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...

Frostgrave / Mordheim henchmen part 1

I've done a bit of initial modelling for my Frostgrave / Mordheim war band.

I've thus far produced a barbarian, a couple of crossbowmen, and a dude with sword and shield.  The conversion work is relatively light here, mainly consisting of head swaps, although they weren't straightforward ones. Quite a bit of sanding and cutting was required, along with some filling.  The parts are largely from the Empire State Troops and Crossbowmen boxes, along with some stuff from the Warriors of Chaos Warshrine and Forsaken kits, as well as the Beasts of Chaos Ungor kit.

I also produced an objective or treasure marker.

For those that missed it, I also posted up my sorcerer and apprentice the other week.

Not too much more to say than that at this point!

Death Guard Terminator #2

Ages and ages ago, I did a bit of a kit bash of Death Guard terminator, affectionately known as Malarius, Thrice Blessed by Nurgle.

It seems that I also spent some time putting together more terminators using the Forge World upgrade kit to make some Death Guard terminators. And obviously, me being me, I put them aside for ages.

Well, this past week, I actually managed to paint one. Bit by bit.  It was a bit of a strange experience, as I was returning to my Death Guard scheme, and I hadn't painted that particular scheme for a good few months. I'm reasonably happy with the outcome, and I'm pleased I've not tried to take any short-cuts or owt.

As you can see from the pictures, I've given this fine young gentleman a massive gnarly claw.  Not entirely sure where it came from, asides from it being a gift from my good friend Fulgrim's bits box. It looks possibly as if it might be from some sort of incarnation of the Keeper of Secrets or some other large Slaaneshi model. Regardless of whence it came, it certainly seems to have worked out well, and doesn't seem out of place on the model.

So here are the pictures...

Life's not hard, you're just soft.

Those truly blessed by chaos always bestride channels of

toxic slurry.

Hopefully the rust has come through well on the bolter. I get the 

feeling that from time to time, I may have overdone the rust 

effects on some of the Death Guard models I've painted.

The amount of texture on these Forge World parts
is unbelievable. If I was better at painting, I'd try
and do it more justice!

I'm toying with the idea of trying to make the wings of the fly iridescent. I'd
hopefully achieve that using the Vallejo metal medium.

Ever wondered what it would be like to have a massive purple eye for a belt
buckle? Me neither.

Here he is, with his old mucker, Malarius.