That looks great Gabbi.

Need some advice from modellers with flight stand experience here.

Me and a friend have decided it could be amusing to build some niche armies for local 2v2 tournaments.
He’s decided to run steam tanks (command tank, 2 normal, 1 converted to be a hurricanum)
Original plan was then for me to do the same, but the new KO book as sparked some ideas.

Since he has land covered I plan to run air.
Having had the airships before I know the flying stems border on weak on all except the Gunhauler.

Has anyone used clear rod on an ironclad or frigate at all please?
If so, how did it work out?
I previously used some ruins along with the stem to support an ironclad as the stem alone is stressed badly by the weight.
This time though, I want to have it look as if it’s flying rather than grazing against a rock pillar.

Just get acrylic/metal rods, they go from 1mm tup to 25mm thick,s o any size you like really.

Here is an example from amazon, note i'm not saying buy this one from this person, just use as an example

https://www.amazon.com/Diameter-12-Acrylic-PLEXIGLASS-25/dp/B07FW2D7GB/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=acrylic+rod&qid=1579394165&sr=8-3

That looks pretty decent actually.
Assuming the best way to attach it would be to file it down into a taper near the top like the normal stands and drill a hole in the ship.

The stand it comes with is the same one as the Gunhauler and that is just about good enough for the hauler.
The frigate is delicate at best but the ironclad just wont stay on it.

I've finished a unit of Kavalos deathriders and the Bonereaper spells meanwhile:

Beautiful work as always. Love the colour choices on these.

Amazing bonebois up there!

I finally got around to finishing the Git part of Looncurse, which was my panting challenge for December.

99% Contrast

Getting anxious just looking at them.
Assembly and cleaning will take long enough, the painting will likely kill me lol.

If I can pull it off though, there’s 160 chainrasps done.

Jackal90 wrote:



Getting anxious just looking at them.
Assembly and cleaning will take long enough, the painting will likely kill me lol.

If I can pull it off though, there’s 160 chainrasps done.

That's quite an elephant there. It makes it easier if you break it up by the basic box size and focus on just that one group at a time.

Finally a plastic Slann!













and a boneshaper.

Power went out at my place as I was finishing up painting it, and getting good lighting is hard on a good day... so, enjoy a blurry picture of my fruit basket... oh, and a Verminlord.

 Elmir wrote:
Finally a plastic Slann!

THANK YOU for removing those weird deluxe kicking legs Great icy undead per usual.

Finally taking the plunge and starting AoS with Nighthaunt. I have 60 chainrasps and 12 mymourn banshees to get through and I'll hopefully have a 2k army by the end of the year (so I hope).

Well, building a CoS army (mostly for my team event at a major event) decided to go full 2k, going to paint a full 2k army in 6 weeks. Here is what i have now.

And

and

My main AoS project for 2020 is:
Continuing to grow the local shops AoS scene. In a 4 month span we've gone from 2 of us to 9 players (with a 10th trying to decide what faction he wants to join in with)

It started back in Oct.
Myself & one of the guys I play Pathfinder/D&D with decided to play some actual AoS. Put some of our long dormant WHFB stuff + some of the cool new models GWs been releasing to use beyond on our D&D table.
And so we set up game on a free evening down at the shop....

A week later we were joined by another of our D&D group who had the Skaven 1/2 of the 8e(?) WHFB starter box - picked up cheap for use as wererats awhile back. His only WH xp to date had been with the Total War PC games.

And so we set up another game down at the shop. His tiny Skaven force + a matching value of my own ancient Skaven vs the undead.
One of the guys watching us play has Nurgle demons (mostly from playing 40k)

Now there were 4 of us. So we set up a Path to Glory campaign. Night Haunts, Skaven, Nurgle, & my own Fyreslayers.

As we played, this attracted 3 more people. So our 2nd (current) PtG campaign consists of 7 players: NH, Skaven, Nurgle, Gloomspite (me, I switched forces) + Khorne Demons, Tzeentch Demons, & a brand new, 0xp, Seraphon player (who's eagerly awaiting his new Tome).
Great fun is being had.

We now have 2 more players (Beasts of Chaos & Sylvanth) looking to join us for PtG III.

And now we've begun playing general Multi-player AoS games on Saturdays as well. Our favorite way to play most minis games at the shop on Sat evening is 2 -3 players per side on the 8x4 table. So for AoS we're looking at "Bring about 1k pts."
This has attracted a 10th player - no WH/AoS experience, but like the models, so he's doing his research on what to join us with.

My goal? Add +1 player per month through 2020.


Other than that?
*At some point this year I'm going to build a Bonereaper force. I just like the models too much not to.
*I've got to paint up another Mangler Squig soon. The running joke in my circle is that my models have to "Earn their paint" by doing something notable during play. Well this guy? He earned it. He entered play with a primer base coat. He then proceeded to eat 2! Bloodthirsters, a units of Bloodcrushers, 1/2 a unit of Blood Letters & then exploded all over a Slaughter Priest in our last game.

Love all the recent work. Very creative.

Working on a Kharadron Ironjawz proxy. Using Ironjawz models, but fielding them as Kharadron Overlords. These are my endrinriggers and endrinmaster.

Are those... giant inflated squig balloons?

Jakeyy wrote:
Working on a Kharadron Ironjawz proxy. Using Ironjawz models, but fielding them as Kharadron Overlords. These are my endrinriggers and endrinmaster.

Ha! Those are great fun. Fantastic idea!


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Took a year off painting to get my house fixed up to sell, had lots of time to think of new ideas.

Here’s my Hurricanum / Bloodwrack Shrine, which will have two different crews, depending on whether I’m fielding it in my Daughter’s of Khaine army, or my Cities of Sigmar list.





This is about 90% complete, still need to add arm and reigns, greenstuff some gaps etc. Then build a second crew.

Well, my main goal of adding +1 player to the shops pool remains on track. (I seriously thought I might miss it here in Feb!)

But Friday we welcomed a new Stormcast player to our ranks.

Darn that is REALLY good Mastiff! Would love to see how you built it up

ccs wrote:
Well, my main goal of adding +1 player to the shops pool remains on track. (I seriously thought I might miss it here in Feb!)

But Friday we welcomed a new Stormcast player to our ranks.

Social media has been a great tool in helping my scene grow. Meet-ups every 2nd week, various games between, take pictures of the games and the playspace with the people gaming, post them on public hobby/boardgame groups and we usually get a few people interested and some even want to join in.

In hobby-ing related things, I'm working on Arkhan the Black, and trying to make him not the wobbliest piece of gak in the world. I'm going to pin one of the mount's front 'hands' in to one of the Stormvault scenary brazier pieces, and make a smoke effect billowing up from the brazier and around the claw. The pin itself has gone well, now comes the hard part of making the solid smoke. THEN painting the whole model and base

More additions! 

 Thadin wrote:

ccs wrote:
Well, my main goal of adding +1 player to the shops pool remains on track. (I seriously thought I might miss it here in Feb!)

But Friday we welcomed a new Stormcast player to our ranks.

Social media has been a great tool in helping my scene grow. Meet-ups every 2nd week, various games between, take pictures of the games and the playspace with the people gaming, post them on public hobby/boardgame groups and we usually get a few people interested and some even want to join in.

Sure, that'd work too. Especially if all I was aiming for were more players.
But doing it the old fashioned hard way: face to face selling, 1 person at a time, preferably to people who aren't already AoS players (or even miniatures gamers) is more fun

Katakros has been finished! 

That base is a work of art on its own.

Been working on a Beastman warband. I rebased them onto 25mm bases because I prefer them, and will be using these for Age of Fantasy from 1 Page Rules (I hope people don't mind me posting them here, the 1 Page Rules are a direct port for AoS). I had a Beastman army in 6th and 7th edition Warhammer, but sold it when I moved country back in the day and I have regretted it for years, so getting these guys painted up has been really nice for me. I love Beastmen. Planning to add Frostgrave Gnolls to this as well, and convert some Centigor from Marauder Horsemen, and a metal Reaper Demagorgon for a Jabberslythe stand in.


Bestigors were hard to paint!


Ungor with Bows, not a thing last time I played Beastmen but a good addition.


Gors, the classic.


Cygor, with an excessive amount of skull based fashion accessories.

Nice dude, I like those bases and the overall color choice. The Cygor in particular looks great.

Thanks. The skin and muscles came out a bit sloppy, but he looks good at arms length!

No pictures yet, but I purchased the ogor half of the Feast of Bones, a butcher, and some accessories, and I'm starting Fyreslayers!

No, obviously it's going to be the Mawtribes, but I'm excited, because for the first time in a long while I have an actual idea and lore for a project, lack of which made working on my sce a chore. I've now got enough AoS-themed bits accumulated to sufficiently spruce up the old world designs I hope.

Experimented with a more muted palette with these guys. A nice finished effect, but repetetive to paint.

