Destroying $1000 of rare Tomb Kings models - to make THIS

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I've had this dream Warhammer army - Tomb Kings - that i've collected over the past 4 years, but i've had no way to play them because they are not in the Warhammer world anymore. So i've just found out how i can cut them apart to make them fit with Age of Sigmar.
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[@myachipimp]

Hey I'd love to make some kind of deal with you. I have a ton of old lizardmen and the tombkings.

[@danieljvanrensburg]

Maybe for some variation, you could try to get/print reptile skulls for the skeleton soldiers, so that the troops are a mix of normal skeletons and the reptile boys

[@flayar3207]

Bruh i know its a suggestion but holy just let them do what they want and stop it

[@danieljvanrensburg]

@@flayar3207 dude they asked for suggestions, y are u getting so annoyed about it? I wasn't giving anyone orders. Anyway if they didn't like my comment they would have said so. So why don't you just mind your own business

[@flayar3207]

@@danieljvanrensburg dude everybody here is saying stuff like this just keep your opinion to yourself and say something more positive Jesus

[@danieljvanrensburg]

@@flayar3207 y should I listen to you, its not like I always make comments like this, this is legit the first time I suggested anything, but u are goin around policing for no reason. I didn't even say anything negative so go bug someone else

[@khorneflakes773]

@@flayar3207 calm down, if they asked for suggestions they knew they were going to get what they asked for.... SUGGESTIONS. You're such a drama queen 👸

[@michaelhadley5988]

I remember drooling at the tomb kings army book when it first came out. Such cool minis.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Some of the coolest theyve ever made

[@rykerm4249]

Are those old books collectable at all? There's a hobby store by me that has old Fantasy army books still. They have Tomb Kings, High Elves, Dark Elves, and Vampire Counts.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

@@rykerm4249 a little bit lut not a lot

[@Almindale]

I don't understand all the people who are annoyed at Emil for converting up models even if they're OOP. There are thousands and thousands of tomb kings armies around the world already. This is being turned into a one of a kind army that will stand on its own. I think he's creating something even better than the original Tomb Kings ever were, keep it up Emil ❤️

[@jonashenriksson2182]

I agree! What I think is a travesty is minis just sitting unpainted in boxes years upon years. And it’s not like he’s destroying them, converting and kit bashing has always been a core part of the hobby.

[@ottarobeuthner3923]

I'm currently converting a lot of Ossiarch Bonereapers with Tomb Kings bits to give them that special egyptian touch. But your conversions are just awesome!

[@daswolfy1817]

Tomb Kings were my first army when I got into Warhammer, so it hurts just a little to see them torn up despite how insanely well done it all is. For the banner maybe the Herald Nekaph could be your Astrolith Bearer? I definitely support going heavier on the Tomb King bits, but a mix of full skeletons and mummified Lizardmen marching together would be super sick.

[@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm]

As a person still collecting tomb kings, I am in pain.

[@1000joakim]

As a person who really want to start collecting and playing with Tomb Kings, I can assure you.... Im in even more pain

[@banishedpest115]

Not as much pain as your wallet, I imagine.

[@Sentient_Scarab_Swarm]

@Banishedpest11 Yeah dude, a necrosphinx is like 300 dollars in a good condition on eBay at least

[@thurvinfrostbeard1838]

*laughs in recast*

[@Nevarrus]

@@1000joakim Mantic just released a bunch of new 'Empire of Dust' minis, aka, basically Tomb Kings. You should check it out, they're ex-GW people.

[@Florian-yg7le]

love the idea, how about turning the "egypt" theme into an aztec theme instead? so its humanoid bodies/shapes with the lizardmen style of ornaments seeing nagash just gave me instant ancient inca/Azetec vibes with that hat Also: Morathi could probably be bashed/transformed to be a quetzalcoatl

[@airborngaming2250]

Hmm, wonder why you got that feeling.

[@marinapfanzelt468]

I would love seeing skeletal skinks to go along with the tombking models.

[@Daedricsoulslayer]

Same.

[@zeldakitsch]

I love how you have made up your own lore to validate this crazy mashup. This is hobbying at it's best 😁

[@lingeringheadache945]

I just started getting into miniatures last week and watching these videos have helped quite a bit, started to just mess around with colors seeing what looks good, and hopefully I get better at matching paints and shades and mixing,

[@MistrzDemotywacji]

The first piece of GS in the video, the one 'mounting' nagash to his base - for such applications, and general filling in gaps and sculpting softer, organic shapes/fabrics, but not necessarily big, unsupported hanging cloaks, I prefer an 'enhanced miliput'. Standard, usual yellow-grey miliput, take X of part A, X of part B, mix. Now, into that ball you can add anywhere between X to 2X of plasticine, and it will cure just fine + no problems with priming and painting. I use sulphur-free plasticine I have for making molds, but just because it's super soft, softer than standard one for kids. The benefit is that miliput will be less sticky, but softer, smoother in feeling and it can be smoothed with water even better than the standard, non-plasticine one.

