It’s almost literally “ghosts in the attic” this time around, as I pull an old undead warband out of a dusty box. Except I never actually had any ghost miniatures. Plenty of skeletons, though!
The undead warband was led by Krell. His is actually not a bad paintjob for the standard I seemed to be at back then. Some of the others are very rough. The vampire and the skeleton champion look like they’ve maybe seen a few coats.
It looks like Krell once had a home-made banner on his back. I wonder if it was as hilariously bad as the one you’ll see I made for the zombies.
This is an all-metal regiment, expensive to put together as a kid because they came in blister packs. The zombie on the front left was a “doubler”, and I’ve seemingly tried to make him different by adjusting the position of his club, and painting him like a smurf.
The banner was a simple “paper, painted black, with some transfers on it” job.
The leader of this skeleton regiment was an attempt at a convert. The body is that of a Battlemasters Man-at-Arms.
It’s funny looking back on the obsession with red, back in then. This would’ve been subconsciously copied from all the images I’d see over the years in White Dwarf.
These days, an undead warband or army will have a lot more of a rag-tag, rustic look. Like they’ve just climbed out the ground still holding the weapons they died with.
In the early-mid 90s, Necromancers were obviously very attentive, kitting out their troops with freshly painted matching weapons and spears. Halcyon days indeed.
I remember buying this chariot on a trip to Games Workshop for my birthday. I’d saved up for months and turned up with a huge shopping list, all worked out to the penny via the catalogue pages in White Dwarf. One of the staff members was trying to advise me on what to get, and I was basically like “Bro, chill. I’ve got this!”.
The undead warband was probably my first ever fully painted Warhammer “army”. It took a few years to put together.
Undoubtedly the paint job is a bit rough at times, but I must’ve been putting the work in. I don’t know that I ever managed to play a game with them though, sadly!
Next up: Check out my Warhammer Lizardmen army from around the same era!