writes:This little project crossed my workbench recently for some base reflocking – now they're ready for the battlefield again!
These were originally Stinging Skeletons from Mage Knight: Pyramid, which I removed from their clickybases and based on steel disks.
Besides rebasing them, the only thing I did to them was to give them a wash to tone down the bright colors, and I painted over the color codes.
I don't know anything about the backstory, or how the Stinging Skeletons were used in the original game.
From a tactical viewpoint, skeletons are one thing, and skeletons with crossbows quite another!
Obviously, the capes were useful in making the sculpts sturdy, but they would also make the skeletons more resilient in combat.
Why do the crossbows seem to be built partially from other skeletons? Hmmm…
The major change I made while I had them back on the workbench was to replace the old 'muddy' base look with black sand, which for me is a generic look that works with both urban and dungeon settings (and not too jarring on a battlefield too).
So these figures were cheap, look decent, and add to what we all need: lots of cannon-fodder baddies!