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[@florians9949]

For the riders, why not use both. Like the skinks maintain all the cool engines because they know how to use them and the skeletons are more for protections since they are stonger than skinks.

[@DDethable]

Legit cool stuff wish I could focus on my passions like this. Please keep working on this project I would love to see this army all kitted out and honestly you're videos are all that keep me going and staying passionate about the hobby.

[@Autechltd]

Man its like Noah Katz from Artesian Builds destroying dinosaur fossils to make gaming PC cases.

[@ThirdAndOnly]

Fits nicely with the old tomb kings lore where southern kings used lizardmen beasts in their armies and to pull chariots and such, just kinda reversed in your army lol. Nice vid man!

[@robinzuchner8583]

Once again I want to thank you for the inspiration. I've started painting the miniatures for Dungeonquest and I'm currently waiting for a delivery of a starter set of kill team. Much appreciation!

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

That Mayan Nagash is brilliant. No more stupid big hat! Hello feathered head thing

[@Kaladruna]

I'm busy recreating my old Tomb Kings army that I had as a kid decades back. You make really cool stuff, but this physically hurts, as I'm still trying to get my hands on some of this stuff

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

They are finally gonna be used in a cool army and not just collect dust😊😊

[@Kaladruna]

@@SquidmarMiniatures I know, buddy, I know you’ll make something unique and epic. Cannot wait to see the entire army. I wish GW would rerelease them, when The Old World drops, but I doubt they will do it

[@aidan1R]

@@Kaladruna actually Id say the opposite. Total War Warhammer alone has people in love with the tomb kings. Maybe they wont get new models, or maybe they will take a bit, but I have no doubt for an eventual comeback

[@Kaladruna]

@@aidan1R this is the thickest straw that holds up my hope for it all. TWWH has done miracles for the franchise

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

@@aidan1R I bloody well hope you are correct, as there where some great minis and its an interesting faction. But the Killing the Old world, and they way they killed it makes me doubt anything resembling good decisions will ever come out of GW... And bringing it 'back' so much later doesn't fill you with confidence till they actually do it properly and don't imeediately throw it away again - I mean there were in the process up updating all the army books for Oldhammer when the whole thing was thrown out the first time...

[@logantbirch]

This is awesome! I want to see more videos like this! Can’t wait to see the army you create. 🙌🔥

[@jacobdominguez916]

That Aztec styled Nagash is so freaking sick man! Great job! :D

[@Antheraws]

I was nervous to watch this for a few days because I couldn't bear to watch another tomb king army burn video. Love what you're doing here.

[@maddogmadden23]

I think this is honestly one of the coolest conversions on KZbin. I want to see more of this series. With Tomb Kings likely never being released again this is great to keep them "alive".. surprised by some of the negative comments about this conversion. We should all do our own things and rule of cool is king. It's just toy army men afterall.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Thanks mate, i appreciate it. Some people just don't want others to have fun their way 😅

[@maddogmadden23]

@@SquidmarMiniatures I'm looking forward to the next one!

[@Siege181]

Really looking forward to seeing this evolve! Brilliant idea for an army!

[@joseluisnd75]

Interesting conversion of the Tomb Kings models. Would have been easier to use them to play King of Wars' Empire of Sands... but still interesting.

[@aviras007]

Awesome looking conversion and inspiring as always! Also weird moment at 5:19 when the music suddenly went Mark Rober.

[@EramarGaming]

If i may offer a suggestion for the magnetized pieces; adding in 1 or 2 pins glued only on 1 side will greatly stabilize the modifications. I've done this multiple times with dreadnaughts arms to keep the active threatening pauses with great success.

[@christopherswing1529]

Loving the creativity here and the beauty of this challenge crashing these two army themes and kits together! Side question: Where did you get that painting mat with the base sizes and paint type recipes?

[@andidollinger7062]

regarding the riders, I would go with an undead aztec warrior look. So combine skeleton warriors with golden headdress and/or bangles + adding lot's of colorful feathers + tombking weapons + lizardman shields.

