WIP - Skeleton Snake Men

Doing some work on these wonderful skeleton snake men sculpted by Tim Prow from Die Hard Miniatures. They produce four separate snake men, which will eventually appear in my undead lizard man contingent, but because I can't stay away from my armies of antiquity - I got a few extra to convert into figures for my undead Classical Greek army, starting with an undead Cecrops I.

Here are the individual figs out of the pack:

After zenithal priming:

Basecoated in Thar Brown and Decayed Metal by Scale Colour:

Bone parts washed with GW's Agrax Earthshade:

Verdigris effect created using GW's Nihilakh Oxide technical paint. I love that stuff!

And here is the progression of Cecrops I. Cecrops was the mythical first king of Athens who is portrayed as half man and half snake. This is a simple head swap using the helmed skull from the (recently defunct) Spartan Games Heroes of Myth & Legend Skeletons. It was fortuitous that I had some extra blisters of these skeletons, because the snake men are ogre sized and a 28mm skull is too small, while a 54mm skull is too big. The Spartan Games minis were in an unusual 40mm size - which actually made a perfect match with the snake men!

Finally

Looks like Marrow Productions is getting around to putting together the undead samurai forces from their 2013 Kickstarter.

But as they say: better late than never.

And it's a nice looking sculpt. What I didn't realize is that it is about 60mm tall. So really I will be using it as a Gashadukoro in my undead samurai army.

Let's hope the rest of the line is as nice.

This Is SPARTA!

Terrific new sculpts from Phillip Hynes on Kickstarter. I am just so impressed by this guy. Especially since he doesn't do this for a living.

He previewed some of these sculpts earlier on his Facebook page, but I thought he was doing a commission for some else. But nope! We can get them now. The Kickstarter is not all undead, but it does include these five lovely skeletal Spartans. With more apparently coming in the stretch goals. Another unit for the phalanx! (Even though I really style my phalanx more as Thebans. After all, Epaminondas is my homeboy)