Hello everyone!
I hope you are all having a good Halloween! For ages now I have been wrestling with serious modelling and painting inertia - I just couldn't work out what to build. I wanted to do a vampire counts army, as the undead have always captured my interest. I just couldn't get the motivation together though, and as the new army book came out, I lost all motivation. I have had a bit of a break throught in the last few days though. I wanted to start a plog and help use that to keep me motivated. The pictures below are of the converted first few units and heros - any comments or thoughts welcome
The first hero is a hero level vampire with a great weapon. He started life as an Imperial Guard tech priest, but clearly ran into something toothy in one of the catacobs of Mars!
Vampire Hero Front
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Vampire Hero Side
Vampire Hero Back
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He's designed to fit in with a unit of axemen - only limited conversions, mainly using small shards of spare plastic to add shoulder pads to a few, and converting all their weapons to be axes - I had to pillage a few dwarf weapons for that.
Axemen Unit
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Axemen Champion
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Next up, the most fun thing I have worked on recently. I wanted a hero Banshee, but wanted my own unique one - what can I say, converting is addictive! She isn't perfect, but I am pleased with the results - can anyone tell me where the parts are from?
Banshee Hero Front
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Banshee Hero Side
Banshee Hero Back
She is designed to float in the front rank of a unit of swordsmen - more conversions needed here, wanted to add chainmail and various armour pieces to fit with the old school command models - I love them too much to leave them out. Here's hoping the greenstuff chainmail will work out once painted! My skills are still pretty basic
Swordsmen Unit
Swordsmen Command
My breakthough was that I realised that although I liked the new units, I am too fond of the really old undead, where monsters like Varghulfs and Crypt Horrors didn't appear, in favour of skeletons and other "human" horrors. So I decided to start a relatively old school army! Lots of bone and zombies, and less of the modern monsters. I would still like to add things like Vargheists though, they just speak to me, and things like the coven throne and mortis engine - and if I can afford it some of the skin wolves too from Forgeworld, so I can use the Crypt Horror rules
As for background, well, I am still rolling some ideas round in my head, but reading the excellent Children of Maat stories in the Invocation (thanks to the writers for those, they are always great) I am just wondering... what would one of Maatmeses brood become in the far north? Perhaps an encounter with a withchunter, and the witchunter being given the blood kiss, has led to a small brood of vengeful vampires? Would that make them "Witchhungers"? Sorry...
Anyway, I promised myself that before the end of Halloween I would finish enough models for two units, and start a plog - and I have managed it just... local time says half an hour before midnight
Sorry for the lengthy first post, please let me know any thoughts - colour suggestions in particular are welcome, I plan to do some work on the bases before painting, but I need to work out some ideas ahead of time.
I hope you are all having a good Halloween! For ages now I have been wrestling with serious modelling and painting inertia - I just couldn't work out what to build. I wanted to do a vampire counts army, as the undead have always captured my interest. I just couldn't get the motivation together though, and as the new army book came out, I lost all motivation. I have had a bit of a break throught in the last few days though. I wanted to start a plog and help use that to keep me motivated. The pictures below are of the converted first few units and heros - any comments or thoughts welcome
The first hero is a hero level vampire with a great weapon. He started life as an Imperial Guard tech priest, but clearly ran into something toothy in one of the catacobs of Mars!
Vampire Hero Front
Vampire Hero Side
Vampire Hero Back
He's designed to fit in with a unit of axemen - only limited conversions, mainly using small shards of spare plastic to add shoulder pads to a few, and converting all their weapons to be axes - I had to pillage a few dwarf weapons for that.
Axemen Unit
Axemen Champion
Next up, the most fun thing I have worked on recently. I wanted a hero Banshee, but wanted my own unique one - what can I say, converting is addictive! She isn't perfect, but I am pleased with the results - can anyone tell me where the parts are from?
Banshee Hero Front
Banshee Hero Side
Banshee Hero Back
She is designed to float in the front rank of a unit of swordsmen - more conversions needed here, wanted to add chainmail and various armour pieces to fit with the old school command models - I love them too much to leave them out. Here's hoping the greenstuff chainmail will work out once painted! My skills are still pretty basic
Swordsmen Unit
Swordsmen Command
My breakthough was that I realised that although I liked the new units, I am too fond of the really old undead, where monsters like Varghulfs and Crypt Horrors didn't appear, in favour of skeletons and other "human" horrors. So I decided to start a relatively old school army! Lots of bone and zombies, and less of the modern monsters. I would still like to add things like Vargheists though, they just speak to me, and things like the coven throne and mortis engine - and if I can afford it some of the skin wolves too from Forgeworld, so I can use the Crypt Horror rules
As for background, well, I am still rolling some ideas round in my head, but reading the excellent Children of Maat stories in the Invocation (thanks to the writers for those, they are always great) I am just wondering... what would one of Maatmeses brood become in the far north? Perhaps an encounter with a withchunter, and the witchunter being given the blood kiss, has led to a small brood of vengeful vampires? Would that make them "Witchhungers"? Sorry...
Anyway, I promised myself that before the end of Halloween I would finish enough models for two units, and start a plog - and I have managed it just... local time says half an hour before midnight
Sorry for the lengthy first post, please let me know any thoughts - colour suggestions in particular are welcome, I plan to do some work on the bases before painting, but I need to work out some ideas ahead of time.
