AoV's Hobby Blog 29/04/18 The Tomb World stirs p44...

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**angelofvengeance**

@squall: that's a decal on his leg mate.

I shall be going with Vandus Hammerhand and his warriors of the Stormhost. My brother has claimed the Khorne Goretide

**angelofvengeance**

Just a little update:

Did a bit on the Librarian and Cultist meat shield last night- basically just neatening up bits and adding a few highlights to the storm bolter.

**angelofvengeance**

Say hello to my Stormcast Eternals... BZZZZT!!

This is what I've managed to get assembled this afternoon before my neck told me to pack it in and lock up. NB: There are 3 Retributors in the box but I haven't gotten around to building that last one yet.

Prosecutors (flying guys) look quite fiddly so I'll take a stab at them tomorrow.

**GiraffeX**

They look like very nice models.

**Januine**

Those new models are looking sweet. Nearly caved on Saturday and bought the AoS box but.....picked up yet more paints and a box of Skits instead lol. Alpha cultist is loking nice fella. Might suggest a few glazes on the hood to bring the recesses/highights together

**angelofvengeance**

More Sigmarite goodness today- finished the Retributors and Prosecutors off as well as Ionus Cryptborn (possibly Arkhan the Black- Nagash's minion, reincarnated by Sigmar after the Old World was destroyed)
I also got the Khorgorath beastie, Grizzlemaw the Flesh Hound (Khorgos Khul's pet) Vekh the Flayer, Threx Skullbrand and the 5 Chosen assembled. Stupidly though I forgot to get pics. Ah well. Nothing you haven't seen already...

**GrimDork**

Neat stuff. I keep looking for the backpacks though

**angelofvengeance**

GrimDork wrote:
Neat stuff. I keep looking for the backpacks though

Retributors have them lol (2 handed hammer guys)

**GrimDork**

Bwahaha, not your typical space marine rigs, but getting there

Still neat stuff though.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

How are you feeling about Crypt Born's scroll cloak? I am half tempted to leave it off the finished models.

**angelofvengeance**

I'll put it on. But I think I'll paint it separately so I can get at his armour on the back, without worrying about touching the parchment when I paint him.

**angelofvengeance**

Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!!

Just about everyone assembled save for 1 Blood Reaver marauder and Khorgos Khul, Exalted Champion of Khorne and Lord of the Goretide.

Only complaint is a misprint in the instructions for Threx Skullbrand (the guy holding the massive icon of khorne). It says he goes on a 32mm base when in fact it should be a 40mm. Otherwise you come up short when you're assembling the Blood Reaver regiment.

Loved putting these guys together- GW seem to have nailed the push fit casting process by bumping up the scale to 30mm(I think? That or they just wanted some real beefcakes in the starter). With the 2012 Dark Vengeance stuff you did lose a bit of quality such as the various details looking a bit warped.
With this starter set there's none of that. Mould lines and sprue gates are the only thing you need to be concerned with.

**angelofvengeance**

So I have had enough of my models rattling around in Really Useful Boxes and gone full on GW fanboy to splurge on these rather large army cases. And to remove any doubts as to who owns what case lol.

I've just about finished cleaning Khorgos Khul up (A LOT of mould lines on his Khorne banner). Amazing model though.

Mine

My brother's

**Azazelx**

Nice loots!

**Thraxas Of Turai**

Are the cases the same size as the Crusade figure cases? Those thing are huge.

**angelofvengeance**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Are the cases the same size as the Crusade figure cases? Those thing are huge.

Yep. Crusade case.

**angelofvengeance**

Update part 2:

After some tidying up of the hobby cave, I took a crack at a Stormcast Liberator which is a surprisingly nice model to paint. Instead of the massively OTT gold and blue scheme however, I've gone for something a little less blingy.

Currently, I've got all the colours blocked out and Nuln Oil applied to the Leadbelcher areas. For the layers, I'm not sure where to go with the silver- add another layer of Leadbelcher on top? Or go with Ironbreaker followed by an edge highlight of Runefang? The gold I think has come up rather well. Balthasar gold followed by Gehenna gold. I'll probably do edge highlights of Auric and Runefang to top it off.

I present to you, my Knights of the Aurora Stormhost Liberator WIP.

**angelofvengeance**

Soo... got my 2 awesome cases yesterday... WOW. Amazing the amount of stuff you can fit in these things. Here's one of my experiments from last night. This is pretty much my entire Dark Angels force save a handful of tac marines, my land raider redeemer, a predator and my drop pod. With most of my vehicles in here, I had 2 trays left over to play with(they fit inside the trays the tanks are sat in) which fit nicely into 3L A4 size Really Useful Boxes.
When you close it up and walk around with it there's literally nothing rattling around in there. It's all snug and secure even with the vehicles being as they are in that photo.

**Paradigm**

That's an interesting setup with the strips of foam there. I guess that makes it a bit more practical than trying to cram slightly-too-big models into the old-style slots?

**angelofvengeance**

Paradigm wrote:
That's an interesting setup with the strips of foam there. I guess that makes it a bit more practical than trying to cram slightly-too-big models into the old-style slots?

Just a bit. My Necrons are in an old style case and you can (just about) fit the Monolith in there, but you sacrifice a lot of space. I have a lot of Necrons so I'll be taking the Monolith out and see how I get on with these newer foam trays. I had considered the KR Multicases, but there's AN AWFUL LOT of wasted storage with their stuff (Just look at their vehicle foam trays, yikes)

The foam strips aren't actually stuck down as with the old foam trays-only at each end of them, so you can move them about all you like to accommodate some of the larger models.

**angelofvengeance**

Only a little bit of painting done this evening, but I think I'm quite liking where this guy is going

Just a few bits of highlighting and cleaning up left to do before basing him, as I'm sure you've noticed! Seems I didn't quite manage to get rid of the joint on the one shoulder guard

. Might try and use that as a start to some battle damage there.

**squall018**

The seams are very prevalent on their shoulder pads (not yours specifically, just in general). I used a little bit of liquid greenstuff and it certainly helped.

I like all the different color schemes I'm seeing for these. The fact that GW has only shown a few "official" ones has gotten most people to come up with their own, which is pretty cool. I like the blue you've gone with, BTW.

**angelofvengeance**

I did actually think the mould line scraper and emery boards work I did on it would get rid of the seams but apparently not.

That's actually Incubi Darkness with some Kabalite Green highlights lol. It's supposed to be this Stormhost:

**squall018**

It certainly is that stormhost. I haven't read through the books yet (though I have them), so my bad on that.

Its still cool though that we don't have all this pre determined fluff as of yet that is allowing people to do their own thing.

**GrimDork**

Your ground marines look nice, as do your big chunky cases

**angelofvengeance**

A wee bit more today

Plus I made a start on a Retributor. Not sure if I want him to have a bit more Incubi Darkness panels or just leave him as is. Thoughts? Also, for the plumage- Khorne Red like the belt or something else?

Thanks for viewing!

**Paradigm**

Looks good to me!

**angelofvengeance**

*Drum roll* *Badum-tish!*

Retributor nearly done this evening with a few tidbits of tidying up and highlights....

**Theophony**

Anytime someone mentions plumage I instantly go to the Monty Python Parrot sketch "beautiful plumage" .

now every time I see a stormcast eternal I'll be thinking "He

snuffed it!" And saying how he is an ex(enter fantasy army character/army type).

Well he looks great for someone who shuffled off his mortal coil

. To bad they are all corrupted by Slaanesh and it is Slaanesh who is leading them as he/she/it is not hiding, just faking it.

**Azazelx**

Nice Sigmarines indeed. I don't know what to do with mine.