From Mike W: More 28mm Crossbowmen, Egyptian & Greek Undead and 15mm Epic AWI Infantry (166 Points)

 Another varied mix of figures and subjects this week, with hopefully 2 more Squirrel points! New to this year's challenge are a group of Warlord Games Epic 15mm AWI Infantry, painted up as a Militia Unit, curently I have only finished two bases of these little guys but I have a few other Epic bases if I get round to them.

40 x American AWI Militiamen

A view of the left flank of these Militiamen

I made use of speed paints to do most of the heavy lifting on these guys, just a varied mix of jacket colours really. The flag was taken form the internet as a generic Militia standard.

And from the right flank whilst in column of march

Next is a return to the Egyptian Undead theme which sees me finally (after maybe about 15 years!) finishing a box of GW Khemri Charriots... 

I have done at least one of the other two in previous challenges, however, as a kitbashing execise, this one has seen me replace one of the crewmen with a spare mummy figure, (leftover after from an earlier post this challenge).

Complted charriot with crewman and a mummy as it's important passenger.
Tw Horse skulls and two human skulls on this model.

The mummy can be seen better from this angle, I'm out of suitable grass tufts
for a desert so these will be added at a later date when I restock!

I have adjusted this mummy figure by replacing the head with a GW Tomb King's head and adding a rather large spear, again from the GW kit. Painting is basis the same procedures that I have previously detailed.

Close-up of eth crew compartment

And a departing rear shot

By way of a departure on the Undead front I am looking to put together an 'allied' unit of Greek Undead skeletons, armed with spears, the classic round hoplite shields and typical ancient Greek helmets with flamboyant crests.

Completed 5 x Greek Undead Infantry,
I'm cheekily claiming 5 Skull points for these guys, although the
skulls are completly enclosed by their Attic Helmets

Another angle, sorry the auto-focus on camera is messed up by the long spears!

I'm also looking to paint these as specifically Undead Spartans, so the colour theme for the unit will be Red & bone! The figures are Wargames Atlantic Skeleton Infantry  and shields, swords and helmets are 'liberated' from a Warlord Games box of Ancient Spartans.

Again the bases will be improved when I get more grass tufts

Size wise, these two figure sets are a good fit together, a little thinner and shorter than GW Tomb Kings, painting wise it is a similar recipe to the Egyptians above. Cream undercoat, GW Skeleton Horde speedpaint, dry-brushed a bone colour when dry and highlighted with near white.

A Close-up on two of the Greek Undead

Clothes (well rags),  Helmet crests are red, to fit in with the Spartan vibe, with black spear poles and  Brass spear blades, helmets & shields with a red 'V' transfers were used to finish them off.

The other three Greek Undead

Next is another 8 x 28mm Renaissance Crossbowmen, again I won't repeat my painting method as it is the same as noted last week!

Close-up of four of this week's completed batch.

Close up of the other 4 guys

Finally the whole of this week's batch!

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SKULL POINTS

+9 Skulls Egypian & Greek Undead

SQUIRREL POINTS

+2 15mm AWI Infantry, 28mm Greek Undead

POINTS

40 x 15mm AWI Infantry @ 2Pts ea                                80 Points

1 x 28mm Egypian Undead Charriot @ 20 Pts                20 Points

5 x 28mm Greek Undead Infantry @ 5 Pts ea                 25 Points

8 x 28mm Renaissance Crossbowmen @ 5Pts ea            40 Points

TOTAL                                                                            165 Points

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SylvainR for DaveD: I admire the squirrel in you, hoping from one project to the next with equal grace and talent. I especially like the Spartan hoplites. The interwoven references to history and horror culture are quite unique. Oh, and I will add 1 point for the flag. Great job!

From Mike W - More Zombicide Invader, Skaven plus other stuff (175 Points)

 Following on from my first post, I can now present some more Zombicide Invader figures, this time I'll start with some Survivors, in this case a group of five humans and a friendly alien.

In white we have two soldiers in power armour, on the left a nobleman in his own power armour suit, whlist to the right we have a green  insectoid aliean and a young civilian human woman.

Close-up of the nobleman in red body armour, a balistic pistol in his right hand and a chainsword in his left hand.

Close-up detail of the chainsword and attached 'cutter' at his left elbow. He wears a fur lined red cape.

First photo of one of the mining stations, soldiers, who provide local security for the facility. in th egame each survivor character has their own stat card and background lore, this is a guy called 'Inshish Vak'.

Slightly different view, you can see his balistic carbine, breathing apperatus and bionic eye

This is Lt. Jee-Hye, a South Korean officer in the Galactic Armed Forces.

This guy is armed with a balistic pistol and a 'stun stick', basically an electrified club, used in hand combat

This alien is 'Ix-Nix-Zik', armed with a sword and a balistic pistol, this insectoid is a friendly at the mining station.

