Mother of dragons!

Quick break from zombie painting today because this fella arrived. Seriously look at the size of him. I've included a zombie to give you an idea. The tail might be an issue for gaming so figuring out a way to pull it in closer or shorten it. But again look at it! Just amazing. It's a beautiful figure. He's going to make a beautiful centrepiece for Kristoff to ride into battle.

Dawn of the Dead (Zombies part 2)

We're now at the basing stage after yesterday's crazy speed paint on the first 40 zombies. The thing that takes the longest on these is the ink drying so that slows the process down a lot. Today I'm starting the next 40 while the bases dry on these ones. Fingers crossed they'll all be done for Saturday!

Zombies!

After 40 minutes work this is where I'm up to with 40 zombies. They need some blood and some basing but after that really that's all I'm going to do to them in the hope that I can get all 80 done for Saturday's tournament. It'll mean that instead of fielding an army with 100+ models unpainted I'll be fielding one with a 30 (won't finish the Grave Guard, Characters or Terrorgheist by then).

This does also mean that next time I face Stephen mine might be close to being completely painted (gasp!)

My pet Kaladrax

So I was trawling through Facebook wargames pages and someone was trading off their stock from their vampire counts army. Long story short guess who got a massive dragon for less than the cost of a trip to the cinema? That's right this lucky undead general! This guy is massive and is going to make an incredible centrepiece

Black Knights, RISE!

I've been rushing to get these done for my game tomorrow with Stephen and finally finished them today.

The colour didn't come out the way I wanted it to but I think the effect is quite good. I wanted them to look like any colour has been obliterated from their armour. In their lives they could have been Bretonnian Knights, Griffon riders, even Caledor dragon knights but in death they serve one master.

Frost and Bone

I'm currently rushing to finish as many units as possible for this Saturday's game (only my 2nd with Vampire Counts) and I wanted to take a break to post what I've done so far. I have to point out I did go back and rebase the Hexwraiths and original Skellie unit as I didn't like the flock and static grass and wanted a winter theme.

I wanted the bases to look like it had been winter and the thaw had arrived but just as the snow had started to melt a cold had descended freezing the melting snow. That's when the undead arrived.

Family photo. I love the new Vampire Counts models, they're so atmospheric and it looks like they've been sculpted by someone who really loved them. 

I've never been a massive fan of metallics so I'm steering away from them except a slight lining of silver on the rusty swords.

I'm writing a background for my Banshee as it just feels right to have some kind of history. I imagine that she was a vain trophy wife who had her husband poisoned to inherit his fortune but accidentally drank from his cup. 

These new Spirit Hosts are just incredible. Easy to paint, lovely sculpts. Didn't take long to get them looking like this. 

 I love the vargheists and I think I'll be going back and touching them up a bit just to give them glowing eyes and some bone details. I've got about 2500pts of Vamps now and this is the units half done. Next up I've got a Black Knight unit to finish painting so fingers crossed that's done by Friday.

Let it snow!!!

'TIS THE SEASON! We're all getting ready for the Christmas celebrations in the Purchase-Green household so hobbying has been taking a back seat to wrapping and baking however I've still managed to get some stuff done. With the End Times Warhammer supplements coming out I'm really excited about getting a larger army and fighting some massive battles. 

I've been adding snow to the bases of my current finished units. I love snow effect but usually I just painting PVA on the base and dip the models into it, this time I mixed the snow effect straight into the PVA glue then clumped it on with a sculpting tool as I've seen this create a more realistic effect. I wanted it to look like it's been snowing and is still snowing but the armies are moving through it. 

The Hexwraiths are ethereal so I didn't want it to look like they were being affected by the snow however with the Skellies I wanted it to look like they had it landing on them. You can see it on the shields, top of the banner and some of their heads. 

Here are the current units in progress. We've got some spirits who just need their final highlights, a unit of skellies who just need basing and vargheists who need their wings (next time I paint vargheists I'm doing them in separate bits, getting behind the wings has been a nightmare)

Got a game planned for January 2nd with Steve and last time he faced a mostly grey plastic army so would love to have an army that's half finished. I reckon I can get all this done AND a character if I do a bit every day.