Beefcakes Undead Project.

[boneio]

I've never seen that guy before, unusually for me - where's he from?

I wouldn't call anything about that paint job lazy! 

[beefcake]

Thanks. I was probably meaning too lazy to get a different colour paint pot, or think about other colours.
I had a bit of trouble locating an image of him online as well.
c1993usp068-140121-02 by Kieran Me, on Flickr
He's the one circled in red. He came in a pack with the others in blue, the wight on the right  has featured here already. I painted the lich near the top a year or 2 ago so will be leaving that as is (just rebasing). The vampire with the arms up I have a duplicate of so will leave my original painted as it is (painted by a friend a long time ago) and then just add in this new one with my own paint job.
I'm almost tempted to chop him at the waist and mount him on a Tom Meier Zombie dragon I bought re-released through Ral Partha Europe but I won't do that.

[Dr. Zombie]

This is outstanding. The undead has always been my favorite army for fantasy.

I to am on a bit of a nostalgia retro trip. And I was wondering if I should go for undead next. This is not helping me stay focused..

[beefcake]

Haha, sorry about that and thanks. All I can say is, don't do it. Leave all the undead goodness for me  Then again your name probably makes it a prerequisite.

[beefcake]

I've quickly painted up a ghoul as I'm having a go at Frostgrave with my brother tomorrow. The ghoul is going to be my apprentice to the previously painted necromancer. I think he makes a nice apprentice. Obviously he will appear as a ghoul in the undead army but I thought it would be good to give the ghouls a test. I painted the skin the same as the necromancer but instead of a thinned black wash I gave him a sepia dip as he should look grimy, being a ghoul an all. I did the black eyes with white dots again. I think it makes them look suitably evil. I quite like how the teeth worked out. Tanned leather with skeleton bone highlights.
I used the lasercutter again to cut some more bases at 60c (NZ) per sheet it is pretty cheap ($15 for a 2.4mx1.2m sheet). So I cut about 150 20mm bases some slotted some not and I also cut 2 bases for screaming skull catapults. I've lost a bunch of pieces from mine so I bought a spare catapult from Troll Trader as I didn't need the crew. Here they are in their original paint job from young teen me. Brown bones and silver chainmail. In fact they've collected a lot of dust so a dip in some stripper will be good for them.
20240802_214901 by Kieran Me, on Flickr
20240802_214907 by Kieran Me, on Flickr
20240802_214926 by Kieran Me, on Flickr
20240802_215023 by Kieran Me, on Flickr

[WillPhillips]

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.

Very clever idea!

[beefcake]

Very clever idea!

Thanks. I never liked the look of unbased models when the rest were based.

[snitcythedog]

Liking this thread more and more.  Very nice work. 

And I was wondering if I should go for undead next. This is not helping me stay focused..

Focused?  Repeat this mantra three times.  "I am a leaf on the wind.  See how I float to whatever takes my fancy!!"
Beefcake.  Is that a backdrop for photos or an actual terrain piece?  Very cool either way. 

[beefcake]

Yes it is. I made some tabletop borders for a kickstarter. This is the crypt version. I'll be doing a dungeon with these fairly soon. Perfect for showing off these guys.

[Daeothar]

Getting along very nicely

The ghoul especially is looking good; the sepia wash is the way to go I think. "Alas, poor Orruk; I knew him, Horatio..."

The screaming skull bases are great too; no need clipping off the tabs with bases like this!

[steders]

Great stuff, Love the armour on the wights and I also never liked the unbased warmachines. I have an undead army in a box waiting for some love.

The skeleton army box brings back great memories of my oldest friend Steve
He was not a great painter or builder but he bought 3 boxes ( i think) and built and painted an army. Took him about 10 years! He was so proud and brought it to our boys weekend away where he'd normally have to borrow someone elses army.
We used to meet a couple of times a year, all old school friends to play warhammer.
Very first game steve was against mark (dwarves) and its going ok but comes to a critical panic check for the dwarves.
We are all watching this titanic clash
As usual Mark reaches for his lucky dice. Its a massive 4 inch solid lump of metal he made at school in metalwork.
He puts some major spin on his roll, it bounces once and then flys across the table into the undead horde, pulverising little skeletons and flinging parts off in all directions. There is total silence before Mark says 'Shall we call it a draw'

[Daeothar]

'And that's when the fighting started'...

[beefcake]

Great stuff, Love the armour on the wights and I also never liked the unbased warmachines. I have an undead army in a box waiting for some love.

The skeleton army box brings back great memories of my oldest friend Steve
He was not a great painter or builder but he bought 3 boxes ( i think) and built and painted an army. Took him about 10 years! He was so proud and brought it to our boys weekend away where he'd normally have to borrow someone elses army.
We used to meet a couple of times a year, all old school friends to play warhammer.
Very first game steve was against mark (dwarves) and its going ok but comes to a critical panic check for the dwarves.
We are all watching this titanic clash
As usual Mark reaches for his lucky dice. Its a massive 4 inch solid lump of metal he made at school in metalwork.
He puts some major spin on his roll, it bounces once and then flys across the table into the undead horde, pulverising little skeletons and flinging parts off in all directions. There is total silence before Mark says 'Shall we call it a draw'

That's hilarious.

[beefcake]

Here is the first of the mummies. I think this one was meant to be the Settra proxy model as no Settra model had been made for 3rd edition. It fits as it has a flail.
I initially was going to go for pale zombie flesh but just after I did the first layer (and it not looking so good) I saw a picture of a mummy online and was reminded of their actual flesh colour a dark dark brown so I proceeded to paint them that way. I think it works nicely to contrast the pale colour of the bandages. The bronze worked out nicely on these too I think. I have a dull turquoise colour which I use and for this mummy and another I rubbed the majority of it off with my fingers after it had mostly dried, then did a little touch up of the bronze where I had rubbed too hard. It worked nicely I think. I'm not overly happy with the rusted chains. I may go over them with a further darker wash to fill in the crevices better. I have a duplicate of this model as well. I'm tempted to put one on a chariot.
20240808_165918 by Kieran Me, on Flickr
20240808_165926 by Kieran Me, on Flickr

[Hobgoblin]

The mummy looks great! The dark skin works very well, and that's a lovely effect on the bronze!