Maciek's undead: wild... ghouls? (80 points)

Wild card month... 

(or  Rank & file month #5)

Hi all

As the undead march forward leaving death and destruction in their wake, ghouls follow to feed on the dead and wounded that the necromancer does not reanimate. My May entry is a small band of these foul cannibals that have to find a place in a classic undead army.

 

 

It's a mix of 4th and 6th edition models with a Heresy ghoul and West Wind hunchback assistant thrown in for good measure. Painting was straight forward: pallid, sickly skin and - for contrast - warm, leathery browns for the ragged clothing.

 

So what's wild in the wildcard month? Well not much apart from the ghouls. While I anyway planned to use this month to produce more rank and file for the undead horde, I had bigger ambitions: a screaming skull catapult, leftover zombies from last month and a couple of 80s skeletons rescued from the bottom of the bits box. But May turned out to be surprisingly hard. In addition to peak-time at work, family commitments it was also... painting attrition. It's a fifth month painting ranks upon ranks of cadavers so the motivation for painting the undead bagan to wane a bit. I found myself drawn by other models and spending hobby time preparing the next painting project (OWAC V, I hope!).  Ultimately I made it, but by the skin of my teeth. Phew!

Now for the final push to prepare the dark masters of undead - June will be the leader month. This will be few detailed character models, so should bring back the painting mojo .

Cheers, 

Maciek