Sunday, May 31, 2026

Skeleton warriors (Highland Miniatures)

Painting skellies is kinda like knitting:
you get pissed - you paint some bones - you get better.

Too bad I didn't realize it bit earlier, but apparently better late then never.

Anyway last week I excavated another part of spoils of war looted during Oldhammer Weekend 2022: skeleton warriors unit from highland Miniatures range. Models look pretty cool: poses are different, proportions are correct - these guys definitely fit Warhammer range. There's one flaw though: since these are printed, they are also really fragile (those thin limbs and spears especially!). So fragile, several models arrived broken and it's even despite the fact they were pretty well packed. So yeah, if I could choose - purely of gaming purposes I'd pick plastic models instead of printed. Luckly I still had some spare limbs left by the previous boneheads unit, which added bit more vatiety to the freshly dug out death squad.

I have only 15 models from this line so I think these will be just support squad for the main unit or screaming skull catapult / second class character bodyguards. Of course - that is only in my head, because don't think there's even slighiest shade of chance these will move an inch after I put them in the display case hibernation chamber 馃樀

So here they are - corpses in the park. I think I've managed to adjust lighting a bit so photos turned out really decent:

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And some scale shot: restless skeletons are defending city park against Dusk Realm Demon:

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And here - skeletons supported by Mr Carstein himself and converted battle standard bearer are trying to convince chaos lord of Slaanesh city park and fresh grass is no place for heavy barded ponies:

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10 comments:

  1. S膮 przepi臋kne!
    Mam wra偶enie 偶e wszystkie wydruki z 偶ywicy s膮 strasznie kruche. Tak jak kiedy艣 by艂em ogromnym fanem wydruk贸w, tak im d艂u偶ej gram drukowanymi modelami tym bardziej narzekam. Co chwil臋 mam po艂amane model. Nie 艂ami膮 si臋 tylko czo艂gi. Ale z drugiej strony, czo艂gi s膮 ta艅sze w plastiku. W moim uniwersum coraz trudniej bazowa膰 na princie.

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    1. Prawda?

      Ja te偶 po pierwszym zachwycie tym, co mo偶na wyci膮gn膮膰 z druku 3D doszed艂em do wniosku, 偶e w przypadku pojazd贸w to mo偶e i daje rad臋, to w przypadku typowej drobnicy to ju偶 nie jestem a偶 takim mega fanem. No ale to nie wina szkielet贸w 偶e wysz艂y z druku a nie z wtrysku, wi臋c postanowi艂em nie ocenia膰 i pomalowa膰 馃槈

      Mam jeszcze kilka zombi i ghouli z tej linii, wi臋c nie wykluczone 偶e pr臋dzej czy p贸藕niej domaluj臋 na p贸艂k臋.

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  2. Fantastic looking unit of skeletons, shame that they are so fragile, but the bone color you have looks really old, which I like.

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    1. Cheers! Glad you like them!

      I am also happy I found reliable skeleton color combo - too bad I don't play WFB anymore 馃槣

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  3. Great looking skeletons - very reminiscent of the old Skeleton Horde while also having clearly more modern elements. Best of luck keeping them intact - the old bane of skeleton models remains!

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    1. Thanks Azazel!
      Hope to keep Undead Horde growing - there's still plenty spare room on dedicated shelf in display case 馃拃

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  4. I've always loved skellies, and these are no exception, they look ubercool!! I myself have plans for an Undead army in this fashion, but I haven't started it yet...

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    1. Now worries - the dead have lots of time for waiting patiently... 馃槈

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    1. No, a p贸ki stoj膮 za szk艂em to mog膮 sobie by膰 nawet i drukowane 馃槣

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