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Sunday, June 25, 2017

WIP Skeletal Hydra

Well, I got my hands on the new skeletal hydra from Ral Partha. So here are some updates.

The various individual parts of the model, primed and base-coated with Scalecolour Thar Brown using my new airbrush!. The model can be fitted in a five or seven headed configuration. It also comes with eight separate skulls.

Base-coated and assembled. I went with the seven headed version. After the base-coat I used the zenithal highlighting technique using Vallejo Air Bone White and then an almost pure white to highlight the very top.

Washed with GW's Agrax Earthshade. The all purpose undead shading technique.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Hail Hydra!

Ral Partha 49-091 Skeletal Hydra.

A contribution from their recent Chaos Wars Kickstarter. You can thank me for this model. Yes, me. Personally. I backed the Kickstarter early and RP had as a stretch goal that if they got to $100K they would produce a skeletal dragon. I posted in the messages that if funding reached the stretch goal, that skeletal dragons were a dime a dozen. But if RP truly wanted to do something no previous company had done, they might consider making a skeletal hydra. Discussion ensued on the message board. In a few days, a "mystery stretch goal" popped up at $50,000 which was revealed to be - this skeletal hydra.

You're welcome.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Shrek 5: The Undying

Sometimes, there are weird gaps in the world of the undead when it comes to miniatures. Things you think you'd see plenty of, but for one reason or another are not really produced. Until just recently, one of those things was an undead hydra - which is rather inexplicable.

Another is undead ogres. This is kind of weird since ogres are such a common fantasy race. Trolls and Giants, yes. Ogres? Not so much. For years the only real undead ogres were the following two from the German company DSA. (You can get them through Ral Partha Europe now.)

19304 Undead Ogre with Axe

19305 Undead Ogre with Club

Also, there was this two-headed zombie ettin from Lance & Laser, now sold by Armorcast.

LL21606 Two-Headed Undead Aberrant

But now, thankfully, we are starting to get a few more representatives of Ogre-kind. Like this model from Krakon Games.

Slanga, Parthaloin Fallen Hero

And this zombie ogre from Reaper. In affordable Bonesium!!!

77284 Zombie Ogre

And here's a little something from the recent Trough & Tankard "March of the Dead" Kickstarter by Phillip Hynes. I'm not sure why Phillip is not full time sculpting for the majors.

His sculpts are outstanding. I've rarely seen better work when it comes to horses or drapery
He's amazingly fast. He bangs out a figure in like a day!

Trough & Tankard Zombie Ogre

Then we have this model. It's an ogre(ish?) model for 4Ground's upcoming Legends of the Fabled Realms Kickstarter. They're making a lot of cool undead (Druggoi) that also include a sweet undead dwarf and two "guard" that frankly, I think are undead elves.

And from Warploque Miniatures, we have a specialty figure, a zombie pirate ogre! Undead pirates are a big thing. I'm not really sure why. Haven't we tired of those movies already?

Undead Ogre Crewman

Monday, June 5, 2017

Ral Partha's Skeleton Centaurs Now Available!

RP's new skeleton centaurs that were funded by last year's Kickstarter are now available in their online store. I funded the Kickstarter and now have twelve of these centaurs to act as cavalry in my Undead Chaos army. What's cool is that you can outfit them with a variety of different weapons. I was vacillating between lance & shield or sword and shield, but then I watched this video from Shadiversity and you know, pole-arms do make sense for centaurs. Halberds, pole-axes and bills for everyone!

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Here Be Dragons!

A post detailing all my dragons or dragon-kind.

During the time I've been collecting miniatures, I've picked up quite a few skeletal or undead dragons (large creatures being an exception to my "nothing but bone" rule). One thing is for certain, sculptors love undead dragons. I keep having to add to my collection. At this point I have what would essentially be one army of simply dragons or dragon types. I loan them out as assets to my other armies, but I'd like to fight a battle once with nothing but my Draconis Legion.

Dragons

Black Tree Design FA77934 Zombie Dragon. meh.

Eastern Front Studios DVR-20 Gargantuan Skeleton Dracolich. A very nice model depicting the dragon as a true quadruped, which is rare compared to the biped models. They were supposed to put out a zombie version of this but I haven't seen it.

