I’m super happy with Rook’s NMM hammers and chains. He’s previously been featured on a WIP. I might put some more work into him if I feel like. (specifically, he might get more chest and arm hair).
Photo backdrop from Hangar 18. They had a going-out-of-business sale at ReaperCon. Sad to hear that, but I did pick up a half-dozen new backdrops.
The whole team:
The Steelheads were 90% at my LGS so I bought them to convert to the upcoming Legion of Lost Souls, a good-guy undead unit. Fitting with power-creep, the new unit has halberds, guns, shields and recursion. The Steelhead unit, while much cheaper (in points), only has halberds.
Painted with GW’s new Aetheric Blue Contrast paint, followed by a white drybrush. The bases are plasticard; the reverse side was airbrushed using new Fallout Hobby stencils. The stencils had a much smaller pattern than I had hoped. In addition, this particular pattern was very hard to pull off the backing and use.
I’ve been wanting to paint Vlad2 for a while, and was surprised by how fast I managed to finish him once I finally got started. (you know, instead of painting Satyxis, like I’m supposed to).
I started out by painting him with GW Blood Angel Red Contrast paint. I then painted the details, and finally some orange highlighting. The single coat of Blood Angel Red is very similar to Khador Red Base – I used that color to clean up some of the places where the paint had pooled in the wrong areas. He comes with that nicely sculpted base. I just used some desaturated blues and brownish greys. The lipped base is also Blood Angel Red through an airbrush – a few too many layers though, so it’s more of a crimson.
Mallet has been sitting on my shelf of shame for a while. He just needed some shading on his clothing, the haft of his weapon and eyeballs.
Fairly quick paint jobs, relying on zenithal priming and inks/washes for most of the color.
I painted a lot of Doom Reavers.
Fenris, Maximus, male Doom Reaver Swordsmen and male Greylord Escort are from Privateer Press.
Female Doom Reaver Swordsmen, female Greylord Escort and genderbent Fenris dismount are from Raging Heroes.
Objective marker is from Games Workshop.
Female Doom Reaver Swordsmen
Built from Raging Heroes Blade Maidens (Sisters of the Orphanage). Two Troop boxes and one Command box. The extra bits were turned into genderbent Fenris and a Greylord Escort. The swords come with a divot along the length which I filled in with putty. I made molds of Raging Heroes Flesh Eaters (Lust Elves Fantasy) masks using instamold and used greenstuff to copy them to the Blade Maiden faces.
I gave them a variety of skintones (to reflect Khador’s commitment to diversity when chaining prisoners to cursed swords that will drive them insane), and painted one red and one orange unit. S75 Red and Orange were used as the base colors (they use weird names that I can’t remember). VGA Chainmail Silver and GW Gehenna’s Gold for the metal and MSP Linen White and MSP Oiled Leather for the strips of cloth and leather. Everything was given a healthy wash of some combination of GW Agrax Earthshade and GW Nuln Oil.
My favorite part are the swords; the souls are freehanded on there. The base is MSP Black Green, the “soul” color is NPP Poison Green and the highlight is MSP Moth Green.
The bases for all units in this post were done at the same time. The snow is Woodland Scenics snow mixed with PVA and watered down so it doesn’t look dry. Tufts are Army Painter Frozen Tufts, with a few of them using the older Winter Tufts.
Next up is a regular unit of PP Doom Reaver Swordsmen and a Greylord Escort. These guys are a metal and weigh more than the both units of Raging Heroes resin put together. Again, I used a variety of skin tones, though I did more darker ones after realizing I forgot to include some really dark ones among the women. These sculpts are much simpler than the women, which helped a lot – I got them done in about a week and a half, as opposed to multiple months for the women. The swords were dry brushed in the same colors and the women’s swords, with S75 Red, SW Ruby Wash, VGC Beastly Brown, VGA Chainmail Silver and MSP Linen White used for the clothing bits. All topped off with a healthy GW black/brown wash mix. There are a few details I skipped over on the clother (rings in the leather skirts for one) so I could move them into the “done” column faster.
The Greylord Escort was painted to match the orange group of ladies above, mostly using the same colors as them. He started off with a zenithal prime coat, got glazes of VMC Basalt Grey for his cloak, a wash of GW Agrax Earthshade over the primer coat for the fur, VMA Steel for the pauldrons and P3 Battledress Green (IIRC) for the pants. I’ll have to keep the green in mind for future Khador guys – it’s desaturated so it doesn’t stand out, but way more interesting than brown or grey. His staff is painted with the standard sword colors of MSP Black Green, NPP Poison Green and MSP Moth Green. He got lots of GW Gehenna’s Gold accessories.
more details to come
Badger Metal Primer, Citadel Nuln Oil (Interesting thing I learned: even when shot through an airbrush, still pools like a wash). Heavy drybrush of VMC Oiled Steel, then mixing in P3 Quicksilver (I think) and finally Vallejo Metal Medium I did lighter and lighter drybrushes. Red Gold is Citadel Gehenna Gold over RMS Walnut Brown. Blue is RMS Desert Blue (an amazing color) shadowed with RMS Indigo Blue and highlighted with RMS Aquamarine Blue and Pure White (I think these three colors must be related, because Desert Sky + Pure White was nearly indistinguishable from Aquamarine Blue at a certain ratio).
The base turned out so-so. Clear plastic from a blister, backside painted so the upward facing portion is still glossy. I put it on after I glued her to the base (big mistake). I used a hex pattern stencil, but it looks more sci-fi than fantasy. The lines are not as crisp as if I’d used contact paper.
