Been working on my Tzeentch Arcanites list. Using a cult of my own design, a splinter cult of the Pyrofane Cult from Hysh called the Cult of Searing Light. I finished me first two leaders yesterday!
So I settled on a scheme for my Sylvaneth and am working out the implementation of it. For my dryads I started with celestra grey, a single layer of abaddon black around the ends of the limbs (to allow some of the grey to shoe through) and castellan green in between. Then went over the whole thing with camoshade.
In the end, the green wash did a much better job blending the three distinct colours than I had anticipated.
Now I'm bringing those three distinct tones back by dry brushing those areas with ulthuan grey, elysian green, and eshin grey, that last one is proving too dark to really notice so I'm going to experiment with stormvermin fur and see how that looks.
The leftmost ones were done black, then green, then white, the rightmost were white, green, then black, and the ones in between were different asymmetrical orders or extra white or black layers as touchups.
The ones on the right were easiest to do but the contrast around the face is really harsh, lefty is clearly much softer than the rest and I ended up retiring that brush.
Those are some real solid blood knight conversions, I bet a lot of work went into those to get the details crisp. My favorite though is the king holding the bone, I'm sure in his head it's quite an awe to behold such a fine weapon of power.
I currently have a 1500pt Gutbuster force that I speed painted last year at this time. Now, I want to build another force but I can't decide what I want to do. I don't want another destruction force so plan on doing something from Order, Chaos Or Death. I just cant decide what I would want to do.
My current 3 choices are
Tzeentch Mortals
Freeguild Regiment
Soulblight Vampires
I'm leaning towards a 1000pt force of Tzeentch mostly because I have a few Chaos Warriors I can practice painting on...Ugg...decisions.
Still working through Blades of Khorne. Got 60 Bloodreavers to paint (getting yelled at by my wife that unpainted models look like crap on the field, and that I need to paint them quick).
I try to maintain my plog on the P&M Blog threads, but it doesn't seem to get much interest. Not sure if that's because the focus is more on 40K as opposed to Siggers. Figured I might feed my painting progress in here instead!
My first concept model for my Son's of Breton Stormchamber. His Grandblade is still being messed around with.
thats really neat luvvo.
the bretonnian head on a stormcast is a great idea and i can picture how neat it would look on his head just from your guy holding it.
great paint. id like to see some more.
you have some blue on your antler...
I try to maintain my plog on the P&M Blog threads, but it doesn't seem to get much interest. Not sure if that's because the focus is more on 40K as opposed to Siggers. Figured I might feed my painting progress in here instead!
My first concept model for my Son's of Breton Stormchamber. His Grandblade is still being messed around with.
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That's a nice Bretonnian-Stormcast conversion there, and the color scheme compliments it well.
Green can be steampunk, especially if you're going for an army theme like the soldiers in "Castle in the Sky".
You can also be clever and have their top-halves green and justify it as realm of life camoflauge so airborne enemies and predators flying above them will just see the green match the forests and jungles below.
What is a good site besides Dakka to use for hosting pic now that photobucket is a pain in the butt now so I can show my conversions and take part again on this awesome thread.
No problem, looking forward to seeing your models.
(If you do go Deviantart then make sure to join the Gamesworkshop group, you can upload your model pictures for fellow hobbyists to see while getting updates on warhammer art and models they post. Seeing a guy convert his Bloodbound to Pyramid heads from Silent Hill is one such reason. )
Any particular reason you don't want to use Dakka's own gallery? It's incredibly simple and you can still post images from the gallery into any other groups or pages you happen to frequent. It also means you can link your images directly the gallery page, so people can click on them and be taken straight to the image where they can vote/comment.
So far, I've gathered my 2500 someodd points of Chaos Warrior's. Part of it was an old army I had, the other part a generous donation from a friend getting out of the hobby. I want to repaint all of it. So i'm in the process of getting together the chemicals nessisary.
After a bit of searching I got the rules I want to play with, I want to grab a start collecting box to bolster my force. I need another sorceror, chariot and knights. I also want to include a Daemon Prince, then it's all just a matter of painting it to the best of my ability.
I don't have much else to report. A FLGS is putting a big sale on older WHFB boxes. I grabbed a current edition of Knights *They just had square bases* But they have the older chariot and older knight kit, should I go for 'em?
I’d say these are 75% done. I’m going to layer and drybrush the armour again before edging it in runefang steel, and then I’m going to apply highlights to the boots, gloves, leather and overalls, to really bring them back up. The eyes will probably need work too. I should probably cut out the wash of nuln oil on them but it really picks out the details on the gear.
Well last night my Kharadron Battle force arrived... and today I bought someone else's collection. This weekend I will have a complete Kharadron army with more than I know what to do with.
Mr Cuddles phase 1. Base colors. Shading. Basic highlighting. So much more to go. This is for malign portents campaign this september with my group (public narrative 10 weeks long)
He did up the hinterlands project to get onto GW rules dev and it worked. Since becoming a gw rules dev he's not really supposed to post in public forums anymore.
auticus wrote: He did up the hinterlands project to get onto GW rules dev and it worked. Since becoming a gw rules dev he's not really supposed to post in public forums anymore.
Nice, good for him!
A bit jealous since it's the sort of thing I'd love to do but can't, wrong side of the world and all.
Didn't know Bottle went to GW, kudos to him! Seemed like a guy who knew what his goal was and worked hard to reach it. Loved Hinterlands and looking forward to his future work.
I'm not sure that having the warhammer whatever in dallas will mean they will staff rules devs over here. I don't see that as very workable or optimal to have dev staff split across two continents. Jeremy Vetok seems to be the exception, unless there are other american devs that I'm not aware of.
