Ok - 60 skeletons (ok 59...room for a hero) done. Finally. This took a long time because halfway through I had to travel to San Fran for a week. I captured most of the steps for these on video and will do a "speed painting skeletons" tutorial soon(ish). The photos make them look a wee bit too colorful. I added a fair bit of rust and "greenish tarnish" to these because I wanted to give them a bit of visual interest. But it comes off a little strong in the photos. With a unit this large (get your mind out of that gutter) I think it's almost a must to magnetize and transport them on a tray rather than rank them up at game time. Maybe I'll show how I do that, at some point.

Also I notice the little decal on the banner is slivered (silvered?) a bit so I'll probably touch that up.

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Hi everyone! So obviously right now I'm doing a lot of work on Vampire Counts, and in particular lately I like to try and get core units done first with the characters/monsters etc as "carrots" to keep me painting (ie after finishing core I can paint something a little more fun). Zombies are apparently a fair bit better than they were under the last book, but I really don't like the old GW Zombie sculpts. So I turned to Mantic. I read a bunch of reviews about their Zombies, and they seemed like nicely detailed and very affordable alternatives. Most reviews were very positive.

I managed to buy a box of 30 from Sentry Box in Calgary. Upon opening them and starting to assemble, the glow started to diminish pretty rapidly....

On the positive side: the models do have nice details, and are a nice scale and just overall more visually appealing than the outdated GW ones. They are also very affordable given you need hordes of Zombies.  I dont know why I keep capitalizing "Zombie" but go with it ;)

On the negative side:

- You only basically get three variants. Each sprue is basically half a GW unit sprue in size, and contains 3 zombies worth of legs and torsos. You can mix them up to get so…

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Hey folks, my latest painting tutorial video is up - finally - for some reason the upload kept failing over the past couple of days (it was a 4 hour upload). I think the quality of this one is somewhat improved over the previous ones, and hopefully they will keep getting better (assuming I am able to make more...).

Enjoy!

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Finally getting around to posting images of the Annihilation Barge that was the subject of my recent tutorial videos! Also bought some of the new Vampire Counts stuff today - some really, really nice models. Picked up a wight king (I really like the new "single plastic" models, much more than finecast ones frankly!), a Mortis Engine, and 2 boxes of the Vargheist/Crypt Horrors.  First things I paint will likely be the wight king and 3 vargheists. I'm going to paint the VGs in dark tones, kinda like the Terrorgheist I did a while back. I think it might look cooler than the really pale official scheme.

Naturally with the release of a new army (I picked up the book and a couple of packs of magic cards) I get fantasies of trying to paint up an army. Rarely pans out as you know :)  I never did get very far with the Ogre Kingdoms for example, despite some really nice models and a decent power level for the army from what I've read. The one thing I used to hate about playing VCs (....I think I played them once...) was when the general dies your army crumbles. They've changed that slightly now (other wizards can slow down the crumbling). I'd love a little VC army although painting up enou…

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