Warmaster Empire Army
My Empire troops are mainly still in their blisters but a handful have been painted.
The knights are Pendraken, the others GW.
Empire as Landsknechts
I felt the urge to paint my empire forces in an historical style. After asking on TMP and this (in May 2007!) it seems that Landskneckts are the historical unit that matches these fantasy troops (steam tanks and hippogriff's excepted).
The good news about landsknects is that they are colourful, the bad news is they are very colourful. Each individual tended to wear a riot of colours, with slashings in arms and legs to show under colours.
In Warmaster it is important to be able to identify which three stands comprise a unit - also this is 10mm were some sort of batch painting is required. I decided to go for 3 colours to a unit, to give colour but to give a degree of coherence. I have gone with white feathers, sashes shields and flags as this seems to be a common identifier.
For painting I have gone with a white base coat (for these figures applied with a brush) then a wash of GW Flesh Ink, with a light dry brush of white over the top. Any armour painted black, dry brushed Vallejo Oily Steel (probably a little dark), given a later highlight of GW Mithral Silver. Then the clothing colours painted in, one colour at a time doing different parts of each figure. Most wood left with the flesh wash.
First unit of Halberdiers, green, dark red and yellow (Paints GW Goblin Green, Scab Red and Sunburst Yellow)
Second unit of halberdiers, red, blue and white (Paints GW Blood Red, Enchanted Blue and Vallejo White).
The above unit at approximately actual size (the base is 40mm wide, the figures 11mm tall)
Some rather extreme close ups
Showing far more detail than can be seen when normally viewing the figures
Empire handgunner to pikeman
Adding 1 brass rod pike to 1 figure, didn't take too long -- not sure I want to do if for a whole unit -- especially ones cast in strips.
Empire as Landsknechts - tests
