Recent Haul - Zombie Ogre

Due to the nature of my work, I am overseas most of the time. This seriously cuts into my painting, modelling time - not to mention actually playing any games.

Another issue is that I continue to collect miniatures for my undead armies, but I can't have them sent to Ukraine because a) it is impossible because I am behind the line of contact in the non-government controlled areas, b) it would be outrageously expensive and c) I have always to keep in mind that the amount of stuff I can collect is limited to what I can carry in two suitcases and a backpack.

Back in the day, when I was working in Iraq and could use the army post office (APO) - I could ship stuff back and forth relatively easily. No more.

So I order things online and when I get back home on leave - I have a big pile of miniatures to open and catalog.

So I've been on leave and am now posting my recent haul. It's like Christmas!

Zombie Ogre

Bear's Head Miniatures

This is a zombie ogre from Bear's Head Miniatures, a small, independent company run by the fabulous Phillip Hynes. His sculpting work is excellent, especially when it comes to horses and drapery. This model fills a gap in the undead world. As I've noted before, undead ogres are oddly under-represented in the miniature market.

This is a solid model. Very zombie-ish (I prefer more skeletal), but I love the ball and chain. There's a little bit of flash that needs to be cut away from between his legs, but otherwise, he's ready for priming and painting. Will go nice with my other undead ogres for use in my medieval European or Chaos armies.

Worlds Collide!

Holy mother-forking shirt balls!

My two favorite aspects of geek: dinosaurs and the undead. Mashed up together!

A zombie Tyrannosaurus Rex from Gale Force 9 for its Tomb of Annihilation miniatures.

Oh man, my undead Lizardman brigade just got stepped up to the next level.

Recent Purchase - KT-009 Skeleton Warrior Iron Rust Edition

In the mail, all the way from the land of atomic breathing lizards and giant flying reptiles, the Skeleton Warrior (Iron Rust Edition).


Again, not a miniature per se, but a display model that the Japanese love so much. At about 150mm tall, however, he's a great addition to my undead Sengoku Period army as a Gashadokuro - a skeletal giant from Japanese mythology. With some creative basing work, he should be looking like he could take on Godzilla himself!

Recent Purchase - Boss Fight Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S.

Just recently purchased two figures from the Boss Fight Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S. line. One Skeleton Warrior and one combination set of a standard Skeleton and Aged Steel Accessory Pack B.



These aren't miniatures per se, but rather a line of highly customizable action figures. But at just under 100mm tall, with a little painting, they will make excellent giant hoplites to fight in my undead Classical Greek army. My skeletal titan from Ral Partha needed some company and I stumbled across these while doing a google image search for undead hoplites. (I always like to browse google images to see when something new pops up). So now I have two units of giants - one of giant Cyclopes and one of human hoplites. More flexibility!



These figures are highly customizable and I love the armour available, especially the Athenian helm with the transverse crest. It will look excellent painted in bronze and washed to achieve the verdigris effect.



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!