Nick's Hobby Bloggy

Hello and welcome back to another riveting entry into my hobby bloggy. This entry will cover the newest edition to my Warhammer Fantasy Battles  Empire army; handgunners! As you all are acutely aware from my last blog , I'm currently working on a Reiklander army. Reikland uniforms are nice and clean white with red slashes, but are a total bear to paint. These units were no less challenging than the last, especially as I elected to paint 30 at once. To begin, I started converting some ancient 6th edition starter set handgunners. Luckily I already had a collection from my childhood, though over the years I've accumulated more from swap meets and eBay. I needed 27 original monopose gunners (12 aiming, 15 at ease) and 3 of the (relatively) new 7th edition ones with their big ol' Hochland Long Rifles to serve as my Marksmen. To break up the monotony of the monpose figures, I spent a little time swapping heads with other state troop sets and even some  Reptilian Overlords  3D p...

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...