[@datolicious4832]

Such a cool idea!! Can't wait to see the end result👌

[@netherane]

My honest take is to go real nightmare-fuel on this one. Snap the Skeletons in half, break off Skink limbs and heads, butcher everything. Then go about creating units around patterns, ie a unit of Skink-heads, Skele-torsos, left Skink-limbs, and right Skele-limbs while you make a unit of totally opposite composition.. Mix up some Saurus & Cold Ones in the same way with the chariots, having say a half-Skele-horse and half-living Cold One, or a chariot with one Cold One and one Skele-horse. Heavily lean into the aesthetic as if Kroak and Nagasha are almost warring for control, but both driven in the same direction as they swerve between each other's powers, creating half-living, half-dead amalgamations of their minions, creatures, and weapons. Make it a truly hellish nest of creations that are bound to their masters, as the Tomb King soldiers were smashed into the Skink and Saurus, creating an army that defies the laws of Nature and reality. This could lead to an unholy level of sculpting (pun intended), as you gotta take living parts and make them look genuinely attached to undead parts, but by GOD would that army look fucking cool. A true hellish blend of Seraphon and Tomb Kings would be an army for the ages, as befitting their leaders smashing together in blasphemous cohesion.

[@EendjeMeester]

Heavely decaying zombie skinks! Halfway towards becoming skeletons. Like the 40k flayed ones

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Not a bad idea man! I wonder how difficult that would be to convert

[@EendjeMeester]

@@SquidmarMiniatures headswops with skulls some limbs for skeleton limbs and greenstuff for skin. Itll take some time, but do-able. Maybe even use yout printers

[@byronwatson1557]

Wow, that magnet company is awesome thanks for sponsoring this video. I really want to check out there tool kit.

[@biowiener7825]

looks awesome, love every video you guys do. they always make me hobby myself afterwards lol

[@Northman3050]

Looking forward to seeing progress on this project

[@strucker8976]

I really like the idea for your army! Is really neat, and feels unique! I feel like the biggest challenge you have at the moment is the style, one thing I have learned as a concept artist is that, knowing what you looking for before hand and writting it down is what will help you go through the project, it is really important to define the style, so that the army looks cohisive and not just a bunch of parts glued together. What you have done with nagash is awesome, because you are suggesting a tomb king adopting the seraphon style, which is full of rounded stones, rough metals and feathers, pulling away the sharp details the toomb kings have. But on the other hand, you just have glued seraphon stuff on top of a sphinx, having the two styles colliding way too much. I suggest you to study both styles and see how to mix them, seraphons look like the use a mix of materials for the weaapons, like stone covered in brass, holded by rough wood, also using beast skulls and bones. XD It´s way too much text, sorry, if you are interested in knowing more I can help you with a couple of drawings hahahaha

[@marcusathwal3330]

Looks amazing can not wait to watch it

[@tinfoiltube]

Amazing concept! Looking forward to following this

[@corradofontana5049]

I really love these kinds of conversions. You inspired me for my next job. This is what it takes. 👍 Really really food job!

[@stamoskakomitas9283]

Aztec Nagash is fantastic! That's an aesthetic that I didn't know that I wanted to an undead army but now I do xd. I would suggest that you continue with the Aztec/Mayan aesthetic for the rest of the skeletons in the army. It works really well. Cheers!

[@xXxKoskixXx]

I gave up a hobby few years ago but watching your videos its still so much inspiring for me

[@Mathias_Melkior]

I have played with the idea of repurposing my Necrosphinx/Warsphinx to be a proxy for a Stormdrake for an Anvils of the Heldenhammer army. I’m glad to see a fellow TK fan repurpose his/her models, and am blown away by your repurpose imagination! Great video.

[@gwin2719]

Can’t wait to see more of this project

[@LEvpic161]

Honestly, skinks kitbashed with tomb king parts sounds awesome and super cool

[@alexchristie7497]

Love the idea, can’t wait to see everything finished up! Think his arms might look a little odd right now though

[@drakedragonking4698]

here is to hoping War Hammer Old World has plastic tomb kings, this is an awesome army by the way good job. This is making me want to make a Tomb Kings daemon prince.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

oooh tomb king demons is a great idea

[@roguewolf0148]

If the stegadons/phnixs are rare, could you scan them and then print them (seen resin printers in the bk ground). That way you can build what you want and modify as much as you want?? Just a thought..

