Relics, Britanan Colonel Tavistock and the Green Dragoons

 

His Britannic Majesty King Jorje, by the grace of the Realm, Royal Ways and other Dominions

across the seas. We do appoint you to the Rank of Colonel of Dragoons that you may serve and

protect Our Kingdom and prosecute our Will unto your last stitch and thread…

…Furthermore We do charge thee to end the pernicious and rebellious works of the traitor and

brigand known as Maverick Mike and all who would take up arms in his name.

By your designs and force of arms he is to be undone and laid before Our throne’

Excerpts from Col. Tavistock Commission of Office

In-between working on my Zenith Project I have been playing a lot of Relics and working through by Britanan leadpile. Because I have enough to field a force in every faction I move between them and tend to then paint up a unit in that faction. I have tried not to do that this year and stay focused on working on the Britanans. I have painted up several smaller units which I will post up later but wanted to focus on the completion of my dragoons and introduce Colonel Banister Tavistock!

Relics has a well written lore  and material to support each faction but does not have an ongoing narrative or much in the way of standout characters/events . The Mercenary Faction has Maverick Mike, St Nik and the Chronicler butt nothing else.I wanted to address this and my first character is Colonel Banister Tavistock. Building on the narrative around Maverick Mike and his rebellion from the Britanan Empire, Tavistock was created to hunt him down. 

The character is based on Tavistock and his Dragoons were inspired by the Green Dragoons and Colonel Tavington from the film Patriot which in turn was inspired by the historical British Legion Green Dragoons and their commander Colonel Tarleton!

For the physical figure of Tavistock I used a Britanan Dragoon with the top body of a CSM and then blended in and created extra belt and coat tails with Green Stuff

for the uniform  scheme the designs from the film and the historical Green Dragoons were a bit different

Historical Colonel Tarleton

Historical British Legion Green Dragoons

Fictional Colonel Tavington

Fictional Green Dragoons

in the end i decided to go with the fictional uniform as the mainly red uniform would tie them in better with the wider army.

Britanan Colonel Banister Tavistock.

Promoted CSM

To make him a playable character I also created a unit card for him drawing from the Dragoon, CSM and Maverick Mike cards

I have also created a PDF with the cards and his background lore which I posted on the Facebook Relics group and is available here:

Relican Enclave

Zenith 7. Captain Hornet and Typhoon Tracy

 Two more Superheroes for my Zenith Project.

Both of these have been created using Eldritch Foundry which I am finding has been a  fantastic tool to bring many of the characters to life.

Typhoon Tracy

I played with the file to stretch him out to add more bulk and added a wrist band using paper

Typhoon Tracy from the comic Hurricane

Typhoon Tracy amongst the gathering of Superheroes in Zenith

Capatin Hornet

A costumed adventurer, Captain Hornet stared in his own comic book, though in the Zenith universe he only has a brief moment as a casualty. I was able to match him up quite well using Eldritch Foundry, his jacket is different at the front but matches up to the spirit of him. The Hornet Hoverer would be a great addition, as iconic as the Batmobile or Niteowls Owlship, but something for the future possibily!

Captain Hornets body in the wreak of his Hornet Hoverer

Captain Hornet

Zenith 6. General Jumbo

 General Jumbo is next on my Zenith Project, he is only a child and does not have any superpowers but fought badies/solved crime by having an army of remote control toys.  

In Zenith he only has a couple of background appearances as part of one of the groups assembled to defend one of the parallels and then later he is shown dead.

The General is one of younger 'heroes' drafted into the conflict, pulled in as part of including as many characters as possible but also adds to the tragedy of the story, the desperation of recruiting this level of 'Hero' to try and stop the llogor.  

General Jumbo and his remote control army

General Jumbo collectable figure

General Jumbo in Zenith

For my version of General Jumbo I created the initial figure using Eldritch Foundry online creator and then redued his size compared to the other figures to give him his child stature. I gave him the remote control form the Zenith version rather than the wrist control and used a file I found on Thingiverse. 

His appearance is more his classic version as well as his tie which I added to the figure with a bit of paper. For his remote control toys I used some ww2 tanks and soldiers from files on Thingiverse

General Jumbo and his army

General Jumbo between to Triman and Masterman

Zenith 5. Masterman and Robot Archie

 Zenith 4. Masterman and Robot Archie

More progress on my Zenith project with two more characters, Robot archie and my first villian, Masterman!

The sculpt for Masterman is from Attica Games.  

Attica Games

Masterman vs Maximan

Masteman

Robot Archie

The Archie sculpt is a 3D print from a design by Random Miniatures on Patreon

The original a Robot Archie was portrayed with silver and then red plate. With his appearance in Zenith adding details to show his love of House Music and match him up with the other superheroes in the team Black Flag which he was now part of.

Zenith 4. The Blue Wizard and Tanya

 The completion of my first Superhero group within my Zenith Project, the Amazing Three!

I had already added Oakman who I picked up from Attica Games (as Timbre) and found that one fo the digital Patreons I subscribe to, Random Miniatures had released a set inspired by the Defenders of the Earth. The figure of Mandrake is a great fit for the Blue Wizard. For the final member, Tanya, I have used Eldritch Foundry figure creator with some GS to create her hair

The Amazing Three in Zenith, Blue Wizard and Tanya standing in the middle of the left group

The Blue Wizard

Tanya 

The Return of the Amazing Three!