Vaftrudnirs children of the night

[Vaftrudnir]

Ive finally (re)started my VC army and its about time to start posting here.
My main goal is to have a workable army at the lowest price possible (being unemployed in Sweden isn't a walk in the park any longer).
And when I can put in some Norse/Skyrim feel to it,a theme I cant seem to start an army without(My ogres are Thursr inspired and my not yet finished destroyer for CDs is called Surtr)

Ive started by getting myself some mantic skellies and some GBP vikings.
Boneheads:

Grave guard (aiming for a little Draugr theme)

The idea for the Corpse cart is taken from Bruegels Triumph of death(Im goingt to steals ome more ideas from that one).
Plus ive got some wraits and a necro made from old skeletons and GS.

Then I have some old warzone models laying around and have started to convert two bauhaus guys into low lvl vampires:

Links to my ogre and Chaos dwarf blogs.

http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=24055.0
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10886

 

[Forlorn]

Can you tell a bit of the back story to some of the names you referenced? I love the Norse idea you're going with quite a bit!

Skyrim?
Thursr?
Bruegels Triumph?

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Man these questions put some warmth to my small cold hart.

Skyrim- Awesome game, look it up but be warned it may consume your life.
Thursr- Collective name for the old (original) trolls and giants of Jotuheim in Norse mythology(hrimthurs is the real name for the original frost giants.
Bruegels Triumph of death- Painting from 1562 by Pieter Bruegel the elder. In my mind the most epic undead work of art by far.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Thetriumphofdeath.jpg

 

[Forlorn]

Man these questions put some warmth to my small cold hart.

Skyrim- Awesome game, look it up but be warned it may consume your life.
Thursr- Collective name for the old (original) trolls and giants of Jotuheim in Norse mythology(hrimthurs is the real name for the original frost giants.
Bruegels Triumph of death- Painting from 1562 by Pieter Bruegel the elder. In my mind the most epic undead work of art by far.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Thetriumphofdeath.jpg

That is an impressive painting! Speaking of trolls I recently saw this movie with subtitles. Trolljegeren http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/

Really good movie.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Thats an awesome movie, saw it last year when I was in Norway working

As I haven't done any more work on my army Ile just post some old pics of my mordheim undead warband from last year.
Most of them are going to be used in my army to be.

 

[Mad 'At]

Cool warband I like the necro, and the vampire.

And do I spot a green stuffed rinox rider in the background?

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Thanks mate
Yepp thats one of my GS rhinoxen, took me a couple of years to finish (Ive got a really really short attention span so I must finish the thins I start right away or else they just fill some more boxes, I don't want to know how many half finished models I have lying around...)
I think there's some more pica in my ogre blog.

 

[Vectra]

i must say i like the necromancer too. what model is it?

 

[Vaftrudnir]

He is from an really old plastic wizard set.

 

[Duke Danse Macabre]

Those guys look epic.
I am a hard core go GW model guy but our zombies such, you're look like they should and I love them!

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Aye, an all GW model army would be nice but the costs of GW nowadays (plus the zombies suck bigtime)....

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Corpse cart, Vampires and a wight king

Zombies n ghouls

Wraits PIP

 

[Vaftrudnir]

WIP Vampires

Ghouls and Zds

Ulfs and wraits wip.

 

[Duke Danse Macabre]

Dude, you should of been in the golden bat converting, you're vamps would of cleaned house!

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Thanks mate, Hopefully Ile catch the next train.
And now the painting begins....

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Done with the zombies.. Just some snow and fixing left.

The ghouls are more or less done.

And Im still working on my heroes.

Will try to get some better pics some day. These are horrible.

 

[Vectra]

not bad at all. nice conversions indeed

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Wont waste any more time on my zombies so this will have to do. Ile do some mantic zombies for the front ranks some time... Once more sorry for the photo, I need some better lighting for photos.

 

[YoungOlo]

Love your vamps, any chance for close-ups?

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Thanks mate, sadly I haven't had time to finish them.
Heres some WIPs.

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Ive got some new pics (from my lousy phone)
WIP undead giant.

Black knights with "Gregor Clegane" ish mounted wight king.

WIP blood knights made from brettonians.

 

[frankenstine]

they look cool mate love the corpse cart

 

[skullgrl]

I love what you've done with the undead giant so far. It would be really cool if you gave him some large maggots.

 

[Wight Lord]

i have to say i do love the vampire(werewolf?) char from your mordheim warband, its a brilliant concept really could you post a few pictures of it or link to ones already taken? id love to see more of him

cheers from sweden

 

[Vaftrudnir]

Thanks for the comments mates, feel free so give me some tips and suggestions if you have any.
Maggots should be fun (im working on a necro on horse that's going to have some of those )
Ile fix some more photos of my old Strigoi.
Quick update:
Im working on some Vargheists and some Hexwraiths based on bloodletters/CSM possessed wings and fireforge knights templar.
Im aiming for a bit more strigoi looking heists and more "wild hunt"ish than reapers for the wraiths.
The heists are going to get some more muscle and big ears and the wraiths will be getting some flames etc.