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EDIT: Rather than starting a new thread, I thought I'd just change this one to document my progress on my Undead warband. It's now more of less complete, with 4 ghouls, Vampire leader, Necromancer, 3 dregs and a dire wolf:



I've always thought Heinrich Kemmler was one of the coolest characters from the old Warhammer lore. I also really love the Mytsic Battle Wizards box from GW, so the two things seemed like a perfect marriage. This is by miles the most ambitious I've ever been with green stuff and I'm really please with the outcome, although I had real difficulty taking good photographs of the finished product.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/936183-Necromancer%20Heinrich%20Kemmler%20Conversion.html

This is fantastic. Nice work.

Excellent and instantly recognizable.

Looks great!

Looks spot on. Are you going to convert a Krell to go with him?

One of my favourite characters too.
I do still like the old model but this is a great modernisation.

Thanks everyone, really appreciate it.

 JamesY wrote:
Looks spot on. Are you going to convert a Krell to go with him?

I'd like to, but not yet. I'm probably going to be using him as a Mordheim necromancer, so I need a good vampire miniature. Been really struggling to find one that hits the right spot for me so definitely going to have to convert one. I'm looking at using either the Wight King or Chaos Sorcerer Lord minis as a base.

Yeah. Male Vampire miniatures are few and far between. They always seem to oversell the vampire elements with huge batwing cloaks and collars and oversized teeth. I can see why because without they just look like smartly dressed blokes.
My favourite is 'Dasco the Vampire' from 'Black Sun Miniatures' although he could basically just be a rogue or assassin or something.
There are a few more monstrous types and females that are okay.
What sort of Vampire are you after?

Excellent work my friend! I love the age that the extra hair adds. Keep it up!

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
Yeah. Male Vampire miniatures are few and far between. They always seem to oversell the vampire elements with huge batwing cloaks and collars and oversized teeth. I can see why because without they just look like smartly dressed blokes.
My favourite is 'Dasco the Vampire' from 'Black Sun Miniatures' although he could basically just be a rogue or assassin or something.
There are a few more monstrous types and females that are okay.
What sort of Vampire are you after?

I'm going for a kind of slightly monstrous human look. This is a mock-up of what I'm working on, based on the Chaos Sorcerer Lord:

Great conversion and greenstuff, as well as a excellent paint job!

Thanks! Vanpire’s a long way off still, especially with the metal, but this face turned out exactly how I wanted:

Yep, excellent work. Reminds me of my favourite Reaper vampire (basically Count Orlok)

the vampire is brilliant

These guys are awesome! Great job!

Pretty much all done. Does this look like the right amount of blood? My instinct is to add more but I don’t want to go over the top.

I think it’s a good portion of gore and blood. Any more might be overkill

Wow. Effortless conversions! Both have resulted in really characterful miniatures!

Two outstanding, very well painted models.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've completed the ghouls contingent of my warband now. I knew I wasn't going to be able to put as much time into painting these guys as the heroes, but I generally paint for effect/impact over technical accomplishment anyway, so while the details might not be amazing, I'm really happy with how they look in the warband, especially viewed from a 'gaming distance'.

It was particularly fun to be able to let loose with the blood after being quite conservative on the vampire.

This just keeps getting better.

They may not have had the same amount of time put in as the characters, but they still look very good.

Glorious.

Those ghouls definitely have impact, love all the gore.

Thanks for the comments! Started working on my dregs today:

Awesome dregs - are those Frostgrave bodies?

 kestral wrote:
Awesome dregs - are those Frostgrave bodies?

Thanks. They are indeed Frostgrave soldier bodies.

Here they are painted:

Sweet dregs!
Really diggin' the converted wizard as well.

Those dregs look very cool. Lots of character.

Thanks. I didn’t have a very clear idea for ages about where I was going to go with the dregs, but I’m really happy with how they turned out in the end, and with the warband as a whole so far.

Very cool looking bunch of minis, dregs especially.