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Undead line and more purchases

Adding lights into my shed took a bit more time than expected.

I still managed to slap some paint on these tonight. I am not sure you can actually tell in this picture.

My purchases are thus:

The new Savant zombie colour party with sergeant, drummer and standard bearer. The rest of these in the range are resin, these however are white metal.

Below the zombies are a selection of Ferach troops from the Witchland’s campaign. These poor souls are wrapped in blankets and heavy coats to keep out of the cold. I will be painting these up for my mates birthday present.

The one thing I was not expecting was the amount of flash on the flag bearer. This, I can honestly say is a first. It will take a couple of minutes to sort out so there are no issues there. The other two zombies have a bit of a mould line so I think it was a bit of a wobble with this individual figure.

Next up are my toys.

Another four Savant zombies to take my initial squad to ten. I really do like them in their cloaks. If the colour party had been modelled wearing them I might have been tempted to get some (I am still not sure about kettle drums in a skirmish game).

A bit of a clean up is required but it won’t take long.

Next up are another couple of civilians.

An Othari aristocrat and a hobgoblin miser. These are full of character, the Aristo is wafting his, no doubt perfumed, handkerchief whilst the miser is writing something down in his notebook.

I really do like the civilian figures from the various ranges. It is my aim to collect them all.

Last of all was my free pile of carrots 🥕. As I got these models under an offer I received free postage and another set of carrots.

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Undead Line

I got a bit more painting done tonight.

These half dozen zombies are all in greatcoats. Instead of giving them a contrasting cuff I decided to leave them as either brown or grey. Bizarrely enough there are three identical pairs. Even though I picked them up at random I have managed to paint one of each pair in brown and the other in grey.

Their flesh tone is skeleton bone at the minute, but once dry I will add various washes. Some greenish and others a more khaki colour. Even though I have been painting lots of zombies and other undead I still haven’t got the hang of painting their flesh.

The greatcoats have yellow epaulettes, mainly to add a bit of a brighter colour, but also because I saw them in the Osprey book on Russian Napoleonic infantry and I quite liked them. I will try and add a number on each, however it may lead to a repaint 😁.

My MDF bases have arrived so I can base up to 100 infantry on the 2p sized base. I managed to find one to base all six of the lot I am painting now.

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Doktorov and the Medics

I am not sure whether Medics is the right term…

I finished my reanimator and its team today.

Doktorov and the medics up first.

Doktorov is the Necromancer to the Star wraith (The head honcho of the Witchlands). He is, for want of a better term, a bit of a tinkerer. He believes that with his incredible knowledge and skills then he can improve on the stock Zombies that he re-animates. For instance he has developed a zombie that can see in the dark, a flying zombie with a rocket pack or indeed and exploding zombie. Most of the Vampires would rather not have him anywhere near them or their troops. An explosive Zombie that can explode in amongst your close packed column is doing the enemy’s job for them.

His two assistants are the dwarves Klaus and Yosephe. The dwarves were sent from Krautia to aid the Witchlands against the Ferach invasion in the hope of an alliance, an alliance that never came. Fear and boredom have turned them to drink and they somehow never manage to complete the task to the satisfaction of Doktorov.

The reanimator brings the dead back to ‘life’ as a zombie

I would imagine the two vertical prongs re-animate through the use of electricity provided by lightning.

The set comes with 5 corpses as seen below.

Some that look like they have been recently killed and others that need repairing or a bit of grave robbing has occurred. The pairs of corpses look a bit worse for wear.

I also managed to finish off the Latrinislav officer.

He is a nice figure and somehow he reminds me of a naval officer. I think it must be the hat and the beard.

Last up for this batch is the stretcher and casualty.

I think I may have gone over the top with the blood… I think he is a bit beyond the casualty stage with a ruddy great hole in his stomach that seems to be gushing blood.

To be honest I might give him a repaint (well I need to paint/tidy up his left foot if nothing else).

I have started on my Giant werewolf of the Visthowla legion. Hopefully I will get him finished tonight.

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The Reanimators

I enjoyed painting this trio of minis.

Doktorov and his two Dwarven assistants. I still need to do the reflector on the middle dwarf (once again I notice I missed something when I put the photo up). Lovely figures to paint. Very simple too compared to some of the military types.

I made a start on the various casualties.

The stretcher is part of the field hospital set. I am basically just blocking in colours to begin with.

Then onto this lot…

I managed to get a bit of paint onto the werewolf of the Visthowla as well as a base coat on my bear. I also got a start on one of the officers from the Latrinislav command set.

I haven’t got a clue what happened to the other two from the set.

Hopefully I can crack on tomorrow and get the reanimation device finished along with the various casualties.

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Alternative Armies Purchases and a bit of painting

AA had a free postage deal on so I took advantage of it 😁

I wanted some of the Savant Zombies. I ordered the six from the ‘Escape from the Dark Tzar’ set. They are really nice figures in resin. I still can’t get my head around how light they are compared to the usual white metal figures.

From the same set I ordered the ogre captain to act as my officer for my Finkelstein ogre section.

