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!!

Gryphons / griffons/ griffins

..I am actually not quite sure wchich is the mos proper word in english for this mythological creture half-lion, half-eagle

And actually also do not know how big should it be

I like how they look in Warhammer Fantasy  and Warcraft Battles, as mighty and scary flying battle mounts for heroes and generals

But as always,. I prefer my favourite scale 1/72, and I wondered how to get some of them..

After much searching, I decided for 2 models from D&D- Wizkids prepainted miniatures

First is from "icons of the realms" series. It is a nice animal with a very dinamic and beautifl flying pose

I actually like a lot the model, See how it looks next to a 1/72 infantry guy and when mountee by a Redbox armoured knight and judge yourselves

The second figure is a much more massive model. It is from the D&D Dungenons Deeps series. It represents an standing griffon, in a quite quiet but observing pose. It is bigger than the first one, but nevertheless still looks good when mounted by the same knight

Now i have to decide the perfect riders (I will choose and elf and a human hero or general, still do not kno who will ride each beast) and then to convert the figure with saddlres, reins and so on...

Suggestions are welcome. By the way, this Blog has a nice suggestion :

http://plasticgeneral.blogspot.com.es/2010/06/empire-general-on-griffon.html