Otherworld Zombies

Zombies by Kev Adams for Otherworld Miniatures

And a bonus shot standing on a terrain experiment. Have been playing with a flyswatter...

What I painted in 2013

I'm a terribly slow painter. But somehow I still managed to paint some lead last year. Hopefully I'll get some more painted this year, but painting slow and taking my time has really improved my painting. My two warbands are nearly finished now, the shadow warrior still need a decent mage (should have gotten the Mordheim elf mage before GW pulled the plug on Specialist Games) and the Undead could use some more zombies and ghould. The dregs are in the painting queue, they should be finished in 2014 at least!

The group shot.

The Shadow Warriors

Metal 6th ed Shadow Warriors from GW

Aenur will be used as a Shadow Walker

Undead

Dire Wolves from Otherworld

Armored Skeletons, also from Otherworld

Vampire from Reaper

Necromancer wip part 2

Today I finished the hat and added a skull to the staff. Unfortunately the skull needs pinning and as I couldn't find any wire of appropriate width this project will have to be put on hold until I do. The paper clips I normally use were too thick for the staff.

Necromancer wip part 1

It has been a long time since my last update, mostly because of my camera taking forever to set up for decent pictures. I've got the blogger app on my phone now though so hopefully the updates will be more frequent!

This time you get a lousy wip shot of my Necromancer taken with the phone camera. The conversion idea comes from Pil over att LAF and consists of the body of a Metal Magic cleric and the head of Morbius the liche. The neck joint has been hidden with bad putty work and the first part of his hat has been sculpted. I read somewhere that the best way to do hats is in two steps so that's what I did. It still needs trimming though.

In the background you can see some stuff knocked together with the excess putty. A cobblestone base for Aenur, some shrooms and the base for a sign post.

Skeletal liche and zombie

Finally got a minute to take som pictures of the two finished undead, a zombie and a skeletal liche. Still struggling with taking decent pictures, but you get the idea. I'm currently waiting for two more zombies to show up in the mail. In the meantime I'll have to figure out what to use for the dregs. Any suggestions?

Also here's a wip shot of the Shadow Walker. The wood grain on the shield looks wrong so it will be redone, but most of all I'm wondering about the shoulder pads and what color to paint them. I have tried to keep the number of different colors used to a minimum. I'd love to hear some comments and suggestions!

Undead

I have also started working on an undead warband. I will probably run it as the standard undead warband, but painting skeletons was fun so maybe it can be run as a Restless Dead warband for the Border Town Burning setting in the future.

The zombies are citadel C18 zombies, I still need a lot more, but these aren't that easy to get. The skeletons are Metal Magic ones from Mega minis, get these now if you can as Mega Minis are closing!