Love the scheme on those raven guys Gideon, very gloomy, suits the models well. As for me I've finished re-working my Morathi model, changed the base to a marble and blood theme and changed a few colours, notably on the robes. Hope you guys like her, you can see more pics on my painting log here on dakka, link is in my signature.

Really like the choice to keep the wing "fingers" flesh coloured, I think it works really nicely with your scheme and makes sense. Somehow more horrific too, like it no longer looks like a pretty lady nestled amongst all these monstrous bits but more of a monstrous whole.

 Da Boss wrote:
Really like the choice to keep the wing "fingers" flesh coloured, I think it works really nicely with your scheme and makes sense. Somehow more horrific too, like it no longer looks like a pretty lady nestled amongst all these monstrous bits but more of a monstrous whole.

Well said (and excellently painted!)

Thank you very much Da Boss and Ninthmusketeer! It always amazes me the stories we can tell with our miniatures by just using colour and hearing your interpretation of this matching very closely to my own makes me very happy that I was able to at least tell part of the story I wanted with this model.

Getting into AOS after man years and Éditions away from Warhammer (5th edition I believe). Always had a soft squishy spot for Nurgle, so maggotkin looks like the way I’m headed. I prefer the fallen/corrupted human side over demon side.

First test figures including a model I had stored away from Hell Dorado I believe which may be an objective or a familiar.


Have about 1200 points assembled currently, two Maggotkin starters and a lord of Plague.

Hm, I really like the overall image you are going for here but the color choice just strikes me as a bit too... healthy? I feel like tinting the skin one way or another to give it a pallid/grimy/jaundiced look would go a long way. But that is only my personal opinion. Regardless I like the 'clean' and organised paint work you have done here, it looks like you really have an eye for 'coloring inside the lines' so to speak, in a very good way.

I dunno, I really like the palid, purplish skin tone there.

Thanks for the comments guys.

I really like the plaid purple skin tones over the greenish hues normally seen on Nurgle models. I really want to stress the fact that they were human once and have succumbed to the influence of Nurgle more than all things green = Nurgle. Once I start to develope my demon side of the army I’ll think about doing more green skin tones, but I just like the sickly rotting flesh, which may become my demon colors too.

Anyway my Maggotkin army has exploded like unchecked Corona Virus. I found some great deals on Maggotkin starters (so I bought them )
My Army looks like this to pull from.
5starter boxes of Maggotkin
5Lord of Blights
10Pusgoyle Blightkings
25 Putrid Blightkings on foot
1 Lord of Plagues
The Wurmspat Underworlds warband
The Glottkin
And conversion parts
The previously posted objective victim
The old Mordheim Town Cryer
And a new add on from the dents and dings.

A plastic mammoth from somewhere which has no ears, tusks or tail. Perfect starting point for a converted Harbinger of Decay. Hopefully no one would have a problem with it being on a larger base (shown on a 50x90 oval above).

Painted my test Pusgoyle yesterday.

Started on the Wurmspat.

And the old town crier is ready for a repaint.


Stay safe. Working at a hospital I should entertaining right now .

Spent around £500 on Ossiarchs, tools and paints.

Been meaning to do this for a while, and given I’m working from home (and given the IT problems we’re having, that may not prove viable much longer) I’ve more time on my hands. So seemed the perfect time.

Oh wow that paint scheme on the plague drone looks awesome!

As to base size, generally speaking having a larger base is OK (within reason) but having a smaller base is a no-no. Smaller bases are generally advantageous. Fortunately one can simply blue-tack or magnetize smaller bases on top of larger ones if it really comes to that.

My FW Squigs & Gitz have arrived.

I guess I can get to work on them this Sat as there's now no gaming. :(

Using my quarantine boredom as productively as possible. Never thought I would get around to doing the SCE.

Gorgeous, as usual!

Taking the opportunity to make some good progress on my Stormcast!

Lovely model Thadin! I really like the bone scheme and the contrast with the skulls. I noticed the fore-arm skulls didn't get done in the same contrast though. I think your armor could use another layer of highlight to really make it pop too, but may not be worth it if it isn't your strong suit (broad layering like that isn't one of mine). The model it beautiful as-is.

Very nice bone friend

Very different approach to painting these. Underworlds is pretty fun to experiment with  though. 

Nice work all around guys .

Elmir, those wurmspat are sweet. Cool idea and great execution of technique.

Brilliant concept and execution Elmir! Always a treat to see your latest.

Quarantine Everchosen!

Painted up a previously converted Bloodsecrator. Basically all contrast paint except for the metals.

So, my lockdown project has been finished. These models where assembled, but locked away into a shelf for a loooooong time... I never seemed to find the time to get them finished. That is... Until now of course.

I've decided to for a custom colourscheme/stormhost that I decided to call "the Templars of Solitude". Seems fitting for these times.

Only thing I’ve really done lately is paint a test salamander since I dislike the GW sculpt.

I am masss produsing Ogors.

Very cool Ogres making the most of the brilliant Skulls kit.

A Screaming Bell joins the army, might convince me to play lists other than Skryre Gun line now.

Currently rehabbing a bunch of misc. goblins that've crept into the boxes over the years thanks to being left overs from Ebay lots etc.
Forming them into units/adding them to existing units, matching paint jobs to my existing force....
In the end I'll end up adding a few more spears, 5 wolves (got riders but no mounts), and tracking down about a dozen oop metal forest goblin archers to round out the units.
I'll also pick up a "newer" 6e(?) Doom Diver to operate alongside my goofy looking 4e(?) one. It's not really needed, I just want one.

I'm slowly drybrushing my Shipwreck and going to start working on my New roman temple for armies on parade. I gotta work on my thralls for my idoneth, but now that I don't need them for a tourney my want to do something not an eel is quickly waning

I have to build some trees/AoS suitable terrain for my new table. The plan is;

Trees etc tonight.
Some hills tomorrow.
Some buildings/ruins Thur/Fri.
Run the sweeper & dust on Sat.

I bought a Morathi. Half assembled. If only this weather would balance out so I can get some basecoat down.

Bought a start collecting Idoneth box for my first ever foray into AOS, hope I get the time to assemble them before lockdown ends for everyone else and I can get games in.

I recently just finished the last model for my Spiderfang army (around 2000pts depending on Battalions and Endless Spells). Now I just have to wait to get them on the table. Going to need to work on a display board next.

Well I was going to start on my Fimir, then realised they had gone from the Forgeworld website (at least UK one).

I'm very out of the loop, though, I expect they went a long time ago and I just haven't paid attention?

Does that mean the Fimir that were sighted a while back at one of the Warhammer Fests (or some such event) are no longer being worked on?





Here's hoping for something in the future. Although I know they are not necessarily a popular race.

Some great work in here!
I really should get round to cracking on with some projects.

I’ve got all season 1 of Underworlds, or a load of stuff from Mortal Realms. Even my old fantasy squares I could work on a bit..
Just want a change from 49k

Worked on an Arkhan the Black conversion. With Mannfred soon getting done, all five mortarchs can be fielded at the same time!

 Wunzlez wrote:
Well I was going to start on my Fimir, then realised they had gone from the Forgeworld website (at least UK one).

I'm very out of the loop, though, I expect they went a long time ago and I just haven't paid attention?

Does that mean the Fimir that were sighted a while back at one of the Warhammer Fests (or some such event) are no longer being worked on?





Here's hoping for something in the future. Although I know they are not necessarily a popular race.

It was definitely a project they tried, but abandoned for one reason or another. I wouldn't expect anything based on Fimir to come out. Forge World is focused on specialist games, more than creating content for the Games Workshop tentpole games.

@Elmir, that looks awesome!

 jaredb wrote:

 Wunzlez wrote:
Well I was going to start on my Fimir, then realised they had gone from the Forgeworld website (at least UK one).

I'm very out of the loop, though, I expect they went a long time ago and I just haven't paid attention?

Does that mean the Fimir that were sighted a while back at one of the Warhammer Fests (or some such event) are no longer being worked on?





Here's hoping for something in the future. Although I know they are not necessarily a popular race.

It was definitely a project they tried, but abandoned for one reason or another. I wouldn't expect anything based on Fimir to come out. Forge World is focused on specialist games, more than creating content for the Games Workshop tentpole games.

@Elmir, that looks awesome!

Honestly, I think that they're just doing more Horus heresy stuff, which feels like the majority of their focus is outside of specialist games.

I will say I finally started casting my Hirst Molds, and I think I am addicted now. I made two roman pillars and some blocks, and now I want more.

Mannfred is now done too: 



This means all the mortarchs are now finished, so that calls for a group shot!



It was hard to fit them all into the lightbox though!

Update on the thing I announced way back in December/January (since I posted in this thread). PayPal never helped me with the counterfeit Varanguard models, but my bank did. Got the money returned, tossed the recast models and managed to score some legitimate ones off of Facebook barter groups (For less than the recasts, even). I officially have my 9 now, so my full Everchosen army is set, ready for paint:
Archaon
2 Sorcerers of Chaos
3 Varanguard w/daemon weapons (MoK)
3 Varanguard w/daemon weapons (MoK)
3 Varanguard w/ensorcelled weapons (MoK)
Allied Bloodstoker

I am still working on a hirst art roman temple , creating my own mini temple that will be for an elemental spirit / shrine to an elven hero, and I will soon create the larger one for the actual temple.

