From SanderS: Finally Entering Limbo! ( 90 points)

 Hoi,

Finally I have finished my entry for the First Circle of Hell: Limbo. I decided at the start of the Challenge that Paradise is boring (and I had no really appropriate figures for most circles) and therefore would only submit entries for Hell! As Satan clearly states in Milton's Paradise Lost: "It's better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven!" 

After Teemu's bonus post last week I stole his idea of visualising these circles in a picture and inaptly made a graph in Paint. Feel free to use it yourself and thanks Teemu for the idea that helped me get my head round the locations I am "visiting".

So what did I paint for Limbo and why? Well, you may remember I was given a huge Brettonian army last year which I started painting for the last Challenge. 80 % of it is still unpainted today and therefore I think it applies to the English meaning of the word "Limbo". Now in Dutch the word "Limbo" has a totally different meaning and that is a derogative denomination for the people living in my home province of Limburg. We are officially called Limburgers and the province is called Limburg, but some of our compatriots from the West call us Limbo's and the province Limbabwe. Seeing that I had planned to paint a unit of Knights of the Realm with coats of arms from towns in my province I chose this as a double layer behind this post.

It was kind of hard to choose out of all the awesome coats of arms of the towns and cities in my direct surroundings but I settled on those I actually have lived in or visit a lot.

First up is the unit's champion who bears the arms of the Province Flag (not the actuall coat of arms since that is far too complicated to even try and not suiting for a KotR).

The bugler is dressed in the colours of the province as well. It is my theory that the bugler of each unit is a squire of the unit's champion and so I will try to paint each bugler in the same colours as the champion. 

The bannerbearer wears the coat of arms of my city of birth Roermond. The flag itself has the provinces flag on a blue and black field which are the colours of my army's general the Duke of Montelor.

This knight has the coat of arms of the township of Vlodrop, which I like to visit.

The next knight proudly shows the coat of arms of Posterholt a small township were we resided during our home-makeover.

And the last one is the one I like best, the coat of arms of Sint Odiliënberg. That's the town directly next to mine and I can see it from my study's window. 

To tie all these chaps together as a unit I did a few things: all lances and other poles are painted red, something I will do througout the entire army. All flags are done in the blue and black of Montelor and all the tilting shields of this particular unit bear the arms of Roermond where I was born and now work. When I was finally done painting these chaps and sitting back feeling pretty smug with myself, Arthur pointedly stated that the knights did not have any regular shields... A frantic search amidst the stuff making up the army given me, showed that I do not have enough shields for all the knights I now own since I had glued a number of them to foot-troops that were also lacking shields. I have ordered some seperate shield sets from a 3rd party supplier and they are on their way here. 

Extensive use of decals was made and for this I used regular GW decals (both brettonians and Sisters of Battle transfers) a lot of decals from the excellent Mighty Brush and a few from Green Stuff World.

Points are easy: 6 x mounted 28mm figures is 60 points together with the 20 points for the Limbo Circle makes 80.

As an encore I would like to point you into the direction of this excellent Youtube Channel: Miniature Realms. Stuart is a great painter and has many tutorials and other videos regarding the Old World and other games like Bolt Action and the like. Give him a try you will not regret it! 

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Well done!

Using your neighbouring towns coats of arms colours is a genius idea to figure out who to paint what colours! Nice clean crisp painting and bravo on using decals successfully. This Brettonian Army is looking awesome and hopefully we'll see more in the next few weeks.

You've gone through Limbo ... cant wait to see what the next circle will bring!

28mm mounted x 6 = 60 points

Location limbo 20 points

(Plus 10 bonus points for the  helpful maps - Curt.)