I'm Still Here

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With my Stirland lads I collected the whole force in advance, as I knew what I was aiming for.
I planned out the force and bought the models, then started painting.

I was delaying with the undead but I have now purchased the final unit for the Undead chaps and it is mostly the old Nightmare Legion models.

These are the last 2 units to be painted.








I was looking for old original shields for them, but people want silly money so I have been slicing the boss off these shields and they will do fine, especially when they all have the hand painted designs on them...




I plan on mirroring the symbol from the zombies, the dread wyrm of Sylvania.

And I made a start on painting the swordsmen, there are some great sculpts in there.

The astute may notice that my my Stirland lads are made up mostly of swordsmen and halberdiers, as are my undead.
There is a mocking parody of sorts afoot.

Love this chap, I was tempted to place him at the back so that holding is head up to get a better view makes more sense, I still may.





So that is all the models for the 'armies' bought and over half way through being painted.

Then it will be the village proper with more buildings and some villagers!!







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