Beefcakes Undead Project.

[beefcake]

Undead was my first GW army and I still have a soft spot for it. I was lucky to find someone selling off a whole bunch of old 90's undead minis which has now managed to make my army almost a complete set of the undead army book minis (and some extras) While my painting take forever to complete (too many hobbies) I do work away at them, and when the muse hits I seem to get a load done.
This might have been part of my first GW boxed set too. I bought the GW skeleton army box many, many years ago and vividly remember getting it because I was probably about 13, just started to notice pretty girls and at my Mum's work she made me show the very pretty secretary the geeky skeletons I had just bought. Mortifying.
Anyway, I found these in a small container and realised they were in dire need of a repaint. So a quick spray of skeleton bone, some highlights and then a wash got the bone done. The weapons I just did with Reaper's rust triad paints and I think works well with them, despite the fact the shileds should probably be wood, along with the spear hafts.
As you can see some of the minis have seen better days too. My brother took to one with superglue to give it a gooey look and some of the weapons are broken too. I was surprised I still had this many left. To be honest I'm looking for more at a cheap price now, putting these together as a kid was quite fun as the kits were perfect for posing them whichever way you wanted.
I have a bunch of wights painted up already and some primed, so they might be the next on the list. There are also doubles of every zombie except 1, 1 of each wraith, 1 of each mummy (and an extra with the flail) and all the ghouls too plusI thing I have each of the special characters minus the special vampires. And my zombie dragon had a proxy rider but I bought the wight lord to go atop it, although I don't think I have the legs. Hopefully facebook groups can be my friend there.
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[OSHIROmodels]

They look great 

[bluewillow]

A big fan of undead also, I am thinking of building an Ancient Greek style army based on the wargames Atlantic undead

Cheers
Matt

[beefcake]

Thanks I based them with loose limestone from my drieway as well. Plenty of little rocks for all my basing needs now.

[beefcake]

I managed to pick up 4 chariots and an undead skeleton horde recently.
Since the chariots look a bit weird with the regular bases and then the chariot sitting loose at the back I decided to lasercut some bases for them at work. They look pretty good. I lasercut a large one as well for Arkhan when I get around to painting him. Which is always slow going with me.
I always loved the artwork to this box. I threw away my box when I first bought them moments after ripping into it I imagine. This one will be kept, probably just flattened down and stored though.
Next purchase will be 8 undead horses. I think the current tombkings still use the same skeleton horses as the 90's. I'm sure I'll be able to pick some up somewhere.
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[Slayer]

loving those new bases, glad they went to a good home :-)

[beefcake]

Cheers mate. I'll be putting the rest of my stuff up for show in bare metal soon. Thanks

[OSHIROmodels]

Good idea 

I’ve based mine on 80mm rounds because of the scythes. In hindsight I should really remove them and rebase on ovals.

[snitcythedog]

My, these are a blast from the past.  Well done on the infantry and those chariot bases will do well.  Keep that box.  That was always some of my favorite box art. 

[punkrabbitt]

I love them. I had that box set too, mostly cannibalized later for scenic elements.

[Daeothar]

Oldschool, goodness 

I've always loved that banner on the box art. So much so in fact, that I've blatantly copied it on the banner of my own Skeleton horde, even though they are of the Mantic variety.

I had no idea those scythes pointed out that far on the chariots though! 

The big MDF bases are interesting. For my WoC army, I did two chariots with individually based horses (standard cavalry bases) and the chariot on a 50mm square. These I then put on a movement tray, so I could then remove one or more horses when they got killed. There is, however something to say for a single base with everything on there; much more opportunity to turn them into mini diorama's

[beefcake]

There's definitely going to be a lot of dead space *ahem* on Arkhan's chariot base. While I don't like putting diorama pieces on it, some reaching arms might not look too bad coming out of the ground, as if everywhere he goes, the dead rise. I might need to do some specific bases for Dieter and the zombie dragon too.

[beefcake]

Good idea 

I’ve based mine on 80mm rounds because of the scythes. In hindsight I should really remove them and rebase on ovals.

Yep, Those scythes are rather large. I think my bases were about 50mm wide so those scythes come out quite far. I wonder if I should have done some bases with the cavalry stands at different distances so they could be staggered but still line up nicely together with the bases.

I love them. I had that box set too, mostly cannibalized later for scenic elements.

Yep, I did that first time round too.

My, these are a blast from the past.  Well done on the infantry and those chariot bases will do well.  Keep that box.  That was always some of my favorite box art. 

Thanks. My favourite skeleton is the axe wielding one looking at the viewer.

[Hobgoblin]

Looking good! It's amazing how well the Skeleton Horde holds up - still pretty much state of the art, despite its age. They look tremendous here!

[beefcake]

Yes, I think because the kept the bones quite fine, unlike the later versions, it made them more realistic. I think it's the best of the gw skeletons range. Wargames Atlantic skeletons are quite on par so I hear.