Or Maybe...
I've had a long sabbatical away from wargaming (about 18 months at a guess). I completely lost my mojo and retreated into music. As a result I wrote, rehearsed and recorded an album of original songs, to which I'm currently putting the finishing touches. It will will be out in a few weeks. If you want you can listen to a single right here: Atom Bomb by The Voodoo Dudes.
Anyway, enough of my carry on... I'm back at the modelling workbench and gearing up to get myself back to the wargaming table. I initially started with a continuation of my 10mm War of Spanish Succession but soon reverted to a project that I left sitting around when I stopped dead! And that project was basing my Army of The Dead for Midgard. This was a project that totally baffled me when I started so many months ago. However, looking at it with fresh eyes made the whole project fall into place.
These figures are a collection of anything that fits the theme. There's a whole bunch of cheap Warhammer skellington things, Oathmark revenants, Mantic figures made from that horrible plastic stuff that they use, el-cheapo Wizkids D&D figures, Reaper Miniatures, and other bits.
This army is large enough that it can be reasonably be considered to be called an army. On the wing are the Ghost Riders (but they're not in the sky). I'm pretty certain that these are from the Mantic, Kings of War range. For what they are they're pretty good but they don't have tails and that make them look odd. I need to rebase the commander on a round/oval base.
These ghostly skeleton guys are GW. I got a couple of cheap sprues of them at a swap-meet along with the rider and other matching figures. A few years back GW released a magazine that came with a sprue of these critters for $5.00. So I bought a whole bunch of them. I still have a couple of sprues waiting to be made.
More from Mantic - The army has a lovely swarm of graveyard rats to act as a skirmish screen. I'm not sure if I'll give them a pseudo shooting attack or just make them fast and worthless just for the purpose of swamping the enemy to cause manoeuvrability problems.
For big hitters I have a giant skellington which came in the same swap-meet bundle mentioned above. It's a cheap toy but it painted up okay and works with the army. The Bone Dragon is a Reaper Bones figure. Looks good and intimidating.
The figures at the front are Reaper Bones. I think they are wights or maybe Death Knights(?)... I can't recall. As it is these are my Not-Ringwraiths. They came in two 3-packs. The figure at the centre, I made into a leader/general by adding a big sword and mounting it taller. The others will be heroes or lesser command figures. The ghosts behind where the next release by GW and came with another magazine. I think they're supposed to be banshees, but I'm just calling them ghosts. Very nice figures.
Oathmark Revenants are great undead figures. I have another box waiting to be made up. The two bases of archers at the front were made by kitbashing with bows and bits from the plastic Wargames Atlantic Goblin set. I want to make at least two more bases of these. I only made 12 so each base has an axe weilder as a stand in for the time being.
The army has a flying contingent made up of gargoyles. These too are Mantic. Nice figures with a lot of character. Three bases of these creatures swooping down should be enough to intimidate most enemies. In the photo below is another aspect of the flying corps (pun intended). A bat swarm. I'm pretty certain that these are Reaper bones. Sort of a flying version of the rat swarms.
Undead knights. I don't know where came from. If you know please tell me in the comments because I'd like to get more. Great looking figures.
Two of my commanders. The skeleton knight is a great figure and is large and intimidating enough to make a great general. He came in the swap-meet deal. The figure next to him (below) is a resin figure that I found at another swap-meet. I don't know where this figure comes from. It looks good though.
A mood shot. This is how the whole army should appear. Dark and frightening...
Their opponents will just have to use their imaginations in order to scare themselves.
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And that's it for my first post-sabbatical blog post. I hope to start posting a regularly again. I think I need to play a couple of games and then do a battle report sometime in the near future.
Thanks for reading.
