My younger brother Alec and I were first
introduced to the wargaming hobby in the summer 2000 by a mutual friend. We started playing Mage Knight and moved on to Warhanner Fantasy. I started collecting a Dwarf Army and Alec started an Empire army. Alec's Empire army never got much past the assembled and primed stage, aside from character models and a steam tank which he had painted. He could just never get into painting rank and file models. In January 2007 Alec passed away. I planned to finish his empire army, and just finally got started working on it in February. So far I've painted two units of 10 knightly orders, a unit of 15 Swordsmen, 12 Handgunners, and 5 Pistoliers. The General on Griffin Alec had already painted, I just hand to do some repair and touch up work to it, such as pinning the wings and fixing a few paint chips.
I've got another 12 Handgunners on the painting table now, along with the Steam Tank which I'm touching up and repairing. After that I'll probably start work on the Great Swords and Flagelants.
In other news, I managed to make it to Cold Wars last Friday. It's the first time I've managed to make it to a convention. I picked up some FAA Moroccan troops for my 1940 french army, as well as a few Frontline Belgian T-15s from the RLBPS stand, and some more 1/600 scale ironclads from Thoroughbred Figures in the dealers area.
