Another year, another batch of strange warhammer armies!

[meninobesta]

Hello,

last year I've posted my army for a big warhammer tournament that is held in Portugal in the end of the summer:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=13819.msg160791#msg160791

so, another year has passed and my team and I decided to go with different armies, because of the launching of the new edition, we only had a couple of months to design the lists and paint the new figures, so we haven't changed much the oriental feel of the armies

This time I've decided to make a Vampire counts army based on the Chinese terracotta army









The tournament was fun, everyone liked the idea of the army, and easily identified it as a Chinese terracotta one!

The army itself was a pain to paint, over 100 miniatures and I've only started to paint it a month prior to the tournament, as you can imagine I was pretty sick of painting earth tones.

I've managed to have almost everything done some 48 hours before the tournament date (except the characters) but the flags were original not-dirty red, and they struck quite alien in the overall look of the army, so I've painted them with some pigments to give them an overall dusty look

all miniatures are from Renegade, except the characters which are from Black Hat, the vases and dog statue from FenrisGames and the chariot from Curteys.
I must say that Black Hat has one of the best services around: ordered the minis in a monday night and they arrived at Portugal at Thursday
On the other hand the Renegade ones took more than a month to arrive (probably had some bad luck because I've made the order in July, and they probably were on vacations)

The army was elected to as one of the best in the tournament, but did not won the best army award, which went to my team colleague torradas with a Japanese Vampire Counts army. Also there were a Dark Elf Korean army, a Daemon Japanese army and an Empire TYW Swedish army in the tournament, quite a lot of imagination going on, which adds lots of colour to the usually GW miniatures!

Strangely enough I didn't loose all the games and the new ruleset is quite fun to game! you could be loosing, but still you are launching buckets of dice and try to kill stuff, had a battle against a Skaven army which looked like a bloodbath from a horror B movie: ended in a draw but gave us something to laugh about!

here are some albums with the overall photos, all by André Valentim and Paulo Perre
http://www.pbase.com/squig_hopper/corvos_2010
http://s549.photobucket.com/albums/ii378/Shudmell/Corvos%202010/?albumview=slideshow

I'll post new stuff when I have more time!

[Viper]

Love the idea and how the army looks, brilliantly done.

Was the lion used as a vargulf?

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Wow, very inspiring army, I would love to have one just like that! 

[FunkyBrush]

A terrorcotta army. Awesome.

[cianty]

That's one beautiful army!

[abhorsen950]

Another beautiful army to go with your last one, both superb, excellent work, honestly I do love this.

Cheers for sharing
Steve

[Sangennaru]

that's brilliant!!!

i wish i have your time, and a so active group of friends. could seems absurd, but i'm alone here in milan...

[meninobesta]

Thanks to all!

Viper: the dog statue is a Varghulf, most of the terracotta warriors are ghouls, the terracotta warriors with the brass armour are grave guard, the chariot is a plague cart and the rest are characters (2 vampires, 1 necromancer and a wight lord with the army standard)! the copplestone characters are just the archaeologists that found the army, I wanted to do an excavation site, but I really could not find the time to do it

thanks again!

[OSHIROmodels]

What a great idea 

cheers

James

[meninobesta]

thanks James, José from my Team had a Tailko drum and a tori gate from your models in his army, he was rather happy with them!

[OSHIROmodels]

Oh, jolly good  Always nice to get a it of feedback.

I must his figures look rather nice  What do they stand in for, Empire of Bretonian?

cheers

James

[meninobesta]

actually, they are daemons... 

the red ones are bloodletters, the yellow ones are horrors, the cavalry are fleshhounds and the skirmishers with tëppo are flammers

[OSHIROmodels]

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting that!!! 

cheers

James

[mweaver]

Very nice effect, looking at them all together.  An interesting idea, well executed.  Thanks for sharing!

[Alxbates]

*jawdrop*

Man... if the people around here were doing armies like this, I would still be playing Warhammer...

*applause*

Well done!  Amazing work!

-Alex in Alaska