I've just finished off the latest dead lads for the dwarf and goblin warbands for Bonefields, two more slayers and three goblin spearmen. As has been pointed out, the way I've painted the slayer's loincloth makes it look like saggy soiled underpants, which after I finished laughing about I decided only added to the undead horror. Truly a fate worse than death.
The painting has reached a point where they can now be called warbands. The goblin vampire above commands four archers, four spearmen, two swordsmen, one goblin hero and one heavy infantryman with halberd. I can also let slip what you get in the Bonefields starter set for the goblins.You get the lads here below:
So it's four spearmen, four archers and the goblin vampire. There is an insane amount of units you can add to this starting warband. I hear tell of undead Squi- ah, I mean rotund cave dwelling monsters, cavalry, command models and even war machines. The sculptors Alessio Cisbani and Darren Edwards are doing mighty work indeed, along with the indefatigable Chris Nicholls, owner of Macrocosm and creator of Bonefields.
As to the dwarves, here's the warband as it stands. The dwarf necromancer controls a dwarf hero, two dwarf wights, four slayers, (two with greatweapons and two with two axes) and four warriors with sword and shield.
For the dwarf side of the starter set you get four warriors, four slayers and the dwarf Necromancer. All told the set contains eighteen miniatures at the time of writing.
The dwarves are likewise set to receive a load of models to expand the warband. Cavalry, zombies, crossbowmen, command and even artillery.
I have two more undead on the table at the moment which I'll be using to build a painting tutorial for techniques used on the models seen above. One is another goblin heavy infantryman for rusted and worn armour and the other, the bone tutorial, is fanatical about his ball and chain.
The Bonefields Kickstarter kicks off on the 23rd of February.
Look great man!
ReplyDeleteThanks Riot!
DeleteCracking! I really envy your rate of output with such a high standard.
ReplyDeleteThanks Curis, very nice of you to say! Oddly it was a project where I removed a couple of steps and replaced them with quicker techniques (like painted in inks around joints and such to add graduation back in after layering) to speed up, as well as increasing the contrast on the metals when drybrushing. It resulted in faster output without really compromising the paint-job, so one is pretty happy.
DeleteTop notch.
ReplyDeleteCheers Airborne.
DeleteThose are lovely, great work.
ReplyDeleteI'm sad that I won't get to play games with/against those lovely paint jobs though.
Thanks Cheetor. I'm bummed about that too. I don't really like painting minis only to send them away TBH, but I make the very odd exception.
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