A Standard Fit For A Queen

No post yesterday, but I did do a little bit of hobbying - I constructed the standard for my Maiden Guard Battle Standard Bearer! Initially I was planning on getting P to sculpt me a standard top in Blender that I could 3D print and put on top of the 1mm thick bit of wire that I was going to use for the standard pole, but then I thought I'd probably have something suitable in the ol' bits box(es). After a good ten or fifteen minutes' of rummaging, I actually found a bunch of High Elf plastic sprues with banner parts on! After chucking those together with some judicious cutting, drilling, and gluing, I ended up with...

The crossbar and flag is from the High Elf Spearmen set (I think); the speartip is from the High Elf Noble and Battle Standard Bearer kit's lance, the heart with fancy rays coming off it is from the Silver Helms kit 

You can see the pieces a little (emphasis on little, this is a terrible photo) more clearly here

Today I spent some time bringing her up to the same standard as the rest of the Maiden Guard on the painting table, and blocked out the base colours for the design of the flag, as well:

The standard is going to be an interesting bit of freehand

The actual design is taken straight from the section on Avelorn in the old Games Workshop publication Heraldry of the High Elves, as seen here:

Obviously in my version the image of Isha will have brown skin and sleek black hair, which may prove a minor issue in contrasting colours, but in for a penny in for a pound and all that

 In addition, I did some more work on the Maiden Guard in general, blocking out their skin and highlight all the leather, as well as undercoating all the red areas on them too.

After I finish these, the next 250 points for this army will be made up of... 10 more Maiden Guard!

So, quite a productive couple of days, really. And, on top of all that work, I spent some time after work tonight creating the Mordheim Gazetteer, which I will use to chronicle the Llangefni United Nerds And Roleplayers Club's Mordheim campaign. It's starting in earnest next week, and it'd be fun to get some more eyes on it other than just the club. Check it out!