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A new Vampire Counts army rising - Death and Glory!
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A new Vampire Counts army rising - Death and Glory!

Hi, after the release of our new book I've decided to start painting my VC army again. This is my little blog I'll keep updating every now and then. I'm a fast painter, but I have lots of other painting projects so this is not going to be a fast project. After getting a painting commission and finishing my Ogre army for tournaments I have some more time to paint VC, but at the moment the blog is there to keep me motivated painting all those Zombies I need for my games. Zombie1

In this post I'll keep a list of the painted VC models. The list is here:

Death and Glory! My Vampire Counts project.

* 30 Zombies
* 10 Skeleton Warriors
* 3 Spirit Hosts
* 6 Cairn Wraiths
* Tomb Banshee
* Terrorgheist
* Vampire Lord on a Pony

= roughly 1373 points worth of models painted at the moment.

A short explanation about the theme... After reading the Skavenslayer I wanted to create an army that marches in the sewers of Nuln, beating some Skaven. And what could be better than an army of dead citizens of Nuln? Vampire3 So, the army is marching in a green sewer goo. There will be some ratmen the old Nulnians will be beating (I bought a box of old Clanrats that'll do), and of course the soldiers will be wearing clothes in the colors of Nuln.

So that's about that. I'll be updating here my VC stuff every now and then. I'm going to have lots of Zombies, some Skeletons, converted Black Knights, characters and stuff. I believe I'm going to buy some Crypt Horrors too. Also, the Dire Wolves of my army will be "Dire Spiders", so basically converted BfSP giant spiders - they're cheaper, easier to convert in awesome poses and they fit better in the sewer theme.

I'll send some pictures of my already painted models in the next post!

- Cheers, Skarsnik. Gravestone.GIF

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Vodka, no more feeling bad
Vodka, your eyes are shining
Vodka, you're the real man
Vodka, wipes away your tears
Vodka, removes your fears
Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
Vodka, yeah VODKA!

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RE: A new Vampire Counts army rising - Death and Glory!

First of all the ten Skeleton Warriors I have painted. Really nothing special, they're a mixture of old and new Skeleton parts (I have lots of both, and without mixing the parts they'd look odd next to each other). I'll try avoiding the old heads and arms, but the torsos and the legs do great. I still don't know what to paint in the banner, something red I guess.

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And here's a group shot of all ten.

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Then some ethereal guys. First the six Cairn Wraiths. They're a mixture of old Wraiths and converted LotR Army of Dead ghosts. Also, there's one converted Ringwraith in the unit. Please note that the color theme is not my own, I ruthlessly stole the color theme from this forum (I can't remember the name of the guy who invented the recipe).

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And here's the Tomb Banshee.

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Then the Spirit Hosts. The first one is not perfectly ready yet. I'm going to glue a small, brown rat on the small tile on the base.

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The Zombies will come in the next post!

- Cheers, Skarsnik. Gravestone.GIF

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Vodka, no more feeling bad
Vodka, your eyes are shining
Vodka, you're the real man
Vodka, wipes away your tears
Vodka, removes your fears
Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
Vodka, yeah VODKA!

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And finally the Zombies... I've decided to build Zombie units full of conversions, so no two Zombies will be the same. Also, there is some cheap rising Zombies coming but hey, that's okay as summoning these guys is so easy! tongue My Ghouls from Mantic will be Zombies as well.

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A group shot of my 22 painted Zombies.
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Sorry for a couple of very long messages, but I hope you'd like picture heavy updates. That's all I have painted at the moment, I'll send more pics when I get things painted. Next time there'll be more Zombies!

- Cheers, Skarsnik. Gravestone.GIF

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Vodka, no more feeling bad
Vodka, your eyes are shining
Vodka, you're the real man
Vodka, wipes away your tears
Vodka, removes your fears
Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
Vodka, yeah VODKA!

- Korpiklaani, Vodka
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Lots of creativity on the zombies, love it smile
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You should enter your spirit hosts into the February challenge they look ace. The zombies are a nice touch I love them.


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Very nice! I bet that army will be something to behold across the battlefield!

Keep it up!wink

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Those zombie conversions are very creative, good stuff Thumbs Up

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(02-03-2012 02:21 PM)Skarsnik the Lord Wrote:  [Image: SAM_2713.jpg]
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- Cheers, Skarsnik. Gravestone.GIF

LMAO!!! BEAUTIFUL!!! Love what you've done here (in particular with this guy) and I see a lot of love going out to Chaos Mutation Sprue, which is always kick-ass. Can't believe you took the time to convert each an every zombie for your unit, sir. +1 Rating coming your way!

