We sold our house on Monday and have spent this last week frantically looking for somewhere to live. After many years of conventional living, my wife and I are looking to purchase one of Essex's many historic buildings for some real 'Olde School' style living. Despite racing through the area all weekend looking at properties, and receiving a visit from the entity known only as 'Mother', I managed to get two townsfolk miniatures completed on Sunday.
And here they are!
On the left we have a Citadel model depicting a Noble Woman while the right is from the later Marauder range, only this time it is a Noble Man!
The lady is one of the 'Wanda' style models out there, the other two being Wanda 1 and Wanda 2. She is not as well sculpted at the gentleman, and I found her face a bit of a pig's ear to finish but she looks lovely now.
These two models are part of my In Defence of Far Corfe scenario that we are playing out this coming weekend at the Wargames Foundry and I shall be covering them in detail in a coming post about the game. They will act as the 'goodie' commanders during the game and will have appropriate special rules, as did many of the characters in the scenarios of old.
I now just have to finish off the Far Corfe Homeguard and the villain of the piece, Keef Bullockchopper half-orc, half-troll ALL bastard!
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Good choice on the colours. I much prefer Citadel's old take on fantasy characters, fantasy's mosern aesthetic is very (this is an awful description, I know) much in the teen fan-girl mould with modern haircuts, fitted clothes and the like, which doesn't take anything from what we see as history's fashion oddity.
ReplyDeleteI quite agree and have always thought that realism was essential in creating a believable fantasy world. The authentic clothing many early sculpts wore, even the goblins, just helped created a sense of authenticity that subsequent styles lack.
DeleteThey look great. I love the man's outift.
ReplyDeleteLooking through an image search for inspiration, I came across several pictures of men wearing similar clothes in renaissance art. I pinched the red and black combination from one of them.
DeleteFull of character, great work on some great old figures
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve. I have a great many of these models in the leadpile and it is always nice to find a way to incorporate them into a game. After all, if you can use them you can paint them!
DeleteCongrats on the house sale and good luck with the house hunting. You're sounding quite relaxed about it all so I take it the process hasn't been too stressful so far!
ReplyDeleteCracking work on the Nobles - looking forward to joining in the defence (or sacking) of Far Corfe!