To the surprise of absolutely no one I’ve been very excited for the relaunch of classic Warhammer as the Old World and doubly so now release is just around the corner. As part of said release I ended up ordering one of the stater sets, and not the one that might have been expected given the fact I’ve been painting Bretonnians recently. So off to the dusty tombs of Khemri for me!
Clearly I was excited about Tomb Kings after that, so I scrounged around my forgotten sprues pile and found a full box of Tomb King chariots! Well not so full, one of the crews was missing, probably cannibalised for some long forgotten project. I decided then that this crew-less chariot should serve as a character mount, and low-and behold I had in my possession a model of Prince Apophas, the mass of beetles with a head (very the Mummy). I’d gotten Apophas as a fun alternate Wraith for my Vampire Counts many years ago and had converted him to wield a scythe of all things, and promptly never painted him. I therefore had an empty chariot and a purpose-less Tomb Kings character on my hands and settled on making him my chariot rider!
Given his previous stage of conversion, the original dagger the model came with was long lost, and while I still have the original head, I wanted to change that to make this a bit more than just Apophas on a chariot. I had a look around for promising heads and found Arkhan the Black’s head as a spare on the Mortarchs sprue, left over from when I built Neferata many years ago. That seemed like a good fit so on it went. I thought his arm position was well suited to be cracking a whip, so I had a look around for an appropriate donor model, and cast my eyes upon a poor metal dark elf chariot rider, again leftover from some previous project (see, you should never throw anything away), and cut off his whip to give to my new chariot rider.
These 3 chariots will join up with the 3 that come in the starter army to make a nice chariot block, when I get these I’ll build the command models so the unit has the usual banner/musician/champion. Speaking of the starter army, I’ll not be getting this till February, as Australia is a few weeks behind the rest of the world for receiving their stuff unfortunately, so I better write down my recipes so I can match up the new models with these!
- Acronyms:
- VMC: Vallejo Model Color
- VGC: Vallejo Game Color
- PA: Pro Acryl
- S75: Scale 75
- GW: Games Workshop/Citadel
- AK: AK Interactive
- Blue
- VMC Dark Prussian Blue
- VMC Andrea Blue
- Red
- VMC Cavalry Brown
- PA Shadow Flesh
- Bone
- 50/50 GW Aggaroth Dunes/Contrast Medium
- 50/50 VGC Bonewhite/AK Ivory
- Leather
- GW Wyldwood Contrast
- For larger areas only:
- VMC English Uniform
- 50/50 VMC English Uniform/VGC Bonewhite
- 30/70 VMC English Uniform/VGC Bonewhite
- Bronze
- S75 Necro Gold
- GW Nihilakh Oxide
- For larger areas only:
- VMC Light Sea Grey – very thinned down, in uneven patches
- Gold
- S75 Elven Gold
- GW Reikland Fleshshade
- S75 Elven Gold
- Scrolls/Fabric Straps
- GW Skeleton Horde Contrast
- VMC Iraqi Sand
- Bases
- AK Sandy Desert (Texture)
- Mig Light Dust (Pigment)
Note that in addition to the above the models got a pin wash of dark brown enamel to pick out the details. If you’ve followed the blog for a bit you’ll notice that my usual application of GW’s Agrax Earthshade for shading is absent. I decided I wanted to get these models much brighter and less contrasty than usual to get that sunbaked feeling, hence the light enamel wash instead of the usual heavy acrylic wash.
These models were really fun to paint, and I look forward to the sea of bones headed my way in the new starter set! As for what I’ve seen of the new rules so far, I’m really liking. It’s capturing the essence of the editions I really enjoyed, that is 6th and 7th editions. We’ve already decided to use this new edition for our Border Princes campaign, and I can’t wait to get stuck into the new books.
Lair of the Lagomorph 