Undead - Spearhead 1

Today we get into some Oldhammer, and as it’s getting onto the spooky season, what better than two old honest-to-goodness skeleton warriors. You can’t get more wholesome than that.

This pair of rusty rattlers were sculpted by Roy Eastland back in 1990, and appeared in White Dwarf 133. He only did a few of these undead, and they were easily the best skeleton Citadel had produced for many years, though I recall them being hard enough to get. They are still very highly regarded by Oldhammer folk, and rightly so.

I’m lucky enough to have the full set of these lads, so I think 35 years later is about time to get them painted. I’m currently building a Spearhead force for Age of Sigmar, and it requires a few skelly troops. It’s really just a nice concise list to hang a painting project from.

There’s a lot of fun to be had painting old minis with more modern paints and methods. I used a lot of contrast on these two for glazes and recess washes.Typhus Corrosion technical paint from GW is a wondrous help for weathering and general grime. 

I’m pretty content with my rust technique too, which is mostly red and orange washes over dark silver that has had a brown wash. Then a couple of layers of drybrushing and maybe some edge highlights.

I have quite a few more undead on the paint table, and I’m loving the everyday joy of raising the diminutive dead to do my bidding. 

It’s the simple things, eh?