mousekiller
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Here are a couple of skeletons that are ALMOST done...
Mousekiller\'s Vampire Counts Army
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mousekiller
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Ok, its been a few months since the last update here, but I am going to finally call these four skeletons done. Six more to go to finish the unit.
mousekiller
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Well, here are the next three skeles in progress...
mousekiller
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Well, picked up a crypt bat again to do some work on him, just a few bits here and there and he should be done.
cheelfy: Thanks mate.
cheelfy: Thanks mate.
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scarecrow4560
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Very nicely done there mouse! Then again, i'm not surprised by that 
mousekiller
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I started the movement tray for the crypt bats, so far just the plasticard, foam, sackle compound, tree, tomb stones, rocks, and sand. I need to finish building up the wall to match the walls on the left and right bats.
Eelco: Not really a whole lot of speed involved mate, it just seems like it because I work on a lot of projects at once. I think a typical unit from start to finish usually takes over three or four months to get done. I just try to work the projects simultaneously to keep from getting bored and by the time I am thinking of updating again the models have had a bit of progress, if that makes sense.
scarecrow: Well thanks mate.
Cheelfy: Well, I have to finish the ground work also, and his eyes, another highlight to the wings I think.... and.... oh, something intriguing to write on the tombstone... and
Eelco: Not really a whole lot of speed involved mate, it just seems like it because I work on a lot of projects at once. I think a typical unit from start to finish usually takes over three or four months to get done. I just try to work the projects simultaneously to keep from getting bored and by the time I am thinking of updating again the models have had a bit of progress, if that makes sense.
scarecrow: Well thanks mate.
Cheelfy: Well, I have to finish the ground work also, and his eyes, another highlight to the wings I think.... and.... oh, something intriguing to write on the tombstone... and
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Stop making excuses Mousekiller. You are an army-making monster! :brushwave:
Seriously though, I love what you're doing, and everytime I see one of your threads pop up, I know it's gonna contain more awesome building and/or painting. Keep it up!
mousekiller
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Ok, a bit more done on the bat base...
I took it pre primed to show how I do the rock walls, a combination of real rocks and a bit of green stuff to help everything come together.
JMR: See mate, its been like three weeks since the last update... lol... of course I did move from NC to VA in that timeframe as well... Thanks for the support.
I took it pre primed to show how I do the rock walls, a combination of real rocks and a bit of green stuff to help everything come together.
JMR: See mate, its been like three weeks since the last update... lol... of course I did move from NC to VA in that timeframe as well... Thanks for the support.
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mousekiller
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Well, been a while for an update on this thread as well
Anyway, I finished the first two ranks of the skeleton spearmen, and plan to do another 10 to round them out to 20. Almost done with rank 3... then will start rank 4.
Anyway, I finished the first two ranks of the skeleton spearmen, and plan to do another 10 to round them out to 20. Almost done with rank 3... then will start rank 4.
mousekiller
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Ok, rank 3 finally done...
So... what else are we working on...
Ogre Kingdoms: First rank of Ogre Bulls still under way...
Orcs and Goblins: Almost done with the robes on Skarsnik... also started on some of the metal bits.
Mortals of Chaos and Beasts: Still haven't done anything with either.
Empire: Started the first layer of red on the fourth rank of handgunners.
Dwarfs: Started on the green beards for the second rank of slayers.
Also, thought it might be worth mentioning some of the things I have spent time assembling the past few days: 3 Sepulcheral Stalkers, 1 Ogre Hunter mounted on Stonehorn, 10 Ghouls, 10 Graveguard, 10 Skeleton Warriors, 10 Direwolves, 1 Corpse Cart, Forge World Mounted Ogre General on Rhinox, Scibor Mounted Dwarf General on Bear, and 24 West Wind Imperial Dwarfs.
Anyway, up next for Vamps is the final rank of skeles:
Happy Holidays!
So... what else are we working on...
Ogre Kingdoms: First rank of Ogre Bulls still under way...
