The Dead Rise! New undead army

[Bluey Zarzov]

Sooooo..... my wife and I got a little tipsy and I talked her into a game of Warhammer after she enjoyed Heroquest with a couple of friends.

She decided that undead would be fun to play, and I have painted a good amount of undead before, but sadly only had one box of unassembled zombies ofter my sale of everything else (even the Heroquest undead) including the garden of Morr. Can't take everything with me when moving.... ah well. Let's see what I do have.

1 Box of 20 Zombies unassembled- check
3 badly painted Skeleton Cavalry - check
8 badly painted skeletons - check
1 box of birthday present skeletons unassembled - check
2 well painted Necromancers - check
1 Bones Ghoul Queen unpainted - check
1 metal unpainted Bones Ghoul Queen look-alike - check
2 incomplete Chaos Furies that could be used as Fell Bats or even Vargulfs - need a wing
1 mostly painted old plague cart - check
Lots of plastic Battlequest wolves - check
3 spider swarms - check

Not a bad start. I got stuck into painting and then was lucky enough to aquire a unit of spear skellies and some more cavalry. I liked the look of the new Chainrasps which are going to be used as wraiths and spirit hosts.

Here we go!

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

Necromancers: Already had these two painted.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

This is the Bones Ghoul Queen - modified and trimmed to be a cold, cold vampire.

 

[Golgfag1]

Nicely done sir, I look forward to seeing how this develops.

Paul / Golgfag1

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

The second vampire emerges.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

The Skeletons are raised.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

Zombies are raised.



Then the ethereals...

 

[symphonicpoet]

^I particularly like the second necromancer and the first vampire. The freehand work is very nice. Is he a dwarf? I can't quite get a sense of scale, but he has a dwarfy feel about him. And the cold vampire is a neat model in a darned interesting paint job. I could easily see her spaced up. Great stuff!

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

The Necromancer is a modified plastic Empire Bright wizard, and I have had the model since playing Realms of Chaos warbands in 1997 with a few mates.


Here's what the model looks like unmodified.




Yes, all the paint is freehand.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

Skeleton spears finished - with a screaming banner.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

Finishing off the Plague Cart.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

The Vampire bat is the last to join.

I am missing the left wing off the other Chaos Fury, (if anyone has a suitable spare), but I do think they make better fell bats than some other models.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

I might need some more furies, but here we go - pretty much complete with the last Necromancer found lurking in the Lost Warhammer Quest realm...

 

[symphonicpoet]

^Gotcha. Your mods work well and your freehand brings it all together. The skellies look lovely too, of course.

 

[Bluey Zarzov]

Thanks, man.

The entire army is now all complete (at least for now) and can be seen at the blog listed below.

 

[symphonicpoet]

It looks very nice! And I see your goal now. Laudable stuff and good luck! I have conned my wife into playing with friends . . . precisely once, I think. But she's never shown any enthusiasm for it. I hope your game is a stunning success!

 

[Just John]

That's a great looking army. I really like the vampire bat/chaos fury. It reminds me of the creatures from Castlevania.

 

[Old Hob]

Fantastic stuff Bluey. I can't believe how quickly you've turned this army out. There's loads of beautifully painted minis here (the runes on the Necromancer's robes are insane), but for me it's the massed ranks of Harryhausen-esque skellies that make it.

 

[twisted moon]

that's impressively speedy, especially for such a nice horde.

 

[dazza36]

Very impressive looking army. Makes me want to get back to my plastic skeletons