| The completed Elephant stand, from the rear |
Following on from my Tomb Kings Show & Tell update a couple weeks ago, I have been busy adding more units and characters to the army and upgrading one of the existing Skeleton units.
| New regiment of Skeleton Spearmen for the Tomb Kings Army |
First up is a new unit of 3D printed skeletons, all spear and shield armed and I think that these were Highland Miniature figures. I'm not 100% certain as I got, these as a used but unpainted lot on eBay. All I had to do was clean them up and add bases, luckily, I had a supply of old 20mm bases, which suits me fine - this aligns with the rest of the army.
| Another view of these 3D printed figures |
These figures seem pretty robust and come with the shields seperate which can be added prior to painting. As ever a cream undercoat and then a wash of Skeleton Horde before a further dry brush of boney goodness. Shields and weapons were opainted light blue and then washed with blue ink to give an aging effect.
| Final view of the regiment |
I have gone over to using Army Painter 'Hoplite Gold' for metal work and this is a fantastic paint to use. I then drybrush thus with a bright metalic brass and then use a silver marker pen to give final highlights.
| Six new Ubashi figures, these will be lead by a GW original metal Ubashi figure |
Next up are six Ubashi figures, these are resin / 3D printed figures from Tabletop Figures, again sourced frmo eBay and good value for money. The figures come with 40x40mm MDF bases and the figures were superglued to these before poainting.
| Close-up of one of the Ubashi, mummified animal dieties |
| I like the pose on this figure! |
| First of two figures in thi spose, thta came with the set. |
I used much the same process as I used on the Carrion Birds in the last tomb Kings post, as these are also mumified figures I used Ratling Grime as a base colour to give that aged, dirty brown look.
| Another nice pose! |
| I may neeed to do some more work on these figure's blue loin cloths, close-up photos on some of these show additional detail is required |
| Final Ubashi figure, again a nice pose. |
Next is a new character figure, a mumified Queen Cleopatra, this is another resin figure, this time 35mm in scale and part of the 'Rumbleslam' range. Once again the painting approach was the same as for other figures.
| The Mummy Queen - Cleopatra |
| Another view - Cleo is being raised by ethral hands to the sky! |
| Final view of Queen Cleo |
Lastly this week there's an upgrade for a skeleton unit featured on my orginal Tomb Kings posting, this unit was originally armed with spears but had no shields. I found an old box containing some Tomb king Shields and painted these up, before adding the additional protection to my existing unit.
| Selection of shields painted-up to upgrade an existing Spear only armed regiment! |
| Said regiment without shields, before upgrade |
| Upgraded unit now with shields! |
| Three Carrion Vultures |
| And again! |
| The Army as it stands now, the eagle eyed viewers will see gaps and obvious opportunities to enhance it further. |
| A unit of 18 sword armed figures, with Standard Bearer, the unit is crying out for a champion and a musician to be added |
| A unit of 35, axe and shield armed skeletons, with Musician and Standard Bearer, a Champion would be desirable to complete the unit. |
| Five, Reaper Miniatures, Tomb Guards. I like these figures but they are pretty hard to get hold of in the UK. |
| Four Mummies, currently no place in the OldWorld Warhammer Fantasy setting, these guys are old plastic GW Heroquest figures. |
| Blue spear unit of skeletons, 18 strong, clearly awaiting additional figures to make up their numbers! |
| My single Ushabi figure, I need to source two more, GW ones are ludicrously expensive so I'll look for alternatives |
| Then my single Chariot, I need to find the other two I have been threatening to build over the past few years, this kit dates back to the early 2000s. |
| Two horsemen with standards, clearly scope for additional cavalry to be added or possible to be used as Army Standards |
| A few spare odds and ends figures |
Dave was recently asking me for an inventory of my AK47 collection, which has to be admitted were mostly originally produced by him and John - as far as I can remember. After much procrastination I eventually went up into the loft and recovered the four boxes of figures!
Here is the collection laid out, there seems to have been 3 forces put together, the Yellows and Oranges, plus a small group of Reds and my own small contribution of 'uncoloured' figures. Additionally there is a motley collection of various vehicles, to which I contributed quite a few, that can be used by side in these scenarios.
THE YELLOWS
As might be expected all of these units have their stands 'flagged' with yellow rear corners.
| Almost all of the Yellow Team on display - see below! I missed one of the yellow units that was in another box... |
| The wayward unit.. These guys with yellow berets appear to be regulars, with a smattering of mercenaries within their ranks. |
| The bulk of the Yellow forces, lower grade regulars or militias. |
| A bit of a close-up on another Militia unit |
| And again on another unit |
| Yellow Mortar teams |
| Yellow Recoilless Rifle team |
| Three Yellow HMG Teams |
| And finally some more Yellow Berets |
THE ORANGES
Similar to the Yellow team, all of these units have their stands 'flagged' with orange rear corners.
| The Orange Team laid out and arrayed on the table |
| Blue Beret, professionals |
| What appears to be regulars and/or Militia units |
| Weapons teams, in front of the Blue Berets |
| More Weapons Teams |
| Regular Orange Infantry Teams |
| A fairly large number of Revolutionary Guards teams, in distinctive khaki uniforms |
| And finally more Weapons Teams |
THE REDS
Again all of these units have their stands 'flagged' with red rear corners, as can be seen, this is a much smaller team, that can presumably be allied (or be a locally raised mercenary force) with either the Yellows or Oranges...
| A small but perfectly formed Red Team! |
| A regular Red infantry team |
| Green Berets, elite forces |
| And a few Heavy Weapons teams in front of some more regulars |
THE 'UNCOLOURED'
These are Mike W's contribution to the collection, as can be seen by his distinctive basing technique!
| Again a very small force with a base from either John or Dave's contributions that missed it's coloured tags, now acting as a command stand. |
THE VEHICLES & OTHER STUFF
All of these can be assigned to any team, according to scenario needs, shown in no particular order...
| Heliport with Warlord / President arriving to bard helicopter, all covered by local TV crew. Note the two standard bearers - to provide focal point for either the Yellow or Orange teams! |
| Another Helicopter |
| A moltey group of vehicles. A Russian made jeep, an M113, a South African ATV, another Russian Armoured Car and finally another unknown Armoured Car |
| Three more transports lorries, of various ages and reliability, two are armed with MGs |
| Trucks, Bus, Technicals and Crocodiles! |
| Five Armoured Cars, two MG armed, three with significantly more firepower! |
| Three Field Guns |
| Eight ubiquitous Uni-Mogs, for transporting troops |
| Four Armoured Cars, converted by Dave from old Dinky Toys, believe these represent ex-British Army AFVs. |
| Three US built and possibly dodgy supplied M48 Pattons |
| Five Transport Tucks, in Cammo finish, two carrying Recoilless Rifles, sourced by Mike W, from cheap kids toy sets |
| As above but painted Drab Green |