Malign Sorcery: Umbral Spell Portal

The Umbral Spell Portals from Gamesworkshop's Malign Sorcery. The mirror effect was done with Stormcast Silver base, with either Waywatcher Green glaze or Guilleman Blue glaze on top. The mists where done similar to the Cogs (but with Guilleman Blue instead of Waywatcher green for one of them).

You summon these in pairs, and it allows you to cast spells from one to the other, increasing the range of your eldritch powers.

Malign Sorcery: Chronomatic Cogs

Age of Sigmar dropped a bunch of spell effects not too long ago. I've started working through them.

Here's the Chronomatic Cogs. They are summoned onto the battlefield and allow any wizards (friend or foe) who are in base contact to manipulate time.

They are a bit on the "large" side, but that just makes them easier to paint. I'm trying something new with the mists and fumes on these. Basically an admin grey basecoat, a dry brush of Pallid Wych flesh, followed by a glaze of Waywather Green, followed by a second dry brush of Pallid Wych flesh. 

Nor'Okk Ettin

Two heads are better than one!

It's a Nor'Okk Ettin from Reaper's Bones line. I like this miniature, although he was leaning way back when I got him. I used boiling water and bent him forward, and I've noticed he's starting to lean back again (not as bad as when I bought him though).

I really liked painting this guy, he was fun. Nothing particularly fancy with regards to colors, pretty much my standard formula for these types of miniatures. According to the D&D monster manual, these things are part orc. Their heads definitely look orcy. Normally I follow GW's scheme and paint orcs green, but not these "two", I kept him closer to the Hill Giant color scheme.

Formorian Giant

I found a work around for the blogger app not uploading picture. Namely it's to not use it. I used the blogger web interface. It's not as convenient to use, but it gets the job done.

Here's a Reaper Bone's Formorian Giant. He's small for a Giant, not nearly the size of Reaper's latest giants (and also about half the size of the newish one made by Wizkids). It's an interesting miniature to paint, since he's so deformed. It made it hard to determine how the skin shading should work. And yes, I made him a red-head.

February Totals

Still no pictures, but progress is made none-the-less.

So the goal is a miniature a day for 2019 (roughly speaking) and I've fallen off it.

Miniatures painted in Feb:

• 5 Blight King
• 1 Chaos Sorceror
• 1 Dwarf Cogsmith
• 1 Dark Elf Corsair Fleetmaster
• 10 Pestigor
• 1 Beastlord w/ Battlestandard

Giving me a total of 19 for February. I've made good progress with the Sigmarite Mausoleum (worth another 30 miniatures), but can't claim it this month.

For the year, I'm at 29 miniatures and should be at 59 (30 behind). March looks like it's going to be another hard month.

Some Bad News

Well ... the blogger app I was using to upload pictures has stopped working. So until I can figure out what went wrong, no more pictures.

Looking at my worksheet of miniatures I'm trying to get painted, I have around 350 to go. That's around 30 miniatures a month ... so I've decided to make that my stretch goal for each month.

I'm already behind, I've finished 11 miniatures in January. 10 Bloodbound for Shadows of Hammerhal and 1 Herdstone.

I like the Herdstone, it's better (i.e. more impressive) than the ones I kit-bashed for my 7th edition Beasts of Chaos army. I followed my "standard" terrain formula. Most of it was done with a grey undercoat, followed by a Administrum Grey drybrush with another dry brush of Screaming Skull in select places, and a wash of Nuln Oil (all over) followed by another one of Agrax Earthshade in select places.

The 10 bloodbound, I'm more "bleh" toward. The miniatures aren't as nice as the Karic Acolytes, and that might be why I didn't get more done this month. I wasn't really feeling it with these guys.

Still trying to figure out how I'll paint 49 miniatures in February to get caught back up. :-).

Out with 2018, In with 2019

Goodbye 2018 ... Hello 2019!

Looking back on my 2018 resolutions:

I've been a bit better with updating this blog. As I said in the previous resolution posts, I'm trying to make it mostly just a pictures blog. I haven't pictured everything I've painted, but definitely better than in previous years.

I'm not sure I painted as much of what I committed to at the start of the year. There are entire projects I didn't touch (I'm looking at you: Blood Bowl Teams, Eldritch Council and Malifaux Guild posse), but I did manage to paint 100 miniatures. I finished off all of the Shadespire Version 1 warbands, A bunch of Giants and Silver Tower (finally).

Looking forward to 2019:

Next year might be a slower year. Part of me wants to make it the year of Blood Bowl (and see how many Blood Bowl teams I can get painted), but I also want to paint more terrain, AoS endless spells, Shadows over Hammerhal, some Gloomspite Gits and start painting my Eldritch Council finally. That right there is a tonne of stuff.

I'm also going to try to go back and get more of my finished stuff pictured.

I've started a worksheet for 2019 here. It already has more on it than last year <sigh>. In my defense, about 1/2 of what's on it is Bloodbowl teams.