Bone, gold and stone

[Benzan]

Intimidated by my amount of skaven and lack of games and time have made me restart and refresh my Tombkings.

Since I'm incredibly bored with painting for some reason, lack of time might be it, takes so long to set up in my limited space, I work on converting/kitbashing and getting the most out of the kits I buy and already have.

So far my favourite kit has been the Sphinxes. From 2 boxes you can just make so many things.

So far my progress from 2 boxes are:
- Necrosphinx
- Warsphinx
- Tomb king/prince (dooh top 3 are obvious)
- Herald with HW/Shield
- Herald BSB (in progress)
- Hierotitan (awaiting greenstuff for the legs)
- Casket of souls (not started yet)

This leaves me with some bits and pieces that might make something fun when i figure out what to do.

I also have a plan to make both Stalkers and Necroknights from a single box, but more of that when I get them.

So some pics of what I'm working on, (crappy iphone pics in the dark of night so nothing fancy)

Archers mid paint, green parts going to go since I had a change of heart:


Kitbashed Herald:



The big girls ^_^:


I think I'll go Khalinda style later on when I get the rest together
I have 6 chariots, 40 HW/S skellies, 30ish Archers, Scorpion, TK with HW/S, the 2 Liches kit, 8 Horsemen and stuff I forget. ^_^

[Maglok]

Ah another Tomb Kings player! Welcommeee And GOOD luck. Let the sands run red with blood... when you realise just how ARGH it is to paint that many bones!

[Benzan]

Actually I had a Undead army back in 5th ed (but it got lost T_T) so I do know a thing or two about it. But it's better than skaven.

I've had my TK for 5 yrs, just never done much with them since 7th ed hit.

[surprize]

Good luck with it!

If you aren't using it already I can heartily recommend the Skeleton Bone primer from The Army Painter. Speeds up painting undead so much and my experience is just with vampire counts. With the extra expanse of bone on a Tomb Kings army you could fly through them.

[Benzan]

Good luck with it!

If you aren't using it already I can heartily recommend the Skeleton Bone primer from The Army Painter. Speeds up painting undead so much and my experience is just with vampire counts. With the extra expanse of bone on a Tomb Kings army you could fly through them.

Oh I keep it even more simple for bone actually, White undercoat, Devlan wash, white drybrush - Done. And I wont even do the final brush untill I have all basic done.
But a good tip, I've heard good stuff about Armypainter primers.

So, as my mission for the night was to finish a test model Archer, and I did! (besides from the base at least.) Still crap light and camera, I really need to get my Daylight lamp from my neighbour. Overall I like it in real life, not so much in the pictures.



Wow, minor flaws I can barely see IRL look so huge in the pictures. Next has to be a rank or two so I won't have to take it so close ^_^

[Maglok]

White, mud, white is how I do it!

[Benzan]

I couldn't resist fiddling a bit more with the archer and finally I'm happy with it.
I also like to think I managed to snap better shots by not trying this time.
Net is down so just working with the phone witch is more forgiving with flaws.

[Maglok]

Nice blend, how did you do that? Very nice indeed.

[PossumCraft]

Very cool, the blending on the bow offsets the simplicity of the actual figure and keeps it interesting.

[Benzan]

Well, I manly played around with a mix of Hawk turqoise, Enchanted blue and skull white.
Pretty much wetbrushed it most of the way towards the middle then i applied a sharp edge highlight. Followed by a badab black wash.

So it's enough to be fast and look pretty ok.

[Benzan]

Got my second game with the new TK book today vs a friends VC. The TK keep impressing me.

My list was
TK with hw, shield, dragonbanehelm and pot o str.
High liche with earthning rod.
Herald bsb with flame banner.
Herald HW/S
Liche with lore of light.
30 HW/S skellies FC
20 Archers FC
Warsphinx
4 Chariots FC
Necrosphinx
Tomb Scorpion
Heirotitan.

He had something like
Lord vampire lvl 4 ASF, some no bonus str thing, 3+/4++
Necromancer lvl 2.
30 GG FC Great weapons
20 skeletons HW/S LA FC
20 skeletons Spear/S LA FC
30 odd zombies
30 ghouls
corpse cart with ASF spell (dunno if this is base)
Terrorgheist.
5 Wolfs.

Blood and Glory.
All in all he deployed spear skellies on a flank with the wolfs and necro.

The rest on the other flank to middle. With the ghouls furthest away.

I was centered with Necrosphinx on the Necromancers flank.
Chariots on the other flank and Warsphinx, heiro, archers and warriors nearby.

First turn my Necro slamed his wolfs who had made a clumsy vanguard move.
the rest shuffled a bit.

His turn most things just moved closer. (after this he realised he'd forgotten to deploy the big bad batmonster and we agreed it would "ambush" from his table edge next turn.)

my turn 2 the necrosphinx charged the skeletons with the necromancer and fought them the rest of the game (necro dead his turn 2)
Warsphinx hit his GG and won combat with like 9.

All in all his army did pretty much nothing, terrorgheist screamed my Scorp dead, only unit I lost.

My turn 4 I charged his ghouls with my chariots and won by 2 with 8 wounds taken (darn they hurt)

My Warsphinx killed off the GG by then only leaving the vampire, TK and warriors had killed another skeleton unit and the Necros skeletons were dead. Breakingpoint was 2. He had 5 fortitude and lost 3 banners.

I win. Had he not forgotten the Terrorgheist or we had played another round or 2 it would have been closer I think, unless the warsphinx had killed his lord.
Fun if short game and we're both still learning. So I just might grab another pot of paint and get some late evening color on my bony lads. For the inevitable rematch.

^_^

[Benzan]

Started to slap some paint on my King yesterday over at a friends place. Dry paints and bad light didn't help but the basecoat is comming together. But the gems sure are fiddly lil things.




A tad sloppy but he will get tidied up and finished sooner or later.

[Benzan]

Long time as always, not much have happened. renovated my apartment. Played some 40k and such.

Started to paint some on my warsphinx, wanted to try to paint gold on a big scale and also I had an Idea about how to make the Rock parts look like polished jade, didn't turn out that great, but it's actually better than I expected, some practice could make this look good.

So still very WIP:


I also think I need to find a new place to host my pictures, photobucket seems buggy/slow nowadays

Edit, swapped to imageshack hoping for better service

[Benzan]

Finished the gold tonight, I'm actually happy how it turned out. I might actually dare to paint my sanguinary guard soon. =)

[ModernKiwi]

I like the Jadey look. Care to say how you did it?

[Toshiro]

I would also like to know, looks really good!

[Benzan]

I like the Jadey look. Care to say how you did it?

The base is Rotting flesh with a drop of snot green to take away a bit of the yellowy feel. Applied thin over a white basecoat.
I then sponged it with pure snot green (I'm not to happy how that turned out, became to blotchy and to much, but that's just me doing stuff I don't know how.)
After that the same with the rotting/snot base with added fortress grey.
I did wash it with watered badab black after, but I wouldn't do it again, pretty much ruined the base color and made it look dirty instead of granting a bit more depth in it.
Finally I lightly drybrushed everything with pure white to make it milky white/green.

Next time I think I'll swap the black wash with a green one or skip it altogether.