Allyson, is a civilian worker at the mining station, arned with a balistic pistol and carrying her small pet furry  in her backpack!

Next we travel to ancient Egypt for a short interlude!

Here we have the first of a few undead cat swarms, that I will be using with my Undead Egyptians Army.

You can see that there are four distinct creatures on the base, I'm only claiming points for the combined casting!

Other side view of the Cat Swarm....

Next we have a group of Warhammer Skaven, this is an army that I have been toying with for some time now and I finally took the plunge to paint-up some of these horrible little ratmen.

Two units of 10 x 28mm Skaven, on left areth enewer models and to right are the slightly larger classic models.

Close-up on the newer figures, all carrying spears and shields, unit includes a musician, standard bearer and a leader.

View of the classic Skaven unit, armed with hand weapons and a shield. Note the skull hanging form the banner, see points claims below!

These little guys were fun to paint, the group has a mix of old school models and the relatively new models released by GW in the last couple years. All were undercoated in a cream colour and then Army Painter Flesh tone was used to add definition to all feet, hands, tails and hads before highlighting with regular flesh coloured paint.

First of a couple more views of the Classic figures, as I expand this army I'll mix and match newer and older figures within units.

Second shot of Classic figures, albeit with a standard painted to tie in to the newer ethos!

All fur was painted with GW Gore Grunta Fur contrast paint. Steel was painted using GW Lead Belcha and leatherwork was added using GW Snakebite Leather contrast paint. All was then given a light watered down black ink wash to add with definition before varnishing.

Lastly a shot o fthe newer unit, I have about 20 more of these little guys ready to go, but I might be tempted to do some Orcs first!

I deliberated long and hard on how best to base these guys, my usual fine sand and electrostatic grass combo for figures in the Warhammer world seems so tame for ethese putrid guys, so instad I opted for a dark brown muddy appearance with a smattering of grass and debris. What I was really going for was for them to look like they'd just crawled out of the naerst sewer, not sure I have achieved this!  Worst case I may change it! 

Now back to some more Zombicide Invader Xenos, with eight new guys to add to the growing horde. This goup includes 5 more Drones / Workers, 2 new Tanks and a huge Abomination that will hopefully only make occational appearances...

The eight new figures.

I'll not repeat the painting process in thi spost as I went into this last week, the Drone and Tanks were painted in exactly the same manner as before. It's worth noting the size of teh Abomination, this figure stands 40mm tall toe to head, but it is about 60mm across! Hence I have taken the liberty of claiming for a 40mm figure in this case.

Two new Tank figures, both in same pose. For future figures I'm going to have to immerse them in boiling water to reposition some of the limbs & tenticles to add more variety!

Five new Drones. Four of these are in the same pose,
so again additional figures will get the boiling water treatment!

Painting the Abominationwas a joy to do, basically the same approach as the other figures except that its on a bigger scale! Lots of lovely detail to pick put. This figure seems to have some kind of loincloth cvered in paterned disks, I interpreted this as a brown cloth with broze coloured disks.

Having made that choise it answered a couple of doubts I'd had when doing the TAnk figures previuously, in that they also seem to have loin cloths with a smattering of disks on them. THus these new to Tanks have been similarly painted - I will need to go back to the already painted figures from last week where I left these areas grey...

The monsterous Abomination! I interpreted the three large domes on his body
as huge puss filled boils - sorry if you are eating whist reading this!

The back view, lots of tenticles and claws

Final view, overall I'm pleasewd with this guy

Size comparison of the three Xenos types painted so far.
The Drone / Worker is a regular 28mm figure.

I'm waiting for some more Xenos to be delivered, I enjoyed painting these so much - I have to get more. Also looking t invest in a second hand copy of the game to get all the playing aids....

The Xenos Horde so far

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Skull Points 1 Points

28mm Skaven Banner

Squirrel Points 3 Points

28mm Skaven, Zombicide Characters, Zombicide Xenos *

* I made he mistake of posting 'Squirrels' as the keyword in my last post instead of 'Squirrel', so they didn't coumt! Luckily I have some more Daleks to do as well, so I can recover from that error!

POINTS

7 x 28mm Zombicide Xenos @ 5 Points ea                                                 35 Points

1 x 40mm Zombicide Xenos @ x Points ea                                                    7 Points

5 x 28mm Zombicide Characters @ 5 Points ea                                          25 Points (on 25 not50! Nice try)

1 x 28mm Egyptian Undead Cat Swarm @ 5 Points ea                                 5 Points

20 x 28mm Skaven @ 5 Points ea                                                              100 Points

TOTAL                                                                                                        175 Points

From DaveD . Well there is an eclectic mix of items indeed . Lots of variations here indeed . I do like the big old abomination , so let’s call that one a 10 , so 175 it is .

