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I've been thinking about it for quite some time, and have decided to go back to my first army - Vampire Counts. I did these first because the idea of painting everything intimidated me - and I knew how to paint skeletons. When I sold my original minis to my oldest son, he was in the marching band and wanted to do an army that was all musicians. Skeletons and musicians immediately suggested The Grateful Dead to me, but he wasn't intesested. So now, several years later, I've made the army.

Army
The Army

The Grateful Undead did their Olde Worlde Tour in the summer of 2009, visiting Origins, Buckeye Battles and Gencon.

Awards

With a small tournout at Origins 2009, they got a Best Appearance. Unfortunately, the Olde World Warriors are now longer running their event at Origins, though the Legendary Gamers out of the Dayton/Fairborn area has picked it up. This group ran a warband and full tournament at Gencon, and a small subset of this army won the warband tournmaent.

Characters
The Band

Of course, the characters will be Jerry Garcia and the band. I figure guitars would make good Great Weapons, won't they?

Core Units
Zombies - Dead Heads

Every Vampire Count army needs lots of zombies - and so these are naturally the Dead Heads!!! Tie-Dyed t-shirts and jeans. And they didn't have lighters back then, so they are waving torches. Note the drunk chick (her name is Janet) on her boyfriends shoulders waving her top at the band, and Michael Jackson jumping in as well (just before his hair goes up in flames)

Skeletons - Dancing Skeletons in Tuxedos

The Grateful Dead are known for images of dancing skeletons in top hats and tails. I have also used these as grave guard

Skeletons - Roses

Of course the other iconic image is skeletons and roses - so we have them too

Ghouls - Roadies

What is a concert without roadies to set up and haul the equipment? These are ghouls.

Dire Wolves - Dancing Teddy Bears

I plan on using dire wolves to fill he role of the famed Dancing Teddy Bears. Or maybe it is the other way around? I had more WIP pictures but the disk couldn't be read by my PC - stupid old digital cameras! These may have ended up WAY too big - scale would be about 15' tall - so I'm not sure if they will still work or not. Since they were so big, I completely redid them - and now they aren't quite so big

Corpse Cart - Souvenir Stand

The corpse cart will be hauling around t-shirts and posters, instead of dead bodies.

Special Units
Spirit Hosts - 'Refreshments'

What is a dead concert without somebody partaking of 'not quite legal' refreshments. I figure a few bases of figures obscured in smoke will work for Spirit Hosts.

Black Knights - Security

Does anybody remember Altmont? When the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels to run security - and they beat a guy to death? Ok, so it isn't exactly the Grateful Dead, but it is close enough that I needed to add a unit of Hells Angels running security. I have actually used them both as Black Knights and Blood Knights

Rare Units
Wraiths w/ Banshee - Groupies

The Wraiths, led by a banshee, are the groupies, so in love with the band they sing all the songs, throw their bras on stage, and will offer to marry the band!

This site was last updated July 11, 2011