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Nazdreg has da shiniest armor wid da most gubbinz. Finally finished this build last weekend, perfect for this shiny contest!


Here’s after an airbrush pass on Sunday.

My first airbrush pass. Off to the big smoke tomorrow, so next stages will come later in the week.

I do need to decide on a colour for the captains cloak…

I've got a couple of options for this month, either a shiny new Xmas present that I bought myself - dwarf warriors from the battalion - or some gifts - dwarf artillery or vintage chaos champion.



I've made some progress on the warriors


So, given my usual pace, I'll probably be entering these. Though I painted dwarf warriors last month so maybe I'll get around to doing something different for this month. At least the dwarfs should ensure a vote from Mothsniper!

I've decided to enter a Tomb King for this month. Proof pic:

This particular Tomb King is the one you get if you build the Necrolith Bone Dragon with a priest on it (sadly, GW didn't make it work both ways and you don't get a foot Priest if you build the dragon with the King on it, but that's not important right now). I think he qualifies for the topic on multiple counts, in that he's one of the newest Tomb Kings models (part of the Old World launch rather than the older WHFB range), he has a shiny new toy of his own (the flail), and he will have plenty of gold on him (gold is usually shiny).

Some exciting minis coming in here. That old snake-bodied, chaos champion is a long-time favourite, and I have lovely nostalgic memories of looking at the old Nazdreg and Tomb Kings minis (back when they were the new thing in WHFB) in old White Dwarfs.

@Flinty the colour theorist in me says orange for the cloak, but maybe a dark brown leather or deep purple might end up looking less like a pack of mints...

@Tzurk - I am thinking along the same lines. I did some colour swatching online last night. I am already using orange as a spot colour on helmets for this bunch, and its maybe a bit brutal for a whole cloak. I'll also have yellow-orange from the muzzle flash, so I'm thinking a bit darker into crimson or slightly purply red.