So as a number of my friends know I've been looking at a new army that I have been dying to get my hands on. Its vampire counts but with a orc & goblin twist, via a 3rd party modeling company called Titan Forge. They make a line of models that are basically undead orcs and goblins. Which here is a shot of some Zomblins :
Now the rest of the models are pretty badass, and they have ideas for most everything in the Vampire Count army book. So right now I fully plan on doing at least a small force or them just for fun. Since I currently own around 8000 points of regular orcs and goblins(which i got for around $250 because of an awesome deal). I could easily convert some non painted models into undead models. Along with using some regular Vampire Count models and these undead orcs and goblin models. The army would mesh perfectly with my orcs. Plus it would look fantastic together in a team game. But after seeing the video below I was sold on a full scale army project.
But hereis my dilemma, I currently own 2 fantasy armies being Orcs & Goblins and Lizardmen. Lizardmen were the first models I ever collect and the first army I ever played so they have a special place in my heart. I only want 2 armies for fantasy since they are so expensive to collect and time consuming to paint. But after seeing this video:
I was in love with the models and wanted to collect them all. But that would mean dropping my lizardmen if I wanted to go full bore into this army. So I ask of you, people who happen to read my blog which isn't many since most people don't care about my painting or what I do for fun. Which do you think I should do. Keep it to a small force of 1500 or less, and keep the lizardmen? Or sell the lizardmen and make an amazing custom Vampire Counts army?
As a comparison of pictures you can go to this LINK to see some pictures of the lizardmen army. I love the story of the lizardmen and the models as well. So hence why I am so torn. I love both armies stories and both of the armies models. Play style isn't that big of a deal to me but will play a role in my decision. Help me decide readers, post a comment on what you feel I should do. You dont have to follow me to post just post anonymously.
So its been a little while since I've had an update. That doesn't mean I
have not been at work painting though. I just painted up 10 more night
goblins (90 to go) and the last 5 savage orcs. I didn't feel the need to
post another set of pictures of models that you have already seen for
the most part. After that however I started working on my CoA Sky
Fortress. Which like I've have already said while the models themselves
are beautiful and detailed. Once you start painting them they are almost
too detailed and overwhelming. I procrastinated quite a bit while
painting this model since I didn't want to do so much detail. But I
slowly worked on it and did the details that I thought would be
important enough to paint.
Showing part of the bottem.
Top View
Overall I think it looks quite good and I am pleased with the overall result of the model. As a last detail the two turrets on the bottom are actually magnetized in so they don't fall off and that way I didn't have to glue them in. I don't know why they put the turrets on the bottom it seems like a design flaw, but they do look pretty cool.
Either way I will continue to post more pictures of my work, and possible soon my thoughts and ideas on the new 6th ed of 40k. I'll try to get some other interesting models that aren't orcs posted, even though half of what I'll be painting will be orcs and goblins. As usual if you like my work leave comments and if you want to follow me.
