The move to the new apartment went well, but hobbying (and blogging) took a big blow. With no designated hobying space, getting paint and stuff out was juuust time consuming enough for me to not hobby most of the time, and with no games being played to energize me, I didn't really have a drive to hobby on much anyways.
Sadly, still no games to report on, but I am hobbying a bit again, and have been painting at least a little every week... more updates to come!
Back around May, a friend gave me his old Tomb King collection, which I was pretty stoked about.
As I think I've mentioned, I almost played Tomb Kings back in the day. The army had so many cool models! The absolute coolest was the Necrosphinx. It just looked so ridiculously awesome! Abnormal anatomy? Wings? Arm scythes? Just rule of cool all the way. Luckily for me my friend's collection had one. So, to try and get back into a hobbying spirit, I started on arguably the model that convinced me to get into war gaming...
The model itself was actually a lot of fun to paint! The fiddly detail usually gets to me on GW kits, but on a larger model like this it was actually fun, and I feel like this is a well-designed model from a hobbying perspective.
If you aren't a great painter, you could take it easy: paint the exposed lower beast-body a color; paint all the armor/upper body a different color, and it would look just fine with a wash.
If you were more skilled and/or daring, there are skulls, leather wraps and lots of ornamentation on the model you could really dig in on. All the tessellated triangles could really let a great painter go nuts and add lots of color as well, as those triangles are ideal for adding 2-color army colors (like my usual purple and white) to the model.
I went a more moderate route for my return to painting. I painted some skulls and wraps, but left the triangles all metal. I'm not entirely sold on the rib cage or the hood coloration, but I don't know what colors I would change that to, so this is set for now. Overall, I'm quite pleased with this, and painting up this little piece of nostalgia over a few weekend sessions was quite fun!
...Ideally though, if you were are KoW fanatic looking to get the most mileage out of the kit... I think the way to go would be to build up the warsphinx option, and run that as the Reanimated Behemoth instead, very likely with the catapult upgrade. My Kingdoms of Men Beast of War is great, and the Behemoth looks to play similarly, though with a slightly reduced stat line and different war engine. With the warsphinx all built up, you would still have the entire upper torso to still work with. Find some legs, and you could make a pretty imposing (legendary) Idol of Shobik, or a simple Bone Giant, if you'd rather. Plus the kit still has a bunch of skeletons and a Pharaoh too...
...with the Necrosphinx built though, if I were to re-purpose the rest of the kit now, I think I'd use the skellies as charioteers (with their long pikes), and the howdah/Pharaoh as the start of a Royal Chariot. The chassis is quite formidable looking, so you would just need to add some steeds and wheels to finish that up.
More updates coming soon...
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