Ewok Does Steampunk
Malveria Rises!
I spent the last week building at a pace , I now have all the infantry built for my Malverian faction, an adversary of the Empire and all round cads and rotters.
I just have a few metal artillery crew to paint. I plan to 3d print a couple of fiendish artillery pieces , much like I did for my Black Iron Sigil artillery. Which I need to get cracking with as well!
The mainstay of the Malverian army , these guys will come at you overground supported by Steam tanks , artillery and some hirsute skirmishers.
The Landwehr,these will come at you above ground somewhat less enthusiastically, spearhead the attack if no hirsute skirmishers are available, they are more likely to be supported by a couple of rusty shopping trollies and given a covering artillery bombardment either on their position or slightly behind it to encourage forward motion.
In some backwards parts of the Malverian empire some units still use Napoleonic era musketry.
The ‘Molevarians’ as the average British squaddie refers to these crazy assault troops, these are the soldiers you will see pouring out of the tunnels created by their digger tanks. If you are in a siege against the Malverians, you are probably going to lose.
As if digging bloody great tunnels wasn’t bothersome enough and unbecoming in waging war like a gentleman, they also have bloody werewolves.
These aforementioned hirsute skirmishers lead the attack in any battle they feature in – because you try telling them to wait at the back.
To transform out of the lunar cycle they imbibe a disgusting tasting elixir which they down in a stein of schnapps.
To quote Brigadier Gen. C.Womble -‘They were the only things drunker and hairier than the Scots on the battlefield ‘.
I had a play with my printer settings and dropped the layer height from 0.2 to 0.12 to rattle off some fiendish artillery. I could definitely see the difference in how well the chains were defined compared to a previous one I had printed on default settings.








I look forward to the uniforms being done up with all the extra gear on top for the engineers. They will definitely be fine and fearsome. I still think dire moles will sit nicely with them if you were to expand that selection.
I will say that the werewolves seem underwhelming when compared to the other plastic kits. Having done a unit recently they seem more in line with Lon Chaney Jr. and humanlike proportions. I had hopes for something a little bulkier like An American Werewolf in London.
Good job and full steam ahead!
Given the amount of figures to paint I doubt I will be customising further. However I may be tempted to check my Desert Rats and Alpini sprues to see if there are any picks going begging.
As for the wolves, I agree they are a bit diminutive.
Hmm, I see, it’s like that then. When I sober up, this’ll mean war