Orcs and Goblins: Almost done with the robes on Skarsnik... also started on some of the metal bits.
Mortals of Chaos and Beasts: Still haven't done anything with either.
Empire: Started the first layer of red on the fourth rank of handgunners.
Dwarfs: Started on the green beards for the second rank of slayers.
Also, thought it might be worth mentioning some of the things I have spent time assembling the past few days: 3 Sepulcheral Stalkers, 1 Ogre Hunter mounted on Stonehorn, 10 Ghouls, 10 Graveguard, 10 Skeleton Warriors, 10 Direwolves, 1 Corpse Cart, Forge World Mounted Ogre General on Rhinox, Scibor Mounted Dwarf General on Bear, and 24 West Wind Imperial Dwarfs.
Anyway, up next for Vamps is the final rank of skeles:
Happy Holidays!
mousekiller
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Finished the skeletal regiment... finally.
Anyway, here it is:
VOTE AT CMON: SKELETAL SPEAR REGIMENT
moetle: Thanks mate!
Anyway, here it is:
VOTE AT CMON: SKELETAL SPEAR REGIMENT
moetle: Thanks mate!
SkelettetS
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great stuff. something inside me really dig these older skellies, looks like they all go crazy bananas
mousekiller
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PIETER VON CARSTEIN:
Pieter Von Carstein was once a minor noble of Sylvania, one of the few Von Carsteins to be able to claim that lineage. That was the only thing of remark of the noble, as everything else about him was less than remarkable. Pieter was short in stature and his looks were extremely plain. Even as the master of his estate he could do nothing of note; many of his people starved, his farms withered, and his cattle and other animals were malnourished. What Pieter did have was a tendency to sulk, and was quick to throw temper tantrums. He also enjoyed torturing small animals, the sorts of animals that could do nothing to defend themselves. His father was rumored to have fallen ill when Pieter was young, and it was during this time that Pieter first realized his true calling, to bring pain to those who cannot defend themselves. As his father lay sick with disease, Pieter took great pleasure in cutting small strips of skin from his father’s body, just a little every day and would even practice breaking different bones during the forty-six days that his father lasted until finally passing away. Pieter also found that he enjoyed the taste of the flesh, and so after his father died villagers of his estate began to disappear. Only the weak or sick would go missing, and no one ever suspected that the puny lord of the estate would be the culprit.
It was a chance encounter that brought Vlad Von Carstein to his estate. On an evening that danced with lightening and reverberated the sounds of thunder and rain through even the most interior of buildings, Vlad banged upon the manner door. Pieter at first tried to wave the traveler away, but something about this man seemed to draw him in. Inviting him into the house, it was not long for Vlad to realize the true character of this unremarkable lord, and delivered him the blood kiss and name Von Carstein.
At first Pieter felt empowered by his new life, was drunk on the strength that undeath gave him. That is, until Vlad was defeated in Altdorf and the remnants of his army fled. Scouring the Drakwald Forest in hiding for nearly two years, Pieter became much more wild, forced to feed on deer and rats, and occasionally he would come across a small herd of Beastmen. Emerging from the forest Pieter soon found what remained of the Von Carsteins, with Konrad seeming to take the lead. As Konrad prepared to march against the Empire again, he dispatched Pieter and Jarek to the city of Nuln, with a massive army easily capable of overrunning the city. But Pieter once again proved his inadequacy by leading the army into a prolonged siege, against the counsel of the onetime Grand Master of the White Wolves, Jarek. Jarek could see the folly in allowing Pieter to continue to lead, and so one night led the Witch Hunter Helmut Van Hal to the coffin where his brother resided, with a promise to deliver either Pieter’s heart or Jarek would consume the heart of the Witch Hunter himself. Van Hal lifted the lid of the coffin and drove a stake into the heart of the sleeping Vampire. Pieter thought he had prepared well enough, with lesser vampires perched in the rafters above in the event of something like this. When Pieter screamed, these vampires awoke and swarmed the Witch Hunter. In the melee, Van Hal managed to kill three of the beasts, while three more were able to obtain their master and flee with him. Van Hal cut out the heart of one of these lesser vampires and delivered it to Jarek, who held it aloft to the amassed army and declared “My brother Pieter is dead. You will obey my orders from this day forward!” and promptly ate the heart.
