A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Age of Sigmar – Warhammer Underworlds is a well designed competitive mash-up of a card game and a miniatures game. It sounds like with the next release they’ll start rotating out card sets so the barrier to entry for new players will be significantly lower.
Age of Sigmar – Cursed City was one of those chase big box games that Games Workshop didn’t produce enough of and then allocated to stores resulting in ridiculous price gouging for people that actually wanted to get the game to paint and play. Maybe once all the supply chain issues clear up they’ll reprint the game so everyone that wants one can get it.
I’m really happy to have had a chance to paint up this set and in actually just a bit jealous that I didn’t pick one up for myself. There are a ton of cool models in this set that would be an amazing basis for conversions so maybe they’ll release them separately at some point.
To paint these I stuck with contrast paint over a variety of base colors, the look is slightly different than my traditional painting style and I like how the effect ties all these models together.
Age of Sigmar – Feral Orks have always been a faction I’ve found to be fun and interesting. The primitive look with fur and feathers is fun to paint and looks pretty impressive on the tabletop. I prefer the look to the rusted metal of the 40k Space Orks.
Age of Sigmar – Warhammer Underworlds is a really cool system, with each rotation the warbands get more and more impressive. I was happy to hear that cards would rotate out of the system over time, which was one of the biggest barriers of entry for new players. Of course that doesn’t change the need to but each new set to get all the cards so players that only pick up one set will still be fighting an uphill battle.
I just wrapped up the Orks, Lumineth, Daughters of Khaine and Slaanesh warbands. Each of these are really nice push fit models that go together easily. I’m really impressed with how far plastic push fit models have come.
Age of Sigmar – War Cry looks like a game I’d love: chaos warbands, fancy terrain, small model count, crazy monsters, and a campaign system.
Read MoreAge of Sigmar – Stormcast Bowmen, Grifhounds and Aetherwings must be a really decent warband. This is the second warband I’ve painted this year with the same list. While I’m not an Age of Sigmar fan the more I paint these models the more I like them. Who know maybe I’ll make myself a small force in the future.
Age of Sigmar – The alter of blood is a cool terrain piece that looks great with any of the Blood Gods followers. I believe my client will be using this for War Cry.
Also for War Cry or Age of Sigmar is the meanest toughest little person to stalk the Old World. Gotrek Gurrnison the Troll Slayer and star of numerous novels graced my table with this batch as well.
Age of Sigmar – Ogre Trappers and Goblins are an interesting take on transforming the Ogre Kingdoms line over to Age of Sigmar.
Read MoreAge of Sigmar – Nurgle models always have a unigue look about them and painting some followers of the plague god seems to fit with the current climate.
Read MoreAge of Sigmar – Flesh-eater Courts are the ghouls of Age of Sigmar, they’re a different take on the undead. This warband is part of the BeastGrave expansion.
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Wolf Riders
My first Warhammer Novel
Warhammer Underworlds – The first Warhammer novel I ever read was Wolf Riders. That book was enough to get me hooked, not enough to actually ever play Fantasy mind you, but hooked enough to get Battle Masters, Dark World and Hero Quest. From there I picked up Chainmail and a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons minis on which I taught myself to paint, I wish I still had those Dark Sun models they were so cool. Anyway the point of this rabbit hole was to express my love for Goblin Wolf Riders and how that iconic model drew me into this hobby.
The next batch of Beastgrave models to cross my desk were the Wolf Riders. It’s odd that they have calvary in a skirmish game but I imagine it works out. These three are much more dynamic than previous models and I hope it’s a sign of what’s to come for the greenskin line.
Warhammer Underworlds – The latest version of Warhammer Underworlds takes you out of the Underworlds and into the Wilderness. The first crew to pass my table for this expansion are the Sylvaneth faction. I’m not a huge fan of tree people, although these aren’t really Treemen, but some kind of elf/tree hybrid. I guess in the fluff they’re some sort of ghostly possessed tree, which I didn’t completely realized when I started painting them. I’m pretty happy with the scheme I opted for as it pops against the bright green basing.
Age of Sigmar – I don’t typically get a tone of Age of Sigmar models on my painting table but when I do they are quite fun to paint. Rebranding and reimagining the Fantasy line was probably one of the best things Games Workshop could do. Not being tied to the Old World any longer each new faction they release is dynamic and unique to their IP. With Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines have been the iconic unit since it’s inception, Warhammer Fantasy didn’t really have anything that wasn’t tied to generic fantasy
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Age of Sigmar - To go along with the small band of Slayers I recently painted, and their endless spells my client picked up the terrain piece for the Fyre Slayers. Apparently with their latest updates they’ve become a force that will see the tabletop more. This Forge is pretty cool and I like that each race is getting something unique to add to the tabletop.
Age of Sigmar – The warbands of Warhammer Underworlds have been very fun to paint. The small model count is just enough to get a taste for what the faction looks like without being totally invested in a huge amount of models. It seems like the game plays quickly and is easy to pick up and fill in downtime during regular game nights.
Thundrick’s Profiteers is the latest warband to cross my painting table. While I’m not reall interested in Age of Sigmar myself these models sure are tempting. I’d almost be tempted to pick them up and convert a Kill team or small squad for Warhammer 40K out of them.
Being mostly gold I started with a copper basecoat washed with Coelia Geenshade. I really like how the blue-green wash looks with gold. It gives it a bit of an unearthly quality that contrasts nicely with the purple of their cloth jumpsuits. After painting the faces silver I washed with Drakenfield Nightshade which gives a nice hue that feels more natural than a black wash.
Age of Sigmar – The Chaos Daemon range has been in dire need of some new plastic kits for quite some time. Luckily for Khorne and Slaanesh players Games Workshop delivered with some gorgeous new plastic kits.
Read MoreAge of Sigmar – Silver Tower was the first set in the re-release of Warhammer Quest, I never played but my gaming group was pretty excited about the release. Unfortunately with the plethora of box sets and reimagined games Games Workshop has put out in the last few years it’s hard to make time to play everything.
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Age of Sigmar – It’s getting hot in here. Endless spells are the latest edition to Age of Sigmar. Buy a special kit of models and your army gains access to some very powerful magic spells or effects. Once cast these stay on the table and wreck all kinds of havoc. The first two sets I was asked to paint are the Fyre Slayers and the Stormcast Eternals.
The fire spells were pretty simple to do using the fluorescent paint techniques I’ve discussed in previous posts.
The Stormcast spells also were pretty straightforward to paint. Essentially blue, purple and some washes to get the magic-y effect I was going for.
Age of Sigmar – Along with the warbands I’ve been painting for Warhammer Underworlds my client sent over a few characters for his Age of Sigmar armies. It looks like I’ll be painting a significant number of fantasy models over the next few moths which is great because I find the models very cool even though I don’t play the game. One of the benefits to doing commission work is getting to paint cool stuff that you don’t actually want to own.
This batch has two Chaos characters and a Necromancer, eventually I believe I’ll be painting rest of the armies that go with these characters.
Age of Sigmar – I really can’t get my head around the fluff for Age of Sigmar, granted I haven’t tried to hard, but regardless many of the reimagined races and units have some weird-ass trademarkable names. Which i get as a big company you have to protect your IP (even if your IP is heavily based on “borrowing” ideas from other IPs). Trolls in particular were renamed as Dankhold Troggoth’s which I supposed is very unique and cool in some way.
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