I've snuck in just an hour here and there for hobbying over the last few months. It's been nice, but it hasn't really felt like a significant or actual respite from anything. More just like gulping down some air while swimming hard. Thankfully, I was able to squeeze some in longer hobbying sessions over a few consecutive evenings, which has felt much better. Here are some Undead Revenants!
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| The horde dead-on. |
I know there is a difference between Mantic's Revenants and their Skeletons, but it was never distinctive enough for me, so I wanted a completely different unit. I technically already have some GW Grave Guard for this from the multi-system undead, which works fine, but I still wanted something else and something that was multi-based.
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| The horde from an angle. |
The models are Oathmark Revenants, with shields from Fireforge's Russian Infantry. They aren't very imposing miniatures, but the shields help sell their defensiveness, and the older look of the soldiers suggests ancient and revered warriors raised to fight, which to me makes sense.
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| A regiment. |
Paint-wise, I'm starting to embrace more unique effects for my unit, and trusting in the basing and such to tie everything together for the Undead. If any army can be expected to look a bit disorderly, it's gotta be the Undead, right? All I knew going into this was that I wanted them to be pink. These were started a month or so ago, and I'd just spend an hour fiddling. They got a Pink Horror base, an Emperor's Children highlight, a red wash, and more passes with the pinks before I called that good. Skin got multiple passes and attempts as well, and is ultimately a Skavenblight Dinge base color. I tried blues as a highlight but couldn't settle on the right one. Eventually the purplish Daemonette Hide became the highlight, and they have a nice desiccated look to them. The armor was a new color for me: Warplock Bronze, which is a color I picked up from Will and his Abyssal Dwarfs. It's just a nice, dark metallic. I like it! I went with a brighter silver (Ironbreaker) for everything else, trying to make the silver stand out but not look out of place. Overall, I really like the presentation. The slow experimentation over a few weeks was rough, especially when I decided I didn't like something and had to backtrack and lose a few days, but going slow was probably good for them, as I couldn't rush anything, and I must say that I am very pleased with hos these turned out.
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| And the second regiment. |
Basically the minis were painted over those smaller sessions, and then the recent longer hobby sessions let me do all the basing at once, and finish the units up quickly. The basing paste can be hard to work with, so I like to give myself plenty of time to spread it around nicely. The basing for these stayed the same with a mess of colors for the muddy ground, a glazing medium spread around for a glossy effect to sell the mud, and then polyfill for the fog effect.
I never quite got into Revenant infantry, but they were on my radar, even for MMU, as -/17 Regiments would be great for scenario play. If I had just a little more time with 3rd Edition, I would have liked to have dropped the Lykanises and fancy heroes and explored them a bit with the playstyle. Alas, I don't think we're getting any more 3rd Edition games in, nor has 4th arrived yet. I'm hobbying them up as I think they will be good in 4th though, as they are rumored to go up to 25 Nerve as a Horde, which with Def5, should be incredibly hard to move. Whenever 4th Edition does drop, we'll take them for a spin!