Warmaster Empire Army
This army has taken a long time to come to the table - but I now have a good 2250pts of Warmaster troops painted (and have a fair few proxies to field if necessary). In total I have some 5000pts of figures.
I have gone for a Landskneckts style force rather than the Warhammer state troops style. To make this approach practicable each unit is painted in 2 or 3 colours, with different limbs and halves of the body often if different colours.
The next batch of painting needs to be more Halberdiers, as these are the compulsory infantry unit I need at least 4 more units painting.
The Empire Knights, Crossbows, Handgunners and Commanders provide the core of my Dogs of War army.
The Army
Commanders
The Empire general, his Heroes and Wizards.
Knights
GW Warmaster Knights Panther in front, and normal Knights behind.
Two units of knights in a Tudor inspired colour scheme.
Knights are the key attacking unit of the Empire army - and the figures are big, much bigger than most other WM cavalry and generally a lot bigger than other manufacturers cavalry.
Pistoliers
Two units of Pistoliers. The front unit is mounted on 20x20 magnatised bases so they can be long based for different rules. Although the figures are cast on strips the horses are not joined together so it is possible to cut them apart fairly easily.
Infantry
Flagellants to the left, Halberdiers to the right and skirmishers in front. As the Halberdiers are a required unit, I need to add several more to the army.
Close up view of 3 of the skirmisher stands.
Crossbows
Four units of crossbows - slightly customised with the addition of flags.
Handgunners
Two units of hand gunners, customised with the addition of flags. These are nice figures, but rarely get used as the list calls for two units of crossbows per 1000 pts, so hand gunners on top of this is usually a bit much.
Cannons
The core of the fabled Empire gun line. Hellblasters in the middle Great Cannon on the flanks. The Great Cannon have considerable reach and are deadly, so can be used to deny large areas of the board to the enemy. Hellblasters are unpredictable at best!
Steam Tank 
Steam Tank with Pendraken knights and a stand of Halberdiers.
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 Landsknechts 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
