Another quick bit...

Just got a few more bits being done currently.

I apologise for the blurryness as I took a quick pic for y'all this morning..

As you can see above, I've continued work on the 'saddle', just fleshing out the shape etc, by the end of it I intend to have a sort of seat back for him (ideally tall and gothic) with a pair of dual pennants fluttering also

Small update...

So a small update for you all. As above you can see a vampire (Balaur infact) chilling on top of a Forgeworld Magma Dragon.

After exhaustive researching and net- trawling it was the only dragon that was happy mounting the camp on. I'm not sure how much I'm going to dead-er-ise the thing, as: 

1. it is a beautiful model, I'd say now my favourite Forgeworld non-vehicle model! 

2. To keep it in theme with the undead-i-gryph and the nightmares, both of which aren't like falling a part.

Anyway, have done some more work on him tonight, will get some more pics up as progress is being made.

Cheers!

Photo Dump

I've been hideously lazy I know, I just figured I'd dump a bunch of photos up as I starting pulling my finger out and working back into the hobby!

Apologies with pics

Hello again all.

I've been slack I know. Was just a little Warhammered out over the last week (started building a Cerastus Knight titan to cleanse the palate).

Anyway didn't fair amazingly at Rumble in the Bronx (the tournament) but was chuffed by the fact that the 2 guys I got beaten got Best General and 2nd Overall, so I can deal with that. Finished 30th out of 70 odd so doable.

One (of many) upshot(s) was I managed to snag players choice for the tournament so was pretty chuffed with that, scored a sweet trophy and an Empire Griffon (hello Terrorghiest, excellent idea from a mate of mine on the trip home).

Anyway finished pictures of the army, that I can do now. Took a few cheeky pics last night as I was debagging/boxing them for the display cabinet/storage.

Anyway, first up is Lord Balaur in with the skellingtons..

Punching along...

Hey all!

Just 2 days away from the tournament and I'm so close to finishing the army it hurts..

Just need to finish 2 necromancers (they have base colours blocked on) and 3 banners. I've also whipped up a display board over the last couple of nights.

Also finally finished Balaur as in, as you can see above, he now has his shield attached and is for all intents and purposes finished!! (apologies for the quality of the pic)

Next up I have my first attempt at a fee hand banner. This one will be in the Skeleton command, I thought it fitting for the unit Balaur is in to have a decent banner.

Nagash...thoughts/worries....

So being a blog predominantly about old mate vamps and their undeath, the heralding of the approaching 'Legions of Undeath' aswell as the Undeath magic lore are a bit of a worry I must say..

From the small amounts of info gleaned it looks like law of undeath allows people to summon undead units, which is fine and cool. The only issue is though, that apparently any race has access to it. So sort of kills some of the uniqueness to VC which is a shame (if true).

They're also releasing Mortarchs or something to that effect, which Consist of, Arkhan the Black, Neferata The vampire queen (not to be confused with Marceline), and old mate Manfred.

Seems also that Nagash has sat the vamps and tomb kings down, slapped them around a little and said play nice, so now they're one big undead happy family.

This has some positives and negatives.

I'd love to have some skeleton archers and a catapult in my army.

Negatives if if GW goes and combines them either into thier own Armybook (I doubt) we'll loose a shit tonne of flavour.

If GW opts to add them into a 'Undead Legions' armybook, I have a feeling it will out class both armies at their own game, which is a bit of a worry.

Anyway I shall link you to a blog with many pictures...

Nagash and Undead Legion pics.

I must say Nagash is cool and all, but similar to both 40k and fantasy of 'need more skulls for grimdark' they've just went 'needs more skeletal bits cos undead..' which is a bit naff in my opinion but hey, he looks better than the old model I suppose......

Progress...of sorts...

So just a little update as to how I'm traveling with my dead lines, I'm up to the last leg of the race and god willing I should make it. I still have 2 weeks until the dead line so I'm almost there.

A couple of weeks ago I showed you this:

July
18th
Complete 15 wolves (DONE!!)
25th
5 Zombies + 15x Zombie Base(DONE!!)
1st Aug
5 Blood Knights (4 Blood Knights and the Vargryph)
8th
5 Zombies + 15x Zombie Base (just need to finish the 15x Base)
15th
5 Varghiests (3 made and undercoated)
22nd
3 Characters
25th

So Currently it is looking like this:
July
18th
Complete 15 wolves (DONE!!)
25th
5 Zombies + 15x Zombie Base(DONE!!)
1st Aug
5 Blood Knights (4 Blood Knights and the Vargryph) (Done*)
8th
5 Zombies + 15x Zombie Base (just need to finish the 15x Base)
15th
5 Varghiests (3 made and undercoated) (Done*)
22nd
3 Characters
25th

*Needs finishing touches eg, matt varnish and blood splatter.

So this leaves me with a glorious :
2 Necromancers
 5 Skeles (got some cursed company that I want to mix in),
3 zombies + Corpse pile (for the 15x Zombie base)
and to paint 4 banners (2 zombie banners, 1 Skele Banner and 1 Blood Knight banner).

When they're done its all done. I reckon I can have the zombies and skeles sorted by the weeks end, then its a matter of going to town on the banners and basing everything in one giant batch *gulp*.

Will get some pics of the varghiests up soon, I've done, well what I think, is an interesting conversion on 2 of them to make them a little less bestial and a little more...cunning...

Until next time...