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I tested colour schemes for my Basilean and Abyssal warbands. Here is with what I will go.

Nice pics! Abyssals look great

Thanks! Pretty classic, but, hey, they're demons from hell and I like Mantic's classic take on fantasy.

My KoM "Averland Avengers" lost to the Orc Life in the Portal scenario. The dungeon terrain isfrom Battle Systems. I painted most of the KoM minis back in 2013 when I learned of KoW so it eas great to get to use them.

I've been slowly (very slowly) working my way through the stuff i picked up in the Vanguard KS. Here are all of my Northern Alliance models to date:

Need moar snow trolls!!!

lol.

Those look fantastic. Nice work.

(I sure do wish we had a little more variety for some of the big guys. One of those trolls looks awesome, but a rank of them wouldn't look so awesome. I love the new Basilean Ogre. I don't love how similar looking they all are)

Also, WHAT BE UP WITH THE ROUND BASES?!?!?!

 pancakeonions wrote:
Need moar snow trolls!!!

lol.

Those look fantastic. Nice work.

(I sure do wish we had a little more variety for some of the big guys. One of those trolls looks awesome, but a rank of them wouldn't look so awesome. I love the new Basilean Ogre. I don't love how similar looking they all are)

Also, WHAT BE UP WITH THE ROUND BASES?!?!?!

I have been doing everything on round bases recently so as to have a system-agnostic collection. If/when I ever get around to playing Vanguard, I'll find a way to mark the rear facing and sort of ignore base sizes.

My KOW Undead so far. I'm using GW ghosts and werewolves from the TTCombat halfling kickstarter. The heroes are GW too, except the "classic" vampire. I think he is from Heresy. Mantic skeletons, zombies and ghouls will follow. My other VC stuff from WHFB will be repurposed too.

Nice packed ghost unit, and those are some great werewolf sculpts! Gangly GW vampire chick has always been a miss for me - especially compared to the Isabella Von Carstein model that more or less replaced her - but you've polished that sculpt admirably all the same

Thanks a lot! The female vampire isn't my favourite either. Since I got even more vampires lying around, she won't see much playtime.

If you scroll through these pages you really want to play more KOW and Vanguard. There's some incredibly good stuff here! A lot more creative and fun to look at, than most of what I've seen for GW systems. So, keep it coming!

Those are some nice undead models, CptKeno. I particularly like the ghosts.

Here are some more Vanguard models:


There are more images in my P&M blog. Feel free to take a look.

Really Nicestalkers! Sorry, couldn't resist. I like the vivid colours. Makes me want to paint mine.

CptKeno wrote:
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If you scroll through these pages you really want to play more KOW and Vanguard. There's some incredibly good stuff here! A lot more creative and fun to look at, than most of what I've seen for GW systems. So, keep it coming!

There's a lot of good stuff here. Great to look at, thanks all!

To return the favour: Last week I did a photoshoot of my for-now-completed undead army.
Not all of it is painted as well as the stuff here, the completed army is pretty epic.

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Pointwise, it adds up to over 8,500 points without magical items and upgrades.
Closeups of the army can be found on my blog:

https://kingsofwarvince.business.blog/2019/07/19/overview-my-undead-army/

And If I'm going there: the overview-in-progress of all my armies:

https://kingsofwarvince.business.blog/2019/07/09/overview-of-my-completed-armies/

Freakin' great! Now I've got to figure out how to photograph my collection of undead... The largest roadblock is basically inertia... It's a lot of work to unpack, set up and shoot!

Those undead are an impressive amount of work! I like the scorpions especially

My club was gifted a pile of goodies from Mantic, and I opted for the Forces of Nature (a far cry from undead...! But I was playing Elves in our campaign, so that's a more natural progression).


Thanks Mantic!

None painted yet, but I'm blogging the results here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/778432.page

Since the Vanguard Kickstarter Blaine sat unassembled on my shelves... but this week I will need him for my next campaign game...
Brown primer (Army Painter Leather Brown Spray), one or max 2 layers of paint and then different washes for different regions.

Sexy purple Blaine!

 amazingturtles wrote:
Those undead are an impressive amount of work! I like the scorpions especially

Thanks! It's a great joy to see support like this.

anyhows, I don't know if you found the scorpions' WIP Photos. If not: here's them.

http://kingsofwarvince.business.blog/2019/07/05/hobby-update-and-scorpion-comparison/

I hadn't seen those, i don't think, but they're quite neat.

I've been looking into doing something with turtles for my trident realm/nature armies, and that gives me some good ideas!

Two can play the Blaine Game!

The photo doesn't show it off well (it never does when I'm behind it...), but I used Scale 75 Black Metal for his armor. It looks very cool, I love that color!



Blaine, this time as a mercenary for Kings of War Vanguard

Nice work on that Blaine. The armor looks really good-- I'll have to get some of that black metal.

I finished off my Nightstalkers:


Follow the link in my signature for more.

Nifty work on them, the brain guy especially

Love the nightstalkers! Great work!


I'd like to share a picture of my Goblin boarding crew:

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I recently somewhat updated my goblin detachment coming 3rd edition as I don't want to start a new project.
more info here: http://kingsofwarvince.business.blog/2019/08/30/summer-hobby-update-goblin-expansion/

Nice water effects, and those left-handed spears are nifty. Did you fine the GW gobbo heads a little big for Mantic goblin bodies?

*EDIT* Got a new phone, so updating to substantially better pictures, I'm clearly still missing something because the quality after upload is way worse that the original, and the quality in the forum is less than the gallery

Stand and deliver!
Ratkin shock troops with dragon diadem, unless the rules change significantly

That's really cool! And I don't think diadem will go away ... however if you were hoping to use the Shock Troops elite + vicious for ranged, I wouldn't count on it. 3E specifies whether elite / vicious is ranged or melee, I haven't seen many if any general elite / vicious. Probably reserved for especially nasty big monsters.

Those are nifty as can be! That artifact is still in there, i believe

NP! Surprised it wasn't posted on Dakka, but not a lot of KOW representation on here.

Last Thursday was Sylvan / Twilight Kin:




And within the last hour or so was indeed Free Dorfs + Sallies:

 Boss Salvage wrote:
NP! Surprised it wasn't posted on Dakka, but not a lot of KOW representation on here.

Last Thursday was Sylvan / Twilight Kin:




And within the last hour or so was indeed Free Dorfs + Sallies:

You should start a new thread with this, might perk players up a bit.
I think a buddy of mine is going to convert his AoS Sylv's into KoW.