Warm Ale and Mud

I decided that I should get on with painting that last unit even though the size of it daunts me, so here is where I am after a quick bit of skin work on the front row. But then during the process something occurred to me. Just like all the models, they get filed, and prepped, and primed, and I start with the face, cos if the face ain't right then the whole figure ain't right. But every now and then once the face is done the figure suddenly turns from just a guy in the unit into a person. Suddenly once the face is done I can imagine this persons life. Suddenly Wilhelm appeared to me. Having not painted anything but oldhammer models in 25mm is this unique to these old sculpts where they each had their own faces, they were not generic heads, but the faces have character, big noses, broken noses, big mouths, yelling, smiling, facial hair, scars, strong jaws, weak jaws, they all seem as if they could have easily be based on real people. Do you find this with your own figures, once ...

Having recently finished my Fleglers I reached the stage of only having a single unit left to paint. But… It is the largest unit of my force, daunted by the hours it will take to do (approx 120 hours, 8 hours a figure and 15 figures) I looked for a distraction. Warm Ale and Mud is my long term project and will chronicle the various events that happen to the good folk of Heiligsheld, culminating in a might battle for survival against the undead hordes of neighbouring Sylvania. However that is not all the games will be, there has already been the Orc raid led by Scrotter Brokenstaff and soon there will be Trolls at the Door, when a wandering troll comes to pay a visit. Here is the self named Felsbloch the interloping sheep stealing troll.   Being a player of WFB 3 rd edition in days before River trolls, Swamp trolls, Stone trolls and even internet trolls, trolls was just trolls. Normally brown or green in colour; and as we all know, proper trolls are green, so yes, ...

FLEGLERS Whilst not a part of the Counts garrison as such; after all who would want religious fanatics living with you day in and day out, there is a semi regular presence of flagellants in the area, being so close to the borders with unholy Sylvania there can often be found a group of Morrite Fleglers heading into that dread county to purge the area and cleanse with the lash and rod. One such group is shown below. They call themselves The Children of Morr. First we have Brother Verfechter who found Morr after his village bar him were killed by marauding greenskins, believing himself spared for a greater purpose he has become an extreme devotee of Morr bent on ridding the Empire of all goblinoids. The large and heavy metal pole he carries with chains attached was once the giant clapper from the bell in the villages chapel to Verena. He thinks it apt that he will meet out justice on the greenskins with it. Brother Holbein is the oldest devotee of the Children of Morr, he ca...

I have a favour to ask, to those that have been following my Heiligsheld project I want to get your feedback on my map please. Not the quality as this is a draft, I just want to check that where I have placed things makes sense with what is already 'official'. So the setting on my website and posts here on this blog, and the game report. Hopefully nothing is in a place that contradicts what I have written and hopefully nothing has been missed. Rough Mappe: