Imperial Challenge

 Hello,

As our beloved colleague Philotep threw a new Autumn Challenge to recruit an urgent army to defend the Lands of Sigmar (as posted here http://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/ and here  http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=24022)    I bring my humble contribution here...

Sadly I could just bring two men: One on foot and the other MOUNTED... I Hope they can support the Scarce Talabecland men of Count Ellector Philotep somehow ;)..

Infos: 

This challenge was a good chance for me to re-take an old project i had waiting here since some years ago... ready in 72hours of mountog-converting-painting! Help was urgently needed to fight against the Orctober-fest Threat!

The Body of the Beast is a Demigrypgh from Games Workshop.. A demigryph is supposed ot be a smaller version of a griffon, and without wings. 

So, it was easy for me to decide to get one of these figures as second hand item (around 7 eur .. I still have the original warhammer rider, not use for me right now) , because a "smaller 28mm griffon" could be indeed a very good  "big Imperial War griffon for 1/72 miniatures"..

 Just some apporpiate wings were needed (some extra work here in my huge collection and even in some toys shops) and actually I liked the result so much

Then i was thinking for as While about the heroic rider.. I decided among brilliant Orion XVI c knights set, rebix war of roses mounted Men At armas and also Redbox XIVc european Mounted Men at Arms.

This last was my choice (I was not brave enough to sacrifice one Orion unique knight-- Top right ofgure)

I tried to convert the knight first to make his helmet crest bigger, but I did a mess and I lost even the original material somwehere (becasue of my very untidy working place!) .Instead of getting angry, i went to bed to rest and on next day I made a total bigger, better new crest from green stuff and some recycled plumes from other figures (redbox medieval irish for instance). result was quite good!

Hope you like them!!