For anyone who’s interested, the metal is a base coat of Warplock Bronze, washed in Agrax Earthshade, layered in Runelord Brass, with Nuln Oil applied to certain parts, drybrushed in Runefang Steel with a second wash of Earthshade to bring out the green. The blue is a basecoat of Calgar, washed in Guilliman and highlighted with Teclis, with White Scar for certain seconds. The brown is a basecoat of Mournfang, washed in Earthshade, with a layer of Skrag brown and a highlight of Deathclaw. The quilted ruff (which I’m not really satisfied with) is Rakarth Flesh, washed in Reikland Fleshshade, layered in Zandri Dust and highlighted in Ushabti Bone. I’ll probably have to come back and change it.
For anyone who’s interested, the metal is a base coat of Warplock Bronze, washed in Agrax Earthshade, layered in Runelord Brass, with Nuln Oil applied to certain parts, drybrushed in Runefang Steel with a second wash of Earthshade to bring out the green.
I really do love seeing people take the time to make a good brass colour. It makes me think 'like gold, but works for a living.'
I wonder if it'd work for armour on my daughters of Khaine?
puree wrote: Sort of trying for the sunken temple theme, not really feeling it yet.
The white pillars stand out a lot, maybe some staining around the midsection, yellow to green/black the closer you get to the water would make it look like molds are finding purchase on the stone?
For anyone who’s interested, the metal is a base coat of Warplock Bronze, washed in Agrax Earthshade, layered in Runelord Brass, with Nuln Oil applied to certain parts, drybrushed in Runefang Steel with a second wash of Earthshade to bring out the green.
I really do love seeing people take the time to make a good brass colour. It makes me think 'like gold, but works for a living.'
I wonder if it'd work for armour on my daughters of Khaine?
Finally finished the whole box from the Questor I posted previously
Fairly happy with the results of the paint scheme overall, want to try some other schemes for another box of stormcast I bought, but now i'm afraid that the whole army wont gel if they aint uniform :\
puree wrote: Sort of trying for the sunken temple theme, not really feeling it yet.
The white pillars stand out a lot, maybe some staining around the midsection, yellow to green/black the closer you get to the water would make it look like molds are finding purchase on the stone?
Yup the pillars are a bit stark, and blend with the white hair.
I've done with Zandri dust/karak stone as the main color and that looks a bit better.
Can certainly spend a good while scrolling through this thread; lots of great stuff in here!
Also quite a few Kharadrons, oh aye.
Chipping away at my Skryrpirate Skyfleet.
Admiral Skarrak Darkwind & the Skryriggers are done and dusted, with the Privateers and HMS Blackfur following behind.
Skryrpirates
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[Photo taken a few weeks back. They're currently in a display; ain't available for a fresh photoshoot]
As is with all my 40k stuff, I use blue for energy thingies, so all my warpstone is blue as well.
That JP bloke has done an incredible job of Skaven sky pirates, oh aye.
But following suit with my Morskitarii, I've gone for clean cut, proper-done high tech, just with a touch of nuttiness.
Hi! Longtime Guard player, the KO sounded the horn and I answered the call. I was immediately drawn to the Barak Thryng color scheme since it was very reminiscent of how I painted my original Guard army back when I was 13
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It took a little longer than I'd like to admit, had gotten so used to painting bland guardsmen I was practically overwhelmed with the amount of detail on these models
Anyways, here's my first step into KO with an Arknaut Company Captain, the photo seems to have lost a lot of detail thanks to compression
Really nice red on the jumpsuit, Zontarz.
Brettonian helmets look absolute class on those Stormcasts.
@FWC
There's a few guids about on the 'professional look' for model photographs; basically white backdrop and even lighting.
Your pictures there have come up real decent for detail, especially on the super-close ones. Only thing I'd gripe over is the blurring on a couple, but that's rectified by having either surgeon hands, or a camera stand.
Try resting your camera (or phone, in my case) on little boxes. Stack things for the right height, etc.
To everyone who has posted something in the past 73 pages; Thank you. It was an absolute delight to go through and look at all of the pictures. And having so many different projects, styles of painting, and the right mix of WiP and completed pictures all in one place has hit all of my pleasure centres. Thank you.
I want to share some of my minis with you guys. Tzeentch has caught my attention. And before Christmas I bought a Tzeentch Get Started set. I'm going glacially slow painting them, but I'm making more of an effort to get them done now. The Tzeentch Skyfires are next on my AoS buy list. As is Fateweaver. So I'll have more once I'm finished with this set.
I've finished the Pink Horrors. Almost finished the Screamers, and just finished basing the Exalted Herald on Burning Chariot (it's up next!). Enjoy the pictures, there'll be more soon!
My bad! I forgot to use the in house image loader. Glad you like them though! I was worried that they’d look like an imperial guard regiment but I think I managed to get the armour ‘sparkly’ enough to make it look fantasy as opposed to sci fi.
Thanks @Baron Klatz, they have definitely been a learning experience! Gotta love the old school Bretonnian artwork. Oh and the the wings are off purely for transport purposes. Plus I've not had a stab at painting them yet. Much like the Stardrakes.
Yeah @Buddingsquaw with the helmets they really make for imposing models. The extra height in some instances makes stock liberators look quite tiny!
@NinthMusketeer I wanted to complement my colour palate, and I definitely didn't want to go white! Still a long way to go on the Stardrake but I wanted that dark glossy look to its scales. Just started on the mouth and underbelly last night. So many areas to cover. Proving quite the distraction.
I've kept the wings off for the time being so I can get to all the nooks and crannies. They will be added in a month or so I imagine!
