Hamsta's Path of Conquest, The 100 Kingdoms

ok, so my plan for the Path of Conquest was to make ONE army. Namely this one, the 100 Kingdoms. If you’ve read my entry zero, you’ll know that plan didn’t last and now I’m doing three!!!

The modified plan, was to make 1 army at a time. Assemble, prime, paint and base each army, at each Step of the Path of Conquest, before moving onto the next army, at that step, and so on.

Unfortunately, half way through building the Spires from the 2P starter set, I learnt that one of the side effects of the chemo-therapy I will be starting soon, is that I could well have issues with my blood NOT clotting should I cut myself.

Now, as an experienced modeler of approx 30 years (or more, cough cough), I of course still stab myself with a craft knife and/or pin vice if I so much as look at one, so this was a problem.

I therefore decided to finish building the Spires (I only had a few bits left to do), and then set to work on the 100 Kingdoms. But rather than get to building them, I decided to just cut them from the sprues, and clean up any burs and nicks, remove the sprue lines, etc.

I did this for each unit type, and then by each piece type, so i have a stock of Man at Arms legs, Bodies, arms, heads, etc.

The Knights I kept all the horse parts in 1 pot, the knights themselves in another (they have so few pieces, and are only 4 in number (inc. the Noble) that this made more sense to me.

I literally finished cleaning up the last pieces of the Steel Legion the night before I was due to start my treatment.

The morning after, I woke at 5 am (the meds I’m on really mess with my sleep pattern), I decided to get started putting the Knights and Horses together. I’ve left the “lose” barding pieces lose and will add them after painting the underside of the horses. Likewise, I’ll paint the knights separately also.

I hope to get the rest of the models together soon.

I MAY leave 1 stand of the Men at Arms unassembled, because I have a cunning plan in mind… but I’ll prob just buy another box of them and be done with it (unless anyone has a spare sprue to sell).