Tuesday, February 14, 2017

The Creakin' of Old Bones

Here's some more of my 10mm Undead army for Warband.  I'm already being plagued by thoughts of adding more troops and I have to constantly remind myself to paint what I have on-hand.  It's something we all experience as miniature gamers, rationalized as "but it will be here when I ready to continue this project".  That "reserve" is also known as the lead pile.  I'm still working on my goal of making a dent in it this year and so far I'm being successful!

So here's a shot of the three new stands together.  We have a skeletal crossbow unit, a necromancer unit, and the leader unit.  One thing that came about with doing these units is that I decided on a army color scheme.  With my Dwarves I had chosen Red & Blue.  Deciding to give my units a sense of uniformity I went with Purple and Yellow.  This is not to say I connect the Undead to the American college football team Louisiana State University, but I am an Alabama fan so it kinda fits!


The Undead Army box only comes with 4 figures for the General unit.  That seemed like a rather large base for just 4 minis so I added a couple of ghouls and vampires I had ordered separately.  I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.


The same thing goes for the Necromancers.  There were just 4 in the package and the spooky monolith.  I wanted to make it look like these guys meant business.  So I had also ordered some spirit figures.  I added 6 to this base and I think it makes these guys look like a unit to be wary of just rushing into for a fight.

The last unit is my ranged unit.  I went with all crossbows, saving the longbows for a potential later unit to build.  I decided that all my skeletal units would be accompanied by a necromancer.  You never know when those skellies will start falling apart!  It's like a team mechanic repairing or replacing parts as needed!

28 comments:

  1. Very nice indeed Rod and as I said: I am curious to what will catch your fancy next ;-)

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    1. Looks like some more bones are in the near future Sander. But I'll take my shovel to the lead pile and see if I dig up anything else that will be interesting! Thanks!

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  2. VERY nicely done, sir. I do like them a lot.

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  3. Very strange, but I do like these. I love the basing too!

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    1. They find you to be strange too Ray with all your flesh and stuff. ;) Thanks man!

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  4. Great stuff. Love the spirit figures!

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  5. Your painting frenzy of late has been of top quality, and most of the Uxee bar crowd agree! Well done, Rocky.

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    1. Thanks Jay! I'm super proud that most of the Uxee bar crowd agrees with you too. Wish I could get 100% approval, but still working out how to paint pleasing figures to the ones who only see in the infrared spectrum...

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  6. Looks like Halloween in my neighborhood! Excellent work and the basing composition adds interest. I still find it hard to believe these are 10s.
    Good job!

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    1. Thanks Jonathan! My strained eyes can verify that they are 10mm.

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  7. They look superb, stunning job Rod!

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    1. Hey, Rod my Man. I wanted to say that you are THE MAN
      Look, even Gundam knows about you
      http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/UGY-R41_Man_Rodi
      MAN ROD(i)

      xD

      P.S. I have 2 kits of those machines still in backlog, really fine kits. HG 1/144 scale, plastic frame, high articulation and lots of details for a plastic kit.

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    2. Hey that's cool! I may have to find one! One of my buddies is gathering up 1/144 Gundam kits. He wants to run a convention game of a Gundam space fight.

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      https://hlj.com/product/BANN04177
      HLJ.com sends all over the world and have good prices

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    1. Thanks Fran! There's a few cantankerous fellows in the lot, but for the most part they are a great bunch.

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  10. Hi Rod
    They look superb

    Take care

    Andy

    http://www.10mm-wargaming.com/

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