These are from my increasingly depleted Greater Undead set. I've got a few vampires/wights and necromancers left but the common archetypes have all been used up.
Not an overly difficult bit of painting, splash some yellows and browns on, wait, then a quick and dirty wash sees them finished. My only regret is not going with a desert base on at least one of the models. I'll keep an eye out for a Egyptian style necromancer to add to the group.
Disclaimer: The central figure might actually just be a severely wounded, heavily bandaged man desperately seeking assistance rather than an ancient, undead ruler.
I've mixed manufacturers here. The third, fourth and sixth are Ral Parthas. I went back to the Southern Death Cult pack and plucked out the zombies. The rest are Splintered Light ghouls from the Greater Undead which could work reasonably well as zombies. The respective styles of both manufacturers is pretty apparent here.
I have to say that these battered undead have the best effort to reward ratio when painting. Green tinting over grey on the skin, brown on the scraps of cloth and some blood effect here and there.
I must say that I prefer the Ral Parthas to the Splintered Lights but your mileage may vary. The central figure is my absolute favourite. Look at him! Lurching forward, axe jammed in skull, gripping his precious handful of flesh.
The first model is my work and was a leftover from a previous Dark Ages project. He's a Celtic farmer from Corvus Belli's Celtic Civilians pack which, as far as I can tell, is no longer in production. I had the old Asterix comics in mind as I worked.
My girlfriend took an interest in painting so I handed over some models into her tender care. The four models on the right are hers. The first pair are from the Splintered Light Greater Undead set and the last two are from Ral Partha's Wood Elf Warband.
The second and third will see action as witches of some kind. I've worked up stats for Wailing Hags below but they are subject to change. I really liked the garish colour scheme on her elven warriors. It would never have occurred to me to go with blue hair and green robes or red hair and blue armour but the colour choice really works well.
Whether improperly buried, having had their resting place disturbed, unfinished business or plain old stubborness, these folks have not passed on.
This is probably my laziest paintjob yet. These are taken from the Splintered Light Greater Undead set. I had played around with a variety of greys and greens on a test model (now awaiting stripping) but the GW Nihilakh Oxide is perfect for the ghostly blue. Three ghosts done, in about as many minutes.
Looking at the pictures, I'm trying to remember if I did anything different with the central ghost as he looks a little better than the others.
These are both from Splintered Light's Greater Undead set. Their minis tend to be a little smaller than the Ral Parthas but beautifully detailed all the same. They do classify the various types of undead found in the pack on their website but a fair amount look like vampires to my untutored eye. I pulled the two that best suited my purposes.
Brought to an untimely and unjust end, the revenant has been granted a single year in which to take its revenge on all foes. This include those which ended its mortal span and those who get in its way.
On the left, I've adapted one of the better-dressed bloodsuckers as a revenant, a ghostly spectre of righteous vengeance. While the face came out well, the clothes were a bit bland. In fact, the blues and grays were so drab that I had to give him bright red gloves to stop the eye sliding right off him. Still, it's a neat paintjob and I really like the final product. The pose also has a quality about it that appeals to me.
The children of the night are often credited with a certain courtly demeanour but some argue that the feral vampire is a more accurate depiction of their true nature. On the right, we have one of these bestial vampires. A fair-minded man could probably argue that he's a ghoul. I chose to use this particular model for the simple reason that he appears to be scratching his unmentionables and his hair reminds me of the Aliens! guy of meme-related fame. He also brings up images of a dirt-encrusted feral vampire about to start loping towards its prey.
