Slowly building up to The Chamber Unleashed Battleplan, so needed some reinforcements for Khorne to stand up to the Extremis:

NinthMusketeer wrote:Nice looking horrors there, totally want to see them when they're done.

Thanks, just basing left, will probably be a while before I do that.

Dez wrote: I really like the green in the Blue Horrors...I think I'd like to see more of it in the Pink.

Yeah they were sort of prototypes.

Those Khorne dogs look great on round bases. Cool paint scheme too.

 Haechi wrote:
Those Khorne dogs look great on round bases. Cool paint scheme too.

khorne dog?

A lot of good work in this thread. I converted this piece because I wasn't sold on the new Stardrake and I've always wanted to paint up the Empire Griffin. The base has since been completed, but I am going back and working on the armor a little more.

That model is quite striking!

Holy smeg, that is an awesome idea! How hard was it to get what looks like the starter set Celestant on the Griffon?

 Paradigm wrote:
Holy smeg, that is an awesome idea! How hard was it to get what looks like the starter set Celestant on the Griffon?

Not as hard as you'd think. I used parts of the Celestant's saddle and then connected it to the griffon using some sprue that I pinned in place. I then green stuffed it so it looked like a continuous metal piece. The lower legs are taken from the Retributor Prime from the starter set - I bought two sets, so the other two are now part of a five man unit. The hardest part was getting everything positioned so if looked right.

that's impressive vash. I never realized how big that griffon is.

That looks freaking awesome. Would love to see more angles.

Awesome conversion there, Vash! The tempestos hammer looks more feasible to use (for the weapons' reach I mean) than Karl Franz with Ghal Maraz I think

@usernamesareannoying: yeah, you don't fully appreciate how big Deathclaw is, til you see him on the table lol. Or even better, in Total War.

Some more pics of the Lord Celestant on Griffin. Reworked the gold and magnetized the wings for transport.

Stunning vash!

Started painting up Gorbad Ironclaw, going to use him as a iron jawz warboss. Wanted to give him an awesome base to display how strong he is...but I'm starting to regret it...so much to paint!

Finally got round to the new Bloodbound characters, plus lumped in a friend from Warhammer Quest...

Some great characters there, Matt! Lovely paint job

holy crap jake...now THAT is a base. lol...

@vash - ok vash, now your just showing off with the close ups... outstanding

@matt - ok matt, ive sung your praises loud and clear but I have to ask... have you ever considered a different basing style? =P beautiful though as always. the 2 on the right are on my have to buy list, I love those guys.

Said it once and I'll say it again- stunning job with Deathclaw! That's a badass looking Gryphon

 usernamesareannoying wrote:


@matt - ok matt, ive sung your praises loud and clear but I have to ask... have you ever considered a different basing style?

Well, here's the thing. Yes, I have considered it but after having done 1250 (and counting) AoS models, it seems a shame to have some that don't fit in with the others!

MongooseMatt wrote:
Finally got round to the new Bloodbound characters, plus lumped in a friend from Warhammer Quest...

I quit. That's it. I just cry now when I see my paint work.

MongooseMatt wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:


@matt - ok matt, ive sung your praises loud and clear but I have to ask... have you ever considered a different basing style?

Well, here's the thing. Yes, I have considered it but after having done 1250 (and counting) AoS models, it seems a shame to have some that don't fit in with the others!

makes sense, I hadn't thought of it that way =p

MongooseMatt wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:


@matt - ok matt, ive sung your praises loud and clear but I have to ask... have you ever considered a different basing style?

Well, here's the thing. Yes, I have considered it but after having done 1250 (and counting) AoS models, it seems a shame to have some that don't fit in with the others!

@MongooseMatt - I can relate. I don't like to spend too much time basing and I use the same formula for pretty much all my armies. It looks like you are using tufts of grass - if you did want to change it up, you could always just add a static grass that was a slightly different shade rather than rebase everything from scratch. Cover the base to varying degrees, that way you could leave some as they are and cut down on your work. I've also seen people paint random objects like broken swords and skulls in quick batches - small stuff that can just be glued to the top of the current base work. A few strategic sprinkles of static grass around the object help blend it into the base.

Then again, 1250 models is staggering, and my friends and I have a saying, "Done is beautiful."

As an aside, let me also say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog. Your reviews are insightful and I like the narrative flair you give your battle reports. I am also staggered by how fast you are able to produce well painted models, which adds a lot to your battle reports. Your paint-fu is strong. Keep up the good work!

W.i.p. shot of my on foot dark elf sorceress




And a couple of W.I.P. shots of my black dragon betsy

Looking great CoS!

 Bottle wrote:
Looking great CoS!

Thanks this is only the start of the elves I've got I've got 40+ old spearmen to strip 15 cold one knights which either 7 or 8 of them are the old metal ones 10 dark shards 5 warlocks which id forgotten id got 2 metal bolt throwers to paint strip lol but they will all be having the light green robes to tie them together as one army

Starting AoS force for the summer campaign.

Well damn that's one pretty arkhan

Woah

Wow very nice.

@Elmir. Oh crap Great job. I would have snapped my brushes but I already snapped them because of Bottle, MongooseMatt and a few others.

You've made my sorceress and dragon look basic

Heh, there's something really beautiful graphically about where you placed the snow on the bases. I know it's silly, but I can't stop looking at it it's my favorite part of some beautifully painted models.

@Elmir those look absolutely gorgeous.

 Dez wrote:
Heh, there's something really beautiful graphically about where you placed the snow on the bases. I know it's silly, but I can't stop looking at it it's my favorite part of some beautifully painted models.

Oh thank you, those bases will get finished with some ice hanging over the rocky edges (by using a candle and a flying stand), so the snow is actually placed with that future addition in mind as well.

And thanks all for the kind words!

Champion of Slaanesh wrote:
You've made my sorceress and dragon look basic

Welcome to Dakka, where your modelling hopes and dreams will be crushed into tiny mounds of sorrow.

Don't worry mate, I feel the same

Elmir, I have to ask, how did you do that snow please?
Looks absolutely stunning.

The painting just adds to this 10 fold.

Can all you guys do me a favour please. Can you please use your other hand when you paint please. I tried painting today and I just wanted to cry and curl up in a corner lol.

Painting some dryads.

Only another 29 to go.

 Jackal wrote:
Elmir, I have to ask, how did you do that snow please?
Looks absolutely stunning.

The painting just adds to this 10 fold.

It's a mix of mostly PVA with sodium bicarb salt in it (some use baking powder, but that can turn yellow over time.. so I use the pure salt without starch in it), a bit of water and white paint added into it. It gets nice and goopy, allowing you to stack it on rather thickly.

Hello guys, i really like this topic a lot of pics and different projects, i follow it since the start and i found a lot of inspiration! So i decide to post some of mine to share like all of you are doing.

I present you my first 4 brutes of the ICE KLAW tribes, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Sorry for my bad english





more under spoiler seeing big size

Moghot, they are amazing!

