Deadcember 2023

EricF

EricF

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And you thought after the terror of Orctober and the horrors of Gnomevember it might finally be safe to emerge back into the world... alas the dead have once more risen for Deadcember ... So break out those bone brushes and get to work!

To get you in the mood I finished up this handful of mummies today.

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I had a slight head start because I obviously started these at some distant point in the past so they did have some bone colours already laid down. So once again it's only taken me twenty odd years or something to paint these! One classic mummy and two of what I think of as 'new ones', but there will probably be a good few generations of newer (Tomb king I guess) mummies since those. They are another of those models that I have had a change of heart on. I was never keen on the huge weapons first time round, but having finished a few I now have a bit of nostalgic love for them.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone might be able to drag out of the ground for the month. I've one other project I've been saving, but we'll have to see how time goes!

Once again there is a little badge you get for the year that you can self award.
 
inchmurrin

inchmurrin

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Great mummies and I like the huge weapons. I shall aim to participate hopefully some time before Hogmanay - that's December 31st to the rest of the world.
 
sewers.of.estark

sewers.of.estark

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Excellent start there Eric, lovely work on the mummies. I’ve got a heap of them somewhere in nearly the exact paint scheme oddly enough!
I’m hoping to start work on a larger undead project in the coming weeks so hopefully I’ll have something to contribute here myself!
 
EricF

EricF

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Lovely paint job. I very much like the skin tone. Cool miniature, not one I think I've seen before.
Personally I'm not 100% sold on the sword guard sculpt however - if I'm going to be picky!
 
Loose Loser

Loose Loser

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Cheers.

This is Morley's Necromancer from early 90s. Based on previous Necromancer ( shown below ). Kemmler ( Morley's one ) is completely different beast.

This is not for Deadcember, just showing my fav Necromancer.

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ManicMan

ManicMan

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^_^ I knew it wasn't the same figure but just reminded me of him for some reason.. like it was another version or something.

and another nice job ^_^
 
Loose Loser

Loose Loser

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Cheers

I do intend to strip it at some point or buy another one so I don't have to hustle with paint stripping. Did paint him pretty early since my last ( present ) venture into Warhammer so it's more then a bit messy. But I do like colour combo. Could paint Ghouls next, they're quick minis.

2 EricF - Yeah, it's rare to see this sculpt I think. People mostly set for this one above or Quest one, even Mordheim one. Sword is curious one but it's really nice sculpt, very fancy with fists holding balls (?) and all that, does give magic weapon appearance. Don't like that "blood" part of the sword.
 
Loose Loser

Loose Loser

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Two more. Must say I do like skin tone on the left one. Was looking how to get that for some time. It seems it helps to wash cracks? little by little with purple ( more toward red ) wash, but more as painting details with watercolours then drowning it.

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ManicMan

ManicMan

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not sure what I'm going to do with the bases and... kinda think I wanna try a bit more on these but the two Mummies from Dark World.

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Decided that, unlike my HeroQuest Mummies, I wouldn't use the stereotypical green skin but go for a far more realistic tanned leather-like skin of a Mummy. Can't really see the painted teeth with this image as they are pretty dark (off-white bandages, leather skin). interesting how well these scale with HeroQuest.. kinda makes sense
 
KingOfTheLeadPile

KingOfTheLeadPile

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My pile of lead does include a lot of undead, the army I started in the early 2000s and wanted to quickly finish... yeah... I do not call myself King of the Leadpile for no reason...

But for Deadcember I rummaged that specific part of the pile, and picked an engine of war: A Screaming Skull Chucker from EOE Orbis.

After priming the models with white from an Army Painter rattle can, I painted the bone in the scheme that Mike McVey explained in the Warhammer 4e Rule Book color section: two parts brown ink : two parts yellow ink : one part water. I read that recipe in the beginning of the 90s, but it somehow stuck. When I started to paint the beginning of my undeads about 15 years later, I still had it in my head and used it - as I did ever since, whenever painting bone basically. The ink was followed by a drybrush of bone white (the easy method of the McVey article), which was followed by a drybrush of white.

Here is my finished Deadcember 2023 contribution:

 
EricF

EricF

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Very nice, I think I've got one of those catapults tucked away somewhere. The recipe sounds good, might try that with my next skeletons. It looks very nice on the bones, I like the effect the yellow has added.

I'm not sure I'm going to finish my main Deadcember offering in time alas. Work and other bits and possibly too much ambition look to have scuppered my chances.
 
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