Marienburg vs. the Undeadish (update: undead & spooky stuff)

[majorsmith]

Ditto about the barrow wight and brazier  super cool

[ZeroTwentythree]

Thanks. Those old barrow wights are quirky but fun figures. I'd like to get the others now.



Finished the skeletons. I started them early, in November, but completed in Deadcember. Close enough for me. Mostly old Citadel, a few Black Tree Design mixed in.

[von Lucky]

Those faded grey shields work so well with the earthy tones of the skeletons (and the fresh green of the bases), lovely stuff.

[Hobgoblin]

Very nice - and I love the old Barbell-wight (what on earth did the Perrys think they were doing with that one?  ). Great work on him, especially.

[boneio]

Those armoured skeletons are some of my favourites and you've done a great job on them as usual!

[ZeroTwentythree]

Thank you!

Very nice - and I love the old Barbell-wight (what on earth did the Perrys think they were doing with that one?  ). Great work on him, especially.

I'm oddly fond of that figure. I'd even like to get the others! 

Those armoured skeletons are some of my favourites and you've done a great job on them as usual!

I'm very fond of the sculpts too!



Done with the latest batch of the second gen. Citadel skeletons. I ended up putting two on individual bases, since I had some trouble fitting 4 on every 40mm base. So I end up with more "footprint" than planned, the regiments will still look full, and I have a start on my "singles." So it's a win/win/win.

[boneio]

And those are the 'best' plastic skeletons imo..though the generation before them are a close run.

Very good as usual!

[ZeroTwentythree]

And those are the 'best' plastic skeletons imo..though the generation before them are a close run.

Very good as usual!

Thank you. I think if these were scaled down, similar to their predecessors, they'd be in my list of favorite minis. I still like them quite a bit, though!



Mounted necromancers are hard to come by. Even then, I want something less human, more undead. Like a "lesser liche" or some other alternate. Basically just an undead thing, mounted on an undead riding thing, who summons & controls the other undead things. So here's the first that I've been able to come up with...



Mounted wraith from Celtos.

My last planned Deadcember project is some more non-human skeletons to bump a smaller unit up to a larger horde, but for whatever reason I'm just not feeling it right now. In fact, I'm not really in the mood to paint up much of the undead I already have. I think the major factor in play is that I don't really feel like cleaning & assembling a bunch of minis. Everything requires a bunch of pre-painting work, and I'm just not in the mood. I'm sort of wishing I had a big model to work on, or something(s) already prepped and ready to paint. Or a pile or rank & file already prepped. I'm completely in painting mode!

(Getting into the holiday spirit...)

Only half way through Deadcember, though. Even though I'm prep-impaired, I'm still motivated to get a big heaping pile of undead done by the end of the month, so maybe I just need a day or two to relax & think about what to tackle next.

[fred]

That works!!

Love the rust / patina / aging on the armour

Somehow the black looks bright and crisp against the other colours.

[boneio]

I think the major factor in play is that I don't really feel like cleaning & assembling a bunch of minis.

I'm the opposite, I'm always happy to clean-up, assemble, etc but painting requires motivation...probably it's that painting requires my whole attention for a while whereas I can be removing mould lines in between other tasks i.e. queuing for a game of Overwatch.

The mounted liche works I think. Have you considered painting a necromancer with deadish skin tones? I sympathise, I find most necromancers to be too alive and most liches to be too dead - where are the models of the necromancers sunk deep into their arts, existing in neither life nor (un)death?

[thenamelessdead]

Always a treat to see undead nags.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

That's a very cool scheme for undead; simple and effective and gives a good contrast without making them gaudily colourful. I dig it.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Thank you!

The mounted liche works I think. Have you considered painting a necromancer with deadish skin tones? I sympathise, I find most necromancers to be too alive and most liches to be too dead - where are the models of the necromancers sunk deep into their arts, existing in neither life nor (un)death?

I have two distinct branches to my Army of the Dead project. One I refer to as the "animated dead," which are mostly skeletons, with some liches, wraiths, etc. as the summoners & controllers. The other are the "undeadish," which are sort of like corrupted living. Not quite mindless zombies, but have traded (willingly or unwillingly) their mortality & freedom for magically bound servitude. Those are the pale, grey, fleshy humans & beasts. The "leaders" of that faction include more human/living type necromancers, corrupted knights & generals, etc. I've been showing a lot more attention to the former faction for quite some time now. At some point I will make it back around to the undeadish.



My latest diversion is still undead, but in yet another direction....

Combining my fondness for the undead, and skeletal undead in particular, with the desire to create a larger pool of "regiments of renown" style mercenaries, I started working a few initial figures as a sort-of proof of concept...



More about concept, background, bad jokes at... http://www.zerotwentythree.com/2017/12/mercenary-undead.html

[von Lucky]

Merciful mecenaries, enough with the puns.

I like the colour choice - I was thinking burnt skeletons before I read the background.

[boneio]

Ah that explains the thread title!

Love the idea of mercenary undead. Makes a lot of sense that such beings would sell their services