With the winter nights drawing in I’m taking advantage of spending more time indoors and making a concerted effort to finish some of the backlog of partly painted miniatures which are currently cluttering up the painting desk. After all, whilst a well painted, or even just competently painted collection is a sight to behold displayed on the shelf or marching across the gaming table, no-one has ever stopped to admire a load of miniatures with the base coats half-done.
Today it’s the turn of the Signifer from my Iron Golem warband. As an optional extra that wasn’t included in my initial warband, he was somewhat left behind when I painted up the rest of them back in the spring.
The kit provides enough parts to build either a Signifer or a Prefector and, after considerable thought, I decided in the end to build the Prefector to begin with. However it was a close run thing and I was still keen to add the Signifer at some stage. Rather than buy a whole other box I hunted down the model individually, by which time the rest of the warband was almost finished. The Signifer was built by the time I finished the warband but he’s lingered unfinished ever since. Time to do something about that!
Here he is next to his alternative build, the Prefector.
And of course here’s the entire warband, completed at last.
For the moment I don’t plan to add anything else to this particular warband although I do enjoy unleashing them in the Bloodwind Spoil so who knows? In the meantime though there are plenty of other warbands vying for my attention!
November 4th, 2020 at 10:38 am
Great looking figure and once again the metal work is excellent, you’ve unsurprisingly nailed it again with the technique you use. The warband is another very impressive group of figures. My only concern is with the winter weather and a shed load of figures to do will I be able to keep up with your posts and will you be able to store them all! 🙂
November 6th, 2020 at 9:11 pm
Thank you! Yeah, storage does become a bit of an issue. I used to have everything out on a shelf at the old house but in the end there got to be too much of it (plus it was a bloody nightmare to dust). Now it’s all in clear plastic boxes. Somehow, and I don’t quite understand why this is, the more stuff I get, the smaller the house becomes. I don’t actually see the walls move or anything but the available space is definitely shrinking. I’m sure an architect could explain it to me…
November 4th, 2020 at 6:46 pm
Shiny! 🤩
November 6th, 2020 at 9:13 pm
Thank you! Saying that just makes me miss Firefly though…
November 6th, 2020 at 9:16 pm
All the best people do 😉
November 4th, 2020 at 7:46 pm
Lovely job mate!!!
November 6th, 2020 at 9:13 pm
Cheers dude!
November 5th, 2020 at 4:37 pm
He looks mean- the hammer is held with appropriate menace too.
Cheers,
Pete.
November 6th, 2020 at 9:13 pm
Thank you! Yeah, he looks like he’s about to do some damage doesn’t he?
November 6th, 2020 at 12:01 am
I think these guys are my favorite of the Warcry bands. The Signifier actually illustrates why. The way the Iron Golems take cool components of Ogres (the shield looks like a gut plate) and their armor has pieces that look ogre-like too is pretty cool. The squad you painted up is a really fierce looking bunch and something that will look awesome when you use them on the tabletop 🙂
November 6th, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Thank you! Aye, I’ll need to get another game in with them now the new lad has been recruited. I’m not sure which my favourite warband would be aesthetically (and I’ve thought about that a lot!), but the Iron Golem are definitely the one’s I’ve played the most. I see what you mean about them having an “ogre-ish” quality to them, I keep thinking Chaos Ogres would be a cool new faction for AoS.
November 6th, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Cracking! Great looking warband.
November 6th, 2020 at 9:19 pm
Cheers! 😀
November 8th, 2020 at 8:23 am
Hey mate, more of your fine work that I can put into the like file!
November 8th, 2020 at 10:06 am
Thank you! 🙂
November 8th, 2020 at 9:26 pm
Those look great. I have my set still to attack, but love the colour choices
November 9th, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Cheers! I’ll reckon you’ll enjoy them, I found them a lot of fun to paint. I’ll keep an eye out for what you do when you get around to them.
November 10th, 2020 at 11:33 pm
The metals look great man. Love the whole warband.
November 11th, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Cheers mate! Metallic undercoat, contrast paints over the top and a good wash of agrax to tie it all together, then tidy up and highlight. Works nicely I reckon. I’m still not sold on using Contrast paints in the way that they were intended but they’ve really opened up metals for me.
November 14th, 2020 at 1:57 am
Amazing metalwork
November 14th, 2020 at 11:27 am
Thank you!