Necromunda: House Cawdor looted Ambot

Seemingly, I couldn't resist the lure of splitting a box of Ambots with my mate Andy GI.  These things look great.

At the time of building and painting, I'd already gotten my Cawdor gang finished. I thought it would be cool to give them some heavy support in the form of an Ambot.

I opted to go with a heavily corroded and weathered look for this machine, as I figured that a Cawdor gang wouldn't have the credits for one that was in better condition... and I thought a colour scheme such as this would sit really well in harmony with the dull browns of the gang itself...

Necromunda: House Cawdor gang

So in my absence from the blogosphere (well from miniature related blogging at least) I managed to complete a project. That project is my first Necromunda gang; a gang of House Cawdor.

I opted to dodge using the heads supplied with the kit for some reason and instead went for head swaps that utilise heads from the Empire Flagellants box (or whatever box it is now known as under the aegis of Age of Sigmar - I mean I could look it up, but that involves effort. In fact by the time I'd written this, I could've done it, but now I'm kind of committed to not doing it!!).  I felt that these heads added an additional air of menace to models that I felt had a rather medieval goes black-powder aspect to them - much like the Empire range I guess - only with some nasty looking makeshift, unsafe, jury-rigged weapons and knock-off augmetics.  I found also that some of the hooded heads from the Frostgrave Cultists also fit the bill quite well here...

It's about the first time I've felt like I've really nailed the look of what I imagine something to be like in my mind, but in model form...  Anyway, here's the goods...

Frostgrave / Mordheim henchmen part 2

Following on from recent posts, I've done some further work on my Frostgrave war band.

This consists of minor modifications to my barbarian (adding a large shield slung across his back), as well as the construction of a couple more crossbowmen, a couple of swordsmen and a longbow-man.

The vast majority of the parts are again from various GW kits. The only exception here being the body of the longbow-man which is a Perry twins sculpt, and was a freebie at the latest Salute expo this year.  The conversion here is a bit of an homage to old school GW sculpts from the '80s, which often featured an irreverent goblin or nurgling or other creature giving a middle finger to all and sundry, zero fux given.  Obviously, the historically accurate insult the bowmen used to give to the French is helpful here (i.e. the French in the medieval period punished thieves by cutting their fingers off, I believe).

Previous posts on this war band can be found here:
http://miasma-of-pestilence.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/frostgrave-mordheim-henchmen-part-1.html

http://miasma-of-pestilence.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/beastman-psykers-sorcerors-for-inq28.html

Anyways, here are the pics...