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Backwater Deathworld
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Tabletop miniature painting, converting & sculpting. Main blog backwaterdeathworld.blogspot.com, also www.instagram.com/bwdeathworld
bright contrasting campo paintjobs are underutilised in 40k, I think
May 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
(the mini hand-sculpted from scratch -- background is historical, particular character stories are fiction)
May 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Yes! We need more converted Infinity. Do you know the work of xeno-savanarola? He was converting too, posting on old Infinity forums -- he's on Deviant Art now www.deviantart.com/xeno-savonar... (NSFW warning, he was very into Giger).
xeno-savonarola User Profile | DeviantArt
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April 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
April 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
For Stargard, its highly stylised Mill Gate featured on several seals. The gatehouse building was the meeting place of the Sailors' Guild, the most prominent guild in town. (sources: Czerner 1989, "Herby miast województwa koszalińskiego", Gut 1995, "Rozwój herbu Stargardu Szczecińskiego...")
March 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This guy here carries a matchlock arquebus used from around 1475 on in Burgundy, and in Poland presumably quite later. Since I aim at Pomerania in 1471, maybe he got an early overseas shipment? (sources: Grabarczyk "Piechota zaciężna" 2000, Williams "The Knight and the Black Furnace" 2003)
March 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This last fellow in yellow is probably quite well off, with his nice kettlehat helmet. (Sources: Grabarczyk 2000, "Piechota zaciężna Królestwa Polskiego w XV wieku"; Kutrzeba 1937, "Polskie ustawy i artykuły wojskowe: od XV do XVIII wieku", Kurfürstlich Sächsische Kriegsknechte 1475)(3/3)
March 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A Polish mercenary crossbowman carried a crossbow (duh), a sidearm (usually a sword, a sabre or a falchion), rarely a helmet and/or a shield – and nothing else. For Germans, pavise shields were common. And my Pomeranians? Maybe something similar to Poland or Germany. It's guesswork. (2/3)
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
(sources: Grabarczyk 2000, "Piechota zaciężna Królestwa Polskiego w XV wieku"; Kurfürstlich Sächsische Kriegsknechte 1475 reconstruction group. The lovely terrain in the background was made by my friend.)
March 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM