Tilea Campaign Part 7

Battle of the Princes, Epilogue: We Surrender A few miles south of the city of Trantio, Winter IC2401-2 Even before he opened the chest’s lid, Ruggero knew it would be waste of time. He raised it anyway, in the process almost snapping one of the rusted hinges. The lid fell backwards with a thump, to […]

Tilean Knights

I wanted some very ‘Tilean’ knights for the NPC forces of the various city states in my campaign, particularly Prince Girenzo of Trantio’s bodyguard. So, like I did with my pikemen and swordsmen, I turned to RW history for inspiration. If the Empire is a bit Germanic, then Tilea has to be a bit ‘Italian […]

Tilea Campaign Part 6

She Returns Near Viadaza, northern Tilea, Winter 2401-2 Biagino found it difficult to keep up with Ugo. Not that Ugo, a coachman by profession, clad in a long, thick, leather coat over a mail shirt and carrying the heaviest looking firearm Biagino had ever seen, was particularly fleet of foot, rather that he was less […]

Warp Lightning Cannon

Here’s a kitbash project utilising an Airfix historical kit. I wanted to come up with a Skaven Warp Lightning cannon that moved under it’s own power. I wanted a steam-punk sort of look, to go with my Doomwheel. So, in a spirit of taking the direct approach, I got myself a kit of an early […]

Skaven Doomwheel

Skaven Doom Wheel – part ‘kit-bash’ / part scratch build I love the idea of a doom wheel, but I wanted (as so often I do) to build my own version. And so I began the enjoyable odyssey that making such a mechanical model involves. I wanted a machine with steam powered locomotion, not scuttling […]

Condottiere

Now that the Compagnia del Sole free company has made an appearance in the Tilea campaign (Part 5, ‘What to do with Caution on a Still Day’) here is a post about painting some of the figures. The halberdiers and mounted men at arms are Perry Miniatures plastics, the foot men at arms (used as […]

This is the kitbashed greenskin baggage wagon as featured in the Tilea Campaign Part 3 story: Interlude, The Greenskin Corsairs. I didn’t take WIP pictures, but here at least you can see it at different angles. The greenskins are old plastics. The wagon a Tomb Kings chariot (presumably looted after a battle, or found abandoned, […]

Pikes and Boars

As seen in the Tilea campaign: Tilean militia pikemen and some orc boar riders. The pikemen were part of the Viadazan (peasant) Crusading army in part 3. The orcs part of War Boss Khurnag’s Waagh in part 4. Neither project involved conversion, just painting in my usual ‘cell shaded’ style, and in my usual medium […]

Converted Horsemen

Here is a little post concerning some of the ‘ancient’ (early 1980s) horse figures seen in the Arrabiatti brotherhood, who fought in two of the Tilea campaign’s early battles. They are old ‘Warrior Miniatures’ Normans, but have undergone some pretty simple milliput conversions. Here you get an idea of what they look like unconverted – […]

Tilea Campaign Part 5

Tilea, Autumn IC 2401 The Viadazan Terror Rapallo, North East of Viadaza As soon as he returned to the camp, Biagino was met by the Lector’s secretary, who told him he had been summoned to an audience with the Lector. He already suspected the reason, for he had been with a small company of militia, […]