Lissanne's Undead- We are the Dead (558pts)

First up this month, another unit of skeletons, and another bit of terrain in back, which takes care of the mandatory points.  They have different shields than the other painted unit.  Skeletons are cool!  More skeletons are more cool!

Then, I found the mystery bag in my figurine room.  Surprise! A bag o' undead horses and a carrion, plus some others

Immediately, I got distracted and painted the carrion.  Here it is.

And then I painted 2 of those horses.  Alas, what I haven't found is most of the undead riders.  If I can find them (or cobble them up), more will be painted.  So 2 death riders on Ral Partha undead horses.

Back to my personal goals: One, to finish the unpainted Karr-Kell zombies by challenge end  This month we have a death rider and 3 zombies
Death Rider viking

Zombie Sword Swallower

Zombie Night Watch (where I tried for a bit of lighting effect)

And a zombie Chainsaw Goblin

And my second goal to finish the WQ Catacombs of Terror minis by challenge end   This month I painted the two tomb guardians, who in this army are Level 15 heros to lead skeleton units. I tried something with the bases that wasn't worth the time, but looks nice.  Carden is in the red, Charlotte Greenlaw in the green.

Plus a little cutie skull bomb thrower I found, I'll make him an L5 hero [Nicodemus]to command the 3rd skeleton unit.  Skeletons and zombies seem to need to be directed in WF.

And for good measure, 16 WQ bats.  I tried something with the bases that didn't work at all, and will have to rethink it.   (I plan on doing a wraith host, so I don't think both will count, but they are only 2pts each)  I'll subtract their points from the wraith host later on.

The forces of Dirge rising up in earnest and spreading pestilence, plague & fear throughout the land...
20 Skeleton Unit (20 shields, 10 spears) 230 pts
2 Tomb Guardians (Hero 15)                 85 pts each (170 pts)
Carrion                                                   45pts
3 Death Riders  light armor                   23pts  (69 pts)
3 Zombies                                              12 pts
16 bats                                                   2pt each- (32pts)
Total this month                       ............558pts

And the whole army after 3 months- [already 1000pts and playable, I think.]
I also found and painted the bolt thrower for my undead rhino plague cart! Hooray!

Next month- yet more skeletons, continuing my personal goals, plus other extras!

Lissanne's Undead - Bring out your Dead! Bring out your Dead! (410 pts)

In force, the vanguard of the army of Dirge rises from out the ocean waves to attack the unsuspecting town of Merchant's Reach...

The song of the Plague Cart seems an appropriate title for this month.  After doing my obligatory squad of skeletons, I wanted to do some more extras.

Each month I should try to do 2 or 3 zombies and a death rider if I want to finish all the Karr-Kell figures.  Did I cherry pick the easier zombies?  Yes.  But I finished 3 and a Death Rider

Death Rider

Pretty Lady zombie

Orc Zombie

And Dirge's undead Golden rottweiler

And I also finished the carrion I wanted to repaint to match the Tolkien fluff and my other carrion

AND...the undead war rhino as Plague cart, which turned out to be way easier than I thought.  I even dug out the 3 original skeleton riders and painted them up.  Still haven't found the catapult, but it's a plague cart so that is OK.  I can't believe I got this done after all these decades.

So, points are:
20 Skeleton Unit (20 shields, 10 spears) 230 pts
Carrion 45 pts
Undead Rhino Plague cart 100 pts
3 Zombies 12pts
1 Death Rider  light armor 23 pts
Total: 410 pts

That's a lot of rank and file done 
(I am spreading the spears pts 10 each to the 3 units because math bites.)

Dirge's skeleton army starts its rise from the ocean floor to attack the town of Merchant's Reach.  The plague cart has already claimed its first victims who march with it now as zombies, and there are still many more to come.  Her faithful rottweiler marches in the fore, her eyes and ears before she appears.  The carrion flies overhead, scouting out the path.

Don't expect this much every month! I do have my main units planned, I just got a lot of extras done this month too!

Next month, I plan to do Dirge the lich on her throne (and palanquin) if things go well.  If things go poorly, another unit of skeletons!

James' The P is Silent (235 Points)

Upon reaching the eastern coast of Lustria, Slange's troops unloaded and began setting up a base camp for him.  They didn't require much, of course, but a safe perimeter from which to operate would help keep his mind clear.

Strange leathery birds soared through the air here and looked like they would decay far less quickly in this heat than the large carrion vultures from back home.  Slange turned a few and set ghostly scouts upon them go forth and gather valuable intelligence on this unknown land. 

The scouts ranged out and located some small villages populated by what looked almost like halflings, albeit a bit thinner and more tribal.  Given their limited military use, he decided they were probably far less trouble to just leave alone and sent the carrion deeper into the jungle.

Slange bolstered his forces a bit with the occasional remains of Old World conquistadors' exploration parties and bided his time until the scouts found what he was looking for...an ancient city!

May's big excitement was getting to work on the Pterrordactyls, which are three 'Wraith on Pteradons' from Alternative Armies. Not that anyone needs a reason to paint a wraith on a dinosaur, but the idea here was to provide some dovetailing between my army and Brennan's Slann; our plan from day 1 was to have our OWAC II armies duke it out in Lustria.

I also finished up five more old archers that I got from AA.  That should give the army enough for two units of six bony bowmen.

The main skeleton unit gets bulked out to a nice classy 10 models with the addition of a Grenadier horn blower that showed up unannounced one day in a very random EBay grab. The unit also gets a standard from AA, with the banner coming from a scrap piece of printer paper.

May's Total
3 Pterrordactyls (carrion) - 135 points
5 Archers - 60 points
Standard and Musician - 40 points
Total - 235 points

Sybou's rise of the undead part.2 or ... the short month (220pts)

Hello everyone,

so here we are, back for the 2nd month of the OWAC.

I 'm still in the race, painting my skeletons and undeads.

For this month I kept on painting my carrions which allowed me to finish the unit completly.

I 'm quite surprised that this is the first unit of undeads I finished because they're not my favorite.

Last Carrions

So, they still wear their yellow dress and hood. One of them is from Knightmare miniature. It was a present from their kickstarter Pantheon of chaos.

Carrions unit (180 pts)

So, this is my first unit for my undead army. Carrions are a really typical unit from the undead's era when i started warhammer. They were painted in all kind of colors by this time.

Then I got my skeletons, 11 more!

Skeletons

For this batch, I had 7 shields to paint. They all show the white swan of their former duchy. Only one of them has a kind of uniform, I stayed with brownish colors for the rags of the others.

Skeletons unit (232 pts)

Here is the unit so far. 22 skeletons. I still have 13 to paint to finish totally the unit.

I'm pretty happy with the result, I like seeing my unit growing in numbers with painted miniatures.

As a bonus, for the month, I painted my vampire lord. This guy is clearly out of the challenge because he costs a silly amount of points. He's sitting on a scibor base to make him stand out. 

All my heroes will receive this kind of base.

"Rise my slaves!!!"

Army group shot for end of february

So right now, I painted 420 pts of my army. Next month will be:

• 13 skeletons with banner and musician: 165 pts
• 1 skeletal champion: 55 pts

March's skeletons

I don't have the picture for the skeletal champion also this will have to wait for march.

I hope you all enjoyed my post. For the sequel of the challenge I plan to add other bonus like my vampire here and there. The plan is to take advantage of the energy given by the challenge to make big progress on the full army.

Soon ... Soon ...

Take care everyone, cheers!

Sybou