A Summer of Citadel: F2 Fighter and Dwarf Engineer

Here are the final models from last week. It was too hot to do much today so I did a little prepping and basing inside. Time is running out for my Summer of Citadel and I must say I've enjoyed the process of learning to paint reasonably well again. MFM took me to the opticians after putting up with my moaning ( I really should listen to her more often!) for so long. Turns out that I do need my vision corrected. Should have gone to SpecSavers, Orlygg! My new glasses arrive later on this week so I'll be trying then out over the last few days of the holidays. 

This first model is from the F2 Fighters range and was titled Imperial Guard on release. I found him tricky to paint at first, though that was largely down to the colour scheme. He was originally all blue but the finished model didn't look sound on the battlefield. Something was missing... so I repainted the crest and matched the colour with the skirt leaving the blue on his helmet decoration. I kept the shield simple with a basic heraldry and a small tower motif. 

I've started toying with using black for weapons. With some much metal on the model already I decided to just paint the warhammer Chaos Black and highlight as normal with Mithril. With so much shadow created by the crest its hard to see in the photo above. Hope you dear readers think it works. 

There is our first figure for today. A rather dull name today but quite serviceable. I've just noticed that Basil the Good is a variant of yesterday's paladin. I've also got Dieter Muller in my Fighters Bag so expect to see him on this blog shortly, I fancy another go at a crest.

Hammer 2 isn't the most dynamic of names but here he is just the same. This figure confused me for a while as his tab said Town Crier. Obviously, the villager model was used to create this engineer variant and the tab went unchanged. He was a characterful and fun model to paint. For reasons best known to the dwarf community this chap is wandering around with his bulging belly sticking out. He was quick and easy to paint, though I struggled to interpret just what is dangling from his staff. Despite my best efforts, the only other model I could find of this chap was an eBay sale. Nothing painted I could steal ideas from. 

So I went for it being a carrot.

Quite why an engineer would need one. As I was working on him a backstory formed to explain my choice. He is obviously the engineer whose job it is to move the donkeys. Hence the old carrot and stick thing. 

Anyway, what do you think? 

Is it a carrot?

Orlygg

PS: Mike asked a while back how the Skeleton Legion models rank up alongside other C series skellies. Here's the answer.