Sunday, January 6, 2019

'Reconnaissance' from Millsy: Lumpin Croop's Fighting Cocks

One of my favourite aspects of the Warhammer Fantasy universe is the Dogs of War mercenary regiments. In particular I like those most famous and therefore named regiments which form the Regiments of Renown. And of those, one my absolute favourites is Lumpin Croop's Fighting Cocks.




Lumpin Croop was an extremely talented Halfling poacher, blessed with acute night vision. Unfortunately not all the locals felt Lumpin's talents were put to best use and a run in at the local pub with an angry mob of gamekeepers led to some fast talking and a very tall story. The gamekeepers were obviously rather gullible because they not only believed the yarn, they completely bought into the ficticious promise of lost treasures and insisted on joining Lumpin on his quest.





Thus Lumpin Croop's Fighting Cocks were born and the erstwhile poacher inadvertantly found himself at the head of a band of stealthy, woodcrafty Halflings who knew very well which end of an arrow pointed towards the enemy.

Despite his attempts to dissociate himself, Lumpin can't seem to get away from his band and so on they go, hiring themselves out to the highest bidder and performing all manner of stealthy and dangerous tasks from scouting in advance of the army to headlong charges yelling "Hurray! Hurray! The Moot! The Moot!" at the top of their lungs.





Lumpin Croop is accompanied by Neddly "Ned" Hamfist, a musician and seven archers. They have special rules for skirminshing and avoiding traps along with a high skill level with their bows.



I've had these chaps sitting in my lead pile for quite a while now and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get them onto the painting desk. I've used my usual style of a mix of two or three colour layering and inks. I was tempted to steer away from the canon green jackets but I've always loved them in green and it just seems so right.

Lumpin is missing his original shield unfortunately which is sculpted in the form of the dartboard from the pub. I've replaced with a small heater, appropriately sized and have hand painted a red chicken passant to match the standard carried by Ned.



Thanks for looking peeps!

Cheers,
Millsy

19 comments:

  1. Always had a soft spot for halflings, really good theme entry Millsy

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  2. Nice Cocks there Millsy! I fondly recall those Regiments of Renown myself

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  3. Classic castings! Great work Millsy.

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  4. Sooo awesome. One of my earliest WH armies. Brilliant work on the punchy colours - they really look terrific. Beats 'Age of F*ckin' Stinkmar' anyday....

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  5. Lovely work on these little guys, Millsy; a sort of vertically challenged Robin Hood and his merry men, emphasis on the 'Rob'!

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  6. Fantastic! What a great looking unit and funny story as well. Cheers

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  7. Excellent, more wonderful vertically challenged folk! Great job on super figures.

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  8. Awesome work, I used to love running my dogs of war army ‘back in the day’.

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  9. One of my favourite of the Dogs of War units. Beautifully painted!

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  10. Amazing work Millsy! And a lovely choice of unit! One of my favorites of the Dogs of War!

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  11. The dogs of war were brilliant and you’ve done an outstanding job, the new shield works excellently

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  12. Haha Millsy is thinking with his stomach again! Great one mate!

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  13. Nice work Millsy - that green is very good. Even I know that this is an Iconic WH unit and I know nuttin' about WHFB. Love the chicken standard.

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  14. Great looking dogs of war unit, just perfect in green!
    Best Iain

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