Greetings from a lurker who has poked around in here for a while, but never signed up before. As I'm nearing completion of my Undeadening project, I thought I should log in and contribute- if for no other reason than posterity. Maybe something I post will spurn someone else on to finish something, as so many others have inspired me.
Undead were the first real army I collected and played for WHFB, starting around 4th ED.
They were mostly done, to the standard I used to accept (nonuniform bases, no finished bases on most of them, etc etc) but there were a few things I wanted to flesh out, a few figures I picked up here and there after other armies caught my painting and gaming attention, etc. Since I started this whole collection around. . . 1992ish... it seems like I should have it wrapped up by now. So a few months ago, I decided to cast aside my normal 'paint whatever strikes my fancy' tendancies, and focus and finishing this thing.
Now that I'm nearly there, I figure I ought to post things on the biggest undead hang out I know of.
Onward to unlife!
Step one was getting rid of half of my mounted skeletons. The good half were of course from the great Skeleton Army box. The other half were single pose, bendy plastic... I don't even remember the brand, but they came like 10 to a bag for ~$10.00, back in the 90s.
So those got getting the heave-ho, and I started watching ebay for plastic skellies to back-fill them. I got a pile of the old horsemen, but the riders turned out to be in shit condition. I found cheap riders from a newer set through Hoard-o-bits (recommended seller- decent price, quick delivery and all that).
I dug up all the OOP lance arms I could find, and gave the remaining few spears and sword.
I know the grateful dead motif is probably not that unique, but this batch is designed to fit in with the existing stuff from 20 years ago, and that's what I did back then, so I'm sticking with it.
Another legacy of the undead being my first serious army collection, was that I never based them. So, part of finishing the army with a few new units is going to be finishing bases for nearly the whole army.
I figured I might as well make that inevitable project a fraction smaller, and so went to the basement and dug up the old horsemen, and flocked them as well, so I could do the whole batch at once.
Its a pretty rough old lot from back then.... some centaurs with fucked up weapons (these were some of the first conversions I ever did), the GD shields are sculpey, the bike is a Matchbox I think, and I have no recollection what the liche leadery type is from. Partha or Grenadier maybe.
Anyway, It feels good to finally have them all done, even if they are mishmash of styles, skill levels, and figure styles, spanning a couple decades.
Stay tuned for more.
Undead were the first real army I collected and played for WHFB, starting around 4th ED.
They were mostly done, to the standard I used to accept (nonuniform bases, no finished bases on most of them, etc etc) but there were a few things I wanted to flesh out, a few figures I picked up here and there after other armies caught my painting and gaming attention, etc. Since I started this whole collection around. . . 1992ish... it seems like I should have it wrapped up by now. So a few months ago, I decided to cast aside my normal 'paint whatever strikes my fancy' tendancies, and focus and finishing this thing.
Now that I'm nearly there, I figure I ought to post things on the biggest undead hang out I know of.
Onward to unlife!
Step one was getting rid of half of my mounted skeletons. The good half were of course from the great Skeleton Army box. The other half were single pose, bendy plastic... I don't even remember the brand, but they came like 10 to a bag for ~$10.00, back in the 90s.
So those got getting the heave-ho, and I started watching ebay for plastic skellies to back-fill them. I got a pile of the old horsemen, but the riders turned out to be in shit condition. I found cheap riders from a newer set through Hoard-o-bits (recommended seller- decent price, quick delivery and all that).
I dug up all the OOP lance arms I could find, and gave the remaining few spears and sword.
I know the grateful dead motif is probably not that unique, but this batch is designed to fit in with the existing stuff from 20 years ago, and that's what I did back then, so I'm sticking with it.
Another legacy of the undead being my first serious army collection, was that I never based them. So, part of finishing the army with a few new units is going to be finishing bases for nearly the whole army.
I figured I might as well make that inevitable project a fraction smaller, and so went to the basement and dug up the old horsemen, and flocked them as well, so I could do the whole batch at once.
Its a pretty rough old lot from back then.... some centaurs with fucked up weapons (these were some of the first conversions I ever did), the GD shields are sculpey, the bike is a Matchbox I think, and I have no recollection what the liche leadery type is from. Partha or Grenadier maybe.
Anyway, It feels good to finally have them all done, even if they are mishmash of styles, skill levels, and figure styles, spanning a couple decades.
Stay tuned for more.
