Various Stormcast Eternals

 

More Stormcast Eternals. Some of these were painted for a game called Crypthunters and the others were painted for Lost Relics. Both are games you can get from Barnes and Noble. I have another set of all of these (except the guy with the staff) from Underworlds warbands. I probably won't paint those. The guys with crossbows were fun to paint, but the others were less so. I now have a small box that's just filled with various Stormcast Eternals. 

The Gladewyrm

The Gladewyrm. This is the last of the Sylvaneth endless spells. I like him. I have a surprising number of worm-like monsters now (Carrion Crawler, Purple Worm, Remorhaz). Now, I just need that huge one from Reaper's Bones line to rule over them all!

I tried something different with his runic head thing. Basically, it consisted of painting white into the crevasses and then wiping the excess away. Then I followed up with a glaze of the color I wanted the runes to be. It worked okay, I got talked into choosing red for the color and it had the same tonal "level" as the surrounding carapace and didn't pop like I wanted it too. I tried to fix it by then glazing yellow on it to mixed success. It would have looked better if I went straight yellow or left it white. I think I need to work on that some more.

The Spiteswarm Hive

Bees!

It's the Spiteswarm Hive. Working my way through my Sylvaneth endless spells in preparation for the next wave of Sylvaneth. I went for a prismatic look for the spites/bees themselves. Lot's of glazes that GW no longer produce and blending them together (Red to Yellow to Green to Blue to Purple (made by mixing Red/Blue). Overall it was pretty easy to paint. Either I'm getting better (unlikely) or I'm picking easier miniatures to paint.

Warcry: Raptoryx

The last of the Warcry miniatures (not including the warbands) from the starter set. 6 Raptoryx's. These were fun to paint, I particularly like how the wings came out. Red and Orange Contrast, washes of Red (Crimson Carbide?) & Orange (Fuegan Orange?), followed with drybrushes of Troll Slayer Orange and Git Yellow.

I've noticed that when I upload the pictures, the large picture (if you click the image below) have been showing up with their color reversed. It's odd, since I'm able to find the original size image by editing the url and that looks fine. Hopefully that bug is fixed now, but if it's not I'll start to add a link directly to the larger image.

Warcry Furies

As my son keeps pointing out, there should really only be 3 of these. He also thinks their beards should have been blue. These are the Furies from the Warcry Start Set. They are nice models. I must admit, I had issues painting the fangs, they were really difficult for some reason. I don't think they had much definition. Everything else came out okay.

A brief painting guide:

Undercoat: Grey Seer

 Red Skin: Blood Angels Contrast, Wild Ride Highlight, Fire Dragon Highlight.

Tan Underbelly: Zandrax, Wash of Agrax, Highlight Ushabti Bone.

Beards: Git Yellow, Orange Wash, Git Yellow and White Highlights.

Wings: Contrast Black, Dawnstone highlights/srtreaks, Wash of Naggaroth Night

Horns & Talons: Skeleton Horde, Screaming Skull Highlight

Base: Wyldwood Contrast, Deathclaw Brown drybrush

Stone: Grey Contrast, Admin Grey drybrush

Warcry Starter Terrain

Finally finished the Warcry Starter terrain.

There are 6 pieces, the other 3 pieces not pictured look pretty identical to the first picture. I like these, they painted up pretty fast, and I think they look pretty good. The wood is Wyldwood Brown over admin grey, followed by a drybrush of Mournfang Brown and an even lighter drybrush of Admin Grey. The other bits I followed my standard formula for ruins.

The only bit I'm not happy with these models is the two skeleton's hanging from the side of the bell tower. Those things are pretty fragile, and will likely break off during storage. I doubt I'll keep gluing them back on, once that happens.

Chimera

If two heads are better than one ... how about 3 (4 if you count the snake head)!

It's GW's Chimera. I didn't like the "official" paint scheme, so I tried to keep it more natural. It was fun to paint and it's a better miniature than it looks, but not as good as some of the other Chimera's that are on the market. I still like it though.

She'll go in my Beastman army and can be used as an independent monster in Warcry.

I'm not totally in a hobby slump (contrary to what the one model I finished this month might indicate). For some odd reason, I've decided to mostly do assembly. I put together about 100 Skaven in the last month, as well as, more Warcry monsters and some random metal Moonclan Grots I found.

Gotrek Gunisson

A bit delayed on taking his picture. Gotrek actually counted toward last months totals. This is my attempt at painting Gotrek Gunisson. I followed my formula for Fyreslayers, but gave him some blue pants and blue tattoos.

