Interspersed with the High Elves and the Mantic VC I found a little time to finish up a few Tomb King models I had sitting around for a while. As most of you know I have a fairly large TK army. At this point I try to find interesting conversions to add some spice and color to an otherwise sea of bone. First up is a Tomb Scorpion. Just a real simple conversion that makes it look like it is coming out of the ground. Really interesting to paint up because as I compared it to my original Tomb Scorpions from years ago and it was obvious my painting style has changed drastically. Before was bone base coat - brown ink - highlight and cleanup with bone and white. Now, I have 2 different methods. For small, non important bone I base coat snakebite leather and layer bubonic brown followed by bleached bone. Finally wash with devlan mud. For prominent areas (like on the Tomb Scorpion) I paint a bone bone base coat, wash with Devlan Mud. Then I build up the color using glazes of bone, white and Vallejo Medium. It gives a really interesting depth of color that better replicates the non uniform look of real bone. By the way, have I mentoniond how much I hate putting this model together?
Next up is a couple of conversions for Heavy Cavalry. Horses are stock (yes I know they suck) and the riders are plastic Empire pistoleers converted to look dead. All I did was add a skull, skeleton arms and a Tomb King shield. Came out pretty nice and look great in the front rank of a big block of heavy cavalry.
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