Grand Army of Altdof

As I said in the previous entry, I had used Greenstuff World’s cavalry converter base, upping the previous 25mmx50mm base to the newer 30mmx60mm bases on my Empire cavalry models, and with the resultant gap between the original base and the edge of the newer one was quite unsightly. So I settled on a simple solution: filling the gap with brownstuff.

It was not quick, and it is certainly not pretty, but it does the job of filling in the gap for sure.

But once the base is covered in your chosen basing material, sand in my case:

It works perfectly fine. And once everything is painted and tufted to your heart’s content, it is impossible to tell that there was a gap there at all.

Which brings me to my next topic: decals.

With the dizzying array of symbols in the Empire as a whole, let alone ones relevant to just one province of the Empire, I knew I had my work cut out for me if I tried to approach it all by hand, so I had to use the age old cheat of decals.

After doing a lot of searching (and I’m still searching for the Renaissance style Reichsadler/Imperial Eagle that’s NOT a derivative of 40k’s Imperial Aquila or anything related to the Third Reich), I found The Mighty Brush and their line of waterslide decals. So, choosing the ones that I want, six in total of:

• Gothic Alphabet (black)
• Gothic Numerals (black)
• Heraldic Symbols (gold)
• Skulls (white)
• 2 Crossed Swords (white and black)

I knew what I wanted to do with them.

Turns out though, when applying the decals, I am just that bit out of practice. None of the decals I have applied really sit right, but at least I only binned two of them. It’s those little skulls. So finicky…

I did these all throughout the course of the day, hence the varying quality of light.