Here's a bit more of a closeup. So much more to go :(
Wow... those are absolutely brilliant. I don't know how you've managed to get those Brettonian heads to work, but the hard work towards doing so has definitely paid off.
Here's the latest on my Daemons. Screamers all done
My current WiP is the Herald. The GS has just finished curing on his base. Hopefully some grit and some paint will even it all out.
There is a painting contest the first weekend of May, and I'm looking to enter the Herald in the Open Category. (I'm thinking I'll do some Brets for the Regiment category, the Shadespire Undead leader as my single model category entry, and a Dark Elf Manticore in for the Large Model category).
Hopefully I'll have some more painted Daemons for you soon.
I’m a little worried I may have painted myself into a corner by only having one metallic colour on my Overlords. It’s the ships that are worrying me. Little late to worry though. Also, going off my sources, the only colour I could see myself using would be a sort of metallic red-brown.
I’m a little worried I may have painted myself into a corner by only having one metallic colour on my Overlords. It’s the ships that are worrying me. Little late to worry though. Also, going off my sources, the only colour I could see myself using would be a sort of metallic red-brown.
Why not have sections painted in the colors of your skyport?
Baron Klatz wrote: Oh definitely! The green would look lovely with the golden brass.
(The color scheme reminds me of King K.Rool too.
Someone needs to follow his footsteps and make a huge castle for their pirating airships.)
Green and Brass always looks Class, oh aye.
And I think that there might just be, possibly, my next Armies on Parade display....
Goblin Town wood bits + Leftover Skaven wood bits + Sector Mech' stack.
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Skryrpirate Thunderers:
Real nice that the Thunderer kit comes with 10 guns, although only 5 flints for the 6 Aethershot rifles...
This is getting out of hand! I've pained three more of them! The one on the right needs a little more work on his pistol, but other than that he is complete. I'm at odds on what to do for basing, I would like to something exotic to give reason to their needs of suits, but anything bright and lively may detract away from the model itself.
Nice work on those undead, good blending. I like the blue skulls on the necromancer. It would be cool to see a mortarch with the interior skulls like that.
My Great Unclean One is built and his arms magnetised.
The base is ready, just need to fill in some gaps, then I can prime and basecoat it before adding sand all over the stairs.
NinthMusketeer wrote: Nice work on those undead, good blending. I like the blue skulls on the necromancer. It would be cool to see a mortarch with the interior skulls like that.
Wow I love the blue on the skeletons are they double based? Whats with the weird trim?
That would be the movement trays. The edges of them are made to match the bases and some of the rocks deliberately hang over the base lips so it's less obvious that there's a movement tray there (although the double height is a dead give-away ofc.
My main objective was to get my new additions up and running. Or at least to the same stages as the rest of the army.
I also focused on bringing my Hero's up to a better standard. Including a small conversion to a Celestant, to a Castellant. Debating swapping the sword out for a halberd to make it more obvious.
They do take a long time to paint though. I’m currently on 24 out of 40, with 9 still to be assembled. And that’s without basing...or the special weapons and other little details done either.
My main objective was to get my new additions up and running. Or at least to the same stages as the rest of the army.
Looking good! But what really caught my eye was that teal/jade effect on the bases.
Thanks Ninth. I've used the same tutorial as the the Azyrite Ruins. Very simple, very easy, yet very effective! Wouldn't be hard to turn it into marble with a few veins, and Ardcoat either.
@CragHack Wow that Gloomtide looks the nutz! Great tones, and oxidisation where necessary!
@Future War Cultist /Zontarz What are you plans for basing on these fellas? Cork, and floating? Clouds? Or good old dirt/decking?
Luvvo wrote: @Future War Cultist /Zontarz What are you plans for basing on these fellas? Cork, and floating? Clouds? Or good old dirt/decking?
Oh that is the million dollar question. Honestly, I have no idea!
Snow was one idea I was floating around. Another idea was grey slate (that seems to be the main landscape of Chamon). But at this stage I’m pretty much open to any idea.
Luvvo wrote: @Future War Cultist /Zontarz What are you plans for basing on these fellas? Cork, and floating? Clouds? Or good old dirt/decking?
Oh that is the million dollar question. Honestly, I have no idea!
Snow was one idea I was floating around. Another idea was grey slate (that seems to be the main landscape of Chamon). But at this stage I’m pretty much open to any idea.
Too true too true!
I would like to be able to tie in my bases to my roomate who is picking up Idoneth, I've got first dibs on all the extra fish and would like to put them to use
Here is a Legion of Sacrament army I started. 4 heroes, 2 mine and 2 from the guy I bought most of the models from (I tried to mimic the paint scheme).
1 necromancer is mine, the one on the round base and the wight king with the full cape is also mine while the rest of heroes were bought along with the (largely) unpainted spear wielding skeletons and fully painted swordsmen.
I am slowly repainting and converting some tomb kings skeltons into the common skeletons to bolster my ranks.
While the skeleton warriors make uo the bulk and the frontline, the dire wolves are the flank protectors and the units which are most likely to be ressumoned later in the game.
The Crypt Horrors serve as a body guard for my mages and a wight king if he is lucky and can afford it at that time in the battle.
In the future I want to get the Skeleton Horde box to get Arkhan the Black, he is my favourite Warhammer Fantasy Character and a great leader especially with his command ability and the absurdly funny curse of years especially if you manage to make it go off on the opponent's Glottkin (I have never done so, but I'd love to!). The Black knights will help me create the deathmarch battalion and I will need just the Grave Guard and I am set. Plus the 10 skeletons are always nice!
