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I'm in the process of making a vampire counts army with the intent to make it look like the vampire has just raised an army from a battlefield of dead orcs and goblins

What do you think about how I can go about doing this?

This is what I've been thinking of doing:

1) Zombie dragon mount for my vampire lord can be a wyvern with some sort of a conversion?
2) The black knights are undead wolf riders made with skeletons on top of dire wolves!
3) zombies have been painted a lil green here and there but this is quite natural to them so it isn't impressive. I've thought about a conversion but I don't think the hulking arms would do too well on small bodies and the rest


Will post pics when done!
IT SHALL BE EPIC!!!! so help me make it!!
There is much to do - HOW????

Theres an Undead Gobbo and Orc from the old cursed company. Theres Orc skulls from some of the sprues. How about painting gobbo's and orcs rotted?

Great idea, but people might look at you funny if your boars have barding

Greenstuff will be your friend. Use it to make patchy, hanging skin and slash wounds. Combine skeletal bitz with- the old skeleton torso fits well with goblin legs (might be a bit too weedy for an orc chest, though). I did this with some zombies to add a gobbo zombie and sculpted part og some chest muscle and skin as well as some muscle/flesh over the connected skeleton spear arm and it worked great!

Black Orcs = Grave Guard
Gobbo Wolf riders - the goblins=dire wolves
I like the zombie dragon wyvren idea
I think it would be awesome for you to use boars without barding as if they had barding, just for the fact that they normally have the thick-skinned rule, and in that case, i think it would also be funny to see a black coach pulled by boars.

Blood knights would HAVE to be some kind of black orc, just for the fluff on blood knights.

I think for zombie units, a mixed unit of orcs and goblins with some green stuff, maybe a few zombie bits added in here and there would be sweet.

An undead orc army was in a white dwarf some time ago.... I'll did at home to find the number...

I think it was a chaos ork army actually. Cause I remember seeing that but not an undead one.

You should make the vampire in charge a warboss.

He could have jutting tusks from going up, and jutting fangs going down.

Then he could be wearing a wolf pelt, but he would wear it like a Dracula cape.

(I'm just spounting stuff off here, pay me no mind.)