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My dudes! I've sort of finished the magister! It's one of those paintjobs that i was pleased with until I took a photo! I'll come back to it by the end of the month to tidy up, but here it is anyway! I also used the chrome pen on the disc and staff! Big problem with it- fingerprint magnet like maaaad! I will try and clean it after it's had a day to properly dry, otherwise i will have to go over it agin.

That's the way to do it! I find getting paint on a brush and doing anything, even small, builds decent progress!

Those wings are beautiful!

This looks amazing! NMM work is lush! Swirly lines are very easy- I just have to make sure the paint is a decent balance of watered down so it flows easily but not so much that the line is too faint to see. I might mix it up on the shields- your eye on the shield is beautiful. I was looking at the battletome for some inspiration- p26/27 has some cool inspiration. I'm planning on tattooing my acolytes similar to the dudes head shown on those pages.

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.

Us tzeentchian cultists can't use our real name for fear of being discovered, so we use this complex and inscrutable system of alternative names to maintain our secrecy.

Sorry for spam! Last one! Sword for the swoop whoop.

Base done for the Magister. Little bit of glow from the WHOOP swoosh.

These guys are part of a unit of 10 and will be the Honoured Retinue for Huron. I think the paint scheme is OK, but seeing other people's paint schemes makes me jealous!

This sounds like a great idea! Need to find some suitable models to kitbash...

As far as I know. I'll keep calling it that until i hear different.

Bases arrived! They're great, nice details. Basecoated and some basic shading on the tzeentch WHOOP swoosh thing.

Ok- first model! Magister on Disc of Tzeentch! Doing a few sub-assemblies as I really want to see how i do with a super-colourful, mega-blended, detailed character model, and getting clear access to the armour panels and cloak will be important. I need to figure out how to mount the staff and sword when im painting them- hopefully some white tac will be ok and not stick to the paint too much. Also have this chrome pen i got a while ago and wanted to use for a tzeentch inspired base for Archaon, but still haven't got to that model yet. It really is liquid chrome- super reflective and really easy to draw on a surface. I tried it on a base and it works really well! Not sure if I'll use it on this model, but might see if it work on something else to make a mirror-reflective surface.

I mostly chose Realm of Life because it works with my Cities army- Hysia is their city! But also there's some interesting themes of abundant life and change/mutations. The dude taking all the SC seems to think there's a scarcity of those, but GW just reopened their online store so not sure he's going to be able to profit off those anywhere.

I will be! I love this model from Creature Caster - https://creaturecaster.com/uk/product/queen-of-malifica/ but i'm pretty daunted by it. I want to use it as a Lord of Change, but i feel a GW plastic one would just be a lot less stress!

True- they're lovely models but playing them in S2D means you will usually have a lot!

I'll be assembling my first model this weekend and have decided on a story for my Tzeentch force. Inspired by City of Secrets, the idea of a secret Tzeentch arcanite cult in a city than suddenly springs forth and assaults the city from within is really appealing. Along with the different cults in the battletome, I had a simple background story to inspire me. I've got all the bases I need from Secret Weapon - http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=79_30_106, and they should be arriving soon. In the Sigmarite city of Hysia in the realm of Life, a secret Arcanite Cult has been steadily growing, recruiting from the fringes of the city's famous Colleges of Magic. With many recruits having been blessed with transformations into Tzaangor, the cult is now ready to reveal itself and step out of the shadows. Their ultimate goal is to summon a Lord of Change and overthrow the Sigmarite rulers to found a new foothold for Tzeentch in the Realm of Life.

The most daunting stage of any paint project!

Thanks! Yeah honestly the face is badly done- it's so far recessed into the helmet that i found it impossible to paint properly!

From henceforth, painting workload shall be measured in pandemics. Personally, i have 1.3 pandemics worth of painting to do.

Finished my Cities of Sigmar general- Huron, the Nomad Prince Took 6 or so hours and it's a really nice model to work on!

Just finished the general for my army- Huron, a Nomad Prince. He's using the forest-greens from the rest of the elves, but with some blues to indicate his alliance with Hysia.

I've got a few lists, each with a different city, but to start I'll be playing them as Hallowheart.

Just finished my first 10 ironbreakers!