ZeroTwentythree's June Undead (600pts)

June Entry

LEADER Month!

 

I decided to save the man... er, former man... himself for last - The Liche!

This figure holds a bit of nostalgia for me. One of my close friends when I was young had an undead army and used this figure from Grenadier as one of his leaders (general?) As I recall he painted it in a pretty loud color scheme. I'm sure I didn't manage an identical paint scheme, but I think I'm fairly close. Since I had to pick this figure up from eBay, I got the original pack with both mounted and on foot. It's nice to have both options!

Here he is accompanied by the army standard bearer, The Candyman. The figure is an old Citadel skeleton, but the scythe had broken off. So I took the logical step and gave him some festive balloons, and modified his shield arm to hold a star-bust swirl lollipop.

 

Next are two undead heroes that were part of the original, less weird OWAC plan that didn't involve flamingos, lollipops, or any of that nonsense. One is an old Citadel mounted wight who was intended to lead the regular undead horse cavalry. The other, on the left, is a more recent figure from Northstar that I was really fond of, and will lead the regiment of armored skeleton infantry. Lastly is an old '80s Citadel Lord of the Rings barrow wight I picked up part way through June. I just had to paint it right away!

 

 

 

Lastly, let us bow our heads to the loss of two more OWAC challengers who dropped out to the Field of Bones - Maciek and Andrea. But all is not lost, they shall fight and paint eternal as part of the Liche's elite painting team. Also, I lost one of the last '80s era paints that was still in usable condition. So it too will be memorialized as a small terrain piece.

 

 

Just when I thought I was in the home stretch and going to finish early, The Overlord posted the below image to the OWAC FB group.

 

I took that as a challenge.

 

Thus, I have a last minute henge, complete with circle of stones, soup, and salad.

 

 

 Here's a candid shot of the Liche about to perform one of his summoning rituals. Soup, salad, and barrels are not glued down, so I can use this for a variety of gaming purposes, not just amassing a skeleton army.

So there it is, June and another OWAC completed! Coming soon, my wrap-up post.

 

June Leader Month
 

1 Liche (lv.15) w/undead horse, pistol.................................... 247 pts
1 Undead Hero (lv. 10) w/Army Standard, lt. armour........... 150 pts

1 Undead Hero (lv. 10) w/ lt. armour, shield.......................... 58 pts

1 Undead Hero (lv. 10) w/undead horse, lt. armour, shield... 68 pts

2 Skeleton Warriors...............................................................   20 pts

1 Wight.................................................................................    100 pts

1 Henge w/stone circle, soup, salad....................................    unlimited skeletons

June Total: 600 pts

Grand Total: 1733 pts

Paul D's May contingent - Cavalry and other Beasties (1206 points)

Well, where did the time go, I started with a load of good intententions which went straight out of the window! As a load of minor distractions accumalated (broken boiler, car, work emergancy trip to vets etc etc.) into one big time-sink, which I slowly had to work my way through (how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time). So here's what I have managed to splash a little paint over.

Another Grenadier giant - 3306, Yvette, Enchantress of the Emerald Isles, by Jannine Bennett. The original box shows a very scantilly dressed figure, just shows how times have changed, for a steady two hundred points.

 

All  based and varnished with a scattering of C series amazons at her feet, which have all recently received a dab of paint, but won't be in this month's entry, as I don't have any bases for them.

Next a selection of  Amazonians riding Sabre-toothed tigers, again from Grenadier, I spent a little time on these girls, providing a more tiger like appearance to the cats and replacing the soft spear shafts with piano wire to give a more uniform/military pose to the unit. Which at forty eight points each provides a total of three hundred and thirty six points for seven of them.

The next batch are a selection of female Centuars carrying bows there were to be more of them but my order of Shadowforge Miniatures turned up short so I added Chiral, Centuar captain by Reaper miniatures 14497 to act as a champion until my original order can be filled. Centuars carrying bows and wearing light armour and shields come in at  thirty seven points each and the champion carrying an additional spear and wearing barding, there's also a centuar level ten wizard - gives a total of four hundred and seventy points.

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Next up, a small Amazonian giantess from Grenadier for another two hundred points

Following up on my idea of mixing and matching the races within this force, I traweled Ebay in search of Female ogres and found these girls, who'll play the part of the army cooks! (Nil points)

So, altogether for the group shot.

Paul/Golgfag1's March - Actual C series amazons plus a few extras (3150 points)

Rank & File month #3 

More troops this month, but this time I'm actually painting 'C30' series Amazonians from back in the day, originally designed by the Perry twins, produced as a foil to the Slann of Lustria. The first time they were promoted by Citdel/ Games Workshop was in the scenario Rigg's Shrine in the second Citadel Compendium, written by Richard Helliwell.

 

So, first up a few spear and bow armed bodyguard, will be playing the part of elite +2, from third edition, giving me sixteen figures at nineteen points each - three hundred and four points.

I'm also going to add a few specialists from other manutacturers as I don't really have that many C series figures and my force needs a little something to provide a little bit of punch - Chariots, via Ral partha, the originls are pulled by human slaves, great for the story, but not much good on the tabletop. 

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So, I switched them for sabre-toothed tigers from Grenadier, which means they move slightly quicker and have a lot more bite when entering into combat. Two chariots with basic crew one hundred and ninety eight points each - three hundred and ninety six points.

My spare time is pretty much taken up with painting for this challenge at the moment, as the early evenings are still fairly dark, and the weather isn't conducive to spending any significant time in the garden. So, I'm going to push on with a second batch of infantry, a mixed bag of C series tribes women, berserkers and Koka-kalim weilding bows, daggers, swords, bolts-pistols and power swords.

This little lot weigh in at a mighty nine hundred and ninety three points, the majority of which is the three powerswords and bolt pistol.

Next up - Pygmie skimishers, weilding either bows or short spears/javelins adding another thirty two points, I've not included for the standard witch doctor or champion.

Whilst trawling E-bay, I dropped upon this dragon (a tiny little thing, not sure what it's from?), which I thought would add a little something to this months mix, I'll be honest attaching the wings was a complete pain, but the simply paint job was done in an evening, so this adds another two hundred and fifty points to this months total.

Before anybody asks how did I manage to dab paint on this little lot in a couple of weeks - Annual leave, as I loose all of any I don't take, on the first April. Recently found this on E-bay, advertised as a living statue, thought it'd would make a nice addition to my growing collection, following on with the Rigg's Shrine - I'm of the opinion that this would make a better avatar for the scenario, than the original model. I've used magnets to make the parts inter-changable from a statue on the plinth to avatar for a thousand points!

 As the end of the month draws ever closer, dabed a bit more paint behind the ears of a few more Pilgrims of various manufacture and ages which shows how attitudes to figure design and nakedness as changed! All I have to do now is base & varnish. I've pointed up this last batch as there's a selection of heroes and magic users mixed in, at a hundred and seventy five points.

This months all based, varnished and ready to join their sisters!

I'm taking next month off, not because I want a break from painting, but I want to paint and post something else, on the Oldhammer Forum. Hope you enjoyed the journey and see you again in May.