Way back When’s Day #4

Back to showing off some old miniatures! These ones aren’t so old but aren’t posted anywhere. I figured it’s time to show off my Old world Tomb Kings.

Tomb kings were the first army I picked up way back in 2003 and my first foray into wargaming proper. I remember the excitement of deciding which army I wanted to collect then seeing these incredible looking new egyptian themed skeletons. I immediately picked up an army box and got to work on building them.

Not much survives of these original models I had, having sold them on after warhammer fantasy was killed off but when I saw they intended to bring them back as the poster boys of The old world, it was a given that I needed to get back into it.

As much as I have heard that the new dragon is a love it or hate it model, I certainly think it works as an amazing centrepiece model for the army, and provides the otherwise fragile heirophant a decent spot.

I opted to go for the classic red weapons, to give the army that classic look. Something I was never too interested in doing first time around was the painting. This time however, I managed to get a lot of it batch painted, focusing on completing all the bone in one go before picking out the individual colours. Especially on the core skeletons. I think they came out okay.

I still have plenty to paint. There is always more skeletons. That will always be the problem with undead armies. Skeletons are never too expensive so you can always have a lot of them.

Until next time 🙂