Hello Fellow VC generals. With the ability to take VC and TK units in the Undead Legion lists, beyond the mechanical benefits and negatives something I have been wondering about are how do you all plan to deal with the modeling aspects of the Undead Legion?
I know some people will be content just buying VC and TK models, giving them a cohesive color scheme and call it a day, but I can't help but look at the models for both ranges a feel there is a massive difference in the feel and look for the armies. Vampires have a much more "traditional" undead look, blood, guts, decay, bats, and an overall ragtag look. Tomb Kings on the other hand have very strong themes of bone, bronze, and sort of ancient military.
In my mind these are just too different basic model wise to work together and not look sort of thrown in.
How do you plan on integrating these different ranges together? Is a cohesive color scheme enough, or are conversions necessary? I sort of thought this would be an interesting discussion, and wanted to see what everyone else thinks. Please feel free to link/ post pics of what you have been working on for the UL to help you points (warhammer is after all a visual game :) ).
From my perspective I think when working with just the GW range extensive conversion is needed to really make the models work together. Basic zombies clash way too much with TOmb King Skeletons. The characters for the VC could be integrated into the TK, but I don't see the units looking too great alongside each other. The ornate nature of Tomb King models give the army a very cool unique feel that would jar with most other armies (which is ironic since I think there is a ton of possibility to make other armies undead VC with some clever kit bashing).
Alternative ranges offer some nice chances to work some Tomb King choices in, with Mantics bow skeletons and catapults potentially working in a VC army. There are definitely some cool conversion oppurtunities for a casket of souls, necromantic ritual piece for example, but most of the really cool stuff the TOmb Kings could add to the VC , would require some pretty creative conversions or alternative model usage.
I know some people will be content just buying VC and TK models, giving them a cohesive color scheme and call it a day, but I can't help but look at the models for both ranges a feel there is a massive difference in the feel and look for the armies. Vampires have a much more "traditional" undead look, blood, guts, decay, bats, and an overall ragtag look. Tomb Kings on the other hand have very strong themes of bone, bronze, and sort of ancient military.
In my mind these are just too different basic model wise to work together and not look sort of thrown in.
How do you plan on integrating these different ranges together? Is a cohesive color scheme enough, or are conversions necessary? I sort of thought this would be an interesting discussion, and wanted to see what everyone else thinks. Please feel free to link/ post pics of what you have been working on for the UL to help you points (warhammer is after all a visual game :) ).
From my perspective I think when working with just the GW range extensive conversion is needed to really make the models work together. Basic zombies clash way too much with TOmb King Skeletons. The characters for the VC could be integrated into the TK, but I don't see the units looking too great alongside each other. The ornate nature of Tomb King models give the army a very cool unique feel that would jar with most other armies (which is ironic since I think there is a ton of possibility to make other armies undead VC with some clever kit bashing).
Alternative ranges offer some nice chances to work some Tomb King choices in, with Mantics bow skeletons and catapults potentially working in a VC army. There are definitely some cool conversion oppurtunities for a casket of souls, necromantic ritual piece for example, but most of the really cool stuff the TOmb Kings could add to the VC , would require some pretty creative conversions or alternative model usage.