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any chance you were able to finish Arkhan the Black? I just wanted to see what he ended up looking like.

I'll be taking this army to a local tourney in Sept. I'm trying to pin down what I intend to bring and how they will be displayed.

I will have Arkhan complete very soon as he is the centerpiece of this whole project. I also need to finish my Bow'shabti as well as they will also likely be going.

Keep an eye out.

Shawn G. (SoI)

I’m a lazy person. I built my Tomb King host to compete on the tournament scene and major painting events. Have I taken it to any? No.

As the date of each event creeps closer, I get more lazy. I had plenty of completed units and more than enough time to compete in the local Armies on Parade event. The closer the deadline got, the more meh I became. I wanted to go to Nova this year. What happened? Meh.

No more meh! I’ve paid for this last event and my wife will skin me alive if I don’t participate. Since a flensing at the hands of my beloved spouse is not something I care to experience, I’m going to Battle for Blobs Park! Although I wish I’d kicked myself in the ass one week earlier…

I haven’t touched this army hobby wise since mid June and I’ve still a few units I need to complete for this event on the 24th. I’ve one character, one unit, and a display board to complete. I’ve got a lot of work to do…

Details coming soon!

Shawn G. (SoI)

~Small Update~

So I've just about hammered out my army list for the Blob's Park tourney and it includes a new unit. I'm in the process of painting a unit of 6 Necro Knights for this event.

I must hate myself or something as this unit was VERY time consuming to assemble and completing it along with Arkhan and the display board may require divine/infernal intervention.

I'll try to get some pictures posted but I need to get enough done to ease the pressure.

Wish me luck and stay tuned.

Shawn G. (SoI)

Good luck at Blobs - I'll be battling it out up at Crossroads as you get your undead on down there Love me some necro knights, was thinking about what a 2x 6 NK TK army would look like (and wondering why I sold my TK army book )

Looking forward to pics and tales of victory and pics!

- Salvage

Very awesome stuff! Can't wait to see Arkhan finished!

Soul of Iron, this army is fantastic.

For a while I've been considering a tomb kings army dedicated to Arkhan as a side project to go with my Vamp Counts army, and I was even considering repainting my counts since I wasn't sure how good my black & red color scheme would look on tomb kings.

Seeing this thread, not only have I been reassured that black and red work great for tomb kings in general, and arkhan in particular, but I've also been overwhelmed with the awesome of your conversions and unit fillers.

I hope you subscribe to the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, because once I finish off those vamps and get around to starting tomb kings, I fully intend to shamelessly rip of your conversions, color scheme, basically everything my rather more limited modeling and painting skills can manage.


I do have to ask - do you intend to convert Arkhan's flying, four-steed, manticore-corpse charriot? And if so, have you had any thoughts on how you might manage it? At the moment all I can think of is starting with settra's charriot, making it fly with a combination of pins & clear plastic rods, and maybe mounting some sort of pedestal w/ the book of nagash open for Arkhan's reading pleasure. I'm not sure what if anything should be done to represent the manticore aspect of it, though.

This army is amazing - any chance of an army pick so far

@ Boss - Good luck at your event. This will be only the 2nd tourney I've been to in the last 6 years.

@ Ozy - The goal is to get the Necros done by Tues/Wed. I'll only need a day to get Arkhan done but I still need time to get the display board polished. I've been swamped during the day and homework is getting in the way. Time is short and I'm getting a tad worried to tell the truth.

@ Mal - I'm glad you like it. Please feel free to pilfer all you desire. We need more TK players out there! As for Arkhan's chariot, I have done the base for it and I intended to use Settra's chariot as the base but i don't know when I'll get around to it. Arkhan's a little fragile and that mount makes him easier to kill.

@ Optio - If I can get all I need done I'll be taking the whole army to my local shop for a pre-tourney photo shoot. Should be around Friday.

Shawn G. (SoI)

Man, your painted Ushabti makes me wanna lift my Finecast ban and actually do the Ushabti/Construct heavy army I was planning.

The finecast Bo'Shabti are really nice, I just don't like how static they are. Even with different arm positions, the unit still looks 'lifeless'.

I don't have any experience with the finecast melee versions though. I'll be going back the Bo'Shabti to finish them off once I've come down from this tourney.

~Minor Update~

I've completed 3 Necro Knights. HOLY CRAP this unit takes forever to finish! I've finished/mounted the command elements and one additional snake.

I've 2 more snakes ,but they are sitting around 60% done (I have to finish/wash the metal elements). I also have 3 crew to do.