Wow! Lovely looking Ironjawz there Morghot! Great job, man!

outstanding morghot.
it looks like a definte showdown between your orruks and elmirs undead is in order.
those ice themed bases are just to cool...

Damn, Morghot, those Ironjaws are legit!

Love those Brutes!

Morghot, che miniature belle!

I really think the new Orruk brutes are great figures. I would really like to see them painted with bronze armor and red clothing. Has anybody seen any like that?

Thanks guys! Unfortunately this brutes are only 4 because the fifth miss some part armor after a conversion, need some bits to re-complete it. The next in list are the gore gruntes (i will buy them in next weeks )

Those are some amazing Orruks, possibly the best I've seen yet!

I've just figured out a cheap way to maximize my black knight box a bit.

I still have a ton of leftover 40k cultists from the starter box... So I decided to cut them in half and glue their legs to the torsos of hexwraith knights.



Guess it's a cheap way to add some cairn wraiths to your force. The legs do look a bit bulky, but not too horrible. So yeah... cheap way to max out a box.

Should anybody know of a better set of legs to pair with these torsos, feel free to share...

Fantastic Orcs!

Hopefully with the forthcoming General's Handbook we'll see a lot more activity on this thread! Anyway, I managed to polish off a Mutalith Vortex Beast this week...

I forgot to post this, Dwarf Runecaster...or whatever they're called.

Morghot wrote:
I present you my first 4 brutes of the ICE KLAW tribes, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

You just made me get ready to order some Ironjawz and join the WAAAAAAAGH! I am really digging that color scheme, well done!

The boss is getting magnetized

Nice, great basing!

Finished my slaanesh chosen with greataxes and mirrorshield bearers.
Sigvald's followers know that people often get stabbed for offending the geld prince with their ugliness, therefore I only used helmeted heads so that they do not risk being deemed imperfect and therefore killed.



"Yes! you are most handsome!"



Sigvald is the best: https://youtu.be/wOxcAMEBSmM

Thumbs up for all the pic !
@LordDeth: wow your mawcrusha seems perfect for my orruks colour!

@SonOfSigvald: Supercool army, great conversion and bg!!

Here is my guy for Silver Tower. Now what kind of base should I put him on? By that I don't mean the size but what is fitting for the Gaunt Summoner? Not familiar with him or the lore so I don't want to just put in sand and paint over it.

Finished my Covern Throne.

Nice job there. I still have one of those to put together as well. Silver Tower took me off it.

@SonOfSigvald... my god man, that is some outstanding work. It's one thing to think up such a cool concept but to pull it off so brilliantly like you have is extraordinary. Kudos.

A bit washed up. Literally lol.



Time for me to change. I have become a miserable old fart at 47. You would have think I would have become better being in the hobby for so long, but this is what happens kids when you give up. Well now it stops for me. I will keep continuing no matter how bad my minis look compared to the awesome work here. I have been miserable for too long and that will change. Sorry if my work is not as good as a lot of people here but I want to be part of the community again instead of arguing with a lot of people. For that I am sorry.

So for now, here is my gang. Finally starting and not giving up anymore. I might be slow, but at least it's coming along now.



A bit dark, but oh well. Don't need to discourage myself anymore now that I can't paint and take pics LOLs.

Hopefully now with me keeping practicing I will eventually get better. Nice to be part of the group again instead of arguing. (Yes I know I argued with someone today but that stops now.)

Davor, looking at the (better) pic of your Gaunt Summoner on the last page, that is some outstanding work!

 Mymearan wrote:
Davor, looking at the (better) pic of your Gaunt Summoner on the last page, that is some outstanding work!

Thank you, that means a lot.

Davor wrote:
Sorry if my work is not as good as a lot of people here but I want to be part of the community again instead of arguing with a lot of people. For that I am sorry.

Sorry? The important is to share our passion, and pics in this case! Don't care about level of the work, each one of us have different skills and time to dedicate to this hobby, this is not a painting contest is a place to share our project! So don't feel guilty !
Sorry (truly this time ) for my terrible english.

And i agree with mymearan, the great summoner is really well done. Keep practicing and you will inevitably get better!!

I got more dryads done as well as a branchwraith. Trying to get through painting the leaves on a lord before the new releases on saturday.





Treelord at the moment.

So many leaves, it's like painting all the gems on Eldar stuff instead of just painting them like the rest of it.
And kind of inspired by the narrative stuff in the battle rep section I decided to name every single model I'm doing for Sylvaneth; with a random generator for anything not a hero or important guy like treelords of course.

Oh my Not_U those are eerie. Love the eyes as well. Great job.

I don't know if you need better lightning in your house or if those models are extremely dark. Either way, I can't see haha.

Here's my Sylvaneth I've been painting up over the last few weeks. Timed it quite well with the new models being released on Saturday! More details on how I painted the models can be found on my blog - http://talesofsigmar.blogspot.co.uk/







Also been making some Sylvaneth terrain using the Arcane Ruins and the Citadel Wood canopies.

 Haechi wrote:
I don't know if you need better lightning in your house or if those models are extremely dark. Either way, I can't see haha.

Yeh, I should probably try to get some brighter pics. I'll see what I can do.

Also nice, some more good looking trees.

Due to a mistake with packaging of my start collecting box (problem with the mortarch), GW instantly sent a second box to compensate (including ALL the other boxes too, so I basically got double troops).

I finished those extra troops today and... By using some old chaos cultists, tried to maximise the cavalry box by making cairn wraiths out of the remaining bits for the hexwraiths.

Enjoy!

Awesome minis! Love your photo setup as well... what do you use?

Really love those Wraith conversions, very well done!

 Mymearan wrote:
Awesome minis! Love your photo setup as well... what do you use?

Just a single flash unit in slave mode to my camera (an old "high end compact), the Fuji X-10. It does allow full manual control. This is just done with natural light from a window, with a fill in flash from the opposing side to compensate.

The background is from Corvus' miniatures blogspot, a RL friend of mine.

Those are some really nice spooky skeletons, only thing that seemed odd to me was the eyes but I'm used to the kind of crazy super glow eyes if the eyes are glowing anyway so don't mind that.



As for my dark pictures I managed to get some while at GW today after just finishing my treelord the night before.




Lost to lizards again, but I figure when I figure out how to deal with a bastiladon I've figured out how to deal with monsters. Hopefully the hunters will help with that a little, though I don't expect them to perform miracles.

Painted a test model for my Skeleton-only Vampire Counts army, thought I'd share it here



I can't get my camera to cooperate with me, so I did some cropping and colour balancing in Photoshop, resulting in more-than-slightly HUGE pics


I'm wondering if I should add some more weathering/rust/patina to the armour, what do you guys think?

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:


I'm wondering if I should add some more weathering/rust/patina to the armour, what do you guys think?

I used the Oxide paint on my Skellies, worked out well!

