From JeremyM: 10mm Vampire Counts [gluttony]

 For my gluttony post I chose to focus on a new 10mm army, vampire counts...and I think the volume of pictures and figures is perhaps gluttonous itself this time!

Our gaming group have been playing with a few 10mm scale rules for fantasy figures. Last year we ran a campaign using the excellent M2 ruleset for To the Strongest https://ttsm2.co.uk/m2/. While it worked well we may decide to experiment with some custom options down the road. While I originally started with a chaos army that was based for warmaster and then used movement trays, I loved Curt's little mini diaromas that I decided to forgo the warmaster option and just base everything on bigger bases for this other system. Everything you'll see is 3d printed with all the figures from forestdragon fantasy's excellent range. I zenithal highlighted them and used contrast style paints to speed the process up, works well with this scale.

Vampire counts have a few figures that struck me as being gluttonous. Let's start with the heroes. I painted up a few vampires mounted and unmounted, a vampire carriage unit, and two necromancers.

The next gluttonous unit I worked on were ghouls. Who better to fit this theme than cannibals that mutated right! I painted up 4 units of them. I tried to differentiate units with a few different colours of figures and themed bases. For my vampire counts army its a fall theme with scenes from a destroyed town, creepy woods, and of course cemeteries.

After that I turned to zombies who are obviously overly gluttonous for 'brains!' With the rules we play they are typically a 'deep' or double sized unit fitting for the horde of undead. They were both fun and unfun to paint as I tried to give each of them different outfit colours and a couple different skin tone options (green for older dead, and fresh zombies as well).

To wrap up my painting for this force I also worked on two units of ghosts, and two units of giant bats....not gluttonous but hey finished them with these others.

A pretty good start to a vampire counts army I hope to hit the tables later this year. Now the tally...and it was a chore to count them all particularly because I didn't put them in rank and file order on the bases (they are horde units after all). 

513 10mm scale figures = 513 points

Gluttony them = 20 points

Total = 533 points.

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...... And a Sunday Morning Points Bomb!!

 Well done Jeremy, a very impressive and gluttonous horde!

I really enjoy the diorama basing, very characterful and leads to great storytelling. These baddies will be great on the table top.

- Sarah

From Mike W - More 28mm Zombies (140 Points, Lady Sarah)

Here is a second instalment of 24 Zombies for my growing horde! Again these are all Zombicide models and represent a cross section of different real life activities etc that these unfortunates were doing at the time of their demise!

Right hand side of Panoramic view of the group!

There is again a cross section of various Zombie types and a few characters that add 'colour' and interest to the horde.

On the character side I have done a former judge, a nun and a stage magician - struck down in mid act!

Again all figures were undercoated in white before appropriate colourings were blocked in. Skin as mentioned in the previous post was again randomly selected as being based upon a normal flesh colour, a rotting green colour or grey - depending on eth age of the zombie.

And the right hand side of the view.

On these models I think it is a little easier to see the way that I have done the bases, with a grey concrete finish to eth paving slabs, with regular lining for eth cracks between slabs and the odd tuft of grass on show - where they are becoming overgrown.

I am also claiming a Lady Sarah bonus for the nun, so that I can continue my journey on the challenge's star chart!

Two female 'Runners' and a stage magician 'Walker'

Three Walker: A hiker, a Disco Guy and a woman in a Mac.

Three more Walkers - two shop assistants and a former Judge.

The fisherman in yellow waterproof and wellies, is a conversion of the
sandwich board man in the centre, left a Fighfighter.

Three more Walkers, left hand figure is a conversion of the central figure - with impaled sign removed and arms repositioned. Right a highway patrol woman.

The figures are made of a plastic that can be repositioned, so they allow for minor modifications to be made to give repeat figures some individuality. Arms and legs can quite easily be altered. The Judge figure came with an arm missing, I was able to simply add an arm (from the project X frame) carrying a briefcase to the figure with superglue.

Three Runners: Left and centre variations on the same figure and right a male in tracksuit.

Left and Centre, two more runners, again same model in different colour schemes, right a business woman.

Two Fatties. Left a Sports Fan and Right a former Sumo Wrestler!

Rear view of the Fatties...

The blistering skin / boils effect on these Fatties was achieved by painting the raised blisters / boils Foundry's Phlegm Green (currently one of my go to colours), washing over this when dry with a very watered down wash of Citadel Imperial Purple before picking out each blister / boil in yellow.

The Zombie Nun

POINTS

24 x 28mm Foot Figures = 120 Points

Lady Sarah Bonus           = 20 Points

TOTAL                            =140 POINTS

As a departure from normal - I have included a short video of these figures rather than a panoramic view!

Back to Mike and back to hordes of shambling undead.  I love the various characters in the mix made made better by your conversions.   I think the Sports Fan fatty could be seen on the NFL broadcast this weekend, sitting shirtless in freezing weather with his teams logo emblazoned on his chest.

From George S - Airfix Afrika "Corpse" - The ressurection (30 points)

      "...It Walks!"  

   Not only but it fights back too...  I think this gets me out of "The Golem's Haunt" chamber... :)

    While painting the previous posted Afrika Korps figures I got this idea when this damaged figure comes to my hand. The arm was broken in an awkward way and instantly remember the chamber that haunted me from the beginning of the challenge!

    Just for the record, this is an Airfix 1:32 figure from the Afrika Korps set, resculpted a bit.

   So , 10pts for the figure and 20 for the room  = 30pts if I'm correct.

Hope you enjoyed and get inspired!

'Till next time..

Keep Up The Brushes!!

And victim number three walks into my lair!

Nice resculpting of that damaged figure. I could tell from the pose that it was Airfix!

30 points it is for a great job.

Tamsin

From Bark B: It walks again!

For the next chamber - The Golem’s haunt it was a simple choice of a Marauder Miniature zombie from back in the day. I had lots of fun on this straightforward model playing with rust effects and weathering. The old plastic coffin shaped shield is a nice touch. Only after painting on the basic colours did I realise he was possibly meant to be bare legged? Oh well! The trousers stayed on... which is a line you won’t hear for all of my entries!😂😂🤣

So a rather easy 5 points for the 28mm figure and 20 more for the challenge =25 points

Hmmm the next room looks kind of dark! I’d best get a torch and some white and black paints out!

Cheers

Mark Backhouse