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I forgot to post the painted one last night:

So today a friend posted their Yndrastia from Dominion and reminded me I hadn't done anything with mine. Introducing "Counts as Sigvald"

Updated family portrait:

Painbringers are probably next.

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Painted some Seekers yesterday. I wanted to keep the Daemonette skin tone but add in the colours I used elsewhere so they would fit in:

I've converted up a Gor to count as a Lord of Pain with a Lash of Despair ready for painting and some Seeker Chariots with beasts and daemonettes as the crew. Here's the Gord of Pain:

 

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Painted up the Blissbarb Archers instead of the Daemonettes. They're a fiddly kit to build and an equally fiddly kit to paint with all the little details.

My favourite is this one:

 

And here they are with the rest of the currently illegal for matched play army:

According to Warscroll Builder, that's 725pts painted this week. Going to try and get them to 1500 for next weekend.

 

 

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After painting up some winter Sylvaneth, spring GA:Death, summer Gloomspite and some autumn Nurgle, I'm back to winter (got to love Valhallan Blizzard) to create some weird hybrid Chaos army. It'll either be Hedonites with BoC and possibly some Slaves to Darkness units with the Coalition rules or a BoC army with some Hedonite allies. Alternatively I'll just paint up whatever I think looks cool, rules be damned.

I've done most colour schemes over the years but never anything predominately orange, so that's what I've gone with this time.

There's the "Herd Speaker", they weren't the first unit I painted but they're the one that best shows what I'm thinking with colours. i.e. Orange cloth, Teal accents, or in the case of the beasts Teal flesh.

Beastlord and Headstone were added:

And tonight I painted up a "Lord of Pain" (Direchasm guy) using the same scheme, here with the other heroes:

I've got some Blissbarb Archers and Daemonettes to add next. The Blissbarb are quite intimidating so I may do the Daemonettes first.

 

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Painted the last 10 Dryads, and 6 Kurnoth Hunters with Great Swords today. Completing exactly 2000pts of Sylvaneth

 

Here's the full 2000pts

All that's missing is a 2nd Wyldwood which will complete the army ready for its first non-skirmish outing next time I head to Warhammer World.

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1 hour ago, Kramer said:

How? 😂 this is amazing. The colours Re so real. That’s a winter wonderland and no mistake. 

Thanks. Painted the same way as the units, and nice and quick too (but messy).

1) Prime Wraithbone

2) Heavy coverage with a large brush using Wyldwood + Contrast Medium about 4:1 ratio paint to medium. Cover everything except the leaves

3) Paint Apocathary White over the leaves, leaving the edges wraith bone. Paint more under the leaves where shadows would fall to exaggerate the shade.

4) Wash the wood and rocks in Athonian Camoshade.

5) Drybrush Krieg Khaki over the wood, and Ulthuan Grey over the rocks.

6). Cover in Valhallan Blizzard snow on the open areas and on some parts of the tree tops.

The glowing bits are Aethermatic Blue, dry brushed Ulthuan.

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8 minutes ago, Tommy said:

I counted 5 trees in the back row first time round...! 😄

+1 to save then, thanks camouflage

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In model painting news, I've painted up 3 more Kurnoth Hunters today bringing the total number of Bow guys to 6

And a group shot

They're a little more blue here, the actual colours are as above.

Need to do 10 more dryads, 6 more Kurnoth (Swords this time) and 1 more Awakened Wyldwood (3 more regular trees) and I've got my 2000pt list ready to take to battle.

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On 1/8/2020 at 3:14 AM, ThalmorRepresentative said:

This army is so glorious! I rather like that you've kept the scheme colors relatively simple. You're far more disciplined than I :D.

Thank you, having a really quick scheme makes the next 10 dryads in the queue a lot more palatable.

10 hours ago, Arnied3 said:

How did you do the treelord bases - the water effect is class! 

Cheers, its just paint and varnish, What I did was paint the whole base in Wyldwood, then where I wanted water I added a very watery layer of Incubi Darkness and dotted in some green in various patches so it'd bleed into the watery incubi for some variation. Once that's dried I brushed 'Ard Coat over it to give it the wet look.

I wrote an article on Goonhammer where I used the same process for slime bases on my Nurgle guys: https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-base-everything-pools-of-slime/

 

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Also painted a Tree Lord Ancient today to be able to summon the Awakened Wyldwood from earlier:

 

with his other large buddy

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Painted up the first Awakened Wyldwood this morning

 

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Bailed on Ythari's Guardians, as I went to Warhammer World on Friday where I played a game with the above Skirmish war band and grabbed some more bits. 

An Awakened Wyldwood, some more Kurnoth Hunters and a Branchwraith.

 

She's painted more inverted than normally seen (the blue / green bits are normally wooden coloured). I'll be working on the first Awakened Wyldwood, the Hunters and some of the 2nd Start Collecting box over the next couple of weeks. The goal is to phase out the non-Sylvaneth units and make it a pure Winterleaf army.

