Background foundation of the undead army of Miragliano

Shadowqueen of Miragliano (Vampire lord)

The shadowqueen of Miragliano is a vampiress that has lived for many centuries in the city of Miragliano where she was born. Before she became the shadowqueen, she was known as Constanza da Miragliano, princess of the city state. However in the endless layers of deceit, adultery, pleasure seeking and other abominations in court she met with the vampire count Reinhart Guhlfach from the empire. As the two met more and more often under the shadows of the night, enthralled by the counts embrace, Constanza finally accepted the counts embrace of the dark kiss, turning her into one of the undead.

Continue?

Yes, the black coach is still a fiction of my army, but yesterday I've been building a prototype out of cardboard to check for scale purposes. I felt like a genuine arts and crafts wizzkid building his own foldable dice as the entire model was cut out of one piece (at first).

It was clear that the first model was too high for scale purposes so its size was decreased a full cm in height to result in the picture. Although I'm satisfied with the scale, the model itself wasn't perfectly cut and measured resulting in flaps not fitting for example, but the idea was met. Of course it will need ornamentation, driversseats a carrosery/suspension, a place for the baggage carrier to stand, a baggage storage, yoke, horses, paint for that matter and some TLC. Though the part that might rub in to my hairs is that is an angled box, whereas the concept has curvature.

I used google sketch-up to make a basic print (free software) of the fold out without flaps with you can download here (for all those leeches).

The ornamentation will probably be made of greenstuff while I'm still looking at dollhouse things for the ornamental metal brackets that suspend the driverseats and such.

Keep you posted.
IG

Continuing the undead horde

So still not sure how I want to go at the coach. I continued on my undead figures today and finished the necromancer. Another great confrontation miniature that is joining my, still storyless, vampire army. The guy with the banner to the right will be my wight king BSB, while the skeletal figure on the left has no true purpose yet. The figure originally is a Lich, but I'm considering him as another necromancer or as a wight king. The picture also shows the scale of the worg I finished earlier, and you can see it's impressive!

Tried some OSL on the necromancer both from the tip of the staff (poorly visible in this angle) as well as the open hand. I'm considering to to the reflection of the light also on the figure that is supposed to go besides him, although I'm utterly uncertain who that is going to be. Hope I can get some comments there!

IG, out!

Working on a black coach idea

So I finished the vhargulf, and I'm working on a necromancer (no WIP shots sadly), and I was thinking; what do I do for that black coach? I find the idea of the coach awesome, but I just want an aristocratic coach, probably with a seductive vampiress inside. Not a hearse coach that has nothing but a coffin inside. Of course this is proving to be a challenge. I've made up my mind, but that doesn't make things easier. I'm going with the black death coach from the movie "brothers grimm". No plan yet as to HOW, but any comments are more than welcome.

A little update on the worg - varghulf

For those of you who are just as anxious as me to get this one online...I've finished it and here it is:

It will be running around on a grave yard (just like the other undead) which has been abandonned and long since forgotten. The size of the model disables good detail on the overall shots, but I'm too lazy for detail shots in the current light. Will try to get a video online of this guy soon as he's huge!

Another day for creativity, and ... for plotting the future

Hi fellow bloggers, today's another day to celebrate creativity. Yesterday I've finished the earthborn dire troll I've started only the day before. I think it looks awesome and I'm particularly content with the way his eyes turned out. I went for a 'standard' colorscheme to go as the scheme is simply fantastic (why change right?). For those interested in stealing my colors:

• P3 troll blood base 
• Vallejo white (highlighting the blue, adding more and more)
• Black wash (home made, similar to badab black)
• Vallejo model colors ochre green, bone white and ivory for the teeth
• Hormagaunt purple for the mouth parts 
• Schmink airbrush brown, scorched brown, calthan brown, snake bit leather (in that order) for the rocky parts
• P3 Rucksack tan for the cloth, adding devlan mud 
• white, black, foundation orange and tau sept ochre for the eyes.

Today I've started painting the Worg of the Waxing moon to act as my uberbad-ass varigoulle for my vampire counts army. The vampire count army shall contain very, and i really mean very, little games workshop models, as their vampire count line is simply horrendous. Absolutely hate the dire wolves and zombies, but apart from the skeletons and overprized blood knights, all other models suck as well.

Here's the stand-ins I'm planning:

Lord and heroes
Vampire - 1 2 3 4
Necromancer - 1 2 3
Wight king - 1 2


Core:

Skeletons - games workshop skeletons

Zombies - mantic games zombies

Dire wolves - gamezone dire wolves

crypt ghouls - Heresy ghouls and 6th edition medal gw ghouls

Bat swarms - Reaper bat swarms

Corpse cart - games workshop corpse cart 

Special

Grave guard - Still a big ?, anyone idea's?

Black knights - Confrontation zombie cavelry

Fell bats - confrontation gargoyles

Spirit host - some cool spare figs painted ethereal

Rare

Varghulf - Confrontation Worgs

Cairn Wraiths - Probably some confrontation limbo d'acheron figures, not sure which yet though

Blood Knights - Games workshop high elf dragon princes

Black Coach - Not sure on the actual models yet, but it will have to look like this

So to show you some of the first WIP's of the Worg/Varghulf:

On an entirely different note; today me and my girl went and ordered our wedding rings. Although the ceremony, party, flowers etc. all are still miles away we've decided on a date (21 june 2011, mid-summers eve) and we have the rings in the pipe line. Now hopefully the rest will fit in snugly with the job hunt etc. 

See you all and till next time.

IG out