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hellz85

Zombie
May 18, 2015
6
wales
Zombies
7
Hi :-)

I am new to VC but not to fantasy, I have large skaven and high elf armies, a small wood elf army and my other half has WOC. I am aware that now is a bad time to suddenly start a new army but I got sick of painting rats and elves and need something gribbly and horrible to paint instead. I like nearly all the models in the VC range, not too keen on the new models from the end times though and a bit gutted that the characters are mostly finecast. My favourite part of the hobby is painting, then gaming, least favourite is assembling the things, especially awkward to rank up models, im looking at you storm vermin and phoenix guard. Gameplay wise I am not sure if I have a preferred playstyle, I like to have multiple options available to me, don't usually spam and go for models I like the look of or fluff of. When playing at home I normally write several lists, number them and let my opponent blind pick one to keep things interesting, if I have to travel I normally try to make an allcomers list so I don't have to transport everything. I also like to read novels related to my army from time to time, I just finished reading queeks book.

I am waiting for my VC stuff to arrive and have ordered the book, nagash book, battalion, a box of skeletons, 2x box of crypt horrors/vargheists, a terrorghiest, box of black nights, necromancer, banshee, spirit host box and wight king blister. I am probably going to order2-3 boxes of mantic zombies, and maybe some gw ones to mix in. I probably need more core but as we don't know what is going to make it to 9th I am probably going to get the special and rare choices that appeal most to me whilst I still can as alternatives for the core models seem quite easy to find. Not sure what to do with the vamp that comes with the terrogheist, are vamps considered better on foot or mounted? for mounted I could stick his torso on a dragon prince horse or stick him on a chaos knight horse, or maybe one of the black knights, on foot I have no idea what to use as suitable legs?

Paint scheme wise I am not sure what to do either, my skaven are brightly painted and cartoony, my high elves are turquoise and purple, the wood elves are autumnal theme, I do quite like the traditional red colours but it feels abit warm for the undead to me. Id like to make them distinct from my other armies. I was mad enough to use 4 different fur colours and 3 different robe colours for my skaven slaves so will probably go for fairly individual zombies with different coloured clothing and skin tones, with the rest of the army being more uniform in paint scheme.
 
You're going to be busy for a long time :)

Welcome!

He'll be fine on a horse if he's not your general, if he is, a lot of your army will move at a snail's pace.
 
@hellz85 I think Chaos warrior legs might work well for him on foot (I'm sure you've got some knocking about), otherwise I'd recommend just repositioning his own legs if you're up to the challenge. I think some people have done it and displayed theirs in the threads @Draykorinee linked above.
 
Just waiting for wayland to actually send me my vc stuff, they normally ship by now so might have to do some chasing up. In the mean time I'm checking out the painting section on this forum for inspiration :-). Looking forward to having a go at my first proper conversion when it all arrives though a little scared of taking a knife to an expensive mini lol. I've got the alexia mini from war machine on her way to be a foot vamp and a male foot vamp from reaper too. Also painted a few more rats even thou they are doing my head in at the moment.
 
Just waiting for wayland to actually send me my vc stuff, they normally ship by now so might have to do some chasing up. In the mean time I'm checking out the painting section on this forum for inspiration :). Looking forward to having a go at my first proper conversion when it all arrives though a little scared of taking a knife to an expensive mini lol. I've got the alexia mini from war machine on her way to be a foot vamp and a male foot vamp from reaper too. Also painted a few more rats even thou they are doing my head in at the moment.

Wayland have been real slow the last few times, I had to wait around 2 months and cancelled one order, thankfully they were better with my next order.
 
Well I asked wayland when they can ship, got a prompt reply that they won't be getting their restock in for another week, I'm off camping then so asked if they can hold the order for a week. A different person then emailed me saying they were going to cancel and refund the whole order. They haven't actually done it yet which is annoying, but firestorm games have just opened a new store not far away so I will try to make the same order with them once wayland have given my money back. First time I've had a problem with wayland to be fair. In the mean time I have a box of 10 skellies to work out a paint scheme with that I picked up yesterday.
 

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