Hobby update – Knights, knights and lotsa knights!

The final two knights have been finished! (shields still lacking, as they are still drying out from their ink wash). This means that the Brotherhood army is shaping up nicely!

Remember the Reconnoiterers I built from discarded outriders?

this is how they look like now they are finished!

This means the next project on my list is multibasing all those knights. First off, I gathered all GW empire knights from my collection:

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It’s quite a mottley bunch gathered in over 15 years of Wargming. There’s plastic empire knights from the 6th edition (and later), a few metal models from before that, command models from the 6th edition set, a renegade elector count, and Voland and 8 of his venators. I remember that when the dogs of war supplement came out, a boxed set of venators were cheaper than the same amount of imperial knight blisters. From the KoW era, there’s an army standard built when I needed another mounted inspiring source.

That said, it’s an impressive look when they are gathered. Before I multibase everything, I might be doing a photoshoot in different formations. I’d always wanted a lance formation of 21 knights…

The above photos show 24 knights. That’s 21 in 3 regiments of 7 and 3 single models. (two army standards and a single hero). I might need more single heroes after this, but that’s someting I’ll do when upgrading the army to 2,000 points.

Of course, models painted and collected (I bougth the venators from a mate over 12 years ago) over the past decade do have different paints used and (sigh….) painting quality. Some are quite decent, others are a bit…. meh. There’s also quite a bit of battle damage from 10 years of wargaming and storage. (storing single models, especially with lances, comes with a lot of damage)

So next project: Repair battle damage, give the worst painted models at least an ink wash and highlight, replace missing shields and bent lances, etc.

That said, the army is nicely coming together. Status:

• Regiment of Abyssal hunt (done)
• Regiment of Redeption. (No new models, but the reiksguard still proxy)
• 2 troops of recoinnoiterers (one done. Other proxied by pistoliers)
• 3 regiments of vilein initiates. (Painted. Now multibase them)
• Forsaken Beast (needs rebasing)
• Mounted exemplar / sword of slashing (done)
• Mounted adjudant / flute of bane chant (done)