This is probably the first accidental figure I've ended up painting. My regular opponent, Dizzy, came over for a game but I was woefully underprepared, so we opted for a painting session instead. To our surprise, I had no figures in a fit state ready to paint that weren't of an Ork variety, so ended up painting one of his wonderfully themed summoned daemons. The idea behind his army is combining a more WFB style feel to units where possible, and we love the concept of having the summoned daemons represented as having animated the dead of the world they're invading. It feels right, and Dizzy came up with the straight forward idea of having zombies do the job for him, just on 40k bases ... and lo the project was born.

Dizzy already had a colour scheme set asides for these figures, so this is my attempt to carry that on but add a little more impact for the standard bearer. That just means a highlight further than he'd usually take things, and trying to meat the skin just that little bit wronger. Oh yes, wronger. It's a perfectly cromulent word. In short, Tallarn Flesh with varying washes of Ogre Flesh, Devlan Mud, thinned Blood Red and thinned Hexed Lichen for the differing skin tones to (hopefully) add that unhealthy pallor. Quite a lot of fun to pain and very much looking forward to decimating the whole unit on the battlefield :)

At this point the horde stands at ... 2009 Pledge. Purchased: 6. Completed: 33.