Fulkes Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y'all's neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpse's shell -Nagash (probably) I'll be honest, I've never finished a project with as many models as we can bring to a game, and so I decided to try and do something to keep myself on task and motivated to actually finish: post stuff on the internet. The general idea I've settled on is to have very rusty skeletons for my Deathrattle army. Iron weapons caked in rust, ancient bronze coated in verdigris, and more Agrax Earthshade over the scraps of cloth than you can shake a stick at. Basically I want these guys to feel ancient, and the enemy be more at risk of tetanus than they are of bleeding out. As such, here's my first WIP model, the champion for my first Skeleton unit (sorry about the potato quality, I took the picture at night and the lack of natural light seems to have made focusing harder for my 10+ year old camera): Obviously not done yet, but I am rather fond of how dirty and old that armour feels (I spent a fair number of hours looking at old metal armour and weapons while trying to decide how rusty to make everything before settling on "very"). The rust effect is Typhus Corrosion with Ryza Rust drybrushed on to try and pick out some of the raised edges on the detail as well as give it some color to keep it from looking flat and unfinished. I know "less is more" with a lot of these sorts of things, but I feel like this hits the look I want more than being sparing about it would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 No pictures for this update, but I have bought one of those old WHFB Coven Throne kits for $37 from my FLGS and built Bloodseeker Palanquin out of it last night (into sub assemblies) and primed it this morning so now I'm rotating between a unit of 10 skeletons, Neferata (whom I can continue working on now that I have the washes I need to get those ghostly skulls to "pop" and tie them in with the spirits better) and a Bloodseeker Palanquin. This also provices me with two Vampires to use for VLoZD or VL on Nightmare conversion as I want to give Neferata's allies kind of an grand ball or at least a blood tasting social feel to them (basically by making them all women and far less armoured looking than the usual suspects for VLs). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 Progress has been made! Neferata isn't glued to her throne as I need to finish her and her royal seat, but the mount is mostly done (sans the armour and assembly). Oh, and I figured out how to take pictures that don't totally suck. I just had to move back and zoom in while taking the photo in macro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 I went back to the book to reference some colors on Neffie herself and noted the mount used a petrified bone look so I went back and redid the skeleton. I still need to highlight, but I feel like the skulls pop more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honk Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 18 minutes ago, Fulkes said: I feel like the skulls pop more now Heck yeah!!! Good thinking, looks even better... have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 Just now, Honk said: Heck yeah!!! Good thinking, looks even better... have fun Thanks! I put a little work into my Bloodseeker Palanquin because I felt like a bit of a dunce for not double checking the studio paint job before putting the sub assemblies together. Everything is coming together nicely, though I'm still waffling on Neffie's skin. I want to do the undead grey the studio used to give vampires, but I want it a little softer than the hard grey it was done with there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honk Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 17 minutes ago, Fulkes said: but I want it a little softer than the hard grey it was done with there. Bright skin tones, I hate it... here, have some of my tries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 So I think I found the right look for the skin: I feel like it's appropriately deathly pale (pun intended) but not "rotting corpse" grey . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 And another update: I tried my hand at making her armour look like it's well polished. I'm iffy on how well it looks. In person I feel like it's more subtle, but that could be my partial colorblindness talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 I failed at going to bed early last night so I took a couple hours to paint a new model. Basically, having seen the very nice looking skeletons for Shadespire I decided to snatch up a couple boxes of them to throw some flavor to my army. The Warden is a skeleton with spear champion, the Harvester is another skeleton with a spear (I'm thinking of putting a broken shield on his base or something just so the model has a flavor of WYSIWYG since the skeletons always have shields anyways), and the other five I'm using as a basis for skeletons with sword units (just need to split a box of skeletons between the two units of 5 so I can sneak in a musician and standard to both units). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 I promise I haven't forgotten that I was doing this, and it's time to finally share a basically completed model! She might get a revisit to add a couple things to her a base or give the gold a bit of a silver glint but otherwise she's ready to lead her legion to war and drown the opponent in their own fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honk Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Pretty sweet stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulkes Posted December 1, 2018 Author Share Posted December 1, 2018 The models are clearly not done (I need to fill in some detail on the one with the ponytail where she kind of forms around some stair detail) but I did a thing and now have converted Vampire Lords on Nightmares to go with Neferata on the table! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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