Posted February 20th, 2006 by Malface

As a centerpiece to my Vampire Counts army, I decided to go with a scratch-built Black Coach. The Games Workshop model looks great but didn’t really fit in with my army’s theme. I wanted a coach that looked decrepit; as if a witch had lived within it for countless decades. Before even considering how to […]

The nefarious Grave Guard!

Posted February 13th, 2006 by Malface

Today’s post is of my customized Grave Guard. Using mostly Bretonnian Men-at-Arms parts as a basis, I carefully spliced them together with the skulls and arms from the Skeleton Warrior sprue for the desired result. Even the tops of the Skeletons’ spears were replaced with the blades from the Men-at-Arms’ halberds!

The banner is from the […]

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Posted February 9th, 2006 by Malface

Today’s Archives post is taking me waaay back! I built this vignette in the summer of 1992 (fourteen years ago!) as an entry into that year’s CanGames! I was eighteen back then, and this was the first model I’d ever entered into a competiton!

The model is an old Ral Partha Middle-Earth RPG model for the […]

Posted February 8th, 2006 by Malface

When Games Workshop released the new Bretonnian Reliquary, I knew that I wanted to use the model as a base for a Wight Lord conversion; it just fit too perfectly with my army theme! The idea is that the character (my namesake) was a failed questing knight, who was tricked into serving the witch with […]

Posted February 5th, 2006 by Malface

After removing the base and stripping all the paint of the old Wraith figure (previously blogged), I started the painting process all over again. I began with a light grey primer since I didn’t have any white available, but coated the model from head to foot with a thinned coat of Skull White as a […]