A few months ago, I bought a collection of Vampire Counts from someone on TMP. Sadly I forget who. Anyway, it was a nice collection of old figures. I bought it on a whim, because I can't turn down a good deal.
About a month ago I decided to paint up a single unit of the VC. I went through the collection and came up with 20 plastic skeletons. I never really looked at them back then as I was strictly a Empire player. As I sorted through them I really started to like them. They have a lot of character. They were already assembled but needed some minor repaits. Here's some pics I took along the way.
Basing consists of Lead Weights for stability, Sheet Metal for Magnetic movement trays and storage. Gel Medium with sand for a nice texture. Yeah, I go overboard.
Spray paint Army Painter leather brown.
GW Bone color(whatever name they are using this month) and highlight with a little white.
Picking out small details. All metal gets a "rust" stipple of red-brown.
Grassed and flocked
The movement tray had 25 spots. I had 20 figures so I put gravestones on 5 extra slotta bases.
Little diorama I threw together.
Some more pics on my blog:
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I liked painted the skeletons so much I bought some more off ebay. A new unopened box! And Zombies too!
Next up Dire Wolves.
Xin/Jeff
worries about not losing his rules stuff.
