I would argue that the most flexible and creative armies in Fantasy (painting wise) were the only ones that didn't really get ported over to AoS...TK and Bret.
wait they got rid of brettonia too? so i have no TK so no ushabti, no Brettonia so no epic questing knights, and my kroxigors look like the fkn alley sharks, but oh hey look 170 dollar frog prophet. next you're gonna tell me Grand Cathay has more potential to get models than TK and Bret have to get theirs back.
@@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm "One Page Rules " has rules for all past and present warhammer armiies and more to use in their systems - also technically you can find "Legends" rules PDFs for all discontinued models like Tomb kings and Brettonia if you want to play official ruleset - but they are absolutely (and on purpose) not comppetetive at all, some even extremely underpowered
It's believed that the tomb king line exists because of the movie The Mummy (1999). The tomb kings became a full army the same year that it was released
The Tomb Kings only got their first own Armybook in 2003. Before that they were just part of the "Undead" faction, though charakters like Settra and mummies did exist. That was in 1992 ( 4th edition) though. So no - the tomb kings did not became a full army the same year that the movie was released.
@@Grimnir1989 okay so it looks like my source may have been incorrect or was lacking the full story. Vampire counts did split off from undead in 1999. It would make more sense that The Mummy inspired the split as 3 years is a better timeline for gw creating a brand new army rulest and model line. I will do more research though.
she is a stunning model. you did her some real justice for her. wish i was in to WH when they were available cause i love egyptian themed stuff. specially the gods and goddesses
This is actually perfect timing! For my Kings of War army, I run Empire of Dust. I recently snagged High Queen Khalida off ebay as well, and she's coming up on my painting table soon as the Ahmunite Pharaoh for my army
A buddy tried to get me to do AoS with him. I wanted to do a Tomb Kings army since that's the only fantasy army I never built when I worked for GW. I was disappointed. Also, I finally looked at the AoS rules and realize KoW is way more up my alley.
Having the old tomb kings codex from the 90s and having them be my first army i have a real softspot for tomb kings. The lore and artwork from the codex is amazing
I love that you’re getting more into the older models. I “rediscovered” my old Dwarves from Warhammer fantasy, and there is definitely something to the simplicity, yet good detail of the older models! Keep up the good work!
Are you leaving that darker black spot on the wall there just to mess with me! Beautiful paint job man, the base is exquisite. The sculpt was obviously a labour of love, the bandages!
hahaha, I actually just painted over it today (with the correct color). I hit the wall with something and grabbed some mini paint to cover it up a while back and just hadn't gotten around to fixing it lol.
Kings of War and One Page Rule both have Egyptian themed armies and I think Wargods of Aegyptus is still available. There are great models available and lots of used Tombkings too.
For desert bases try covering in CA gel then sprinkle on baking soda, the way it drys causes the underlying glue to contract into little ripples that make a very convincing blown sand effect. Optionally try putting little bit's of egg shell down in the glue before adding your baking soda, it looks a good bit like pottery shards.
Egg shell pottery shards, man that's a fucking great idea! Got plans for some Araby/Tomb kings terrain and that method for broken pottery detail around houses or a well would be great.
Absolutely loved the tombs kings back in fantasy and Khalida is my favourite model. Shame you didn’t paint the little beetles on her cloak, but a beautiful paint job nonetheless
Very well done! I wonder if the Tomb Kings will get some offering or another in “The Old World” when it comes out, but I suppose my pile of shame is large enough even if they don’t.
I agree so much on the points about TK being interestingly different - though for me all the the Old world was full of that both play style and ascetically - Dwarf with their clockwork 'steampunk' vibe, the TombKing rather glittering riches for a horde of dead things, Vampire counts almost aristocratic snobbery to a fault, such a sense of style... Skaven and Lizard men for a bit more not very human like variety and the 3 elf and the 2 human factions actually have a fair bit of variety in their look and style... Its not just we are the Space marines that wear RED! Heck in 40K even alot of the alien units just look like slightly thinner Spacemarines with slightly funny heads...
Check out one page rules if you like the tomekings vibe. They have a whole army of models. I've just printed a smal army that I want to play with the onepage rules.
Can still play tomb king models with the Kings of War system. It's a great game and i love having a place to play my lizardmen, wood elves, and dark elves. I also have a Mantic Northern alliance army and converted my hordes circle orboros into a nature army.
Age of Fantasy from One Page Rules has a mummified undead army. The game is miniatures agnostic, so you can use old Tomb Kings minis, or there's a number of stls for 3d printing including an entire army from One Page Rules. What's even better, is if you have the points calculator for OPR, it's relatively easy to add new units to the army list if you find a cool mini that doesn't have a listing in it, and want to add it to your army.
