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An der Fähre Village Guard¶

What is now called "An der Fähre" (At the Ferry) started out as the cottage of Karl Ruderer, who operated a small ferry business at a infrequently used travel route in the Hegemony. When more and more merchants started to use this route, soon small queues started to build on both sides of the river, which soon let to inns being opened; shortly thereafter smiths settled there, food was needed so some farmers joined... and very quickly a village formed - named after the place it is situated at - the ferry.

The Bürgermeister soon was forced to spend money on a permanent village guard, as drunkards needed to be arrested, disputes between merchants needed to be deescalated (especially when the merchants employed caravan guards) and raids by bandits needed to be stopped.

The core of the village guard is a company of halberdiers.

The miniatures I ordered from Mirliton, one pack of each of their halberdiers (I, II, III and command group) from their fantasy human range. They delivered very quickly, great service!

The miniatures are very nice. They have crisp detail, are very varied in details but still look like one type of troop, and no pack has duplicates. Especially the variety in equipment is very fitting in my opinion, as in medieval type times there was no real uniformity, as basically very piece of equipment was manufactures as a one of a kind due to lack of industrialised manufacturing. The mold lines are very small, even the ones going over the chainmail are easily removed.

The only complaint I have about them is the basing. No bases are supplied with them (which is fine, as depending on which game their customers want to use the models for they would need round, square 25mm, square 20mm, hex, ... bases), instead they have quite thick integral bases. When glued to the 20mm bases usually used for Warhammer humans, the integral base basically doubles the base height - so I have to cut them down. This is not difficult but tedious work.

The first 5 models have the mold lines removed but are not yet glued to the bases - this I will only do when all minis are ready, so I can rank them up in the formation I will most often use them, 5 wide and 4 deep.

Published 2015-08-08 11:38:54

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[Frag]¶
Board and Miniatures¶

The first four models with washes applied:

The green and violet model with highlighted player colour:

Published 2015-08-08 11:43:26

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An der Fähre Village Guard¶

I did not pay enough attention when buying the models. On the one hand the command group only includes 4 models, so my unit is not 20 strong but only 19; on the other hand it includes two leader type models and no halberdier, so I have an extra hero (back row with the plumed helmet) but only an 18 strong unit.

Models ranked up and glued to bases.

Here you can see how I marked the position of the models.

Bases covered with plaster to hide the integral bases.

Bases covered in sand.

Published 2015-08-09 09:49:33

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Board and Miniatures¶

The yellow and orange players' armour is highlighted.

Published 2015-08-10 10:05:23

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[Terrain]¶
Modular Fence System¶

I bought the MDF sheets last week, and started Saturday to work on the bases. The ordered balsa wood was on backorder, but should arrive this week as well.

I started to cut the boards using my Proxxon KG50 using the spacer. This makes sure the connecting edges are all the same width.

The rest of the way I cut with a coping saw.

The undersides where then sanded, so they were flat.

Next I drew two lines on the top side, the area between them will remain flat, the area to the outside will be sloped down.

I started the sloping by cutting a ~20Â° (the diagonal from the lower corner to the line marked on top from the center 10mm strip) angle at each corner, again to make the seam between two segments as even as possible.

The rest was cut freehand and then sanded.

All pieces done so far:

Published 2015-08-10 10:18:48

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An der Fähre Village Guard¶

I basecoated the models with my airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012.

The first colour I applied to the chainmail some of the miniatures are wearing with... 72.053 Chainmail Silver... what else...

After that, I painted the studded leather armour with 70.822 German Camo Black Brown. Yes, there is really not only black and silver on the miniatures in the following picture:

Published 2015-08-11 11:27:26

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Board and Miniatures¶

Today I painted the skin of the models, highlighted the metal areas and glued the arms and upper bodies in place.

Published 2015-08-11 11:38:52

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Modular Fence System¶

I worked on some more bases today, I have 20 in total ready, now I need to wait for the balsa wood.

Published 2015-08-11 11:49:08

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I painted the quilted armour in three different shades of light brown / khaki.

The plate armour, helmets, bucklers, hellebarde blades etc. were painted in steel. I used the Vallejo air colour, which has a very nice consistency.

Published 2015-08-12 11:37:06

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An der Fähre Village Guard¶

As requested, here are some comparison pictures with older Citadel miniatures.

I continued to work on the models, painting the wood, leather and woolen hoods. I still tried to use non-colours, only browns and beiges, etc. The real colours will only come with the clothing and coat of arms.