Looking very good! Im liking the sharp colors on the armor and the basing. Maybe work on the weapon heads if possible because they still look a bit 'airbrush and done' maybe some point highlights on the various corners?
sushi2001 wrote: It's a Brettonia Stormcast hybrid, not bad, not bad at all! Amazing and at the same time simplistic conversions!
Thanks @ Spreelock! Couldn't let them waste away, so a new little fluff and away I go. A new Stormhost!
Looking very good! Im liking the sharp colors on the armor and the basing. Maybe work on the weapon heads if possible because they still look a bit 'airbrush and done' maybe some point highlights on the various corners?
Thanks @ NinthMusketeer In a way I'm taking that as a great tip and a compliment, as I have actually dry-brushed the weapons, so the fact they look remotely airbrushed I'm kinda happy with! My first consideration is to dirty them up with blood and mud?
Will continue looking out for more edge highlights, still a ways to go to finalise them all!
Finally started my slaanesh "Host of Radiant Bliss" test models as I got all the paints I needed. I haven't painted anything but nurgle for a while now so it's been fun so far. I don't think i've used as many paints on any 1 model before though.
Yea dude, your painting is so clean and smooth, always a pleasure to see more of it. Particularly on the flesh eaters - love the purple limbs and that you've carried it across the faction (T-geist included). Props as well on the custom varghulf!
EmberlordofFire8 wrote: I really like the converted Dragon Princes. Will they be used a Blood Knights?
Also the Skaven to necromancer (?) conversion is awesome!
Those are my blood knights yes. And the old skaven plague priest is the model I use for my FEC crypt ghast courtier.
Meanwhile, I've finished off 5 more hexwraiths to add to the collection (in anticipation of our new battletome)
It's quiet in here though! Anyone painting up some of the new edition stuff yet?
Here's a Liberator I painted to get back into the swing of things before having a go with some Sequitors soon, I think the new look is a big improvement.
I'm building a Nighthaunt Army and I love the new design of the ethereal steeds, which is why I find the Hexwraith kit to be problematic in terms of being a skeletal horse with a sheet on it.
I'm thinking of converting some by using Grimghast Reapers on top of Dreadblade Harrows. Pardon the mock-up quality below:
So the new Nighthaunt kits are amazing. They really are. But errr...how do we feel about the names? Am I the only one who thinks GW goes a bit...clunky, with their choice of names?
Future War Cultist wrote: So the new Nighthaunt kits are amazing. They really are. But errr...how do we feel about the names? Am I the only one who thinks GW goes a bit...clunky, with their choice of names?
As a follow-up to my last Stormcast, one of the new ones, from the Easy To Build Sequitor kit. I swapped the head out for an elf one as the original was hard to get to, other than that the model is stock.
It took a few attempts to get the colour balances right as the robes kind of require an additional colour on top of whatever you normally need for a good Stormcast scheme (usually 2 colours and a metallic, I find) but I think keeping the outer/upper robes a neutral colour is the way to go there. I will be experimenting with the other two in the set in different schemes, should have another one done soon.
I would also be very interested in what colors you used especially the blues as I was planning a winter theme for my own Legion of Nagash and Nighthaunts.
Sequitor 2, this one in a much gritter, more battered style to play up the inhuman, immortal, eternal side of the Stormcast, facing endless aeons fighting the enemy with only death as a temporary reprieve...
Kinda love your scheme. Can I get the colors your using for the cloaks. Its not too brown,but its grey....it looks very Unique
The cloaks start with rinox hide, get a gorthor brown drybrush and a fine vallejo cork brown highlight. It gets a black wash afterwards to bring it to a more dark tone.
The blue is done using Baharoth blue, white airbrushed over it, guilliman blue glaze (thinned) and final highlights with white again.
Kinda love your scheme. Can I get the colors your using for the cloaks. Its not too brown,but its grey....it looks very Unique
The cloaks start with rinox hide, get a gorthor brown drybrush and a fine vallejo cork brown highlight. It gets a black wash afterwards to bring it to a more dark tone.
The blue is done using Baharoth blue, white airbrushed over it, guilliman blue glaze (thinned) and final highlights with white again.
Thanks abunch! That will save me a ton of time trying to come up with good icy colors to use on my night haunt units!
I've got my own projects in the works. Finally sitting down and converting up my own Deathrattle forces for a Deathmarch Battalion. 40 skellies down, 20 more to go, plus 20 graveguard, and ten black knights.
Still slowly plodding through my Chaos stuff, currently 70% done on my last five Wrathmongers, but I really want to get cracking on Slaanesh stuff for the fall release I'm still hopeful for. The workbench includes:
2 Exalted Chariots
1 Custom Daemon Prince (Azazel)
10 Daemonettes
4 Chariots
15 Seekers
I've been kinda/sorta keeping a tight lid on this project in terms of painting because I'm regaining my skills (so to speak). Been a loooooooong time. We're getting reacquainted.
Also, his name is Larry and he had his first game today in Path to Glory.
That's right! The old starter set, after it sitting in my bookshelf for 2 years.
Have told myself I must paint atleast the stormcast side of it before I am allowed to buy soul wars.
So trying to figure out a bare minimum effort scheme I can be happy with. I don't like how an overall wash makes the gold so dark, and going over the whole armor with gold to touch up takes too much damn effort, same with doing pin shading. So this is what I get with a bare minimum basecoat scheme with only putting some effort on the blue color.
Its hard to look past the toyish feel:( Might go with the GW way in the end and do an overall wash, we will see...
That's right! The old starter set, after it sitting in my bookshelf for 2 years.
Have told myself I must paint atleast the stormcast side of it before I am allowed to buy soul wars.
So trying to figure out a bare minimum effort scheme I can be happy with. I don't like how an overall wash makes the gold so dark, and going over the whole armor with gold to touch up takes too much damn effort, same with doing pin shading.