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Thank you all! smile

I've been a bit busy in this month because I've been painting my Ogres for a tournament coming next week, but new pics will come in March.

- Cheers, Skarsnik.

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Vodka, your eyes are shining
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Errrrm, it's March (half-past to be precise) and there haven't been any updates...

I've been on the road for nearly three weeks straight and I've made updates...c'mon now! tongue

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To say I love these bases would be a under statement

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(03-19-2012 03:46 AM)Brahm Tazoul Wrote:  Errrrm, it's March (half-past to be precise) and there haven't been any updates...

I've been on the road for nearly three weeks straight and I've made updates...c'mon now! tongue

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I'm very sorry I haven't had time for updating the blog. sad I've been busy with other army projects (Ogres, O&G and a commission WoC army) and my undeads have been forgotten and sitting on my shelf for a long time. Normally I update my army blogs quite often but this one is an exception.

I guess the blog will remain in silence for some time more. I have a tournament in the end of this April and until that I don't have time to paint undeads.

I promise I'll raise this blog from death at some point this spring - I just ordered 60 Mantic Zombies and when they are here, I cannot resist painting them. wink

I'll be back...

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We want to see more tho!...
Awesome stuff so far smile

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Well, I'm back. The tournament went pretty well, my Ogres won all games and I got the best overall award. I faced Beastmen (13-7), Dark Elves (12-8), Ogres (19-1), Orcs & Goblins (20-0) and Dark Elves again (18-2). I got a voucher worth of 50€, so I thought it'd be a great way to wake up this blog with a brand new Terrorgheist. Vampire3

So, now I'm going to start updating this blog constantly. My Zombies are still not here (they were out of stock, so it might take some time...), but "fortunately" I have a ton of other things to assemble and paint.

The next update will come at this week. My Terrorgheist is almost assembled. Also, I've started converting my old, metallic Zombie Dragon from reaper into a new shape. Its head has been missing for eternities, but fortunately the Terrorgheist set comes with a nice plastic head and a cool Vampire Lord rider as well. Finally I got a Ghoul King on foot. This is just like an Arachnarock set for O&G, you get a good mound of other stuff in addition to the monster itself. smile

Anyway, next time some WIP monsters and characters!

- Cheers, Skarsnik. /)

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Vodka, your eyes are shining
Vodka, you're the real man
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Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
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So here's some pics of my WIP Terrorgheist and WIP Ghoul King.

The Terrorgheist is not 100% ready (in addition that it's not painted) in the pictures, but you get the main idea. For instance, the coating of the boulders and the small wall are still under work, other Clanrat's feet are a bit messed up and there're no chains on the model yet.

I have to be honest, I was building that base way longer than building the actual monster - all those tiles are made and textured one by one. Also making the boulders and wall, adding Clanrats and such took some time. And the model still needs chains everywhere. But I think it's worth of it, I hate bland bases.

Anyway, here's some pictures of it. The base looks a bit messy right now, but after painting it's going to look like all different.

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Then the Ghoul King. I'm not a big fan of him on the Terrorgheist, so he goes on foot. His position is a bit strange, but I think it'll do.

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That's all from today. Next time you can see these models painted!

- Cheers, Skarsnik. /)

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Vodka, your eyes are shining
Vodka, you're the real man
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Vodka, removes your fears
Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
Vodka, yeah VODKA!

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Skarsnik, the work you put into that base is both terrifying and awe-inspiring. I can not wait to see that beast painted!


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First off, wow. That big beastie--actually, your whole project--makes me long for the city fight days of Mordheim so much. Love your look. How's that grass on the TG going to stand up to priming, though? Do you use a brush on primer coat?

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Thank you both! smile

Spray paint won't stick on the grass very well, so after undercoating the model I'll paint the grassy areas with a brush (watery black will do the thing).

Today I'm going to undercoat these models, so be prepared to get some pictures tomorrow or even tonight!

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Vodka, you're the real man
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Vodka, removes your fears
Vodka, everyone is gorgeous
Vodka, yeah VODKA!

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Another update! The base of the Terrorgheist is painted now (not including a couple of very small details, but almost), and I thought I'd show you.

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Also, I painted the base of the Ghoul King. Really nothing special.

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Finally I built a base for my Vampire Lord on a steed. He's going to ride on a pony.

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Finally I converted 8 new Zombies, but I don't have any pics of them yet. Next time some painted models.

- Cheers, Skarsnik. /)

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Vodka, yeah VODKA!

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Just awesome base!!! smile How did you make those blocks? (the stones?)

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