Hello again

As you liked the dwarf miners I though you might like to see a unit I’ve just completed based on the Watch.

Under Ankh-Morpork law every Gentleman is required to raise men if the city requires. The banner is based on Lady Ramkin’s Coat of Arms - the motto translates as “She Won't Take No For An Answer” - so with the unit’s uniform in her colours of green and red we know who really wears the trousers in the Vimes’ household.

The figures are different bits of Games Workshop Empire and Dwarf sprues with green stuff putty work to fill the gaps and add extra straps etc., although Colon, Nobby, Vimes and Littlebottom had specific green stuff detailing. Littlebottom had the most work to make her wickerwork pigeon box, iconograph and heels. The Dwarfs are basically the parts that make Hacknee, who is a straight build, chopped and repositioned. Spears are from a plastic coated metal rod that I found at the local model shop. Gives the strength of metal to avoid breaks but you can use plastic glue.

Sergeant Detritus is from my Watch characters page and has been rebased to fit in with the rest of the group. Soon after I started making this unit Games Workshop announced their 25 year anniversary of Warhammer so I dropped the idea of using Clarecraft pewter figures for the main characters and constructed them from Games Workshop parts.
First group of figures



We have Washpot, Carrot, Silas, Sam and Littlebottom. With Sam’s dislike for Guilds I don’t think the unit would have a musician but with being an ex-town crier and carrying his watchman’s bell Silas could fulfil this position in the unit if required.

Second group



Stronginthearm, Keenside, Nobby, Colon, Ironbender, Ringfounder

The rest of the unit



Errol, Detritus, Buggy on a pigeon that has escaped from Littlebottom’s basket and Hacknee.
I had intended to included little extras like the dis-organiser, Washpot’s pamphlets etc. on bases but decided there wasn’t enough room so some have gone on Detritus’s base and Errol and Buggy now have their own.

The complete unit –




The unit is currently in my local Games Workshop shop after coming first in a painting competition run as part of the Warhammer anniversary events – and yes Maljonic it does feel COOL!.
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Oct 2008 - Orange have deleted the web site the above pictures were hosted on and I don't have space on my Discworld one to store them. Will repost when I find a reliable and free new host. Sorry