The Tomb Kings are near and dear to my heart, and I never owned a single model. But way back in the day, before they cad a Codex, there was a article in the german version of the White Dwarf, where someone kitbashed/scratchbuild a Tomb King army - and that's the reason I seek out Models and Bits to make my minis unique 😊
I recommend you soak fake plants in a degreaser as well. They normally have a coating that makes it harder for primer to stick to. For some plants this is a important step, for other not necessary, but good practice either way.
Haven't watched yet but from that thumbnail I can see you're painting a model I've painted for once--got her super cheap off a facebook ad. Gorgeous model and even cooler lore. Every day I wake up and pray to GW that the Warhammer Old World system has tomb kings again.
Nice! This model is fantastic, really great vibe and fun to paint. I imagine GW will be doing rules for a lot of the old armies for the Old World. I think they probably want to bring back the people who had these old armies and couldn't use them anymore when AOS launched. We'll see though...
Settra the Imperishable is the king of Khemri, that isn't his name. Minor mistake, but the Tomb Kings are my favorite in Warhammer Fantasy, so I caught the little blunder. Great content, keep doing these!
She looks quite lovely and regal, like a proper undead high-queen. :) The Tomb Kings are among my favourite WH armies that I unfortunately never had the opportunity to begin collecting. Many of the larger models were on my to-buy list, in case I'd get to save up enogh money. But alas the whole line got abandoned before I had the money to buy a Necrosphinx. Thankfully, Mantic's Empire of Dust seems like a good alternative. :)
Very cool paint job, Casey, and those spiderwebs are really neat! I wonder if Tomb Kings will make a resurgence when the Old World comes back... after all, they're doing an Eastern themed army, so why not Egyptian? I know people always say GW won't make something they can't control IP, but they just made an AOS Vampire army, so I'm sure they can come up with different names for mummies and skeletons.
They definitely could if they wanted to, and hey, maybe when the Old World launches they will do a rebrand and bring out some new models. We can only hope for now.
I hope the upcoming Old World game brings the Tomb Kings back. By the time I got into Warhammer, the End Times had already passed, so I never got to experience what the system was like
I got into the hobby in the early 2000's. I get a heady dose of nostalgia from seeing miniatures like this. I agree with all your aesthetic opinions. Some of my friends just don't understand the joy and beauty of a pewter model that isn't some CAD-overdesigned mess that is from tip to toe. Absolutely phenomenal paintjob, I loved the purple base for the wraps! I have Khalida by chance as well. My friend just gave her to me a few months back. You're giving me the itch.
I'm old so actually have a small tomb kings army. I purchased the Necrosphynx just before they stopped making them but now I'm too scared to paint it because they are so rare.
Casey, if you have the titan forge subscription, I think like a year or so ago they did a release that was pretty much tomb kings. there are some great looking models in there for TK proxies
I can really recommend to have a look at One Pages Rules Armys, there might be SOMETHING that resembles a bit the Tomb Kings *cough cough*^^ With even more models. I really loved the Tomb Kings, so I was happy to have this alternative.
As someone more or less new to tabletop wargaming, I only know the tomb kinf aesthetic from the onepagerules models. Thinking to print them some day :-)
You really captured what I love about older models. I get bogged down with the newest offerings and trying to paint everything. I really appreciate the stronger intention of older models being stylized game pieces rather than ultra realistic highly detailed. Weirdly they've got more life and personality to them. But that could be my nostalgia talking
They definitely have more character! Being sculpted the way they were, it was about selling details to give you the impression that the model was doing something or showing some emotion. They were. I suppose, more grandiose gestures rather than the subtle sculpting we get in today's plastic. I don't think it's nostalgia talking, even new pewter has that feeling. (Check out Relic Blade!!!)
If you're cherry picking the coolest stuff from that range, I highly recommend Settra and/or the Casket of Souls. Those sculpts, like this one, were some of the very best of that era from GW
The Tombkings inspired me to the lore of at first my WarCry Faction, which blew Up to a full army. My "Khemriologists". As good Kharadron Overlords, even though they are selfproclaimed Scientists, they swing between actual Scientists and... let's call it "Adventure-Popcultre-Era"-Scientists. Lightlybeige Armor and rich-blue Jumpsuit go fantastically together
I remember when I used to visit my local gamestore after school almost every day, that I always found myself looking at those Tomb King boxes. But I played 40K Orks so I didn't ask my parents to get them for me, because I had no use for them. But now that I have a job and adult money, I would instantly go and buy myself a box or two of those Tomb Kings if they weren't so damn expensive. I honestly feel bad for Tomb King players for how GW just deleted the entire army from existence :/
It sucks considering they were making new models right until the end too. We can only hope that they bring them back for the Old World release, never know!