So this is what I get with a bare minimum basecoat scheme with only putting some effort on the blue color.
Its hard to look past the toyish feel:( Might go with the GW way in the end and do an overall wash, we will see...
And Elmir, holy wow, what an inspiration!!!
Use the gloss versions of the washes. Much more subtle tonal shifts and keeps the nice shine for your armour!
My friend got me a zombie dragon /w vampire lord on it for my birthday! Super cool.
Building it now, and painting as i go, since i want the muscles to be colored before i glue bones on top of it.
I did an airbrush of brown, followed by bugman's glow. Then, i'll highlight with cadian flesh, and do a quick wash of nuln oil and darken around the wing bones with black. Think this might turn out? Any recommendations for painting muscles?
I painted purple sun. It's really easy to pain with an airbrush, i got done in about 10 minutes and it looks solid. However, if I had to paint it with brushes, that would be a nightmare.
Currently finishing assembling a LOTR mumak so that I can use my chaos mammoth at the gw store (currently using a Schleich war elephant but cannot obviously use that at gw store)
Plan on making it look festering and have nurglings in the howdah led by sassy nurgling.
auticus wrote: Currently finishing assembling a LOTR mumak so that I can use my chaos mammoth at the gw store (currently using a Schleich war elephant but cannot obviously use that at gw store)
Plan on making it look festering and have nurglings in the howdah led by sassy nurgling.
I thought GW didn't allow conversions from LotR games due to copy write or something.
auticus wrote: Currently finishing assembling a LOTR mumak so that I can use my chaos mammoth at the gw store (currently using a Schleich war elephant but cannot obviously use that at gw store)
Plan on making it look festering and have nurglings in the howdah led by sassy nurgling.
I thought GW didn't allow conversions from LotR games due to copy write or something.
It was primarily photographing and contractual obligations. You used to see it in WD where a model would place highly and then there'd be a mention of being unable to show it because of contractual obligations.
auticus wrote: Currently finishing assembling a LOTR mumak so that I can use my chaos mammoth at the gw store (currently using a Schleich war elephant but cannot obviously use that at gw store)
Plan on making it look festering and have nurglings in the howdah led by sassy nurgling.
3 "ready for battle" liberators done in my quest to finish the 1st starter set stormcasts.
Pretty happy with this look, even though I skipped painting the scabbard and belt black since its pretty hard to get in there and still keep it "speed painted"
After multiple paint iterations I finally settled on a scheme for my witherstave poxbringer:
The weapon lower shaft was taken from the Maggoth Lord kit, the normal Poxbringer blade trimmed then green-stuffed over to get the new shape. Reposed his left arm with a bit of sculpting to fill the gap, same with his pointer finger. All the branches on his back were clipped off and the hive sculpted from green stuff. Also sculpted in extra guts on his stomach for no particular reason at the time but in hindsight really glad I did.
Finished 1st starter set stormcast(except 5 liberators that I used for paint experiments). All except 3 painted in one 13 hour marathon session. Now I can buy soul wars guilt free!
edit: and of course lord-celestant not painted yet, but will take my time to paint him not speed paint
So I finally got around to working on my Cauldron of Blood, more or less my last obstacle to having a field able Daughters of Khaine army.
As is my way, to steal shamelessly from the internet, I took big inspiration from Tim Fisher's Cauldron, with its lifted staircase, and double-helping of blood for when you have friends over and want to party.
The staircase is raised and moved back so that the dais sits inside it, the peg for the Cauldron itself hooks into a little spur on the middle axle and kind of hugs the side plate - very difficult to glue together, all-in-all.
Next steps will be to cannibalize a cauldron from my second kit to do the other side, that kit will go on to become a bloodwrack shrine, I'm also debating magnetizeing the dais and stairs, I don't like the look of the avatar very much and would like to replace it with something - problem is it needs to be tall and to have a narrow footprint to fit there.
The wolves are part of the larger theme of the army, I've got all my footbound queens riding wolves and scaling that up to the cauldron is a relatively straightforward matter of removing the front wheels and (eventually) adding some chains to the wolves. Originally I only had two but it looked kind of awkward.
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I have no pictures yet, because I haven’t done it yet, but I’m getting around to doing the bases of my Overlords, and having looked at the pictures from Chamon they’re going to be...red. Like the surface of mars. With grey rocks and blue crystals.
I have three Ungor Raiders left to assemble before I'm done that stage of my SC Box. Really wanted to enter my Ghorgon in the painting challenge but I am saving him for last. Shame, he is kinda scary looking.
Davor wrote: Nice work there Thadin. How did you get the eyes to glow?
Thanks! The glowy look on the eyes was achieved after I did the wash on her face to get that skin tone and highlights. I painted the eyes, and a bit around the socket white. Then after that, just with water on the brush, applied Soulstone Blue technical paint on and around the eyes, then just carefully wipe some of it off the eye/let it settle around it. Hope I explained it well.
Since I kind of hate AoS in practice, but love it in theory, I have begun a hobbying project that is more narrative focused. I am hoping to get mostly casual/fun games in my store, or maybe even play through a narrative campaign with a couple of people. I have a much more in-depth background post in the P+M Blog section, but I just wanted to post my first test model here for a bit of feedback. The concept is basically Free Peoples of Shyish...human soldiers of fortune who have survived extreme hardships trying to carve out an existence in the Realm of Death. I hope to incorporate kitbashing from some Nighthaunt kits I really like to give them a spooky mercenary feel.
Davor wrote: Nice work there Thadin. How did you get the eyes to glow?
