Undead Horde (the Old World)

And another unit filler for skeleton! Or it might be a proxy for a baggage train 🤔

A simple unit filler with more Highland miniature skeletons (3D printed ). As usual, quite a few spears broke off during shipping and had to be fixed/replaced or are still bent 🤷‍♂️

I have to finish one more unit filler, then I might try to craft some terrain pieces for TerrainFest 🙂

Painted the Highland Miniatures skeletons for the first time (3D printed). I was not impressed wirh the 3d print, but I think they came out great after some painting 🙂

Now I have to paint some Vampires as it’s a Vampire Count after all 🤔

Finished some Grave Guards proxy for the old world.

With some minor tweaking/twisting some arms around, I used AOS Deathrattle skeleton and they rank up pretty well 🙂.

My quick technique for painting skellybob.

I painted the shields separately with some double-sided tape on a small mdf board.

To make the shields more worned out, I drilled some holes and add some chips with a small blade.

Dirty Down Rust can leave a very stark transition between the Rust part and the non-rust part, so I feathered the edge of the rust with some thinned down seraphim sepia.

(Dirty Down Rust is a water soluble product, so it reactivates when mixed with regular acrylic paint or acrylic washes.)

Added a bit of thinned down fluo orange (pro-acryl) in some selective parts of the rust. It adds a bit of a “pop” effect to the rust that I really like.

The base is done with the quick application of three different inks and quick light drybrush afterwards.

Added some pigment powder over both the base and the lower parts of the skeleton.

Not 100% satisfied with the verdigris look for the shields, so I will probably tweak the recipe a bit the next time.

(For skeletons, I normally batch paint them 5 to 10 at a time. For every batch, I always try a slightly different paint recipe. It’s more interesting, plus trying next things help me more improve as a painter 🙂