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The Army painter medium wash is (according to several threads that popped up when the paint changed) the closest match for Devlan. I suggest poking around in the Painting & Modeling section. They should be in there.

I haven’t touched this army since Oct 2011 when I finished Arkhan, but I have been collecting stuff for my eventual return. I knew I needed to get rid of that silly pyramid I was using for my Hierotitan, but I never found a suitable replacement and then my Thokt Necron project put my TK on the back burner for 2 years.

I fell in love with the Mournghul (I know there’s no ‘h’ in there but it needs one) when I picked up Monstrous Arcanum from Forge World and the model did not disappoint! I wanted this piece to replace my pyramid, but that horse under his left hand had to go.

Have I told you how much I love my Dremel?

2 hours of grinding removed the horse and after fishing around though the few TK scenery pieces I had I found the perfect fit; one of the ruined Egyptian columns from Armorcast. I had to saw off the column to change its direction so the piece gets to utilize all that nice texture on the shattered side of the pillar. He’s also pinned in two places for stability.

I can’t wait to paint this bad boy, but I got a building Jones that I just have to satisfy…

More to come so stay tuned!

Shawn G. (SoI)

Welcome back, Shawn! Can't believe no one else has commented upon your return! Very excited to see all the new additions to these tomb kings!

Hey there Moltar! It's been a while.

I've never truly left Dakka (I like to lurk the rumor threads), but I had ceased all hobby activity since around Nov of last year. Just could not drum up enough "Give-A-Damn" to build or paint anything.

I have a friend Juan who was having some trouble utilizing his High Elves and asked me to go over how they worked. After 3+ hours of strategy talk with him and my pal Robert, I really felt like playing again.

My TK are the only fantasy army I have completed, but they were never optimized for competitive play. I knew I had some work to do and I had gathered plenty of models to do so during my hobby lull.

So here I am, and I've got some cool @#$% brewing!

Shawn G. (SoI)

 Soul of Iron wrote:

Lastly is this little beauty.

I have to ask, where did you get this? I love it.

I got that from an Ebay seller going on 2 years ago. I LOVED the sinister design.

It appears he took an existing piece and re-sculpted the face and cast a mold of it. The auction also came with 2 standing statues that I'm keeping secret for a bit. I intend to add them to an Necropolis display that's in the conception phase ATM. Unfortunately the seller cast the 3 pieces of the auction in a piss poor plaster that was very easy to chip, so I will need to mold and re-cast them in resin if they are going to be of any use.

I normally would not recast another man's work but this plaster he used I can chip with my thumbnail. It's really bad!

Shawn G. (SoI)

Here he is. My first completed model in over a year. Not too shabby.

This was the first of my own projects that utilized heavy use of my airbrush. The model was primed, base coated, and faded using my Iwata Eclipse HP-CS.

Since this guy lacks any metal elements I had to stick to the other primary colors in my army being Black/Gray & Red. I wanted the column to be dark so that was done first using a series of Vallejo grays with some white line highlighting. The Mournghul himself was a different story.

I only had one more color in my palate so his body had to be red. I was not too big on a solid red body so I added some transitional fading effects to his most exaggerated elements: his shredded abdomen and claws. I added some color to the talons and gave him wispy white hair for contrast.

I really like the way he came out and I think he’ll fit in perfectly with the rest of my army.

Feels good to be back in the saddle!



Remember that ‘building Jones’ I mentioned? Here’s one of the results

I picked up a pair of these this year during my lull along with some Tomb Guard. I slapped this together right after grinding the horse out of the Mournghul’s claws. I ‘m trying out a round mounting base with some recessed slots for the crew.

I’ll paint this when I’ve finished the other unit that came out of that building session.

More to come.

Shawn G. (SoI)

good to see this back in action man...mourghoul looks crazy you did a splendid job on him.

welcome back to the madness

take care

@alabamaheretic - Feels good the be back!

~~~UPDATE~~~



I’m not a very big fan of the current carrion models and they really don’t have a place in this Arkhan host I’ve built so I’ve been hunting for some suitable replacements.

I first went with the giant bats from the VC line and they didn’t quite work either. Then the book got re-released and the Vargheist kit showed up and I knew I found my substitute.

Pretty straight up paint job here. I used my airbrush to prime and get the red basecoat done along with the black transitions. I made the hair bone color to add some contrast. They use all but the metallic colors in my army scheme.

I’ve also taken a shine to GW’s texture paint. That stuff makes basing a breeze and it looks better then the flock stuff I was using. Way more visual interest there. I’m debating on rebasing my army with this stuff. It will likely never happen…

Shawn G. (SoI)

very cool soul.

that kit looks like it is awesome to put together and paint. yea i took a shine to the texture paint too really neat stuff

This thing was a real joy to paint.

I decided to mount tit on a 120mm round to try something new, and I really like the way it turned out. I used my Dremel to grind out the base slots and added some metal plates so I could magnetize the crew to the base.

It had plenty of fun parts, but also just as many annoying/monotonous sections. Having to do all that bone was a real pain, then having to blacken and highlight all those ribbons was even worse. I can say I did end up saving a lot of time using my airbrush to get the priming and basecoats done. Doing that with a brush would have been a nightmare!

Since I’ve been painting again, I can see I’m rusty. These last few things I’ve worked on have not been as ‘sharp’ as the work I’m used to completing. A few more units and I think I’ll be back to full speed.

Shawn G. (SoI)

Wow good to have you back. I see you haven't lost your touch! Your tomb kings actually inspired me to build an army of my own.

cool looking catapult man.

digging how it came out. i'd love to play against your tks i'd lose horribly but man it would be awesome.

Mournghul looks amazing! What a great model, and some smart thinking putting him in the pillar.

I also love the Carrion models . It's just great seeing such a colourful, and characterful, army of what could otherwise be a bland bunch of repetitious skeletons.

I never knew GW had texture paint! When did they put that out?

@Robbietobbie - Feels good to be painting again. Do you have any pics of your army?

@alabamaheretic - Thanks man. I've only played 1 game of fantasy in going on 2 years. I think you'd do fine. lol

@Mastiff - Thanks. The texture paint has been out for a while. 2 years possibly. That stuff is amazing! I'll never flock again!

Shawn G. (SoI)

Impressive work! That custom base is really something! I have an entire Necron force painted from an old tutorial of yours. Color choice is certainly one of your strong suits.

@Thokt - Thanks! I'm also digging the round base. I think I'm going to redo my casket on a round base as well. It looks so much better. I've seen your necrons, dead sexy work there!

Going back to the Mournghul awesome model. It would have been brilliant if you made it look like it was coming out of the rock itself, although I know it's not in the back ground. Other than that they all look good

Young Logan

@Young Logan - That would be really cool if I could manage that, but in reality I lack the sculpting skills to achieve such a visual. Managing to completely remove the horse from under the left talons without ruining the hand was a huge accomplishment for me.

Wow, this is pretty damn cool! Tomb Kings would probably be my army if I did WHFB.

I know you've already done the Ebon Dais, but I'd love to see you paint up the "official" Casket of Souls.

@Squigsquasher I agree, the Tomb King sculpts look like a lot of fun to paint.

@SoulofIron
The alternate basing and modeling takes it all to a new level - almost gives it a diorama feel on the battlefield! Keep sharing! And thanks for the compliment good sir!

Shawn! Glad to see you're back working on Fantasy

Let me know when you wanna play a game.

Oh, and nice work

Seriously inspirational stuff. I've been considering a lot of vaguely similar themes (floating black stones and obelisks and whatnot) and your use of hirstarts is really making it looks more doable than i thought