Painted Figures: Older Citadel and GW Miniatures, A Song of Ice and Fire TMG and more

My take on the old style Helblaster, ie metal with crew including the Leonardo type figure and what I think is an excellent Gun Captain and the big feather and flouncy stuff fits Averland style much better.

First generation of Empire army with halberdiers which had metal halberds that you had to put in. I think they are from the Medievals range by Citadel, so from early 1980's 2nd generation halberdiers, now painted in clear Averland colours following the release of the first Empire army book which had pics of all the main states. I chose Averland because of the strong contrast and Black Fire Pass Guard, which sounded cool. Also close to the Moot so I could use Halflings and close to the Mts so I could use Imperial Dwarves. I have some of those coming up. From the Battle Masters figures I think. Current generation of Halberdiers and these are a bit old, head swap on the plastic figure to make him more presentable. Metal figure in full flouncy bits and big Averland feather, and a really old Moon Duke. Latest Halberidiers that I have, though I realise that there is a generation after this. But the figures are getting so big. Those Militia figures which came from Mordheim were out of pro...

Having posted on http://www.warhammer-empire.com/ forums with some pics of my Averland General, then someone asked about old figures, so I had a rummage around for some. These are probably some of the earliest that I have that were used in an army when Warhammer 1st edition came out, as opposed to DandD figures. I still have the boxed set upstairs. They were from the Dark Ages range that Citadel Produced some time late 70's to early 80's. Worked as bowmen quite well and probably still could use them as Kislev troops. This is my current Averland Empire Halberdiers (just a sample) with the Moon Duke as champion. Metal halberdier and then a plastic one with a head swap to make him stand out from the crowd.  These are some of my current Averland greatswords. They include one of the F5 Paladins from 1986 (on right). I used a bronze armour on these guys. Rather than a simple steel plate armour.

I use this guy as my general for the Averland Empire army. He is one of the Averland metal mercenaries that Citadel made for Mordheim, but I can't see them on the site anymore. He makes a great general since the cut and quality of his clothes is so much better than the rest of the troops. Equipped with a great weapon, he can do some serious damage but is not too expensive points wise.

So I have nearly finished the unit of Averland swordsmen but there is basing to finish off with static grass and tidying up, but these five are respectable. The standard bearer uses a basic Games Workshop swordsmen body (now old style) and I have added a standard bearer arm from the Knights set and a head and pistol arm from the militia set. The size is a little wrong since Games Workshop made them bigger but with two larger arms and a head this is slightly mor balanced. Also its a pretty simple paint job on the standard but with the repeating yellow and black of the Averland Black Fire Pass guard it works well.

These photos show efforts to convert cheaper Ebay Games Workshop bought figures into something half decent again. Basic Empire swordsmen as they came, basically with big splashes of blue paint all over them. Figure cleaned up and bits from various sprues added, such as the militia sprue, to add some individuality. Then properly based. Finished Empire swordsmen, in Averland colours, of black and yellow, with unit shield of red and gold Maltese Cross. Now only 20 more to do!!