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.   

Renedra Gravestones and Ravens Unboxing

This really should be an un-enveloping because they arrived in one.  No box in sight.  However I can't complain, I ordered them yesterday morning and they arrived today. 
Here's a picture of the sprue, you get 2 in each pack.

As you can see you get a good few gravestones and a raven.  The  gravestones come in all shapes and sizes.  You even get a  broken one and one that's gone a bit slanty.  They even come in varying degrees of erosion, you get fresh ones with very clear engravings and you get weathered ones where the engraving is barely visible.

Here's some that I've cut out and assembled

They're actually pretty big.  The flat round topped one comes up to a space marine's chin.  They'd make excellent terrain pieces.  I'm planning to use mine on Nagash's base and maybe the morghasts too.  Any leftovers are being used for Malifaux/Batman terrain.