Nick's Hobby Bloggy

Willkommen meine Mitmenschen aus Reikland! In this blog I'll be sharing pictures of my newest Empire unit(s), some tactically flexible and utterly expendable archers! Please note, these archers are not the dreaded huntsmen, masters of the wilderness and invaluable scouts. My archers are explicitly chaff. Their role is to die so that other, more expensive units, may live. Anyway, here are some pics! Since the last iteration of Empire Archers from Games Workshop currently can be purchased for around $100-150 on eBay, I instead decided to use some third party miniatures. After much consideration and internet exploration, I settled on two wonderful Mercenary and Militia kits from  Reptilian Overlords . There's about a 99% chance I'll be using these kits in the future to fill out my existing units or build new ones from scratch- they're just too versatile and great. I initially did some test prints to see how the RO minis scaled vs more modern and classic GW minis. There...

  Hey folks, welcome back to my blog for another hobby update. This blog will feature my newly painted flagellants, the most painful tar pit unit available to the noble empire of man. Flagellant miniatures, the 6th edition ones anyway, are in my opinion some of the best sculpts to come out of Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battles  miniatures line. These minis really capture the grim dark setting, unlike the later plastic kit (which instead features hulking, muscular body builders). After some Facebook Marketplace dealings, I was able to accumulate enough flagellants from the distant land of Poland. Flagellants are limited to one unit per army (for 6th edition anyway), so at maximum I would need thirty miniatures for a full regiment. However, through the strange vagaries of fate, I ended up with thirty-one flagellants. Naturally, this extra flagellant was converted to a Prophet of Doom (the unit champion). This was accomplished with a little swapperoo using a spare staff c...

 Hey folks, welcome back! Excuse my absence, it's been a minute. This blog focuses on the first unit of Warhammer Fantasy Battles I've painted in oh, about 12 years or so. It's a pleasure returning to the old world and I couldn't be more excited to spruce up and round of my classic Empire force! Rather than start with something reasonable, like a lone hero or something, I decided to crank out a full fifteen man unit of Knights of the White Wolf, the templars in service to Al-Ulric, the leader of the Cult of Ulric and High Priest of Middenheim.  I still had many of these guys in my now ancient collection when I began the project, but I did round them out with a few nifty eBay purchases as well. My knights were in all different states of assembly, painting, and general completeness; some were missing parts or had cobbled together alternatives crafted by my boyish hands over a decade ago. I also had never been happy with the original plastic head sculpts, so while we were ...