Yeah that's what the minis came in! I think it's for chocolates, which he also sent along :) The box is really cool though, I tried to show it off cause it just has a cool vibe about it.
As someone who doesn't "game", I always appreciate the idea of finding older, non-official miniatures (regardless of company of origin.) I can use whatever paint schemes, bases, and unit types look good to me, and I have a ton of freedom to let creativity rule. Your approach to this figure lands squarely in my niche!
That crackle medium through the airbrush idea is spectacular, but I bet you have to clean the heck out of your airbrush after using it? These old school pewter models are pretty wonderful, and I've actually got a bunch of Reaper Pathfinder models on hand that are metal minis--I think I need to give them some love next. She looks great, Casey!
The crackle medium is about as thick as a varnish, and sticks about as much in the airbrush, so a little bit of water to flush it out followed by some brush cleaner or ipa and it's good to go. I haven't had any issues with it anyways.
The fact that they haven't repackaged the necrosphinx as some analogous unit in AoS is so baffling to me. Such an amazing modern model that was only around for like 4 years. The prices of Original TK models on secondary markets make Diaz Daemonettes seem cheap.
I know right? That model is so good and they just offed it! Insane...My buddy bought 4 boxes of those Diaz models, they may end up on my table at some point, but yeah, TK models are crazy expensive.
Check out One Page Rules Mummified Undead. They pull from the Tomb Kings in some ways. I love the Tomb Kings and hope they get brought back with the upcoming The Old World war game from GW.
I’d genuinely consider getting into AoS should these guys be interested, the standard troops, likely being Skeletons, are relatively easy and really fun to paint. And the larger units just look sick.
Tomb Kings should be coming back with the Old World reboot, there have already been a few allusions to them in the (little) advertising we have got for it.
With WH The Old World’s launch what’s old is new and sold out on GW site. Would love to see a series of episodes bringing back the armies of the world of legend.
I found a shoe box with my old warhammer 40k chaos in it the other day thinking about getting rid of it tho. Got some pewter stuff seems to be from around mid 90’s an abbadon a Kharn sorcerer terminator and a juggernaut with rider and 10 plastic blood reavers with spurs extra part and a full transfer sticker sheet some of the pewter stuff is alittle painted mostly just black base coat
I'm not sure, it might harden it, but then again it might dissolve it before that happens. Definitely worth trying though, to see if the webs can be hardened right out of the brush or after the fact.
Isn't Warhammer Fantasy Battles slated to come back in a couple of years? To be the sort of 30k for AoS? It would be hard to see them doing that without the tomb kings.
It's supposed to, and maybe they will bring them back. I mean, they will at least have rules for them I'd imagine, but you never know what could happen!
While the TK models are incredible; the lore itself was fantastic Alcazador has a crazy arc. I also really miss the detailed metal hero models from WFB, they had so much charActer that is very lacking from current sculpts.
Dang, I recently got into AoS thanks to Vermintide and seeing the older armies are just great kinda wish i started playing in the old days, I went with Orruk Warclans mainly Ironjawz, Savage & Kruleboyz simply because I like how they look, save for the Kruleboyz I get a small lotr vibe from them tbh, hearing all about the old world and all the factions there in was great its pretty disappointing that Games Workshop did what they did & I wish they treated their fans better without the ridiculous pricing i guess I'll look on Amazon or Ebay for older armies.
Having painted a lot of Pewter Models 'back in the days' - Tyranids like Old one Eye & some Carnifexes especially - i can say: I hate pewter so very much, it almost destroyed my passion for the Hobby.
I've definitely had problems with pewter, but for one reason or another it's really grown on me lately. The bigger models are 100% a huge pain though, getting those limbs to stick right? forget it
I take my army and play better games lol TK was my first Miniature Wargaming thing ever, I'll never forgive GW for killing them off. Here is my story, When AoS dropped and we had those hold-over indexes I had dusted off my Kings, went and played, and had a ball. Liked them so much I bought more GW stuff for the first time in years. Liked it so much I wrote a physical letter to them, thanking them for the changes that made TK finally decent. Even got a nice letter back, saying that if I loved what I'd done with Tomb Kings then what was coming would be 'to die for' Two months later they killed the line. I wrote them back, with a copy of that letter. got another one back, apparently the marketing guys (who my letter ended up with) don't get any information about the lines and what GW is actually doing and didnt know they were going to be canned when they sent me that letter. So yeah, they dont get my money now.
Totally fair, I remember seeing the End Times come and go and I was seriously baffled as to why they would make new models and then go kill off the army. It's a shame that they couldn't rebrand them for AOS, it probably wouldn't have been that hard to do for them either.