In small doses I like the oxide look, but I don't like seeing people drown half a model with it like it were a wash

A dust/dirt pigment around the feet would work nice as well. I can't remember trying the GW rust effect but on my old skellies I has just a watered down brown that went over the metals followed by a very watered down orange. They took the shine off so the metals appeared duller, dirtier, and starting to rust. A quick drybrush along the cutting edges of the weapons then makes them look like they have seen use again.

Everyone focuses a lot on the metals when weathering but the shield is a perfect spot for it, if not weathering powders then I'd grab a Tamyia red (or GW's blood effect) and brown (or any brown ink), mix them together, and splatter on some very old dried blood.

*Edit*
Oh god I found an imagine of one of my skeletons from waaaay back when I was playing them. This was like... 4 years ago now.


I need some eye bleach...


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So after not picking up a paintbrush for 4 months (thanks a lot uni..) I have something worth showing off.





I've got a ton of beautiful Dark Elves coming from the Raging Heroes Kickstarter and decided to test a scheme for them on a model I had laying around. There are a couple of parts of it that I kinda look at and think 'ew, no, this needs to be fixed' but for an evenings work after a break I'm amazed it turned out as well as it did.

I think it's also like my second time trying to freehand banner work. Funnily enough the last time I did it was also for Dark elves about 4 years ago, alongside that crappy wight king:

Wow, that banner is lovely. Also love the colour transition on the cloak and banner. Great work.

Thanks

Looks amazing Jono. You've really improved a lot over those 4 years.

Although I think you're modelling for advantage. That tall base is obviously so you're in range to hit flyers, right?

Of course not, it's so he can wave his banner while being too tall for other people to hit him!

Great job there Ezra, I don't think you need to add in more rust. looks great.

Beautiful job there Jono, nice job. Looking forward to see the entire formation there.

Finished a Knight Questor just now (well nearly finished):

Thanks Mymearan, just snapped my brushes again.

I might have to borrow some of your ideas there, I like them a lot.

Thanks, yeah he was a blast to paint. Didn't like the gold and blue scheme from GWs pictures but it looks much better when you see it in person I have to say.

First of the Sylvaneth all painted up, just needs varnished after that flock in the base fully dries. Did one the things where other than the base and eyes, the model is painted entirely in one single color base coat, in this case bone, and then different washes are used to color it.

The eyes I used as a first test bed for GW’s new gem glazes, and painted them the new metallic silver with a single thick coat of the blue gem. They’re tiny, but they look nice, and I’ll definitely have to play with these colors more to try out some different effects.

 Mymearan wrote:
Finished a Knight Questor just now (well nearly finished):

Spoiler:

Nice one. Really like the effect on his blade!

Took a bit longer than I had intended, but the Lightning Echelon of the Hallowed Knights' Extremis Chamber is done!







Going to be starting the Thunder Echelon this weekend, then I'll just have two Stardrakes to do and the Chamber will be done!

Got myself 0 DarkShards to paint like my Executioners: as living statues. Primed them, waiting to get round bases for them.
This saturday am also getting Drycha Hamadreth.

Two courtiers finished for my undead army. One standard varghulf courtier and one conversion of a Crypt ghast courtier, Both belonging to Vlagorescu's horde.


The crypt ghast courtier, Romanescu the engorged, makes sure that all the food at the court's banquets is of high enough quality for his king... Explaining his "enlarged physique". In battle, he valiantly wields the king's banner around to muster the ghouls to him. To any sane man, he's just wielding a half rotten corpse around like a deranged lunatic...

Lovely job Elmir

I like the pose of the varghulf, it's like he is bowing in a courtly manner.

I am in love with that cloak. Words I never thought I'd say.

Finally got round to doing a variant Bloodthirster - way easier/quicker than the first one I did last year, so I must be improving!

@Elmir: Quite possibly my favourite looking undead force I've seen so far. Everything about it looks fantastic.

Working on a Freeguild Guard Militia unit, here's the first:



I tried really hard to improve my painting with this one and I am happy with the result! :-) The rest of the unit will follow shortly.

Real nice painting bottle

Where's his shoes?

Thanks man! His shoes were left behind in one of the Mortal Realms... sadly he cannot remember which.

motski wrote:
Real nice painting bottle

Where's his shoes?

Pff. Shoes are for wimps! lol.

Love the red effect on his cheeks and nose.

 Bottle wrote:
Thanks man! His shoes were left behind in one of the Mortal Realms... sadly he cannot remember which.

Is that going to be the next set of books after the realmgate wars finishes up? The hunt for good soles, Chaos boots, godlaces!?!

AduroT wrote:First of the Sylvaneth all painted up, just needs varnished after that flock in the base fully dries. Did one the things where other than the base and eyes, the model is painted entirely in one single color base coat, in this case bone, and then different washes are used to color it.

Great looking Treeman Aduro, look forward to more

Elmir wrote:Two courtiers finished for my undead army. One standard varghulf courtier and one conversion of a Crypt ghast courtier, Both belonging to Vlagorescu's horde.

Rock solid deadites, special props on the Ghast

- Salvage

Got all my Sylva assembled

was looking to make them winter themed

Anyone know a quick way to do it?

I was thinking prime white and do lots of washes, but not sure what washes would work to capture winter?

I think the best way to do winter is to remove all the leaves, paint the bark very dark, and have snow on the base and even maybe some parts of the minis.

Not sure if they still sell it or not, but the painting wood elves guide GW put out a couple of years back was really good, and it had guides for painting wood elves and trees for all seasons.

The winter dryads looked great and it what I will base mine off when I get around to them.

They were mostly done with a lot of dry brushing, rather than washing, but I could stick the list of colours they used up if you like.

I will be leaving the leaves on, but doing them rather dark, but mysterious/fantasy colours, but leaving them off is a good option. I'm choosing to paint them as will bring a lot of colour to them- so they look less out of place going up against my night goblins-which though are in black, are very bright and cartoony.

I got my converted Necromancer finished, I used some Nihilak Oxide this time (although not for weathering)







A powerful Necromancer-turned-ghost after a freak accident, Virgil roams the Mortal Realms eternally, looking for eldritch knowledge, writing poems about his half-life and guiding those who call upon his aid through the darkest ruins and crypts of the Realms.

Now, the Necromancer accompanies the Slave-born King, who quests to reclaim mortality for himself and his kingdom, and in doing so, break the final chains binding them to the Realms...

Furiously rebasing and painting my Chaos forces for the Season of War and the LVO

Started to work on them. The plan was to do Winter....when turned into fall. Not sure how but sticking with it. I have about 80 more to do..

Base of Army painter white (which is horrible. I will never buy them again. Paint dried dusty, some came off, and left a white dust all over desk, plus it looks grainy. Which for trees isn't bad but id prefer smooth)

Then I washed them all in Seraphim Sepia

Then a wash of either Casandora Yellow, Fuegan Orange, or Blood letter glaze

Green eyes with a little highlight. Leaves alternated dependent on their base so it was different.

what would be a fast but good way to base them for the fall?

