Here’s the second batch of my Undead team, finally completed after something like close to two decades. Zombies! Now, it’ll be pretty obvious that these Zombies are all wearing different strips and are from different races. The reason for that is that when I was building and starting to play this team, I decided that it would be good to base some zombie models on the team members of my opposition teams – that way when I managed to kill off an opposing player on the pitch, I could then replace them with one of the zombie models I’d especially tailored for their team! These models use a combination of various WHFB plastic kits (and some Dark Eldar arms) as well as (obviously) the plastic Zombie kit of the time.
With the exception of the player whose strip was nominally based on the Philadephia Eagles, they have their “new” numbers scrawled onto their gear so as not to interfere with the player numbers of the actual Undead in this squad. While I never got as far as building any “proper” zombies for this team, that’s something I’ll look into once the rest of the players I’ve got on the go are all complete – along with any upgrades to choose a list to make them work with the new, current rules. Thenm again, I could always build more zombies to match the other teams in my own collection (when do-able – ain’t no plastic Big-Hat Chaos Dwarf kits to zombify!) And then, I’ll sort out my Orcs…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
These are some of the best Zombie layers I’ve ever seen mate, so characterful and unique, and love the fact they are based on teams you were playing at the time, and kept their uniform colours.
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Thanks Dave! Just a shame the team never got fully painted back in the day – but something I can try to rectify now at least!
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What a neat idea for “replacements.” 🙂
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Thank you Ann!
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I like it! It’s not unusual to see people add other zombified races to their Undead teams, but I think this is the first time that I’ve seen them keep their team uniforms. Makes sense and will give a unique look to the team! Is the one in black supposed to be an Elf or Dark Elf? Love the expressions on the two Zombie/Humans. The uniforms turned out really nice too!
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Thanks Faust! Yep, that one is a Dark Elf – uses Zombie legs, DE Torso, Dark Eldar (3rd ed Starter) head and arms with those old plastic zombie hands again (since all the WHFB and 40k models are holding weapons!
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Great work Az. Love the skaven!
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Cheers! I missed his bast angle on the pics here – I’ll try to catch it in the round-up pics I need to go outside and take in the next hour or so!
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Brilliant idea, and some damn clever conversions to boot. I love little touches like this that go the extra mile to make games a bit more immersive as well.
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Thanks Wudu! I may have to make a few more down the road for this team, and then I can also drop them into any of the other more “normal” Undead teams I’ve yet tp paint once theyr’e done. 🙂
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Now that is a smart idea, mate and its in the spirit of Warhammer Fantasy which was much more conversion friendly than the modern incarnation! I recognize the old zombie sculpts as well. I know many people don’t care for them but I remember when they were new(ish) so it makes me a bit nostalgic to see them 🙂
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Thanks mate – Yeah, they’re not amazing but most people today don’t seem to realise that their scaling was deliberately done in this way to fit in with the old GW Skeletons – and with parts being cross-compatible… 🙂
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Superb mate, great idea & execution 😊👍
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Thanks Alex – got to get back to the rest of these very soon now! 🙂
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As the others have said, great idea, well executed! 🙂 I think they look great!
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Thanks John! Need to get working on the rest of them soon!
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Clearly undeath makes your hands grow bigger! 😛 Great idea and I really like the undead Skaven. Nice, vibrant colour scheme, too.
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It’s an optical illision caused by the shrinking of the skin as the body starts to lose its water. Like how fingernails and hair seems to keep growing… yeah, that’s why the hands are so huge… 😉
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Lovely, lovely work mate, real individuals, they look great lined up like that!
Cheers Roger.
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Thansk Roger. If I can get the rest done I might actually actually be able to play some Blood Bowl again! 😉
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