The Conquest Crusaders grow

Its spring and the Crusade grows.  The following are more of my Conquest games miniatures, mostly converted.

Pic above of the shield.  Below another of the conveted Knights.  The one thing I'm noticing a bit painting the Conquest Minis is that they are easy to paint.  There is one small flaw that keeps showing up in the minatures and thats the mail sleeves are lacking a bit in depth on the molds.

Below you can see more of the horse conversion.  I also added the surcoat on this rider.

Below is the other red one, set more as a sergeant and not a knight.

I like this pose, quite cool looking for the right flank of the formation.  I'm sort of avoiding adding a bunch of crosses.

This is an interesting one.  Conquest Games makes these as Normans, and in their time period they were not known to couch their lances, used them essentially as spears.  This one I used a spear arm from my Gripping Beast's plastics and it sort of looks like a couched lance.

That's it for now, hopefully the next time you see these it will be as a full unit.

Old Stuff Wednesday - April ... Wargor #3

In the previous Old Stuff Wednesdays we saw two of my other Khorne marked Wargors.  This one came a couple years later, Wargor #3, the great weapon beastman character.  I really liked this miniature, so I did not really change it up much.

I did a bit more cloth on this backside of the model with greenstuff.  My style of painting had evolved so much from when I first did a whole lot of pieces in this army.  My style got a bit more sharp and controlled.

And this is one of those miniatures that just sort of paints itself.

So there you have it, another piece from my Khorne Beastmen.

First of the Conquest Games Knights

I'm rolling them our now, this phase of the crusade is coming to an end.  Previously we had seen the pair below in WIP.  Now I have them based up and finished.

Below is the next pair of knights.  The one on the left I have converted, giving him an axe from the Gripping Beast Plastic vikings.  I think its a neat little conversion that works well.

Below a better look at the converted horses, and their cloth barding.

And a view of some freehand on the shield.

The Conquest Games stuff is nice,  and paints up fairly easy.  I look forward to seeing their long awaited infantry.

My Crusades Infantry Unit...

Well yesterday we had the meager infantry additions.  Today we have the unit thus far.   I think it looks pretty good.  Right now its at 23 models, I'm going to see if I can't squeeze a couple more before Adepticon.

I still have not gotten around to replacing the banners yet.  I will get there eventually.

Its a nice colorful unit.  The spear man in the front rank are getting excited about poking some Saracens at Adepticon.

Crusading Infantry additions...

More of the meager additions.  My Perry Miniature Infantry...it's a love - hate relationship.  I sure hope that Conquest Games releases some good looking plastics.  If you know me well, you know that a pet peeve of mine is metal miniatures, I generally dislike them. 

 In a lot of ways wish I would have taken the time to separate the spears from these miniatures.  The metal is so soft and one little bump bends the dug-on spear.  I like working with plastics, not this stuff.  Anyways, meager additions again.  3-more English like models, and 3 more infantry from Jerusalem.

They turned out okay for back rankers and quick paintjobs. No real conversion work, other than the use of some plastic shields without the bosses.   Hopefully next time we see these they will be with the rest of the unit.

Some more Knights...for my Crusade

My meager reinforcements for the Perry Knights.

I must have bent the legs on the one on the left, will have to fix that.  Amazing what you see wrong when you take pics.  The middle guy is actually carrying a sword from the Gripping Beast Plastic Vikings.

You cannot buy that Hospitaller like that from the Perry's, its a shame too.  Note I converted the sword arm using a Conquest Games arm.

Meager additions, that all it is.  Next up the Conquest Games unit or the Infantry.

Introducing Sir Roland the Gray....errrr Green

Well, another Reaper Knight.  Reaper names this model Sir Roland the Gray, but I have changed that to Green.  This model was another happy experiment. I've never really painted a lot of things green, mainly because I really don't like the color green. So I decided to dust off all of those green colors and see what I could with them, grabbing another of my Reaper knights to experiment on.

I think it turned out pretty good, I laid out all of the greens on the cloak. Then went to the yellows to accent it.

The helmet's head display is massively huge, appropriately fantasy. Was not really sure what to do with it at first, and decided upon a stone theme that I carried on to the shield.  For the basing, I recently picked up some meadow flowers and decided this would be a good model to try that out on. I like the looks of them, definitely going to use more of that in the future.

That's it for now, soon the Crusaders will be showing up.  Got the movement trays, put together today.