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Oxymandias

Zombie
Feb 16, 2022
19
Britain
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What follows is a blog, detailing my journey into undeath. This project is aiming to create an undead army useable in Warhammer Fantasy and Warlords of Erewhon. I will be doing what I always do, hobbying on a budget and trying to convert and use what I have, search for bargains and beg for freebies from passers by instead of purchasing everything new. No doubt some new purchases will occur at some point but these will be treats to myself for hitting certain milestones.

The theme of the army is that of a bishop, whose diocese has been ravaged by plague and war. He begs for aid but Imperial forces are unable to assist. The beasts of the night, ravaging marauders and chaos tainted diseases destroy his congregation before his powerless eyes and his prayers to Sigmar and all other gods of men are left unanswered.

Beset on all sides, he seeks sanctuary in the crypt below the cathedral. And in this place, by candlelight, he sees dusty tombs, strange tombs and large caches of weapons. A single book in particular catches his eye, and despite the sound of the hordes banging upon the door outside, he dares to read aloud from it. His mind is filled with strange languages and an unknown power courses through him. The tombs around him crack open and legions of skeletons begin clambering out and arming themselves for war. Above him, the sound of banging has stopped as the recently buried parishioners have emerged and begun tearing the assailants apart, limb from limb.

The bishop and the undead host then disappear from imperial records. However wanderers still tell tales of the Cursed Covenant and The Black Bishop who appear to battle against the hordes of chaos, or the empire that abandoned them and disappear as quickly as they came.
 

Oxymandias

Zombie
Feb 16, 2022
19
Britain
Current WIP: Zombies

I had a lot of Hobbit Goblins left from my CHaos Dwarf Army:

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And I had a handful of zombie heads given to me by a mate for this project. I replicated these many times using Blue Stuff and UV resin

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These have then been attached, as well as some spare skeleton heads, to the goblin bodies (using only the tallest goblins

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First bits of paint going on (VERY early WIPs)

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Will be working on these a little bit later and will share soon. As well as this, I've started converting Uruk-Hai into Grave Guard using skeleton warrior spares, which I'll share soon too!
 
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Raven Torrid

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Staff member
Sep 3, 2011
567
Croatia
Loving the colour choices and the overall effort! Really digging the bases too, both the patterns and using a turqoise colour on them. Looking forward for more. 🙂
 
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Raven Torrid

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Sep 3, 2011
567
Croatia
This is gonna be one amazing looking army once it is all in one place! 😁

I'm loving the Spirit Hosts...the compositions you made on each base using single models are brilliant!
Might I suggest you enter them to the current instance of our "Turning the World to Darkness" painting competition (LINK)?
The current theme is "Haunting", which is quite fitting. 😏
 
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Unas the slayer

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Staff member
Jan 1, 2017
1,863
Northern Italy
This is gonna be one amazing looking army once it is all in one place! 😁

I'm loving the Spirit Hosts...the compositions you made on each base using single models are brilliant!
Might I suggest you enter them to the current instance of our "Turning the World to Darkness" painting competition (LINK)?
The current theme is "Haunting", which is quite fitting. 😏

yep, that would be perfect!
 
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