Got the "Aether War" box by accident. Seems like fate wants me to do something AoS at last. Let's see where this goes...

Finished the mighty Kharibdyss! Loved painting this, but kept painting and repainting sections using different techniques, and finally had to move on.

I love how deep the sculpted plates are on these plastic models, so it really has amazing textures to work with. After struggling to make the dark blue work on the back, I realized that using a light blue, not a shade wash, made the individual plates stand out so much better.

On to the corsairs!

Great job Mastiff. Such a great model.


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The Call of the Everchosen has been heard (How quickly they rally depends entirely on my procrastination level..)

Assuming I find the time, because life is currently absolute chaos in the worst way, I ordered a Darkoath Queen and plan to use a Chaos Knight shield (with daemon face), Varanguard spear, Possessed wings and the back head piece of a Bloodletter to create a custom Valkia the Bloody. Cloven hooves might require sculpting. Will post when done. Not buying that ugly resin PoS.

Been slowly working on my Nurgle Blightking army. Starting my 13week furlough from work today, so progress may speed up a bit.

Here’s where the army is at now.

I’m doing more fleshy skin tones than the usual green tones. Some other pictures from my AOS gallery.





So models that I have for the army.
The Glottkin
Lord of Plagues
5 start collecting Blightkings boxes
The Wurmspat from Warhammer Underworlds
Various CMON models
And air dry clay to make maggot-centaurs

Added a few more elements to the nighthaunt: 

The two limited editions. 





A conversion using the leftover parts: 



And finally, an attempt to speed up the painting for units that I definitely like the look of... But probably won't see much use. These glaivewraiths were suprisingly fast compared to the others, but still mix in well enough... Probably something I might explore further to flesh out the army more: 

Sorry, no pics, but;
A whole bunch of age old Goblins (& a few orcs) are getting closer to hitting the tabletop. The goal is early June....
Spent last night painting up a freshly stripped Leadbelcher - a goblin organ gun from 3rd ed. (we'll give it dwarf organ gun stats & pts + goblin crew when the time comes)

I’m going terrain crazy in preparation for armies on parade. I already built a small Hirst arts temple, and I plan on building a larger one, a hill for it to stand on, and winding road that goes to it. Hopefully I can finish all my Lumineth in time, assuming they come out soon,

Anyways, using the miscast template I managed to build an elven Waystones out of cardboard, and been working on it to be an objective marker for my army, or as a piece of scatter terrain / scene for my diarama.

That, and I have been working on building my foamcore skills up by tracing a Hysh symbol and painting it, all in order to practice for my big temple. Plus, I finally figured out how flocking works, and managed to do some pretty cool work on the Waystones to keep it from being yet another gray block.

Finished Gotrek as the final entry in our local painting challenge.

In addition to my Leadbelcher I'm now 1/3 of the way through painting the goblin hoard. 101 goblins painted up between 5/10-5/17.

While it's not strictly an AoS thing, I recently finishing up the first piece of an order from Tabletop World. Their "Ruined House" model. Got another two large models from them, a house and a windmill, and a smaller mausoleum and assorted tombstones up next.

 Thadin wrote:
While it's not strictly an AoS thing, I recently finishing up the first piece of an order from Tabletop World. Their "Ruined House" model. Got another two large models from them, a house and a windmill, and a smaller mausoleum and assorted tombstones up next.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

My Visa wishes you hadn't introduced me to Tabletop World....

Another house piece from Tabletop World finished.

I placed a big order from Raging Heroes a couple of days ago to start a Daughters of Khaine army. The minis look nicer and the total came to $200 less than GW. That said, they are a bit, *ahem*, NSFW, so no pics here I'm afraid. It should keep me sane for a while once the box arrives.

3 Tzaangor Enlightening, and a head-swapped Magister on Disk, since I wanted a Tzaangor Shaman instead.

I like the head swap!

But man, after painting 15 of those guys I never want to paint a single one ever again.

I only intend to pain 6, for now. Mounted models are always such a drain on my motivation to paint, I'm glad I'm getting them done for this army first.

 Amishprn86 wrote:
I like the head swap!

But man, after painting 15 of those guys I never want to paint a single one ever again.

Consider it punishment for how dirty of a player you are for running 15

But seriously, that head swap works really well. If someone did not know the miniatures they would not even see it as a conversion.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Amishprn86 wrote:
I like the head swap!

But man, after painting 15 of those guys I never want to paint a single one ever again.

Consider it punishment for how dirty of a player you are for running 15

But seriously, that head swap works really well. If someone did not know the miniatures they would not even see it as a conversion.

I only painted them for a major GT as BoC when DoK/FeC was top armies and before Disks was nerfed, went 2-3, not bad for fighting DoK and FeC... lol

Well the Goblin painting project, though it's gotten a bit bogged down here near the end, is very nearly complete.
Some misc pieces, around 15 goblins (mostly detail work), a mangler squig, & 12 orks to go. Oh, and I figured out a color combo I really like for my squigs - so repainting 15 of the little beasts....

Up after that I have some easy Sylvanth/Cities Of Sigmar stuff to finish off by July.

And then it'll be onto my DoK stuff - a min. sized Melusai Nest Battalion + Hag - build & paint 22 models by roughly July 11th. Once I settle on a skin tone that'll be a really quick project.

I got the shiny new elves and pulled a all-nighter to get them built and almost completely painted.



The Vanari Wardens have 3d printed total war shadow warrior helmets that I found online and modified in blender.


I am aware of the mold lines and don't really care.



I also gave an isle of blood mage a spare Dawnrider helmet to use as a Cathallar




*sips caffeinated beverage* I'm glad I don't have to work tomorrow.

Such brilliant minis. I like the scheme you've gone with.

The dark steel and yellow look fantastic, I love it.

For myself, I did some practice on Sisters of Averlorn, and going to have them as stand-in Sentinels. Going with mostly the box art, but darker gold, and I'm going to end up doing black robes, instead of cream. Still got to wait til Tuesday for my stuff to arrive. The ones in purple were me testing out schemes, and deciding I didn't like it.

Very striking scheme you've gone with on the sisters. I'd have been tempted to go with orange magical bows for the contrast with the blue but the green you've gone with looks nice too.

I'm not a fan of the new archers so if I end up collecting them Shadow Warriors can pull double duty with my City.

Ironbreakers for my City and the progress so far.

Looking great! Got any more big conversions/kitbashes planned?

Also probably of helpful if you end up collecting Lumineth, the Shadow Warriors/Sisters of Avelorn are just about the same size as the new Warden models, so their scale won't look off or weird when they're side-by-side.

Thank you. I'm doing 10 quick Irondrakes for my July pledge to leave plenty of time for August to be devoted mostly to my take on Teclis.

Original sculpt
OOP FW Dragon
Aetherquartz
160mm base (Pretty sure that's what he's on)

Cheers for the scale comparison. I love most of their range but nice to know the classics fit in if needed.

And now my hand needs a few days rest from painting Armor Trim: The Model

That's really nice clean work. Can't wait to paint him myself.

And this big badboy has been finished: It's a 3D printable model from Fleshcraft Studios that functions as a mourngul stand in.







Some chainrasp for scale: 

That mournghul looks awesome, such a high quality print too, wish I was able to get results like that with my own printer.

@Elmir - I must say the finish and texture on that miniature is absolutely beautiful.

A new member on the thread here! Hopefully going to play AoS with a friend who has already started collecting their army.
I just couldn't make up my mind on a force (I keep jumping between all of them!) so have ordered the big hardback rulebook - I feel I need to learn some of the background, look at the pretty pictures and hopefully get inspired!

So just to say have enjoyed reading a good bulk of this thread and seeing what other people have been doing, hopefully will have something of my own to contribute before too long!

 Elmir wrote:
And this big badboy has been finished: It's a 3D printable model from Fleshcraft Studios that functions as a mourngul stand in.

WOW! Brilliant fit with the army, and impressively smooth as ever.

More Irondrakes for my City:






And possibly the start of a new army but could also be a "Counts as" Alarielle for The Living City.

With the new anvil allowing for custom hero’s I’ve decided to bite the bullet and get this guy done.
It’s been nothing but cursed from the start though.

First incarnation was dragged up the garden and chomped on by a pet.

A while later I began to rebuild it slowly.
After getting to roughly where it was in the first place I moved house.
Sadly it got crushed by the company that were helping us move (2 warhammer cases got crushed, despite being labelled fragile)
To make it worse, some of the parts had got free in their truck, leading to missing parts.


Finally begun to rebuild it yet again though, hopefully getting it finished this time especially since I can use it in games.

