Warhammer Fantasy Revisited
Start of the Norse Project
Spent today sidetracked from the Knights of the White Wolf I was supposed to be working on and ended up getting some assembly done for the Norse project instead. As mentioned, going for small manageable chunks this time around. Have been a little bit spoilt of late by almost single piece Perry and warlord historicals or picking up Ebay second hands so haven’t done any multipose assembly in a while. had forgotten how long it takes. Gave up on parts cleanup beyond a token effort somewhere after losing my third desprued shield-arm to the great dark void under the hobby bench. Anyhow, I did get a block of 10 Shieldmaidens assembled, and a block of 10 warriors that I will use as Reavers. Also remembered I had a standard bearer from Shield Wolf minis so dug her out of storage too.
A unit of 10 Shield Maidens from Shiledwolf Miniatures
The Shieldmaidens, characters and a unit of 10 Reavers made up of Fireforge Scandinavians with command components reused from the Shield Wolf shieldmaiden sprue.While tinkering away I did notice some similarities between the sculpts of the Shield Wolf heads and the GW plastic Slaanesh Daemonettes. So I got curious and did a bit of kitbashing. Seemed to work OK so when I get to my Daemons in earnest (probably shortly…) I think I will convert a few to make the units look like they are shifting between a human and daemonic form.
Converted Daemonette on the right.
The Shield Wolf minis look quite good! How was clean up on them? A little bit of a pain it seems…
Is there much in the way of bits left over from the unit? Would there be much left for kitbashing other minis?
Thanks @rayzryr I’ll take photos of the sprues and post later. minis are a little bit of work to clean up but really nicely detailed, great sculpts. plenty of spares and fit well scale wise with the later GW plastics (so from maybe 2004ish onwards?). limbs are ‘finer’ than a lot of other minis, closer to true scale historicals but beyond that plenty of scope to kitbash.