TheZildo’s Poorhammer VC Army
Feb 9, 2022 23:35:26 GMT
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Post by thezildo on Feb 9, 2022 23:35:26 GMT
Here’s some things about me that you don’t know:
I am from just outside of Chicago, I started playing Warhammer when 5th edition first came out, During Covid quarantine I was able to start a warhammer group with 4 people, and like a true blasphemer; no one bought a single GW mini to start playing 8th edition. That’s right, I’m not a pure blood. I’m the equivalent of the store brand compared to the market share leader. Sure, it’ll do the job but not many people are bragging about being the “discount” version of anything. Long of the short is this, I had no interest in picking up warhammer again after 10+ years away from it and then my brother in law gave me all the stuff that he had left over from when we played (full chaos army and a few dark elves). It collected dust for a bit but then I got curious and wanted to try out a game again. I asked guys from my d&d group about it and all of them said there was no way they were going to invest that much money into a game without trying it out first. Insert my new resin printer, an old $75 Amazon gift card, and an old FDM printer. We managed to get enough models together to play a game and it had enough interest to keep trying but not enough interest to get people to jump at the idea of investing hundreds of dollars per army. Flash forward 16 months and we have several armies among us made entirely of proxies.
So, feel free to look, laugh, and criticize how I have been able to beg, borrow and steal my armies. Vampire Counts was my first army and was done with a lot of impatience. I don’t mind any comments and/or criticism on either the paint jobs or on the models that represent the almighty GW figures. Maybe me being frugal will be some type of entertainment for you guys who are much better painters, much more committed to GW, and (apparently) much more wealthy than I am to be able to afford multiple armies at the prices things currently are. Enjoy!
I am from just outside of Chicago, I started playing Warhammer when 5th edition first came out, During Covid quarantine I was able to start a warhammer group with 4 people, and like a true blasphemer; no one bought a single GW mini to start playing 8th edition. That’s right, I’m not a pure blood. I’m the equivalent of the store brand compared to the market share leader. Sure, it’ll do the job but not many people are bragging about being the “discount” version of anything. Long of the short is this, I had no interest in picking up warhammer again after 10+ years away from it and then my brother in law gave me all the stuff that he had left over from when we played (full chaos army and a few dark elves). It collected dust for a bit but then I got curious and wanted to try out a game again. I asked guys from my d&d group about it and all of them said there was no way they were going to invest that much money into a game without trying it out first. Insert my new resin printer, an old $75 Amazon gift card, and an old FDM printer. We managed to get enough models together to play a game and it had enough interest to keep trying but not enough interest to get people to jump at the idea of investing hundreds of dollars per army. Flash forward 16 months and we have several armies among us made entirely of proxies.
So, feel free to look, laugh, and criticize how I have been able to beg, borrow and steal my armies. Vampire Counts was my first army and was done with a lot of impatience. I don’t mind any comments and/or criticism on either the paint jobs or on the models that represent the almighty GW figures. Maybe me being frugal will be some type of entertainment for you guys who are much better painters, much more committed to GW, and (apparently) much more wealthy than I am to be able to afford multiple armies at the prices things currently are. Enjoy!
Necromancer, Mounted Vampire and Vampire on… cape?
40 Skeletons with full command. My group of guys isn’t too worried about models being 100% accurate since we play with the 3 B’s basement, beers and bud so I can get away with using these models for all of my skeletons needs which is typically sword and board.
40 Zombie. Just fake them a simple base coat of blocking out colors and then dunked them all in wood stain to make them all grimy and dirty looking. Matte clear coat at the end to remove any gloss and stickiness from the stain.
20 dire wolves. Home made bases from foam core for added cheapness! 
20 Grave Guard. Just like the skeletons, we don’t need accurate models and if I were to add the shields then there is no way they would be able to fit neatly together on the bases. Also, I just noticed that unpainted chain on the coffin lid…
2 bat swarms. Couldn’t figure out how to get them to stand up mid air like they were in flight. Anyone able to recognize what I used to change the elevation?
6 Crypt Horrors with home made movement tray, a horrible idea as it is WAY too thick.
8 Vargheists. More homemade bases for these guys!
Baby Terrorgheist. Wanted to try and make it into more of a scene since the model I had was only able to print this size. 