In an instance, his mind was awake. Darkness all around him, but he could feel the presence of new and old dead, some with the mindless need to serve but others with malicious intent. Trying to move his body, he found that none of his muscles would respond. How long had it been? Without even trying, he could feel his presence waking the newly dead around him, and with a simple thought they were off to find sustenance to help bring his decrepit body back to vitality. In the meantime he began channeling his thoughts to the older bones in and around the crypt, stationing skeletal soldiers around him to ensure no one bothered him while he replenished. But in the back of his head, so faint that he could barely make it out, the same phrase kept repeating... "he is coming!"
VOTE ON CMON: http://www.coolminiornot.com/306212
Pieter Von Carstein was once a minor noble of Sylvania, one of the few Von Carsteins to be able to claim that lineage. That was the only thing of remark of the noble, as everything else about him was less than remarkable. Pieter was short in stature and his looks were extremely plain. Even as the master of his estate he could do nothing of note; many of his people starved, his farms withered, and his cattle and other animals were malnourished. What Pieter did have was a tendency to sulk, and was quick to throw temper tantrums. He also enjoyed torturing small animals, the sorts of animals that could do nothing to defend themselves. His father was rumored to have fallen ill when Pieter was young, and it was during this time that Pieter first realized his true calling, to bring pain to those who cannot defend themselves. As his father lay sick with disease, Pieter took great pleasure in cutting small strips of skin from his father’s body, just a little every day and would even practice breaking different bones during the forty-six days that his father lasted until finally passing away. Pieter also found that he enjoyed the taste of the flesh, and so after his father died villagers of his estate began to disappear. Only the weak or sick would go missing, and no one ever suspected that the puny lord of the estate would be the culprit.
It was a chance encounter that brought Vlad Von Carstein to his estate. On an evening that danced with lightening and reverberated the sounds of thunder and rain through even the most interior of buildings, Vlad banged upon the manner door. Pieter at first tried to wave the traveler away, but something about this man seemed to draw him in. Inviting him into the house, it was not long for Vlad to realize the true character of this unremarkable lord, and delivered him the blood kiss and name Von Carstein.
At first Pieter felt empowered by his new life, was drunk on the strength that undeath gave him. That is, until Vlad was defeated in Altdorf and the remnants of his army fled. Scouring the Drakwald Forest in hiding for nearly two years, Pieter became much more wild, forced to feed on deer and rats, and occasionally he would come across a small herd of Beastmen. Emerging from the forest Pieter soon found what remained of the Von Carsteins, with Konrad seeming to take the lead. As Konrad prepared to march against the Empire again, he dispatched Pieter and Jarek to the city of Nuln, with a massive army easily capable of overrunning the city. But Pieter once again proved his inadequacy by leading the army into a prolonged siege, against the counsel of the onetime Grand Master of the White Wolves, Jarek. Jarek could see the folly in allowing Pieter to continue to lead, and so one night led the Witch Hunter Helmut Van Hal to the coffin where his brother resided, with a promise to deliver either Pieter’s heart or Jarek would consume the heart of the Witch Hunter himself. Van Hal lifted the lid of the coffin and drove a stake into the heart of the sleeping Vampire. Pieter thought he had prepared well enough, with lesser vampires perched in the rafters above in the event of something like this. When Pieter screamed, these vampires awoke and swarmed the Witch Hunter. In the melee, Van Hal managed to kill three of the beasts, while three more were able to obtain their master and flee with him. Van Hal cut out the heart of one of these lesser vampires and delivered it to Jarek, who held it aloft to the amassed army and declared “My brother Pieter is dead. You will obey my orders from this day forward!” and promptly ate the heart.
