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The Celestial Vindicators are my favorite, I love the unique color scheme and it really stands out on the table top. Not to mention they are really really angry which is pretty cool.

I guess I like the Hallowed Knights the best. I ended up with a Stormhost on my lap and will probably make my own chapter (based upon my Sigmarite Empire army of yore). Gold Armor, and either red or salmon (Lugganoth Orange) as the main color with the other as an accent. I would call them the Dawnguard of Sigmar, or something like that, and their colors would be of the morning dawn, and they would be devoted to the destruction of Soulblight Vampires and other undead.

Philhelm wrote:
I guess I like the Hallowed Knights the best. I ended up with a Stormhost on my lap and will probably make my own chapter (based upon my Sigmarite Empire army of yore). Gold Armor, and either red or salmon (Lugganoth Orange) as the main color with the other as an accent. I would call them the Dawnguard of Sigmar, or something like that, and their colors would be of the morning dawn, and they would be devoted to the destruction of Soulblight Vampires and other undead.

Ahh very cool, if there is a truly human faction going forward I was going to the them to the undead as well. I like the dawn idea your drawing on, post a test pic if you paint one up!

I was working on a test scheme from an old 6th/7th edition Empire spearman, with gold armor, salmon uniform, and red trim, which I may upload. I want to test on the regular humans, which I will collect when released, before applying paint to the actual Stormcast.



These were older test models for my Empire witch hunter force. It shows the salmon and red that I would use, but due to the lighting the salmon looks paler than what it really is. It's more of a pale orange than pink. I was thinking of painting the Stormcast with Auric Gold armor (the bright, yellowish gold), and salmon/red for the pauldrons and shields, with red/salmon for the plumes and smaller details. I'm torn. If I could pull off salmon as the primary color, it would be very unique.

I voted for the Grey Hallowed Knights, because feth Chaos. (Actually, they are similar to my Space Marine Chapter's color scheme.) However, if I ever paint any unconverted Sigmarines, I'll almost certainly paint them in Adeptus Custodes colors. For the background fluff, they will be daemons of Sigmar who will appear in the Old World at the height of the protracted Storm of Chaos that will always be the true Warhammer setting in my heart, just in time to save Altdorf.

I suppose if I get into the AoS setting, I will create my own chapter/stormhost, but I don't yet have a feel for what I want to keep or discard from AoS.

Watchers of Death. Think Ultramarine inducted into the Deathwatch. Always loved that color scheme.

Fluff-wise they would be assigned the task of keeping Nagash at bay.

I really like the idea posted elsewhere of using Space Wolf bits for an Ulric flavored Stormhost.

Have they been given any more personality besides the little blurbs in the picture? Because right now I'm not able to choose one I like when there's so very little there.

 Mordred wrote:

Philhelm wrote:
I guess I like the Hallowed Knights the best. I ended up with a Stormhost on my lap and will probably make my own chapter (based upon my Sigmarite Empire army of yore). Gold Armor, and either red or salmon (Lugganoth Orange) as the main color with the other as an accent. I would call them the Dawnguard of Sigmar, or something like that, and their colors would be of the morning dawn, and they would be devoted to the destruction of Soulblight Vampires and other undead.

Ahh very cool, if there is a truly human faction going forward I was going to the them to the undead as well. I like the dawn idea your drawing on, post a test pic if you paint one up!

Here was a test I did using a template and MS Paint. The Dawnguard:



The orange/salmon would be Lugganoth Orange, so I'm not sure I got the color right. I use the dip method so the actual color would be darkened a bit.

Test scheme for the "Dawnguard." The corresponding Stormcast Eternals would have golden armor, red shoulder pads, shields, and loincloth trim; Lugganoth orange tasset belt and plumage; and silver hammers/weapons.

 toasteroven wrote:
Have they been given any more personality besides the little blurbs in the picture? Because right now I'm not able to choose one I like when there's so very little there.

I like the one with the fluff about the thing I've never heard of before doing the thing I don't know about.

Voted for Anvils of Heldenhammer. I like the colors - and also that "Black Knight" theme.

I voted homebrew. Mine are called "The Knights of Saint Luthor", they've got gunmetal armor with red trim. In short they have a very strong feeling of respect for mortals, who face the same dangers they do with less strength, they really hate beastmen, adore stories when off the field of battle, and are more willing than most to act on incomplete intelligence, which causes problems. They have particularly good relationships with the descendants of Hochlanders and Bretonnians, and particularly poor relations with beastmen (of course), Nurgle followers, and Dark Elves (even the ones paying lip service to order). Sigmar drew the members of this host from fighters who preferred the pen to the sword, but were more fierce in defending their homes and companions than their devoted warrior counterparts. The Knights of Saint Luthor are few in number.

One of the things I really like about Age of Sigmar is that I can make my own Stormhost, it's not like the Space Marines in 40k, where no matter what I dream up, there's already an official chapter with a really close paint scheme and one with a really close theme, or just one with both of those. With AoS, there's obly a handful of "official" Stormhosts, so our fan made ones will be more unique, and the less specific nature of Stormcast means the canon police won't come for people who have Eternals who aren't standard "above humanity warrior monks with a limited emotional range and love of fighting". Maybe there are Stormhosts made up of warriors who hate fighting, but hate the thought of leaving people unprotected more.

The Hammers of Sigmar do it for me, after reading Gates of Azyr, and the little blurbs about the main characters, the rivalry between Vandus Hammerhand and Khul has me rooting for Hammerhand. He's not overly fantastical, but he is interesting and his model is wonderful, though it is technically just a generic Lord Celestant. Also the colour scheme is awesome.