Pleasure pain theory...

Finally at long last I've managed to assemble my vampire counts skeleton army!
The delay has been a mix between my love for painting my zombies and the sheer frustration of trying to stick these little buggers together - id imagine these are going to require some more concentration to paint the small details so I'll probably start with warbosstae's
Tutorial and go from there

They do look fab but I'm not sure I'd venture on another box of them yet. However I may change my mind once I start painting!

They have had their skull white base coat and are ready for action

Group photo

A few shots of the zombies forming their bonds...

Two more to join the ranks!

Phew!

Originally the first zombie I painted was my favourite, but a new zombie has stolen my heart!

Have finished my 3rd and 4th undead and now beginning to look like a pretty hardcore horde!

I'm glad I have a skelly army to work on as I can imagine the 16 more zombies I have would get slightly repetitive - however as I was able to build them how I like, their all very different anyway so I'm happy to have more to paint!

I'm keeping a uniform colour of blues/greens and browns for clothing.

My new favourite zombie is my collector, as I call him. He's a blood thirsty trophy hunter and as you can see, has his collection very much started! With a decaying human head and the top half of somebody's husband, father or brother... He's a pretty happy zombie! So am I - he took longer for the details but well worth the effort, even with the nails hammered into his weapon, think it really improves the model

Anyway, enough talk, as usual pictures and videos below


3rd zombie:



The collector:

Experimenting...

So after watching several videos of people painting warhammer figures I decided to try a method a little different from what I've been using;

With my previous two zombie figures I've painted each colour with precision! Ensuring its perfect before moving into the next colour touching it - if I went back over the colour previous, I'd redo that and then move on - etc etc

Well on my latest zombie I went for a style id watched on a few videos, just getting the colours in the right places with no real caution and then tidying up later...

And the result? I'm sticking with my slow and steady method! It was really frustrating and seemingly slower doing it the latter, and felt really 'out of order' skipping from shoes to shirt to skin etc

Spent three hours on a figure today and not finished yet, should get it done tomorrow and hopefully another one too

Pics and video tomorrow

Imagination has no ability to wait!

So... I crumbled to the new vampire counts releases - believe me if have brought one of every vampire counts release by now and probably the beastmen too but I'm trying not to dive head first into this hobby - despite so far feeling that this ones a keeper

So I'm still assembling my skelly army and painting up my zombie army - I'm limited to weekends for painting as I work and commute far so I'm never back before 6pm despite leaving for work at 7am - by the time I'm back and fed and watered and entertained the dog it's too late and I'm too tired to paint - so as far as production, it's all fairly slow, but I like to think its quality over quantity with my work!

I did manage to pick up the finecast Isabella von carstein model - and she does look amazing! It's likely she will sit and watch me paint my others before I touch her, hopefully developing my skills before I get to her

So - for now - back to painting, my
Zombies await!

A growing army

Zombie number two has been raised!

Similar methods to previously - I really feel the washes make the most of the vampire counts mini's - they really bring life (or death) to the zombies!

As ever I enjoyed this poor soul as I painted - found myself making less mistakes with the brush (invester in better brushes!) and can feel the confidence in me building - still taking things slowly though, this one took about two and a half hours - I'm really keen to try and reach a high standard with the painting - but for my
Second ever figure, I'm pleased.
Bases on both models are not finished, I'm waiting for some materials to be delivered which I think should put a finishing touch to the work

I added some dry brushing to the club to pick out the highlights - I also used some gloss on his wounds to really have them shine like a fresh wound - I like the effect

Growing with this figure as with the first I used the tutorial on YouTube by WarBossTae and copied colours etc and even used the same model - this one I built and chose colours etc myself, the hair I wasn't sure I could make look very good - I might change later but I think for now it suits the model

Inspiration and reasoning

http://fantasybuilds.blogspot.com/

One of the main reasons I'm such a hobby butterfly is my dad! He's always been the same and now I proudly follow in his footsteps!
A big plus for me painting the warhammer fantasy figures is not only because of how great they can look, but so I can join forces with my dad!

He currently making the diorama for my VC range, starting with a haunted house and I'm sure I'll get him to expand it into a graveyard scene and then once the vampire counts models have their home - I have ideas for the Beastmen armies to live in some dark woodland areas....

So my dad builds his models from scratch, and has a blog as mentioned above with the progress of his haunted house... These two blogs will likely run together so thought it was worth adding the link - plus I'm super impressed with all his work, and I just know this house is going to look fantastic!