Mounts mostly done (just some finishing touches & snow on the base) for my old school Arkhan conversion. Rider's about 1/4 done. Been working on this on and off for months now, will finally be finishing it just in time for the petrifex nerf to make him no longer good. :p

Memo to self: Do not photo green models on a green table.

However, made a start on my new all-Troggoth army - getting ready for a new narrative campaign!

I just finished painting up my first ever unit of Moonclan Grots. Haven’t got a good pic yet though.

Got the last of my Troggoths finished - some Rockguts and a Troggboss:



The thought occurs that I am not too shy from a 2,000 point force of these chaps...

All-trogg is pretty dam strong for a narrative campaign (they go 4-1 at tournaments), but at least there'll be pretty models to look at!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
All-trogg is pretty dam strong for a narrative campaign (they go 4-1 at tournaments), but at least there'll be pretty models to look at!

We'll be using this as the base for the campaign: https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/-jW22-Nj~Am44oF~.pdf

They get pretty well hobbled enough to make it fun!

Nice!

I have made some progress on my Slaves to Darkness army. I finished up all of the older sculpt Chaos Warriors which I already mostly had done. The I put into some work on the Warcry cultist. And yes, I do actually run them in AoS. Mostly from Rally the Tribes Command Ability from the Ravagers Damned Legion which is the best fit for a Chaos Warrior/Chaos Knight focused army as far as I can tell.


Chaos Warriors and Sorcerer Lords


Untamed Beasts


Raptoryx


The Unmade


My first fully painted army game of Age of Sigmar. And yes, it went horribly for me. Still, it was nice to field a fully painted army and when they look that good, they don't care about losing.

Putting it in a spoiler since the image is massive. Been a hot minute since anyone's posted here, thought it'd be nice to change it.

Brand new Gloomspite army under way.

This weekend I built......

3 x Rockgut Trolls, 10 x Squig Hoppers, 20 Herd Squigs, 5 Fanatics, 1 Loonboss on foot, and started the sub-assemblies of 2 Mangler Squigs.

First 10 Herd Squigs are in the booth, having had initial and touch up Wraith Bone base coat. Just awaiting the arrival of a set of Contrast Paints, which should allow me to rumble right through the irritating “painting your entire army” stage.

On order? New army set, 2 x Squig Herds and 3 x Grot Mobs.

 Thadin wrote:
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Wow!

That looks amazing. I am still rather intimidated by mine. So much so, I think it partly (a very small part truthfully) had me take a break from painting. Only this weekend has me back painting after a couple of months. And I still don't dare tackle my Lumineth. I know once I get a good system and some items done it won't be that bad, but for now, I am stick to the easier parts of my painting backlog.

Again, I am truly impressed by the crispness of everything. Incredible work there.

I've got to get the following built;
10 Khinerai (haven't decided between Lifetakers/Heartrenders yet)
1 Mega-Gargant (Gatecrasher)

And I've got to get a working Undead army drawn up as I just ordered an undead 1/2ling army from TTcombat.

Painting anything besides a basecoat is a Jan.2021+ project.

I've had grad school since August and put aside my paint brushes so I could focus on studying. Since I felt confident in the material and was up on my studying, I took some time to get some Warcry done. I split the Scions of the Flame with a friend who took the terrain and elf half. Decided on a Salamanders Theme with more dark brown skin rather than black. Had fun doing the flame effect.

An evenings work, with the models already base coated.

Yet to really decide on the basing.

Just did a test model for the Seraphon army I'm planning on starting soon. I've always loved the classic blue lizardmen look and so I'm going for that and have ordered some paints to help brighten up the blues a bit, and for the big beasties I'm planning on some more varied colour palettes. I had a lot of fun with the basing and I'm looking forward to some larger models where I can go more elaborate with it. I also realized I have several skinks I was given by a friend but not enough shields for them so I made a mould and have been slowly cranking out shields made of greenstuff and I'm pretty happy with the result now that I have one painted up.

Happy Holidays from the Gloomspites:

Great chariot conversion!

Few rounds of Heroes of the Hinterlands, in which a knight-incantor was being harrassed by Nighthaunts - mostly Banshees who just wouldn't take no for an answer.

Ultimately a ladies man with standards, and certainly the man of the match!

Picked up the second Season of Blood Bowl, using the Black Orc team as extra Ardboyz for my Ironjawz. I think I’ll use Varag Ghoulchewer as a warboss. While I was at Miniaturemarket today I saw they had one of the warcry Ironjawz boxes left. Grabbed that as well.

That brings my newest AOS army up to 1800 points.

Did just a bit of painting today, but got the full Black Orc team assembled as well as Varag and the troll, the ogre, Griff and half the human team done as well. I really love the character of the Go Lin’s from the Orc team.

Currently working on a Great Unclean One and finally finishing my Nurgle Start Collecting. I already had a box of plaguebearers done from the original plastic release, so now I have a nice little plague daemon army to mess around with. Eventually want to paint up my Stormcast Start Collecting for some Order vs. Chaos themed battles. Might add a couple of Beasts of Nurgle to the Plague Boys before then.

The GUO is a really wonderful model. So much character and a real pleasure to paint. Sat on my desk for ages because I was too intimidated to get going on it, but now that I've started I am really enjoying it.

Been a while since I updated. Finished the Alarith side, and getting back to painting the regular Martial Lumineth. Got the bases from Gamergrass, premade and prepainted because boy howdy do I not like making my own bases.

StoneMage


Stoneguard


The Whole gang of stoneboys


And a pair of Sentinels

The alarith really showed me where my mind draws the line;

Stone Mage: He's a wizard, wizards SHOULD be weird and flamboyant. If he didn't want to be noticed he wouldn't be on a carpet on a rock on a tree on some other rocks.

Battle Cattle: It's an immense construct inhabited by an elemental spirit. Symbolism and style matters as much as literal form when it comes to magic, and when push comes to shove it's a titanic ox-stone-man-thing that probably weighs a few dozen tons; it doesn't matter what it's shaped like.

Infantry: OMG WTF are those hats how do they do ANYTHING let alone fight.

But seriously, that nice crisp paint work goes very well with the models, a strong stylistic synergy so to speak.

Here's my progress on the Fatboi.




Lots of bits basically done now, horns and teeth need a wash, toenails and fingernails a highlight, need to dot out the eyes and weather the metal and cloth down, but the majority of the fleshy parts are completely done which is cool.

I love the bellymouth so I used it, rather than the guts. I think it looks awesome.

The base is a mixture of superglue and pva with patches of milliput and tentacles from this kit and the spawn kit as well as some eyeballs. It's gonna get a light grey undercoat and a heavy white drybrush and then a purple wash to create a sort of Realm of Chaos effect that I really like. Eyes will be painted out in vivid orange for counterpoints.

Lovely model, so much fun to paint and really easy to make it look good.

When the kit first came out I was really disappointed with the price. It took a bit to allocate funds but I did end up getting one. I was wrong. It is so worth it, such a fantastic kit in so many ways. Looking forward to seeing your completed rendition of it!

I was also really not sure about the price. The Great Unclean One has been my favourite Greater Daemon ever since I read the disgusting description of it in the 2e Codex Imperialis, and I have always enjoyed all the different versions of the model.

But I kinda chickened out on getting one for ages.

Then, with the pandemic, I wanted to support my local shop by buying something, and I figured feth it, what better to go for than the Greater Daemon of Plague. The guy behind the counter thought it was pretty funny.

I really had to psyche myself up to assemble it, and then it sat for months just undercoated and washed on my painting desk. But now that I have started it I am having great fun and although I know my paintjob won't be perfect, the model is actually very forgiving to work on.

And the second "mourngul alternative" from Fleshcraft Studios is also finished:

I've been paying my Greywater Fastness Army and have come across dilemma pertaining to painting yellow. I tried following the book method which is Averland and followed by a wash of Cassandra Yellow and then doing a layer of Averland followed by an edge highlight of Dorn Yellow. The result for me takes far too much time do to having to carefully use three different washes and the effect is a yellow that feels far too bright for my taste and too orange.

The other is a mustard route that uses constant use of a mix of XV88 and Yriel yellow which gives a more grim dark feel and feels to me quicker and less messy. Now however having painted several in the new fashion I am at a weird point where I feel like I should do something about the models painted in the old style as they look too different from that unified look I want

Ah, yellow. It is a color. That can be painted. Theoretically.

Yellow over pink is apparently a thing.
https://youtu.be/mmnPkiiswPk

My issue atm is more so wither I should repaint that old style or keep it as is. The mustard way I like a lot and is probs my favorite way to paint yellow so far.

Just need to figure out basing, but besides that, my first batch of Ossiarch Bonereapers are finished. Really happy with how they turned out, and I absolutely loved working on these guys.