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Not painted much Sigmar stuff recently but I've got a Skirmish game coming up on Friday so I decided to add a few more guys to the army in the guise of some Tree-Revenants, here's the unit:

They were really quick to do with Contrast paints, the brown parts are Wyldwood thinned over Wraithbone, the blue parts are Aehtermatic blue.  Brown washed with Athoninan Camoshade and highlighted with Kreig Khaki, and the blue highlighted with VMC white.

All in about 3hrs painting for all 5 guys.

Here's the Skirmish force:

You can spy some Idoneth in the background because that's my next big project (Alliance of Wood and Sea).

I bought Yithari's Guardians today too, so they'll probably get some paint at the weekend.

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10 hours ago, Red_Shift said:

Are the heads on your archers all from the stock kit? It's all looking great.

Thanks.

The heads on the Sisters of the Watch are the standard ones, on the Shadow Warriors one is from the Dark Elf Blood Bowl team and another is an old Eldar Guardian head. The Eternal Guard are just using the Rangers hooded heads from the alternative build option (Wildwood Rangers).

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I decided to add a Knight-Azyros from the Stormcast range to give a nice +1 to hit Aura to the gunline (the auro is for all friendly units and not limited to Stormcast) she'll help boost the Sisters of the Watch and Kurnoth Hunters.

Problem is a Knight-Azyros would look out of place so I kitbashed a suitably angry Winterleaf alternative:

The Stormcast head will be the glowing lantern bit, figured I'd have some link back to the actual model in some way

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I wrote up  a more in depth step by step on the quick OSL techniques I used to make the blue/teal colours look like they're glowing here: https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-quick-and-easy-osl-the-20-min-methods/

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Added a Branchwych to the gang, this was a very quick speed paint job so I could say that I actually finished on of the Start Collecting boxes.

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Did another 10 Dryads today, got 10 more to do for that unit, but that's a job for next week along with probably the other 5 Eternal Guard and a Treelord.

Here they all are so far:

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Thanks guys. I did the first 5 Eternal Guard, and just bought another Start Collecting Sylvaneth box to max out the Dryads and to add Treelord to join Durthu

I converted up a Waywatcher from one of them too, as I decided to start this army the same week GW pulled some of the the line 🤦‍♂️

I've just got an older metal one from ebay to make up for the pilfered parts.

There's more tutorials on the site too, it's mostly 40k stuff but I did do a piece on simple OSL too, the painting articles are here https://www.goonhammer.com/category/painting/ if anyone else want's to check them out.

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Took a picture of the full gang earlier, according to the Warscroll Builder this is 900pts on the nose (Spirit of Durthu being a good 3rd of that). I'm about 1/2 way through the first half of the Eternal Guard and the Waywatcher kitbash so they should be done tomorrow hopefully, and then the bits for the 2nd half will arrive later in the week.

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Hi everyone, this is my first post here (long time reader though). A couple of weeks ago a few of us decided to start a Path to Glory campaign, having not played a game of either WHFB, AoS or 40k in about 10 years I was quite excited to get cracking on my warband (I have still been painting a lot of during those 10 years though).

Initially we were going to play a game of Skirmish using the updated rules from January's White Dwarf, which being a bit more flexible on what you could take meant I went to town on an Aelf/Tree soup of 5 Dryads, a Spellweaver (converted Tidecaster aka the Treecaster) and 3 each of Sisters of the Watch, and Shadow Warriors. This was the status as of Tuesday:

That was 250 renown, but then we decided to go Path to Glory which complicated things with the Allegiance choices. First off I needed to pad out the Dryads to a legal unit of 10:

As there are no Path to Glory tables for Wanderers I modified the Sylvaneth one and added illegal 5 person units of Shadow Warriors and Sisters of the Watch (later these will be merged into a 10 strong unit of Sisters), so I assembled up 2 more each of the those, painted them and added them to the force:

 

With the Spellweaver having 3 unit choices/rolls on the follower table that's the first game's models sorted, but I was really getting into painting these guys this week and wanted to paint some more. Cue the Kurnoth Hunters:

Painted in the same scheme as the Dryads and with the same coloured (thanks Aethermatic blue)  weapons as the Aelves I think these guys fit in well with their friends:

And today I decided to paint up the Treelord from the Start Collecting box in the same scheme (he wasn't finished when I took the group shot above) but here he is in all his snowy happiness:

All these guys were painted in the last 10 days using mostly contrast paints with a few highlights (I did a write up on the painting method and some background stuff here: https://www.goonhammer.com/tale-of-3-warlords-campaign-for-the-northern-wastes-age-of-sigmar/ ).

Next week I'm looking at painting up some Eternal Guard and a Waywatcher (converted from one of the Eternal Guard and spares from the Sisters box, as I decided to start the army days before GW pulled the Waywatcher from the store), just waiting on an OOP metal Eternal Guard from ebay to arrive to replace the plastic one I converted to the Waywatcher.