Sersi's - Armies of the Night

[The Dark Sheep]

The barding looks great. I think there should be some armour plates at the back of the model as well to give it a more heavy feel.

 

[Sersi]

Oh yeah I ordered a bunch of "Christmas Stuff" with the wife's permission, of course. So, on order are:

6x Gameszone - Zombie Wolves
1x Reaper - Necro Dragon
2x Games workshop - Varghulfs

This last purchase might, be of interest to Disciple of Nagash.

This one is to satisfy my perverse obsession with female vampires. My airbrush trigger finger is already twitching in anticipation.

Oh, and one more thing would It be wrong to convert a Varghulf, to re-create this scene in Bram Stoker's Dracula:

 

[Trevy the Great]

I believe that commenting on this thread would be sacrilege...
...
Nice Black Knights.

 

[darknesseternal]

Oh, and one more thing would It be wrong to convert a Varghulf, to re-create this scene in Bram Stoker's Dracula:

Would it be wrong? No, it would be f**king brilliant imo.. I love that scene that you are referring to, sadie frost playing Lucy is one of the very few occasions that I have thought she was hot..

I noticed that earlier in this plog, you mentioned that you were having trouble with finding a suitable mini size wise to represent Isabella.. have you considered using this one?

Siobhana - Reaper

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Oh yeah I ordered a bunch of "Christmas Stuff" with the wife's permission, of course. So, on order are:

6x Gameszone - Zombie Wolves
1x Reaper - Necro Dragon
2x Games workshop - Varghulfs

This last purchase might, be of interest to Disciple of Nagash.

This one is to satisfy my perverse obsession with female vampires. My airbrush trigger finger is already twitching in anticipation.

Oh, and one more thing would It be wrong to convert a Varghulf, to re-create this scene in Bram Stoker's Dracula:

*Plog moved to top of Don's favourites*


Wrong? It's not wrong, in fact I demand you do it......now!! Plus I want to see that other model painted quickly!

 

[Sersi]

I've though long and hard upon what to do about my ghouls. While I love the models, their hunched posture troubles me, as they look so small and not all that threatening. I can see some of them being posed that way but all of them?!! Well, that and the bone things on their back's just look stupid. Fortunately, I'm come upon a solution. Sculpt new more upright torsos.

A couple of size comparisons:

Banshee:

Ill be basing my Banshee off this conversion. She's got most of what I need, just remove the lower arms and tail, then sculpt a tattered flowing/swirling skirt. Not sure whether to keep the sword or not though. Also, should I carve out the eyes, to make her head look more skull-like?

 

[The Dark Sheep]

Yes! Definitely tear her eyes out .

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Yeah I agree, she would need to look more dead-like. The ghouls look promising, look forward to seeing them painted.

 

[Jerek]

I think it's a good idea. Do you intend to keep the legs the same? I'm not sure about the claws

 

[Darkhour]

any updates?.. I'm following this thread as I wish to follow a similar theme! Looking good!

 

[Trevy the Great]

Is this all the work that you are planning on doing on the new Ghouls? Right now they look a little too soft and skinny to be Ghouls. I think that they need a little more detail to be convincing.

Just my two cents.

 

[Sersi]

Hi Guys,

I'm back!

I got side tracked by work and a bit of family tragedy. But its a new year so why dwell in the past. :mrgreen:


Updates:

Here's what I have so far: 10 Blood Knights, 10 Black Knights (will bulk out to 15), 1 Wight King (mounted), 4 Carin Wraiths, 1 Tomb Banshee, 1 Vampire Lord (on foot), and 21 Dire Wolves (may increase to 30). Also 100 zombies based on the LOTR "Army of the Dead" minis; 20 skeletons. I still need 3 Varghulfs, 20+ Fellbats, 1 Zombie Dragon, 40 skeletons, 30 Grave Guards and 20 Ghouls.

Blood Knights: (10x)

These are pretty much done as far as converting goes.

Dire Wolf: (30x)

Black Knight15x)

Army:

In these pictures are: 10 Blood Knights, 10 Black Knights, 1 Wight King, 4 Carin Wraiths, 1 Tomb Banshee, 1 Vampire Lord (on foot), and 21 Dire Wolves.

Skeletons: (20x)

Zombie Dragon:

I changed my mind on this model, as I want something closer to the codex artwork, seen here:

So, I'll be basing it off the New plastic Lord of the Rings Fellbeast, out next month.

I'll want to mount the model on a broken castle wall or tower similar to this.

Character Models:

I'm heavily converting my Reaper Vampire Lord to look more like Vlad in this picture. My other vampires will be modded in costumes similar to those seen here.

More Later!

 

[Trevy the Great]

Yay, more models!
This is shaping up to be a pretty impressive army. Now, painted it would be better.

 

[Rebel]

Very impressive. Can't wait to see the fell beastie, always loved that mini

 

[maglash]

Impressive... But not good yet. Models can be good converted, but not good before they're painted.

I like the fell beast, but he's a bit to skinny.

But still, all you're models are concerted in a very, very awsome way.

 

[Goggalor]

Wow. Thats an update. Looks a nice army and a lot of love seems have to gone into it. Now get painting.

 

[Darkhour]

Very good Sersi, the conversions are fantastic on those Blood Knights in particular!.. I am too waiting to see those painted up!

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Looks very promising! Nice conversions and the ideas you have have certainly panned out well.

The only thing I ask is when you do paint them, you post some larger pics (not too much large though!), so I can make out the details.

 

[Sersi]

Fell Bats:



Well, I finally got my Wampyr "Counts as Fell-bats", and they are huge! Okay maybe not huge, but larger than I thought. The models come in three basic body types and at least two different pairs of wings. The wings are glue on so the models have a bit of random variation, but altering the poses should help and a bit more variety. The paint jobs is pretty heavy handed, especially the wash to the face and torso.

Here's a a couple of pictures to show how the scale:

And just to give you and idea of how cool they'll look screening my Blood Knights:

Dire Wraiths & Tomb Banshee:


I was originally going to use this mini as necromancer, but she works better as a Banshee. You just can't have to many cute undead chicks!

While, were at it here is my new dedicate Vampire Counts Army display case:

Zombie Dragon:

So, bought a plastic Fellbeast that is currently receiving my dark attention. Basically, I've gutted it and re-sculpted it with desiccated rotting ribcage. I then sculpted new back legs; because the one's it came with didn't fit the pose I'm going for. I also, broke up the body to make it more sinuous and less static looking. I get some pics of it up this weekend.

I hope to get some pictures up of the dragon by this weekend.


More later!

 

[Sanai]

Looking at your army has made my day.

 

[Soren]

Very nice looking army. I can't wait to see more of it painted. Get busy!

 

[Trevy the Great]

That is indeed a very nice looking army. Now get it painted! NOW!!!!!

 

[sea.man]

have you got any deadline with finishing your army?

 

[Kirgan]

Nice job

 

[mousekiller]

Wow, lots of great conversions here, love the winged folks... also the freehand scrollwork on that book is really well done.