WarpLand miniature - Skull Riders (build kit)

This WarpLand miniature build kit puts the infamous Skull Riders in your hands — feared mounted raiders who haunt the broken roads of Arkanar and the outer reaches of The Grunge, snatching the weak and leaving ruin in their wake. Led by the savage Manik, these raiders are the nightmare that merchants whisper about and caravans arm against. Now you can field them in terrifying detail on your tabletop.

The kit contains 28 parts across three fully assembled mounted figures, standing 51 mm from base to top. The riders are seated atop feathered, beak-jawed war birds, lean and vicious mounts bred for speed and brutality across the wasteland. Three distinct bird body poses and three pairs of legs give each mount its own snarling character, while the interchangeable torsos, heads and arms let you customise each raider to taste. Weapons include curved blades, bone-hafted spears, and improvised tools of violence pulled from the ruins of a shattered world.

Cast in high-detail grey resin by Taiga Miniatures, every surface rewards close inspection: cracked leather bindings, layered scavenged armour, wild matted hair, and the grotesque trophies of past raids. With 16 unique parts per model and a total of 28 parts in the full build kit, the Skull Riders offer genuine variety without sacrificing the cohesive, road-worn identity of this WarpLand miniature faction.

Compatible with 25 mm and larger oval bases. Suitable for use in WarpLand and any grimdark post-apocalyptic tabletop setting. Models require assembly and painting. Resin may require light cleaning before assembly.

The Skull Riders are survivors of the wasteland, sun-bleached, blood-stained and draped in scavenged trophies. This guide will help you nail that road-worn raider look on every WarpLand miniature in the kit.

1. Prime

• Use a grey or black spray primer for maximum contrast across the deep sculpted detail.
• A zenithal highlight with white over grey primer helps map light sources before you begin.

2. Armour Base

• Block in armour plates with a warm brown leather tone — these are scavenged pieces, not uniform kit.
• Add panels of dull iron or dark steel where metal armour is present, keeping tones muted and cold.

3. Trim and Details

• Pick out bone trophies, teeth and skulls in off-white, then shade with a thin brown wash to age them.
• Skin tones should be weathered and sun-darkened. Build up highlights in thin layers toward raised areas.

4. Weapons

• Basecoat blades in dark steel, then edge highlight with a bright silver to suggest a wicked, maintained edge.
• Wooden hafts and wrapped grips benefit from streaked brown tones with a pale dry-brush to simulate worn wood grain.

5. Weathering

• Apply a thin rust-orange stipple to metal areas using a torn blister foam for a corroded, wasteland-scavenged finish.
• Add blood splatter to weapons and lower mount legs using thinned red-brown paint flicked from a stiff brush.

6. Bases

• Texture paste in ochre or ash grey sells the cracked Arkanar wasteland setting. Finish with a pale dry-brush and a few tufts of dead grass for a desolate road feel worthy of this WarpLand miniature warband.