Just John's Undead (308 points)

Rank & File #1 

This post will be short and sweet as there isn't a lot to say. Originally I had planned on painting 24 skeletons of the Nightmare Legion and while I managed to get the troopers painted the hero. musician and standard bearer didn't make it in time. Still its a start and I have learned a lot this month about these type of challenges. In the end I managed to get 22 troopers painted for a total of 308 points.

I haven't added static grass to the bases as I am undecided whether to use my regular mix or attempt something deader to give the impression of grass dying as the undead cross it. I will mess around with a few styles during February so will do these bases with the next batch. I also need to improve my photo set up as my graded background is too small for the units and my game table is currently covered in work stuff. I will be more organised in February!

Jesse's Undead (1335 points)

This month was all lockdown so I got stuck into some painting. I was a bit worried after the earlier mulligan so I thought I would try and catch up on the plan I had come up with when I started. I ended up completing all of the units I had planned for the whole challenge so I am going to have to add in some extra units for the last two months.

The new characters, units and war machine.

I had a good time painting most these guys. The beast head champion and the beast pelt musician from the grim reaper unit were really cool miniatures. I had a couple of failures, my first liche and a vampire ended up in the stripping jar, which caused me to rethink my character choices. I painted a necromancer to see what trying to paint non-undead skin was like and it turned out ok so that gave me a necromancer. Next I wanted to try painting yellow so that turned into an army standard and resulted in all of the characters having a yellow element to make them stand out. Finally, the warhammer 3rd editition beastiary describes liches as 'power crazed weirdos' so I looked through my miniature trays to find something that matched that description.

Liche WIP

This miniature looked like it would work but I decided that a bone mask might make him look more liche and less chaos sorcerer.

The final breakdown of characters, units and war machines was as follows:

Level 20 liche 345
Level 10 necromancer 85
Level 15 undead hero, army standard, light armour 137
Level 20 undead hero, heavy armour 108
Level 10 undead hero, heavy armour 58
17 nightmare legion, standard, musician, spear, shield, light armour 266
Level 15 undead hero, light armour, double handed weapon 89
14 grim reapers, standard, musician, light armour 224
Stone Thrower & screaming skull ammunition. 85

Necromancer, Liche and Army Standard

The Grim Reapers

Knightmare legion

Stone Thrower