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Khemric Titan Progress and Corpse Cart

This is a corpse cart I modified using the VC model and a Reaper Mini's metal model. The Reaper model comes with a staff that I had already used on my Hierotitan so I took the tail of a Tomb King's stalker and used it as the front of the cart handle thingie. I put a bunch of Tomb King bits on there for the corpses and kitbashed a necromancer using a Warsphinx crew guy and a wizard head from the Empire wizard kit.

The pictures below show how my Khemric Titan progressed. I built it for the Screw City 2014 GT.

 

It started off with the Starship trooper big bug model. I used this for the body and the head. I then put half of a big centrum pill bottle on top of the head/abdomen. The next step was to put plasticard over the bug's butt to give it a more Egyptian/scaraby look. The legs are from the Triach Stalker kit for Necrons in 40k. The rest are bits from the Tomb King Stalker kit and the weapons from the Necrosphinx kit. I believe I put it on a 150 by 225 base.

 

At this stage I had put wings on it using a cheap plastic bowl that I cut up. Each wing was about a quarter of a bowl. I started to paint it with GW copper paint but the brush strokes where pretty evident. 

  

 Here I had spray painted it with a metallic gold, added some wear and tear to the wings and then used a dirty gold color on the other bits.  

In the last step I tried to add a corrosion effect that you see on old weathered bronze stuff. I don't like the end color that comes out when you use the GW paint that is intended for this. Also, some of the joints ended up looking pretty bad. In the end I still think it turned out pretty awesome.

2500 points of Tomb Kings at Pack Rat Open

I went to Pack Rat Open last weekend and took the Tomb Kings I was working on. The list looked like this:

Lords

• Liche High Priest
  Lore of Death, Wizard Level 4
  •   Dispel Scroll, Ironcurse Icon, Talisman of Preservation
     
• Liche High Priest
  Hierophant, Lore of Nehekhara, Wizard Level 4
  •  Earthing Rod, Talisman of Endurance

Heroes

• Necrotect
  • -Obsidian Amulet 
• Tomb Prince
  Great Weapon
  • Armour of Destiny

Core

• 19 Skeleton Archers 
  Champion, Musician
• 12 Skeleton Archers 
  Musician
• 5 Skeleton Horse Archers 
• 5 Skeleton Horse Archers
• 48 Skeleton Warriors 
  Champion, Musician, Standard Beare
  • Light Armour 

Special

• Khemrian Warsphinx 
  Fiery Roar
• 5 Necropolis Knights 
  Champion, Musician, Standard Bearer

Rare (490pts)

• Casket of Souls 
• Hierotitan 
• Screaming Skull Catapult 
• Screaming Skull Catapult 

I used a bone giant and a scratch built bone giant as the catapults, both have skulls in their hands that they are throwing. I used Titan-Forge crocodiles for the Necroknight mounts. I also converted up an old metal giant for the Hierotitan. 

It was also the first display board I had made. It was simply a cork wall board/bulletin board that  I glued a bunch of sand too and used cork pieces to create the hills or rocks in the back. One thing I learned from making the display board is that it is much easier to spray paint the sand on a display board than to try and use a brush to paint it. 

In the picture below you can see the Necroknights. 

In the next pictures you can see the converted catapults and the Hierotitans. 

All in all, I am pretty happy with the army. I ended up getting best painted at the event (out of 24 people). I don't think I am a great painted but there are some things that I think helped me take home that prize. 

1. There is a clear color theme throughout the army. 
2. Everything is painted and based. 
3. The board and bases have paint, flock, and on the board and bigger/important models either extra bits or more than one type of basing. 
4. I used a color that stands out. Some armies are really well painted but look really dark and dull from fair away. This one doesn't.

Current State of the Army

Here is a group shot of everything that is completely painted and based.

All together it is:

1 Liche Priest

1 Tomb King/Prince

1 Necrotect

1 character that can serve as a Tomb Prince or Liche Priest

40 skeleton warriors with hand weapons and shields

58 skeleton archers, two sets of full command

10 skeleton horse archers

6 chariots with full command

2 Warsphinxs

1 Tomb Scorpion

1 Casket of Souls

1 bit made Bone Giant/Screaming Skull Catapult

Here is a closer picture of the characters

Here is a closer one of one of the Warsphinxes

Here is a closer picture of the other side

And here is what is currently on the paint bench. The crocodiles will end up as proxies for Necropolis knights. I have a Khaldia model I am working on getting painted. The Bone Giant will also serve as a Screaming Skull Catapult (I dislike the model that GW makes).

There is a one day event I am going to at the end of April that I need to have the Bone Giant, about 8 more skeletons, a Hierotitan, and 5 Necroknight proxies painted for. After that, the goal is to get the scorpion and remaining characters painted in May, Tomb Guard painted in June, and Ushabti painted in July. At that point I should be pretty satisfied with the army.