What would look amazing for a fall sylvaneth army basing would be to have the ground covered in dead leaves. I don't know how to make it, but it would look fantastic.

Just would look around at places that sell stuff for model railways, they'd be likely to have something like a dead leaf flock I'd think.

I ended up trying this.

Mixed green tea with Chai Rooibos. Little more colorful in person

To much to have the whole base like that? Maybe better to do Lustrian Undergrowth texture paint on all bases then spots of the tea mixture?

I think you're right that it might look better used minimally with a texture paint. Maybe do one up to compare. Regardless it will be a very aromatic army

Finished Orghotts Daemonspew

Looks freakimg awesome Discoking! Wow!

Well that looks truly disgusting DiscoKing. Nice job! Love the greens on the Maggoth beast

That is just gross Disco King. Great job there in making be go "blub".

Nicely done. Those Maggoth Lords are a lot of fun. Thinking of getting another.

Do love Maggoth Lords done right. Nice work.

More Champions of the Pantheon.



And the army so far.

More stuff added!















Only the crypt ghouls left before Vlagerescu's horde is finished!

Lovely stuff here

Wow theres been a lot of lovely work posted over the last fortnight!

I've decided to make a start on my dark aelves as my first aos army. Here is a wip/mockup of a cold one chariot.

I've decided to go with a city under siege look, however i found it was easy for the base to look very bland with just greys. I've tried injecting some colour with the blue tiles, corpses, blood and some osl. The osl seems heavy handed in the photos but i can assure you in real life the colours aren't as saturated.

Here is a pic of my ardboyz banner bearer.

That a Star Drake head?

Curry I usually like what you do but here I think it's just too much airbrush. It looks weird.

 Haechi wrote:
Curry I usually like what you do but here I think it's just too much airbrush. It looks weird.

Unfortunitly i agree, theres no definition, the base is nice but the rest is just powery dusty smear of colour. Very beautiful colour but that may be its just a base coat. Maybe once all the details are filled in and edges are highlighted it will pull it together.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
That a Star Drake head?

yes, I used the spare one from the kit.

Makes a great standard.

Rebasing my Doombull and doing up 20 Plaguebearers next.

 Haechi wrote:
Curry I usually like what you do but here I think it's just too much airbrush. It looks weird.

It says wip/mockup, he's just done the first layer with the airbrush and no details yet, that's how it looks. Will probably look killer when finished.

Been a bit of a slog, but I have finally finished all the Dracothian Guard I was planning to do, by adding a full Thunder Echelon!



Just got the two Stardrakes to do now, hoping to get them done over the next few days!

It's upsetting to see how quickly you paint up these minis Matt lol.

Been working on my AoS Plog quite a bit recently.

Link should be in my sig!

*shameless blog plug*

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Did a little on the Lord Relictor last night. Mainly layering up his armour and some of the smaller details. Wondering if I should just leave his parchment cloak off and leave him as is? He's quite a busy model as it is, so I don't think it'd hurt to leave it off. Apologies in advance for the photo quality, it was quite late!

ie this bit(not my pic):



Here's the Lord Relictor so far(can zoom in on the Gallery if you click the photo):

Lovely stuff as per usual Matt. Has GW reached out to you to do the AoS Batreps in the new WD? Yours are very entertaining and your painted collection rivals theirs at this point!

 Eldarain wrote:
Lovely stuff as per usual Matt. Has GW reached out to you to do the AoS Batreps in the new WD? Yours are very entertaining and your painted collection rivals theirs at this point!

I haven't really had anything to do with White Dwarf for years now!

Working on a fun tribe of Bonesplitterz, here is the first test subject!
Will send group pictures once I have more!

Very cool Voodoo/Uruk Hai vibe there. A horde done up that way would look really striking.

Segmenting the face paint to more closely mirror the facial bone structure the way the rest of the figure has might look even better.

Yeah looks awesome! You need to give all your wizards top hat with feathers to make them look like Witch Doctors. Anyway, can't wait to see the first unit!

I "finished" (always a couple small bits to do) a unit of 3 beastmen chariots yesterday. I feel really satisfied with the end result. The "tuskgors" are from the OK range and have been converted with sculpted armor plating to cover the saddle area. The chariots chassis started out as left overs from the high elf chariots I bought years ago for the lions. The bestial aspect includes spare horns, knives, hooks from the OK kit. The addition of additional beastmen bits removes any remaining elfishness. Cutting and scoring each individual tile for the bases was a little boring, but I really like the way the bases turned out.










More pics from WIP:

Mournfangs look great as mounts, very smart - and sweet results

- Salvage

First dogs of war Ogre Unit!

Shatter Maw Bone Crushers

sick.
love the head on the far left one.

Those mournfang chariots are amazing.

str00dles1 wrote:
Base of Army painter white (which is horrible. I will never buy them again. Paint dried dusty, some came off, and left a white dust all over desk, plus it looks grainy. Which for trees isn't bad but id prefer smooth)

I believe that means you were holding the can of primer too far away from what you were spraying, causing it to dry in the air before it got to them.

Yes, as someone who sprays 90% in White and occasionally in black - I will say you need to hold the white can closer to the model than you would a black can.

Night goblin spider riders with a big boss and a shaman.

Those are very cool indeed, where are the spiders from?

Storm of Sigmar arrived this morning, so a couple of test paints:

Stormcast of the Knights Vitae Chamber, in marble armour and carrying weapons infused with the power of the Realm of Life:


And a Blood Warrior Champion, my aim here being to use minimal red a) as red Gorechosen are ten a penny and b) hats aside, I can pass them off as generic barbarians ect in other settings and games, or add some Slaves to Darkness down the line that don't need to be Khornate:


Any thoughts welcome!

Nice stuff Para. Really well executed and the touch of gold I especially like. Great work.

 Haechi wrote:
Those mournfang chariots are amazing.

Thanks!

Love your painting style Paradigm, very realistic and gritty looking. Non-red khorne looks amazing

Not the greatest photo, but quite possibly my greatest achievement with painting. This may have been the quickest mini I have ever gone from buying to painting to finishing in 20+ years of hobbying. From buying on Thursday to painting last night and basing him today. Most of my minis from the 1990s are still waiting to be painted!



Was ok with the paint job until I tried to go to the next level with it and add some glazes (copying from the Warhammer TV Nagash guide) and felt it ruined the ghostly effect (the citadel glazes are a lot stronger than they used to be!) by giving it a cartoony glow. Saved it the best I could and hope that it wont be too noticeable (other than on the ghost face on the top right!) when I do the other two and I skip over the extra steps.

Meant to be painting more goblins ( I have about 400 hundred waiting to be finally done) but I couldn't resist a death box to paint up- especially as my other half is getting quite a large number of trees next week to go with her wood elves back log I'm still too paint! (not too mention all the scenery shes brought I'm still to paint as well!)

Nice job there Rex. That mini made me almost pull my hair out. Had a hard time gluing that baby together. Once painted, I am happy with what I did as well. I am hoping the other 2 will be easier to put together. Right now, I but that box set on hold now because how frustrating it was for me to do.

