Gotrek Gurnison

 

In October 2022 I also worked on this little lad! 

I had a couple of AoS games planned for early November and wanted to run a rather silly list... including Gotrek.

Fun little model to paint.

Rotmire Creed Warcry Warband

 In October 2022 I finished off painting up the Rotmire Creed warband. Having gotten into Warcry with the 'Heart of ghur' box this was the obvious Warband I'd paint up and play.

I wanted to try out some a bit different on these guys, my process involves Slapchopping the base colours, then an all-over coating of Streaking Grime (which is then removed with make up sponges and then pastel highlights. I think they came out well and very 'nurgley' 

Plague Troll

 

In October 20022 I picked up a 3d printed Plague Troll from Etsy. This model will proxy for a monster in Warcry to accompany my Rotmire Creed warband.

I painted him up using my Nurgle scheme described here - Banjo Unchained: Nurgle Daemons Colour Scheme

Sylvaneth Revenant Seekers

 

Another new Sylvaneth unit next, a unit of Revenant Seekers. The Revenants themselves were painted using my standard Revenant colour scheme. the other bits were painted as follows:

Red Chitin

Khorne Red >Wazdakka Red >Squig Orange > Bestigor Flesh. Glaze shade Gal Vorbak Red underneath and on bits of wings close to bug body.

Brown Chitin

Rhinox Hide > Doombul Brown >Tuskgor Fur

Wings

Morghast Bone > Screaming Skull towards edges.

Gold 

Fulrite Copper

Shades

Once the base colours had been applied, the whole model received a coat of gloss varnish followed by a coat of 50/50 mix of Soft tone and quick shade mixing medium.

Sylvaneth Gossamid Archers

 

Following the Lady of Vines I worked on the new unit of Gossamid Archers. I painted this as per my usual Tree Revenants - but the skin was just heavy-thinned plague bearer flesh over Wraithbone

The chitin of the Bug was painted as per Arch Revenant and the wings were airbrushed Plaguebearer flesh. then plague bearer flesh mixed with Militarum Green for the darker areas. This mix was then used to shade along each wing vein.

Sylvaneth Lady of Vines

 

In June 2022 I picked up the Sylvaneth v Skaven battle box and got to work on the Lady of Vines. Fab model! here's the scheme:

Bark 

Base-coated Dryad Bark then highlighted Gorthor Brown & Baneblade Brown. This was then shaded with Wyldwood/Contrast Medium 1:4 ratio.

Ethereal Blue

These were pained Grey Seer and then contract Aerthermatic Blue was applied on top.

Spear

The spear and blade followed my standard Sylvaneth colour scheme covered elsewhere in this blog.

Gold Armour

The gold was painted Fulgite Copper, shaded with diluted Wyldwood and highlighted back up with Fulgrite Copper and Vallejo Steel & Silver.

Leaves

The leaves were painted Straken Green and highlighted Loren Forest and Orgyn Camo

Base

Plaguebearer was painted using my Nurgle scheme covered here - Banjo Unchained: Nurgle Daemons Colour Scheme

Nerd Day 2021

In September we managed to hold the 4th 'Nerd Day' weekend. Some mate and I got together for a weekend and played a number of games. Here's some photos from the weekend:

Age of Sigmar

Dungeon Bowl

Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing Game

Nerd Day 2019

In September I hosted the annual 'Nerd Day'. For 2019 we played a small game of 40k, a HUGE 4000 point 3-way AoS battle, a fantastic 5 player Dungeon Bowl game and then finally we defeated the Ambull in Blackstone Fortress.

Oh and we christened my new firepit and BBQ! 

Sylvaneth Ylthari's Guardians

For these guys, I took the opportunity to paint the whole unit with only Contrast paints.  I followed the rather splendid guide by Tyler Mengel here on the Warhammer Community site... and I think they came out quite well.

These guys aren't great in AoS so I wasn't too fussed they wouldn't match the aesthetic of my Sylvaneth collection.

Sylvaneth Arch Revenant

Swiftly on the heels of the Spite Revenants, I moved on to the new, exclusive (at the time) Arch-Revenant from Looncurse. Again I got the chance to experiment with Contrast... and it turned out rather well I think!

Lets go through the steps:

Skin
Aethermatic Blue/Contrast Medium.

Hair
Blaguebearer Flesh/Contrast Medium.

Bark
Caliban Green then shaded with Wyldwood.

Skirt
Loren Forest highlighted with Straken Green. Contrast Warp lightning was then applied and shaded with Ork Flesh.

Sprite wings
Undercoated Grey Seer then airbrushed Aethermatic Blue, Plague Bearer Flesh, Akhelion Green. Finally, Grey Seer was then drybrushed.

Spite chitin
Undercoated Grey Seer then painted Terradon Turquoise. A washed mix of Aethermtic Blue/Akhelian Green/Contrast Medium was then applied. This was then highlighted by drybrushing Sotek Green and Temple Guard Blue.

Runes and blade
AirbrushedBaharroth blue and white.

Sylvaneth Spite Revenants

Once I'd finished the initial batch of Blood Angels I moved on to rounding out my Sylvaneth collection. I was lucky enough to pick up 2 boxes of Looncurse when it was released in May 2019 so used the contents of the boxes to expand my collection to over 4500 points.

First up out of the set was to paint up 15 Spite Revenants. These were very straight forward to paint and I got the chance to use Contrast paints for the first time.

The bark was airbrushed Abbadon Black then highlighted with Caliban Green, Warpstone Glow and finally Moot Green. The bark was then shaded with a mixture of Black Templar and Contrast Medium. I then picked out some of the lightest green areas with more Moot Green.

The skin was undercoated Grey Seer and then Aethermatic Blue was applied all over.

The leaves were painted Wraithbone and then various contrast paints were used over the top.

These guys were super easy to paint and great fun!

Nurgle Daemons Feculent Gnarlmaw

This week I've a couple of Nurgle trees to present!

Very interesting models to paint - and I think they came out quite nicely!

Nurgle Daemons Plague Drones

Now on to some of Grandfather Nurgles finest! Plague Drones.

These were a pain to pain! Aside from the PlagueBearers I fully assembled the modes so found the wings harder to airbrush than if I'd have kept them separate.

I painted the PlagueBearers using the same colour scheme covered here.

For the Plague Drones, i used the following paints:

• Body - Death World Forest > Ogryn Camo > Ushabti Bone
• Wings - Zandri Dust > Karak Stone (around the edges)
• Legs - Loren Forest > Castellan Green > Dryad Back
• Carapace - Abaddon Black > Eshin Grey > Dawnstone

Sylvaneth Drycha Hamadreth

Next up is Drycha!! What a model this lady is. Fantastic design... it was a tad awkward to paint even using subassemblies but it all came together nicely in the end.

As Drycha is a named character, instead of following my standard Sylvaneth colour scheme, I followed the suggested colours on the reverse of the box. The only change was I applied the shade as the final stage - after gloss varnish and mixed with Quickshade Mixing Medium.

Sylvaneth Spirit of Durthu

Whilst I had my camera and lighting set up for the Fellowship of the Ring models, I thought I'd take some good shots of some models I haven't posted about. First up is Durthu!

This is the 3rd Treelord type dude I've pained so I'm very used to dividing the model into the most appropriate subassemblies and how to get the best out of my colour scheme - which is described here.

Nerd Day 2018

Trying to get back on track with blog updates. To kick things off, here's a photo dump from the summer gaming day I held in August.

Sylvaneth v Nighthaunt

Maggotkin v Nighthaunt v Sylvaneth v Ironjawz

Thousand Sons v Astra Militarum