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Sad thing was TK never even got their full line :/ Been debating on ripping Total Warhammer files to try and get an STL for the Titans
Even if we don't see Tomb Kinds return for The Old World, we'll always have Kingdoms of War, 9th Age, and One Page Rules's Age of Fantasy. Also, people can still just play the old versions of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, or the fan-made 9th edition version, if it's that important to them. In many ways, Tomb Kings being uncopyrightable - and thus banished to the wastes beyond Games Workshop - makes the concept of "Undead Mummy Army" free to be used by anyone. Like Games Workshop games, no matter how much the Egyptians would like to believe otherwise, there were green places beyond the Nile and beyond the deserts that border it. There is more to the world than Egypt, and there's more to the wargaming hobby than Games Workshop.
Copper wire works best. I'm using a cheap dollar store brush though, it's not copper, but still the bristles are really bendy and soft. Never had any issues with it even though it's so cheap.
Tomb Kings were my first army when I started at the very end of 8th Edition Fantasy, and I'm only recently trying to actually paint them so seeing this was great! If you're interested in going after fantastic, but discontinued, models from GW the Fimir Noble is possible the coolest after Khalida herself.
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You could always play One Page Rules Age of Fantasy. They have Mummified undead.
I would argue that the most flexible and creative armies in Fantasy (painting wise) were the only ones that didn't really get ported over to AoS...TK and Bret.
wait they got rid of brettonia too? so i have no TK so no ushabti, no Brettonia so no epic questing knights, and my kroxigors look like the fkn alley sharks, but oh hey look 170 dollar frog prophet. next you're gonna tell me Grand Cathay has more potential to get models than TK and Bret have to get theirs back.
as someone that only got into Warhammer in the last couple years, I can safely say we were robbed of the Tomb Kings. Such a cool army.
Same, I was so mad when I found out you can’t use them in AOS
@MonsterCraft This is just blatantly wrong.
hey buddy ... you know that onepagerules has 3d printable minis and rules for tomb kings right?
@@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm "One Page Rules " has rules for all past and present warhammer armiies and more to use in their systems - also technically you can find "Legends" rules PDFs for all discontinued models like Tomb kings and Brettonia if you want to play official ruleset - but they are absolutely (and on purpose) not comppetetive at all, some even extremely underpowered
@@maciejmazur2622 Gotta love one page rules, you can even mix 40k/fantasy (with a fair amount of tweaking points to balance!)
I really hope they bring tomb kings back for Old World
If they do I'll be ready for sure
Would just porting their rules over be outta the question ? Not tournaments but local or at home games.
Same
Weren't they already on that map they showed?
So fanatsy is being relaunched so GW can get loads more money out of people who dumped the old minis to go all AoS then .
It's believed that the tomb king line exists because of the movie The Mummy (1999). The tomb kings became a full army the same year that it was released
The Tomb Kings only got their first own Armybook in 2003. Before that they were just part of the "Undead" faction, though charakters like Settra and mummies did exist. That was in 1992 ( 4th edition) though. So no - the tomb kings did not became a full army the same year that the movie was released.
@@Grimnir1989 okay so it looks like my source may have been incorrect or was lacking the full story. Vampire counts did split off from undead in 1999. It would make more sense that The Mummy inspired the split as 3 years is a better timeline for gw creating a brand new army rulest and model line. I will do more research though.
she is a stunning model. you did her some real justice for her. wish i was in to WH when they were available cause i love egyptian themed stuff. specially the gods and goddesses
This is actually perfect timing! For my Kings of War army, I run Empire of Dust. I recently snagged High Queen Khalida off ebay as well, and she's coming up on my painting table soon as the Ahmunite Pharaoh for my army
A buddy tried to get me to do AoS with him. I wanted to do a Tomb Kings army since that's the only fantasy army I never built when I worked for GW. I was disappointed. Also, I finally looked at the AoS rules and realize KoW is way more up my alley.
@@ScottCroom yeah, KoW is done by a lot of the former WHFB rules folks, after they trimmed the system down
The new Empire of Dust mega army looks amazing!
Having the old tomb kings codex from the 90s and having them be my first army i have a real softspot for tomb kings. The lore and artwork from the codex is amazing
Love the use of crackle medium for spider webs. Gonna have to use that.
I love that you’re getting more into the older models. I “rediscovered” my old Dwarves from Warhammer fantasy, and there is definitely something to the simplicity, yet good detail of the older models! Keep up the good work!