He's either the most successful or least successful Troll Slayer in history. Slayer's seek a glorious death fighting the biggest baddest monster they can find, Gotrek has been trying to find his for literally 1,000's of years (although it's not clear how long he traipsed around the Realms of Chaos ... given that time works differently there). He's effectively a demigod at this point.

Still not making as much progress during Quarantine as you might expect on other projects. For some reason, I've started assembling most of the excess sprues I have.

Underworlds: Rippa Snarlfangs Wolf Riders

A blast from the past! It's some wolfriders! I have some of the old ones someplace, but these are much nicer. Good miniatures that were fun to paint! I particularly like the wolves!

Given the background of Beastgrave (namely, no-one can really die and sometimes creatures get trapped in amber for awhile iirc), I wonder if the wolf riders all died off 1,000's of years ago and nobody bothered to tell Rippa and his Boyz. They could be the last wolfriders in existence!

Noteworthy bits from painting: The white part of the white wolves is contrast white with Pallid Wychflesh highlights. The grey part is contrast grey straight (no highlights or anything). The goblin flesh is contrast orc flesh with Skarsnik and Nurgling highlights. It's a bit on the pallid side (I used something similar for Gloomspite where that look is more appropriate ... I think I'd experiment more if I painted more of surface orc/goblins). Everything else is pretty standard. I'm still struggling with eyes, ironically, in part due to my eyes...

The Bad Moon Loonshrine

I thought this would be quick to paint. Just a bunch of washes and drybrushes ... right?!?!? Every-so-often I'm wrong like that. It took longer than I expected (about a week+ of my painting time). Vertically, it's probably my largest piece of terrain, it's really quite big. I guess the Night Goblins are compensating for their small size or something.

BTW, I do like it, it's a good "miniature" and fits right in with my various Night Goblin/Moonclan/Gloomspite Grots.

The Vengeful Skullroot

Run ... it's a tree?!?!?

The Vengeful Skullroot reminds me of the tree that tried to eat Frodo and the hobbits in The Fellowship of the Ring. It's a walking tree that bludgeons people to death. It's on the "side" of the Sylvaneth. I painted it at the same time as the previous Awakened Wyldwoods, using the same color pallette.

It's an evil tree, not much else more to say.

Awakened Sylvaneth Wyldwoods

They're awake!

These are the Awakened Sylvaneth Wyldwoods. Okay, at first I didn't like them. I thought they looked "off" for trees. Then I assembled some, and took a look from 3+ feet. It turns out GW's official pictures really don't do them justice. The angle makes them seem "top" heavy with all the foliage at the top. From a normal viewing angle, they look really nice. In addition, they are 1000% stronger and easier to use than their previous iteration. These things have really "grown" on me, my opinion has flipped 180 degrees.

Silver Tower Fin

The kids and I finished Silver Tower last weekend! Here's a shot from the last battle scene. Notice how the Gaunt Summoner is hiding in the corner from my Knight Questor. Coward! These are the miniatures the kids and I painted together about 2 years ago.

There's two gryph hounds. We house-ruled that the boy could trade in a magic item for another gryph hound (he really likes gryph hounds).

In the end, the ultimate winner of the campaign was: A gryph hound! He took the final wound off the Gaunt Summoner. No one knows if he chose the boon or to end the Gaunt Summoner, but he's been getting a lot of belly rubs since!

Now we can start Shadows over Hammeral!

Warhammer Underworlds: The Grymwatch

Don't worry ... the good guys are here!

These are The Grymwatch. In fluff, they are a bunch of deluded ghouls who think they are a noble band of knights (and close retainers) who are going to rid the land of a horrific monster. In reality, they are a bunch of cannibalistic ghouls.

I have some old Nosferatu (for a game called "The Great Rail Wars"), which I painted in black/white/shades of grey. I tried the same thing here. I think it makes them look a bit too spectral, and so if I paint more ghouls I'll probably go with a slightly different scheme. The flesh is Greyseer, followed by a mix of 1:1:1 of Contrast Medium:Contrast White:Contrast Grey, then a drybrush of Pallid Whych flesh and highlights of Scar White. I used Contrast Skeleton Horde to do the bones, and Contrast Black to do the hair. Everything else was just my standard recipes.

Timeworn Ruins

Not brand new ruins ... timeworn ones!

These were fun to paint. I relearned a lesson to not use the last of a Nuln Oil pot (or mix it with water). It left a slight film in some of the recesses of the "bust" piece. Last time this happened, it went away once I hit the piece with an overcoat.

