Skellymens

[Constable Bertrand]

Hi all!

After baby CB bought me a box of skellies for Father's Day earlier in the year I needed to paint them.



Perfect for dungeon crawling in the old Diablo 1 style, most of them are the GW multipart plastics, with 3 Wargames Factory archers thrown in (Diablo demands missile skellymens to harass any would-be-adventurer). personally the WGF and GW mix perfectly well, the GW are nice and easy to put together with mould lines being hidden in cloaks/armour lines for the most part, the WGF was another kettle of fish. I am not letting any hamfisted players near those guys. With joins so small superglue would have been better than plastic cement, the joins are rather brittle and I'm sure they will fall apart over time. The upside was they are very flexible for creating different poses if you have the patience. I do like their simplified skeleton look though which is versatile for many campaign settings.

Cheers
Matt

[Vladimir Raukov]

The blue came up fantastically on these guys. Glad to see you made a little time.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

Nice skellywags.  I like the rusted look on the armour.

[Constable Bertrand]

The blue came up fantastically on these guys. Glad to see you made a little time.

Yeah thanks Pete, I'm glad I made the time too, pretty simple figures so that helped to speed up the process and not be too daunting. Yeah the blue, orange/rust, and white goes well. Should go with my bretonnians too if I need undead warriors to join my fold

Nice skellywags.  I like the rusted look on the armour.

Yes they are skellywags, waving their gigantic swords around like it's a street party. Albeit a well armed street party. Possibly more like a riot now I think about it.

Thanks, not sure if there is too much oxidisation orange, ... I think it's ok. It's hard to get just right without looking silly.

Cheers
Matt

[Vladimir Raukov]

You're worried about walking skellies looking silly? 

[James Holloway]

Looking great! That blue is a great contrast colour.

[Vanvlak]

Very nice - the rusted weapons and the blue contrast nicely.
 

[pocoloco]

Awesome work CB!

Soon you and junior will be battling in the dungeons together.

I just recently introduced our two year old to some !/51 scale TIE fighters... it seems that I have buy more if I intent to use them for gaming 

[lord marcus]

Still stupidly upset warlord has not received released the skeleton set

[Constable Bertrand]

That blue is a great contrast colour.

Thanks James and Vanvlak

Soon you and junior will be battling in the dungeons together.

She's certainly spotted "Daddy's Toys" and likes having a look, and wanting to touch. A few years and hopefully we can get our goblins on. Better start gaming with her toys and dice first

And yes mate, you need to buy a whole fleet for your little one, not yourself of course

Still stupidly upset warlord has not received released the skeleton set

Marcus, it can be really difficult when you have a vision in your head and finding a mini that suits it, there are so many skeletons out there but they are all vastly different in asthetics which makes it hard. Ontop of that there is the issue of availability and $$. I liked the old HW metal skellys too but too difficult to get a hold of. Ive had a massive issue trying to find beastmen that match the Diablo look, that don't cost an arm and a leg, and aren't overthetop muscle suits with gigantic weapons and armour. I hope the warlords come out soon so you can get your jam on.

Cheers
Matt

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

Very nice.

[Mason]

Lovely work, Bertie!
That rust looks great and your colour palette really does bring out the best in them.
 

And good to see you back at it.
It has been a while.....
 

[DeafNala]

OUTSTANDING! You have a real flair for the Living Impaired. VERY WELL DONE!

[Constable Bertrand]

Very nice.

Thank you Sir!

That rust looks great and your colour palette really does bring out the best in them.

Oh ta, I hoped keeping it simple would work well and help me to finish them. Perhaps a win on both fronts.

And good to see you back at it.
It has been a while.....
 

More than a while mate, hahaha, a long while.

OUTSTANDING! You have a real flair for the Living Impaired. VERY WELL DONE!

hahahahaha, The living impaired are just dying to let me paint them. Their body parts are littered across the parts boxes Thanks mate, that's a real compliment from a ghoul and goblin master such as yourself.

Cheers
Matt