Sunday, 27 April 2025

Female Fighters for Mordheim

 I thought it would be nice to include a couple of female adventurers in the Mordheim warband. For one thing, it provides a bit of visual variety and for another you get some more opportunities for modelling random people.

The first one I made used a lower body from a very mangled Eldar warlock that I got a long time ago. The upper body was a Tempestus Scion breastplate, with some old Mordheim mercenary arms, and a head from Stargrave. She looks like a tough customer!



I kept with the usual colour scheme, but tried a more complex pattern on her skirts. This involved a "weaving" pattern, which I copied from a Bretonnian knight. I found this really difficult, and frankly it made my head hurt. It's done now, although I think it could be better. Maybe sometime I'll have another go, but for now I'll move on.




The second miniature is an archer to round off my small band of bowmen. I had previously made a "youngblood" (ie a novice fighter) with the lower half of a plastic flagellant, so I used this lower body to work as her skirt. I sculpted a torso around a piece of sprue, and added Frostgrave arms and a Stargrave head. Her magnificent hat was in my bits box. 




Here she is painted. I really like this model. My sculpting could be better, now I look at it, but I'm quite pleased with the results. I imagine that she might have been a professional archer, appearing in shows to entertain the people of Mordheim, before the comet struck and the city fell into chaos. Now she puts her skills to new uses, scouting in the ruins.





4 comments:

  1. Wow, both are fantastic. The skirt on the first one is awesome. It was hard to paint that for sure, but the results speak by themselves. And the second one is simply perfect. The sculpt is great, it makes a delightful composition, you really made an outstanding job with these!

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    1. Cheers! Both models are pushing my abilities a bit, but it's been fun!

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  2. Great work on both,(the paint job on the skirt!) but I really like the sculpting and pose of the second one.

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    1. Thank you! I'm very pleased with the way the second one came out. I think the pose works quite well, but then the North Star bits are really good sculpts.

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