016 - Greasy Zombie

I don't want to think about what this guy was putting in his hair to get that wet hair gel look. Best case scenario, hes go greasy hair. Also one of the few bloody zombs, I like ot think this guy was trying to stuff his guts back in. His hace here is pretty dry, as with most of the model, I think this was a earlier practive ind drybrushing. It gives his face a more dustyier/tired look as opposed to the sunken eye sockets.

"No no no, I can hold it back in, I'll be OK."

The Civil War

Just finished this series of comics a bit ago, and overall I though it was OK. It tries to get you interested in some of the new comic hero's out there by involving them with ones you actually care about. It worked a bit I guess as I's give the "New Avengers" a chance now and maybe the "Runaway's". Overall the jumping around story was decent at best. It did make me like Captain America even more and dislike Iron Man and Reed Richards at a higher level. And seeing old hero's many of us have forgotten was kinda cool too (the old and new Hawkeye's meeting was cool). I grew up devoted to Marvel but now that I'm exploring DC this stuff just seems weak after reading the old "Dark Knight" and "Watchmen" stuff. They core argument that it makes is interesting but dragging it over 100 comics wears thin.

I'll probably stick with Marvel and read World War Hulk then go back to DC. Hoping to see Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man get what's coming to them, so far it's a good series and it has you routing for the Hulk all the way.

Rugged Vampire

Here is another old drawing and the inverted color since I was going to make a wallpaper out of it, even though I never finished the drawing (I do that a lot). It's a V. Count and if you own any of the old Blood Dragon you will notice the similarities in the armour. Of course he is rugged as well.

May Lafayette Tourney

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Tournament Pics

About 10 people showed and it turned out to be a ton of fun. OK, so here is the battle report.

Round 1
Vampire Counts vs Vampire Counts (Minor Victory)

This match up was very even and there was surprisingly a lot of killing, not the stalemate of non retreating and regenerating units that I predicted. We had very similar lists, and both being somewhat experienced we picked our battles. My opponent made a error with his Varg, which was probably the only thing that avoided a draw here. Although I wasted 200pts with my weak couch that always gets destroyed.

Round 2
Vampire Counts vs. Orks and Goblins (Minor Victory)

I usually do well here but I probably should have been more aggressive. His two mounted heroes, kept two of my tougher vamps in a stare down match most of the game. This game would have absolutely been a minor loss or draw at best if the nasty unit mentioned above had not failed it's terror test on the last turn. Also my hosts got killed by Goblins, eh I know. I did use 'Curse of Years' the first time successfully in this battle, which gave me the confidence to take it into action in Round 3. This game was just fun, I end up playing this guy every time and it's always a good time. Actually had me feeling guilty about the last second terror win.

Round 3
Vampire Counts vs. Daemons (Major Victory)

This one surprises me as well. My opponent dominated the flanks and did away with my black knights and their mounted Vamp companion. Luckily I have a few key march blocks and pressed forward every turn up the gut. I barely got my chars away from a nasty mounted character killer in time to save my victory points. The real winner this game was the "Curse of Years" play on a large Korne unit that took every wound. Overall a real fun round with a lot of scares and an introduction to a army I had never seen in action. Also his stuff was painted really well.

Result
2nd Place

015 - Melted Face Zombie

Ahh, good old melted face. This was a very early zombie of mine and many have had mixed feelings about him. I just plain like that bloody skull. I guess he may not have had his face melted, it could have been ripped off too. The skull was done with some really gummy red ink on its last days that I got from Slick. Basically the only thing I could use it before tossing it myselft.
"This guy reminds me of the guy who's face melts in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'"