June 30th, 2008 by Missy

Well, I just won myself a nice deal on a Vampire Counts lot on ebay, about which I am very excited. Ran me $112.50 (with 25 for shipping, which I think was excessive for sending parcel post, tbh, but it’s still a deal) for which I get:

• A VC rulebook (that I don’t need) ($22)
• 1 wight king / necromancer ($10-12, I’m not really sure, he doesn’t specify)
• 20 zombies ($35)
• 30 skeletons (20 spear, 10 swords) ($66)
• 10 ghouls ($22)
• 20 grave guard ($50)
• 1 corpse cart ($25)
• 8 black knights ($80)

So by my math, that’s $310 for a total savings of $173ish dollars (no, I don’t feel like calculating tax and the like for buying brand new, so we’ll settle on $173). My only issue is that the models are already painted, and the picture is (obviously) not close up enough to see HOW they’re painted. And, of course, the models are plastic so stripping is going to be a pain to repaint. Hopefully they’re not too badly done and the paint is thin so that I can repaint them my own way. If not, at least they’ll give me a crapload of extra models to throw around while I build up my army.

I’m figuring I’ll field the army as it is for now and just slowly strip down a few models at a time, repaint them, and add them back into the unit. Now, off to hunt for advice on stripping plastic models!