Warhammer Underworlds: Godsworn Hunt

Another Warhammer Underworlds warband. This time it's the darkoath barbarian's of the Godsworn hunt. I like this band! I've always enjoyed painting barbarians.

This was the first time I used a significant amount of Contrast Paint. I doesn't have quite the same control as I'm used to, and it came out a bit patchy in places (need to be more careful I guess). I still like the effect and it did go fast. Started with Wraithbone basecoat, used Dark Oath Flesh on the flesh, Basicum Grey on the grey bits (mostly some of the hair, rocks, and tree trunks), Snake Bite leather on the leather bits, and the White Contrast Paint on the white bits. The metal and bone was painted using my standard techniques. I highlighted with slightly lighter versions of the colors (and that helped with the "patchiness" a bit).

I also noticed that it seemed really hard to paint the eyes after the contrast paint was applied. That might be my eyesight catching up to me though...

The dog is a bit weird, I don't think he has eyes...

I also am not happy with some of the highlights on the shamaness, I applied an extra coat of Dark Oath flesh and that really darkened her face, I then added extra highlights and it really didn't work the way I had hoped it would.

Warhammer Underworlds: Thundrik's Profiteers

I had more fun than I expected painting these. Kharadon Overlords (i.e. Sky-Dwarf-Pirates) for Underworlds.

Started with a Leadbelcher undercoat, washed the entire mini with Nuln Oil, then drybrushed everything with Ironbreaker. Painted the bases Mournfang Brown (with Admin Grey rocks). Next I picked out brown bits with Deathclaw brown, gold bits with Retributor Gold and painted their jumpsuits Caledor Sky blue. Washed the appropriate colors for each of those three parts (Agrax Earthshade, Reikland Fleshwash & Naggaroth Night). Then highlighted back up to the base color, taking the iron bits up to a Silver in a few places. Then I painted their eye lenses Kantor blue with a dot of Lothern Blue in the middle.

It was fast and I think they came out pretty well.

Warhammer Underworlds: Eye's of the Nine

Another Underworlds warband, this time it's the Eye's of the Nine. Painted using the same system I used on my other Tzeentch Karic Acolyte stuff. I like the 2 Acolytes and the Beastman, the other miniatures are okay.

2019 July Totals

It was a difficult month. Part of it was that I was just lazy, part of it was a bunch of little things kept coming up and prevented me from painting. In example, I dropped everything to finish my Everchosen entries and my AC broke making 90+ degrees inside. I spent too much time huddled in the cool basement until the sun set. Excuses over ... let's get to the list of things I (and my kids) finished.

• One Stormcast Knight Venator
• 5 Gryphhounds
• 4 Warhammer Underworld: Mollog's Mob (1 Troll, 3 Squiggly Beasts)
• 1 Display Board

I'm recommitting myself to get 30 miniatures painted in August.

July Totals: 11

2019 Totals: 148

Everchosen Display Board: "To the Victor..."

July hasn't been a great month for getting miniatures painted. So I'm going to count the display board I made for the Everchosen Open Event as single miniature! Woot!

I took the picture as I was dropping it off, so it's not against the usually white backdrop. All of the miniatures on it have already been seen on this blog, but not in this format.

The original plan was to pit all the Underworld's Stormcasts (Farstriders, Steelharts, & Cursebreakers) against all of the Greenskins (Zarbags, Ironskulls, & Mollogs), but I couldn't fit them all on the board I made. So I jettisoned the Trolls and the Varanguard.

Gryphhounds

Here are the first 5 of the 7 Gryphounds the kids and I are painting. The blue one (back right) was painted by the boy, the middle one (looks like a bald eagle) I painted, the remaining three were painted by the girl.

The two in the back (red with white head, and blue with blue stripes) the kids are entering into the Under 16 Everchosen event. I think they have a shot at winning!

Yes, I'm counting these toward my month totals. :-)

Stormcast Knight Venator

This will be/is my Everchosen entry. I wanted something that looked impressive, and the Knight Venator is one of the most impressive Stormcasts that fit the requirements on the contest. He's from one of the Silver Tower box sets, although honestly, he'd be pretty cumbersome to use in Silver Tower/Shadows over Hammerhal.

I won't post this until after the contest has occurred.

I mostly just followed my standard formula for Stormcast's of the "Knights of Sigmar's Temples".

He looks good from a distance, but some of the fine details are a bit patchy. The wings were done using thinned down contrast paint [basilicus grey over admin grey, with dry brushes of pallid wych flesh and white scar white and guilliman blue in the recesses]. Maybe I shouldn't have done such deep shading on them. A pastel look might have come out better. I'm going back and forth on that. As always, edge lining wasn't perfect either (although I like to think I'm getting better at that). I think the bird came out well and makes for an interesting color contrast to the main model!

Here's hoping I do well.