Topic: New Vampire Counts Stuff

[Aldaris]

Great tarpits I think... but with WS2 (or was it 1?) and ASL they'll never kill anything, ever.

[McKnight]

50 is fine. Their numbers will quickly be boosted.
 And as Aldaris said, they won't kill anything. But they will be great to protect the killy units' flanks.

[rufus sparkfire]

They're ghouls a Vampire has let drink his blood.

Fat ghouls then. I see.

[rufus sparkfire]

I found my skeletal war mammoth model.

Which thing in the VC list should it use the rules for? I think maybe the mortis engine?

[Finlay]

Black coach? Varghulf?

[rufus sparkfire]

I'm not sure either of those feels right. It's a skeletal mammoth with a howdah!

I read on the VC forum that mortis engines are quite good.

[towishimp]

Mortis Engine seems like it'd be the best fit...just say the relic is being carried in the howdah, and there you go.  And it being a chariot (with impact hits) feels right for a mammoth, to me.

Out of curiousity, where did you get the mammoth model?  I wouldn't mind running out a mortis engine someday, but no way in hell am I ever buying the GW one; it's too expensive for a model that I hate.

[rufus sparkfire]

I bought the mammoth about a million years ago. I think it's a Grenadier model? I'm not sure if it's still available.

[Aldaris]

Really nice painting vid of the coven throne:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Buypainted#p/u/3/GDZzMqVMahw

[McKnight]

Really nice painting vid of the coven throne:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Buypainted#p/u/3/GDZzMqVMahw

Its okay.. but hes really hard to understand!
And I don't have an airbrush, so can't really use that guide for much

[rufus sparkfire]

This is what the skelephant looks like (obviously it's unpainted). The crew are a bit dodgy but the skelephant itself is nice.

Wait, elephants don't have bones in their trunks! Oh well.




Also, I repainted my ancient and derelict skeleton chariot. It's not that nice a model, but it looks OK now.



I think it should be a corpse cart.

[warhammerlord_soth]

Rufus, I love you.


I've been considering getting a corpse cart.

[rufus sparkfire]

Rufus, I love you.

Thanks!

I've been considering getting a corpse cart.

What, the proper one? Or just using some random old chariot (my other corpse cart is the old plague cart model). I quite like the plastic corpse cart, but it doesn't look like something I'd enjoy painting.

[Finlay]

the skelephants head looks weird.

What model is it?
It might be valuable!

[Darknight]

A friend of mine had that skelephant, or one very similar - he painted the "trunk" as bronze plates replacing the missing appendage.

[rufus sparkfire]

What model is it?
It might be valuable!

It was made by Grenadier Models.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/masterpiece-editions.html

I think it's still sold by some Italian company, so I doubt it's worth that much.

A friend of mine had that skelephant, or one very similar - he painted the "trunk" as bronze plates replacing the missing appendage.

I found a picture of a painted example, and the trunk is made from bronze plates there too. So I probably just haven't looked closely at the model!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/5501.jpg