The Awakened

[Micheal Valdros]

Sorry I havent done anything in a few weeks, I've mostly just been slowly cleaning up the terrorghiest and that isnt interesting enough to take any pictures of. I did take a little break to paint up the tomb swarm, though

I also dug up some old skeletons I painted a few months back but never took pictures of

And I've started work on the headless horseman that I was supposed to do last year. I've already got the parts all picked out and ready to order, so hopefully I'll actually finish the thing this year

 

[Sessioni]

@Micheal Valdros I like your headless horseman -conversion! Clever use of dark elf steeds and black knight barding. I wish I could make a unit of some kind with that conversion, but I don't know what it should represent, as I already have black knights (two sort of), blood knights and hex wraiths..

 

[Mad 'At]

I agree with Sessioni, that conversion is sweet.

Never liked the dark elf horses for what they were, but in undead armies they are really cool.

 

[Farmer7574]

@Micheal Valdros Nice conversion you've done there. Those DE horses really are a nice match.

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Thanks! The DE horse wasnt even the original plan, I just had one laying on my desk and figured I'd save two bucks by using that instead of buying an empire horse. Thankfully it turned out looking even better than the other one would have.

I also hope to have his pumpkin head on a pin so I can take it off when I want him to look a bit more 'serious'

 

[Micheal Valdros]

The third rank of regular skeletons

And here they are in the squad. Sorry this one is so blurry, I have a hard time getting it to focus right for group shots

 

[Micheal Valdros]

The first of the Halloween things (There are about 4, since I ended up with a LOT of extra pumpkins while getting a head for the horseman), a werewolf pup

And this thing that isnt directly halloween related, but I needed an empire character for my FLGS's halloween game so I decided to scrap one together. I plan on adding a cross to the front of his armor, then scratching it up a bit. Maybe some kind of chainmail skirt around the legs

 

[Micheal Valdros]

The second Halloween thing, a pumpkin necromancer:

 

[Farmer7574]

@Micheal Valdros Nice werepup and pumpkin necromancer. The pumpkin guy reminds me of Reaper's Pumpkin Golem, fun model.

Is it me or do your skeletons have 'VALDROS' across their boards?

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Yep, I figured it'd be fun to write something on their shields and the name was the most obvious choice


The pumpkin was definetly inspiried by the reaper model, I ended up with a lot of pumpkins left over and figured I'd try to do something like that without actually having to buy their model

 

[Micheal Valdros]

We ended up needing some magical support for the Halloween game, so I painted this up to use as my hero instead of the guy up there. Still going to paint him, but he's no longer got a deadline.

 

[Micheal Valdros]

More Halloween stuff

 

[TMS]

Nice going with the halloween theme.

One thing that's consistent with pretty much everything I've seen in this thread is the muddy and dirty finish of your bases. Especially the sides of the bases. I assume that this is a conscious decision? I know I wouldn't be able to resist trying to scratch the stuff off, it kind of makes something within me crawl when I see it.

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Its never really been done on purpose, it just kinda happens while painting the model and I generally just kinda forget about it before I scratch it off

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Sorry, forgot to post the last Halloween thing.

 

[Eyeless]

nice halloween stuff man =] like the ideas =D

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Thanks! I figured halloween would be a good excuse to get creative and make some stuff I have no real use for

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Finally made a horse for the Terrorghiest vampire I painted 11 months ago

 

[Farmer7574]

@Micheal Valdros That's a nice vampire lord you've got there. Nice Blood Knight style choice of colours.

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Started work on my black mask gang. In the pictures it looks like theres some weird white spots on the mask, but as far as I can tell those arent actually on the model, so I have no clue what thats about. I also think I messed up on the matte varnish, if thats the case it should be an easy fix though

 

[Micheal Valdros]

The second black mask guy, Mesh

 

[TMS]

Those are some creepy dudes. What will you be using them for?

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Thanks, they're part of the batman miniature game, here's the store thing http://knightmodels-store.com/epages/afaa2a23-c31d-4ae6-b1cd-12757513fd3b.sf/es_ES/?ObjectID=2264863.

 

[Micheal Valdros]

The Black Mask himself. Something weird happened with this ones name tag, and I'm not really sure why. It was completly white originally, but after sealing it it got this weird red tint. Same thing happened on Mesh's base, but its far less obvious on him

And a Nurgle lord. I absolutely love this model, probably my favorite in the whole chaos line

 

[Micheal Valdros]

Edit: Added bloodtrail