LARP craft - floral crowns

So I've been doing a different bit of hobby today, LARP stuff.  For those that don't know I play in a LARP called Empire.  I play in a nation called Dawn as an Earl.  One thing Dawn is know for, other than our collective obsession with glory, is flowers.  Every noble house in Dawn has it's own flower code, which can lead to some hilarity, and Dawnish folk will often wear flowers, often on their head.  Hence why I've been making floral crowns.  I'm also having a medieval themed wedding later in the year, and a few people have expressed an interest in floral headwear.

This one ended up being too small for an adult, but could fit a child nicely.

This one is for my Mum.  She wanted green and yellow.

This one is for a friend of mine.

And this one is my battle crown.  I plan to wear it over a maille coif.  I'll post pictures of my full battle kit in the future.  I went for a less leafy vine wrap for my battle crown because I didn't want it flapping about over my eyes.  Colour choice was dictated by my house colours, dark blue and white, which in House de Loup's flower language mean loyalty and death respectively.

Painting Mythic battles Pantheon 21 - Manticore

That's my second last expansion done, Just Oedipus and the Sphinx to go.  Anyway here's the big beastie.

I've tried to go with an earthy bestial look.  I've also reversed the colours from the way I'd normally put them down, which I think makes it look more evil.  I've also gone with a neutral green, shined up with a gloss varnish for the venom droplets.

Painting Mythic Battles Pantheon 20 Judges of the Underworld

That's another expansion down, just two to go.

Rhadamanthus

I decided to go with a dark forgotten look for him.  In the artwork he looks like he's on fire.  I wanted to make him look tortured.  I used some blood effect in the gaps in his flesh to represent this.  As a final touch I hit him up with a lot of verdigris to make him look truly forgotten.

Minos

His head is on FIE-YAAAAR!  The only monster in the set.  I wanted to make the fire the focal point of Minos so I deliberately kept the rest of him dark.  This is my first try at original source lighting.  I think it turned out not bad.

Aeacus

He's the brightest in the artwork and I wanted to reflect this.  I kept the bronze bright and made him very pale, he lives the underworld so it stands to reason that he doesn't get much sun.  On a side note I think he'd make a great undead villain for D&D.

Now which expansion to paint next? Oedipus and the Sphinx or the manticore?

Blightlord Terminators

Finally my Death Guard have an elites choice that isn't a character.  Some big smelly boys ready to take to the field.

Bolter guy

The other bolter guy

Blight launcher dude

Champion

Flail of Corruption dude

Kings of War Dwarfs #3 Ironblecher Organ Gun

I'm determined to get a Kings of War army to 2000 points, so I thought I'd push my Dwarf army closer to that point.

So why did I choose and organ gun over the other artillery choices? Purely for the volume of fire.  All the other artillery choices fire a single shot, granted that single shot does multiple damage.  That sounds pretty good, but you need to remember that they only hit of a 5+, which means they're only hitting a third of the time, or about twice a game.  The organ gun fires  fifteen shots... a turn, which when we mathhammer it means five hits per turn. That's far more consistent.  Granted each hit is less destructive, but I'm primarily going to be using hit to soften up enemy battle line units, or completely evaporate chaff units.  If I add another, I could cause a bit of a mess.

Easy to build Plague Marines

I bought some more smelly boys to add to my forces.  They're the first part of a master plan to add  more plague marine squads to my force.  It's a long term plan that may span a couple of years.  So lets have a look at the start of this ambitious plan.

Bolter guy

The glue hasn't dried yet, I'm impatient.  Basic bolter armed plague marine, walks forward, shoots stuff, hard to hurt, the usual.


Plague Champion

He's mean, he has a mouth in his chest, he has a plasma gun and a power fist.  He was fun to paint.


Blight Launcher dude

He's got a big gun.  Blight launchers seem to be reliable weapons for pinging damage off vehicles and instagibbing primaris marines.  They're also plague weapons and get to reroll 1's to wound, which is nice.