From Mike W - 28mm Test batch of Medjai Warriors for Egyptian Undead Adventures (30 Points)

This is a test group of figures that will be expanded over time to represent the Medjai - also known as the Pharaoh's Guard - in my planned for Egyptian Undead Adventures series of games! Again these are 'Hollywood' style interpretations of the Medjai tribesmen, used by the Pharaohs as their personal bodyguards. I again apologise for the terrible liberties taken in transposing dress styles from south east Asia to Africa.

Completed test batch of six Medjai Warriors

It seems historically the Medjai were an elusive people whom Ancient Egyptian texts seem to refer to as either an ethnic or an occupational group. In the early part of their history, they appear to have been a subgroup of Nubians associated with a land called Medja in the Upper Nile regions.

According to Hollywood (and specifically the film 'The Mummy'), the Medjai are the Pharaoh's sacred bodyguards, a group who have watched over and guarded Hamunaptra (the Ancient Egyptian City of the Dead) for centuries. They are sworn to do all in their power to prevent the resurrection of the crazy High Priest Imhotep, who wants to use the bodies of the dead as an army to do his evil bidding .

A possible command group, showing black robes and dark blue turbans and sashes quite well

Anyway enough of the history (real and dodgy), these figures are very similar in construction to the Arab Cultists you may have seen on some of my previous posts (here). The difference is the colour scheme that I used to completed the figures.

After a white undercoat, I painted the flesh and gave this a sepia wash when dry, then the robes of these guys were painted dark grey. Turbans and Sashes were painted a bright blue. The robes were then given a couple of Dark Tone washes to give a shaded black look and the blue areas were also given a black wash to add shading  and mute the blue colour a little.

Close-up of the firepower - Left to right, a  Jezails, a musket and a Bowman.

The flag was painted sky blue and then washed blue, before highlighting again in sky blue - this ties in to the sky blue colour scheme I used in previous Egyptian Undead Postings from last year's challenge (here).

Basing was fine sand and dried rocky tufts of dried grass to fit in with the general scheme for this project. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome and will build up this force and start looking for Adventurers to add to the mix, if you want to keep up with the project watch out for more here.

POINTS

6 x 28mm Foot = 30 Points

From DaveD . Nice colour choices - do like the blues . 30 it is 

From Mike W, 28mm Undead Egyptians (120 Points)

So this is possibly my last Egyptian Undead posting of the current challenge, a group of 24 x Skeleton Spearmen including Standard Bearer, Musician and a Champion.

Finished Unit of 25 Skeleton Spearmen

I said possibly - as I have a unit of skeleton swordsmen to complete but with only two days to go and a Late 17th Century Piedmont Infantry Regiment already on the go and nearing completion, I can't be certain!

Unit form the Left Flank

I ran out of proper GW Tomb Kings Shields after my early postings for this army so I have had to resort to scratch building shields for this unit, that  and the fact that these figures are from the original release of plastic skeleton figures from back in the 1990s and slightly smaller than the more modern Tomb Kings figures, means I am using these to represent the earthly remains of a line unit, rather than guardsmen in my other recent submissions.

And from the Right Flank

The shields are cut from cardboard and then adjusted to give them some character. Some have had studs attached, others have had papyrus scrolls added and a couple have simulated damage added.

Six of the Skeleton Spearmen, with ragged shields
and attached Papyrus scrolls & studs.

Additionally, I added a few papyrus scrolls to about four of the spear staffs to again give the unit a slightly different look and feel to the guardsmen skeletons previously done.

Anther batch of skeletons

The shield finish is not so smooth as the finish as you'd get from the plastic GW shields, this due to the porous nature of the cardboard but after a coat of varnish and wash I have deliberately left them looking more ragged to emphasise their peasant roots.

Third group, the studs are sliced spear staffs, super glued to the shields

The figures were purchased as a bulk lot from eBay some time ago and were a bit of a disappointment at the time, being the older style figures and may undercoated in red and pink for some strange reason. I undercoated all these guts with Citadel Screaming Skull, when dry I washed with Army Painter Strong Tone and then again waited until dry before dry brushing with a mix of light sand and Screaming Skull paints.

The Command group from the unit, the Musician has a drum set
 made out of three hollowed out skulls 

Shields were painted light blue and the backs a Khaki/Earth, spear shafts were painted black, Weapons were finished off with Brass, as were the Standard and Shield studs. Papyrus was painted a Linen colour and then various writings were added.

The bases were finished with fine sand.

POINTS

24 x 28mm Foot Figures @ 5 pts ea   =120 Points

Skullz

24 Figures, plus Drum Set (3) plus Standard (3) = 30 Skullz