Thanks! The glowy look on the eyes was achieved after I did the wash on her face to get that skin tone and highlights. I painted the eyes, and a bit around the socket white. Then after that, just with water on the brush, applied Soulstone Blue technical paint on and around the eyes, then just carefully wipe some of it off the eye/let it settle around it. Hope I explained it well.
Thank you for that. I will try it out.
exliontamer wrote:Since I kind of hate AoS in practice, but love it in theory, I have begun a hobbying project that is more narrative focused. I am hoping to get mostly casual/fun games in my store, or maybe even play through a narrative campaign with a couple of people. I have a much more in-depth background post in the P+M Blog section, but I just wanted to post my first test model here for a bit of feedback. The concept is basically Free Peoples of Shyish...human soldiers of fortune who have survived extreme hardships trying to carve out an existence in the Realm of Death. I hope to incorporate kitbashing from some Nighthaunt kits I really like to give them a spooky mercenary feel.
Test Model: Freeguild Handgunner
While I don't care for guns in a Fantasy setting, I am thinking that Age of Sigmar should go the way Warmahordes, so I think this is perfect. I love it. If and when I am going have to steel your idea. Love to see more. Also good job on the paint job as well.
I re uploaded my OLD conversion of the old black coach(with a little bit worse light but more angles), so the images that was in this thred before, no longer exists.
but since this is a re upload i will naturaly hide it in a spoiler tag and i`ll just post 1 img. no need to steal the light from the rest of you solid painters as, i havent done anything AoS related in about 9 months.
That's a nice coach conversion, honestly my favorite from what I've seen over the years. You prettied it up but it still looks like the old coach. And you can still use it since the old coach still has it's warscroll, so even better.
thanks.
my goal was simply to make an outdated and old kit, modern in the looks.=)
i bought the malligant start collecting box about 3 years ago and since i back then was NH subfaction, i could never use the mortis engine.
so it had been collecting dust for 2 years until i one day had an idea on how to modernise the black coach.
the leftovers from the mortis engine im using for a mortis conversion but i dont have a clear idea for that yet other then getting a more "engine" look to it.
i have the "engine" part covered and buildt, but im mainly struggeling to get it all to look ghostly, flying and somewhat realistic.
I started a Deepkin army. By started, I only picked up a Leviadon, Warden and a box of Thralls and the Battletome. Basically I just grabbed some stuff that looks neat and have a ways to go from there.
Started work on the Warden last night and he's mostly done. Still needs basing (thinking sand because I like the idea more than generic regular land basing since they bring the Aethersea with them and it makes it look like the sea itself and all) and the familar needs a couple details picked out, but I'm pretty happy with him.
Oh, and I still need to do his bracelets. I'm thinking a jade color as I don't want to have any metal in the army at all. I'm going for that "we grew it out of coral" look.
So I guess I should post an update to my last post: Sadly the more I've looked into the Deepkin the more frustrated I've gotten. I rather enjoy the Namarti as an idea and the models are splendid but the army has a big sticking point that prevents you from running a good Namarti heavy list: all the auras have the "wholly within" clause meaning that the large blocks of Namarti you want to be running to minimize unit problems from casualties and to maximize their buffs don't work well.
Basically I'm just salty (puns intended) that GW dropped the ball and left us running eels for 90% of the army if we want to be any good.
So I took a step back and looked at the horde army I was considering before and had waved off: Legion of Nagash. I'm popping by my FLGS tonight (or tomorrow depending how exhausted I am after work) to pick up a start collecting box so I can build Neferata and a bunch of skeletons to start my army off right. The Legion of Nagash just works so much more towards what I want in an army, plus I can blare every remix of "Spooky Scary Skeletons" there is to annoy my opponents.
auticus wrote: Plus legion of nagash is heavily represented on top tables and is probably the most competitive / optimized list in the game at the moment.
I don't know how competetive my list is since it looks like this:
Heroes
Neferata 400 (General, Overwhelming Dread)
Vampire Lord on Nightmare 140 (Orb of Enchantment, Amaranthine Orb)
Vampire Lord on Nightmare 140 (Soul Pike)
Coven Throne 260 (Vile Transference)
Battleline
Dire Wolves (5) 60
Dire Wolves (5) 60
Dire Wolves (5) 60
I'm also looking at running Neferata leading a Deathrattle force (because comboing her and a Wight King to buff Black Knights amuses me) but I've got some way to go before I really get either lists fully ready to play.
I've basically finished Neferata (sans any possible adding of extra basing stuff in the future):
The lighting washed out the blues in the skulls so here they are from a WIP shot that gives a better look at them:
And I've started on some skeletons. I'm mixing in the Nightvault ones to give my units some easy to spot champions (Warden for spear units, Prince for sword units):
So I've been a busy little beaver when I'm not spending all my time online or at work.
Or playing Luigi's Mansion because you gotta support those Nighthaunt guys who found jobs, right?
NinthMusketeer wrote: Dam that is one nice looking Leviadon! I really gotta hand it to you for the base though, that is really what puts it up there in quality.
That Neffy is looking good too, but I see what you mean about the lighting. I get the sense it looks a lot better in person.
Thanks! I'm ordering a light box tomorrow which may help, but my current set up has largely been dependent on using overhead lights paired with natural light to prevent things from being too washed out but it's been so overcast lately that conditions haven't been good. Hopefully a lightbox will help me fix that problem going forward.
Assembled most of my Start Collecting Lizardmen on the weekend. Just finishing my Saurus Warriors. Pretty happy with everything, the Carnosaur is freaking awesome. I am excited to maybe get a game in.
I used Lustria Online's suggestions to get the most out of the Start Collecting box, and made myself an Astrolith Bearer.
