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3 hours ago, hughwyeth said:
My decision to try and use blending everywhere really means every unit will take aaaaages.
Very nice. I love the armor panels especially. Also, regarding blending everywhere - all of the blending, all of the time, always. Yes.
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Nice progress Kramer! At least one of us has been productive 😁
I’ve always thought that if I were going to do Stormcast it would be the griffen rider dudes. The models are the best in that range imo. They also seem like an elite army, where you can get a game with fewer models. Also, cavalry - I rest my case.
How’s everyone progressing? We are a third of the way there!
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Any endeavor to grow a skill is worth it in my mind! Looking forward to how you tackle this. I can’t sculpt to save my life and have always been curious what the road looks like on that path.
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57 minutes ago, Tommy said:
I’ve very similar feelings about the Tzeentch range to you folks, @Ggom and @Lowki - lesser daemon models are a bit meh (except Screamers actually, love those!), Kairic Acolytes are awesome but need some female models, Corvus Cabal seem a perfect fit for Tzeentch, and the Lord of Change is awesome! 🙂
I suspect the Acolytes kit was sculpted just before GW started working to improve female representation in their kits, things have been much better in the last few years. I have 10 males painted and I’m wondering what might be a good base kit for 10 females... Witch Elves are too skimpy so I’m wondering if Escher gangers with regular masked Kairic heads would work. 🤔
I’d love to see how you convert them! Agree witch aelves won’t work (I’ve painted 20 of the girls, they are beautiful aelves but too slender for kairic.) I think Escher may be a good starting point, but the amount of sculpting robes and removing tech accesories seems daunting at first. I will take a look at the models on the website presently.
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man, I think Escher will be a ton of sculpting and shaving. Cypher lords look like an easier starting point, but will require some clever shaving as well. I might see if I can get my hands on a few Cupher lords single miniatures on Ebay down the road to experiment with. Would need kairic heads and kairic weapons. And some delicate knifework on the leg straps.
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1 hour ago, Lowki said:
Man, never realized how great these Acolytes look, but now this, both of you really make them look fantastic!! Makes me wanna start a Tzeentch army right away , really (please someone stop me.) Never really considered Tzeentch until now. Always loved the Lord of Change, awesome model, one of the best imho, but the rest of the army never really appealed to me, How much difference another paint scheme can do, right?
Just realized. The warcry chaos warbands were never meant to be specific for a given faction, but still some of them seem to fit better with one faction than the other. Like the Unmade with their self-mutilation and such, always felt a lot like Slaanesh to me, and I always thought the Cypher Lord closest to Tzeentch. But realizing that there is something really birdy about Tzeentch, wouldn't Corvus make a cool Tzeench unit as well? I mean is more Raven-like, so a totally different kind of "birdy", but still, with the right color scheme. Anyone ever tried that?
Yeap, I’m not in love with some of the Tzeentch gribbly demons (they’re OK, but I don’t love them) so I’m focusing on the mortals. I wish the Kairic Acolytes came with female sculpts as well. Why they have to be a bunch of 20 dudes is beyond me. Props @hughwyeth for having the perseverance to plow through an entire unit 😭
Also, I love the Corvus Cabal! I wish they were battleline. As it is, I feel like I should paint some acolytes or tzaangors first so I can actually play the game one day. One thought I had was to run the Cabal as Chaos Marauders - but they are kind of expensive to get 20 of them. I also haven’t come across any brilliant ideas for converting a musician or banner bearer for them, and finally, I’m not sure they can be run as WYSIWYG, not having shields.
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7 hours ago, Lowki said:
I missed this one, love the idea! Would it still be possible to join?
it is a very inspirational and lively thread, much fun to read.
How do you guys manage to get so many done in just a month time, with such great results.!
I don’t know that anyone is keeping score, as long as you are contributing your own progress and motivating the team why not?
I had a play with the airbrush yesterday and settled on a general scheme for the Lord of Change
I was learning about CYMK colors and thought it would be neat to do some high contrast on this guy. I figured to use two sources of lighting, one would be his left handed staff (not attached yet) that would be a really saturated yellow, and the other side would be a more desaturated magenta from his right hand wand. I think I’m going to paint the individual feathers next to add texture - I saw this stunning LoC on Instagram by Kaha with all of the feathersdone and I want to see if I can incorporate some of that.
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1 hour ago, Kramer said:
Model by model getting through the last parts of last month 😅
my very brightly painted stormcast. Not really originally the plan. Got a few for cheap because I wanted to try black armour. But well after the Louise sugdon piece this happened. basing to do after I get through the rest. And then picture time.
Nice colors!
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5 hours ago, Kramer said:
Oh that sucks. Nothing so annoying as a lot of cleaning. And you can bet your feathery ass that on such a big model you will find more after priming 😞
Haha Nuuuuuuuu.... I usually find them after some undercoating usually. I usually can’t see too well when they are just primed black 🤣 to date I usually say &*$# it, just ignore it and hope no one notices
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My goal for this month - finish a tzaangor mutant and get the main lights and shadows and colors onto big bird. I’ve probably spent 4 or 5 hours cleaning this guy and filling gaps - man there are a lot of mold lines and gaps on him
really looking forward to busting out the airbrush and having a play on him; I don’t airbrush much so it’s always a learning experience. Thinking of doing something really daemonic and malevolent for him - maybe underlit to emphasize his size compared to the rest of the colection. Curious to try out some colors I’ve avoided with the rest of the army too. Haven’t made up my mind if going with red for a more desaturated look will be better, or if I want togo for the pop effect of some bright magenta.
Decisions...
