M's Empire - Warhammer fantasy empire army

[Inq28M]

I have started my empire army, I am still unsure of which colour scheme to go for but I feel as though , probably red, black, white and purple. I am leaning more towards a nuln style heavily armoured defensive army. The general of the army is a wonderful model, so I thought I would start with him.
I feel as though the city will be relatively-very wealthy, through either trade or mining of minerals and valuable gemstones. It is therefore able to arm and armour its soldiers well.
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After seeing the arm holding the helmet and the large feather I knew the conversion I wanted to make. It will take a little greenstuff to fill in the join between the feather on the helmet & the large feather.
I feel as though the pointing arm, may be a little too normal. I may use the pointing arm, feather hat combo on the champion of the knightly order, as if he is selecting which opponent to fight.
I also tried a couple of different heads, I think I am leaning towards the second, which is a head from the state troops box.
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Armoured crossbowman - head swap sallet from greatswords box
I really liked Branganza's besiegers and so I thought I would try and make a paupers version, it was surprising how much difference simply adding the armoured head made! I plan on casting more of these heads to convert the rest.
~M

[SadisticMagician]

Looking really good! I'm about to start fantasy soon so it's great to see other people doing new armies.

Check out the Forge World Empire kits, they've got some wicked heavily armoured minis

[Inq28M]

Thanks! I recently ordered the Foot Knights kit from Perry miniatures. I'm going to try and mix them with the great swords kit from GW to try and recreate the old great sword armoured look.
Here's a sneaky peek of the mock up. I'm still a little unsure of how well the models match up in size.

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~M

[The_Gonk]

My only concern with the foot knight is that the head looks a little large. I expected the hands to be the same but they seem ok.

Without seeing it first hand I couldn't say though. However, I think you should just go with it if you like it!

I'll second the comment on the Forge world Empire stuff too, the models are awesome.

Your general is looking sweet by the way, I especially like the bare-headed pointing version.

[Inq28M]

@The_Gonk, Yes I noticed that too, the heads are a bit too big, I'm going to try out cutting the legs from the torso and replace it with one of the bodies from the greatswords kit to see if that looks any better
I've put together another few models using the perry miniature legs and torsos. As you can see the two on the right are a little small but I think the rest look okay. It seems like the bearded heads fit less well and also the heads look better when given a bit more of a neck.

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[The_Gonk]

I think you're right. I think the one second from the left looks awesome, he means serious business!