The White Walkers

[allot]

Well I have moved to Japan(staying 0.5~1year) and I didn't bring any of my warhammer so here I am starting a VC army finally. I have my policy to paint everything I have before I buy anything new and I don't have heaps o money to spend and not sure about time. So it might be a slow project. Anyway I like themed armies and for my VC army I got inspiration from The White Walkers from The game of Thrones/Song of ice and fire.
So far one model is painted!! I am not going to do bases to begin with.
Currently I own 20 zombies and 10 skeletons. I will slowly expand that.
Anyway here comes the first pic please post thoughts and help ^^ as I am faar from good at painting.

I have no idea why the picture is upside down. It was normal on my desktop and when I upload it then it turns upside down. I even tried to save it upside down and then it remained upside down when i uploaded it >.<

 

[TMS]

If you follow the link to TinyPic (http://i42.tinypic.com/vwvqzb.jpg) it's still upside-down. Try using something different from TinyPic if you can, ImageShack works and is free to use.

 

[allot]

If you follow the link to TinyPic (http://i42.tinypic.com/vwvqzb.jpg) it's still upside-down. Try using something different from TinyPic if you can, ImageShack works and is free to use.

This is weird. My friends says it is the right side up....
And they are getting blue eyes. I forgot to buy light blue
I tried same thing. The image is cursed

 

[TMS]

I tried uploading your image as an attachment in your first post after flipping the image right and saving it. Seems to work. You should try that as well, you can add attachments in the same screen where you type up your post.

 

[allot]

Thank you very much!

 

[Mannerheim27]

Great start! I'd add some washes of blues and browns to make the details pop a bit. Baking powder makes great snow basing!

Keep it up!

All the best,

Jake

 

[allot]

Update:
1 zombie remaining that is 50% of my 20 zombies. Then the first 2 Skeletons. Not sure if I want to go with the blue eyes on them or not. If yes I probably want to make them smaller.
Another thing, I am going to run a 1k list with vamp, 20 GG, 30 Skeletons, 20 crypt ghast. Want to be heavy summoning. How many extra models do I need to have approx?

 

[Corien Sumatris]

Well I know what it's like to have to make up an army on low funds so lets try to get the list down that you want.

1st of all, which models are a most and which models are a hardcore no?

2nd, we need to get your quantities right. 20 Grave Guard are going to get blasted to bits. If you want them in 1,000 then I would say get them to 30 and let that unit be your mainstay. Same with the ghouls, 20 is just too small. Zombies I would never run in units more than 20 - 25, and I would run multiple units of them (Maybe 3 in 1,000). This way you can get the most for your money with invocation.

3rd, to answer the question you actually asked lol, Imagine you have a unit of 20 zombies. You have a level 2 vampire (Thats going to be the most you can get at 1,000) and 2d6 to resuract them. On average per turn you will be raising 9. Now you probably won't start losing zombies until about turn 2 so you should be able to get a unit of 20 to around 40 in those turns and then they will start to die thus you can just reuse the models. on average I would say get an extra box of zombies for each unit of zombies you run in game.

 

[allot]

Let's see here. I am not a big fan of crypt stuff. But as long as there is not more than one unit of each I am fine. And then I am currently studying abroad. Therefore I probably should stay away from models that won't make the trip back to my home country when I am finished studying (in 0.5-1 year approx.) Other than that I think the only restriction is that I don't have a buttload of cash. I don't have to build the cheapest army available But maybe not the most expensive one.
Currently I own: 10 Skeletons, 20 Zombies, 20 Crypt ghouls. So next should be 10 more ghouls then 30 GG and a vamp and one more zombie box?

 

[Corien Sumatris]

That would deffinetly be a good way to start. Also good stuff that is also pretty cheap is Dire Wolves. They're going to be commonly used models and you could get away with running 4 units of 5 which will get your points up pretty quick and chaff is always a good thing to have. Also go with the Ghouls. They're good, pretty competative, and they will take care of your core requirements really quick. What about a Terror Gheist or Mortis Engine? They are both really good but like you said they may be a purchase for when you get home. They're both large and pretty fragile. For now I would stick with your plan and pick up some ghouls and keep up the zombie hordes and skellies. Get a few characters to keep your interest in things so that you don't get to bored.

Oh and good luck on the Classes your taking!

 

[theknightofjello]

Blood Knights are fairly expensive points wise and are probably in my opinion the best Cavalry in the game stat wise. An easy and wayyy cheap conversion is to buy HighElf Dragon Princes. If you get a terrorgheist you're going to get 3 vampire heads in that to put on the models and the Heads from the Box will look good on them.

 

[allot]

Finished the 10 Skeletons. Yes they are supposed to have a white flag. I don't have time to write the army lore but in short it was an army that gave up and showed white flag. As you see it didn't end very well with the troops that gave up.

 

[allot]

Ghouls coming up

 

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Necromancer coming up!