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Those Auric Runeguard are looking nice! I have started to paint up my first Fyreslayers today. No doubt Matt will have a whole lodge before they are finished ;-)
Bye bye Dakkadakka, happy hobbying! I really enjoyed my time on here. Opinions were always my own :-)
So, I was in such a crunch for painting time in the run up to Waaaghapaca that I literally did not have time take pictures as I went. Even this picture is from someone else at the event, but I promise to follow up with some individual shots. Here's the Slaanesh army I have been putting together for forever and a day, a pic taken from a distance that the army can be as cool or as awful as you care to imagine.
“It was in lands of the Chi-An where she finally ran him to ground. There she kissed him deeply as he lay dying, and so stole from him his last, agonized breath.
On a delicate chain at her throat, she keeps it with her to this day.”
My painted Stormcast Eternals so far. Five more Liberators and my "small" army is complete (1000 points PPC). Then more Liberators, some Judicators w. bows, Protectors and some heroes. Pics not so good quality, bad lighting and old mobile phone)
Lord Celestant on Dracoth
Lord Relictor
Five Liberators
Five Retributors (only two showing, best pic I had)
Great job there Grimbok. I was going to make a thread on how I hate the gold on the Stormcasts, but you did a great job on them. I really like your minis.
Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong".
So... my picture taking skills are not so hot. I guess I need a cheap tripod and lighting setup? Or mostly need some kind of tutorial, because I keep ending up with blurriness and all the blends washed out. Anyway, here's a few closer shots of the army. I took these ladies/men/lady-men to a 4 game single day, which I will try to oh-so-briefly write up. Maybe as a tactics/unit breakdown more than a game-by-game.
Spoiler:
The boss lady:
The sorcerer:
Slaanesh jav cav:
Herald and "daemonettes":
Knights:
Hellstriders:
Seeker chariot counts as:
The biggest model I ever painted:
“It was in lands of the Chi-An where she finally ran him to ground. There she kissed him deeply as he lay dying, and so stole from him his last, agonized breath.
On a delicate chain at her throat, she keeps it with her to this day.”
Grimbok... quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack! intentional or not they look like the Mighty Ducks of Sigmar. Great job though, the gold is especially nice.
RZ - Oh man, very cool to finally see the army! Albiet with slightly blurry pics
That last one (giant??) is freaking amazing, and somehow came out clear . The chariot conversion is also ace, just love it! Finally, really like the conversions on the troops, and am trying to figure out how to help you take a pic so we can see the paint jobs more
Looking forward to your tactics thoughts on the different units, too!
Thanks guys, much appreciated. I have a hero and two units that need to end up on rounds/ovals, but are otherwise done. I think I just need to get a little mini tripod so when I use the macro setting it doesn't blur from tiny movements.
“It was in lands of the Chi-An where she finally ran him to ground. There she kissed him deeply as he lay dying, and so stole from him his last, agonized breath.
On a delicate chain at her throat, she keeps it with her to this day.”
Black undercoat spray
Retributor gold twice all over
Reikland fleshshade all over
Reikland fleshshade in deep areas again
Until this stage it is easy, standard og bigger brushes.
This is more tricky, needs to be neatly painted.
Highlight with retributor gold except for deep recesses
Auric gold edge highlight
Silver (mitril) on a few raised areas
The teal: kabalite green base color (two layers), coella greenshade on the cloth and along the recesses close to the gold, then highlighted with half/half kabalite/sybarite then a bit of sybarite on a few raised areas. But mostly just kabalite green.
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Edgecoc wrote: Grimbok... quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack! intentional or not they look like the Mighty Ducks of Sigmar. Great job though, the gold is especially nice.
WTF? Oh, I googled mighty ducks, I see your point . Those colors are really nice! Canadians, those hockey freaks...hehe
Grimbok
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Sotek is a cool color too, but more bluish. Kabalite/sybarite are great colors, but there are many cyan/bluish colors that are great and somewhat underused I think. Very good on the Stormcasts. Perhaps not that good on my new wood elves, back to good old green and brownish colors.
Thats the main strength of Stormcasts, many different and cool paint schemes.
RiTides wrote:That last one (giant??) is freaking amazing, and somehow came out clear
BRUH. Clearly that's a Cygor (and maybe a touch of irony that the one-eyed thing is in focus)
Red_Zeke wrote:I took these ladies/men/lady-men to a 4 game single day, which I will try to oh-so-briefly write up. Maybe as a tactics/unit breakdown more than a game-by-game.
*flails arms in muppet fashion*
Happy to see your Slaanesh crew at long last RZ, even more excited to hear about its adventures
Currently working on my Lizardmen(Seraphon) army, so far it contains x1 Skink Priest x10 Saurus Warriors. x8 Saurus Knights and ofc an Oldblood on Carnosaur. What to add next?
Mace Vindaloo wrote: Currently working on my Lizardmen(Seraphon) army, so far it contains x1 Skink Priest x10 Saurus Warriors. x8 Saurus Knights and ofc an Oldblood on Carnosaur. What to add next?
I finished the Stormcast Eternals side of my starter box, and also painted some Realmgates. Not as great work as some of the other projects in this thread, but I'm pleased with my results I am very relieved to be finished with the starter box lol.
I started playing AoS a couple months ago when someone mentioned I could use the Tzeentch Daemons I had for 40k but never used. I have enjoyed AoS a lot and playing somewhat regularly has also inspired me to crack in to painting some more of them. I run a purely Tzeentch list which has proven to be quite powerful even without any summoning...
So here is my Herald of Tzeentch which is a bit of a conversion with some parts from the Tzeentch Chariot kit, and a cluster of horrors:
Inspiring thread and keep up the great work everyone!