As much time as this blasted unit is taking me to complete, I'm unsure if I'll even have time to get to Arkhan. I may have time on Friday but I don't want to rush him as he's the whole reason I've done this army. Thank the dark gods I've a plethora (Yes Jeffe) of completed Liche Priests completed already.

Shawn G. (SoI)

Keep it up, Shawn. Best of luck to you to get this army done in time.

Thanks bro.

By hook or by crook I'll get some pictures posted for Dakka by Friday. I plan on having a nice pre-tourney photo shoot over at my local shop.

Soul of Iron wrote:I'll get some pictures posted for Dakka by Friday.

Awesome! I can't wait! Good luck on getting Arkhan done. If he makes it for this tourney, great, if not you've still got several great looking characters done, so it won't be the end of he world.

This blasted unit took me almost a week to complete. Every time I felt like I was making some progress, I’d look up and realize I had HOURS of work left. It was depressing at times.

Well the unit is done, and I’m relieved. I have mixed feelings on how it came out as I rushed the work somewhat, but again I’m glad it’s done.

Next up is completing the display. I’ll have that finished today so I’m on schedule to take pictures at my hobby shop.







Shawn G. (SoI)

Not gonna lie, I've got a little bit of a man-crush on you right now. That Casket conversion is outstanding, the wizard/liche kitbashes look great, and your painting is incredible. Keep it up!

Shawn, those necro knights look good, dude. I wouldn't fret over them. I have an idea that your display board is gonna be epic. Hope this last leg of the project goes smoothly for you and Good Luck at Blob's!

@ Hungryp - I'm glad you like bro. This army has been a real joy to paint.

@ Moltar - Thanks dude. As for the board, I'm putting the finishing touches on it right now. I would not call it epic, but it works well. There's a element of it that I've been working on in secret that burned up some of the time I would have spent on Arkhan, but he really was of the lowest importance when it came down to prepping for this tourney.

I'll post pics of the whole thing tonight when I get back from the store.

Time to polish my army list while this thing is drying.

Shawn G. (SoI)

The painting is ace as always, but the bases are crying for something more. Like a broken column or some rocks or something to break up the large, flat expanse.

I love coming across threads like this when they've been going for a while. I've just been utterly absorbed for 30 minutes. Great stuff

I sympathise with the Dread Knights. The mould lines on the tails are a royal pain in the arse.

Here it is. I’ll have more pics later. Off to the tourney!

Army Display



Wish me luck!

Shawn G. (SoI)

Pics not working, but best of luck, Shawn!!!


Edit: Scratch that. Pic does work. That looks amazing Shawn. Loving the sphinx.

wowe they look amazing!

Thats an amazing group shot, the conversions and time put in really make an astounding force! Nice Sphinx as well

Awesome.

Very nice looking army you have here. Awesome!

So I got back home from Blob’s Park last night at 12:30am and I have to say that was THE most fun I’ve ever had with this hobby. I met a slew of incredible players, played 4 fun and intense games, and saw some of the most talented hobbyists I’ve ever come across. I’m so glad I kicked myself in the ass and went.

I more or less broke even for the event with 1 major/minor victories and 2 minor losses. I and I have to say that’s not too bad for my first competitive tourney with a non-optimized list. I have not been excited like this about this hobby in years and I can’t wait for my next tourney fix.

High Points of the Battle at Blob’s Park:

John Matthews – It was a real honor meeting him didn’t get to play him though.

There was a painting competition at Blobs so I took my Necrosphinx and my Nurgle Demon Prince. Cool Mini or Not (CMoN) was supporting it for as minor Crystal Brush event with the top prize being a ticket to Adepticon but they backed out last minute. My sphinx took best large mini. The prize was a resin Elf on Great Eagle and The 7 Day Army Painter DVD both from CMoN.

I was the only TK player there, which kind of surprised me. I’m glad because it netted me best TK general for just showing up and a free Necrosphinx/Warsphinx kit. That prize was more expensive then the entry fee so I was in the green!

I also got a box of Kings of War elven archers just for showing up.

All-in-all I had a blast at Blob’s and I can’t wait for the next event. I’m already revising my list for optimization. My TK mojo has returned!

Shawn G. (Soi)

P.S. - Here are some more pics of the display I did for this event. (I’ll explain the Sphinx in a later post)

Gosh that display looks great.

I love your casket of souls too. Looks way better than the one that GW put out.

this brought a tear to my eye. Great job!!! I do want to see close up pics of Arkhan the Black as you showed a few WIPs, I just wanted to see a few pics of the final product I'm wanting to copy your idea for the unit fillers - I'm ordering the molds over the next month or so. I'm just in awe of the way you've made this army. Its by far the best TK army I've seen on the net.