My Empire army is truth be told, more Empire inspired.
It is based on but does not
faithfully follow all the Warhammer Lore.
This is for a few reasons, it requires less
research and it allows me to change things I don’t like.
Having said that, it should
be recognisable at a glance.
I have drawn my units from a certain part of the Empire
as shown below:
I chose this after starting painting.
I had a look online at colour schemes and plumped
for red / white as the main one.
Then thinking of going a bit more official in terms
of lore I hunted the net for what parts of The Empire used white and red, so that
is how Talabecland was chosen.
I noticed there was a lot of yellow in the uniforms
for the various provinces and with my yellow paint not being all that I tried to
avoid it.
Having said that it was not so easy a task and so my skirmisher archers
are from Stirland which uses green and yellow a bit.
Talabecland will be a good bulk
of my forces including the glorious artillery!
Stirland will be mostly just the archers.
Ostermark
will make up about as much as Talabecland, I like their dark rust red colour with
white and black.
Finally is Sylvania which would have been my province of choice were
they not so anti-
I suspect they will provide some of the more esoteric
units of the army…
The Pendraken models with shields mostly have a dragon on them,
which was one of the reasons for thinking about making Sylvania the main force until
I read about their fear of the new.
So I figured that the dragons on the shields could
pass as Ostermarks Griffin, which to me looks quite dragonlike:
As I mentioned in Humble Beginnings I had decided to try and make small movement
trays so they did not
take up too much space and detract from the figures.
BUT I was
then faced with the issue of what colour to paint the edges, too small to flock it
would be a lick of paint.
What colour, goblin green and old school, brown to match
the edges of my hills, black to match the actual
bases of the individual figures?
Then
it hit me, go heraldic.
My men have a distinct colour scheme, I bought dice to match
that colour scheme, so why not do the
movement trays in the same colour scheme?
So
here we have an example of a painted and trayed up unit, not realistic but I decided
early on that I wanted a certain visual appeal that did not need to be hyper real.
With my army almost complete I am uploading the units, I suspect I will add details
around them later in terms of their history and notable people in the unit.
Until
then, just the pictures:
Count Albrecht Von Halven
Helblitzen
Erzatsolder
Kanone
Stirjaeger
Erzatsolder
Erzatsolder
Hakbutschutzen
Graf Becker