Figurine: Theocracy of the Pale Knights

I finally finished anther figurine this weekend - amazing what denying yourself time on the Playstation will do for your free time.

This time I painted a flag bearer and his accompanying drummer. I love to do flags because you can put anything on them that you want. I decided to make these guys soldiers in the army of a mythical country called "The Theocracy of the Pale". I could tell you more, but the first rule of fight club is 'don't talk about fight club', so I'll just leave that name hanging.

Here they are as a pair: Now here's just the drummer. He is a pretty intent looking drummer, but I think if he is going into battle he might want to bring along a sword as well. And here's the standard bearer. This guy wisely did bring a sword.

Next up, I'm repainting a couple of old figures. There is an extra step in these ones wear you have to strip all the old paint off before you start, but I'll get into that when I post them.

For now - onward for the Pale!

Figurine: Lord of the End Times

I finally finished painting another figurine. This one took a lot more time than I expected. Because of the way he was constructed, I had to paint him in six different pieces. Usually having it all glued together first makes it a lot easier to both hold on to and to paint.

Because I couldn't do that here, there was a lot of touch ups and frustration before I was finished. Anyway - here he is:

This guy is a Warhammer figure called "Archaon, Lord of the End Times" which is a pretty over-the-top title. I'm sure in the Warhammer game he is some kind of bad-ass, but I wouldn't know - I don't play Warhammer, I just paint their figures.

Since this guy had an apocalyptic feel, I made his base look like it was streaming lava, or at least tried to. Here's another angle showing off the base a bit better:

You'll have noted by this point that his horse is not exactly normal (it has bone protrusions sticking out of it all over the place, for example). I went with this and painted it as a Nightmare, with hellish light in its eyes and mouth as well. You can see this a bit better in this "he's looking right at me!" close up:

Archaon has this great pose as he's bringing his horse around to attack. Check out his skull necklace - it isn't a necklace with a skull motif - it is a necklace made of skulls. Also, he has a chaos shield - of course that was a big selling feature for me.

And finally, the back, showing off his fur-shouldered cloak:
This guy turned out pretty much how I wanted him. Since we're not at the End of Times, I'm carrying on painting, and my next figure will be an elf bard with a guitar. Hopefully soon!