Anna's Vampire Counts

[Anna Valerious]

Hello,

I'm new to this forum (and to collecting Vampire Counts) and thought I'd create a painting log in the hope that comments from you guys will spur me to finishing the army sooner!

My 'army' at the moment is a Winged Vampire Lord (which I started painting the other night) a unit of 21 Zombies (built) a unit of 10 Crypt Ghouls (build) and a unit of 10 Grave Guard (unbuilt).

Once I've finished painting these, I intend to buy a battalion. Some pics of the WIP Vampire and some converted Zombies.

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sorry zombies are a little blurry - I'll take better pics when they're painted

Any comments appreciated

 

[N1AK]

I thought it must of been you

I take it from the slight pixelation you're using a camera phone?

Really impressed with the shading on the armour and the skin, really emphasises the contour on the model.

Also loving the comedy Zombie positioning, I've been planning on trying to make mine look serious and thus a bit more disconcerting, but I think it may be a lost cause when they look so silly to begin with :|

 

[Anna Valerious]

doh! you caught me!

yeah it's a camera phone - I've lost the usb lead for my normal camera. Plus they came out huge (and I mean huge!) on the pc so I had to shrink them a bit!

I've done 5 outta the 21 zombies in weird poses - I plan on doing more with the 2nd lot I get :grin:

Thanks for the comments

 

[The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy]

Tee hee - nice zombies
How many are you gonna make?
And good work on the vamps armour

 

[Anna Valerious]

Thanks

I've built 20 zombies so far, but only 5 have had 'special treatment'!

When I get my battalion, I plan to convert most of the zombies, which will give me 40+, I think I'll need to play with them a bit after that to work out how many more I'll be needing. I don't want to start with too many, as most of them will be raised

 

[Belladamma Voltaire]

Excellent work Anna, I love the red on the Vampires armour!

 

[nodmanmatt]

Cool stuff, the vamp looks great

 

[Raodus]

Good job. I love the extra attention to detail you put into your work. The blood on the vampire's mouth is a nice touch.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Excellent work, The red armour is very well painted and the poses of the zombies are great too, I look forward to seeing them painted.

 

[Anna Valerious]

Thanks for the comments.

My vampire has a slight accident last night in a game - he fell off the movement tray and broke, thankfully it was a clean break and easily fixed. Had to proxy a few models for a game - high elf spearmen as skeletons - what? they were dead high elf spearmen I'm not a fan of proxy models, but still, it's better than playing with a movement tray full of bases!!!

Tonight's plan is to base the Ghouls and my 2nd Vampire (which I found in my bits box!) and spray them and the zombies, and finish building my 10 Grave Guard (there's 1 built so far!). Then over the weekend, hopefully, they will all be finished.

I'll post pics when they're done.

 

[Boo]

Great stuff so far, and if you finish all that before the weekend, then god bless you!

Keep up the good work.

 

[N1AK]

stfu about the tray of bases, no one need ever know

Nice progress, and I hope batman feels better when he's put back together.

 

[Anna Valerious]

ha ha ha! Batman feels much better now, thanks N1AK!

Progress update:

Well I didn't get as much done on the weekend as I'd hoped - I had a distraction! My Gargantuan Squiggoth arrived on Saturday, so I got sidetracked building him! :mrgreen:

I did manage to finish building the Grave Guard and spray the Zombies and Ghouls. The Zombies are very nearly finished now, I plan on finishing them tonight (then I'll post pics)

 

[N1AK]

Mwar photoz!

The trick with the Squiggoth is could you make it in a way that it 'could' be used in either 40k or Warhammer (using magnets to make guns removable etc)?

Oh and are you playing in this tournament next Monday?

 

[Anna Valerious]

I'll take some pics tonight!

yeah I am, was gonna take my 40k orks, but there's no way I can paint them all by then! so I'll probably end up taking marines!

The Squiggoth is huge! I glued the kannon and lobba on top, but there's no little guns and ork on there (yet) what could it be in Warhammer? I suppose I could sit a Skink Priest on top and call it a Stegadon!

 

[N1AK]

You could take it using the Legendary Battle rules as a Giant Mammoth, or just roll your own rules.

 

[Danceman]

I´m impressed with the red armour, it is one the harder colours to apply smoothly but you´ve pulled it off.

It be interesting to see what else you come up with.

Cheers

 

[Anna Valerious]

Thanks, it took me longer to do the red, mainly as I don't have a red army I don't pain that colour often.

Well I've finished the 20 Zombies now and took photos of them . . . but forgot to bring my usb cable in to work, so I can't upload them unitl tonight!

I'll also be painting the Grave Guard and Ghouls tonight - I haven't done any more work on the Vampire as I haven't found the right colour for the wing, if I have time, I might have a go at that too tonight.

Zombie photos will be here tonight!

 

[N1AK]

Stop playing with that Squiggoth and post some updates, I've seen the Ghouls so you have no excuse

 

[Anna Valerious]

Ok, an update! It's been a while (I was busy with my squiggoth!) :grin:

They're not quite finished yet as I've been waiting for the new washes, but here's some pics of wip models,

21 zombies, nearly finished, still have to do the metal and grass on the bases
10 grave guard, still have to do the bones and highlight the red and decide on a colour for the blades, and grass the bases
10 ghouls, still need to do eyes and teeth and grass the bases, I'm not sure whether to highlight the skin further or leave them as they are.

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(I know this one's a little blurry - sorry!

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feel free to comment (or criticise!)

 

[The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy]

Ghouls are quite good. some of the best painted ones I've seen. So what's yer secret?

And IMO the banner in the 'Guard needs a wash of darker red or brown, then a symbol on it - ilke a skull

 

[Anna Valerious]

thanks

yeah, the banner's not finished yet, it's only had 1 colour on it!

secret for the ghouls? the new washes and a tank brush! (seriously!)

roughly 50/50 tallarn flesh and fortress grey, with a little dab of astronomican grey
wash heavily with 50/50 Leviathan Purple and Gryphone Sepia
and hey presto!

the bones on the ghouls were khemri brown, dheneb stone then wash devlan mud