Fenryll Mummy Dragon for my New Kingdom Egyptians

Fenryll Skeletal Dragon. Very large resin model.

Fenryll Zombie Dragon. Small but nice sculpt.

McFarlane Models Dragon Series Six Dracolich. Pre painted plastic, but huge and imposing. Paint job is not terrible. I like the use of fire.

Gale Force 9's new Dracolich.

The old and venerable Grenadier 5502 Masterpiece Edition Death Dragon. My first super-beast.

Grenadier Dragon Lords 2516 Chaos Dragon

The one, the original Grenadier 9904 Skeletal Dragon by Julie Guthrie

A rare Grenadier zombie dragon from circa 1984.

GW Terrorgheist

GW Zombie Dragon. Yes I bought two of the same boxed set so I could make both variations. I'm the sucker GW has in mind...

GW 991 10207101 Zacharias the Everliving on a Zombie Dragon. Fantastic sculpt. I worked the ECKTM (easiest conversion known to man) on Zacharias and popped off his head to be replaced by a skull, turning him into a real Liche.

GW CIT-524 Zombie Dragon with Rider by Trish Morrison.

Grendel F0065 Zombie Dragon. Actually a very nice resin piece. Seeing the detail and easy construction sold me on resin as a medium.

Troll Forged Nightmare w/Necromage by Adam Grabowski. Made in some sort of vinyl/plastic, it's actually well detailed and an excellent model. I performed the ECKTM on the liche.

Mythic Articulations Asian Dragon. One of my faves. Not a miniature company per se, but custom prints anatomically correct mythical creature skeletons. For larger beasts it's just the right size for 32mm. This baby supports my undead medieval samurai brigade

Mythic Articulations Dragon. Another from MA. Very nice sculpt that is one of the rare true quadruped depictions.

Pathfinder Skulls & Shackles Gargantuan Skeleton Dragon. Sculpt is ok. Not really anatomically correct.

RAFM Necro-Drake Mighty Dragon Lich. Superb boxed set.

Ral Partha 10-375 Graveyard Dragon. Pretty large, but I never liked the sculpt.

Tom Meier's original Ral Partha 01-140 Undead Dragon. The memories...

The huge limited edition Ral Partha 01-505 Dracolich by Jeff Wilhelm.

A very small and rather unimpressive Ral Partha 11-582 Council of the Wyrm Dracolich

Reaper 2705 Skeletal Dragon by Bob Olley.

Reaper 3593 Akar Nakhal Pharoh Dragon by Kevin Williams.

Reaper 3644 Skeletal Dragon by Kevin Williams. Not impressive. Almost a skeletal wyrmling.

Reaper 10012 original Kaladrax sculpt by Jim Johnson. Tearing up the late 90's with this massive model.

The new Reaper 77190 Nethermaul the Undying by Julie Guthrie

The new Reaper 77192 Kaladrax sculpt.

Wizards of the Coast Attack Wing Red Dracolich. Meh. Like the flight pose.

Wizards of the Coast Lords of Madness 17 Fettered Dracolich. Pre-painted plastic. Meh.

Wizards of the Coast Death Knell 60 Zombie White Dragon. Despite being a pre-painted plastic and very small, it's actually a good sculpt. Would do well with a repaint.

Wizards of the Coast War of the Dragon Queen 31 Dracolich. Also another good sculpt, despite being a pre-painted plastic.

Zombie Dragon from Creature Caster

Finally! Vermis the Wyrm from Fenris Games has been funded through the Rise of the Draugr Kickstarter!

Zombie Dragon from the Battlelore Heralds of Dreadfall expansion

TMS' new Zombie Dragon now on Kickstarter!

Dragonkind

Ral Partha 49-091 Skeletal Hydra. A contribution from their recent Chaos Wars Kickstarter. You can thank me for this model. Yes, me. Personally. I backed the Kickstarter early and RP had as a stretch goal that if they got to $100K they would produce a skeletal dragon. I posted in the messages that if funding reached the stretch goal, that skeletal dragons were a dime a dozen. But if RP truly wanted to do something no previous company had done, they might consider making a skeletal hydra. Discussion ensued on the message board. In a few days, a "mystery stretch goal" popped up at $50,000 which was revealed to be - this skeletal hydra.

You're welcome.