Skull and Crown | 05 Apr 2017 11:05 p.m. PST |
Finished up two units of skelly halberdiers, based as units for Kings of War. The first unit is "advancing, with halberds high at the ready and back rank marching. I chose to put two torch standards in this unit, as multiple torches and candle standards is a prevalent theme in Bruegel's Triumph of Death painting.
I've designed my "deckled" bases to fit together, so you could take these two units and make a Kings of War regiment. This gives a lot more flexibility and also makes them more useful for Oldhammer games. Both of these units, the Javelin regiment, and all of my single painted figures- including the one off conversions- are pledge rewards as part of my upcoming Kickstarter.
for lots more pictures and wordy bits, shamble on over to my blog skullandcrown.blogspot.comCeers! |
Cyrus the Great | 05 Apr 2017 11:33 p.m. PST |
It's all so very nice. Can't wait for the kickstarter! |
langobard | 06 Apr 2017 2:13 a.m. PST |
I want to say 'beautiful!', umm, but that doesn't seem appropriate somehow, very inspirational though! Good observation about the torches! They look great! |
altfritz | 06 Apr 2017 4:13 a.m. PST |
Looks great! Can't wait for the Triumph of Death! |
Chalfant | 06 Apr 2017 4:35 a.m. PST |
Looks great, love halberds anyway…. very nice with skeletons. Chalfant |
Black Cavalier | 06 Apr 2017 5:13 p.m. PST |
I really like the mounted skeleton you've had done as a stretch goal. Its the closest I've seen to a the White Walker leader from Game of Thrones |
Skull and Crown | 07 Apr 2017 10:58 a.m. PST |
Thanks Gents! Black Cavalier, The Mounted death command figure is based upon an drawing from Albrecht Durer- but yeah, he'd make a great White Walker.
We just sculpted up another arm variant, so he comes with scythe arm and then an arm outstretched holding an hour glass. Cheers Ths |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Apr 2017 1:54 p.m. PST |
Oh,golly,these could lure me back into fantasy gaming, after forty years! |
Skull and Crown | 07 Apr 2017 5:53 p.m. PST |
Hafen- don't think of them as fantasy, think of them as "late German"… See- here they are using a German standard
Cheers Ths |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Apr 2017 7:58 p.m. PST |
I knew those guys were up to no good. . . And yes, I guess they would have to be called "late Germans"! |
justBill | 08 Apr 2017 7:21 a.m. PST |
Wow! These are great! Please keep us advised about the kickstarter. |
Sigwald | 08 Apr 2017 7:28 a.m. PST |
Yeah wow! These are incredible! Are you going to do pike and shot figures? I would have to do an Italian wars Albrecht Dürer death army with these great figures |
Skull and Crown | 08 Apr 2017 9:43 a.m. PST |
Just Bill- will do! Sigwald- thanks- One of the reasons I held off on the KS launch was I decided to make a couple of the models "open handed" to allow for much more flexibility. I even did a couple of prototype pike and sword with shield
That being said, the Kickstarter is to fund, erm, fleshing out… the army. I've already got 3 pike poses in the works. As to shot, my first thought was to have skeleton crossbow ala Italian wars, mainly because no one that I know of have done skeleton crossbow, and I'm not sure undead are adept enough to use arquibus. But- if I get enough feedback that that's what you'ze guys want, we can do it! Cheers- love all your feedback! Ths skullncrown.com |
Sigwald | 09 Apr 2017 12:03 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the info. Really looking forward to the kickstarter! |