The Artistic Journey of Dreamzola: Dogs of War

The Grand Mercenary Armies

One of my works in the recent years. Now why dogs of war? Dogs of war unlike others armies do not have a fixed army theme, it offer huge variety of choices and imagination for any army collector to explore. As a fan of conversion and variety, that made me wanted to create a theme for such unique armies and turn my imagination power into a reality.

Dogs of war has no fixed set of armies miniatures available, as such much of the miniatures need to be obtained from numerous miniature producers around the world. Fortunately, we do not need to rely on just one source, with the aids of internet power, it is now possible to acquire them easily. Still.....it took a great deal of conversions and brainstorming to make it work in the end. Unlike others, some 90% of this army was made up from several different miniatures collection and experienced the most variety of conversions.

2025. Newly Revamped. The Principality of …

A new idea was brewed two years ago: to create a new domain based on a Principality—one of sole sovereignty, more cohesive in vision, and somewhat inspired by the Lord of the Rings Kingdom of Gondor. From there, I set about creating a new army.

After two years of kitbashing and extensive searching, I’ve somehow managed to assemble a more complete force around this new theme. The previous Dogs of War army (Above) has been reworked, with most of the miniatures laid off and replaced by new ones (Below) that better fit the concept. Night blue as the choice of colour.

This remains a work-in-progress project—particularly as I still can’t decide how best to create a suitable pikemen regiment.

Merchant Princess (old). This model actually took a year to convert before arriving to this appearance. Not many good model for mounted armored female.

Merchant Princess. Parts assembled from 3 different brands of miniature product! GW, Reaper miniature and the sword from Gamezone series)

Merchant Princess, details of how I made this can be found here.

Merchant Princess

Mercenary Captain - (From Reaper miniature)

Mercenary Captain - The Reaper miniature series boast a huge number of suitable characters miniature.

Mercenary Captain - Sword Fencer (From Reaper miniature)

Mercenary Wizard. Oh yes, all female heroes. Well, it is an Mercenary Princess's army afterall. LOL.

Pikemen. The core of the mercenary army. These miniatures were made up of combination of Crusader Miniatures models and Perry Miniatures models. Surprisingly, both sets matched rather well with each other.

Pikemen from Crusader miniatures and Perry Miniatures. 2025...still considering to change

Pikemen from Crusader miniatures and Perry Miniatures.

The flower of the army- The newly revamped Merchant Princess in 2025. And the ones that took the longest time to create. Well, there aren’t many suitable female general in the market…so I have to make one on my own.

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.

The old 6th edition GW Empire Knights, replacing the previously old Freelancers

A new addition, light cavalry that could be used as spear/shield or pistoleer.

Crossbowmen converted from Perry Miniatures Foot Knights, Shields from GW bretonnia men-at-arm.

New heroine from Reaper Miniature with her squire. I think….

New expanded handgunners, from Warlord Games miniatures

The regiment that took a long time to do. Cant seen to find the right halberdiers until I saw this from ASOIAF. 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……