Ever since watching Army of Darkness as a kid I wanted to have my very own undead army. I decided to take a stab at it and here are the first batch of figures.
They are 15mm figures from Splintered Light and Miriliton. 3 poses from each manufacturer. They mix perfectly. I've based them up as if ancients, four figures per element, on a 20x40 mm base from Renedra, with flexible sheet steel from Litko on the bottom.
They are just the start of the army that I have no idea when I'll finish. I've got all kinds of melee and other baddies to go with them along with a whole mass of individually based guys for casualties, skirmishing, or running RPG's. I picked these guys first because they had the least amount of gear to paint.
I mostly just used drybrushing to do them. I used the Reaper Master Series Ivory Bone Triad for the bones.
I'm sort of "meh" on them. I don't love how they turned out, but en masse I like them well enough and they are done. If I did it again I think I would based 6 archers on a 40x40mm base in a more loose formation. Thinking of that, I made up some 40x40mm bases with sheet magnet to help move them around and make them easier to pick up.
There you have it, finally out of the way, and off my painting table. My very own groovy undead archers😉.
I started working on some Anglo-Saxons for Saga and here is my first unit (1 point) of warriors painted up and ready for battle. All are Patton sculpts, seven from Gripping Beast's Viking Age range. A mix of Saxons, Danes, and Vikings I believe. The guy with braids is a Saxon Miniature now owned by Warlord.
The freemen of Wessex
These guys are Ceorls or freemen. I've painted them up to be drab for the most part. I find that people paint Viking Age stuff way too colorful. When I get to the Hearthguard and Warlord I'll be adding more colors to represent rarer and more expensive cloth. The shields are hand painted. I hoped that they would make the force look unified. I plan to decorate the bases later when I have more units done.
The photos are all with my iphone6 with typical editing for color and light corrections on the same screen, highlights mainly. I just did a bunch of remodeling in my game room so I hope to get my lightbox and Canon back in action in the near future.
I'm pretty happy with them. I learned A LOT painting them. I haven't painted much 28mm so they were a real challenge for me. There were three things that were very useful for me when painting them.
First a Color Wheel.
They are readily available and inexpensive on Amazon or a local craft store such as Michael's in the US. I did not use the mixing side much as most of the modern paint ranges have a pretty good selection of colors to make triads and or layers. I use Vallejo mainly along with a few Reaper Master Series paints and the Games Workshop washes. I used the other side to select colors so I could achieve schemes that were complementary and pleasing to the eye. A $5 tool most everyone should have in their kit.
Thank you! Awesome resource. I found that some of the colors were maybe off a bit, but it was a great place to start. I struggled with a soft yellow. I'll be working on that again in a future unit.
Great resource. Some of the paint schemes are insane the number of layers used. I'll admit I skipped some layers. Really helpful on a lot of things. If you want to go beyond tabletop standard I think this will help. I hope I achieved something a bit nicer than tabletop.
Here's a little video I did of them for fun.
It will be a while before I'm ready for Saga but in the meantime I hope to use them on the tabletop playing Blood Eagle.
Thanks for peeking in. Be sure to leave a comment if you liked them or hated them. All criticisms are welcome.