I think it looks pretty good, and is close enough to the actual model to save me 20 quid. I didn't need the extra two Saurus anyhow, because the game only lets me take them in groups of 10.
I ordered a lightbox which should get here this week. In the meantime I keep trying to talk myself out of switching horde armies and starting Skaven....
My wallet probably would stop crying if I hadn't found out about Clan Mordkin from the old world:
I mean just look at that fancy lad! The concept easily carries over to a clan of Skaven hiding out in Shyish and even allows me some mileage out of my extra skeleton bits....
Yeah, I've been trying to justify and not justify this to myself over and over again.
Eldarain wrote: Grab the Skulls kit and go to town. Be a very cool realm themed army.
I was just looking at that and thinking that horned skulls fit the horned rat theme very well....
I think this was the sort of thing that was missing out of my death army plans: a way to make the whole thing feel like it was my army instead of a more generic army from the main book.
NinthMusketeer wrote: I have my Skryre painted as clan Volkn from that book. I wish GW had done more, I think they just did Empire, High Elves, and Skaven.
Yup, that's it. It's a shame because it was a good idea for how to do varied forces. They might not have caught on since they lacked any sort of painting tutorial though.
Buddingsquaw wrote: You should start Skaven, because Skaven are best-greatest.
And that Leviadon is one hell of a piece. I'd dread to think how many hours that took!
Truly the best vehicle to kill-maim your enemy-foes! What do you use it as?
It's one of those silly-fluffy things I've bashed with leftovers that is too odd to have a realistic proxy, so opponent willing, it has custom rules.
I've a double-ratling gun field piece using a Vulcan housing and bell wheels, along with a giant warpfire thrower field piece using doomwheel halves as wheels.
Spoiler:
DOOMtank
Move: 6"
Save: 4+
Bravery: 5
Wounds: 15
Warp Lightning:
13" 2D6 4+ 4+ -1 D3
Super zapper:
13" 3D6 4+ 4+ -1 D3
Supercharge: -2 Rend
Super-Supercharge: -3 Rend
Roll a D6, 2+ Supercharges, otherwise takes D3 mortal wounds
Same again to Super-Supercharge (succeed the roll twice, although failure on the 2nd deals D6).
Hey all, I'm working on some conversion ideas i had for some beastmen. It's a snake theme, so for the tzaangor enlightened and skyfyres, i thought of using Melusai and gave them bird wings to appear flying. I'm in need of some ideas for heads.
Ideas proposed so far to me were Seraphon heads (though the necks dont allign), kroot heads, and I thought about using the melusai heads with the snake masks, but smoothing out the backs and use no hair, or green stuff my own.
Currently working on finishing my army. Have finished these and now done with about 20+ bloodreavers. Just have a ton of Bloodletters, 15 more bloodreavers, and some heroes to finish up on over the coming months.
Carnith wrote: Hey all, I'm working on some conversion ideas i had for some beastmen. It's a snake theme, so for the tzaangor enlightened and skyfyres, i thought of using Melusai and gave them bird wings to appear flying. I'm in need of some ideas for heads.
Ideas proposed so far to me were Seraphon heads (though the necks dont allign), kroot heads, and I thought about using the melusai heads with the snake masks, but smoothing out the backs and use no hair, or green stuff my own.
Ideas?
Seraphon heads are going to be your best bet, especially in terms of work needed and cost.
Any neck can align with green stuff!
I just started AOS, and have gotten my hands on quite a bit of Khorne. I have a SC: Goreblade Warband box, a Bloodthrone, and I'm splitting the Wrath and Rapture box with a friend. I'll definitely post on here, and may have to dust off my ancient P&M thread for this as well.
Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote: I just started AOS, and have gotten my hands on quite a bit of Khorne. I have a SC: Goreblade Warband box, a Bloodthrone, and I'm splitting the Wrath and Rapture box with a friend. I'll definitely post on here, and may have to dust off my ancient P&M thread for this as well.
I hope you enjoy painting things red. Pro tip: red paints stain brushes really badly. Make sure you clean your brushes really well (and rinse them often).
Got a scheme down for my daemonettes at last, too many died (even this one the unit is part of is dead.) Folks on B&C helped me out. Refused to touch the wrath and rapture stuff until I had a scheme for them.
shinros wrote: Got a scheme down for my daemonettes at last, too many died (even this one the unit is part of is dead.) Folks on B&C helped me out. Refused to touch the wrath and rapture stuff until I had a scheme for them.
shinros wrote: Got a scheme down for my daemonettes at last, too many died (even this one the unit is part of is dead.) Folks on B&C helped me out. Refused to touch the wrath and rapture stuff until I had a scheme for them.
Apologies cruddy camera phone.
Spoiler:
How many of them have you got lined up?
Well I will be getting more daemonettes soon. When I say many died during this path of improving my painting I meant it. I was trying to find a paint scheme similar to this artwork, even tweeted a eavy metal painter and he said the daemonettes skin recipe has been lost since it was painted years ago, he said he will ask around.
Spoiler:
Da Boss wrote: That skin tone is really nice, shinros. How did you do that?
Now how I got the skin? Here is what I did.
First thing, I mix my water with liquitex flow-aid. Helps prevent leaving brush strokes on flat surfaces and it helps with highlights.
Model was primed corax white
Base:Slaanesh grey, White scar Pallid wych flesh 1:2:1
Next I do the leather and spiked claws which is abbadon black.
Shade for skin:Watered down Druchii violet via medium
Layer:Base mix again
Highlight: Pallid wych flesh
Hair: Dechala Lilac, Shade with a watered down carrobug crimson via medium and then highlight with a dechala and white scar mix.
