Recent content by Von Paolo

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 05/02 9 - Limbering up for the Final Sprint Right then it has been a fair bit longer than a month for an update this time unfortunately a combination of injuring my thumb being away/ill far too many weekends in a row and a general lethargy around...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 05/02 It's a Metal Rackham Wulfen mate. I don't think they sell the metal ones anymore but you might be able to get a Plastic one or scour Ebay. It's an awesome model I was lucky that a friend of mine had a spare one from an army he was doing and was...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 02/01 8 – Targets acquired: go, go, go! Right then a few things have happened since I last posted firstly I have managed to get some painting done, secondly I realised I have a lot of painting to do to achieve my aims, thirdly I thought I had better...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 10/12 7- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Well with a drastic upturn in my output at the tail end of December I have actually managed to get a bit done in the last month or so. Which of course is good news and means I have managed to complete...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 10/12 It is just too dark I have gone for a dark brown on the flesh with black fur. I am going to try more of a flesh like colour instead.

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 10/12 The leaves are from skullcrafts.com. For the Grave Guard the finished bone is fairly light do you mean the gaming standard ones? Because they need alot of work all over.

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 10/12 Yes it did! Even though I am used to painting over 10 coats of paint on my based this only usually takes a couple of minutes per model at the end of a painting session. Just doing things like the static grass and leaves took a painting session...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 27/10 6 – It’s been a long time Sorry it’s been a while chaps but hopefully I can make this up to you with a bit of an update now. I haven’t been entirely idle since my last post but I haven’t been as active as I would have liked. The big thing to...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 16/10 5 – A longie? Mansfield Maul preparations Well this weekend I have my first tournament with the Vampires since I started this project and as it is a 2999pts tournament I decided to use my borrowed stuff and use my own painted stuff to make up the...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 13/10 4- Just a quickie Whilst trying to get a job lot of my Grave Guard stuck together at the local shop I got distracted when discussing the conversion I wanted to do for my Grave Guard Champion. Kit bashing and converting plastic champions for units...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 13/10 Cheers guys, I will keep rambling on to my heart's content then. There does seems to be a little confusion the gaming standard is just basecoat and ink, the nicer looking versions (second pictures) are the final versions (and I won't be...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog updated 13/10 Cheers, I tried the blending but couldn't get it to work. The final method was actually fairly easy it just took time to get to the method I described. I'm glad you are enjoying the blog. This was me attempting to put less writing in but I...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog 3 - I’ve actually got something done Sorry promised updates haven’t materialised I have had various problems with cameras, internets, waiting for deliveries and moving house. However, the good news is I have finally got some bits and pieces done. I have the...

I was at the UK's first 100+ player 8th ed tournament this weekend and the Wraiths were awesome. Two units of three without Banshees dominated in my first three games (killing almost an entire chaos warrior army on their own). In the later games they were still good when faced with more threats...

RE: Raising the Dead - My VC Blog 2 – Plans, Targets and all that kind of schizzle Well seeing that my first post mainly consisted of a bit of back story a bit of gibberish and a couple of pictures of little black squares but not a lot that you might actually find informative or interesting...