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)

Viserion We Hardly Knew Ye

RIP Viserion: Season 1, Episode 10 - Season 7, Episode 6

Fuck Yeah!

Reaper miniatures Bones IV Kickstarter. Skeletal chimera. Skeletal manticore. Skeletal owlbear.

No company has ever produced an undead manticore! Great scott! So full of win!

Dirty Little Hobbitses!

Well, the big Kickstarter is here. After several smaller ones, John McManis is asking for crowd funding for the big core hand weapon/spear units of undead Halflings! Nice!

But what weapons would Hobbits really use?

New Dragons Coming Online

Well, Reaper's new Kickstarter. Bones IV, is up today. Over $623,000 on the first day. Insane.  And now, I have to kick in some more of my hard earned cash because of this lovely model. A new zombie dragon sculpted by Julie Guthrie:

  

That is looking mighty sweet. Hopefully, there're a good deal more skellies in the Kickstarter as well.

Soon I'm expecting delivery of this amazing sculpt by Tim Prow for Fenris Miniatures. The green has been languishing for years until Fenris finally brought it to life with its successful Rise of the Draugr Kickstarter.

The next models haven't been sculpted yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting them based on the concept art. A zombie dragon, and two undead wyverns (Shrieking Horror and Court of the Damned). All part of TMS miniatures' successful Vampire Covenant Kickstarter in June. They did a pretty good job at translating the concept art to actual model for their Undying Dynasties Indiegogo, so I'm hoping these will turn out as good. I like the way the Court of the Damned model (a 9th Age analog for GW's Mortis Engine) incorporates the wyvern as the motor for the war machine.

OH HO HO!!!

Reaper Bones 4 coming up! It was nice having money...

WIP - Undead Minotaur

Another addition to my Undead Classical Greek army - an undead minotaur from the new company Die Hard Miniatures owned by veteran sculptor Tim Prow.

Prow has produced work for a whole ton of companies, most notably the now defunct Heartbreaker Miniatures. Lately, he's been a driving force behind the Oldhammer movement, producing models in the GW style from the 80's & 90's. Sadly, I was around for the originals myself.

This figure was first made available in their initial 2015 Kickstarter. They have put out some nice undead models since, including four skeletal snake men. Plus they'll be running an undead Kickstarter in October. October! I can't wait that long!

A nice ogre-size minotaur, he's now tearing up the field in my Undead Classical Greek army.

Various parts.

Primed black and zenithal highlighted. The flesh is a mix of Reaper Olive and Pure Grey. The muscle and guts are based with GW's Blood for the Blood God technical paint. The bone is Aged Bone by Vallejo Air. Flesh and bone washed with GW's Agrax Earthshade.

Fully assembled. The axe has been painted with Gunmetal from Vallejo and then textured using GW's Typhus Corrosion technical paint and then dry-brushed with some of the GW technical Ryza Rust to do the rust effect. The armor is painted using GW's Warplock Bronze and then coated with GW technical Nihilakh Oxide for the verdigris effect.