sea.man`s WFB von Carstein's Vampire Counts

[sea.man]

Yet another tale of mine! Since there is no limit how many you can have, I will post my updates here
What is my goal? Paint 2500 points by the end of the next year.

Color code:
Orange: Not all minis painted
Green: All minis painted

Core:
skeletons 30
ghouls 10
zombie 20
corpse cart 1
dire wolves 10

Special:
grave guard 20
black knights 5
hexwrights 5
vargheists 3

Rare:
varghulf
blood knights 5

Heroes:
Mannfred von Carstein the acolyte
Konrad von Carstein
Isabella von Carstein
Necromancer 1/2
Blood Dragon Vampire
Mounted Blood Dragon Vampire
Mounted Lahmian Vampire
Strigoi Vampire
Wight king
Mortis Engine
Krell
Wright

Lords:
Vlad von Carstein -old
Vlad von Carstein -new
Count Mannfred von Carstein
Heinrich Kemmler
Ghoul King
Vampire Lord on dragon

The main colour is purple, there will be roses as a symbol and every bigger unit will have a necromancer (as a unit filler) so it would look as if they are animated to move to the battle.

Dire wolves you have already seen and the new unit are the skeletons. There are 31 of them plus a 9 bases big unit filler.
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Thanis the Bonecaller from Reaper as a unit filler.
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Bases:
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Whole army so far, about 650pts
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Next is Varghulf!

[arctica]

That's one heck of a start to a project, great to see very nice quality for tabletop.

[ToMaZ]

Man you're motivated! Keep it up!

[Pandadosmares]

busy bee, looks really good

[sea.man]

Thnaks guys! Keep me motivating
Some better pics:
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When its comes to quality... I want to paint them a bit more then TT because I would like to enter them in a contest as an army. One day of course
Thats why I need a lot of cristicism from you!! :devil:

[sea.man]

The first one from the whole family - Konrad von Carstein
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next one is Varghulf!

[Nameless]

so, what's the current status of this tale? is it on hold or are you still aiming at 2500 points?

[sea.man]

I think it is going quite well, Varghulf has been cleaned and primed, and is patiently waiting in line for being painted.
Also already did a base for it.

[sea.man]

Varghulf is finished! painted it in 4 hours
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and whole army so far:
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so the counter now says 1105 points

[sea.man]

I am looking for an idea for spirit hosts, GW metal ones are too expensive. I don't have any spare miniatures to paint them as ghosts.
Popular ideas are to use empire flagellants(I get 3 spirit host bases) or LotR dead unit (I get 6 spirit host bases). I still have to check Reaper's assortment.
Can you help me with some ideas?
Maybe you know some manufacturers that have nice looking ghosts?