Svininfluensan

Seems to be a while since I updated this blogg. It's not only laziness though, I've spent the summer without access to my treasury of Warhammer models. 

 

Back to again I was a bit temted to return to my old Empire army. Said and done, I had a few knights I did some   changes to. Mainly to get the old barded steeds up to the size of the new pistolier horses. I can really feel how my skill with green stuff has improved since last time I worked on these knights.

While I was lookign for inspiration on the boring horses I found this old painting by John Blanche:


I never quite liked his paintings during the time at which I started with Warhammer, but now i later years I've started to see what great sources of inspiration his drawings can be.  In a flash of genious I started sculpting:

You can see how I have been working with the armour on the neck and front of the horse. Planning to ad a text, like DEUS MORR to the absolute front and perhaps to buckles to the side of the armour, at the places where the plastic is most visible. Maybe in the shape of skulls of suns? 

As i looks now they will be a unit of inner circle knights of the order of the Black Rose. I was previously thinking about doing them as Knights of the Everlasting Light, as a part of a Verena themed army, but have now been re-thinking. I now think my army will be a Talabecland army with mixed diety's, mostly, Morr, Verena and Taal/Rya. No Sigmar though, in my book, he's no real God.

 

Fluff wise he is from a noble family with a moon as their heraldic sign. But since this is a small order, the order of the Black Rose don't have their own smith's, but the knight themselves have to get their armour made. At least I think I read somewhere that only the biggest knightly orders had their own smiths... Anyhow, so I figured he would have kept some of the armour from before joining The order. A note on that is that all the knight will have really unique armour.