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My plan is to paint most of the army relatively quickly, but to make them bright and stand out on the tabletop. The aesthetic is a little old school- bright and colourful- as homage to WHFB, so the usual layer/highlight process works well for my purposes. Here's the Runelord for my army. The colour theming will be Hallowheart blue for all humans and dwarves- they live within the city- and greens and autumnal colours for elves- they live in the forests around the city and emerge to protect the city in times of need.

The Celestial Hurricanum is now complete! It's about 10hrs paint time total, though with a model this size that's a speed paint pretty much! Love the details on this model. Likely next model will be the Dwarf Runelord as a break from such a complex model!

I've got a pretty big Cities army, now fully primed and zenithaled. Lockdown is the perfect opportunity for me to paint it pretty quick! Here's the full list of miniatures I have- Here's the first painted miniatures- the Sorceress, Battlemage, a Gyrocopter and Celestial Hurricanum. Lots to get through but happy with the colours and basing.

Holy moly that's nice!

Guys keep the pics coming. All these pics of piles of shame make me feel great about mine. 😘

Have you played the game?

Finally finished Katakros!

I wanted to make my Katakros pretty colourful, probably as a reaction against all the dark and monotonous styles other players seemed to be going for. His base still needs work- but the individual miniatures are now finished. Now on to the rest of the army

It doesnt take too long when you know the shortcuts to be honest! It's worth doing- they have phone apps too so you can check it from anywhere.

I use Trello to do something similar -

Also why do elves forever need to abide by the same generic themes for all time? Hundreds of companies pump out generic elves with thin blades etc. Buy them if you want the same thing again and again. Hope they bring out skinny dwarves with katanas just to annoy the internet.

Yeah FB is pretty terrible (as usual i guess). The same crowd wanting new high elves basically. There's 100s of companies pumping out generic elves, cheaper than GW too. They should just buy those. The narrative behind these guys and the mountain spirit are inspired.

I love the aesthetic. It's great to have a unique, AoS specific aesthetic that's not beholden to the old world, which itself is beholden to pretty generic fantasy tropes (I say this as a Cities player who loves that aesthetic!). This is a really unique look for an army and I'm glad GW continue to not play it safe with this stuff.

Yeah and the doot doot plaguebearer guy. They don't buff the plaguebearers in any way that plays to their strengths. They're really nice models too, but I've never seen them played.

Yeah it's so strange. Like my experience is blurred somehow. I first thought that everything tastes subtly of ash, but it's just the absence of taste. I guess i could now drink my paint water and not even know...

So i no longer have taste or smell. I can't taste anything- the sensation of the food is there but zero flavour. I can't even smell whisky, or super spicy sauce, or anything. So one of the few things we can look forward to under lockdown- meals- has been taken away. No idea how long it'll take to come back. Extra misery sauce for me.

Well i got the virus! Looks like my prediction was true- my friend who's a policeman who got sent home with the symptoms had contracted it. She has now recovered. I had the worst fever I've ever had friday night and most of saturday- sweating constantly, constant headache and severe joint ache. Dizziness when I tried to stand. I'm already feeling better and will likely have recovered by early next week. I'm 31 years old with no existing conditions, so I'm in the best position to recover really. Annoyingly it means I've lost the whole weekend to hobby and have to wait another week. But I am thankful I'm ok and my family haven't contracted it. Please stay home as much as possible- this thing spreads so easily.

Thanks dude, not symptoms yet, but they can take 7 days to appear!

Yeah please let's not let this thread descend into something nasty. We're all going to have a load of time to do some hobby. I've had to cancel our monthly tournament as there's a chance I'm now infected, so I've got 14 days at home! Loads of stores and community figures are doing streams and hangouts which is really going to help!

If people want to see the effect of people ignoring quarantines- Korea's outbreak was caused by 1 person escaping quarantine and infection 2 new pools of people, leading to deaths. These measures are not to keep us safe, they're to keep others safe.

I want to see fully painted armies everywhere when we come out the other end of this!

Current idea for a fun list - Allegiance: Nurgle- Host of Chaos: Blessed SonsLeadersEpidemius Tallyman of Nurgle (200)Fecula Flyblown (180)- Lore of Foulness: Plague SquallFestus the Leechlord (140)- Lore of Malignance: Blades of PutrefactionHarbinger of Decay (160)- General- Command Trait: Foul Conqueror- Artefact: Blotshell BileplateLord of Blights (140)- Artefact: RustfangBattleline10 x Putrid Blightkings (320)10 x Putrid Blightkings (320)10 x Putrid Blightkings (320)Units2 x The Wurmspat (0)BattalionsBlight Cyst (140)Endless Spells / Terrain / CPsExtra Command Point (50)Total: 1970 / 2000Extra Command Points: 2Allies: 0 / 400Wounds: 162 Should be a 3 drop as Fecula is a sorcerer. She's pretty resilient with her two bodyguards too! Epidemius because I've never played with him and never seen him on a table, and if I can get the 21 model kill count, RR 1s on hits and wounds across the table with BKs should be great.

Anti Ogor shenanigans!