Can i just say using the crackle paint through the airbrush for spider webs is really cool! Ive yet to see anyone else do that
I've always though of getting older tomb king models to be models for my soulblight gravelords army
Are you leaving that darker black spot on the wall there just to mess with me! Beautiful paint job man, the base is exquisite. The sculpt was obviously a labour of love, the bandages!
hahaha, I actually just painted over it today (with the correct color). I hit the wall with something and grabbed some mini paint to cover it up a while back and just hadn't gotten around to fixing it lol.
I like your end result.
I'm currently in a process of painting 3D printed Undead Dynasties minis to play as Tomb King Inspired Soulblight Gravelords.
Kings of War and One Page Rule both have Egyptian themed armies and I think Wargods of Aegyptus is still available. There are great models available and lots of used Tombkings too.
Love the teal/gold combo. Tomb Kings were/are such a cool army. Great stuff, Casey!
Great comment about historical roots. Warhammer fantasy's human factions are what got me into historical reenactment!
I love that, it's a shame that's been kind of lost with AOS.
I think that is one beautiful model. Just the entire pose of her already. Then the added pain makes it a little work of art.
Mantic has a line of models called empire of dust that keeps the tomb kings vibe alive.
For desert bases try covering in CA gel then sprinkle on baking soda, the way it drys causes the underlying glue to contract into little ripples that make a very convincing blown sand effect. Optionally try putting little bit's of egg shell down in the glue before adding your baking soda, it looks a good bit like pottery shards.
Egg shell pottery shards, man that's a fucking great idea! Got plans for some Araby/Tomb kings terrain and that method for broken pottery detail around houses or a well would be great.
That sounds awesome!
If you've got these superb minis take a look at kings of war by mantic. They have an Egypt themed undead army so you can still use them 😁
Absolutely loved the tombs kings back in fantasy and Khalida is my favourite model. Shame you didn’t paint the little beetles on her cloak, but a beautiful paint job nonetheless
I love this mini. Ive painted mine half a year ago and think of getting a second for a better attempt.
Nice! I've seen a few floating around on eBay for alright prices, definitely worth giving it another go just to compare progress :)
Very well done! I wonder if the Tomb Kings will get some offering or another in “The Old World” when it comes out, but I suppose my pile of shame is large enough even if they don’t.
I agree so much on the points about TK being interestingly different - though for me all the the Old world was full of that both play style and ascetically - Dwarf with their clockwork 'steampunk' vibe, the TombKing rather glittering riches for a horde of dead things, Vampire counts almost aristocratic snobbery to a fault, such a sense of style... Skaven and Lizard men for a bit more not very human like variety and the 3 elf and the 2 human factions actually have a fair bit of variety in their look and style... Its not just we are the Space marines that wear RED! Heck in 40K even alot of the alien units just look like slightly thinner Spacemarines with slightly funny heads...
Check out one page rules if you like the tomekings vibe. They have a whole army of models. I've just printed a smal army that I want to play with the onepage rules.
I was going to say this, also archvillian games has some good Egyptian themed stuff as well, but its more big things not troops.
Can still play tomb king models with the Kings of War system. It's a great game and i love having a place to play my lizardmen, wood elves, and dark elves.
I also have a Mantic Northern alliance army and converted my hordes circle orboros into a nature army.
This was a fantastic video. The model paintwork and base are amazing. I hope you do more of this with Tomb Kings models. Keep up the good work.
Fortunately Kings of War and one page rules makes the Tomb King army very relevant.
You can proxy Tomb Kings as Ossiarch Bonereapers.
Age of Fantasy from One Page Rules has a mummified undead army. The game is miniatures agnostic, so you can use old Tomb Kings minis, or there's a number of stls for 3d printing including an entire army from One Page Rules.
What's even better, is if you have the points calculator for OPR, it's relatively easy to add new units to the army list if you find a cool mini that doesn't have a listing in it, and want to add it to your army.
The Tomb Kings are near and dear to my heart, and I never owned a single model.
But way back in the day, before they cad a Codex, there was a article in the german version of the White Dwarf, where someone kitbashed/scratchbuild a Tomb King army - and that's the reason I seek out Models and Bits to make my minis unique 😊
I recommend you soak fake plants in a degreaser as well. They normally have a coating that makes it harder for primer to stick to. For some plants this is a important step, for other not necessary, but good practice either way.
That's a good idea. I have had some that are a little greasy, whatever they coat them with to go in a fish tank probably.
Haven't watched yet but from that thumbnail I can see you're painting a model I've painted for once--got her super cheap off a facebook ad. Gorgeous model and even cooler lore.
Every day I wake up and pray to GW that the Warhammer Old World system has tomb kings again.
Nice! This model is fantastic, really great vibe and fun to paint. I imagine GW will be doing rules for a lot of the old armies for the Old World. I think they probably want to bring back the people who had these old armies and couldn't use them anymore when AOS launched. We'll see though...