Would it represent a huge expenditure of effort to repaint just the yellow parts on the old models?
If so, maybe the brighter-yellow guys are "fresh" and/or more elite and thus more clean? To give a little story to why they're less grimy looking

 BlackoCatto wrote:
I've been paying my Greywater Fastness Army and have come across dilemma pertaining to painting yellow. I tried following the book method which is Averland and followed by a wash of Cassandra Yellow and then doing a layer of Averland followed by an edge highlight of Dorn Yellow. The result for me takes far too much time do to having to carefully use three different washes and the effect is a yellow that feels far too bright for my taste and too orange.

The other is a mustard route that uses constant use of a mix of XV88 and Yriel yellow which gives a more grim dark feel and feels to me quicker and less messy. Now however having painted several in the new fashion I am at a weird point where I feel like I should do something about the models painted in the old style as they look too different from that unified look I want

Have you tried going the contrast method? You can get really easy yellows using the Contrast basecoats and those paints. Did it for my spiderfang army and it was a treat.

Elmir wrote:And the second "mourngul alternative" from Fleshcraft Studios is also finished

Inquiring minds want to know if you'll be doing more of the Great Rot KS minis, at the least the big things This big lad looks great regardless.

jaredb wrote:Just need to figure out basing, but besides that, my first batch of Ossiarch Bonereapers are finished. Really happy with how they turned out, and I absolutely loved working on these guys.

They look great, nice contrast between metal + bone going on.

 jaredb wrote:
Just need to figure out basing, but besides that, my first batch of Ossiarch Bonereapers are finished. Really happy with how they turned out, and I absolutely loved working on these guys.

Duuuude that red wrapping is such a good idea! Overall color choice is great, and you did nice crisp work. Good job!

Thanks folks! I picked up some Kavalos Deathriders, Stalkers, and basing material today, so getting closer to getting 1000pts of these guys done!

Just gotta decide if I build the Stalkers, or the shield dudes.

Gorgeous Bonereapers! Wasn't a huge fan of the model designs but you've made them look spectacular.

My GUO is nearly done, just need to glue on his flail. Very happy with the "realm of chaos" base on him, all my Daemons are based like that and it is a big departure from my usual "Earth and Grass" basing.

My undead 1/2lings from TTCombat have arrived! (So says the tracking #)
So starting very soon I'll be painting 1/2ling skeletons, 1/2ling mummies, 1/2ling zombies, 1/2ling ghouls, undead 1/2ling knights on ghost ponies....

The goal will be minimum 1k points in 10 weeks (by March 4th) as that's when the shops AoS escalation league begins. 1k pts will give me enough of a cushion to start with.

Rihgu wrote:
Would it represent a huge expenditure of effort to repaint just the yellow parts on the old models?
If so, maybe the brighter-yellow guys are "fresh" and/or more elite and thus more clean? To give a little story to why they're less grimy looking

Hmm, I think it wouldn't be too hard to go back and redo it with a paint over with light coats to redo it.

Having them be fresh or elite would be a cool idea but the color difference in the yellow is too different and wouldn't give off a fresh vs faded look.


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 jaredb wrote:

 BlackoCatto wrote:
I've been paying my Greywater Fastness Army and have come across dilemma pertaining to painting yellow. I tried following the book method which is Averland and followed by a wash of Cassandra Yellow and then doing a layer of Averland followed by an edge highlight of Dorn Yellow. The result for me takes far too much time do to having to carefully use three different washes and the effect is a yellow that feels far too bright for my taste and too orange.

The other is a mustard route that uses constant use of a mix of XV88 and Yriel yellow which gives a more grim dark feel and feels to me quicker and less messy. Now however having painted several in the new fashion I am at a weird point where I feel like I should do something about the models painted in the old style as they look too different from that unified look I want

Have you tried going the contrast method? You can get really easy yellows using the Contrast basecoats and those paints. Did it for my spiderfang army and it was a treat.

I have tried it but I didn't like this one.

Great Unclean One is finished. What a lovely model to work with. Bravo GW, it really is a wonderful thing.


Very pleased with the Realm of Chaos base and looking forward to finishing the last bits and pieces from my Nurgle Start Collecting and having a complete Nurgle Daemons force for small games.

I've got an ongoing thing of trying to get together and paint as many of the heroes that were made available for silver tower as i can... so here's a friendly little lord of blights!



he's still pretty rough and needs work, as i can see a lot more clearly now in this picture, ha.

Lord of Blights and all the similar chubby chaos warrior models are really cool. Bluish green is a good shout for the base coat!
Here is my completed Nurgle Army. Possible I might add a Beast of Nurgle to it at some point in the future, but for now I am happy to be done painting boils and guts! Most of this was painted last year but the one squad of Plaguebearers was actually painted ages and ages ago.


I think the thing I am happiest with apart from having a completed army is the purple "realm of chaos" bases.

Those purple bases really sing as an army Love the cool tone across all the lads.

My 5th AOS army(gloomspite gits, mostly squig style for now) 2k+ is almost complete. Just minor base detail to be done for 3 models and then do base and 2k done and painted.

So FEC, Lumineth, Ogors, Stormcast and gits done for 2k games. Next do the slaves to darkness. Then back to stormcast that have biggest pile of models to paint...

Been working on my Bonereapers. Finished my Boneshaper, 10 Mortek Guard, and a unit of Necropolis Stalkers. Really enjoying working on these models. Now I just have to wait for our lockdown to be over before I can meet with anyone from my club to throw them on the table.

They look great! the little streams of blood really make the bone pop

Thanks!

I'm painting them as the Stalliarch Lords, who are known for using fresh bone, which seeps blood. Lots of fun to add to the models and contrasts well with the bone.

I have started to add minis from Wargames Atlantic Halfings. Adds to the character of the army a lot.

Finished my Kavalos Death Riders

DOK all day Every Day

Ooo purple-rathi is nice.

Very cool Daughters of Khaine!


I also finished my Ossiarch force.



more pictures at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/796021.page

Well, I got a start on my new bone friend



More about figuring out colors than neatness. Not that i am ever about neatness.

Nice work!

I painted my Teclis/Celennar. I wasn't a fan of either of their faces, so I gave Teclis a light of Eltharion helmet and filled in the spirit of Hysh's face and painted a star scape on it.
I still have to paint some of the bits on the base though.



I also started Daughters of Khaine

Loving what you did here. That helmet fits perfectly and I love the yellow robes.

Two projects coming along nicely.

1) Undead halflings.
I recently finished cleaning & building a 2k pt Legion of Nagash force using TTCombat's undead halflings. As every model is resin there was considerable clean up & washing to be done. The clean up on each 1 piece model took as long as if I were building multi-part GW stuff....
And I think I have enough resin scrap to make a whole extra unit.

Last week 1k pts worth of these tiny undead hit the table for a playtest. Mostly skeletons & zombies + necromancer. The intent was to get some xp with thier magic.
It was a close fought game with the elves just barely winning.

2) I'm about 3 models shy of finishing building a Marauder/Darkoath themed Slaves to Darkness force. Lots of Msrauder foot, several horse units, + some chariots.
This week was thier initial outing. 2k vs orks & a solid victory.
A pair of things were made abundantly clear in this game.
First- I'm going to have to have some movement trays. Moving 80 guys on foot (4 units) is a PITA.
Second - bases must be color coded by unit for those foot guys. I had a heck of a time keeping them from getting mixed up when fighting near one another.
And as I've got mixes of ax & flail in each, the fails will need to be further color coded. So "green squad" will have green base lips with dark green for the flails, red/dark red, etc. I want to tell at a glance how many fails I've got in a unit.

Both of these forces need primed/base coated. Especially the undead.
All I need is about 2 hours on a nice day....
So far I've had time but poor weather, or nice weather + busy as ***.
And within the next 2.5 weeks I've got to get at least 500 pts of the undead painted.

I think they FAQ'd our units to not be able to mix loadouts so that particular color coding step might not be needed.

Slowly tipping away at my beastmen force. My productivity painting wise has fallen through the floor due to my job at the moment. But I'm painting up some Nolzur's Aarakroca and Harpies as "bird folk" harpies in a unit of ten, and I also have a Deep Cuts big minotaur (the Labyrinth Guardian) that I'm gonna do as a Doombull. Then it's just the Gnolls, chaos hounds and centaurs to finish.

As a break from all that brown and grey I also painted up some Tzeentch daemons, but I realised one of my screamers is missing a tail so I stopped while I make a new one for it.

 Eldarain wrote:
I think they FAQ'd our units to not be able to mix loadouts so that particular color coding step might not be needed.

Well that's inconvenient for StD players overall. There are reasons to include mixed weapons in units.

On the personal lv that FAQ change won't affect anything.
1) The force was actually built for more narrative purposes. It's meant for an upcoming scenario/event in our D&D game. I've found that it's easier to run mass battles using miniature wargame rules (with some custom rules to represent the PC party) than run things all with D&D rules. And Sigmar is a nice simple system that the non-wargamers in the group can grok.
I blocked out the forces using the Sigmar pts/unit sizes for convenience, but in the actual game the Marauders will be running about in many individual random groups of between 1 -? as they raid the town.

