These are Jade Warriors for The Old World. Anyone who has read this blog for a long time will know that we spent a lot of time playing Warhammer Fantasy Battle back when I first started posting, and recently Gareth and I decided to dip our toes back in. Jade Warriors are the basic infantry for the Grand Cathay army, a force that has existed long in the lore of Warhammer but hardly ever received minis. I think that there might have been a stump of an army list for them in Warhammer Armies that my brother and I used to play back in the early 90s. At the time of writing we haven’t actually managed to play the game at all so currently this force exists more as a painting project but I guess we’ll see if it grabs us.
After painting mainly unique single models for skirmish games for ages it was a bit of a change for me to adjust to doing units at a time again! I did the Jade Warriors in groups of five which feels like a reasonable number to tackle at once, and I made a conscious decision to accept ‘good enough’ once I’d done a first pass through each round of painting along with a cursory bit of tidying up at the end of each batch to correct the most obvious mistakes. I like the red accent colour on the various bits of cloth and I plan to do the other unit with a different colour there to give a visual separation on the tabletop.
Next on the painting table: Exodus.
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