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

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**angelofvengeance**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Looks like it will not be long until you have most of your Stormcast done, you can troll your brother as he will still have loads to paint!

Have you decided upon how you are going to base your Stormcast yet?

In fairness, my brother is also working on his Khorgorath beastie as well as his Blood Warriors. Goretide force has a good deal more minis to do than Stormcast..

**angelofvengeance**

Managed to find this pic which I forgot to upload the other day. Say hi to my brother's Khorgorath beast. (Also, Woot! 28 Pages!)

**Januine**

Nice job. The bone/white colour came out really well.
It's a pretty sweet figure but I still just don't get where they were going with the head/face on that sculpt

**hk1x1**

I'm really liking the color scheme you chose for your Stormcast, It gives them a kind of knightly hero feel, and looks so much better than the standard gold and blue.

**angelofvengeance**

Cheers, man. Yeah I wasn't feeling the gold and blue. Plus silver I think makes them look a bit more heroic than the in your face gold.

**angelofvengeance**

A few random things on today's update, mostly my brother's painting...hell he's even on about getting MORE stuff for his Khorne Bloodbound. So first up, some Age of Sigmar-ness..

For his Bloodreavers (Marauders) he's chosen the Crimson Fury (bottom of this post) warband to accompany his Blackspikes Blood Warriors into battle. For the skin he used Rakarth Flesh for the base with a wash of Blue Ink (old gw paints) then dry brushed with Pallid Wych Flesh to finish. Gives a rather nice pale look to the skin.

Next up we have some more WIP of the Blood Warriors- he's given some of them a baleful green glow to their weapons for a daemon-imbued look. I think it's worked out rather well!

I had a little experiment with the Martian Ironearth for the Realm of Chamon themed base, still needs neatening up a bit with a detail or standard brush to get right up next to the feet. Or I may be lazy and use the grass tufts instead..

**Theophony**

wow that sigmarins looks great. Great color choice on him.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

Love that skin tone that your brother has done, very nice. His blood Warriors look great too.

How many more Sigmarites have you left to paint?

**angelofvengeance**

Just got to polish off the Liberators then paint the remaining 2 prosecutors and retributors. As well as Ionus Cryptborn.

Been suffering some painters block lately though so I've been working on my Battle Systems terrain stuff. Got most of it assembled just got the last few sheets to work on. I figured I've had the stuff for nearly 18months so I best do something with it haha.

**Azazelx**

Mine is till sitting in a plastic tub. Not enough time (or gaming) to spend faffing around with it. The skin on the Khorne guys has indeed come up very nicely, and I think the green glow on the axes of the others really works. It's subtle enough to not be garish.

Your Sigmarine also looks good. The base is effective, and I think the tufts are a good idea even if you do touch his feet up with the brush.

**angelofvengeance**

Just about got ALL of the Battle Systems sci-fi stuff assembled now. The stairs are a bugger to put together without damaging them though :( Might have to use the HIPS stairs from Deadzone.Hurggghhhh. So. Much. Card. As well as some priming done for my plastic terrain- the moonscape stuff(not pictured), the Dark World temple thing and the Crashed Aquila Lander from Battle of Macragge. Some of the pieces were still drying when I took the pics.
On to the pics!

**angelofvengeance**

Small update tonight- painting Captain Karlaen's head.. Really happy with how this guy's coming along. So without further ado, here's the pic. C&C welcome

Also- caved and bought 2 more boxes of SCE Liberators for Age of Sigmar. I'm thinking a full unit of 10 with sword and shields. Or possibly all 10 dual wielding swords and parrying blades. The latter grants me the ability to reroll 'to hit' rolls of 1 in melee. Shields grant me the ability to reroll saving throws of 1 though. Which is equally helpful. Also for every 5 models in the unit, I can bump things up a notch and have a Grand blade or Grand hammer which causes a -1 saving throw modifier.

**Paradigm**

Nice work on the face there!

**angelofvengeance**

Cheers Para, Thinned my paints down a good bit for that and I think it's really paid off! I'm tempted to give a final highlight of Flayed One Flesh, but I'm worried I might bugger it up lol.

