Cursed City - Painted Up

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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.

Something's Fishy - Deepkin Warband

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Age of Sigmar – Deepkin are one of the new flavors of Elf introduced to Age of Sigmar, the whole “Undersea Magic” is odd to me but the overall look of the models is very cool.

Stormcast Eternals – Bringing Order

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Age 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.

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Blood for the Blood God - Worship as You Will

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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.

Stormcast Eternals

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Stormcast Eternals

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 - Undead and Chaos Characters

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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.

Warhammer Underworld: Garreck's Reavers

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Warhammer Underworld: Garreck's Reavers

Age of Sigmar – Khorne is always cooler in a world without guns. Rushing in a meeting your enemy with a giant axe while screaming like a maniac isn’t for everyone. But is you worship the Blood God well it’s a way of life. As with all the Underworld warbands these are really great sculpts. Bulked up and dynamically posed these guys just drip flavor (and blood I suppose).

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Warhammer Underworlds: Dark Oathe

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Age of Sigmar – Barbarians at the gate, well rather Chaos Marauders reimagined into something cool. The old marauder kit is just plain ridiculous at this point. One can only hope that the Underworlds warbands are a test bed for a new direction on some of the old fantasy lines from Games Workshop.

This was a fun set to paint up, I opted to keep them relatively brown monotone as that’s the first thing I think of when I picture a barbarian.

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Assembly Line ... Chaos Daemons

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Assembly Line ... Chaos Daemons

Warhammer 40,000 – One of the most daunting things about starting this hobby is having to put together your models. (Painting is a close second, since before you can do that you need to put them together.) This is especially true for newer players that are interested in the social and tactical aspects of tabletop gaming but come from a background of video or board games where everything is ready to go right out of the box. A large percentage of these newer gamers don't have an interest in the hobby aspect of the game (yet, it will come with time) so paying to have these parts taken care of makes sense for them.

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