Looking forward to see more of your army.

Here's where we are after today's painting. Should have the Storm of Sigmar set finished up tomorrow!

Davor wrote:
Nice job there Rex. That mini made me almost pull my hair out. Had a hard time gluing that baby together. Once painted, I am happy with what I did as well. I am hoping the other 2 will be easier to put together. Right now, I but that box set on hold now because how frustrating it was for me to do.

Looking forward to see more of your army.

Thanks! Yeah, tell me about it. I wouldn't suffer spirit host building on my worst enemy! They are horrid to put together! I'm actually going to start work on the mortis engine first, just to skip having to put together another one so soon! I'd kept thinking I must have cut the connector tags off parts of the mini!


@Paradigm They are fantastic. I love your Khorne guys, so much better than the red/brass standard GW has set for them!

Picked up the Khorne half of the starter set from my FLGS a couple weeks ago. Ordered the KBB battletome and an Exalted Deathbringer with Impaling Spear scheduled for delivery on Friday. Have the Gorechosen game set to notify when it is back in stock. Purchased Silver Tower for 20% discount at a con this weekend.

The thought occurs: At some point, I actually need to paint this stuff.

P.S. What's that? A Start Collecting: Khorne Bloodbound kit? GW seems to be offended at the very idea of my having money!

Those stormcasts are the first stormcast I have seen that actually look really good, and those Khorne guys are actually making me contemplate making a Khorne warband

I'm actually contemplating expanding the Khorne lot myself. Initially, I wanted them just to paint up and use as a warband in assorted skirmish games, but they were good fun to paint and I don't usually play 'bad guy' forces, so it might be a nice change of pace. I was going to get the Start Collecting Stormcast box next, but I might just upgrade to the main starter set instead...

Mannfred is done! Having a bit of an 'issue' with the wings on my Stardrakes, so I took some time out and finished the Betrayer...

Finished the great maw for our GHUR battle coming up in August to decide our Azyr Empires champion.

That is fething cool!

Woah, that looks nasty. Great work!

Awesome work! And happily he's no slouch in game, would guess he's in the running for toughest warscroll

- Salvage

I love the drooling maw you've done there Auticus. Looks very much like it's burst out of the ground and roared at someone.

 auticus wrote:
Finished the great maw for our GHUR battle coming up in August to decide our Azyr Empires champion.

Dude, all these posts on the AoS board and this is the first time you show off your awesome painting! Show us more of your stuff!

Man all these images is making me feel bad about my painting. Gotta work harder and become good like you guys and gals.

So I bought multiple starter box sets and came up with the following by taking the relictor body and adding bits from Stardrake kit.



Relictor, Castellant, and Celestant.

Thanks

I've posted a few things just sporadic. My next project is the troll hag. I'm sculpting her a crown as she is Throgg's consort in my army.

After that I begin work on the new AOS table set in the realm of metal. I'll post pictures of them as I complete them. I normally post a bunch on facebook and my twitter. (@auticus)

So I used Vlagorescu's horde to make 6 crypt horrors, a crypt haunter courtier and a crypt infernal courtier. Sadly, this left me with 1 leftover crypt horror that really isn't ideal for matched play. So I tried my hand at sculpting some furr and turn the last model into an alternate Varghulf courtier.

I also added a bone tail with fur to him, to at least try to make him resemble the original varghulf model a bit more (also the reason for the "quad wings" with 2 smaller ones, like the original varghulf has). A bit of metal wire and miliput also spread the wings out a bit to repose him slightly, giving him a more imposing stance.

Also, I took a picture of the overview of the army. Just the crypt ghouls left and they are almost done!

Some of my khorne (the only actually, im slow as hell ),the Wasteland Warriors:

I just started testing bases for my Bloodbound.

Not as flashy as built and painted models, but I am crazy picky about my bases.

Check out my blog (in sig) for more pics of bases and some other stuff about my Khorne BB.

Eww, square bases...

 Haechi wrote:
Eww, square bases...

It is a test base. I don't want to waste my round ones on potentially failed bases. Check out my blog post on it. It took me a bit to get to this style, which I like.

 Haechi wrote:
Eww, square bases...

And nothing wrong with square bases. It's his money, his time, his love. He shouldn't have to make an excuse because some people frown on this.

Awesome job, love the base.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 Haechi wrote:
Eww, square bases...

It is a test base. I don't want to waste my round ones on potentially failed bases. Check out my blog post on it. It took me a bit to get to this style, which I like.

Alright, I actually did the same with an old square based a couple days ago as well ^^

 Haechi wrote:

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 Haechi wrote:
Eww, square bases...

It is a test base. I don't want to waste my round ones on potentially failed bases. Check out my blog post on it. It took me a bit to get to this style, which I like.

Alright, I actually did the same with an old square based a couple days ago as well ^^

Yea, there is a good use for the old squares after all.

Now that Ogors (lol) are getting updates, I will have to rebase that army. Thankfully, they never made it onto the bases, so I get to find creative ways to cut my squares and glue the tops onto new rounds.

SOUNDS LIKE FUN, AMIRITE?!


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Davor wrote:

 Haechi wrote:
Eww, square bases...

And nothing wrong with square bases. It's his money, his time, his love. He shouldn't have to make an excuse because some people frown on this.

Awesome job, love the base.

Gracias!

I will be adding some airbrushed inks, I think, to spice up the colors and make it a bit otherworldly. Plus, tufts! Everything's better with tufts!

Morghot wrote:
Some of my khorne (the only actually, im slow as hell ),the Wasteland Warriors:

Spoiler:

No shame in a slow painting pace here, these are excellent! The skin and gore effects especially are just great, nailed it man!

Oh, these were a pain! But, they are finally done - two Stardrakes for the Extrenmis Chamber:



The majority of these models is dead easy to do, but those wings... ugh!



The wings require a fair bit of precision, and that is... not really me!

Those are awesome, Matt! Great job!

Started on an Armies on parade board for my flesh eater courts. Very early WIP.

MongooseMatt wrote:
Oh, these were a pain! But, they are finally done - two Stardrakes for the Extrenmis Chamber:


The majority of these models is dead easy to do, but those wings... ugh!

I am almost finished with my stardrake, and I'm on the wings right now. By far the hardest part of the model. I wet blended from a purple to a red, and now I'm trying to keep that clean as I paint the spines between the membranes..... maddeningly slow. A WIP picture from earlier this week.



I also worked on magnetizing the rider a bunch (you can see the templar's body can be switched in in the picture above), and the chair is also magnetized.

Lots of sub-assemblies. Waiting for the new basing kit to come out this weekend to work on his base!

Awesome work so far, Elmir

Loving your Stardrakes Goddin, the wings look awesome so far!

Nice job on the Drakes!

