Graveguard

 It seems that the dead never rest, and even though I have said that the undead army is all done and finished, (and yes there are two werewolves in progress too), as fate would have it, I happened upon a very large box of minis being sold locally which happened to have a LOT of undead models in it.

I sold a great deal of the minis from that hiest, with a lot of old 1980s wraiths and the like, but kept back some, including another screaming skull catapult with all the bits that were missing from the previous project, chariots, skeletal cavalry and a lot of infantry.

A Cursed City box comes up on my radar, and now I have some cash, but it's too steep. What do I really want from that box, you ask. The skeletons of course! Possibly the best skeletal scuplts GW has actually ever done so far. So, I hunted them down from a guy who splits the game minis and bought them rather than the entire Cursed City box.

I really wanted these in particular for a unit that was missing from the army, namely the Grave Guard.
I didn't have any actual armoured skeletons, and certainly no elites, so these made for an excellent unit.

Although I admired the orginial red colour scheme with these guys, I imagine that bright colours would fade on such ancient fabrics, all but woad dye blue, (which I learned from a documentary about medieval tapestries), so blue it was to be.

Despite the detail, the models were easy to paint and the most amount of mucking about came from adjusting the rust on their weapons and armour.