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This one was also bought in a our local shop. Afterwards i realized how lucky I was because this gorgeous model is no longer officially sold In my opinion this is the most beautiful artillery piece on the whole GW range. It`s just a cannon how a cannon should be. I`m searching ebay for an unbuild one ever since. I need a second for symetric purposes Here are some pictures I really like how the crew turned out. You can see in the faces what kind of guys they are. The seasoned gunner with a long beard and grim look commanding the crew, picking targets and firing the cannon: The normal cannon crew member, having seen his share of the battle. Being determined in his duty: And the greenhorn without any facial hair. Maybe it`s his first fight? Having a more shyish look and hasn`t earned some individual equipment pieces yet. At the moment he may only do the most easy work and carry those heavy cannonballs: In the end I`m really happy with this model. If you got an unbuild sprue of it at home. PM me, I`d be glad to take it

This is exactly what i think. The models are gorgeous with the light armor and much simple clothing. Also the horde style with many models on the table is somehow appealing to me. I choosed them as my first army in february this year because they were the most best locming models of the whole GW AoS range. I was quit sad, to recognize(after understanding rules and battletomes) that my army is to be removed from the game in the future. But nevertheless i have a lot of fun with them and will have in the future. Even their allegiance abilities are the best in my opinion. Having large regiments of well trained, highly disciplined men fighting alongside and supporting each other is cool fluff and i like it alot. Also from a playing perspective. My main hope is, that the new human faction will be mostly like the old Empire in WFB. With the same allegiance abillities as now plus good cavalry, magic and artillery. In the best case i can proxy new units with my free people models. That would be great

You can also give them wildform with an ambermage to get them down to 2+/2+/-1/1. I think they rellay can do some work.

Thanks guys. These kind words let me push harder with the next models. And there is still some already painted stuff to come I wrote down the list I play in the Free People discussion thread alongside with a little tournament recap and some pictures. Here is the Link directly to the post: Link

Thanks man. I really appreciate your feedback

Make some christmas presents to random people. Maybe the guys commenting on you blogposts. By this you can drastically reduce your boxcount.

This one is just a gorgous model.🤩 I had so much fun with this one. The base alone was a place of tiny rocky happiness This griffon took me 3 weeks to paint it completely. I spend alot of thoughts for the styling of his back. Which animal should it represent? And what was paintable? I made 3 versions. Something unreal, a leopard and a cheetah fur. In the end I took the leopard andI think it was the right choice. In my eyes it just looks amazing. Unfortunatly the painting took quit a long time. So I had the opportunity to play some epic games without him really being finsihed. The rider was fun to paint too. I really like the yellow/blue color sheme and have never regreted this decision. It just looks fantastic. Even as WIP. In the end the general on griffon looks like this: This one is an autoinclude in each of my lists so far. Sometimes he has a bad day and kills not that much. But you can see in the eyes of the opposing general that this griffon always strikes fear into the hearts of the enemy.

This Knight Azyros is obviously not a man of the city of Nordheim. But he`s a very good addition to a free guild army. His rerolling 1s on hit aura is just fantastinc for these big shooting units. So I just bought one in holidays and painted him in a week after coming home. There are many different colorshemes out there for those stormcast guys but I think the original one is just the best. Golden armor just kicks ass I messed around with the wings alot. All was looking ugly. I just wasn`t able to paint those staight lines on them. In the end I just put some Layers of white on top. No it`s kinda ok i think. And I know that I will never try those wings again

The week after the outriders of the former blog entry I painted this unit of 10 men with their mighty zweihanders. I`m really happy with them and it was a pleasure to paint. I really like the armor which is kinda bigger than the one of the normal guards. But there is still enough cloth to give them the blue/yellow look and fit them into the whole Nordheim army. The different heads with more beards look pretty well too. It`s the first time I`m happy with the eyes I painted. As you see the greatswords went with orange cloth stripes. There is one special guy in this unit. I called him Iron Joe. If he`s not too busy defending the growing empire against all sorts of monstrous filth he likes swimming, cycling and running At the moment these Greatswords aren`t used in battle and stay on the shelf. But im planning to build a more melee focuses force. And these guys will have an essential role in it.

Painiting theses outriders at the beginng of may was somehow hard for me. I started with the horses and wasn`t very happy with how they turned out. Afterwards it was hard to muster the motivation to finsih them. On the other hand it was the first time that I experimented with not so obvious color/shade combinations. The grey horse, for example, is Stormvermin Fur with a shade of Seraphim Sepia. Doesn`t look that good for a horse. But I will use it for kinda moosy stones in the future Painting the riders was more fun and in the process i god back my motivation. Here you see the full glory of the 12th Outrider detachment of the Nordheim army. I like the roman number on the blankets and the turquiose cloth to distiquish them from other detachments. In the end I`m quit happy with them. Unfortunatly they are also on "wrong" bases.

