Saturday, August 27, 2011

Fimir - New Weapons, New Unit

A bit of a red letter day here on Mr Saturday's Mumblings. After a serious amount of sawing, shaving, cutting, glueing, sculpting, casting, cursing, filing, pinning and eye-straining, the first unit of fimm are assembled. Oh yes. I will put aside for a moment the fact that that they still have to be actually painted, and that I have another unit of twenty to do after that. Such thoughts could drive a man from his wits. Let us instead concentrate on the fact that twenty fimm warriors now stand ready to defend their lands from all comers....aaaaand possibly do a bit of raiding too.


In other news, after seeing the fine weapons borne by the fimir of clan Myeri on Fimm McCool's Games Orkshop, I resolved to supply my own fimm with such fine arms as soon as possible. Thanks to Old Fogey on TWF, I soon had a cache of dwarf axes in my sweaty grasp. I wanted to have the axes look vaguely Celtic, and a lot less finely crafted than dwarf weapons, as the shearl artisans of a fimir clan have limited resources at best. Here's my first effort at such a weapon.

Before I delve in to painting the fimm, I have some work to do on the movement trays. Base X of War have been very accommodating with my awkward orders, and I just need to administer a little nip and tuck before they are ready for priming, and then it's full belt into the paintravaganza.

6 comments:

  1. That's a mean looking unit... looking forward to seeing them painted up! And liking the extended hilt on the axe too, makes it look much more suitably Fimm-sized and less dwarven! May have to appropriate that idea back! :)

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  2. Oh, in addition, you might find some of the Fimir clans have a good trading system established with Hobgoblin tribes...

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  3. Cheers Fimm, appropriate away!

    I've been considering an allied greenskin unit seeing as the fimir have more of an affinity with them than most. Hobgoblins eh?

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  4. Short term goals are the only way to get through an army project...especially one like this! :-) Looking forward to seeing these guys painted!

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  5. Nice work on the axe detailing.

    As always - I look forward to reading/seeing more.

    Tony
    http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

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