AoV's Hobby Blog 29/04/18 The Tomb World stirs p44...

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**angelofvengeance**

@Azazel: I guess. Bit late now though since I've just splurged on White Scar heads for that lol.

Just a tiny update today, had a short dose of painting (just can't seem to find the time of late). May I introduce Liberator Prime 1 (WIP) and his primed friends (all but 1 since the weather turned crap) Just blocked all the colours there on the Prime.

Liberator Prime

Liberators (primed)

**Thraxas Of Turai**

For just colour blocking the Prime looks great already.

Where is your game mat from?

And please try and kill less sabre toothed animals

**Theophony**

The saber tooth tiger skull looks like it would be a great terrain piece. Maybe as the entranceway for a khorne skull fortress or something.

**GrimDork**

The skull *is* pretty cool. So are the painted liberator guys.

**angelofvengeance**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
For just colour blocking the Prime looks great already.

Where is your game mat from?

And please try and kill less sabre toothed animals

The mat is from Frontline Gaming's Kickstarter. It's made of some pretty heavy/badass mouse mat rubber type stuff, so you really have to give it a good tug to be able to move it around. Perfect for tabletop gaming.

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Theophony wrote:
The saber tooth tiger skull looks like it would be a great terrain piece. Maybe as the entranceway for a khorne skull fortress or something.

It's frequently used as a terrain piece though I recently broke the bottom jaw off it by accident. Think I'll get some foam and integrate the top half into it for some sort of skull cave opening maybe?

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GrimDork wrote:
The skull *is* pretty cool. So are the painted liberator guys.

Yeah I actually quite like the Stormcast Eternals. The helmets remind me of the Persian Immortals from '300'

Spoiler:

**GrimDork**

Now that you show that picture, I think I like them just a bit more

Something like this?

**angelofvengeance**

Yeah pretty much!

**angelofvengeance**

Got sidetracked today and thought: feth it, I'm painting Vandus and his dracoth, Calanax. Primed him, followed by Stegadon Scale Green for his scaly hide, Nuln Oil wash, then dry brushed with Russ Grey. The next layer after that is a light dry brushing of Fenrisian Grey, followed by highlights of Ushabti bone on the sharpest points of the scales and face.

Apologies for the gak photo (a better one will follow this week):

**Theophony**

Aladdin sand castle of wonder

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I really want to like the AOS stuff, but the fact that it killed of the game that got me from RPG to tabletop just keeps burning me. The models are great looking, and I like the color scheme you chose and how you are painting them, but each time I think of my beloved skaven and the old world being destroyed I just want to turn to Khorne and help him kill Sigmar that much more.

Looking forward to better pics of the riding beast as I still think that it looks like a really nice model

**angelofvengeance**

You know you can still use your Skaven, right? lol. The game itself is so much quicker and easier to grasp than WHFB was.

**GrimDork**

I get what you're saying, but my WHFB stuff is all built and painted to go into mass infantry chunks. Space them out too much and the weakness of the painting/modeling really starts to show. Plus, I kind of like the switch from coherency/skirmish model count games to having to wheel things around and maneuver them.

**Theophony**

Oh my skaven were long gone before AOS. I just miss the history I guess. I switched to KOW for mass battles long ago. I hope my kickstarter pledge shows up this week for the second edition.

I really should go look at the rules for it, or stop by the game store and watch it played before I boohoo it too much. As long as you are having fun with it that's all that matters. Plus if it's low enough cost for entry, it might win back some of its old clientele.

**angelofvengeance**

Fair enough, anyways let's not have my p&m blog turn into a AoS debate gak storm lol. Enough of that elsewhere on Dakka lol.

**Theophony**

Agreed! Back to battlecat pictures and awesome painting.

**GrimDork**

Seconded!

I think you and Thraxis are my only source for this stuff so I certainly don't want to discourage you doing it

**Azazelx**

Those SigMarines are looking good. I just saw the new angelic lord thing the other day - I'd love to see what you could do with that model (if you're so inclined).

**angelofvengeance**

Uh yeah I'm not buying the Celestant Prime lol. He's massively expensive for 1 model.

**Azazelx**

I didn't see the price on it - just a pic. Are we talking Nagash-level ridiculousness or summat?

**angelofvengeance**

Azazelx wrote:
I didn't see the price on it - just a pic. Are we talking Nagash-level ridiculousness or summat?

Drum roll... 48GBP(134AU$-WTF). Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he'd be a stunning model and he is quite big. But I just can't justify paying that. At the most, I'd expand my infantry for that price

**Azazelx**

angelofvengeance wrote:
@Azazel: I guess. Bit late now though since I've just splurged on White Scar heads for that lol.

Oh, the WS heads are awesomesauce. Just that if you want to mix it up a bit the unhelmeted heads aren't beyond repair is all.

**angelofvengeance**

Better pics as promised

**Theophony**

nice highlighting on its skin

its a very neat looking model, i just looked at the prime model in the AOS thread

. GW sure likes their prices.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

I think you did pretty well waiting this long, it is an awesome model. I really like the skin colour you have gone for, you have also done well filling the huge gap you tend to get on the snout of that miniature.

**angelofvengeance**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I think you did pretty well waiting this long, it is an awesome model. I really like the skin colour you have gone for, you have also done well filling the huge gap you tend to get on the snout of that miniature.

That's the GW studio scheme on his skin- the one thing I liked from their paint job for the Stormcast was that. Love the cobalt blue on the Dracoth.

**Plains of War**

The models are looking great! How many points is the army you are building?

**Januine**

Damn AoV - that blue you're got is gorgeous. really liking it

**angelofvengeance**

Januine wrote:
Damn AoV - that blue you're got is gorgeous. really liking it

It's supposedly green, but I think its one of those shades that leans heavily into the blue camp.

There is Incubi Darkness on the upper armour panels of the barding btw, just needs highlighting.

**angelofvengeance**

Back again for more Calanax (and a little Vandus) awesomeness... For the record- Golden Gryphon is officially one of my favourite dry brush compounds..
Without further ado... pics (spoilered!

Also opened a new box of Chaos Space Marines for the Alpha Legion project... err when did they release new transfers? (I know it says 2013 but I was of the impression they were still using the previous sheet)

**Theophony**

new transfers

, i still have my old 2nd edition transfers. so i guess no reason for me to run out to buy more when i begin my next chaos army.

your drybrushing work is excellent. that gold is looking great.

**Paradigm**

Looking good!