Thursday 19 February 2015

Undead... so much undead... (80 Points)

These undead have been sat undercoated on my workbench for a few years and are intended for my very slow burning attempt to rebuild my long lost and much loved Warhammer Quest set. They will also be great for 7th Voyage and Dungeon Saga games... so nice and versatile.

Ages ago a couple of us were lucky enough to go on a few educational sessions at GW hq. One of these was run by the sculpting team and involved taking bits from the Vampire Counts skeleton set, some Empire Greatsword figures and some greenstuff. These three champions were my creations once I got home from the course. I can't bring myself to paint the one we created on the day though as it is a really nice reminder of a fun day. The most insane thing I've ever seen was one of the GW guys sculpting individual chain links and making an actual (in scale) chain that moved and flowed properly! None of this pre-made metal chain for him!


Next up we have 6 bulk standard skeleton spearmen with their champion


And 5 swordsmen with their champion


That totals 16 skeletons to add to the growing pile of painted models from this year's challenge. 


From Curt:

These are very cool minis Paul! That GW field trip must have been awesome - I'm always so impressed when I see sculptors at work, creating little pieces of art from pure imagination. It's pretty humbling stuff.

I really like the look of these guys with their shattered swords, bits and pieces of armour and rotted kit. Very characterful. Will we be treated to more or is this the lot of them Paul?

Now I need to check out Warhammer Quest...

18 comments:

  1. Really nice Skellingtons. Nice conversions as well. cheers

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  2. Beautiful,love the green glow!

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    1. Thanks, I've always enjoyed stories or pictures that have a magical glow to the eyes of skeletons.. it makes them so much creepier imo

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  3. Whoah very nice work! Great conversions and the paintjob really is spot on too

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  4. Ah the GW field trips were all awesome. Shame they don't seem to be doing them any more. We had a Forgeworld Tank Weathering day, an Eavy Metal painting day and the sculpting course. Each one was expensive, but for what you got, well worth it. I've forgotten most of what I learnt, but there's just enough left in here somewhere to keep improving ;)

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  5. You can almost smell the rot on these. The ones with great swords really are absolutely splendid.

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    1. The one time one of the recent White Dwarf magazines came in handy was their 5 was to paint skeletons article. These are the mouldy bones version : Skavenblight base, drybrush with Stormvermin brown, then Karak stone and finally some bleached bone. It gives a nice old look to the bones

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    2. The one time one of the recent White Dwarf magazines came in handy was their 5 was to paint skeletons article. These are the mouldy bones version : Skavenblight base, drybrush with Stormvermin brown, then Karak stone and finally some bleached bone. It gives a nice old look to the bones

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  6. A great bunch of Skellies, Lovely undead swarm

    Ian

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  7. Fantatsic work Paul! I especially like the first three in their ragged Landsknecht uniforms.

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  8. These are great! Love the rusted armour and creepy glowing eye sockets.

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  9. Very fine indeed Paul. I love the green glowing eye (sockets)...

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  11. The Reanimated Great Swords are really neat! I'm digging the glowing eyes too!

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  12. That is too cool, both the trip and the figures you made. Great job.

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  13. Really nice painting work and figures.

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