I have finally found some time to paint a 10th mourner to complete the regiment. It's an homonculus bought on one of Andrew May's kickstarter campaign. Still a few flagellants waiting for conversions, but that will suffice for the moment.
And the whole regiment:
Another batch of Mòrr's maniacs, concluding my forced (but welcome) leave. Four flagellant conversions, using bits from the WFB, W40K and AOS ranges.
For the standard bearer, I have included the starting point to paint the banner: one of the panels of Louise de Lorraine's room in the Chateau de Chenonceau.
And the usual family shot:
I still have to prepare and paint at least one additional model to consider the regiment finished. Hopefully by the end of the month!
A strange cult follows the army of the White Lady: they call themselves the Mourners, a gentle nickname for maniacs armed with picks and shovels, ready to kill and bury (not necessarily in this order) anyone showing not tenough respect for their deads.
While one can easily figure out the lethality of pickaxes, using shovels as weapons may seem more dubious. Well... as Cain once said to Abel: au contraire mon frère!
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| Detail of a miniature of Cain murdering Abel taken from f. 10v of Bible historiale complétée moyenne (the 'Bible Historiale of John the Good'). |
For consistency, I wanted to be close to the colour scheme of the spearmen and archers, but this time, the brown tones were for the robes and not for leather. So, instead of highlighting the basecoat (VMC Chocolate Brown) with VMC Flat Earth and VGC Bone White, I have tried to soften the transitions by adding an intermediary tone, VMC US Field Drab.
And the whole band... for now!
Again, two miniatures lying on the desk, I had to finish them before moving to something else!
Done. Again. Pushing the spearmen to 24 means that I'll probably add 2 bowmen to have a 12 archers regiment.
So happy to be done with spearmen! 😂
I couldn't move to the next project until I painted the last models lying on my desk.
So, here they are, two classic spearmen (with head swaps), one modified halberdier (spear and man heads replaced), and the drummer, protected by his personal bodyguard, an old Marauder Miniatures reference.
Since these guys are not supposed to be on the front rank (except the musician of course), I have used more black than white on them, quicker and easier to paint.
And the whole lot:
Finally! I can't wait to paint something else than feathers on shields 😆
I wish I was better at painting beards...
And I should probably paint an additional quartet to align 6x4 spearmen.
