11 November 2021

Warhammer Undead Chariot: Horses


After bringing the primed chariot from the garage to the spare room, I discovered I'd forgotten to spray the undersides. So I took another trip downstairs and sprayed the unprimed bits white. While it was drying I decided to just get on with painting the horses.


They're doing a really good impression of ghost horsies in this pic. Thanks to my phone camera's habit of randomly blurring the edges of photos, the one on the left looks like it's just galloped out of thin air.

The primer, which is just cheap stuff I get in Dollar General, worked really well. There's a couple of bits the spray missed but they're no big deal.


After painting the skeletons with Reaper Aged Bone, they were given a fairly liberal coat of Sepia Wash, which is on its last legs; 2021 has already seen the demise of my black, green and purple washes and it looks like it's about to claim another. The ragged cloth was painted Chocolate Brown.

Once all the wash had dried I cracked out the Bonewhite, thinned it, and highlighted the skeletons. After that I mixed some Chocolate Brown and Flat Earth and highlighted the blankets, and then added some Bonewhite for the final highlights.

Then it was just a case of painting their manes and tails Black Grey and drybrushing on Dark, Sombre and Ghost greys for the highlights. The last detail was a touch of Ivory on their teeth, and then they got a coat of matte varnish.


And they're done! They really are excellent sculpts and very creepy. As you can see from the raised parts of their slotta tabs, I snipped all but one of their legs free before painting so when I come to remove them completely I won't bugger the paint up too much. That reminds me, I need to start planning the base.

For someone who doesn't like painting bone colours I think I did a pretty good job on them. Thinning the Bonewhite when highlighting looks a lot better than just drybrushing it on, which was my original plan. 

The primer on the chariot is done and dried, so that'll be next. The neck section alone looks like it could take a day to get all the little nooks and crannies covered properly, so yay! The rest of it doesn't look too bad. But I'll have to pop to Bennington and pick up some Seraphim Sepia before starting as I don't want to run out of wash halfway through shading it.

Another Mo'Vember entry coming soon, so stay tuned!

12 comments:

  1. Great job on the horses Matt, the extra effort to paint the bone rather than drybrushing really paid off

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    1. Thanks, Dave! Yeah, going the sort-of-layering route really came out better than drybrushing, and overall a lot better than I thought it would. I'm going to do the chariot the same way.

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  2. Great job on these. The sculpts are fab and your painting really brought them to unlife wonderfully!

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    1. Cheers, Dai, I'm very happy with them. Hopefully the chariot will look as good :-)

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  3. Great bit of work mate.

    Cheers Roger.

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  4. Oh... I like these a lot, Matt. Great work on the skellie horses. Looking forward to seeing the chariot when its finished and the whole ensemble.

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    1. Cheers! I too cannot wait to see the whole ensemble LOL! Hopefully the chariot will be done soon, then it's a case of making a base for the model.

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  5. Well done getting these finished and even more congratulations getting a good looking skeletal colour - very well worth the effort imho.

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    1. Thanks, Joe, I appreciate that! The bones ended up looking really good and better than I'd hoped, so now it's a case of replicating it for the chariot.

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  6. I agree with Dave, that not drybrushing bone is/was the way to go. It is tempting but isn't as realistic as highlighting with a normal brush. These two look great and I'm excited to see them hooked up to the chariot in the near future :)

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    1. Cheers! I'm happy I went for a sort-of layering with the bone, drybrushing would have looked too dusty. The chariot is being worked on :-)

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