@@eBayMiniatureRescues have you checked out the in-game models of characters/units from Total Warhammer for inspiration?
Love the paint job. Feel like taking an adventure in my old box of unpainted Tomb Kings
I still play my Tomb kings and use them for my soulblights as apoxy their amazing and beautiful in the table
Settra the Imperishable is the king of Khemri, that isn't his name. Minor mistake, but the Tomb Kings are my favorite in Warhammer Fantasy, so I caught the little blunder. Great content, keep doing these!
She looks quite lovely and regal, like a proper undead high-queen. :)
The Tomb Kings are among my favourite WH armies that I unfortunately never had the opportunity to begin collecting. Many of the larger models were on my to-buy list, in case I'd get to save up enogh money. But alas the whole line got abandoned before I had the money to buy a Necrosphinx. Thankfully, Mantic's Empire of Dust seems like a good alternative. :)
I will say that The 9th Age Fantasy Battles does have an Egyptian inspired army
Man I miss the old warhammer fantasy days, here's hoping the old world will be 👍
Hopefully!
Funnily enough, my Khalida model just sold earlier today on eBay
Nice! Hope you got a good price :)
Very cool paint job, Casey, and those spiderwebs are really neat! I wonder if Tomb Kings will make a resurgence when the Old World comes back... after all, they're doing an Eastern themed army, so why not Egyptian? I know people always say GW won't make something they can't control IP, but they just made an AOS Vampire army, so I'm sure they can come up with different names for mummies and skeletons.
They definitely could if they wanted to, and hey, maybe when the Old World launches they will do a rebrand and bring out some new models. We can only hope for now.
I hope the upcoming Old World game brings the Tomb Kings back. By the time I got into Warhammer, the End Times had already passed, so I never got to experience what the system was like
Same, I played a little 40k back in 3rd ed, but missed fantasy all together. Didn't get back into it until AOS, so I missed all the End Times stuff.
I got into the hobby in the early 2000's. I get a heady dose of nostalgia from seeing miniatures like this. I agree with all your aesthetic opinions. Some of my friends just don't understand the joy and beauty of a pewter model that isn't some CAD-overdesigned mess that is from tip to toe. Absolutely phenomenal paintjob, I loved the purple base for the wraps!
I have Khalida by chance as well. My friend just gave her to me a few months back. You're giving me the itch.
I'm old so actually have a small tomb kings army. I purchased the Necrosphynx just before they stopped making them but now I'm too scared to paint it because they are so rare.
You should definitely go for it. Display that bad boy!
Casey, if you have the titan forge subscription, I think like a year or so ago they did a release that was pretty much tomb kings. there are some great looking models in there for TK proxies
I do! And I'm pretty sure I have those files somewhere, I forgot they did those, thanks for reminding me :)
You’re an amazing painter. Your minis are always stunning.
Thank you so much!
I believe one page rules still used the Egypt stile army and regularly updates their army books. You can definitely use the old models for.
I can really recommend to have a look at One Pages Rules Armys, there might be SOMETHING that resembles a bit the Tomb Kings *cough cough*^^
With even more models.
I really loved the Tomb Kings, so I was happy to have this alternative.
07:24 mind-blowing secret that I didn't know! Thanks!
agreed, i didnt have time to get Tomb Kings before they all died
As someone more or less new to tabletop wargaming, I only know the tomb kinf aesthetic from the onepagerules models. Thinking to print them some day :-)
The OPR tomb kings are epic! Definitely worth printing out.
I liked the Tomb Kings because they were the closest to the original skeleton miniatures.
I love this model! You should paint with bright colors more often, this came out great.
Thanks! I've been trying to limit my colors to brighter and brighter hues. The next vid I'm working on is practically neon lol.
The Old World box set needs to be Brettonians vs. Tomb Kings.
Epic, would buy.
i converted a lot of my tomb kings into an AOS Undead army
Been waiting for the next tomb kings video since your Liche preist haha, awesome vid man
You really captured what I love about older models. I get bogged down with the newest offerings and trying to paint everything. I really appreciate the stronger intention of older models being stylized game pieces rather than ultra realistic highly detailed. Weirdly they've got more life and personality to them. But that could be my nostalgia talking
They definitely have more character! Being sculpted the way they were, it was about selling details to give you the impression that the model was doing something or showing some emotion. They were. I suppose, more grandiose gestures rather than the subtle sculpting we get in today's plastic. I don't think it's nostalgia talking, even new pewter has that feeling. (Check out Relic Blade!!!)
If you're cherry picking the coolest stuff from that range, I highly recommend Settra and/or the Casket of Souls. Those sculpts, like this one, were some of the very best of that era from GW
I think that will probably be my goal, just pick up a few choice models. I'll definitely keep an eye out for these, thanks!