Rebased some of my old Spider Riders which i painted a few years ago. Starting to paint some more which i won cheap on eBay, still bidding on another set of 10 for cheap hopefully.
Afterwards I just the the Grot boss on spider, and the Arachnarok and I've got my 1000pts

Got two storm casts done. Had no clue what to do so I went with the gold so I can learn how to paint gold. Damn this is hard. Waiting for my AoS bases to come in. One a day taking me almost 6 hours just to do one. Argh. Well got to start somewhere.

Going with the Hammers of Sigmar chamber eh, Davor? If you wanted, you could add some markings to the shields, to denote which unit is which.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Going with the Hammers of Sigmar chamber eh, Davor? If you wanted, you could add some markings to the shields, to denote which unit is which.

Only going with what came in the Starter set. I lost one, bought another one, and then found the one I lost. So know I have 2 sets of them. I guess they will be Hammers of Sigmar or formerly Hammers of Sigmar.

I just started out with AoS (have yet to play a game) by buying the King Vlagorescu's Ghoulish Host box for Flesh Eater Courts. I finished my first unit, 3 Crypt Horrors, today. Overall I'm pretty happy with how they turned out: I paint in a very dark, gritty style reminiscent of Historical wargaming in part because I don't like bright/clean looks (except on Space Marines haha) and in part because I'm lazy so I like to use a lot of washes and drybrushing. Brief rundown is that I basecoated with Rakarth Flesh, washed with Reikland Fleshshade to make it look more human with a ruddy color, then gave a heavy drybrush with Rakarth Flesh followed by Rakarth Flesh with a little Army Painter Necrotic Flesh to bring back that "not quite human" look. This was also my first time trying out the Blood for the Blood God paint and holy crap it's amazing.

Not working out as i thought. Suppose to be my Chaos Stormcast. To dang bright. Next text subject will hopefully be darker.

At least I know the silver and red will work though and not having to use red and gold.

Davor wrote:
Not working out as i thought. Suppose to be my Chaos Stormcast. To dang bright.

I recommend getting some The Army Painter Quickshade, the Dark tone and dipping them in the scheme as you pictured. I think that would fix them right up!

I've been working on this unit for quite a long time with the effort of improving my painting. I am happy to finally share my Freeguild Militia!

Large Marge

 Bottle wrote:
I've been working on this unit for quite a long time with the effort of improving my painting. I am happy to finally share my Freeguild Militia!

Spoiler:

Eye balls. Really?

*Snaps brushes*

I quit again. Awesome job there.


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 Coldhatred wrote:

Davor wrote:
Not working out as i thought. Suppose to be my Chaos Stormcast. To dang bright.

I recommend getting some The Army Painter Quickshade, the Dark tone and dipping them in the scheme as you pictured. I think that would fix them right up!

Thank you for that, I will see if I can find it, and will try it out.

@auticus lovely work there. Especially the swamp base! Do you have a story behind the scattered cogs in the swamp?

@Davor cheers mate!

Some work on my Orcternals

C and C welcome

Auticus: Great troll hag there, my friend! Not actually seen one outside of the FW website before.

The Orcternals look great.

 Bottle wrote:
@auticus lovely work there. Especially the swamp base! Do you have a story behind the scattered cogs in the swamp?

@Davor cheers mate!

Thanks

When making a base, I always think that a base should tell a story as much as the miniature. Of course when I'm cranking out an entire army my bases are typically minimal (my bloodbound army's bases are sand painted over black to look like scorched earth, very quick and easy).

For this one I figured she was walking through a reclaimed area that could have at one time been home to an industrious civilization. Maybe duardin. The cogs are remnants of that time.

Auticus: Great troll hag there, my friend! Not actually seen one outside of the FW website before.

Thanks! Yeah I've only seen one before ever. Shame too because its a great model!

Looking at Acticus work.

*going to a corner and cry in the fetal position*

Hey all,

I've been checking (and admiring ) this thread for a while now, and a freshly finished Stardrake seemed like a good time to chip in .

The current scope of my Sylvaneth grove. Comes in at 1760 points, one more Dryad unit short of an even 2000. Now I need to bust my butt this week and get all that bone primered stuff painted up before next Monday, as it will fill out a second raffle entry card, which is probably excessive because I don’t think anyone else has been working on the painting and I have the only current entry.

Looks like you've got wood covered

Working on a custom Bloodstoker. Unlike the box one, this bruh lifts.

Bottle I love how each model has so much character to them!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Looks like you've got wood covered

Keeps getting bigger.

It's been a couple months since I've painted, been busy with work. But I got the itch after using the shard character in a game.

I'm working on basing a giant now.

 Haechi wrote:
Bottle I love how each model has so much character to them!

Thanks man. Now I need to start work on those Handgunners we discussed! I sort of want to add another 10 to this unit on the side though as they were so much fun to paint.

When can we expect pictures of your Sylvaneth?


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perre wrote:
Hey all,

I've been checking (and admiring ) this thread for a while now, and a freshly finished Stardrake seemed like a good time to chip in .

Oh dayum! That's one mighty fine Stardrake. Great work!

 Bottle wrote:


When can we expect pictures of your Sylvaneth?

I'm on a painting break due to overwhelming workload T_T

I have been on a painting frenzy with my flesh eaters, despite not playing a game yet.

Monday I finished my Abhorrent Ghoul King, the "good" King Shivergloom:



Then last night I finished the Varghulf Courtier, named Gryom (pronounced "Grom"), who holds the rank of Marquis Gruelsop in my army:



I wasn't sure about how his wings would turn out, but I really like it and will likely add the same effect to the Terrorgheist's wings later.

Those are superb, I'd love some more shots of the King.

Finished the army today:



I really like the wing effect, when painting I noticed that the red wash on a splotchy greenish base gave a sort of pinkish-greenish-grey I can best describe as "spoiled meat" which, ironically, is exactly the effect I wanted. Overall I am really happy with the human-like color palette I used, because I feel it really highlights the fluff that these are (were?) humans that have degenerated into monsters. Plus, the dark color scheme makes them look sinister and disturbing (the copious amounts of Blood for the Blood God paint helps with this!).

Been having a bit of a slow down on painting of late (those Stardrakes really took it out of me!), but I may be getting back on track.

First up, Black Knights!


And some Grave Guard to go with them.


A Wight King on Skeletal Steed to lead them.


And, as a test-run on the full army, my first Crypt Horrors.


Incidentally, if you have been wondering how to tackle a Flesh-Eater Court, I have found a way that really could not be simpler (or quicker) to do!

First up, Black Knights!

Black?

Purple is the new Black I assume

My Savage Orruks arrived yesterday morning!
So far I've assembled 16 Savage Orruks and 2 Big Stabbas.
Today I'm starting a box of Savage Boarboy Maniks, I have 3 more Savage Orruk boxes to open still! My first thousand points.
I plan to build at least 30 Arrowboys and some Morboys as well.
But I'm off to a good start!

My Khorne start collecting box, Lord on Juggie and and big AOS starter box (for more khorne heroes and monster) plus new GW bases arrived the other day.

