Ewok Does Steampunk

These have been fun to paint, nice miniatures. I have used a mix of Army Painter and Vallejo. I took the opportunity to try out some of the new John Blanche colours from the ‘cold’ box , I like them, but I don’t think they are as essential as the first two boxes.

Now to add a wash and do some highlights and details.

I have been printing a few pieces to create a large Aetherium drilling station , typical of kind scattered all over the Imperial powers colonies, stealing natural resources from the natives. These make good objects to attack or defend.

Continuing with the Malverian forces we move onto the navy, which is a catch all for anything sea or air related in the Malverian arsenal. I have three electric cannons and a squad of marines to go with them.

I have not started the marines yet. Just the artillery and crews.

In the background I have printed out an airship station, makes a good centre piece and could be the focal point of a scenario, a holding action while civilians escape perhaps.

I have not glued the windows yet as I may do further work on some lighting

There’s still some work on the joins to be done and then some weathering. I may paint the inside white as the whole structure is rather dark.

Latest WIP Update, these are the shock troops, first out of the tunnels. These are highly respected fighters and the only unit outside of the Jagers permitted to wear the green jacket. Also featured is Baron Von Oktoberfest and Steve.

So the last couple of weeks have been taken up with working on the Malverian Engineers. These are the troops who follow on from the diggers and the Shock Troopers (these will be painted next). Their uniforms are a lot more detailed than the Landwehr conscripts.

I used a mix of army painter fanatics and Vallejo model colours with colour forge Matt varnish. I used a satin finish on the helmets to make them shiny, but not too shiny.

Their plume colour is yellow due their commander, Count Otto Von Harzer-Roller having a thing for yellow, their nickname is Schmutzige Kanarienvögel. This roughly translates as the dirty canaries, given these guys spend a lot of time in freshly dug tunnels makes the names quite fitting.

Struggling with motivation, lots of real world bs to deal with. I did manage to get the Landwehr done and just finished off some artillery crews. Starting the engineers this week. I get the feeling they will be a slog. But once I decide on a colour scheme I can hit autopilot.

I was quite pleased with the artillery, I also painted some Jagers and Jager Zombies. I am not quite sure what I will do with these in terms of Xenos rules as units are ideally 5 not 4 models. I might attach them to a character model as guards. I do have some more Victorian zombies on the way. Assuming Ironclad miniatures ever deliver my order.

I started on some of the rank and file infantry at the weekend after I had painted a batch of Japanese for K47 that I really didn’t want to paint.

I started with the werewolves, easy to do, a couple of dry brushes with grey paint , I used a couple of tones. Then went over the hairy bits with some contrast style paints.

I also started on the Landwehr, a light grey dry brush and then blocking in base colours

Managed to get a wash on, just metal on the guns and hair to do . Tempted to use a Gundam marker either on moustaches or as a shoulder patch.

I spent the last week building at a pace , I now have all the infantry built for my Malverian faction, an adversary of the Empire and all round cads and rotters.

I just have a few metal artillery crew to paint. I plan to 3d print a couple of fiendish artillery pieces , much like I did for my Black Iron Sigil artillery. Which I need to get cracking with as well!

The mainstay of the Malverian army , these guys will come at you overground supported by Steam tanks , artillery and some hirsute skirmishers.

The Landwehr,these will come at you above ground somewhat less enthusiastically, spearhead the attack if no hirsute skirmishers are available, they are more likely to be supported by a couple of rusty shopping trollies and given a covering artillery bombardment either on their position or slightly behind it to encourage forward motion.

In some backwards parts of the Malverian empire some units still use Napoleonic era musketry.

The ‘Molevarians’ as the average British squaddie refers to these crazy assault troops, these are the soldiers you will see pouring out of the tunnels created by their digger tanks. If you are in a siege against the Malverians, you are probably going to lose.

As if digging bloody great tunnels wasn’t bothersome enough and unbecoming in waging war like a gentleman, they also have bloody werewolves.

These aforementioned hirsute skirmishers lead the attack in any battle they feature in – because you try telling them to wait at the back.

To transform out of the lunar cycle they imbibe a disgusting tasting elixir which they down in a stein of schnapps.

To quote Brigadier Gen. C.Womble -‘They were the only things drunker and hairier than the Scots on the battlefield ‘.

I had a play with my printer settings and dropped the layer height from 0.2 to 0.12 to rattle off some fiendish artillery. I could definitely see the difference in how well the chains were defined compared to a previous one I had printed on default settings.