The Tombkings inspired me to the lore of at first my WarCry Faction, which blew Up to a full army. My "Khemriologists". As good Kharadron Overlords, even though they are selfproclaimed Scientists, they swing between actual Scientists and... let's call it "Adventure-Popcultre-Era"-Scientists.
Lightlybeige Armor and rich-blue Jumpsuit go fantastically together
I remember when I used to visit my local gamestore after school almost every day, that I always found myself looking at those Tomb King boxes. But I played 40K Orks so I didn't ask my parents to get them for me, because I had no use for them. But now that I have a job and adult money, I would instantly go and buy myself a box or two of those Tomb Kings if they weren't so damn expensive. I honestly feel bad for Tomb King players for how GW just deleted the entire army from existence :/
It sucks considering they were making new models right until the end too. We can only hope that they bring them back for the Old World release, never know!
If you want some modern Tomb Kings, check out One Page Rules' Mummified Undead line. They're my replacements for Tomb Kings these days.
Great. Now I feel the need to rewatch the classic 1999 movie The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser
You SHOULD re-watch the classic cinematic masterpiece The Mummy(1999) starring Brendan Fraser. I did before I made this video lol
If you want to paint more tomb kings and have a 3D printer One Page Rules has mummies and other stuff like that.
Wait, is that the box your Danish friend sent the stuff in? The _box_ is amazing!
Yeah that's what the minis came in! I think it's for chocolates, which he also sent along :) The box is really cool though, I tried to show it off cause it just has a cool vibe about it.
they're only off the table..for now, the old world will return and with it my tomb kings will rise again.
As someone who doesn't "game", I always appreciate the idea of finding older, non-official miniatures (regardless of company of origin.) I can use whatever paint schemes, bases, and unit types look good to me, and I have a ton of freedom to let creativity rule. Your approach to this figure lands squarely in my niche!
That crackle medium through the airbrush idea is spectacular, but I bet you have to clean the heck out of your airbrush after using it? These old school pewter models are pretty wonderful, and I've actually got a bunch of Reaper Pathfinder models on hand that are metal minis--I think I need to give them some love next. She looks great, Casey!
The crackle medium is about as thick as a varnish, and sticks about as much in the airbrush, so a little bit of water to flush it out followed by some brush cleaner or ipa and it's good to go. I haven't had any issues with it anyways.
Amazing paint job, I love tomb kings, got a huge stash of them, still on sprues in 2 60 litre plastic boxes.
One day I will paint them…. One day..
That day, is today
The time has come!
The fact that they haven't repackaged the necrosphinx as some analogous unit in AoS is so baffling to me. Such an amazing modern model that was only around for like 4 years. The prices of Original TK models on secondary markets make Diaz Daemonettes seem cheap.
I know right? That model is so good and they just offed it! Insane...My buddy bought 4 boxes of those Diaz models, they may end up on my table at some point, but yeah, TK models are crazy expensive.
Check out One Page Rules Mummified Undead. They pull from the Tomb Kings in some ways. I love the Tomb Kings and hope they get brought back with the upcoming The Old World war game from GW.
I’d genuinely consider getting into AoS should these guys be interested, the standard troops, likely being Skeletons, are relatively easy and really fun to paint. And the larger units just look sick.
Tomb Kings should be coming back with the Old World reboot, there have already been a few allusions to them in the (little) advertising we have got for it.
Enjoyed it - always do - missed you last week. Glad to see you again!!
Thanks! I wish I could do videos every week like I used to, for now though, every other week is working :)
With WH The Old World’s launch what’s old is new and sold out on GW site. Would love to see a series of episodes bringing back the armies of the world of legend.
I found a shoe box with my old warhammer 40k chaos in it the other day thinking about getting rid of it tho. Got some pewter stuff seems to be from around mid 90’s an abbadon a Kharn sorcerer terminator and a juggernaut with rider and 10 plastic blood reavers with spurs extra part and a full transfer sticker sheet some of the pewter stuff is alittle painted mostly just black base coat
I hope tomb kings will come back when they release old world.
That’s a really sweet looking model!
How does the web react to matt varnish sprayed over it or even added to the crackle in airbrush?
I'm not sure, it might harden it, but then again it might dissolve it before that happens. Definitely worth trying though, to see if the webs can be hardened right out of the brush or after the fact.
Maybe it’ll come back with the return of WH fantasy. Note that Tomb Kings are a major faction in WH total war.
Isn't Warhammer Fantasy Battles slated to come back in a couple of years? To be the sort of 30k for AoS? It would be hard to see them doing that without the tomb kings.
