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Thanks Curry, I quit.

 Mymearan wrote:
Those look amazing!

On another Silver Tower note, I couldn't believe how fiddly those Elf models are... Bits as small as pinheads and as thin as pieces of string, just crazy. I will give a no-prize to anyone who managed to clip, clean and attach the dark elf assassin chest piece without breaking it.

This man speaks the truth.

Curry_Supreme wrote:
Hey Guys,

I've been admiring the work everyone's being putting in for a couple of months now. With the release of silver tower, i have decided to dive in with my own AOS project.

First up is my completed doomseeker:



And some WIP's

Doomseeker looks amazing. The scheme is from the webstore blog right? I think I might try that dark green metallic too. It looks awesome. Great work!

Real nice!

Alright it's my turn and because I'm very late to this post there are many pictures!

My main army: The Seraphons, or as I call them, the Swagraphons. Much more are not painted yet, but here is most of it. Yes it's a skink based army. 70 and counting!



Here are the close ups:



Tomb King Chariot Army. It's the Royal Chariot formation. Still need to paint Settra and other characters. So far this formation is undefeated. It's way stronger than expected.



More in the spoiler below:



That's it!

Doomseeker, can't go anyway but even more awesome.
Good work guys.

 Mymearan wrote:
Those look amazing!

On another Silver Tower note, I couldn't believe how fiddly those Elf models are... Bits as small as pinheads and as thin as pieces of string, just crazy. I will give a no-prize to anyone who managed to clip, clean and attach the dark elf assassin chest piece without breaking it.

Quoted for truth. Not done Mistweaver yet, but the Tenebrael Shard was quite fiddly. Managed to get the chest piece on OK though(zero breakage). It was the little strips of flesh and hooks bit that I found most fiddly to do, since you have to get it in under the hair and over the leg to fit it to the waist.

Gaunt Summoner's dagger hand was verrry flimsy. Had to be real careful cleaning that so the flame didn't snap off.

Great looking armies, Haechi. Nice use of the maw crusha - fits in perfectly.

Love the armies you guys are posting.

Decided a while age to pick up some AoS minis as while I don't really care about the game I love painting just for the sake of painting. Went for the super original ( Ok, maybe not) idea of making a haunted forest themed army mixing sylvaneth, vampire counts and whatever beasts/monsters I can imagine living in the forest. I'll use the "witch" from the mortis engine as a necromancer to lead the army. The idea is that she was living in her hut in the forest peacefully until someone got her upset and now she'll enslave every being living in the forest to get revenge, or something. I'm not very good at coming up with this stuff....

I'm going to do an autumn coloured forest with blueish spirits. It took a lot of attempts and a couple of meh spirit hosts until I finally managed to get an at least decent blue ethereal effect for my ghosties.

My Tomb Banshee is the one that I like the most so far regarding the ethereal effect, what do you guys think about it?

 Mymearan wrote:
Those look amazing!

On another Silver Tower note, I couldn't believe how fiddly those Elf models are... Bits as small as pinheads and as thin as pieces of string, just crazy. I will give a no-prize to anyone who managed to clip, clean and attach the dark elf assassin chest piece without breaking it.

My chest piece broke :( Reminds me of the high elf sea guard spears.

yeah the weedie bits on those was fragile

 Funbug No.1 wrote:
Great looking armies, Haechi. Nice use of the maw crusha - fits in perfectly.

I know right? I just removed the wings and it's a perfect Dread Saurian!

Thanks everyone for the kind feedback, the doomseeker is definitely the best model i have painted!

@Bottle
Yes i decided to use the webstore colour schemes for the doomseeker and mistweaver. You should give the green metal a go, its easier than it looks. It's all wetblending which is very intuitive once you start.

Colours are
Incubi darkness with lahmian medium and water
Kabalite green with lahmian medium and water
white with lahmian medium and water

Quick directions:
the purpose of the water and the medium is to act as a retardant to allow you to wetblend the surfaces. Just apply a base coat of incubi darkness, then when its dry, add incubi darkness to the dark part, wash you brush quickly, and apply kabalite green to the lighter part. Next draw the wet paints into each other to blend the colours. go back and forth until your happy with the gradient. after this do the same but with white at the lightest point and kabalite at the mid tone.


@haechi
I like those round based chariots, they suit the models really well.
Those seraphons look awesome. Also good use of the maw crusher, it fits perfectly with the other scaled beasts. I wonder if the magmadroth would transition well into this army too? In any case I want a seraphon army now...



