The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026

The idea for this project is to build a Dogs of War army made up of the finest Regiments of Renown in the known world.  I’ve had a box in The Pile for a long time with a “Dogs of War” label on it.  I put all of my favourite fantasy miniatures in there.  The best bits of my collection taken from different manufacturers and created by different sculptors, but in my opinion the best fantasy miniatures ever produced.

I buy one special present for myself for my birthday and this year I went for a box of the Alcatani Fellowship that I found on eBay.  As expensive as you might imagine but that is in the eye of the beholder.  Fantastic sculpts by the Perry Twins.

I added a copy of the Dogs Of War army supplement for 5th Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battles from 1998.  This is the one that the ‘new’ Regiments of Renown like the Alcatani Fellowship were made for.

There was a discussion on one of the streams I watch, probably the UHH, about Vinted being a great place to shop for miniatures.  I have a poke round on there occasionally and was looking for the Lothern City Guard Regiment of Renown or Elwing’s Guard Horse.  Not long after Christmas I came across this:

Yes!  Someone was selling off the mother load of original 1985-88 vintage Citadel Regiments of Renown.  Prices very far from the outrageous levels you see on eBay where you pay £10+ for a single mini.

There are two boxes of Lothern  and two of Elwing’s.  I’d have been happy to get just those four for what I paid for all of it.  I had to lend the hobby budget some money to get the deal done so needed to pay it back.  I decided to sell the monopose early miniatures; Bugman’s Rangers, Meghil’s Dark Elves, The Elf Bowmen, Desert Dogs, Knights of the Cleansing Flame, Knights of Origo and a random mounted Strider (all shown in the last picture above) went onto eBay.  I didn’t have to charge outrageous prices to get my money back and I’m glad to have passed these on to other collectors.  The boxes were in great condition.  Either this was a much loved collection or it has been in the back of a cupboard since the late 1980s.

Money repaid I held on to the rest to see if they were needed in this project.  Then on to The Pile to see what we have already.  Alongside the Lothern and Elwing’s units this is what we fished out:

If you recognise all of these you win the hobby internet 🙂  I’ve spent some time today sorting through to find some bases for those minis that don’t have.  I’m going for square (as nature intended) slotta-bases for infantry, either 20mm or 25mm and then standard 25x50mm for the cavalry.  Midgard movement trays are on order from Warbases.

I have a notebook that I use to keep all of my hobby records, musings and planning in.  I made up an entry and started working on a Midgard list for this army.  A standard force in Midgard is 300 points.  I’ve got way too much stuff here so will aim at double that.  Anything not required can go.  I’ve got too many other projects already, I definitely don’t need to start something else.

So on to getting everything based and ready for undercoat which I’ll do tomorrow.  Hopefully we’ll still have decent weather so at least it will dry quickly.

Going forward the project will be both a blog of my general progress, painting log so I know how I got all of the finishes (which doubles as a handy how to guide for you, dear reader) and then a little something else.  I’ve decided I want to make a final entry for each regiment that reads like the original entries for the first Regiments of Renown.  Each one came with an origin story and some background for the leader as well as a set of stats for the game.  I can manage that too, although the game will be Midgard HB rather than Warhammer FB.