[@Pricey06]

Dropping in the Mark Rober soundtrack, like a boss 😁

[@VindicatorAalun]

Damn this is an awesome idea can't wait to see the outcome of the whole army :;D

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

i'm honestly a little bit too hyped as well

[@someone1999]

“Five years ago” - *shows a date over seven years in the past*

[@curtissmith4024]

Great idea! What could be more fun than re-creating each battle tested avatar into the Swarm of Insane Doppelgängers.

[@drewbishop-tsai5526]

Tomb Kings were my first army, and I moved to Seraphon simply because they had the same “aesthetic”! I’m SO HERE for this journey!!

[@Sturmensky]

For the riders, I'm wondering if combining undead-ified skinks and tomb kings would work. I think having a mix of both would fit the lore you're building, and give you greater flexibility in future conversions by helping unite the different armies' parts.

[@Lorn058]

Ok so I'm half way through the video and I got to say this is sooo amazing bro as always! I've been making my own custom nagash for a bit. He's in a bone throne being carried by his ghosts. I love your astec nagash! Tomb kings ftw!!

[@SeraphimKnight]

love that Nagash just chilling on the throne lol you could make skeletons/mummies with skink heads for the army but paint the head so they look like they're gold masks, very egyptian god-y

[@aprilecotton2060]

Dont worry, Kroakgash isnt real, he cant hurt you Kroakgash:

[@thewander96]

Love this idea! Am following this journey for sure!

[@chrisrogue7098]

For the riders maybe you could use skinks, but add lots of bones from the TK bodies on them like they're wearing them for some armor parts or braces wrapped in greenstuff rags. Hack up some of the shields or banner emblems to make chest plates or back plates. Hang a few Tomb King heads from the back or belt area.

[@graefx]

The necrosphinx kit just being gone is a travesty. Wish they'd dust of the mold and call it something for a current faction. Maybe it'll come back with the old world.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

totally, its one of the best kits theyve ever made

[@cristianruizdiaz1495]

Amazing work, I can't wait to see those mummified lizards, or even make them look zombiefied, with flesh and bone, it would tie nagash, the mummies and the lizards together

[@brotheralaric7177]

the fusion between kroak and nagash would surely create one of the overpowered character in Aos . Also tombe king can easily be used as ossiarch bone reaper

[@karacox6979]

Idea, you should use your khalida model to make a priest, add some seraphon feathers and bits, and combine her snake staff with a plaque banner.

[@senseidrago8408]

This is gonna be so hype 🙌

[@voxkine9385]

Ah, the age old story of Lord Kroakgash!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

He's the best

[@jakubkolarsky3792]

The finished conversion reminds me heavily of Mictlantecuhtli from Constantine: City of Demons. Maybe taking a look at it and following in this "Aztec God of Death" direction...?

[@fallstar7013]

Emil! Now you have to make a beach bum titan with a bucket and spade. Love your work man.

[@Auriorium]

I still think the Tomb Kings where done dirty with Age of Sigmar. Such an interesting army. Also I would model Nagash to have one of the legs crossed and that he is slouching on the chair XD

[@MrSwankypants]

I like the thought of mummified Seraphon, such a cool parallel

[@Sakurajima616]

Squid bro, don't you know that Fantasy is coming back as Old World. So it seems that the tomb kings will be useable again.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Yeah but I like AOS 😉

[@anubis1112]

Fun fact: kroaks body is already dead, but his spirit is so strong that such little things dont matter. Ah jes and it would not suprise me if he could actually take down gods

[@CawmeKrazee]

i think the mummified lizards would be cool cause then you could do rotting scales and wraps all over their body. Maybe highlight some of their tails being used as weapons. Etc. Love how this turned out.

[@levyleviathan9392]

How about both for the army? A mix of skeletons and mummified skinks, like he replaced his lost skeletons with fallen Seraphon.

[@CalebHastings]

Seraphon + Squidmar = OH YEAH! Great conversions! Gonna look amazing when painted! Saurus Guard would make for some easy conversions also. Lots of bone plating in the kit already... and you will want some to guard Kroak!

[@psychochef80]

The "desert adventures" kickstarter a while back had a crocodile skull wearing a head scarf you could put on its mummies that could work for a tomb king skink but unfortunately i don't see that bits pack on their mymini page with the rest of the set

[@tim.jarvis-rouse]

How about skinks with rotten flesh?! use some of the lizards skulls from the skulls box and green stuff them onto the normal body and replace the odd are and leg with skeleton parts. You'd naturally need to fashion a more lizardy leg or just have part bone legs on some of them

[@L0NELYBRICK]

It's not for me, I hate the concept. But I'm a firm believer of 'its your hobby' and pleased you love it, I'm here for the creativity though, love it.

