Continuing Nuln and another slow grow

I have been continuing work on my new Nuln Empire army. Progress has been steady, and I've completed 10 Handgunners with another 10 well on their way.

Technically these are meant to be Ironsides (a resin upgrade kit for normal Handgunners that came from Forge World), although they're a Magori 3D printed version of them. They still sport the heavier armour, and include kneeling models for the front rank. I printed a pile of these and undercoated them years ago, then they languished in a box, waiting for their time in the sun.

I'm still struggling to get the lighting right when photographing predominantly black models. This is the command group. Guy on the right is probably meant to be Jubal Falk, but given we're in Old World now, probably none of this really exists. He's still pretty distinctive, though. If I want more than one unit of these guys, I might need to modify or replace the command models.

So dark... Silly phone.

I didn't get the balance right in terms of how many "front rank" models I painted in the first wave. I'm trying to correct it in the second batch. The kneeling models were one of the appealing things about the original Ironside models.

This is a bit of a test photo, quickly set up to see how the War Wagon might look alongside ranked up units in the mainly black of Nuln. The Wagons will draw the eye, but I'm OK with that. I think it'll work.

My motivation to produce an entire army has spread somewhat, and it looks like a group of us might kick off another Slow Grow effort to get more models painted. I'll be aiming to get through a usable army in maybe 6-8 months. Sort of 250 points or so a month, I think. We'll see what happens in terms of the people I can drag along with me. I expect May will be the first month of the challenge. These units here won't count.

On to bigger and better things!