Grave guard

This is the last batch of models I managed to crank out when I was on a painting rampage a few weeks ago and I am rather pleased with them the weathering on the bronze is a little over done but they look nice on the table. My only regret with this unit is not building them with great weapons I think they would be better for me in games that way the vampires lack offense a lot of the time and great weapons would make for a punchier unit.

the old style Cairn Wraith

This is not some of my better work but I do still kind of like this model  in fact i would say i like it better then the new generation one that GW has out http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat720003a&prodId=prod1250030a

terrorgheist ahoy!

behold the terror of the table top my "terrorgheist"  tho people are learning to deal with him rather well any more so he is not as horrifying as he used to be.

skeleton horde!

I also finished up my unit of 50 skeletons 

massive zombie horde!

I am finished painting my zombies it is hard to tell witch are the new ones and witch are the older ones but i cant separate them any more as I needed a way to put them on the table faster and remove them just as fast seance they die so easily

so I glued them in groups of five expect the front ten and five at the back of each of the two units

step by step on building a basic tabletop

 I should have gotten this in a few week ago when I built it and it has even shown up in a few battle reports but I thought it might still be of some benefit to see the step by step on how I built this table  

 step one was getting a fresh sheet of 1/4" plywood and marking a nice straight line at 6 feet from the end leaving you with and extra 2 foot section that would be good to make an armies on parade board from

I took it out side at this point to help it dry faster and also not stink out the house with fumes. but to finish this you will need a a lot of glue I started with half a gallon and ran my self totally out by the end of this board also two paint brushes cheep ones will do just fine and a good amount of sand to texture the surface properly   

to get the sand on the the board I would suggest pouring glue in a small patch and brush it out then pour sand on the glue patch but don't take the sand to the edge so that you can make it all bled nicely just keep poring  glue and repeating this until you have the whole surface covered nicely  

 when the glue drys lift the board on edge and bang on the back of it to knock off the loose sand after that I brushed the whole thing down with the second brush to remove any more sand that is even a little loose

 next you will need two cans of your preferred shade of brown I used rust-oleum flat brown make sure you get the edges down the sides or the color of the plywood really stands out 

 now you need something to brighten the high points of the sand I used a can of bone color spray and just dusted the surface. you could also use a much brighter color of brown.

last of all pour on some more glue in patches and use the second brush again to spread it out this time pour on some static grass I would highly recommend using at least three different shades to make it interesting I used two different greens and one light brown. when it has had a chance to dry lift the board on edge again and bang on the back to knock the loose static grass off then just brush the patches again with your hand to get rid of the loose grass

I hope this helps some one it is certainly better then the card table we were playing on until recently with my buddy's.  

Terrorgheist part two

I got a few more layers on to this beast I think i can finish him in one or two more sessions so the next post you see on him should should show him all finished.