The Skeleton Horde: My first painted figure in nearly 5 years!

 

Well, I came home from school and had a go at painting one of Bree's plastic skellies. Sticking with my homemade palette of 'Citadel Colours' I had a whale of a time painting up an axe wielder. Trying to ape the more flesh and red colour scheme of the original Skeleton Horde was great fun too, and I mostly used my Bronzed Flesh paint with increasingly large measures of white.  

Previous skeletons I've painted in the long past were always too bright for my liking (probably even then I was subconsciously trying to 'be the horde') so I held off using pure white, save for the stones on the base of the miniature. I am very pleased with the colour tones of the bone but not the execution of the finer detail.

Oh, look at those terrible blobby ribs! Here's hoping that with the remaining figures still to do I'll sharpen up and I can come back and tweak the finish of this example later on. I plan to have a go at some freehand shields too when all four models are complete.  

I am happier with the back of the model. I was loosing up a bit when it came to my brushwork but even so my technique is awful. I used to be able to fine line tiny details back in the glory days of the blog and I hope I can achieve a similar level of skill. My lighting is poor, with that borrowed school lamp so perhaps some more natural light in spring and summer with ease the old eyes. 

Without a suitable back drop, I used my battered Citadel Colour box as a quick background. It looks suitably '80s to me. 

Looking at the finished model, I will probably need a final highlight around the skull, hands and ribs to make things 'pop' but I'll get the other models finished before experimenting with that. 

Orlygg