Phil's Rebooting of Undeath

[Phil]

Hi everyone.

I joined I guess at the beginning of October with the idea of sharing models I intended to paint / customize to fit a smallish (1500 - 2k point) Vampire Counts army, using models from Fantasy and AOS, as I quite like both ranges. My biggest problem so far has been that of scaling; it doesn't match 100%, but as long as I treat each unit as it's own, I think I might be able to get away with it. This is my second delve into painting VC; I had started an army back in 6th Ed. and later sold those units to a friend on the West Coast who had fallen in love with what I had done. I always enjoyed those models though and this got jumpstarted when I purchased a large second hand group of core units made up primarily of skeletons, ghouls and Old metal fell bats. I have since added to that and started to get to work, laying out color schemes and basing ideas on a few character models / etheral troops.

I've opted to stick to a scheme of blood red, purples and blacks mainly. For etherals, I'm building up scales from Black -> tourqoise -> white. I'll start off by posting models I shared in my Intro post and then will throw up shots of units in progress / finished unit shots as they get done...

 

[Phil]

I've been busy since my original post working on a block of Skeletons. I've continued to add a unit of Spirit Hosts and a Banshee (which I still need to photograph). Most recently, I finished a Vampire Lord centerpiece for the unit of skeletons... I still need to sort basing on that unit, so I'll photograph that when I get that sorted, but will share some preview shots for fun. In progress now is the command group for the skeletons and an alternate unit of 3d Printed Spirit Hosts. I'm kinda using these etheral troops as secondary units that don't require tons of detail work as models dry... They tend to come together pretty fast.

 

[Phil]

Just for reference / a bit of an introduction; I've been at this a number of years; too many to count properly. I have for the last 6 months or so been working hard to finish up a decent Oldhammer (5th Ed Big Hats) army of Chaos Dwarfs. I also have several other armies in various states, largest being Dwarfs, but also have modeled Ogre Kingdoms, Bretonnians, Goblins, Empire, Chaos and a few others... I'll share a few highlights for fun.

 

[Phil]

Hi everyone, I have some shots of units and heros that I have been working on that now are in the cabinet.... First up, a unit of 24 skeles, all sorted, flocked, bannered and tray sorted. I'm very happy with the results of this unit over all; a bit of a drag to slog through these, but results are pretty ok.

Next, a Vamp Lord (minus the bats in the belfrie so to say... I'm saving them for another project.) Pleased with the results and surely going to work for my Blood Dragons, both mounted and on foot if I can find them and field them... I like the idea in any case.

On next to a few ethereals, I have some Spirit Host and a Banshee to share. I think the ethereal paint scheme is standing up now that I have a few units. I give it a thumbs up....

On dock, I have some cav to sort, I'm starting with 5 Black Guard and a couple of the mounted Wraiths - I like the models...

I'm also going to work on one of the Vampire characters from AOS - Lady Annika. I like the model quite a bit and it should be a fun build.

Enjoy the shots peeps!