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"Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive le sacré mercenaire" - the mercenary toast
well I've gotten sidetracked again, bouncing between my three armies (Tau, Orks, and IG) my dad told me that his chiropractor had a son my age who was looking to get back into 40k after a few years of absence. he plays DA, and we're going to basically be having a two man slow grow league as he tries to get his DA together. My local GW often has team tournaments, so I figured it would be a good excuse to finally put all my old IG kits together so that our armies will make a good team.

anyways I should probably start talking about what this army will be about shouldn't I? originally I was going to use Bretonians as the base for a medieval themed guard army, but I found that Empire troops are more varied and readily available. so I decided I'd make a Landsknecht themed army using Empire models as the base. so far I've got examples of the basic troopers as well as an example of the vets:


this is an example of the basic grunts. they're just basic state troops with lasgun arms. the cadian shoulder pads just didn't look quite right to me, so I changed them to those poofy renaissance sleeves.



and this is one of my vets. same basic idea, but with greatswords as the base.

as I previously stated this will be a little slower going than my previous armies, but this time I have a plan to make sure I actually complete this army: I'll be working on maybe one or two units a week, and hopefully I'll be able to have each unit assembled and painted before I start on next week's unit. so stay tuned, I'll try and have a full unit of grunts soon.

so after a week of mucking about I've got my first unit done:

and here's some close ups of the lascannon team:



also I've got some fluff for this army:
Rogue Trader Albrecht Von Richthofen opened his groggy eyes to what looked to be a makeshift field hospital. The last thing he remembered he was riding along with a caravan of mercenaries tasked with protecting a local noble’s daughter as she traveled to a diplomatic summit in a nearby kingdom. Granted the job was not the best paying, but Albrecht fancied the young woman, and that job was more for personal than business reasons.
Suddenly he felt the stinging sensation of a large callused palm being applied forcefully to the side of his head. “Wake up!” he recognized that voice. It was Duke Rathbone, the father of the woman he had been assigned to protect. The Duke grabbed him by the collar and hoisted him from the straw mattress he had been laying on. “What the hell happened out there? Where’s my daughter?” he shook Albrecht violently continuing to demand answers until the physicians begged him to put the rogue trader down and let him rest, which he did.
Almost as soon as the duke released him Albrecht began to remember what had happened, but not clearly. “Eldar, Eldar.” He kept repeating “they took her, Eldar.” The memories began to flood back to him, as if some dam in his memory had broken. They had been traveling along a road through the great forest that covered most of the planet when they were attacked from all sides by the distinctive whoosh of Eldar shuriken fire. The mercenaries he had hired were quickly cut down in the hail of razor sharp projectiles, and he was knocked off his horse when it took a shot to the sides. All around him his men were dying and he could do nothing about it as he lay helpless on the ground. Then the fire stopped and what looked to be the leader of the ambush knelt beside him. By the looks of her she was a farseer, and standing behind her was the Duke’s daughter, Aredhel.
“tell me again why I shouldn’t just put a round in his head?” the farseer asked her.
“please, I’m begging you, spare him. He’s no threat to you.”
“and what if he tells your father what has happened?” the farseer retorted.
Aredhel knelt down and touched her hand to Albrecht’s forehead. “I’ll cloud his memory of these events; he won’t be able to tell father what has happened.” Albrecht still remembered the touch of her mind when she infiltrated his thoughts and fogged his memory of those events. She was likely unaware that he had been trained to resist psykers, otherwise he likely wouldn’t have been able to remember what had happened.
Back in the hospital Albrecht continued to mutter “Eldar, Eldar!”
The duke slapped him again. “Elder what? Damn it tell me who took my daughter!”
One of the doctors restrained him. “he’s not saying elder, he’s saying eldar. It’s an antiquated term for the elves.”
The duke paused, then collected himself. “when he’s recovered I want him brought to my study, there’s some things we need to discuss.” The duke walked out of the room, a look of worry on his face.

next up I've got some stormtrooper knights I'm working on.

Interesting look. Very well pulled of however, they only little thing I have a problem with is the lascannon, it's just niggiling and i'll get back to you once I work out what it is

All we need now is some paint best of luck

Young Logan


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Worked it out the gunner is stationary but the guy with the shield looks like he is walking, conflicting modelling thats all, hope this helps

Young Logan

ah, what I intended was for him to look like he was putting his weight on the shield. but it does look like he's walking now to me #cannotunsee
anyways I've been working on some knights that I'll use as stormtroopers:


here's an example of the "laslances" that I'm using as hot shot lasguns.

and every knight needs a shield, but there's really not a place for a shield for a guy with a gun, so I slung it on their back.

The knights are looking swish. You could put the shields on like small swash buckling shields/space marine sotrm shields? Paint the shields different colours for different heraldry, it will look great

Young Logan

Very cool idea. I've never seen a conversion like this.

well I said I was trying to get to 500 points, and that list means that there's going to be a CCS, two vet units, and two leman russes. and here's one of the leman russes:

I found an old leman russ and decided to saw off the barrel and swap it for part of the empire great cannon. I figure I can use the mortar parts to make a gryphon heavy mortar from a chimera.
that's all I have for now, expect more soon, and maybe I'll get off my buttocks and set up my painting station again (someone took my nice broken in chair that makes painting a dream on my back)

Wow, looks great. I like the conversions.

I also like the fluff so far.

Well done, I'm subscribed.