It's supposed to, and maybe they will bring them back. I mean, they will at least have rules for them I'd imagine, but you never know what could happen!
While the TK models are incredible; the lore itself was fantastic Alcazador has a crazy arc.
I also really miss the detailed metal hero models from WFB, they had so much charActer that is very lacking from current sculpts.
They'll be back with the Old World system coming out in the next couple of years surely?
We can only hope, but yeah, probably.
11:53 aged like fine wine... not. And luckily so!
Lol yeah, I’m definitely not sad about it :)
Dang, I recently got into AoS thanks to Vermintide and seeing the older armies are just great kinda wish i started playing in the old days, I went with Orruk Warclans mainly Ironjawz, Savage & Kruleboyz simply because I like how they look, save for the Kruleboyz I get a small lotr vibe from them tbh, hearing all about the old world and all the factions there in was great its pretty disappointing that Games Workshop did what they did & I wish they treated their fans better without the ridiculous pricing i guess I'll look on Amazon or Ebay for older armies.
The Tomb King are dead, long live the tomb kings
for serious though, I bought some and have been recasting them. awesome minis
Tomb Kings were my favourite
Very cool!
Having painted a lot of Pewter Models 'back in the days' - Tyranids like Old one Eye & some Carnifexes especially - i can say: I hate pewter so very much, it almost destroyed my passion for the Hobby.
Really? Why?
I've definitely had problems with pewter, but for one reason or another it's really grown on me lately. The bigger models are 100% a huge pain though, getting those limbs to stick right? forget it
I think I just feel nostalgic for when I was a kid and was putting the big lead stuff together. Maybe I spent too much time licking them ;)
I gotta ask, whats with the easter egg in the background on top of the squidmar tube? love the vids as always bud!
It's an Easter egg
Silly Putty for masking.
Silly Putty :) My wife just bought me the large egg so I stop using my son's for masking off parts of models lol
I take my army and play better games lol
TK was my first Miniature Wargaming thing ever, I'll never forgive GW for killing them off.
Here is my story, When AoS dropped and we had those hold-over indexes I had dusted off my Kings, went and played, and had a ball. Liked them so much I bought more GW stuff for the first time in years.
Liked it so much I wrote a physical letter to them, thanking them for the changes that made TK finally decent. Even got a nice letter back, saying that if I loved what I'd done with Tomb Kings then what was coming would be 'to die for'
Two months later they killed the line.
I wrote them back, with a copy of that letter. got another one back, apparently the marketing guys (who my letter ended up with) don't get any information about the lines and what GW is actually doing and didnt know they were going to be canned when they sent me that letter.
So yeah, they dont get my money now.
Totally fair, I remember seeing the End Times come and go and I was seriously baffled as to why they would make new models and then go kill off the army. It's a shame that they couldn't rebrand them for AOS, it probably wouldn't have been that hard to do for them either.
@@eBayMiniatureRescues Sad thing was TK never even got their full line :/ Been debating on ripping Total Warhammer files to try and get an STL for the Titans
Even if we don't see Tomb Kinds return for The Old World, we'll always have Kingdoms of War, 9th Age, and One Page Rules's Age of Fantasy.
Also, people can still just play the old versions of Warhammer Fantasy Battles, or the fan-made 9th edition version, if it's that important to them.
In many ways, Tomb Kings being uncopyrightable - and thus banished to the wastes beyond Games Workshop - makes the concept of "Undead Mummy Army" free to be used by anyone. Like Games Workshop games, no matter how much the Egyptians would like to believe otherwise, there were green places beyond the Nile and beyond the deserts that border it. There is more to the world than Egypt, and there's more to the wargaming hobby than Games Workshop.
Oh look at that, the return of Tomb Kings
lol, I know right? not too long after I made this one too.
I'm using a lot of 3rd party and 3d printed egyptian minis for a futrure AoS death army because they can't stop me.
Fight the power! That sounds awesome :)
the spiderweb trick is neat. If you like the theme look into Empire of Dust in Kings of War from Mantic.
i managed to get ahold of 3 slightly damaged TK chariots for VERY good price, I'm going to duplicate the bitz to build maybe 6 of them
NIce!
Setra does not serve, he rules!
Hey man, love the vids for a while now, keep it up. What kind of soft wire brush do you use to clean?
Copper wire works best. I'm using a cheap dollar store brush though, it's not copper, but still the bristles are really bendy and soft. Never had any issues with it even though it's so cheap.
Tomb kings are back baby!
Tomb Kings were my first army when I started at the very end of 8th Edition Fantasy, and I'm only recently trying to actually paint them so seeing this was great! If you're interested in going after fantastic, but discontinued, models from GW the Fimir Noble is possible the coolest after Khalida herself.