Moving away slightly from the Silver Bayonet theme this week, I present a zombie cowboy:
Apologies for the picture being so dark on the face, this was hurriedly taken this morning while it was starting to rain! Here’s a WIP pic from last night that I sent a buddy that proves that I painted the face:
This is an odd entry this month, as I have literally no use for a zombie cowboy (although I do own a copy of Dracula’s America), but it was one of those times where inspiration struck while converting some other zombies, as the Wargames Atlantic heads with cowboy hats were so cool I couldn’t resist! The rest of him is straight Great Escape Games Gunfighter, which are such beautiful clean sculpts that they are a real pleasure to paint!
I also painted the back too, as is traditional.
To keep things on the Silver Bayonet theme though, I also painted this Ghostly Norman Horseman:
One of the nice things about reaching an age and having been in the hobby for a while is that I’ve hit the point where if inspiration strikes me, I’ve probably got something in the backlog that would be suitable (which is handy, as otherwise I’ll order new miniatures, and that initial rush of enthusiasm may well have waned by the time they get here). This singular knight, for example, was thrown in during a trade made on the Lead Adventure Forum at least fifteen years ago, if I recall correctly.
Here’s the other side. He’s come out a little bit chalky (my pot of GW white is basically a globby brick at this point), but done is done, and he’ll look snazzy enough on the table if I ever get round to finishing my Silver Bayonet warband. You’d think this is a three step paint job, but as ever, I made things more complicated than usual by drybrushing several successively lighter layers onto the grey base coat in the hopes that would then show through the ghostly layer, but in hindsight I probably would have gotten much the same result just washing it onto a flat base coat, but that’s just how it goes sometimes.
Finishing these two miniatures brings the Tally to:
27 vs 247 = -220
Next - more zombies!
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