Tonight I got a bit of work done on two of the Zoltan command miniatures…they are more skeletons than Zombies, but hey undead is undead…
Because they are Ostarian’s then they have white tunics, I would have preferred something a bit darker or at least coloured cuffs and turnbacks, but I went for the colours from the website images. I would imagine that once I get the remaining bits painted then they, like the two from yesterday, will grow on me.
This is a bit of a misnomer as these two got started a couple of days ago, but as I said last night I didn’t have it in me to finish them yesterday… sadly for me I left them at the ‘OMG these are so crap’ stage… there was more white left than looked good for them… but to be honest I am really pleased with them this evening…
The flag is one of the paper ones I did in about 2019 and is just blue tacked on just to see what it looked like. To be honest I have a selection to choose from…
These are the next three that I am going to get a start on. They are the command section of the 666th Zoltan Zombie Dog line.
My package from Alternative Armies came today, so I will show them off tomorrow.
Count Valdimir Kustosov…
This one definitely looks more suave and sophisticated than last night’s one… well he is a count and the former leader of the tomb city of Czarlingrad. Altogether not a nice chap at all! I really like this miniature, which is why I have one too.
I have the remaining two infantry to do for the undead. I will then move onto the undead cavalry and finally the dogs. My mate has ordered another four or five so I will have a few more to do… I also ordered myself a few too as there was 20% off last month.
Tonight my plan was to do a couple of the undead miniatures. Instead I managed only one and made a start on the second.
I did this one in a standard ‘Russian’ green colour…
I will get him and the other ones based properly this weekend.
I do like this miniature with his rather grumpy vampire pose.
Tomorrow I will get on with the second one, hopefully by bed time I will have him done and if lucky I will make a start on the drummer and standard bearer.
Tonight I did the first of the undead. These are commissars of the KGB.
As you can see they look rather dead and are liche officers. The one in the middle looks a bit odd as he is an undead toad.
These weren’t too difficult to paint due to the minimal details. I actually used some Speedpaints on the coats as I wanted a different grey to the trousers. Needless to say I was very, very careful. Tomorrow’s lot will take longer as there are four miniatures with a lot more detail on each. Two are vampires one is a drummer and the last is a standard bearer.
This little chap is the final ork from the Alternative Armies pile of miniatures I am doing for my mate.
I had sent him a photo of the latest two and asked what colours he wanted doing on the undead.
I was just about to get him painted when he sent a message and asked for him to have a red jacket with yellow trim. This isn’t a problem but Five minutes later he would have had a brown jacket.
Tonight I did another couple of the Alternative Armies Miniatures. We have an exploring officer on the left and Sir Markus Conclave of the Kings Own Rockette Batteries…
Of the two Conglave is my favourite of the two.
This leaves the orc reporter for the ork miniatures I will keep going with the Alternative Armies until my secret project arrives 😉.
Today I managed to get a bit of painting done as I was in the house due to having a bit of a head cold. I also had to go and pick up Esther from the Ferry first thing this morning so I had a bit longer to paint too.
I still have another three orks to do before going onto the rest.
When I picked up Esther at the ferry, I also picked up her sister and our new house guest….
Skyla will be with us for the next week.
So I got these finished this evening. It was my intention to get them completely done. It looks like they will need to be based tomorrow.
I nipped into town this afternoon and got some new Contrast paint. My skeleton bone was almost out and my Gore Grunta fur is pretty empty too.
Tonight I did a bit more on this pair…
Really just the teeth to do on McBam, but a lot more to do on Giggers. I also did a bit on a couple of others.
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