Journey into the Cursed City

[Pictors Studio]

Here are the first of the miniatures I have finished.  I got most of the bad guy minions assembled and primed and a few of the heroes.  I'm working with some friends to try to get it all painted so that we can play it ASAP.



The skeletons are my favourite figures in the set, I think.  They are very well done and not covered with skulls or other death iconography which has always been my gripe about GW skelies in the past. 

I wanted to do the basing to show stone streets that were in a state of disrepair. The bases are just made from card cut to squares and then painted with Dark Reaper and then after that was dry, put some white contrast paint on it.  Then did Stirland Mud with a couple of highlights then added some tufts and flock.

And I went with white for the cloaks of the guard instead of red because I imagined the city guard to be different in tone from the Dark Powers that are animating their bones.  I'll probably dirty the clothing up some more but didn't want them to look like they were actually underground at any point.




I'm going to get cracking on the zombies and some heroes next.  Hopefully I can get a game in sometime next week, but I think the release of the Warmaster Titan for AT this weekend will put a halt on any Cursed City painting I get done for a while. 

[BZ]

Great sculpts, unfortunately too big for every non-GW miniatures...

[Grumpy Gnome]

Wow! You did a great job on the skeletons.

[Pictors Studio]

Thanks!  Here are the first of the zombies. 



I don't like painting zombies anywhere near as much as skeletons.  So they are going to get finished first. 

[robh]

Great sculpts, unfortunately too big for every non-GW miniatures...

Indeed.
Too big for everything pre AOS, GW or otherwise.

[andyskinner]

Yeah, I really like the skeletons, too.  I have trouble taking the zombies wearing grave stones "seriously".  (As seriously as you need to take miniatures of zombies.)

I like the color scheme, too.

andy

[The Rock]

Nice paint jobs

[Pictors Studio]

 "have trouble taking the zombies wearing grave stones "seriously"."

I thought it was a neat look at first but thought it would be neat for one or two zombies in a horde, not all of them.  I'm hoping that if this is a prelude to GW putting out more zombies soon they aren't all like this.

However in this particular setting it isn't as bad as I thought it would be initially.  They all actually have wooden stakes driven into them and it seems like they were buried upside down and the stakes are there to pin them into the earth or something.  Like people knew that there was a chance, in this Cursed City, that their loved ones might come back and they wanted to forestall that possibility.

[AxolotlQuestions]

Yeah, I'm not in love with the gravestone thing, but the attention to detail on them is incredible

[Pictors Studio]

The rat swarms are done.  These have options for how they can be built.



Glad they are done. I generally hate painting swarm models.

That is 13 models down now. More zombies and a hero today.

[Mammoth miniatures]

"have trouble taking the zombies wearing grave stones "seriously"."

I thought it was a neat look at first but thought it would be neat for one or two zombies in a horde, not all of them.  I'm hoping that if this is a prelude to GW putting out more zombies soon they aren't all like this.

Did you see the latest announcement of new zombies? https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/20/warhammer-preview-online-faith-damnation/

[Grumpy Gnome]

I like the Fell Bats... and yeah the zombies shown there are an improvement.

[Bloggard]

great paint-work.

not knocked out by what I see of the set online, in terms of the tiles etc. Hopefully the game itself is up to snuff.

[BZ]

Yeah, I'm not in love with the gravestone thing, but the attention to detail on them is incredible

Same opinion here, the gravestones are definitely too much.

[WuZhuiQiu]

Are those GW rat swarms? I haven't followed their stuff since 7th edition or so...