2) The people I play Sigmar with A) don't know StD or their FAQ at all. And wouldn't care if units have mixed weapons if they did.
They'd read the Tome, they'd read the FaQ, and say something along the lines of "That's stupid, it's supposed to be a chaotic hoard of barbarians waving mixed weapons."
So the color coding is still needed.

3) In the unlikely event that I ever used them in some more formal setting or vs someone anal about it? I'll just sticky tack spare weapons to the back of x models to create legal units. Nothing says the model must be posed wielding the weapon. Or can't be carrying around excess stuff they can't use.
Though truthfully for the price of 1 Marauder unit I'm sure there's something more effective.

They made the hand weapon the strictly better option anyways.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
They made the hand weapon the strictly better option anyways.

Not relevant to me considering the reason I built the force in the 1st place.
It also functioning as an actual AoS army is just a bonus.
As for how I decided wich weapons to arm my foot & horse squad models with? I rolled a d6 for each individual.
So there's a mix of ax/shield & flail in each unit and a mix of ax/flail/javelin in each horse squad.
Clearly I'm not building for max efficiency. (If I were I'd not be building StD Marauders

Dawnrider Banner. 4 of the unit done in total, will upload the whole squad when it's done, and a nice group shot too.


Auralan Sentinels


Auralan Wardens


I really need to get a different camera. The quality is nice, but the focus/blurring is so damn aggressive it makes it impossible to get good group shots, or looks at big/long models. Ugh.

I started my Nurgle Army in January, I always wanted a Great Unclean One and with a bit of time on my hands decided to get stuck in. I really enjoy painting Nurgly goodness;

Made up of A GUO (magnetised), Nurgle Daemons and Maggotkin Starter sets, Gnarlmaw, Chaos Knights, Lord of Plagues and a Chaos Sorcerer I've since added 10 more Blightkings and Gutrot Spume (unpainted just now, next to do).

I painted every model one at a time which is a bit of a departure for me. I'm so used to batch painting orks I forgot how much fun it is to just spend a bit of time on each sculpt. These were an absolute treat to do



This is my favourite shot of the GUO, he looks so disturbingly threatening from this angle.



What an awesome sculpt Rotigus is.



I like to get my money's worth from every set and magnetise all my large models to give options and variety. Not so keen on this head though.





10 more Blightkings to add to the army. I was careful to ensure every sculpt was as different as possible. Absolutely loved painting these.



Finished Gutrot Spume last night. Sadly that's it for my Nurgle army for the moment, I'd like to play it first before buying some more models.

Dawnrider Squad finished.



Another Warden squad.


Scinari Cathallar


Group shot with Wardens, Sentinels, Eltharion and the Cathallar.


And Teclis. Had the model painted for a long while, but put off doing his base for a long while since I really don't like doing bases.

Love that Nurgle, always good to see more painted GUOs about!

And dam that grey on Teclis really transforms the model in an interesting way.

Thanks. I liked the look of the white blue and gold as the main colors on the lumineth box art. But felt like stacking on more light colours, like the pale blues, pale yellow/tans seen on the box art was a bit weird. Sure, they're elves from the realm of light, doesn't mean they shouldn't have some dark colors to make the bright ones show up better.

Got my 30 Swordmasters table ready (still some details I'd like to get back to)

Painted up some base converters for switching between games too.

Got another batch of stormcast done today making finished models this month to 30(mind you most of painting was done last month). Noticed this put me over half stormcast painted. 99 completed, 92 to go.

Damn! Those green and bronze blademasters look really tasty!

More backlog clearing before the big new battletome hits! 

Lot of building & priming lately.
*2k pts worth of Darkoath/Marauder based STD
*2500pts of Undead 1/2lings (LoN)
*the War Cry: Catacombs set
*about 1200 pts worth of Chaos Dwarves
*and now just shy of 1k pts worth of the new Lumineth stuff.

*Tried a few skin tones for my STD & found one I like - for the Chaos Dwarves.

*Wrote up rules for an AoS map based campaign.

*Taught several people AoS & War Cry.

Once I get two more Lumineth Ballista built/primed I really need to get 500 pts of those undead 1/2lings painted up. (I got side tracked with Chaos Dwarves & new elf stuff)

Beautifully done Elmir! Love everything about this but the ghostly areas and that base are real standouts to me. If you don't mind my asking how did you achieve that ghostly look on this model?

I bought a bunch of Clear plastic totes and have slapped some magentic sheets onto the bottom. Soon I'll place orders for magnets. My AoS army is going to be my second foray into magnets. It will make things like Daemon Princes, My Warshrine and Eventually Archaon much easier to store and move.

 Elmir wrote:
More backlog clearing before the big new battletome hits! 

Spoiler:

 Destroyer_742 wrote:


I also started Daughters of Khaine

Loving the coral snake.

I made a start to my Nighthaunt army over the weekend. I'm working on making a fast but striking scheme as I've got 80 chainrasps that need my attention. I'm imagining that they're invading Chamon from the Necroquake and have taken on a metallic lustre with an oily look to their ethereal parts. Hopefully it makes sense in the fluff, I'm not very well versed in it yet.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
Beautifully done Elmir! Love everything about this but the ghostly areas and that base are real standouts to me. If you don't mind my asking how did you achieve that ghostly look on this model?

I gave the spirit parts a basecoat of baharoth blue, then hit it with ulthuan grey from the top with the airbrush. I then applied a thinned down guilliman blue glaze (should be able to use other bright blues as a glaze now guilliman blue is discontinued) and applied that quite liberally. I finished it off with a white drybrush.

 Elmir wrote:

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
Beautifully done Elmir! Love everything about this but the ghostly areas and that base are real standouts to me. If you don't mind my asking how did you achieve that ghostly look on this model?

I gave the spirit parts a basecoat of baharoth blue, then hit it with ulthuan grey from the top with the airbrush. I then applied a thinned down guilliman blue glaze (should be able to use other bright blues as a glaze now guilliman blue is discontinued) and applied that quite liberally. I finished it off with a white drybrush.

Thank you for the info, will definitely be adding this formula to my list of things I want to try out.

Crazy question for all involved here, but...

Does anyone with a Celennar/Teclis also have one of the Flamespyre/Frostheart Phoenixes? Do the little 'wing inserts' fit onto Celennar's wings?

I have a crazy griffin conversion planned and want to know just how crazy it might become....

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Damn! Those green and bronze blademasters look really tasty!

Thank you. It was a unit I wanted as a kid but never grabbed them so when a pile of them were available in trade a few years back I added them to the hoard.

@Kanluwen I don't as I made my own Teclis but that sounds very intriguing and I hope your idea comes to fruition.

Friend of mine doesn't want the Celennar from his Teclis kit...so it looks like this is happening!

Gonna use some of the "Build Your Own Hero" rules to figure something out. My first Vanari Lord-Regent had a build issue(the leg attachment point connected to the statuary tells you to attach the fully built kit to the statuary and that leg--boy howdy do not do that! attach the statuary leg part to the mount before putting the front piece of the statue on), so I have a spare mount.
Phoenixes came back into stock on the GW site yesterday, so I have one coming.

Now to decide on frost or fire for the griffin-ish creature.

Lumineth Loreseeker done



And a Starshard Ballista

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I made a start to my Nighthaunt army over the weekend. I'm working on making a fast but striking scheme as I've got 80 chainrasps that need my attention. I'm imagining that they're invading Chamon from the Necroquake and have taken on a metallic lustre with an oily look to their ethereal parts. Hopefully it makes sense in the fluff, I'm not very well versed in it yet.

Spoiler:

Mostly finished Hurakan Wind Spirit. Waiting for the bases I ordered to get in before finishing that up.

I am working on my stormcasts and painting them up like dark angels. They look a lot better than I thought they would.

 Asherian Command wrote:
I am working on my stormcasts and painting them up like dark angels. They look a lot better than I thought they would.

All Greenwing, or are you going to have some Raven and Deathwing in the mix?

Either way, sounds interesting.

 Thadin wrote:
Mostly finished Hurakan Wind Spirit. Waiting for the bases I ordered to get in before finishing that up.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Very striking whites and yellows, looking forward to seeing it based.

Just building as a distraction.

Decided it's time to start getting my Death forces going with some building. Multiple generations sit well next to eachother.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
I made a start to my Nighthaunt army over the weekend. I'm working on making a fast but striking scheme as I've got 80 chainrasps that need my attention. I'm imagining that they're invading Chamon from the Necroquake and have taken on a metallic lustre with an oily look to their ethereal parts. Hopefully it makes sense in the fluff, I'm not very well versed in it yet.

Spoiler:

Yeah that looks awesome! Totally fits with the fluff too, especially if they were from Chamon in life.

Cheers r_squard and NinthMusketeer! Knocked out 17 more minis for the ChamonHaunt over the last week and it's cool to see the force coming together. Only 65 chainrasps, 10 bladegheist revenants and a slew of characters to go! Is that snakebite leather on the bow @Thadin?