@Alathia
Nice banshee, i think the hair transition is really good. Those colours with an autumn base will work really well! Also the blue ethereal scheme is awesome. I have the same model painted the way duncan did for the games workshop nagash video and it looks gash compared to yours!

Curry_Supreme wrote:


@haechi
I like those round based chariots, they suit the models really well.
Those seraphons look awesome. Also good use of the maw crusher, it fits perfectly with the other scaled beasts. I wonder if the magmadroth would transition well into this army too? In any case I want a seraphon army now...

I thought about the magmadroth as well but I don't know what count as it would be. Also it has runes all over and is ver wave-y in its style compared to the more bulky and angular scales of other seraphons.

Haechi wrote:Alright it's my turn and because I'm very late to this post there are many pictures!

My main army: The Seraphons, or as I call them, the Swagraphons. Much more are not painted yet, but here is most of it. Yes it's a skink based army. 70 and counting!



Here are the close ups:

Spoiler:

WIP Dread Saurian (50% painted, will have many skinks riding it from the bastiladon kit)



WIP Doubled-horned super howdah Stegadon. (80% painted, will have 4 terradon bolas flung by skinks all over. 8 skinks total are riding it!)

Tomb King Chariot Army. It's the Royal Chariot formation. Still need to paint Settra and other characters. So far this formation is undefeated. It's way stronger than expected.



More in the spoiler below:

Spoiler:

That's it!

Dayum Haechi! Your armies both look amazing! And you have your "Blood Elves" army too right?

Curry_Supreme wrote:Thanks everyone for the kind feedback, the doomseeker is definitely the best model i have painted!

@Bottle
Yes i decided to use the webstore colour schemes for the doomseeker and mistweaver. You should give the green metal a go, its easier than it looks. It's all wetblending which is very intuitive once you start.

Colours are
Incubi darkness with lahmian medium and water
Kabalite green with lahmian medium and water
white with lahmian medium and water

Quick directions:
the purpose of the water and the medium is to act as a retardant to allow you to wetblend the surfaces. Just apply a base coat of incubi darkness, then when its dry, add incubi darkness to the dark part, wash you brush quickly, and apply kabalite green to the lighter part. Next draw the wet paints into each other to blend the colours. go back and forth until your happy with the gradient. after this do the same but with white at the lightest point and kabalite at the mid tone.

Amazing! Thanks for the tips Curry. I'm going to give this a go :-)



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Finished 10 Archers - which means my tournament army is now complete! 1 week before the Bristol Smash :-)

Experimented with my Stormcast Prosecutors last night to see if I could make the weapons look like they were made from magical energy like they're described in the fluff. Took a photo today and got this... which looks fething awesome by the way.

No photoshop used here, just a result of being photographed too close to the light.

Started painting my mighty lord of Khorne Kargos Mandrake Lord of the Warhounds Khorne legiom

That is a great pic angleofvengence.

What colour is your Stormcast? I like it. Might try it.

@Davor: it's the Knights of the Aurora chamber.

Silver armour with Coelia Greenshade for that green hue. Gold trim and Incubus Darkness on the pauldrons.

@ angelofvengeance

Awesome photo!

@Bottle
those archers are beautiful! Im jealous of you because i just cant batch paint and photograph miniatures in the professional manner you do!

I've also being meaning to ask, have you posted an army shot? I'd be keen to see what an empire army looks like with all round bases.



I have also done some more work:

Slaughter Priest




Mistweaver



Scutlings



WIP
Thaumutarge

Gaaaah that is some amazing stuff curry! I'm just about to start painting my Silver Tower stuff, airbrush newbie, any chance you could tell me what paints you used and your process for the blending on the Mistweaver and the Ogre?

Oh my, that purple is amazing. It's been done perfectly.

Curry- your painting is absolutely stunning. Love the paint job on the Doomseeker, Slaughterpriest and Mistweaver. The Ogroid will look badass when he's done.

Thanks for the kind comments guys!

 Mymearan wrote:
Gaaaah that is some amazing stuff curry! I'm just about to start painting my Silver Tower stuff, airbrush newbie, any chance you could tell me what paints you used and your process for the blending on the Mistweaver and the Ogre?

Off course. These are my findings with the airbrush (i have a renegade krome).