**GrimDork**

Space vampire in mega armor looks cool

How much battle systems stuff did you get? I got the main pledge and a bunch of add-ons but I'm running out of clips before I have even half of my walls built. The wall clips, not the plastic ones. Gonna have to make some of my own. Planning to make some cramped corridors for your blood angels to sweep clean of tyranids?

**angelofvengeance**

GrimDork wrote:
Space vampire in mega armor looks cool

How much battle systems stuff did you get? I got the main pledge and a bunch of add-ons but I'm running out of clips before I have even half of my walls built. The wall clips, not the plastic ones. Gonna have to make some of my own. Planning to make some cramped corridors for your blood angels to sweep clean of tyranids?

Actually I was thinking more like Zone Mortalis type stuff or Deadzone. And maybe AvP wargame if I ever fething get my KS exclusive copy lol.

**GrimDork**

Yeah that works too

Zone mortalis is a mod for 40k right, basically 40k but inside?

**angelofvengeance**

GrimDork wrote:
Yeah that works too Zone mortalis is a mod for 40k right, basically 40k but inside?

Pretty much. Though Kill Team works just as well I think. Haven't had a chance to play either yet. And to answer your earlier question I got the Stronghold pledge as well as the docking bay sprues. Quite a nice little 2x2 board to play on.

On a different note- I downloaded Blood Bowl 2 on Steam today. Such a great little game. Though I was playing as Humans vs Dwarfs. Man, those Dwarfs give you a run for your money! Takes ages to knock em into the dirt!! Slayers are such a pain in the arse!

**angelofvengeance**

Slightly better shot of Karlaen. Too close up in the first pic

**Theophony**

Very nice

, I think the plus sign on his hip could use a little attention, but otherwise jobs a good un

**angelofvengeance**

Yeah that needs work. That's the 1st Company marking on his hip. Got some frog tape to use on that which should help.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

He is coming along nicely, especially like the gold on the thunder hammer. Hell of a lot of terrain you have there too, nice storage set up for it as well.

**angelofvengeance**

Back once again folks- this time with a WIP on the Stormcast Eternals and the Khorne Bloodbound...

Say hi to the Lord Relictor WIP

and some freshly assembled Liberators dual wielding hammers with a 2 handed hammer there for extra smiting. These guys are sooo nice to assemble. Takes all of 5mins to prep these guys for priming, barely any flash on them. Plus the pauldrons aren't quite as frustrating to clean up as they were in the AoS box set. The gates are just under the trim of them in the 5 man box set instead of in the middle of the shoulder plate.

My brother also made himself a Skullgrinder (basically a Khornate blacksmith swinging a daemonically blessed anvil on a chain) Made from Wrathmonger/Skullreaper torso & head and some chain from Zinge- has wire inside it to allow you to bend it.

...and an Exalted Deathbringer (champion) of Khorne- made from Wrathmonger/Skullreaper torso and head with a ~~Skullcrusher cavalry~~ Skullreaper 2 handed axe.

**Azazelx**

That Blood Angel is coming along really nicely, as is the Sigmarine Standard. I'm also loving these Khorne guys - some great conversions there!

**angelofvengeance**

Azazelx wrote:
That Blood Angel is coming along really nicely, as is the Sigmarine Standard. I'm also loving these Khorne guys - some great conversions there!

Yeah 30 quid for 5 models is a lot more efficient than I think, about 20 quid for just 1.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

The standard Stormcast minis do look great, and your brother is knocking out some excellent conversions.

Have you two had any more battles recently?

**angelofvengeance**

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
The standard Stormcast minis do look great, and your brother is knocking out some excellent conversions.

Have you two had any more battles recently?

No, we're focusing on getting the models painted currently. We're perfectly content to play with unpainted minis but to be honest, they look a hell of a lot cooler with some paint on.

**Thraxas Of Turai**

That is the Universal rule of cool for playing games.

**angelofvengeance**

Azazelx wrote:
That Blood Angel is coming along really nicely, as is the Sigmarine Standard. I'm also loving these Khorne guys - some great conversions there!

Cheers Azazel. However, I hate to disappoint you but this guy-

is actually the standard bearer for the Stormcasts.

The Lord Relictor is the equivalent of a cleric/chaplain in AoS.

**Warboss_Waaazag**

Not a tremendous fan of AoS, but your paint jobs look spectacular. I'm really looking forward to seeing that terrain piece painted up.