After my last post on this army, I was stumped trying to find a source for additional shields to fit out the few skeleton figures that I had in my spares box. Thanks to everyone for your ideas and offers!
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| Newly rediscovered Warhammer Tomb King Boxes! 😀 |
One of the things I like best about this annual challenge is that it forces me to go through my metal and plastic mountain and find models to paint. To that end, I took a trip into my loft on Friday night to check what could find...
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| Completed unit of archers, add that to the 10 I did a couple weeks ago, then a sizeable missile force. |
... Tucked away in the dark recesses was a storage box that I'd forgotten about, when opened it turned out to be an Aladdin's cave of Warhammer boxed sets and unpainted figures!
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| Another view of the completed Archer Unit |
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| A close-up of five of the boney blighters |
As an aside, there were also a bot of unmade Lizardmen, a pile of undercoated Lizardmen and a box literally crammed full of undercoated Orcs. Hopefully I will work through these in the remaining weeks of the challenge as well as getting some more historical figures completed as well.
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| Five more skeleton archers |
Well as a starter for 100, I've made-up a new unit of 20 Skeleton Archers, outfitted and dressed as per the unit I did early in this challenge and added a scratch built musician and a standard bearer / champion. I made the drum from two round shields glued together and a paper strap, for no other reason than I could and it will differentiate the Archer units from the spearmen units with their musicians carrying a horn.
I've also started work on the Chariots and some spearmen - but that is for another post.
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| The third set of five skeletons in the unit |
Once the figures were built and undercoated in a light earth colour I gave them a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone before dry-brushing with Screaming Skull. I maintained the light / dark blue colour theme by doing bows and quivers in light blue and straps and details in dark blue, then washed in a diluted blue ink.
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| The unit's Command section, Big Bass Drummer to keep up the rhythm of firing off arrows and a Standard Bearer come Champion. |
All trim was done in gold and washed with dark tone ink. Everything was then covered with a matt varnish
Bases were painted with a light sand paint and then a fine sand, I held off on the electrostatic grass at this stage as I'm running short and awaiting a new delivery, plus not every figure in the army needs the tufts to maintain the look and feel.
