Vaiuri's Various Armies - Vampires, Lizardmen, Empire, High Elves and Ogres.

[Vaiuri]

Thanks for all the positive feedback! Alas, my plans for some more painting today have failed due to a horrible back ache I will have a second Hellsteed riding Vampiress for you to see very soon though! I've made some progress on my first Hellsteed lady, the blending on the dress is much smoother and I've made a start on the skin, going for super pale, although I'm still unsure what colour to paint the horse - any ideas?

@Confessor_Atol: The orange has a strong undercoat of Dark Flesh with a touch of Bestial Brown to bring out the orange colours, I just added Blazing Orange to highlight, then added a bit of Bleached Bone (or possibly Bubonic Brown, I forget) to pick out the strands of fur. I remember really taking my time to layer up the paint on her to get it 'ginger' without being too orange.

@azhagmorglum: I'll get to work on some army shots, I did have some of my Lizards, my most complete army - but is anything ever complete?! As for the Terrorgeist, I really wanted to stay away from the fresh corpse look, which is why I didnt add any dripping blood - perhaps I should, I've developed quite a nice 'blood mix' and it would certainly help cover some of the larger patches of colour.

@Symrivven: Hope you dont mind me saying but it gives me a lot of hope knowing you have 'hidden' paint schemes under your work! There is hope for the poor Terrorgeist yet! I shall revisit him soon I think. Thanks for having a look

[Superdan21]

I forgot to comment ages ago, i really like the Undead empire, and the normal empire and the high elves awesome stuff
the flesh and fur on the Thundertusk is bad ass
be cool to see more,

ps is this vic?

[Vaiuri]

Superdan21 - it is indeed! Who are you going to the Doubles with?

On the update front, I've been having a terrain weekend painting up a hill (I wont post photos of that, a hill is a hill!) and some marshes out of the 40k craters (photos to follow when the water effect is dry!). Vampire-wise, I've been working on the blending of the Hellsteed vamps dress. I've mixed up the red with a bit of warlock purple on a couple of the panels to break it up a bit.

I've also started the base colour on her skin, although I'm worried it may be a bit super-pale!

For those who requested it - here's an army shot (on a very attractive Ikea side table)!

I have another unit of ghouls on the go and another 2 units of Dire Wolves painted but not shown here as I was running out of room! The Fenrisian Wolves at the front will be my Hex Wraiths, I'm planning to paint them up like ghostly hounds although whether they'll be black of white remains to be seen! The Grave Guard unit may or may not continue to be yellow.

I've started on a second Hellsteed riding Vampire, made out of leftover bits from the Coven Throne, a random Empire horse I had lying around and some wings from the Crypt Horror/Vargeist kit. Not sure if I should raise her up a bit but I quite like the folded wings on the Hellsteed as a nice comparison to the 'ta-da!' pose of the other one.


And finally, a couple of shots of my Crypt Horrors. The purple/blue is the old colour scheme that I'm not happy with so I'm thinking of going for the rusty colour instead (suspiciously similar to my Thundertusk!). All opinions are greatly appreciated!

[Shadowfane]

As always, lovely work - although I get to see this stuff in the flesh, its still nice to see thought processes and the like on here! Also, you've made me start thinking about taking some pictures of my own stuff, damn you! :P

[Vaiuri]

Go for it!

[MaxSigmund]

Great work on the vampiresses - the second one looks good as she is. Make some progress, post more pictures! Go man, go!

[Vaiuri]

Aghgh! The pressure!!!

Today I've mostly been painting a graveyard, tomorrow I think I'll reward myself with something that hangs about IN a graveyard! Keep tuned!

[Vaiuri]

Been painting most of today and have a couple of updates for you!

I've done a U-turn on the Vampires skin, going for a much more necrotic grey tone instead. I much prefer this, which is good because I was in danger of ruining the detail if I kept piling the layers on!

I've also started painting the gems on her dress and the ruff round her neck but the lighting is terrible here now so I'm going to call it a day. I'm going for pearls on her dress, think it will be a nice contrast to the red cloth. I'm also repainting the Hellsteed black. A bit un-imaginative I know, but the purple was really starting to detract from the Vampire, and she should be the star of the show!

I've also bashed out the Hexwraith unit:

There were really quick and easy to do, I wish everything turned out like this first time around! Not sure if you can see it on the photo, but I've used Interference Medium all over the models to give them a ghostly shimmer. It a technique I tried ages ago on some Spirit Hosts that I wanted to try again. I picked out the teeth and eyes in white and spent a bit more time highlighting the faces to draw focus there. I'll get these guys based this evening I think. A unit in a day, why isnt it all that simple?!?

[mcfishstick]

I really like you werewolf crypt horrors. Very clever use of parts . I also really like what you did to the coven throne, and the way you used the vampiresses. I gave one of the vampiresses a steed and was surprised how well her skirt fitted alongside the horse.

The pegasi conversions are also nicely executed. Great stuff! (Which I may eventually copy )

[Fanny Crowbar]

Loving the High Elves and the Hellsteeds

[Purplebeard]

Each one update of your plog is like 3 pages of mine - you cram a lot in to a small space. You make my head ache with the amount of stuff you have going on.

Please could you try and get photobucket or similar just to make life easier?

The hounds look great btw - they are some of the nicest I have seen.

[Vaiuri]

I know how you feel Purplebeard, I find it hard to decide what to do next so end up painting and building several projects at once!

I'll look into getting a photobucket album going, but tbh I'm so lazy its a miracle I get any photos up here at all, never mind organizing a whole album!

This week I'm making more progress on my Werewolves, they've all been rebased dark brown, I intend each one to be different but they'll all be from the same batch of warm browns and ochres. I'm thinking really hellish yellow eyes, but we'll cross that bridge when I come to it!

[Vaiuri]

After a break to paint some Dark Eldar and Space Marines I now have 40k out of my system again and I'm back on the Fantasy bandwagon!

I've decided I'm a bit sick of undead so am treating myself to painting an Ogre BSB I've had built for a while now.



Hope you like him!

I'm planning to finish this guy then crack on with my Mournfangs. Maybe I'll treat myself to making a Beasts Butcher later on this month