Oh wow those are gorgeous! Really fantastic highlighting work, and the liquid metal effect you have going, probably my favorite NH paint scheme I've ever seen.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
Just building as a distraction.

Decided it's time to start getting my Death forces going with some building. Multiple generations sit well next to eachother.

Wow, I hate that the new vampires stand almost as tall as the red duke on horseback. That feels like giving scale creep a footstool to stand on.

Voss wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
Just building as a distraction.

Decided it's time to start getting my Death forces going with some building. Multiple generations sit well next to eachother.

Wow, I hate that the new vampires stand almost as tall as the red duke on horseback. That feels like giving scale creep a footstool to stand on.

To be honest, they've kind of grown on me. The Vamp Lord on the back of the Zombie Dragon's pretty damn big himself as well - significantly so.

As someone said - WoW factor - I kind of like the idea that they're bigger than their lackeys due to raw Necromantic power. They certainly have the poses for it.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Cheers r_squard and NinthMusketeer! Knocked out 17 more minis for the ChamonHaunt over the last week and it's cool to see the force coming together. Only 65 chainrasps, 10 bladegheist revenants and a slew of characters to go! Is that snakebite leather on the bow @Thadin?

Dude! I wasn’t sure if I liked the scheme when you showed your first ones, but after showing a few more you’ve changed my mind. These look really cool. Really unique and very interesting!

Nice to have little Gobbla done to go with big brother

Finished my endless spell to get me in the mood to restart my DoK. With the release of the second army book and spells, it feels like they’re finally a complete army.

Rather than “blood snek dripping blood”, I’m going for “creature of shadow forming from eldritch sorcery”.

@Mastiff, dude that looks sick! Love the almost metallic looking scales going on.

@Mastiff really cool take on this!

I've been working on the Cursed City box:

Thanks guys!

Elmir, that pack of undead looks amazing. Really love the dirty, aged armour. Are you using metallics or greys as the base?

 Mastiff wrote:
Thanks guys!

Elmir, that pack of undead looks amazing. Really love the dirty, aged armour. Are you using metallics or greys as the base?

I started off with ironhands steel, but it got 3 different matt wash layers, so that really dulls it down... Makes the silves highlights, scratches and dents stand out a bit more too.

@Mastiff I'm absolutely in love with your take on the snake spell. Those colours are downright gorgeous together and the scales are so beautifully rendered, great job!

@Elmir Dude those skellies are amazing! They are dark and moody but without making them grimy to the point of looking messy. You somehow managed to make them look old and worn but with such a clean paint style that should not have worked for that look. I'm very impressed, great job.

Well done Mastiff and Elmir.

Thank you for the kind words folks. I've meanwhile continued with the first unit of 5 hexwraith alternatives from FleshCraft Studios:



A much better match for the current NH aesthetics than the old hexwraiths imo.

 Elmir wrote:
alternatives from FleshCraft Studios

Excited to see you doing more FCS ghosties, they really sing in your style. I KSed for them as well but will probably save them for a very rainy day/month when I decide to pump out another KOW army

Rn i'm workin on a 3-4 rogue idol bonesplitterz list, making the idols by taking a bunch of rocks, smashing em with a sledgehammer, then hot gluing em into shape. I'm just waiting for one to fall apart, the rubble crushing some other models on the table like they do in the rules

Well, our map based campaign finally got off to a start.
We'd originally thought that we'd have 5-6 players. Needed up with 8 (two of wich are brand new to the game).

1st evening was largely explaining the campaign system/rules, plot initial moves/attacks on the map, followed by 1 small game to teach the game rules to the new kids.

Finally got hold of Astreia Solbright in Mortal Realms today and spent the afternoon assembling the model.

Its a fabulous model that only cost £8 but there are a few noticable seams around the Dracoline's ankles and snout, which a tiny amount of milliput should fill them nicely. Oh, her left shoulder pad and the rock ontop of the statue head is also in need of filling too. The overall model - especially the base - is incredibly detailed and would recommend the kit even at its full price of £25.

Just an observation but on the website and some videos Astreia has gold plastic, but the one I picked up today was gray.

Game wise she'll be one of two Lord Arcaniums leading a unit of Sequitors, while the other Lord( riding a Gryph-Charger ) leads a unit of Liberators. I'm two Sequitors short of a minimum unit and I think I'd better hurry up and purchase a small pack of ETB sequitors - possibly Storm Strike - before they become discontinued with 3rd edition taking over soon.

In the coming days I have 2 units of sword/shield Skeleton Warriors (LoN tome as the new SB wasn't out yet when our League games began) to paint up beyond their basecoats.

Squad #1 tar pitted a unit of Bone Reaper cav - and killed 3! of them.
Yes, all the skellies were eventually destroyed. But this allowed another unit to A) hold an objective just long enough, B) by killing those 3 riders they ensured that the only way the cav could take that objective was to kill virtually all of the other unit. And there just wasn't time to accomplish that.

Squad #2? This unit stood their ground against Arkhan, put a few wounds on him, and urvived the battle with only 1 model remaining.
Most importantly that 1 model tipped the balance of who controlled the objective in this quadrant.

So TWO rando units of humble skeleton warriors have earned their paint this week.

My Stormcast model collection, by means of Mortal Realms magazine, is shocking leaving most as understrength units.

3 Sequitors including a Prime.
9 Liberators including three Primes.
2 Prosecutors including a Prime.
3 Retributors including a Prime.

...Not much I can do about the Prosecutors nor Retributors but there was an option for the Sequitors and Liberators; the ETB pack of 3 Sequitors and Steelhearts Champions. The later is pretty cool as I only need two standard Liberators and Steelheart himself is practically a Knight-Questor with a bit of conversion work, which would be £17.50 alone but I just ordered all six models for £22.95.

Nighthaunts fared much better with the odd overstrength unit by only a single model, but I've got 9 Grimghast Reapers. By the looks of it the Cairn Wraith is practically the same and I can get him for £8 whenever to make up the whole 10 models. But even without the Reapers I'm still looking at a 1,000 point strong army. Hurrah!

The new Orcs and Goblins aren't my cup of tea, but if the 40K Recruit Edition is anything to go by, the next small starter set for AoS ought to be a great way to expand the Stormhost.

Made a start on my Vyrkos subfaction!

I love when you apply your Undead scheme to another subfaction. Looking grand - dig the snow work on the log / base as well.

Elmer, you have convinced me to order Radukar! Fantastic work!

I've been thinking about swapping Radukar's head for that of a Fenrisian wolf, but not sure if it would be too big or too small. He looks a bit too much like Kratos from God of War for my liking...

goddamit Elmir..stop making us all look both bad..AND slow

I have been having weird times since april. April I finished almost 240 models. After that...0.

On the flip side I have tons of models started! I have the 6 stegadons and 3 bastiladons nearly done, 6 lumineths+terrain good start, Sigvald started and now got 10 bloodwarriors, 2 priests, whip guy, soul grinder and bloodthirster to most of colours base+shade.

Too many projects clearly!

At least Seraphon are nearly done...just bastiladon crews and then skulls for all monsters + hanging heads on stegadons.

tneva82 wrote:
I have been having weird times since april. April I finished almost 240 models. After that...0.

On the flip side I have tons of models started! I have the 6 stegadons and 3 bastiladons nearly done, 6 lumineths+terrain good start, Sigvald started and now got 10 bloodwarriors, 2 priests, whip guy, soul grinder and bloodthirster to most of colours base+shade.

Too many projects clearly!

At least Seraphon are nearly done...just bastiladon crews and then skulls for all monsters + hanging heads on stegadons.

Mate, the amount of models you bang out you must have a team of assistants or at least a Butler taking care of business.

My UW Kainan warband is done, but also ready to join my OBR forces!



Just give the OBR archers and chariots already!

I've been painting up my Sylvaneth in anticipation of 3.0. I've never played AoS before - I played Wood Elves in Warhammer Fantasy from about 4th edition all the way through to the End Times, so Sylvaneth were an obvious choice for me I'm really happy with the colour scheme - I went for a spring theme inspired by cherry blossom trees for those gorgeous light pink leaves.

Took me a bit but I got Kemmler done to go along with Krell after he was featured on the Hobby Roundup.

My Soulblights are not only now becoming a painting project... seriously, more effort than my Lizards... but also found themselves themed by Krell and Kemmler as a narrative - it's a Cairns army. Almost entirely Deathrattle, the few Vampires being outcasts and exiles - the Zombie Dragon Lord is going to be a 'black knight' as it were and the 2 Underworlds Vamps are going be painted with tattoos and brands to mark them as escaped prisoners or traitors. Ruleswise as tempting as Legion of Night is (ambush being the armies emerging from the cairns, the immune to battleshock trait etc) I think Legion of Blood just...works better for the Deathrattle buffs.

That is a nice K&K! I like how you stuck to a muted palette but still used a variety of different colors. I hope you are able to fix whatever mishap happened to Krell's axe, it looks like he was out in the sun a bit too long!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
That is a nice K&K! I like how you stuck to a muted palette but still used a variety of different colors. I hope you are able to fix whatever mishap happened to Krell's axe, it looks like he was out in the sun a bit too long!