In an instance, his mind was awake. Darkness all around him, but he could feel the presence of new and old dead, some with the mindless need to serve but others with malicious intent. Trying to move his body, he found that none of his muscles would respond. How long had it been? Without even trying, he could feel his presence waking the newly dead around him, and with a simple thought they were off to find sustenance to help bring his decrepit body back to vitality. In the meantime he began channeling his thoughts to the older bones in and around the crypt, stationing skeletal soldiers around him to ensure no one bothered him while he replenished. But in the back of his head, so faint that he could barely make it out, the same phrase kept repeating... "he is coming!"
VOTE ON CMON: http://www.coolminiornot.com/306212
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mousekiller
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THE CRYPT BATS
Once nobles of minor houses of the empire, the Crypt Bats proved to be the most loyal followers of Pieter Von Carstein. During the time that the Von Carsteins began to turn against one another, these three came upon the final assault on Pieter by the Witch Hunter Van Hal and the ultimate betrayal by Jarek Von Carstein. When all was done, they recovered what remained of their master and hid him away in the crypt they now reside. Over the years, cowering in the crypt for fear of being discovered, they slowly began to succumb to the more bestial side of their vampirism, feeding less and less on the scarce population around the crypt and more and more on the rats and bats that infested their home. After many years, with memories of their former selves faded to near extinction, a voice awakens them... "he is coming!". Slithering thru the crypt, they find their master sitting up in his coffin, and though their memories had faded their urge to serve their master remains as strong as ever.
And on CMON: http://www.coolminiornot.com/370383
Once nobles of minor houses of the empire, the Crypt Bats proved to be the most loyal followers of Pieter Von Carstein. During the time that the Von Carsteins began to turn against one another, these three came upon the final assault on Pieter by the Witch Hunter Van Hal and the ultimate betrayal by Jarek Von Carstein. When all was done, they recovered what remained of their master and hid him away in the crypt they now reside. Over the years, cowering in the crypt for fear of being discovered, they slowly began to succumb to the more bestial side of their vampirism, feeding less and less on the scarce population around the crypt and more and more on the rats and bats that infested their home. After many years, with memories of their former selves faded to near extinction, a voice awakens them... "he is coming!". Slithering thru the crypt, they find their master sitting up in his coffin, and though their memories had faded their urge to serve their master remains as strong as ever.
And on CMON: http://www.coolminiornot.com/370383
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mousekiller
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The link to the zombies on CMON disappeared! I have posted up new pics, likely better pictures in my opinion.
Anyway, here they are!
THE SHAMBLING HORDE
These recently deceased members of Stirland's countryside shamble to do Pieter's bidding. Comprising of farmers and outlying soldiers, Pieter has successfully raised them as guardians to his tomb while he regains his strength.
Manufactured by:
Games Workshop 5th/6th edition. Sculpted by Mark Bedford and Aly Morrison.
Reaper Dark Heaven model 02943: Festering Spirit.
Unsure who manufactured the skeleton cross, if anyone knows?
Here is the boss from Reaper.
A couple of unit fillers: the first is a small scene with one zombie on his knees looking for his head and the zombie with his hand on his shoulder has the head in the other hand.
And to throw a vote on CMON: THE SHAMBLING HORDE
Anyway, here they are!
THE SHAMBLING HORDE
These recently deceased members of Stirland's countryside shamble to do Pieter's bidding. Comprising of farmers and outlying soldiers, Pieter has successfully raised them as guardians to his tomb while he regains his strength.
Manufactured by:
Games Workshop 5th/6th edition. Sculpted by Mark Bedford and Aly Morrison.
Reaper Dark Heaven model 02943: Festering Spirit.
Unsure who manufactured the skeleton cross, if anyone knows?
Here is the boss from Reaper.
A couple of unit fillers: the first is a small scene with one zombie on his knees looking for his head and the zombie with his hand on his shoulder has the head in the other hand.
And to throw a vote on CMON: THE SHAMBLING HORDE
