New works in progress - New Merchant Princess and Guards

It’s been a long time, and I’ve decided to work on a new idea that’s been brewing for years.

A NEW ARMY!

Rather than a ragtag force of mercenaries, this will be an army of a Principality. And the work I’m most… satisfied with is the FLOWER of the army:

The Merchant Princess… ah, so pretty.

The character is a female knight Emlyn Creve-Coeur from Raging Heroes miniature. Her lower body, horse and shield are from the Reaper Miniature Lady Jehanne. Her cloak was rob from the GW High Elf Prince.

And the results was, a one of the kind female Merchant Princess.  

Naturally, a Merchant Princess would need a bunch of Princess's guards! Big and mean guys!

These guys from ASOIAF, Lannister Halberdiers. Its scale however are 32mm, much proportional larger than my existing 28mm scale. I used a 2mm thick base to compensate the differences in height….but their body still visibility larger. I guess I can get away with it being the elite guards are larger than average man… The original box came with only 13 miniatures, so I added in some Highland miniature to make it to 20 men strong!

 

Hail the Princess!

 

 

 

Vermin Lord has build a new reinforcement

 My rival opponent the vermin lord has added some new armies into his dirt rag rat clans.

 

Now wait a minute, wait a minute. That's not a skavan!!! LOL.

Well, the vermin lord sometime become a part of the order of the good guys. For a while perhaps.

 

This Dwarf Lord wield twin axes. Fine details on the axe itself, the green gem was particularity well brushed and highlighted to present a gem reflecting the light.

Longbeard regiment. An elite troops, the miniatures were finely painted to bring out many of the details on its amours and clothes. Most eye catching is the standard banner itself, which spot a opened book with its pages painted with some ancient scripts. Amazing innovation!!! I MUST NOT LOSE!!!

 

 

 

War!!!! Ahem...warmachine

After more than 10 years of sleeping inside the boxes. these guys are finally awakened.

Took me only 3 days to finish it. OMG. How did I do it?

LOL.

A marathon run - Dogs of war completed

Finally, its done.
my Dogs of War are fully assembled and painted.

 

This army was built with various variety of miniatures.  

Merchant Princess Conversion

Now that is weird. Why a Princess?

Well, if we take a look at the army collection around the world. Its a male dominated army. Lords and heroes, all males. Boring. Yawn......

So, I decided to break with the tradition and go for a female lord.
The main challenge was there aren't many female miniatures around to fix my army theme. As usual I had to convert and create one to meet my requirement. The lack of female miniatures presented a huge challenge as female has slender body and smaller structure, most of the male miniature has much too big body frame for me to use.

So after more than a year of searching and brainstorming. Here is the final product.

Sword arm is slender enough to be used as a female arm. This sword arm is from the Gamezone miniature mournful knight model.

Female top half is from the Reaper Bone miniature Trista. The lower half mounted legs was the most difficult, can't seem to find the right legs for her for months. Until I finally found something that matched and that is..................the Bretonnia mounted squire. lol.

And that is what left of him here. Poor squire.....got chopped into half. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. 

And here is what left of Trista. Well, she still got her pretty face.

I want lots of armour appearance, so naturally I picked a Warhammer Empire armoured horse. But I didn't like that skeleton icon on horse head so I chopped it off and replaced with a Unicorn. And the result is....a unique one of its kind Merchant Princess

Last is her cape. Robbed from the plastic high elf prince model.

More than a year to make this. Heaven!!!
How did I survive?
LOL.