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Today's task was my force of Stormcast Eternals that have been languishing on my paint desk since last summer. Intended for skirmish games, it's a box of 5 Liberators, a starter set Lord Relictor, a Prosecutor, and a single Judicator with a bow.

As I have two kids to juggle my time around, I tried my hand at my first force ever to be primed with a base color spray to eliminate having to take time to hand-paint all that metal. Thank god the humidity was right, and it went on buttery smooth with no dusty-ness. Then it's just a Strong Tone wash for everything but the bare metal, which gets a coat of Dark Tone.


I wanted a Chamber that had more of the feel of eerily huge medieval knights, not godly avatars, so I'm painting them in bare metal with a split black and green heraldry. I also made it a personal goal with this force to have as many figures as possible have bare heads (Space Marine heads work awesomely) because not only do I hate the Stormcasts' faux-Cybermen heads, I also wanted each soldier in such a small force have an even more unique feel, so I even tried to have each head fit the stance and armament of each guy.

The original monopose figure painted last summer, with a Space Wolf head. Stoic behind a shield.


My first after 8 Months! Blood Angels head. Nothing but rage and a pair of hammers, for this guy.





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Here's a couple of pictures of the bare plastics of the next ones to get paint, the "Brute" and the duellist: The second figure is actually an Eldar head, to be a bit smaller framed and 'fast' feeling. Maybe he used to be an Elf, before his reforging.






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A head suggestion is the ones from the Cadian Command Squad. There's two bare heads(slicked back hair and scarred duelist) that would look great on Stormcast.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732217/9483098.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732217/9483098.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732217/9483172.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732217/9483172.page GMT
So far I've held to my short-term goal of one model a night, as I figure even that slow should pull a skirmish force together somewhat quickly. I hit a bit of a slowdown when I had to repaint the left pauldrons of the first two Stormcast before working on new ones, as I thought it looked better to mimic the green/black of the shield when seen from the front, so that's going to be the look for the entire force.

First up, the leader of my team, a Liberator Prime. I used what I think I remember as a Deathwatch head as I fell in love with the "grizzled old vet" look the muttonchops gave. Too bad it had a giant piece of tech in the place of the right ear of what was to be the head of a fantasy figure! So I spent some harrowing minutes very (very) carefully slicing it all off, and then resculpted the ear and a bit of the facial hair with greenstuff. Hmm...too bad I forgot to paint the rivets on his tabard before taking the pic......to say nothing of the slop of strong tone wash next to the hammer on his pauldron, grrr...........


I tried to make it look like he's yelling a challenge to a foe over the top of his shield.



A better shot of the ear. I think it's pretty passable, as I have little to no sculpting talent or experience. Usually I just fill gaps.



A simple and standard Liberator with a warblade, with another Blood Angel head.


The Group of four together. Holy cow, instead of a collection of unprimed models, after more than 8 months I actually have a playable warband! I am using them in games with the Fantasy skirmish rules from One Page Rules.
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Got my latest member done, I need to work on getting good face focus in my pictures:







Finally a group shot of the squad so far:
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My warlord from the Island of Blood, with the 'way to protruding for dense Mordheim-styled terrain' brazier cut off his banner pole.





My counts-as Ratling Gun, as it sputters warp-lightning at foes downrange, hopefully not turning the wielder into a cinder....



Stormvermin. They are the bulk of the troops of my army, rather than Clanrats.
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Love the schene too, the silver and green looks brilliant.

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