Thoughts On 3D Printing

No painting today, as it turns out. I've really gone slack on that of late - the curse of work and a social life. Something's got to give! I have however spent a fair amount of time plotting out where my Maiden Guard army is going to go over the next few months. First up is bringing the two units of Lothern Sea Guard up to 20 (well, one of 20 and one of 18 plus two characters) and adding in a Level 2 Wizard to give myself some magic defence and a little offence. That takes me to 1,000 points. For the Escalation League I also need to have "a centrepiece unit" painted up, which is a little hard given the nature of my army - there isn't really a "centrepiece" until quite a lot more points, as the whole thing is based around lots of bows and lots of counts-as Maiden Guard. I could argue that the Everqueen would herself count, but, actually, I think I might just grab the rose by the thorns as it were and do something outlandish like jump ahead to the final army list and get my "Dragon Princes" unit done.

After all, once I get to 3,000 points, just having infantry won't really cut it when other armies will be fielding all sorts of monstrosities. So...

Queen's Guard on horse, by Last Sword Miniatures

10 heavy cavalry, with a funky magic banner and a badass champion, giving the Maiden Guard a really nasty combat punch to back up the actual dragon that Commander Aeilliniarie will be riding by that stage? That seems like a pretty good centerpiece to me. Plus it gives me a chance to try 3D printing some slightly larger things than I have done previously.

Or I might just give the Commander her dragon early, rather than paint a load of horses:

Archmage on Dragon, by Last Sword Miniatures 

 Of course the rider'll need some converting to more accurately represent the Commander, and there are some other possible candidates, but it can't be denied that she would be quite the centrepiece!