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Well, the thread title is a little misleading, as they are mainly just a few characters that I built, but if I can find some interest in my local group, I'll probably expand it into a full party. It all started with this ogre:



I made an ogre head with mutton chops, and then decided to turn it into a productive member of the empire of man. The vest is greenstuff, the sword is plasticard, and so is the shield, although it has a plastic crest stuck onto it. It's one of my favourite conversion models at the moment. I haven't named him yet, but I'm thinking Roger.

Then are the human characters. (the photos I took of them are a little blurry, due to not fully understanding how to use the camera).



The one of the left, Squire Eric is based off the Ulli special character that I found in a bits box I won in a conversion competition. He was missing his sword arm, and was painted in the white and blue scheme. I really like those colours, although they seem to have been taken by the Middenheimers, who seem to be rather dour people. He's the son of Duke Kaspar; the model in the middle. The duke is made out an old greatsword champion, and standard bearer. The head, and right arm come from the standard bearer. I made him mostly just as a character, rather than to be included in the warband, as the band is the result of the young and reckless son going out to win his fortunes. And finally, on the right is the captain of the guard of whatever fort-town they hail from, who's been dragged along by the son off to mordheim.

I'm thinking of buying a box of free company and converting them up, maybe mixed up with a box of state troopers. I'm thinking of slowly escalating it from a small bunch of characters, to an actual warband, to a small, 500-750 point army. I'm mainly built them as characters, and I plan to keep on converting models as characters. Also, does anyone know where one can find a decent dwarf model that doesn't have his beard running all over his chest? I'm thinking, something like the top right/bottom left one from these, although preferably something where I don't have to buy a 60 dollar set:


Allright, well thanks very much. C&C welcome.

lalabox wrote:(the photos I took of them are a little blurry, due to not fully understanding how to use the camera).

Does it have a Macro setting?



Anyway, they look really nice, they look a bit 'worn' as if they have already been in battle (if you where going for that look, you've done it well )

Oh, that was using someone else's SLR, sitting halfway across the room and zooming and focusing in on them. The problem was that I should have put the camera a bit further away, only a couple of centimetres or so. I couldn't see the loss of detail on the camera screen or through the lens and the light wasn't good when I finally realised. Macro is for putting the camera very, very close to the models, and mostly works for smaller digital cameras.

Anyway, thanks for the comments. I was trying to make at least the ogre and eric to look a little worn.