[@TheAlienmorph]

If it's an option, I'd just use a mix of skins and skeletons ontop of the larger creatures. Just either give the skeletons Seraphon armor, or the skins Tomb King (or Necron, if you have some stuff that looks close enough) armor so you have a common aestetic

[@grimbostink7607]

Great job as always! THIS IS THE YEAR YOU SURPASS THE OFFICIAL WARHAMMER CHANNEL!

[@Ragnarok2kx]

This project reminds me a lot of Brad Glover's Seraphon/Necron army, definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it.

[@captainbrineblood3967]

IMO you could just make the lore that they're undead from a region formerly colonised by the seraphon - the dinos have long since gone feral and the inhabitants now worship Nagash in place of Sotek, having been abandoned and cut-off from their former masters. There's tonnes of inspiration to be found in real-world mesoamerican (Aztec/Incan/Mayan etc.) culture in terms of the death gods in their pantheons. There is a skull-faced death God is Aztec religion called Mictlāntēcutli. In Mayan mythology there is a deathly bat spirit called Camazotz as well EDIT: to resolve the loincloth bits issue, you could have decorative items that overlap from the main body over the break in the cloth to cover it, while still letting you paint the two separately.

[@SafetyBriefer]

For the crew models, didn't GW used to make an all skeleton unit of different Old World races? You could get some Skink/warrior skellies that way. Good luck finding any.

[@johnphillips8601]

The terradons and steggy kits come with these death mask/helm like heads for skinks,you could bitz order a bunch of them

[@stefanoj143]

Good to see that the activator has side effects that grew you additional hands to use it while holding the miniature!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Wait... What. You don't have three?

[@snakehead214]

I would like to see more Skink / lizzard stuff in the army. Skink sceletons would be the best but maybe thats too dificult to get to if you dont want to use a printer.

[@darkmistress1980]

if you are looking for bits to fill out the tomb king side of the army "one page rules" have a 3rd party tomb king looking army and you can buy them either printed or in STL files (so you can print the bits you want). they also have an awesome looking dead scorpion too. i just hope GW does re-release tomb kings for "old world" cause i just love the ancient Egyptian aesthetic

[@commissar_dk420]

Might be cool to make a mountain of tiny skeletons holding up a massive banner

[@mordororc6970]

I would use skinks and Tomb kings for the crew. Love your videos!

[@y-adouradou446]

That does looks awesome, i think a mix between the skinks and skeletons, with different variations could look good. I guess there's some skinks skulls here and there that can be bought or 3D printed. Also have a question, are they gonna arrive on the battlefield using a Manta? 😂

[@svellice]

I think the true question is why nagash isn‘t holding a pina colada

[@King_Vai]

I feel like this must have been answered before but I cannot find it: what is that mat present a couple times through the video with ratios of paint to thinner/water for base coats, recess shading, washing, etc.? I always have to do look this ratios up again because I mix them up so I'd love to buy or get those ratios printed on a cutt mat or something.

[@joerivanderleur2956]

Awesome original concept... maybe also make an army display base based on a meso-american necropolis!

[@Raistling]

For the skeleton vs skink debate. use both. Working together in perfect harmony :D

[@BrettShomaker]

Kroakgash is everything I've ever wanted. Awesome concept

[@ItsEnZe]

For the riders you could maybe do a mix of skeletons and skinks, or paint the skinks to look like they are made of bone

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

so you mean like painting the skinks in a beige/yellow/white boney tone?

[@jonniesaur]

Id wrap up tons of the lizards and dynos in greenstuff of thread to make them look like mummies. Also give them skeletal bits like hands or tails.

[@josephrgonzalez403]

Completely off topic but where can I find a clear picture of that paint ratio mat thing for the top of the table? Or where I could even get one or make one?!?

[@caninehat6589]

I wish I was in the hobby when Tom kings where around 😢

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Yeah man me too, they came out just as i left the hobby and when i came back they were gone

[@maxf.7262]

wen AOS was released they had worscrols for toomb kings, i might still have the pdf of them

[@Dohyden2]

I usually draw a dot or an x on my magnet so I know what side to use, then use a wooden stick to push it into the glue

[@synthetic240]

I've got an old Undead faction rulebook and Vampire Counts faction rulebook. I love reading the lore and the over the top artwork. As for your model, I love your changes. Honestly, the original Nagash model is beyond extra... it's absurd. A bone beard and bone back tentacles? A hat that's at least 25% too tall. I'd sooner use Mortarion and tell people that's Nagash. It feels like they left Nagash to last because they didn't know what to do with him.