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Knights of the Blazing Sun Empire of Sigmar This army was painted last year 2023 & 2024.  Last post we started off by showing you the Order of the Griffon. Now I am going to follow with a short and sweet post on my favourite order of all, Knights of the Blazing Sun.  Front on snap - kept it plain and simple Why are they my favourite? I guess it’s was because they were always really rarely seen models but, we all knew they existed. So collecting them from eBay 30 years later was a real kick. Overall scheme was heavy on the slivers and gold. I tried to get an old gold feel going, by simply using an anthrax earth-shade over any standard acrylic gold and highlighting back up. Good side on - not the hand painted banner  I have been posting regularly, roughly weekly, for most of the year, but now as I say I am not technically finished yet with this army I am staggering out posts, so as to fit in units on my painting desk. Original 90s models one of which is converted to mak...

Knights of the Griffon Empire of Sigmar New week, new army......Warhammer Empire!  This army was painted last year and I want to kick off showing this army to you with the Order of the Griffon. Posts while I cover this army on this blog will slow down a bit now. I have been posting regularly roughly weekly for most of the year, and while there are a few bits and pieces still to catch up on this is the last army of the backlog….well I say that I am not technically finished yet….but is any army ever finished, finished? On that bombshell, on to the miniatures. These are high fantasy unit made up of four knights, mounted on griffons.     As I haven’t yet finished this army, I was mulling over colour schemes. I aim to paint to a few of the different Knightly Orders, so the first challenge was to select the colours and plan ahead.  I found a few different references to standard silver, blue, and finally white. Not fancying painting white I went with blue. I mainly used Val...

Armée du Nord 15mm Napoleon Bonaparte Waterloo Campaign The Big Cheese Over the last few weeks I have been introducing the massed ranks of I Corps, IV Reserve Corps plus a few additional. Now we move onto the amazing and fun to paint Imperial Guard.  But, before we do above is Napoleon Bonaparte. He is accompanied by three ADCs painted as Imperial Guard Brigade General, Light Infantry Brigade General and a Marshal of France as Chief of Staff. Inspiration for my Corps Command stand Let’s start with the command stand for the IG, which I took inspiration from the painting above to try and recreate. The painting is of the  Battle of Waterloo, Marshal Ney leading French cavalry charges against the British and Allied lines, around 3:30 p.m. on 18th June 1815. Marshal Ney with ADCs, also Murat & Lefebvre left and right. I am really please with the overall look, Ney’s ADCs are converted using Warlord Games Cavalry Officers, mainly head swaps or arm moves. Ney will serve as ...