Apologies for the blurred picture.

He is another nice figure. So much lighter than the rest of the ogres I ordered.

We have a forager a sapper and two line ogres. These will be combined with the two I already have (see below) to make a section of six plus an officer.

I managed a bit of painting this evening making a good start on Madame Pompaboom.

She still has a long way to go – her hairstyle alone will probably take an hour to finish.

I started late as I was sorting out my craft shed which I finished today. All of my toys are going out there to make room in the house.

I hope to get both her and her manservant finished tomorrow night.

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Undead Artillery

The undead are ahead in the arms race!

I eventually finished these. They are lovely figures. Really easy to paint. I do like the guy with the powder bag. It looks like the ball is in there with the powder. I have some extra zombies (6 of them) that need painting. I may paint these up in the same uniform to act as armed support.

The gun carriage is from Alternative Armies whilst the barrel is a GW empire one. I decided to make a light gun however I felt that it was a bit small for what I wanted.

Hence the plastic barrel (I never got round to ordering a AA one – it didn’t help that I kept forgetting that I had the gun and the crew.

I really must get hold of the Grapeshotte schilling pack as this beast will rule the battlefield and I need something to be able to shoot back.

I have a couple of scenarios that this can be used for.

I also quite fancy a hunt the gun scenario as in the 1957 film the Pride and the Passion. The undead have to get their gun to help attack a town’s walls. Ok the gun in the film was massive.

It does have Sophia Loren in it. I haven’t seen it in years… time to find it on eBay 🤣

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Guard Bodyguard

I eventually got the L’espirit du Gard finished. I know I go on a bit about favourite figures, but this lot have to be one of my favourite units in the Flintloque range.

I have a mounted unit of these too, I will eventually get around to painting them.

One thing I am pleased about is that I am managing to get a bit of painting done each night. As I have said before. The painting helps me chill out and the blog kind of keeps me motivated to get more painting done.

Tomorrow I am going to get the undead gunners finished. Having had a quick look at them I need to paint the ramrod and put a wash on a beard. I think I might manage to get a few more figures started too. I will also have to get the gun done as well.

Having had a look in the boxes, I must get the re-animator and the Ferach hospital set done too.

So many figures so little time. 😱😱😱

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Lady Boniface part III

I really didn’t like her dress…

The yellow was a bit yucky to be honest. I did consider a total repaint but instead I kept at it. I sort of did repaint the dress but in yellow.

There is still a bit of work to do on it but it is a definite improvement on the first attempt.

Sadly the IPad seems to struggle with a bright yellow….Perhaps I should have gone with my original idea of a nice blue colour.

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Lady Boniface Part II

Her ladyship loses face.

As the gallant doctor rushed to support her ladyship he very quickly realised that to her ladyship losing face had a whole new meaning.

I do like her ladyship the figure is really good with her either removing or putting back her face.

I need to get a glaze on the smooth out the contrast of the flesh tones.

I am not too sure about the yellow dress. Because it is an ancient yellow wash it has gone a bit shiny. Because it is a wash it has caused me problems where it meets the purple wash. I think a repaint may be in order.

I managed to get a bit more done on these two:

Still a fair bit to go, but I am getting there.

Finally another lady…

Madame Pompaboom and her manservant.

I bought this duo as I thought it was a fun little set. The manservant is employed to hold up Madame’s hair… complete with a bomb in the top.

I would have liked to have got more done, but it has been a busy day. We were tiling the floor under the cooker until about half eight this evening. I hope to crack on tomorrow evening but rumour has it we will be redecorating the kitchen!

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Getting There

I managed to do a bit more painting tonight.

I think I have found another favourite character. I have always liked this figure. He is an officer of the quasi 6th Hussars. Whereas with the zombies, I went through a phase of hating them, I have enjoyed painting him from start to finish. I still have a bit to go on him but he is getting close.

The Golem whom I have named Egor is getting there too. The highlight is too light on the grey so I will either redo it or put a glaze over it, similarly with his head.

The doctor is just about finished too. I forgot to photograph him.

Madame Boniface is making progress…

I am not sure how I am going to do her dress. I did consider simply using a wash and if so… what colour?

Still a lot to do on her, hopefully she will be finished tomorrow.

The two cavalry are lagging a bit behind, simply because the blue and red I used on the others is in work.

My unpainted pile of Flintloque is growing again. I still have stuff on top of these from Christmas to paint. I still have to finish my undead artillery, they have sat like this since 8th December.

Not to mention everything else I have bought recently. My Bier and Bones figures to start with and I did order some more Finkelstein ogres and the resin Savant zombies, well there was free postage 🤣.

I am really enjoying getting back into the swing of painting every day, there are a lot more talented figure painters out there it is true. But this is about enjoyment of accomplishment.

I have been contemplating the way I disliked painting the zombies. I am beginning to wonder if it was a combination of oldish paint that didn’t flow that well (more like tar than paint) and trying to squeeze a bit of painting into a short session which is normally interspersed with telephone calls. Funnily enough I got them finished at home and that Was when I felt happier with them too.