Nothing particularly fancy about the color scheme. The only real difference from previous pieces of terrain was the use of Skeleton Horde contrast on the various skulls & bones.

Warhammer Underwords: Skaeth's Wild Hunt

You can hide, but you can't run! These guys are faster than you!

It's Skaeth's Wild Hunt for Warhammer Underworlds Beastgrave.

I had a lot of fun painting them. They are beautiful miniatures. The bases are a bit weird, given that Beastgrave takes place underground. It has quite a bit of greenery and flowers. I kept it pretty close GW's paint job. I varied some of the hair colors a bit and painted the Ligor as a baby White Lion. I used Guiliman's Flesh Contrast and the Orange Contrast for the first time, both worked really well. The white contrast also continued to work well. I also tried Sylvaneth Bark Contrast for the "hairy" bits ... that didn't work quite as well (although still okay).

It'll be interesting to see if GW ever releases any more Kurnothi.

Warhammer Beastgrave: Grashak's Despoilers

It's Grashak's Despoilers from the new Beastgrave expansion for Warhammer Underworlds. These are painted following my standard beastmen formula. I did the skulls slightly differently, I didn't highlight all the way up to flat white.

I think my formula gives good simple results (and is relatively quick). I painted about 250 of these a few years ago using it. It's my 7th Beastman Shaman and my untold number of either Bestigor or Ungor (I think I have 50+ Bestigor, and probably around 70+ Ungor) ... so yeah ... I'm good on all of these models ... didn't really need any more. I still have one more chariot to finish (my 6th chariot ... now that I think about it).

I had an odd nostalgic feeling while painting them.

Warhammer Underworlds: Lady Harrow's Mournflight

Lady Harrow's Mournflight from Warhammer Underworlds: Dreadfane. If I had finished these 3 days earlier, I would have been able to say I'd completed all of the Underworld's warbands that had been released. Then Beastgrave came out ... and now I've got another 2 warbands to finish (3 as of next week).

I mostly followed GW's Battle Ready youtube video for Lady Harrow's Mournflight, but with additional highlights.

A brief painting guide: Robes/Cloaks were Ionrach Skin, washed with Thinned Nihilakh, highlighted with Ionrach Skin and White (edge). Dress was Ionrach, washed with Thinned Nihilakh, Thinned Nighhaunt Gloom, highlighted with Ionrach & White (edge). Flesh was Greyseer with White Highlight. Bodice was Snakebite Leather (Contrast). Weapons were Ironbreaker, washed with Agrellan and highlighted with Ironbreaker and Stormhost Silver. Stonework was Basiculm Grey (Contrast) with Agrax wash. Ground was Mournfang Brown with Agrax wash. Stumps & vines: mournfang, agrax wash, deathclaw, bieltan green wash. Roses: White with Druchi Violet wash.

Warhammer Underworlds: Ironsoul's Condemners

More Stormcast Eternal. This time it's the Sequitors from Warhammer Underworlds Dreadfane.

These are the 20th, 21st & 22nd Stormcast Eternals I've painted. When do you admit you've got an Army?

I used Contrast paint with these. As with previous attempts with Contrast, I'm really struggling with faces when using it (although Gwynne Ironsoul's face is odd in that she's got her chin tucked down under her armor). Still doesn't look right though.

The rest had a Wraithbone undercoat, Blood Angels Contrast on the red, Apothecary White on the white bits, and Basilicanum Grey stones. Then I mostly treated it the same as the previous Stormcast. Red bits have washes with Agrax Earthshade and highlights with Scarlet and Fire Dragon Red. White bits have  highlights with Pallid Wych Flesh. Grey bits have highlights with Adminstratum Grey.

Warhammer Underworlds: Ylthari's Guardians

Here are Yithari's Guardians. The last (yipee!) of the Underworlds Nightvault warbands. Finished them just in time for the upcoming Beastgrave Underworlds stuff that's coming. I also picked up Dreadfane, which is an Underworlds game that comes with 2 more warbands (Underworlds 2.5?), so those will be coming soon.

Nothing particularly special about the paint job on these. I followed my recipe for Dryads for the woody bits (and spites). The fleshy bits are Darkoath Contrast Paint over Wraithbone. The hair is Drakenhof  Nightshade Wash mixed with water (1:1 or so) over Wraithbone, highlighted with Pallid Wychflesh.

I like them, but they did come out a bit rough looking. I do like the spectral bluish tinge skin on some other paint jobs I've seen, but in the end I decided to go for more of a human look. I wanted the blue white hair, and I was worried it would be a bit too same-y same-y if I went for the spectral look.