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 amazingturtles wrote:
It's a lot more, right? There's the three butcher guys, that's normal, but there's also three of each leader? Where there's supposed to be one. And those guys with the big spiky arms in the middle, I'm not even sure what they are! Whatever they are, there's not enough bases for them. It's quite odd. Was i just lucky, or am i missing something here?

It looks like you got 3x Reapers (spiky arms), 3x Phantoms (swoopy yelling ghost things), 2x extra Horrors (purple lightning bird person), 2x less Shadowhounds (doggo thing) and no Shade (yelling guy on rock)?? What a bizarre mixup, and worthy of contacting Mantic re: the missing hounds and shade, IMO. The shade's an awesome sculpt you'll probably only ever use one of, and the hounds are a 4-5 per unit situation. You sort of lucked out on the Horrors, since you need 3 to create a Horror Riftweaver pseudo-monster, which is sort of a gaggle of them that forms a strange-if-mediocre critter. Or more likely you'll just use one as a hero

Yes a call to Mantic would be in order...accidents happen.

My two cents,

CB

tzurk wrote:There are two blogs!

I'm not sure I realised. Anyway - hooray! It looks to me like you definitely got some extras. An absolute score - especially given how creative you like to get with bits. Can't wait to see what you do with them

The army as a whole looks really fun and flavourful. Pumpkin heads and straw hats kind of give me Harvest Reaper from Westfall vibes - super nostalgic!

Yeah, the pumpkin heads are a lot of fun! i just wish there was more varieties to them. Well, that's where getting creative with bits comes in, like you said! i hope i can pull something fun off at least.

Boss Salvage wrote:It looks like you got 3x Reapers (spiky arms), 3x Phantoms (swoopy yelling ghost things), 2x extra Horrors (purple lightning bird person), 2x less Shadowhounds (doggo thing) and no Shade (yelling guy on rock)?? What a bizarre mixup, and worthy of contacting Mantic re: the missing hounds and shade, IMO. The shade's an awesome sculpt you'll probably only ever use one of, and the hounds are a 4-5 per unit situation. You sort of lucked out on the Horrors, since you need 3 to create a Horror Riftweaver pseudo-monster, which is sort of a gaggle of them that forms a strange-if-mediocre critter. Or more likely you'll just use one as a hero

Captain Brown wrote:Yes a call to Mantic would be in order...accidents happen.

My two cents,

CB

Thanks, I will contact them. it's pretty odd... i might use one of the reaper guys for one of the leader types at least since three is nowhere near enough for a unit. The horror riftweaver could be interesting, though it looks a bit dull they way they did it in the book. Lots of things to consider I guess.

In the meantime i did a test painting of one guy. I wanted to use an extremely simple scheme, to get these done, while still looking ok and giving me a chance to practice washes and drybrushing. It is... a work in progress.



Next: Turtles!

As promised, here is such as a turtle!



Ok, so this is more of a "look at this neat thing i just got" post than anything else but still. Look at this neat thing i just got! it was basically made for me.

The test paint seems to have gone well. Your turtle looks amazing too, can’t wait to see him/her all painted!

 gobert wrote:
The test paint seems to have gone well. Your turtle looks amazing too, can’t wait to see him/her all painted!

Thanks! I'm working on the turtle and the rest of the nightstalkers right now!

but first i got a little distracted again....

by these guys:



yes, i now have a third excelsior warpriest (with obligatory head swap) and far, far more importantly, a third tiny gryph hound! who needs three of them you ask? not me, because i need more

seriously, gw, enough with the giant style figures. tiny adorable war animals is where its at.

Three o ems!



Yup

Cool trip of beasties! Good to see you well and truly back on the painting wagon!

It's been a while since i posted anything here! (like really a while) but i felt like this guy was more fitting to this blog.

Here's a lord of blights! I intend to use him in silver tower, which yes i still play.



He's part of my ongoing effort to never paint anything directly green on a nurgle type figure.

Keep at it amazingturtles.

Cheers,

CB

Nice colours on the blight lord - I think blue might be Nurgle's colour after all rather than green, and the copper looks nice and old. Now I'm picturing a unit of seven (I think that is Nurgle's number), in every colour of the rainbow bar green...

The skin on those monsters looks really good too; the washing and dry brushing practice paid off!

He looks sick and jolly in equal parts, I wish him well in the Silver Tower

Captain Brown wrote:Keep at it amazingturtles.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you!

tzurk wrote:Nice colours on the blight lord - I think blue might be Nurgle's colour after all rather than green, and the copper looks nice and old. Now I'm picturing a unit of seven (I think that is Nurgle's number), in every colour of the rainbow bar green...

The skin on those monsters looks really good too; the washing and dry brushing practice paid off!

Thanks! Yeah, i'm making tiny tiny bits of progress! I think worn copper is one of my favorite colors to paint.

Viterbi wrote:He looks sick and jolly in equal parts, I wish him well in the Silver Tower

That's the nurgle way! He had a fun little adventure too.

So, here's a slightly different fantasy person



Bones!

I love the bone-walking bone-throne bone-caster for just how bone-extra it is. Stuff like this really separates Age of Sigmar from fantasy! I love your cold blue bone contrasting with the warm bone of the construct!

That’s a fancy boney lad, nicely painted too turtles. Like Gwyn says the blue and the bone Walker complement each other well. Will you be voyaging from Silver Tower to the cursed city?

Lovely work on bonewalker, his color scheme also evokes a bit of a seraphon vibe, maybe he was created from slann bones.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:I love the bone-walking bone-throne bone-caster for just how bone-extra it is. Stuff like this really separates Age of Sigmar from fantasy! I love your cold blue bone contrasting with the warm bone of the construct!

Much thanks! He really is the boniest, and no bones about it. Or a lot of bones about it.

I'm glad you like the colors, that's what i was going for!

gobert wrote:That’s a fancy boney lad, nicely painted too turtles. Like Gwyn says the blue and the bone Walker complement each other well. Will you be voyaging from Silver Tower to the cursed city?

Thank you! I'd like to try out the cursed city, but it may have to wait a bit. It's pricey!

Viterbi wrote:Lovely work on bonewalker, his color scheme also evokes a bit of a seraphon vibe, maybe he was created from slann bones.

Thanks, and hm... that's an intriguing thought. I haven't given too much thought to these guys backstory but that could be fun.

In the meantime and speaking of silver tower... the darkoath chief!



That picture is tiny.

Edit: Also! I updated my blog a couple of times and i have a new update coming soon. It is silly, check it out!

https://gamesandturtles.blogspot.com/

Darkoath chief looks great, like he came out of a Manga. Really loving your unique color schemes.