The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026

The three Firstborn chariots are finished.  Beautiful full metal kits from the Target Games era of Chronopia in the late 1990s.  I had a priestess figure so swapped her in for one of the Repulsar knights.

These kits come with a banner pole at the back of the chariot.  I wanted to use ready made banners so looked online and Battle Flag do some nice ones in their Landesknecht range.  The banner of Ulm and the “Imperial Rennfahne” or more properly Reichsrennfahne, the Imperial War Banner of the Holy Roman Empire.  Historical purists (and possibly some people from Ulm) will be disturbed by my intention to use them upside down.  I prefer the white over black as a look and the Rennfahne looks better to me with the swords the other way up too.

This unit took longer than I expected but perhaps I should have been aware that with 24 models combining to make the three chariots and crew it would take a while.  Just getting the dozen horses sorted took ages.  I played about with how to organise them as half have caparisons that are white on the left and half are the reverse.  In the end I went with alternating sides in each team and with the leader’s team being the reverse order of the other two.

All painting and modelling techniques were as previously described.

First the Iron Priestess:

And some shots of the other two with the knight crew.

Time is racing away and the SCC is past the 2/3 point.  The army book is still being worked on.  A quick review of where the army has got to.  There are ten completed units and three character bases are done.  With one unit currently on the painting desk there are still two more to do and three character bases.  There is also a surprise new unit in the picture.  More on that one shortly.