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Hello everyone, sorry for this guy lack of decent clothing. I guess it makes sense to be dressed like this when you're a slave fighting in the scorching arena of Thule. This Warlord 14652, Necropolis Chattel model was sculpted by Stefan Niehues.

My painting time is pretty limited these days, but I still fit it in here and there. I find elementals to be excellent and relaxing subjects for brief speedpainting sessions; their crude natures are very forgiving for the time-constrained. This guy is a pretty hefty piece of metal & a nice unique sculpt.

Here are some Reaper Warlord Necropolis faction zombies, painted up as swamp zombies in a speed paint for Ghost Archipelago.

This is Reaper's 14184: Bloodseeker Vampire, Necropolis Solo, sculpted by Matt Gubser. There isn't a WIP thread. I think he's just supposed to be some vampire mook foot soldier. I was scrolling through the Reaper catalogue looking for vampires and this one looked kind of interesting and dynamic without any fancy armor or angst. I especially liked that expressive cape. This was also an experiment in painting with a subdued palette. So many of my figures get so bright ... I thought I'd try something with mainly earth tones. Comments and critiques are welcome, as always. (After I took these pictures I realized I had gotten a little silver paint on the black edge of his base. It's been fixed.)

This is Julie Guthrie's 14181: Osric, Necropolis Hero, a vampire in armor with two swords from Reaper's Warlord game. As I painted him I have been thinking of him as "Creepy chihuahua vampire dude". There is no WIP thread, although I would happy to discuss techniques, art philosophy or what have you.

Gauntfield, Necropolis Hero Yup, another WIP. Gauntfield has been in my kit for years. He has received most of the excess green stuff from everything I've ever built. I wanted the scarecrow to be standing behind a tree trunk, gnarled and dead for many years. So I started out by applying him to a base that filled the space up to his feet on the slot bottom he had and built the basis for his tree. As you can see, I used two skewer pieces as the center posts and set the "fork" of the tree I was looking for. Then I placed terrarium rocks around it to fill out the bottom of the trunk. Then over the years I scraped on any excess green stuff I had from projects. Tonight's effort was the eye of my Undead Dwarf. A very tiny amount of green stuff. Which is a little hard to mix and create at that size. It was smaller than a pin head. So the remainder went around one of the upright trunks from the tree of Gauntfield. Then after some thought on my efforts to create a bark exterior I decided the whole tree needed a skin and fill of some of the unnatural sections of green stuff. So I got out my green putty and went to town on the surface of the tree. I had primed the scarecrow and tree earlier so I just went right over that. You'll notice that the "skin" added is a bit rough. I'll go over it in a bit and clean it up once it's set a bit more. If I like the appearance of it, I will prime that and move on. If not, I will go over that a more until I am happy. Green putty is also a great product to smooth over a surface. So I made some of the sand around Gauntfield smooth with the putty while I was working the tree. Green putty dries really quick so within a few minutes I can sand the surface of it with my thumb or stiff brush. I have an old toothbrush for this. So, here's a second skim of "bark" with the Green Putty. I cut off the excess bamboo skewers and created a branch collar on each end where the trunks would get overgrown with the bark. Just below the saddle of the two trunks, I added a third trunk that has broken off and left a branch collar using the Green Putty. You can see that I "sanded" some of the skin and added more. Stay tuned.

I needed a modern looking female adventurer with a whip and a knife for a monster hunter rpg session, and I had Elsabeth sitting nearby. I de-vampified her and did a lot of cutting and filing and filling to come up with this.

My second attempt at doing NMM. Hope you all like it. Please give as honest a criticism as possible for me to improve. Dont worry it is not possible to hurt my feelings, so fire away. Thankyou!

A reall simple paint job for this guy, but he painted up real quick and easy which was nice did him in one sitting from start to finish. He's un based for now. I will likely base him in some fashion in the future If I decide to make a Necropolis army, but for now he stands up fine on his own and fits better on the shelf this way. Questions, comments critiques? Hmm his eyes don't look as distinctive in the photo. I really need to figure this photo stuff out.

Some more of my older work. Are you people tired yet from all my reposting?? These are my Ghostly twins. Part of my huge Undead project: Children of the Night https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/79298-children-of-the-night-by-glitterwolf/

I did her in more muted to colors just to see what I could do with them. I also decided on red eyes as I did not want her to be so warm and friendly in appearance.

Lot of fun painting this one. He appeared to be a lost and corrupted king, very sad story. So I wanted him to have more of a royal look to him and gave him yellow/gold and purple which for some reason I always think of when I picture royalty. Hope you enjoy. :)

Ok well now that my first army is painted up I figured I would start a thread for it. So here is my Necropolis force, all the models are Bones figures. Necropolis: 999 points Troop 1 1 Judas Bloodspire, Anointed of Hars + Magic Weapon 1 Naomi, Mistress of Wings (Proxy) + Phylactery 1 Bat Swarm 2 Skeletal Archer 2 Skeletal Swordman 2 Skeletal Spearmen 2 Chattel (Proxy) Troop 2 1 Elsabeth Briarkiss (Proxy) + Magic Weapon 2 Skeletal Swordsman 2 Skeletal Archer 2 Skeletal Spearman 2 Chattel Troop 3 1 Railor the Unbodied 6 Zombie Troop 4 3 Gargoyle (77028×3) Troop 5 Kaena, Banshee (Proxy: LaBella deMornay) Army Item - Luck Stone Complete Force Judas & Naomi (Dark Elf Queen Proxy) Elsabeth Briarkiss (Proxy) & Chattel (Proxy) Railor the Unbodied Kaena, Banshee (Proxy: LaBella deMornay)

This week I returned to the lovely world of the undead, and finished Graverot the Ghast. I struggled with a paint scheme for him, and ended up trying for a pinkish gray color on him. I saw someone do this here on the forum, but my memory being what it is, I can't remember who. This is subtle and may not be entirely apparent in the images. Once started, he was a lot of fun to work on, getting into all his musculature. This also includes my attempt to sculpt a little interest into the base, by adding some skulls. Comments welcome!