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I started with brush on gesso 4 years ago, and it was really hard to get a consistent finish. I switched to spray on a year later and never went back.
When i started spraying I started with the GW primer cans, but they were finicky in high humidity where I live. I found that the car automobile spray cans (Rustoleum where I live) are much better at getting good results in warm, wet climate that is the mid-western US during the summer. I will also say, as someone who will occasionally go back to strip and repaint models I’ve previously painted, that GW primer is indestructible on plastic (which is incredibly annoying if you are stripping because you messed up and primed in high humidity.) Rustoleum, on the other hadnd, comes off well with Simple Green, and is otherwise really strong for gaming. I do not know of a substance on earrth that can remove the $@#& GW rattle can primer from plastic; as someone else above has mentioned, it must be some kind of chemical bonding with the plastic itself.
Last year I got an airbrush, and that has been a game changer as well. It’s even better for control, which is handy for sketching out lights and shadows. I don’t see myself going back to cans unless I’m trying to do large batches of terrain or something.
I don’t think I would go back to brush on gesso unless... we had a zombie apocalypse and regressed to the middle ages.
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3 hours ago, Kramer said:
That’s some evil, and very well painted, looking cultists. Well done.
so for me it’s do or die tonight. Wish me luck😅
May your impotent god king smile upon you and grant speed to your brush!
But in real life - make it happen Captain!
@hughwyethNice work there as always! I really like the effect you get on the armor with the swirls, and the vibrancy of your colors.
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Finished my goal for this month! Here are 3 Tzeentch Mortals to add to my small collection! I imagine they are skulking in the dark sewers and tunnels of some city, preparing the grounds for some eldritch ritual to call forth their patron deity. The cabalists differ in their interpretations of what will happen next - some think they will be elevated to paradise, some think they will be granted the power to undo past wrongs, and still others whisper apocryphal tidings of fire and ash.
A hint of things for next month - perhaps the Cabalists will raise more to their cause, either for sorcery or sacrifice. Or perhaps something greater comes, borne on great wings and bearing terrible wroth, to shatter the delusions of these flimsy mortals.
In other news - the silver tower acolyte sculpts are beautiful. Super dynamic. I also like having a female acolyte from Underworlds. I think it was a missed opportunity that the regular acolyte box is a sausage fest.
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I finished another tzaangor, which puts me a little past the halfway mark as well! As a godawfully slow painter I set my sights low in terms of volume haha.
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Wait we’re only halfway through the month right? Why does everyone sound like time is running out?
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3 hours ago, Popisdead said:
Does anyone remember when lightning claws were,.. claws? not kitchen knives on a power fist or sharpened fingers?
What a bizarre change that aesthetic direction took.
I would say Night Lords since NLs hard a terminator preview AND it's probably blood.
I actually have only been in Heresy for the last 3 years - what did lightning claws used to look like?
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Unlikely to be the Contekar (Night Lords) terminators - those wield Nostraman chainswords, and wear Tartaros armor. That doesn’t look like a Tartaros fist. It’s more likely to be a 40k release given the shape of the claw.
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31 minutes ago, xking said:
As someone who has painted many, many sets of powerfists and lightning claws, this is 90% a chaos lightning claw. The fact that it is tapered towards the top makes me think it is Indominus pattern, since Cataphractii pattern don’t taper toward the elbow, and Tartaros pattern lightning claws are wolverine style with blades ver the hand instead of on the fingers. Given that there’s already been a chaos terminator release, my guess is that this is a character model. The deformity over the hand and the ichor make me lean towards Nurgle?
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Today was the start of model #2 for this month’s goal; a silver tower tzaangor. I have to say that these are nice and varied to paint compared to my usual fare of witch aelves and power armor. Things started off on the wrong foot last night when I decided to paint while tired - everything was going pear shaped! But I felt some mojo this afternoon and had another go and I think it will end up fitting in with his team well enough later. Still much to do!
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49 minutes ago, hughwyeth said:
My dudes, i feel like I'm spamming. Y'all gotta get some pics up in here. Here's the dude riding the whoop swoosh.
That is some sweet free hand. I’ve been painting a Kairic Acolyte and have been dawdling over what to add to the shield. Interested in your C&C:
After seeing yours, I am tempted to do some swirly line work too!
In other news, I am happy with how her sword came out:
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I’m in, although my painting rate is pretty slow. I am loving Tzeentch right now and have just cleaned up a small collection of kairic acolytes and tzaangor to add to my Eyes of the Nine warband. Here’s what’s painted so far:
For June my goal is to paint 3 models. Here’s what I’ve assembled over the last few days, it should take a few months to paint
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What are folks thoughts on using corvus cabal as kairic acolytes? The acolytes are decent, even great models, but the corvus cabal hit the spot for me. I think they are a bit smaller than the acolytes tho.
Alternatively, how about as Chaos Marauders, given that those are also battleline? I’m planning a painting project and am trying to get a minimum of battleline for a playable army.
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Not a fan of these shadow aelves, they don’t share the same feel as the rest of the army in my mind. There are some visual cues like the circlet on the leader and the greaves they all wear that are similar, but I’m really not feeling them.
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I would love for us to get a more elite unit. I also agree on the “we have enough monsters lets get some regular elves please” but think that is unlikely the way GW will proceed. It would be nice if we could get rules for the dark elf sorceress, since she is aesthetically very fitting.
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Painting feathers isn’t working out great. I am not sure if I should stick with my current approach, which is not very noticeable from afar, or amp up the contrast and add more white to the strokes. I’m nervous that it will look bad if I highlight the hairs more acutely, although it will be more visible from a distance.
Looking at the photo, I am starting to think I should add more white to the lines.