Paints for the mistweaver:

Purple and pink transitions
1. Model Air Hexed Lichen (for the purple. lay this down as a base coat)
2. Game air dead white (the pink is thin and will not stand out so we need a white base coat. create a bright white point where you want the pink to be the most intense and then airbrush a transition between the purple and bright white with the white.)
3. Game Air Warlord purple ( god this colour sucks, its so thin. Its purpose is to soften the transition between the pink and purple as required. just light sprays with very little paint otherwise it will spider everywhere.)
4. Model Colour Fluro Magenta (for the eye bleeding, intense pink. Apply this colour over the white to complete the transition.)
5. go back and forth between these colours as required. Basecoat again with white if you want a brighter pink.

Turquoise trims and weapons blades
1. Model colour turquoise (any turquoise will do)
2. Black (i used army painter black as it was the closest to reach at the time)
3. Game air dead White (i have a lot of trouble with white as i will highlight below.)

Copper
1.Game air brassy brass
2. Model air steel (edge highlight)

Silver
1. Model air steel

Paints for the Ogroid Thaumarturge
Its still WIP but so far:

Blue
1. Game Air Hexed Lichen (darkest parts)
2. Game Air Imperial Blue (mid tone)
3. Game Air Ultramarines blue (light part)
4. Progressive mix of game air dead white into the ultramarines blue (for the lightest parts)


Turquoise
1. Model colour turquoise (any turquoise will do)
2. Progressive mix of game air dead white into the turquoise (for the lightest parts)

General tips

1. You dont need air colours, you can just thin normal paints as required, and some times this is better. Good example is the mist weaver. The pink you get from the fluro magenta is better than any air colour. All you need to do is thin the paint properly (as point 2 will advise)

2. Get airbrush thinner. I used the thin my paints with water but its surprisingly hard. i find airbrush thinner is more forgiving. I initially gave up on the airbrush until i tried the airbrush thinner...

3. Learn to use the airbrush dual action trigger and not the paint limiter dial. By this i mean you use the airbrush but constantly modulate your trigger finger from releasing paint to only releasing air. If you go watch videos from awaken realms, he does this in his tutorials. This method allows you to avoid clogs and limit your tip dry (from my experience). If you have paint issues, just point your airbrush away and give it a blast (point it into some paper towel or your airbrush cleaning bottle thing).

4. Tip dry is something you have live with. Just clean the tip with your cleaning brush every now and again.

5. Go watch next level painting on you tube. The best tip i got from him was the backflow (gangsta gumbo). You cover the tip of the airbrush with paper towel and use the airbrush. This creates a backflow and the air will exit through the paint cup. This should clear clogs and also mix you paint!

6. If you want to paint details, thin your paints more and dial down your pressure.

7. Clean your brush after every use.


Good luck on your airbrushing journey! If you need any more information let me know.

Thanks a lot curry!

Carried on with my Slaaneshi Host this weekend - just a few bits and bobs to do, and it will be ready to go!

Curry_Supreme wrote:


@Bottle
those archers are beautiful! Im jealous of you because i just cant batch paint and photograph miniatures in the professional manner you do!

I've also being meaning to ask, have you posted an army shot? I'd be keen to see what an empire army looks like with all round bases.

Thanks man. You're stuff looks amazing. Really love all the blend and can't wait to see them all done! I don't have a recent army shot, thought I am going to a tournament this weekend so will try and get a few whole army shots there :-)

Just decided to do a Plaguekings army - doing some bases up first as I always have to make matching terrain : P

After bringing a Lord of Plagues and a Rotbringers Sorceror to support my Skaven, I think I need some more Slaves to Darkness. Currently I'm working on a bunch of Wanderes (6 Warhawks and 5 war dancers) that I bought for 30$ total. Yay! I'll post photos once I get some more Agrax Earthshade for the Hawks.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Those look amazing!

On another Silver Tower note, I couldn't believe how fiddly those Elf models are... Bits as small as pinheads and as thin as pieces of string, just crazy. I will give a no-prize to anyone who managed to clip, clean and attach the dark elf assassin chest piece without breaking it.

Quoted for truth. Not done Mistweaver yet, but the Tenebrael Shard was quite fiddly. Managed to get the chest piece on OK though(zero breakage). It was the little strips of flesh and hooks bit that I found most fiddly to do, since you have to get it in under the hair and over the leg to fit it to the waist.

Gaunt Summoner's dagger hand was verrry flimsy. Had to be real careful cleaning that so the flame didn't snap off.

This right here is why a looong time ago I started clipping pieces not right at the connection point, but at the part where the sprue bit attaches to the frame proper.

I've not had much progress myself of late since the weather has been super humid and is wrecking my painting progress. *grumbles*