men of Stow, tough mountain men desperatly defending their homes and their families by voluntering to serve under the Lords of Stow as militia, using their numbers to supliment the training and efficency of the registered soldiers.
To start of my Defenders of Stow I will be using a box of Empire Militia, Empire Soldiers and Dwarven Warriors. I already have a model for Oscar and Elnor, but they may be remade depending on my whims.
I bought the models this morning and having looked through them i decided to start cranking out some militia. Only to discover I was being drawn subconsciously to the box of foot soldiers. So I decided to start making these first so that I could have some spare bits to play around with when making the militia.
For some reason I also have a very rogueish pirate model, but realising that Stow was TOTALY land locked i decided to just make him an exotic traider that may appear in the story at some point.
If any empire players would be kind enough to kick me for this feel free to do so, but I equipped the foot soldiers with Halbierds because of the image of a court filled with halbierd wielding guards. (and maybe the fact that the main general attacking Stow is a strange mutant half dragon thing called "Harold the Herald" see the Horde of Bail Kor thread for a pic) The militia will be given a variety of weapons but for image purposes im staying away from black powder weapons as much as possible because i dont think that they would be able to get their hands on that kind of gear to easily, except of course for the exotic traider mentioned above.
The dwarves are going to be armed similarly to how they are in the book, with the full variety of hand weapon, shield and great weapon. I mention a cleric (dnd fans) in the novel as well and thankfully ive already done this model as well by converting a dwarven slayer.
The main image of the shield breaker clan is the "broken shields" which i will post a pic of as soon as my SD drive starts playing for the home team again.
As you know im no stranger to a challenge and ive set myself a nice little target. My cousin has invited me around for a large battle on his brand new battle board during the summer holidays (less than two weeks away) so I am going to get this done by then so that we can begin the summer of glorious gaming by deciding the fate of Stow.
the captain of the force (still to be named)
and his knees
the loyal men at his command
and their leader (the only one with a good head on his shoulders buh dum tish)
mean militia men
and their archer buddies
the exotic dealer
and his hair
the Shieldbreaker Clan, still in the box but still angry enough to kick your face in
here are some of the pics from the force so far