Crab Claws:Naggaroth night, Shade with nuln(Had to make a shade out of abbadon since I am out of nuln) highlight with warp fiend and then a glaze of naggoroth night on top
Final step: Nuln old gloss on the leather. Gives it that shiny latex look and gives the black depth. (I suck at highlighting black.)
Now I am still not all that great at painting, it was only recently I decided to take it abit more seriously but at the same time I am trying to get any army together. Anyway, here is the recipe.
A couple things this weekend got done for my various AoS skirmish warbands.
First up is my Warboss finally got painted, using the leader of the Shadespire Warband, I literally fielded him as soon as the paint was dry today:
Spoiler:
Next up is a pair of Runewars Rune Golems I will be putting on 50mm bases and using as a pair of counts-as Kurnoth hunters for a Duardin warband I am building. Tomorrow I think I may go grab the box of Ironbreakers and splitting the 10 figures into 6x Ironbreakers, 3x Irondrakes, and a Duardin King for the rest of my beginning force.
Last is my Orruk force as it stands right now, I just need to paint two of the other Shadespire heroes, a Gore-Grunta, 3x Savage Boyz, and 2x Arrer Boyz and it's finally done for the time being. Some of the models have been painted for at least ten years, the dual choppa models and Arrer boyz are WFB starter set models from something like 6th edition?.
AegisGrimm wrote: A couple things this weekend got done for my various AoS skirmish warbands.
First up is my Warboss finally got painted, using the leader of the Shadespire Warband, I literally fielded him as soon as the paint was dry today:
Spoiler:
Next up is a pair of Runewars Rune Golems I will be putting on 50mm bases and using as a pair of counts-as Kurnoth hunters for a Duardin warband I am building. Tomorrow I think I may go grab the box of Ironbreakers that I will be splitting into 6x Ironbreakers, 3x Irondrakes, and a Dwarf King for the rest of the force.
Last is my Orruk force as it stands right now, I just need to paint two of the other Shadespire heroes, a Gore-Grunta, 3x Savage Boyz, and 2x Arrer Boyz and it's finally done for the time being.
Thank, lol. I have big armies for each of the 3 main pre-painted game factions of Age of Ragnorok, and my buddy and I play it every once in a while as he has the Ram and Lion prepaints. In my skirmish games (mostly with One Page Rules, but I am getting AoS skirmish) I have been using them as Free Peoples, as the Griffin army units tend to compare somewhat decently to Empire stuff.
My purchases for this week, Archaon Everchosen, Alarielle the Everqueen and Morathi the Shadow Queen. Got a list of 13 more Heroes/Monsters to get (Gordrakk, Kairos, Rotigus etc) for a big King of the Hill game
I gave a buddy the starter half sigmarines from the first starter. I've been fielding an undead army using zombicide black plague zombies and necromancer and wizard. In other words just playing with stuff I had in board games and he's been cleaning my clock.
He suggested I get a zombie dragon but I'm not dropping $60 for a game I only play sporadically. Enter Safar LTD with their $20 pre-painted Ghost Dragon and once it arrives all I have to do is base him and we're off to the races.
Going to have a crew on top, inc. some manned poisoned wind launchers and maybe a Grey Seer or Warlock Engineer.
Various Skaveny details to be put on it.
The arms are blu-tacked in for articulation and transport, and the head's on a pivot; housing for Landraider flamestorm sponsons.
Continuing my Khorne demons.
The last time I played them regularly was sometime early-mid 40k 6e. Now that I've returned to playing 40k I've also played some AoS.
So:
1) I'll finish up that last squad of Bloodcrushers, rebase them all onto a consistent base size (I've got stuff on every size & shape of base a juggernauts' ever come on)
2) Pick up that new Karanak sculpt
3) Add about 10-15 of the new fleshhound sculpts,
4) finish my wound tracking system (every multi-wound model has a bit of brass rod on its base that holds a little plastic skull per wound. Lose a wound, lose a skull. ) - mostly this just entails tracking down more packs of the skulls I was using.
5) I need to get this army a better dedicated transport case.
Once I've finished this I'll take a look at those new goblins....
I proxied a Beasts of Chaos army the other day that had 3 jabberslythes, 5 cockatrices, and 2 doombulls. I didn't have any equivalents so I constructed some alternatives:
I myself am currently painting lord of the rings, but my girlfriend is working on her goblin army. Its something she herself wanted (she plays goblins in blood bowl too) and has put up her sylvaneth for.
I'm starting work on some Goblins for the new year. Getting a unit of 20 Grots and Skragrott painted currently, and will be working on some Boingrot Bounderz on the weekend.
NinthMusketeer wrote: I proxied a Beasts of Chaos army the other day that had 3 jabberslythes, 5 cockatrices, and 2 doombulls. I didn't have any equivalents so I constructed some alternatives
So how'd they do? Worth the time spent cutting out circles?
NinthMusketeer wrote: I proxied a Beasts of Chaos army the other day that had 3 jabberslythes, 5 cockatrices, and 2 doombulls. I didn't have any equivalents so I constructed some alternatives
So how'd they do? Worth the time spent cutting out circles?
They did well, the doombulls in particular! It was probably the sheer bloodthirst expressed by their proxies.
NinthMusketeer wrote: I proxied a Beasts of Chaos army the other day that had 3 jabberslythes, 5 cockatrices, and 2 doombulls. I didn't have any equivalents so I constructed some alternatives
So how'd they do? Worth the time spent cutting out circles?
They did well, the doombulls in particular! It was probably the sheer bloodthirst expressed by their proxies.
It is the Khorne way to win, Khorne wants real blood, not proxy blood
My Fuethan Eidolon of Mathlann Aspect of the Storm is ready:
