Operation End Times no7 Arkhan Mortarch of Sacrament

It's taken me a while but here he is.

Arkhan is a beautiful miniature to paint, although he does take a while.  I tried to stick with three main colours on him, dirty bone, metalic black and a spectral green.  I think the result is quite striking.  I'm actually thinking of repainting my Cryx for warmachine like that.

I had the opportunity to use him last week and he is awesome.  His ability to raise double the usual amount of troops from the lore of undeath is very powerful.  Not to mention he can fly so he can hunt warmachines, lone wizards or just move to you're opponents backfield to raise another army to trap his units between two armies.

Arkhan the Black, Mortarch of Sacrament

I finished building this fellow last night.

Arkhan the Black, mounted upon his dread abyssal Razarak the Doom of Traitors.  The end result is very impressive, unfortunately the build was quite fiddly.  I'm actually worried that the parts suspending him might snap as they are quite thin and there's only two of them.  He should be fine as long as I don't drop him from any great height, not that intend to.

I put a few more Renedra gravestones on his base fill in some of the gaps.  I even stuck a raven on one of them. 

I built the kit as Arkhan for several reasons.  First is he's a mini Nagash, and I liked the idea of the pair of them raising entire armies from the grave.  Sure Mannfred is most scary of the mortarchs, but Arkhan is more insidious.  The second reason is that if I wanted to run a large list with his most loyal lieutenants or play a game set earlier in the time line (I'm thinking of his battle with Sigmar) I could.  Thirdly I have a habit of running a Vampire Counts army with out any vampires and may do the same with an undead legion army.  And lastly I like Arkhan as a character more that Mannfred or Neferata.

I might have a crack at painting him after I finish the ghouls.   

Operation Endtimes no4 well ahead of schedule

Out of this weeks goal I've completed two thirds of it already.  Looks like I'll be updating this series as and when I finish something.  I've done a lich priest and a vampire for my Undead Legion army.
First up the Liche Priest

This is not only a classic model he's also a collectors piece. This is the original Arkhan the Black (missing his chariot of course, it got horribly mangled during postage when I bought it, don't worry I have a spare).  In my army he is just a liche priest.  I've decided that the tomb kings stuff in my army will be turquoise in some fashion.  I think I spent more time figuring out what colours the head of his staff should be.  I noticed that it had the symbols of each of the eight winds of magic so I painted each prong accordingly.

Now the vampire.

This is Isabella VonCarstein.  Unfortunately she isn't in the Undead Legions list having been destroyed centuries ago, so she is now relegated to being another vampire.  I went with the red that I use on most of my vampire counts minis.  I decide that the roses on her dress and in her hair (not as noticeable up there) would be black, picked from the gardens of Morr, the only places where black roses grow.  I like this model, except for the fact that it's finecast (rages).  She snapped off her base tab meaning I had to attach her with a bit of wire.

In the next installment Krell and some ghouls.