WAB - Germanic Fanatics (Nick)

Only 3 days into December and here's another 6 moved off the pile of shame... this new regime is proving a belter so far - again these have been sat at least 6 months just needing shields attaching, varnish, and static grass - although I am starting to run out of projects that don't need a lick of paint now!

These are the first of the Fanatics for my Germanic Warhammer Ancient Battles (WAB) army, more OOP figures but metal though this time from Black Tree Designs - as you can see they are mostly not wearing very much in the way of clothes, with just some Wargames Factory plastic shields bearing LBMS shield designs (again) to hide their dignity... if they have any that is:

These are much nicer figures than the Wargames Factory plastics and almost paint themselves - again using mostly ink washes with the odd Contrast Paint where a stronger colour is required, such as the died red hair (as long as they are not caught down at the river bank by marauding Romans!)
To be honest if they were currently available I would be sorely tempted to replace the whole army with this range... but alas that will have to wait until the day they are re-released, which I am assured they will be, but who knows when?

I used the Wargames Factory plastic shields again as the supplied metal shields do not have any LBMS designs to fit, and although I tried to paint a few to match, they are just no substitute for using these great looking decals across the whole army.
That said, I have also purchased some plastic shields and matching LBMS decals from Victrix to add variety in shape and size while still keeping the same overall look.

Why 6 of them you may ask when the WAB unit will surely be much bigger (28 figures I think), well I have 24 of these plus some oddments to make up the whole unit so a few easy batches like these and the whole unit will be done - but mainly because it's the size of a fanatics unit in Infamy, Infamy - so in fact that's a unit finished for now!

With 19 easy wins finished in just under a week I'm really happy so far, however as hinted at above this production rate is almost certainly due to slow somewhat as I start working on figures that are not nearly as finished as these were - still, plenty of days left in 2021 so let's see what can be accomplished?