As the Emperor Wills

This past week, with the new month here, it was time to begin a new project. I decided, however, that just one project was not enough as there were a couple of them that I wanted to progress on. The first of these was Armand Callis, one of the lead characters of the Saviours of Cinderfall. With Valius having been done concurrently with Xandire's Truthseekers a couple of months ago, I knew that I could get a single model from this group done beside another, larger project and with this specific mini having been preying on my mind it stood to reason to simply get it started. I started on this mini with a majority basecoat of Leadbelcher, given that he predominantly wore Armour. This was followed by a wash of Nuln Oil and then a wash of Agrax Earthshade before drybrushing the Armour with more Leadbelcher and then, finally, Ironbreaker. This was done in order to give the Armour a worn, very industrial look apart from the Buckle, which I hope to give a more silver vibe later dow...

Kurnoth's Heralds are finally finished!! It certainly felt like it took a long time (while, in truth, it took just over a month), but I finally got Kurnoth's Heralds finished to a parade ready level and, I must admit, I'm really proud of the work I did. Admittedly, this last part of their paint job took a little bit longer than the previous three (an extra half a week), but by this point I really just wanted to get them done I think and seeing them so close to the finish line made me just want to power through. I started by bringing the bases up to snuff. First of all I drybrushed all three with Ogryn Camo in the hopes of giving it a much more grasslands look. I then moved onto to  Thousand Sons Blue for some of the flowers on the base in order to give both the base and the model overall an additional colour (there was no blue as far as I could remember). There was a plan to paint the remainder of the flowers in Screamer Pink but, unfortunately, the pot had drie...

It's been a bit of a quiet week for me as I've been unable to allocate as much time to painting as I would have liked. However, I was able to make some movement as I continue Kurnoth's Heralds. This week was washing week, as I applied all of the necessary washes to my warband. And when I say all, it certainly felt like it was all, with only Carroburg Crimson not getting any play from my collection. Most of my shades were used as was expected. Seraphim Sepia was used to was the Zandri Dust on the horse body, while Reikland Fleshshade covered the more human aspects. Meanwhile, Agrax Earthshade was applied to the red Armour and the bone/antlers while Nuln Oil was used to wash the harness all three minis wore as well as their hair. Where I changed things up came after that as Coelia Greenshade was applied over all of the Leadbelcher in order to give the metal a bit of a green tint while Drakenhof Nightshade was applied over the gold in order to give it a mor...

It's week two of working on Kurnoth's Heralds and, feeling I didn't get as far into the base colouring of these minis as I would have like, I decided to do my best at finishing off that first part of the painting process so that I wouldn't start feeling like it's a real slog. So, picking up where I left off, I started with colouring the 'armour' (I mean is it Armour, or is it clothing?) with Khorne Red before then moving on to to the hair, where I used a small dab of Khorne along with Cadian Fleshtone and a larger dollop of Troll Slayer Orange (roughly a 1:1:3 mix). Next up came the metals as I applied Retributor Armour to the Armour edges as well Kurnoth's 'harness' (the thing around his waist. I guess you could call it a harness) and portions of all three's helmets. Then I applied Leadbelcher to the weapon blades along with the remaining parts of the helmets and Armour. Then I moved onto the bases, where I used Catachan Fleshtone fo...

This week I was in need of a new project for the September after finishing Xandire's Truth seekers. Therefore, I turned my attention to another Warhammer Underworlds warband, Kurnoth's Heralds. Ever since they were announced (and subsequently released), I have absolutely loved the look of these minis, what are essentially Mr Tumnus' bigger, angrier cousins. In fact, they were the reason I picked up the Spitewood expansion in the first place. Anyway, having already primed them with Colour Forge's Matt Black I got to work. First up I decided to give an all over drybrush of Wraithbone to these minis. This was to lighten things a little (because some of the paints were meant to have a Wraithbone undercoat, according to the Citadel App) as well as give me a better view of the details. Next up came my standard process of base, wash, base drybrush, layer drybrush. On this occasion, I started with Mournfang Brown a s the base for the horse body before giving it an ...

Well, I (like everyone else) knew this day would come. Earlier this week, GW released the list of minis/units which were being shunted off to Legends and it wasn't as bad as I feared ... It was worse. So, as was pretty much predicted, all of the first born were cut. For me, this meant the loss of the Tactical Squad and the Centurion Assault/Destroyer Squad. However, in a bit of a surprise (well, to no one but me apparently), the Suppressor Squad was cut (along with a load of other Primaris unit). Now, all three of these units is particularly gutting to me as I actually liked them all, with my Tactical Squad being the first unit I had picked up nearly four and a half years ago. However, the bitterest pill to swallow was the loss of Uriel Ventris to legends. Farewell, my Captain!! Having read (well, listened to) all of Graham McNeill's Ventris stories (ok, the first six), Uriel Ventris is amongst my favourite characters within the 40k universe (the others being Caiphu...