Cadwallon Mordheim #3 – Cadwe Militiaman and Youngblood

I painted two more figs.

The first one is from the coyly named game Hell Dorado, intended to be used as a youngblood, or at any rate new recruit, in Mordheim. I kept the colour scheme quite brown, to match the crossbowmen and the dogs, even though he’s a bit brighter than them. He must have spent less time in the mud. For the first time in a while this is a mini I painted from scratch, with no old half-done painting over it already. As a result, I think the paintjob is cleaner than usual, with the exception of the blade that gave me a hard time.

He looks nicer from the back! At any rate a pretty good, versatile fig: I can see it work in many different games and a few different eras.

The next miniature is a Rackham Cadwe militia. Very pleasant to paint and I’m happy with it. I just wish I had picked out the folds of the red-brown cloth a bit more: they look nice in real life but disappear in the picture. The nmm on the sword is more cartoony, but I like it and I got lucky and made it work on the first try.

Here’s a group picture of the project so far.

Enjoy the winter break you all, till next time!

C

Cadwallon Mordheim #2 – Crossbowmen and Dogs

I have completed the first batch of miniatures for the Mordheim project.

The difference between the first Cadwallon crossbowman model, which I had started painting years and years ago, and the others is quite noticeable. Even if I glazed on some colour to it, it remains very desaturated and brown. I was not going to repaint it, and I may keep it on the table as I go on with the project, to get a little dash of paint from time to time.

The red and violet glazes for the two new crossbowmen are more noticeable, and I went for red over brown for some of the cloth and leather. The cobblestones are also integrating more colour – one is done with coarser stippling, for the other I started with a wet blend. I know I should probably have a uniform technique for the bases, but the differences are not that major…

The dogs are very nice models from Hell Dorado, some of the best dog miniatures I can think of. All these are relatively quick paint jobs, for me at least – between two and three hours each, with all the glazing, hedge highlighting and bases, even though it’s hard to count, since I can very rarely spend a whole hour painting at any given time.

Next will be one of the youngbloods and one of the splendid Cadwallon militiamen (these are actually quite daunting, I hope I don’t screw them up).

Till next time,

C

Cadwallon Mordheim #1 – Test Model and Preparation

The next project will be a small warband for Mordheim – LRb, mostly using Rackham Cadwallon models.

Here’s a group picture of all the prepped models.

There are three crossbowmen, six militiamen, a knight, and two muggers (looking like noblemen with pistol and sword) from Confrontation’s Cadwallon faction, and two mercenaries with rapier and dagger and two dogs from Hell Dorado. The dogs especially will fit well with the Rackham models, since they seem to have the same kind of padded armour as the crossbowmen and some of the militiamen.

I had already started painting the Cadwallon Militia Crossbowmen ages ago. Here’s the reference card with the original colour scheme, from Confrontation pills.

One of the challenges was to give some visual interest to the colour scheme that I had chosen, which was basically all brown and sand. I liked it, and I still like it, but it needed something. I decided on a few light glazes of a mix of Vallejo hexed lichen and carmine red on the brigandine (I think that’s the type of armour they are wearing) and I’m very happy with the result.

The base is made with double-thick cereal box cardboard cut into cobblestones, and earth texture paste, but it still needs work: more contrast on the earth, some plants and some green tones all over.

As usual, I’ll advance very slowly but, hey, I already have the bases in place for a change!

C

For those who may be interested, here’s what the models would stand for in Mordheim, Liriving Rulebook:

Mordheim mercenary warband (Marienburg) 585 / 600 –15

75 Captain 60 sword 10 shield 5

55 Champion 30 sword 10 pistol 15

55 Champion 30 sword 10 pistol 15

25 Youngblood 15 sword 10 dagger

25 Youngblood 15 sword 10 dagger

150 Marksmen (x3) 25 crossbow 25 dagger

100 Swordsmen (x2) 35 sword 10 shield 5

100 Swordsmen (x2) 35 sword 10 shield 5

Resources and links

Cobblestones tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34TqscfOggo (for making the cobblestones) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVeRWaazW8 (for painting them)

Mordheim living rulebook: https://idoc.pub/download/mordheim-rule-bookpdf-d49odo05o849