I started working on one of the iconic Vampire Counts models from the 90's era: Melkhior the ancient on his Winged Nightmare! I really enjoy painting this model. Since Melkhior is truly an ancient vampire, the first vampire of the Necrarch bloodline I wanted to make his skin look very old, almost corpse-like. I like the final result. I also wanted to give him a magical blade, so I painted it in my signature green tones. :) I just realized while posting this that I missed to paint the stone on his necklace. Apart from that, he is done! Now it's time to paint his bellowed beast, the Winged Nightamre that he rides.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Vampire Lady
End Of Altburg Market Campaign
I'm not dead, although it's been more then 5 weeks since my last post. :) I've been very busy with Tabletop World's Altburg Market kickstarter and didn't have time for private stuff (read: Undead) :D
That being said here are the last few showcases that I made for Tabletop World:
Farmer Stall
Potter Stall
Baker Stall
Working on this project and bringing the medieval Town Square to life was real fun. However I do miss painting models for my Vampire Counts army and I'm happy that I will have more time to dedicate to painting Undead. :)
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Vengorian Lord Showcase
I finally found some time to finish my Vengorian Lord! Painting this model was not a joyful experience for me. I struggled with skin color and repainted it twice. First I painted the skin in my standard pale skintone that I use on all my vampires. I wasn't satisfied with this choice because the beast blended with the base, there was no contrast between the ruin and the vampire, the colors were to similar. Then I went for more greenish tones and wasn't happy with that either. That evening when I repainted the model in green I was really frustrated and decided to put the model away and went browsing the YouTube to cool off. And then the Skeletor pops out in one of the videos and it hit me...I will paint the model in Skeletor skintones! :D Next day I repainted the model for the second time and I was finally really happy with the result.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
More Altburg Market
I haven't been able to work on my Undead Legion for a couple of weeks now since I've been painting stuff for Tabletop World kickstarter like crazy! I miss painting my deaders. :) That being said, I really enjoyed bringing the Altburg Market to life so here are some photos:
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Vengorian Lord WIP 2
Here is an update on my Vengorian Lord. Until now, I've painted all my vampires in kind of pale/yellowish/dead flesh color. This time I wanted to try something different and after some experimenting this is the final result. I'm quite pleased how it looks. I might use this color scheme for skin on some of my future vampire models. This is also the first time that I've painted the eyes in blood red color. I think it goes very well with blueish/purplish skin tones.
I also wanted to achieve the look of ancient weathered armor so I added traces of corrosion on the steel plates and some verdigris on bronze decorative elements.
All in all I like the way he is turning out so far. :)
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Vengorian Lord WIP
After a quite some time I'm working on a more recent release from Games Workshop, the Vengorian Lord, which I am going to be adding to my main Vampire Counts force. It will represent vampire Kruger Wärgner when he takes the monster form. I think it's a really cool model and will look epic on the battlefield towering over rest of the troops.
It took me three evenings just to clean the model, fill the gaps and make the base. I decided to leave the wings unassembled to make it easier to paint the model.
I'm calling the base done. I added some bits from Tabletop World, like broken bell, candle holder and some decorative elements to make it look as tough the vampire is standing on a ruined church. I was thinking about adding some moss and small bushes to the base as well but decided that I spent enough time working on the base and want to move to paint the monster itself. Now let's paint the Vampire! :)Monday, May 1, 2023
Oldhammer Undead pt.9
With tenth warrior finished I completed the first two ranks of my oldhammer deaders! Since every warrior looks like a character rather than rank and file model I'm using different colors and not limiting myself with a particular color scheme.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Altburg Market
I've been working hard for the past few weeks on latest Tabletop World stuff. I am painting various accessories such as barrels, crates, sacks of grain, tools, carts, tents, market stands and so on which will be available in the next Tabletop World kickstarter: Altburg Market.
I am giving my best to bring the models to life in most realistic way. Here are some promo shots I made recently:
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Oldhammer Undead pt.8
Ninth oldhammer skeleton done! This is one was released by Games Workshop back in the 80's for Dead of Dunharrow from Lord Of The Rings series. One more skelie and I'll have two completed ranks for the unit. Can't wait to put them all together. :)