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Title: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Bloodaxe on 01 February 2021, 07:45:37 PM
https://m.facebook.com/groups/KingdomsofMenKoW/permalink/1323169057836017/

After seeing that post I'm thinking of trying some 10mm Empire.
League of Augsburg. Renaissance line.

Any suggestions for other Pensraken figs that would fit?

I'm going to keep looking thru the pics.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: fred. on 01 February 2021, 08:00:12 PM
I can't access the FB link, so I'm not sure what look you are going for.

The LoA range is a lot later than is normally used to represent GW Empire - but it certainly could be used I guess.

I'd have a look at Elizabethan and Landskeckt ranges as starting points. Perhaps dipping into Late Medieval and 16th Cent English & Scots. The YW3 cavalry figure from the 30 Years War would make a good Pistolieer
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 01 February 2021, 10:14:54 PM
Quote from: fred. on 01 February 2021, 08:00:12 PM
I can't access the FB link, so I'm not sure what look you are going for.

The LoA range is a lot later than is normally used to represent GW Empire - but it certainly could be used I guess.

I'd have a look at Elizabethan and Landskeckt ranges as starting points. Perhaps dipping into Late Medieval and 16th Cent English & Scots. The YW3 cavalry figure from the 30 Years War would make a good Pistolieer

Yes I'd agree that the Elizabethan range would be the logical starting point for Empire with other bits coming from other ranges, ELM37 armed monks would be handy for Flagellants. The TB Line medievals would work as Brettonians and the Eastern European with the Renaissance Polish would work for Kislev. The TB Line Islamics with other bits would work for Araby
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: jimduncanuk on 01 February 2021, 11:40:26 PM
Quote from: Bloodaxe on 01 February 2021, 07:45:37 PM

Any suggestions for other Pensraken figs that would fit?


I used Kallistra Teutonic Knights as Empire Knights with a bit of modification. Let me know and I'll show you pictures.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Raider4 on 02 February 2021, 08:12:20 AM
Quote from: fred. on 01 February 2021, 08:00:12 PM
The YW3 cavalry figure from the 30 Years War would make a good Pistolieer

Great minds think alike. Exactly what I've used them for! Although they are a bit bigger than the figures I've used for the knights, which was disconcerting at first.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 02 February 2021, 09:34:04 AM
Look at the Polish Rennaissance stuf as well
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Leman on 02 February 2021, 02:14:49 PM
Onr thing has always puzzled me about fantasy. If it is indeed fantasy then any figure can represent anything you want it to be. There are no parameters.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Ithoriel on 02 February 2021, 02:57:28 PM
Quote from: Leman on 02 February 2021, 02:14:49 PM
Onr thing has always puzzled me about fantasy. If it is indeed fantasy then any figure can represent anything you want it to be. There are no parameters.

Fantasy worlds have their own parameters, just as the real world does. It's just that those parameters are different. Fantasy worlds may be without limits but they are not without structure.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 02 February 2021, 03:59:22 PM
Well said !
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Bloodaxe on 03 February 2021, 09:36:03 AM
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 01 February 2021, 11:40:26 PM
I used Kallistra Teutonic Knights as Empire Knights with a bit of modification. Let me know and I'll show you pictures.


Yes please!
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: Bloodaxe on 03 February 2021, 09:36:49 AM
Thank you for all the suggestions. Im going to take a look.
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: jimduncanuk on 03 February 2021, 11:05:06 AM
An easy cost effective transformation.

http://jim-duncan.blogspot.com/2015/08/ersatz-empire-knights.html

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a75jrcod9jc/VcIv13ATByI/AAAAAAAAFls/MSPy7vOoC1Q/s1600/P1020250.JPG)

On the Kallistra knights clip off the bits you don't want, drill a hole where you want feathers, insert piece of wire, cover and shape in Milliput, paint to taste.


Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: toxicpixie on 03 February 2021, 02:52:50 PM
The LoA Austrian curraissiers in barred helmet would make great pistoliers (from memory).

I was actually going to do something similar with them to morph my Italian Wars into a not-Empire army but they got eaten by a sudden and now rather deep foray into the LoA proper!
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: fsn on 03 February 2021, 04:52:30 PM
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 03 February 2021, 11:05:06 AM
On the Kallistra knights clip off the bits you don't want, drill a hole where you want feathers, insert piece of wire, cover and shape in Milliput, paint to taste.
Oooh nasty!

How did you do the shields? Very small brush?
Title: Re: Pendraken WHFB Empire?
Post by: jimduncanuk on 03 February 2021, 07:21:48 PM
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How did you do the shields? Very small brush?

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Probably just a number 3.