I have almost finished the Khorne from the little Storm of Sigmar set I bought the other week. I think that means I'm averaging less than 1 model per day, probably closer to 1 every 2 days :(

Like the blood warriors, but they have a lot of detail so are not quick to paint. Blood reavers just look daunting due to numbers (and lots of flesh, which I always find awkward). First mental hurdle to overcome is actually cutting out and making all those new models.

Can't make my mind up about the new bases. they are sort of nice, but struggling to come up with a paint scheme for them. Also you get far too many bases that are not wanted - only 30 * 32mm but 40 * 25mm, which might be nice for gobbos or skaven. Would have preferred buying each size separately.

Man I do like the armored skeleton look. If the FEC fluff wasn't so great, I might have looked at those. The regular skeletons are too bare for my tastes, but Grave Guard + Black Knights are really cool.

Maybe a future project; if I'm not mistaken I could use them alongside my Flesh Eaters since they are both Death armies?

I never fully appreciated just how bloody big those Vargheists and Crypt Horrors are until now. Jeez.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I never fully appreciated just how bloody big those Vargheists and Crypt Horrors are until now. Jeez.

I was surprised too. Also surprised how tiny the ghouls are (but they are all hunchbacks too). But yes, Crypt Horrors are pretty darn big.

WayneTheGame wrote:

Maybe a future project; if I'm not mistaken I could use them alongside my Flesh Eaters since they are both Death armies?

You can indeed!

MongooseMatt wrote:
Been having a bit of a slow down on painting of late (those Stardrakes really took it out of me!), but I may be getting back on track.

Slow down? Slow down my arse. Thanks for making me look bad. That would take me over 6 months to do what you do. And you do so much better than me I can't even compare to you. Slow down right.

I hate to see what you think of how fast I paint.

MongooseMatt wrote:
Been having a bit of a slow down on painting of late (those Stardrakes really took it out of me!), but I may be getting back on track.

*smashes head into table.

You've got to be kidding.

pics up tomorrow knight, but my "empire" Knight wing is assembled, primed, and ready for a "pre-paint spree" pics

Been playing/painting sylvaneth, lots and lots of sylvaneth:



Alarielle the Everqueen [75% painted, not based]
Drycha Hamadreth [painted, base not done]
2 treelord ancient [1 painted,1 wrong base, 1 basecoted, base not done]
1 spirit of durthu [painted, base not done]
2 Branchwyches [painted, bases not done]
3 branchwraiths [painted, bases not done]

6 Kurnoth Hunters with greatbows [painted, bases not done]
10 Tree-Revenants [painted, bases not done]
51 dryads [35 painted, 25 based, 10 wrong bases, 16 unbuilt (unpictured)]

1 treelord [painted, wrong base]

Not the best painted, but it was all grey 3 weeks ago.

10 Savage Boarboy Maniks built! I also found 4 old metal Savage Orcs today! They're going into the mob of 16 I built a few days ago.
Next unit will be Arrowboys! 16, and 2 more Big Stabbas.

Just bought 2 Khorne Daemon Getting Started boxes, Skarbrand and a box of Fenrisian Wolves (to use as Flesh Hounds). I also have had a few metal Bloodcrushers and a Lord of Khorne on Juggernaught (mounted herald counts as) in my closet for a few years.
Tuesday morning I will be learning to airbrush and I'm going to try to finish the entire army in a month. I'll try to post regular updates. I'd like to inspire people who feel they'll never complete an army. I want to show it can be done in a matter of weeks.

Managed to get a whole new army done this weekend (only five models, but still)! This is one I have been wanting to do ever since Age of Digmar came out - a whole tribe of Aleguzzler Gargants!



Complete with Gargant King!

Looks dead stompy, Matt!

OP

I'am quite close to getting my Sylvaneth host built, I've currently got painted

Drycha

2 Spirits of Durthu

Treelord Ancient

Treelord

2 Branchwychs

48 Dryads

12 Kurnoth Hunters

10 Tree Revanents

I will need to build and/or paint

6 Kurnoth Hunters

16 Dryads

Alarielle ( whos almost finished )

Branchwraith


I'll probably end up getting another another start collecting box to give me 80 dryads in total, another Branchwych, a regular treelord and another ancient. That way I can do the last march of the Ents.

But yeah I am really happy with the quick progress I have made with this project.

My Start Collecting! Flesh-eater courts arrived 2 days ago. Haven't gotten much time to build anything in it but so far I've built 5 of the ghouls, and some of the zombie dragon/terrorgheist. That thing is hard to build...

Even worse for my mate, he picked up Nagash the day before, apparently that thing is unnaturally hard to work with...

WIP of the Armies on Parade board for my undead:

The latest picture of my Fyreslayers Magamdroth.

SG

MongooseMatt wrote:
Managed to get a whole new army done this weekend (only five models, but still)! This is one I have been wanting to do ever since Age of Digmar came out - a whole tribe of Aleguzzler Gargants!



Complete with Gargant King!

Pleases me! I've fixed the Bonegrinder Giant but next trip to the storage locker means digging out all the gargants

MongooseMatt. I thought you liked Age of Sigmar. How come you are calling it Digmar now? Yes I know, you got the D and S mixed up. Still funny seeing that from you.

Not strictly AoS, but i think Silver Tower counts, doesn't it?

With the kids on their summer holidays time has been extremely limited.That said I've found just enough time to finish the last 5 Chosen.



Full unit

Just popping in to say this is a great thread. Much positivity and pretty pictures. All the dead guys are awesome, love the Sylvaneth colours, there's a frickin' army of giants, a magmabeast, silver tower posse and some very bad-ass looking Chosen. And that's just this page Great job.

Hmmm I love those metal chosen models, they're a joy to paint and great to look at.
They used to be really hard to rank but AoS really fixed that

Vid.

 Vidrian wrote:
Hmmm I love those metal chosen models, they're a joy to paint and great to look at.
They used to be really hard to rank but AoS really fixed that

Vid.

These are the finecast ones and while infinitely better than metal (imo) they're still a pain in the arse to prep and paint. That said they are amazing looking models and total killing machines on the battlefield

+1 for this being an awesome thread. Even for non-AoS players, the hobbying being displayed here is amazing to follow

The 5 giant formation is too cool. I finished a single giant yesterday.

Thumbs up for all the giants posted , in my orruks army at least one will be for sure!

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The Megaboss of the Ice Klaw Klan, Morghot the Snow Beast! The conversion is 90% finished, only some details missing!



more pics udner spoiler:

Got a Mourngul done (this was a really easy model!):

See you're hopping onboard the Morngul filth train, eh, Matt ;-)

Haha, just kidding. Have you used one in a game yet? They are nasty.

Nasty.

 Bottle wrote:

Haha, just kidding. Have you used one in a game yet? They are nasty.

Not yet - was debating about taking one to the GW event this weekend, but will probably go with Stormcasts instead.

That Warboss is AWESOME Morghot!