Krell was very much a rescue that I got for free - involved having to pin the Axe, clean him up and redo his back a bit. I kind of like the curve. It's subtle but it works. It's grown on me to be honest, the idea that the handle is just a bit warped and not perfectly straight seems more organic if anything.

Love those two DarkstarSabre. Awesome army concept to build around them too!

First post here in this aos forum so hello really proud of my stormcast scheme. Originally I wantwd to start with nighthaunt but I kept the SCE half just in case. Then I had the idea of a Death knight themed stormhost and here we go

Those Stormcast are awesome!

The assault on the Pile of Opportunity continues.
I'm getting my Chaos painted up now and will reward myself with Be'lakor when an army sized amount is done.


Also rebased some classics from yesteryear

Bago wrote:
First post here in this aos forum so hello really proud of my stormcast scheme. Originally I wantwd to start with nighthaunt but I kept the SCE half just in case. Then I had the idea of a Death knight themed stormhost and here we go

That's a gorgeous Stormcast colour scheme!

Recalculating all my forces & taking stock of what damage 3e has wrought.

Got my Dominion set today. Then bought some new paints from my local store, and got a bunch of Loot for doing so, which is nice.

Dominion. Local store actually came through for me, which was great.

Want to get the new paints soon, however. But for now, trying to decide where to start.

Yeah I’ve just started on the Dominion Kruleboyz. Really enjoying painting them, quite simple and fun to put paint on.

Test run of my scheme on a Gutrippa, before I got to work on the mounted Killaboss. Hopefully finishing that up later tonight, it's almost all done.

Killaboss on Great Mawcrusha done

Nice contrast work there, very interesting color scheme.

Started working on first models from stormcast. 5 spears, commander and annihilators will be for ptg start next week.

Assembled, based and undercoated a Mindstealer Sphiranx. Its a lovely model and welcome break from the 40K Armiger I've been working on. I might start a WIP thread for this one...

Stormcast and Nighthaunt armies almost primed and will be giving them simple base coats and washes. Pretty much leadbelcher for the 'Casts and nighthaunt gloom for the haunts.

Haven't visited this thread for some time, but I have not been idle - it is just my miniatures tend to be about half-decent looking armies rather than the pieces of pure art that tend to pop up in this thread! However, over the past week(ish) I have managed to speedpaint about 2,700 points worth of Ossiarch Bonerepaers:







Trying to get the rest of the 'core' army (basically everything except Katakros) done by the end of next week. As usual, penned some notes on this along with a guide on how to tackle the army:

https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2021/07/06/speedpainting-ossiarch-bonereapers/

Those endless spells really pop. And I always love seeing glow-y weapons on OBR. Great work all around.

Unit of 10 Gutrippaz


Swampcalla, sans grotty.

No pics as I haven't painted anything, but I'm currently assembling the Stormcast Eternals from the Dominion set and I've got to say these are probably some of the best models GW has ever produced. So much awesome detail!

Once I get everything I picked up in that lot from eBay assembled I'll have about 3500 points to get painted. And that's on top of all the 40k and LotR stuff I'm doing. My pile of shame has become more like a sad Mount Everest!

Murknob painted up

Ah, thank you Mongoose Matt and Thadin, I needed a hit of plastic and paint.

Matt, the army looks great. I see you’ve got some brown bones in there that look ancient… can you include a closer picture of one of the cavalry? I love how it breaks up the appearance and reinforces the idea that these creations are built from multiple sources.

Thadin, these look great! Kudos for going a little brighter than the standard orc. Are you planning on painting the metal bolts on the pink sheilds and armoured bits? I think it would tie the model together a bit more.

…and is that Bernie Sanders on the standard?

I've been tossing around the idea of painting the metal bolts a different color, my main consideration being if I'd rather the models look a little better, to the detriment of my enjoyment painting them. Thus far, being lazy/happy is winning. Maybe once this army is done I'll go back and touch up some little details, but not right now.

Great to see the progress on Dominion on this page, as well as MongooseMatt's excellent OBRs.

@Thadin: I am currently painting up my Kruleboyz as well. Initially I was a bit intimidated by all of the detail but Contrast (or an equivalent) really helps in knocking them out quickly. Any plans on what colour you will use on the Hobgrots skin?

Matt's army looks awesome! OBR models are not my cup of tea but painted well they do look great.

Love the purple and green theme for those orcs, the colours work together really well.

Thanks all. I did one test run on a Hobgrot, pretty much just swapping the main and supporting colors from my orruks. Yellow skin as main color, red highlights, maybe find green somewhere. Very rough test run. I'm not building or painting any more of themm until I see the new Orruk book. Not a fan of the models or their rules.

Continued painting my frostcast. I tried a bit around with my airbrush and tried OSL for the first time. It was fun! And im getting more used to the airbrush.

“Does my ass make this Drakespawn look small?”

I took a break from working on Daughters of Khaine to make a couple more coldone knights. I absolutely love the Drakespawn models; I remember the Jes Goodwin article explaining the work he put into sketching and understanding lizard anatomy, and it shows.

But the knights were pretty static, especially compared to the models GW is putting out today. I’ve been diving into my huge dark elf and eldar bitzbox to build more dynamic riders to replace my old knights with something that fits the current style. But damn… the size difference is pretty severe. They look like they’re riding scaly Shetland ponies into battle.

Sigh. I wish I could inflate them about 20%.



I’ll use them as allies in my DoK army. Here’s the most recent scheme I’ve decided is finalized (lol, been saying that for years)

Good looking scheme on the snake girls, nice and cool. And yiiiiikes on the tiny ones, especially as they're such good old sculpts

 Mastiff wrote:
I see you’ve got some brown bones in there that look ancient… can you include a closer picture of one of the cavalry? I love how it breaks up the appearance and reinforces the idea that these creations are built from multiple sources.

As it so happens, I just finished off another batch of the Deathriders:





After the all-over Skeleton Horde, bits get picked out in Wyldwood and Snakebite Leather - has the exact effect you describe.

Great colours on those DoK, Mastiff!

I've not really kept up with AoS for a while, having mostly left wargaming behind for DnD these days, but even then I couldn't ignore that GW knocked it out of the park with the hero sculots in Dominion. A quick eBay browse later and I have Yndtrasta, with a Killaboss en route as well. I'm a sucker for angelic/celestial types so Yndrasta got painted nice and quickly, and will orobably make her way to the DnD table as a Solar or Planetar or something because this sculpt is too cool to just sit on a shelf.



I wanted to keep the armour a little more muted than the classic Stormcast gold, but also keep it fairly shiny and unblemished rather than heavily weathered. The wings and tabard were where I let myself play with some stronger colours, I think they frame the model quite nicely. The base has had the swampy battlefield theme enhanced with a skeleton and an orc skull in amongst the reeds and swamp grass, kist to add some interest to the bare areas of it.

It was an aboslute blast to paint, you just can't knock the quality of GW;s plastics these days. Any thoughts welcome!

Lovely job, love the palette. She'll make an amazing Solar.

Assembling some ogres for War Cry.
Hoy gak are these guys expensive in that system....

Cracking job on her there Para, looks ace.

I managed to get my Kruleboyz half of Dominion finished this morning. Excuse the one Stormcast in the group shot:

















Glad to have them all done before the imminent wave of new releases.

I decided to pick up Dominion after all, saw a head swap on the SCE and printed Sallet helms instead of the Blood Angels style death masks.


As usual I changed my paint scheme half way through (the above is the new scheme), so I just restarted on the 10 spear and shield guys.

Dry happy with this style of armor, I was not a fan of the older armors.

I got a promotion at work, and decided to celebrate by getting the kits needed to start this project I had been planning for a while...

Megogg, The Mountain King

Still some gap filling to do, and mushrooms and other small details. But its coming together and I'm really happy with the otherall effect!

Love it! Megogg looks like a lot of fun.

Is that for a goblin army?

So much armour plates to pin-wash and edge highlight and sooo much bones.

Get this done and 2k ironjaws nearly done.

 Mastiff wrote:
Love it! Megogg looks like a lot of fun.

Is that for a goblin army?

He'll lead my pure Troggoth army. Well, nearly pure. It has a couple of Goblin shaman.

Still loads of work to do on this guy, but its a lot further on than the last post so thought I'd update!

I took some pictures of my city of sigmar.

Got all of my current AoS Stormcast Eternals assembled:

Now I just need to get them primed to maybe get a bunch of them painted as a winter project. Thinking of doing a Hammers of Sigmar scheme, but with purple instead of blue. One of the hosts in the Battletome has that exact look (the Lions of Sigmar or something like that), so I've even got some fluff justification!

Got my Gobsprakk, The Mouth Of Mork painted up. Love this miniature:

Wow, that looks incredible!

Working on some barricades for a narrative game starring Flesh Eater Courts