So, because I cannot just use an army as it comes in the box, I just had to print myself some extra bits, namely some more shot troops and a couple of minis for the command base.
Unfortunately they are a bit on the big side, but I may just leave them as they are as the majority will be on their own bases.
I am still a bit knackered so didn’t bother trying to paint anything this evening.
Today I was out the house at 07.15 to help at the Kayak symposium…it wasn’t a taxing day, but I ended up coming home at 10.30, then back out again at 15.15 so a fractured day… infid however manage to get all of the undead apart from the big beastie varnished.
I was hoping to get the last miniature finished, but sadly it was not to be… I have got two more days of helping so it may not get finished until next week.
I intend to try the oil wash on the above sooner rather than later…
Well today I decided decided that I couldn’t be bothered to fire up the airbrush so used the brush for the big beastie…
I went on a greenish look, to be honest it doesn’t look very undead looking, but then again it looks like a living thing and not dead looking, so I think it will work.
I got the rider done too…
Now the rider needs a wash over him, but you can see the colours I went for… purple robes as befits a posh dead dude on a scary flying thing.
Joe came over for a game this evening so we went for U-Boot and did the training mission… we actually survived after sinking four ships, checking the weather in a certain area and trying to shoot down a very persistent plane..it actually shot us… luckily no-one went down.
Here we are stalking our prey…
Hopefully I will get the big thing finished tomorrow.
Well, I have worked on this army for two weeks now and the end is in sight… tonight I got the Wraith cavalry done…
By my reckoning it leaves the big beastie and the rider to go….
Upon saying, nearly done, I still need to do the varnishing, oil wash and flocking… but the painting is nearly over!
I also redid the Giant and added a bit more to the build plate. I dropped some 28mm Imperials down to make some different guns… not sure why to be honest!
It has been a productive day, but I think I need a break from painting soon. Luckily Joe is coming over for a game tomorrow evening… a good excuse to have a break.
Well today I cracked on and got the crossbows finished, leaving seven mounted troops and the big beastie….
I am really, really not looking forward to getting the flock done on these… there are going to be 132 of them to do… I must be totally bonkers!
I did buy some oil paints and thinners and am going to give them a go to add a wash on everything…I will varnish everything first just in case.
The printer has been busy the last couple of days, but it isn’t for me… I am printing up a dwarven army for Joe. I have done three units totalling thirty figures. August brings more troops, so it will give him a chance to get these painted before the next lot drop.
Joe very kindly got me an AA gift voucher for my birthday so I had a think and decided I would go for another HOTT army… but what to choose. I decided on an elven force… but found he had one already and so, because I need my head examined, I went for an Imperial army… yeah more Landsknecht to paint up… why not go for 15m , I mean I already have loads in 6mm and 28mm… these are nice miniatures though…
The only thing I am going to change out is the Giant (we’ll it is a fantasy army)… I am going to shrink down one of my 28mm Ogres for the job… he has Landskecht style armour which will fit in nicely… if I want to change things up a bit I do actually have a Leonardo’s tank from my HOTT Conquistador force 😁.
You can find an image of my tank Here. It worked well in the HOTT competition.
Today I was in and out a fair bit but I did manage to get some painting done… to be honest I am getting a bit sick of painting 🤯. But needs must as they say!
So first up are the Dinocrocuta… these are almost finished….
Really just the two armoured ones to work on.
I also did a lot more on the ghouls…
And finally I got going on the crossbows…
Once the crossbows are done then I have eight riders of various sorts and the big beastie to do. Although I complained about lots of painting, I only really have myself to blame as I added two dozen miniatures to the pile.
Today I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did manage a bit. I managed to get the crossbows onto bases as well as add some bits to a couple of the miniatures. The bits added were a couple of severed heads onto the spear and a bell onto an other one.
The only problem with these is that they are a bit on the small size, but to be honest they will be in their own separate unit so it may not be so obvious.
I also got some paint onto the ghouls and the skeletal bases…
I also started printing some dwarves for Joe. Two dozen printed and six in the machine now.
On a totally different note… I watched a couple of Underworld films on Netflix… well it was on in the background and it was a bit weird… the vampire needed a torch to go into dark spaces… she is a Vampire, night walker…by definition she shouldn’t need a torch… okay I know I need to suspend belief, but it did make me chortle a bit.
Well I got a fair bit done today… the most boring was painting 125 bases brown… so now you know the size of my undead army. As I had the brown out I painted the last twelve that were still in their white undercoat…
So that is ninety ready to get a varnish and various other bits added like rust and ver de gris as well as a bit of grubiness. I actually bought some oil paints and sponges…just waiting on the solvent to get going…
I painted the big ghouls and was pleased with the results…
As you can see I did another Wraith…this time in red…it will be a champion or something…
I also made a decision on the Dinocrocuta, in the end I went for the greys rather than the red and black…thanks to everyone who gave some input. It was pretty much 50:50. In the end I went grey as I was going to do the mounted wraiths in the same red, so this way there wouldn’t be another colour in the mix…
Now these have got a long way to go, but they are definitely getting there.
Hopefully I will get them finished tomorrow, the Dinocrocuta that is, not everything. My wife and two eldest are off gallivanting South tomorrow evening, so it will just be me and my son tomorrow evening. Joe and I are doing a painting and gaming day on Monday again so I should get a long way with things again.
Today I cracked on and got the remaining nine Zombies finished…
This now gives me two units of twelve for Dragon Rampant, or a horde for other games.
I also spent a good while ‘building’ a set of zombie crossbows. There are nine distinct ones and three that are mirrors of some others. I know I said I wouldn’t print any more, but I still had some resin in the vat and it should be enough for the twelve miniatures. Now as I mentioned the Ian Lovecraft ones are a lot bigger than the rest so I took the height down to 92% and the other two planes at 88% to try and match in with the current batch. I will find out tomorrow if I have cocked it up 🤞🤞🤞.
And finally I need a bit of help on deciding on the colour for the Dinocrocuta… I decided to go away from a natural brown colour to something a bit more fantasyesque…
I have got the red/black or the white/grey. I like them both and cannot decide on which way to go. Both take seconds to do, so neither is harder than the other… what do people think… which would work well for an undead army?
My second last prints came off the printer today. I now have twelve Dinocrocuta to get painted.
Because I am a total pillock I keep adding to the pile of stuff I need to paint… I think I have the following..
Twelve small ghouls
Six large ghouls
Nine zombie villagers
Seven riders for the horses in progress
One big beastie and it’s rider
I got everything undercoated apart from the beastie rider…so hopefully painting will commence tomorrow.
Here are a selection of the Dinocrocuta…
They have a nice brutish feel about them…
Oh and in case you were wondering the final print were a skeletal Megaloceros and skeletal Smilodon.