It`s also from Reaper Miniatures. Familiar Pack V (REA02848) I really like those packs. Lots of fun animals to play around with. Used to use the racoon from the same pack as a marker for battleshock immunity and still use the tortoise for mystic shield.

Right after the artillery I went with a single character and some tiny conversions. Basically just putting two dogs on a larger base to accompany this beauty. The female mage is Autumn Bronzeleaf from Reaper Miniatures. The doggies are from some companion pack. Also from Reaper Miniatures. For me this model had a lot of first timers to offer. First female character, First non GW and first metal miniature. I like how she looks now. The eyes could have had more contrast and the cloak looks more dirty than properly shaded. This could have been better. Maybe next time Amber is a specialisation for the Battlemage. The Ambermage has a spell granting +1 to wound for a single melee unit. So you need a marker showing that a unit is affected by this spell. I don`t really like those markers made from cardboard or plastic. So i made my own one. This little fella shows everyone that you should`t mess with the boys nearby Here`s the final picture of them:

I really like artillery. It`s just facinating to have this big boom. Thats why I directly bought 2 Helfire Rocket Batteries and painted them at once. This was before I really understood pointcosts and the principles of alliances and allegiances. Atm its 180 points for one of these bad boys. So two of them only barely fit into a free peoples army I had a lot of fun painting those. in the picture you may see that i magnetized them. One big magnet (5mm) at the end of the gun and a small one in each Wheel. I think they just look better without a base and so they fit to every underground. Man, it`s just fun to paint big rocket guns. I put quit some effort into them. This was the first time i made some color testing: If i recall it correctly its form left to right: Balthasar Gold, Balthasar Gold and a Layer of Gehennas Gold, Balthasar Gold and a Layer of Auric Amour Gold. I don`t know anymore(was in april ;)). But I think i went with the Auric Amour Gold variant. Could also be the Gehennas. It`s definitly with heavy Agrax shading. Future projects will be documented here directly so i can always look it up if i forget color combinations i used. Here the final pics: At the end I`m really happy with how they turned out. Except for the eyes. I learned to paint better eyes later. Just don`t try to put the black dot in the middle of the white. It looks much much better if the black dot touches the upper of the eye. You`ll see in the next pictures. For example the Empire Great Cannon which is just a gorgeous model and the mother of all artillery pieces 🤩

Thanks guys. Really appreciate it.

I don`t see it that hard. I played Free People for nearly a year now and had a lot of fun painting the minis and playing games with them. I will also buy more models and extend the army even more. Bought a steamtank some days ago. The warscroll is ridiculously bad for the points but the model is gorgeous. :) I think the fun i have now is enough to justify the money. It`s a good thing if we get a new human faction, even if the the Free People get replaced by them. I think all the old models will still be valid to proxy some new units. Additionally, in narative games, you can always mix old and new models with some good fluff. What I want to say is that the hobby consists of 3 parts. Besides gaming there is always painting and collecting. If the Free People get replaced by a new faction only the gaming part is lost (and this not even entirely). But in the same moment collecting comes in, because they`re all rarities now.

I`m totally on your side. These would be really nice changes. But i just don`t think that GW will do it like this. See the Free People listing, the Ironweld Arsenal is now completely in. Even the Gyrocopter, dwarfen cannons and the Cogsmith. This makes no sense to me. GW will never discard it`s humans. That`s for sure. But they won`t keep the old models either. They are labeled with Karl Franz all over. This is no longer very fluffy. In my opinion there will be a new human release as a complete new faction in the future. But not this or next year. It will be something big, like Soulwars. With some lore leading into it and a really huge release alongside a new Generals Handbook. Something titled like "Rise of the Free Cities" or something. Maybe even something like AoS 3.0. Would be reasonable for the return of the humans

The idea is amazing. I can`t imagine all the fancy possibilities. But unfortunatly I don`t believe in an update which changes the alliances especially not one for free peoples only. You see, the other grand alliances were merged too: This list has much more fire in it than just Free People. In my opinion this would be a far too big update just for christmas. Changing allegiances like this would be something for summer to release a new Generals Handbook with it. They clearly have to change point values alongside. Also all the factions you can ally would change and some would even disappear. I can`t see this without a new Handbook. As much as this hurts me, but i think they just got some needed order into their shop to make it more easy to navigate. That`s all.