I wanted to try and keep with Jes Goodwin sculpts for the majority of my Mordheim possessed warband. This is a little tricky as most of his fantasy miniatures are either armoured or elves, or both! The brethren have been causing me a few headaches (being low-rate humans with minimal armour and poor quality gear).
I ended up starting with a couple of converted figures for this first pair of brethren, and I'm hoping they might provide a template for future additions.
One of the best things about this hobby is finding the perfect use for a figure that you've wanted to use for ages. I've had Jes Goodwin's mutant ogre kicking around my boxes for a long time, but never really found the perfect project for it. Happily, that's now changed and he's going to see use as a possessed (with spines) in my Nurglite warband.
Next up for the Mordheim Possessed are a pair of dark souls - more sinister hooded characters with covered faces!
There's a possibility of me attending a Mordheim campaign weekend later in the autumn, so it seemed the perfect opportunity to have a break from sci-fi minis and do something fantasy (it must be at least a decade since I last played a game of Mordheim, and I think that might have just been a one-off game).
It was a toss-up between skaven and possessed, but in the end I went for a Nurgle-themed possessed warband (they will also do double duty as a Frostgrave warband). These guys are primarily going to be classic Realm of Chaos era miniatures, including some of the lovely Bob Olley pestigors and gorgeous Jes Goodwin sculpts. First up are my magister and warlock hired sword (or wizard and apprentice in Frostgrave):
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| Magister (left) and warlock (right). |
I've wanted to make some Rogue Trader ferals for a long time. The template was already there with a couple of the figures from the Adventurers range - half-naked lunatics wearing tattered rags and furs, but still sporting advanced weaponry and carrying the odd high-tech bit of equipment.
My theory is that my group of ferals are the survivors from some disaster. What probably happened is that an Imperial troop transport ship ran into difficulty whilst passing a wasteland world mainly composed of rocks, desert and searing temperatures. A bunch of imperial guardsmen were forced to abandon ship and now spend their time fighting off indigenous beasties and hoping for rescue. I'm aiming to build a small gang of these lads over the next couple of months, but for now here's a started group of three!
A year ago when I painted up some Iron Claw space pirates in a Star Wars rebel commando scheme, I didn't imagine that I'd slide down a slippery slope that led to converting Bob Olley sculpts as Yoda, Jabba, Lando or Boba Fett. It's been a brilliantly fun project that has challenged me in a lot of ways - tracking down obscure miniatures from defunct companies, repurposing them or converting them in new ways.
For the record, I have made 22 rebels and 25 imperials, plus a saarlac pit. The last pair of figures to be included in these totals are everyone's favourite droids.
In my last post Jabba had his throne, his whispering advisors and a slew of dodgy-looking mercenaries / bounty hunters. He was missing a bit of porcine muscle though, so here are a couple to fill that gap.