After painting tenebrael shard I've been inspired to redo my ,island of blood, elves in a similar paint scheme. They were the first miniatures I ever painted, can't wait to see how they turn out since I know how to properly apply primer and wash now.
I'm using LA awesome to strip them.
What do I do if I cant get all the paint out of the nooks and crannies? Can I primer over it?

yeah, scrub em with a paint brush, wash em and then reprimer them.

MongooseMatt wrote:

 Bottle wrote:

Haha, just kidding. Have you used one in a game yet? They are nasty.

Not yet - was debating about taking one to the GW event this weekend, but will probably go with Stormcasts instead.

So you're going to the AoS open day? Or just the event on the Sunday? Either way I hope you have a great time. I'm gonna have to see how I can get myself one of those exclusive Stormcast figs.

 WarbossDakka wrote:

So you're going to the AoS open day? Or just the event on the Sunday?

Just the Sunday event (still get to pick up that Errant-Questor though!)

There is so much awesome in this thread. Great work everyone, I am finding much inspiration!

In progress.



The next painting project.



First one done, going for a Drow look.

Love the drow scheme. I had always wanted to do this previously but in the old world it seemed out of place. Perfect for AoS!

Finished happy with my Alarielle.

She is a beaut Destroyer.

Finished my Spirit Hosts conversions today, thought I'd share them:









More of my AOS stuff can be found in my thread, link's in my signature

Not really a painting update, but I managed to pick myself up a little something today...



EDIT: Spoilered due to size. Dunno why it's so big

After painting tenebrael shard I've been inspired to redo my ,island of blood, elves in a similar paint scheme. They were the first miniatures I ever painted, can't wait to see how they turn out since I know how to properly apply primer and wash now.
I'm using LA awesome to strip them.
What do I do if I cant get all the paint out of the nooks and crannies? Can I primer over it?

I use 90% isopropyl alcohol to strip models, it works in about 15 min. I have problems with paint in the "nooks and crannies"' too, I normally just prime over it. I'll hopefully get some photos of my Sylvaneth-Themed Eternal Guard up today...

Finally got around to fully painting my Mannfred my first image post in this topic. After seeing people's mini's tried extra hard on this.

He looks great Shinros! Nicely done

 angelofvengeance wrote:
He looks great Shinros! Nicely done

Thanks! I had the almighty Duncan to guide me in some of the techniques I used on the model.

Looks amazing Shinros!! Very nicely done.

 Bottle wrote:
Looks amazing Shinros!! Very nicely done.

Thanks bottle it's your posts and many others that made me try and go the extra mile on this.

 shinros wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Looks amazing Shinros!! Very nicely done.

Thanks bottle it's your posts and many others that made me try and go the extra mile on this.

Yep, this site can give you a lot of inspiration! Especially when your stuff doesn't even compare

Lovely model by the way.

Those skulls inside the dread abyssal look awesome Shinros

The colour scheme is shamelessly ripped off from someone on the AoS Fan Facebook page, but I can now present my second Stormhost...

The Ironmen chamber from the Stark Hammers (led bu Tonius Ironman, but I haven't painted him up yet)

Red probably works better for stormcast than some of the khorne things I think.

Finally got around to properly starting off death and with a necromancer to lead my planned 1k list as well. Going with an overly pompous sounding name to suit the base model I used; Lord Valinarus Galaron, The Undying.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

After painting tenebrael shard I've been inspired to redo my ,island of blood, elves in a similar paint scheme. They were the first miniatures I ever painted, can't wait to see how they turn out since I know how to properly apply primer and wash now.
I'm using LA awesome to strip them.
What do I do if I cant get all the paint out of the nooks and crannies? Can I primer over it?

I use 90% isopropyl alcohol to strip models, it works in about 15 min. I have problems with paint in the "nooks and crannies"' too, I normally just prime over it. I'll hopefully get some photos of my Sylvaneth-Themed Eternal Guard up today...

I just tried it on a second hand skull pass goblin and holy crap. Fumes are bad but it worked great, thx for the info.

I have finally managed to fully paint up my AOS starter set up, more than a year after release.

I am slowly working on my Chaos army. Well here is my center piece ATM.

Can't really get a bigger centerpiece than that. Nice work!

Also, is there any particular reason you changed Stormhosts Matt?

My poor hands were cramping after working on these Skullcrushers and Bloodreavers!

 WarbossDakka wrote:


Also, is there any particular reason you changed Stormhosts Matt?

Didn't change - I added ;-)

I'm trying to finish my stormast quickly, but i waste hours painting a very simple colour scheme and it's killing me :(

i hate painting. But i love making badass poses while assembling them

it's actually looking like this

I have gotten into converting my Bloodbound in earnest.



I started with 4 copies of the boxed set and I need 2 more Flesh hounds to finish out my unit! Exalted Deathbringer with shield, Fleshhounds and bloodreaver banner.

Here's the whole horde minus the Skullcrushers and Valkyra.

WIP for my newest unit:

After destroying a fireslayers army and plundering all their urgold (Sigvald dislikes their stature), The Decadent Host has melted the precious gold into a 1:1 flawless statue of Prince Sigvald the Magnificent himself, and fashioned it atop his War Shrine.


Going to try and finish painting it this week.

Switched from working on Spiders to working on my Lahmian themed Death army the idea being to use Vampires, spirits and skeletons, theory is that they're the ones more easily "concealed" as an army (spirits banished, skeletons in a mausoleum).

Currently got another box of skeletons on order, as well as the Start Collecting Malignants set, the hexwraiths will be built as black knights, and the Mortis engine will be the Coven throne instead.

My own criticism so far:
- two of the spirit hosts have been highlighted a little too white.
- rim of bases need tidying up a little
- general tidying of some of the colours

But overall I'm very happy with how they're turning out. Aiming for 1000pts which the next set of minis will finish off.

 SonOfSigvald wrote:
WIP for my newest unit:

After destroying a fireslayers army and plundering all their urgold (Sigvald dislikes their stature), The Decadent Host has melted the precious gold into a 1:1 flawless statue of Prince Sigvald the Magnificent himself, and fashioned it atop his War Shrine.


Going to try and finish painting it this week.

Looks awesome so far!

Got me Errant-Questor done this week!

MongooseMatt,

The Errant-Questor looks quite nice! How much do they cost to buy at WarhammerWorld? Are they still available?

Thanks!

And also, is it plastic or resin? I don't think anyone actually mentioned that.

£20, and it is a proper plastic kit!

Forge World does plastic. Quick to BoLS for this exclusive headline.

Hi! Did a little bit of painting on my Death units.

First, I'll repost a unit of Spirit Hosts that I painted way back (see page 19), that was not received too well back then. Now have a better camera, so thought I'd take new pics with better lighting and see if the reaction is any different



I also painted a Banshee:




With finished base:



And finally some Skeletons:



Cheers!

Nice work

One of the two centerpieces to my armies on parade this year (chaos dwarf list mostly)

Holy gak man, that is a sweet ass model you have there!