Warhammer Fantasy Revisited
Army of Middenheim
A quick search (Ok, a long and involved search…) of many boxes yielded an assortment of sprues, blisters and bits, plus some assembled models in various states of disrepair.
Sorting that mess out it became obvious I had in my travels procured quite a few Cult of Ulric character models. Given I also had a large number of cavalry it seemed logical to do this force up as an Army of Middenheim as I could incorporate the Cult of Ulric int the force seamlessly. Plus it would make a nice counterpoint to the Talabecland theme of my main Empire army. A day clipping, cleaning and assembling and I had the following:
A big block of spearmen with command group and warrior priest - banner to be glued on later so that I can paint it more easily...
A cannon with crew, plus a squad of handgunners. One of the handguns had snapped off so I modified with some old parts to convert into a blunderbuss which seems oddly appropriate... barrels were too small for my pin vice so had to drill out with a sharp hobby blade.
Some Priests of Ulric on foot...
...and a couple mounted. regrettably their left arms are lost to history, so some conversion work would be necessary.
A Markus Wulfhart model - so I was going to need some Huntsmen to go with...
Plus some other random foot troops and the beginnings of a plastic mounted general and this was the horde at the end of the first day. Starting to come together...
I love this & will be following avidly. I’ve been doing a similar this here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/fantasy-wargames-2/ and so hoping this will kick start my own Empire force!
Cheers @halfmileduck have been keeping an eye on your project since it went up. Some fantastic looking stuff so far and vibrant colour usage (which was always one of the nice things about playing Empire in a bleak grimdark setting).
Thank you @evilstu I got a bit distracted with other projects towards the end of last year, but have some demigryphs in progress that I need to get back to in 2019!
@evilstu not sure how i managed to miss this project until now! Love the Middenheim flavour you are going for, its how i am painting up my army as well. So much background and fun to be had, still sad they dumped the Warhammer world.
Agreed. I’m very much back in my comfort zone working on classic WHFB. Will switch back to historicals now and then for Sharp Practice (strongly inspired by your posts BTW 🙂 ) but I find that requires a lot more focus form me, which is fine as it’s good to extend my painting a little, but sometimes it’s fun to just paint to recharge the batteries as it were.
And don’t worry – I think there are probably enough of us about to keep the Old world living on for a while yet 😉
Love these old Empire minis. They were my force back in the day. Inspires me to get up into the parents attic and see what treasures I still have up there.
Thanks for this project – will be keeping a close eye on it!