Mintoaur detour

Okay so these don't look much like undead either. These are the last three non KickStarter bones minis that I had hoped to complete before my KS shipment arrived. I didn't quite manage that but here they are anyway. I seem to be having a little clear out of the minis which are sitting half painted on my workbench to make room for the minis I'm meant to be painting.



This friendly chap will be seeing action in our next D&D session.



And these two where just getting in my way. Now ... more undead or more desk tidying?

I'm painting angels instead

Yes, I know I said I'd keep going with the undead but I've been making a slight detour. I'm going to a tournament next weekend with friend and frequent opponent Daniel. Now Daniel had decided to bring a an entirely new (and very effective) army to the event but was running short of painting time due to having a new baby in the house. Just in case he didn't manage to get everything painted up in time I decided to paint up some of my miniatures which he could use as a fall back plan. As things turned out they painted up pretty quickly, but as Daniel has been making good progress with his own army it looks like they might not be needed after all..

Some Basilean Elohi (or angels to the rest of us).



And also a phoenix - painted in less than a day.







And here's a shot which gives you an idea of scale - he's quite a large beastie.



And now back to painting undead .. maybe.

Kings and things

And here are the characters for the 1600 point tournament army.



The two on the left are Mantic (Limited edition standard bearer and necromancer) and the two on the right are GW LOTR Morgul Knights (with a Mantic banner). The Morgul Knights fit in really well scale (and style) wise with the Mantic miniatures and I have used various Mantic parts to convert them, well only one in the photo above but there will be more to see in the second batch of characters I will be doing shortly.

And to wrap things up I decided to quickly paint up a batch of wound markers that I started work on over a year ago.



A quick splash of paint and they are ready to go. Now I won't need to use my elf wound markers for the undead army.

Look at my horse - my horse is amazing

And that's the knights complete - two troops of Revenant cavalry ready to play with. These took a little longer to complete that I had expected, partly because they are more time consuming to paint that I had counted on and partly because I lost quite a lot of painting time to my movement disorder.



I've carried on with the red and black (grey) colour scheme which will also carry over on to the characters. Speaking of which - I now have just 4 characters to complete and I have the tournament army (as currently envisaged) complete.

Of course this doesn't mean I'm finished with the army but it will be a nice milestone. I'm planning on completing a few extras which I can use as options in the future - and although I'm itching to start painting something else I will try and get everything done ASAP before the magic fades.

On my signal unleash hell!

This speed painting trip seems to yielding some impressive results. I can't remember ever having finished so many units in such a short time. I think the results look pretty good too which makes me wonder if the extra time I usually spend per model is actually worth it.

I have painted up four balefire catapults which can be really quite nasty in game terms in KoW. This are the first of the more "regular" units in the army and so I have used them to introduce a black (well grey really) and red colour motif which will also feature elsewhere.



I have also completed the last of the werewolves (for now anyway) - one more troop of werewolves and three individuals - all standing on rocks. The rocks are partly decoration and partly practical - as lone units exact positioning on the table top is often critical and they help with this. The rocks raise the model up so it should be easier to place them in direct base to base contact with other units and they also add some weight to the model and should prevent them from being knocked oout of position accidentally during play.



I'm now working on the cavalry for the army with a goal of maybe having it ready for a game on Wednesday.

Dirty rotten scoundrels

Speed painting seems to be the name of the game. I have managed to blast through both units of zombies far quicker than I could reasonably have expected.

Despite the speed I am reasonably proud of the results here. They are a testament to the impact of the current generation of washed (devlan mud etc) on how quickly you can get reasonable results these days.



Next in the queue are four balefire catapults which will give covering fire to the rest of the army.

KoW Ghost Protocol

I have set myself a target to complete my new KoW Undead army in time for the Pathfinder tournament at the NWGC next month. You may be asking yourself "what undead army" - well I completely failed on my ban on impulse purchases and added various discounted models to my KoW Kickstarter pledge and suddenly found myself collecting undead. I've added a few other purchases to round things out and now have 2000+ points of undead.

So far things are going reasonably well - the werewolves (below) were the first models painted and I've just added four units of wraiths completed yesterday.



With the time pressure for completing the army I went for a really simple colour scheme - the ghostly look.

I've also done all the movement trays for the army - a tedious and long winded task - which means I can concentrate on finishing the models and getting them ready for play. Next up are some zombies, I'm already halfway through the first unit so hopefully they will be completed very soon.