Introducing: Sons of Callous

Sons of Callous:



Sarkis on Kostya (Lord Celestant on Dracoth):



Sephtis (Lord Relictor):



Azad, Dror, Lirim, Dermot, Raghid (Liberators):

Adlai, Zidkijah, Melich (Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers):



Paints used:

Armor - Dark Metal (VMC Black, VMC Dark Sea Blue, VMC Gunmetal, 2:1:1)
Accents - VMC Hull Red
Hammers - VMC Gold, Citadel Scorched Brown 3:1
Bolts - Citadel Rackarth Flesh
Weapon Handles - VMC Hull Red
Metal Weapons - Citadel Chainmail
Wings - Citadel Rackarth Flesh
Leather - VMC Hull Red
Script Things - VMC G.C. Beige WWII
Washes - Nuln Oil, Reikland Flesh, Agrax Earth, The Fang
Bone - VMC G.C. Beige WWII
Dracoth Skin - VMC Dark Sea Blue

I haven't sealed them yet as I think I'll want to add/change some stuff. But they're ready for Saturday.

Primetime

The long weekend afforded me sometime to catch up.

Primed:

Basecoat & Assembled:

I'm happy with how he's turning out.  More gold accents make him stand out from the rest of the squad.  Now to finish him.  The dracoth's tail and the arm that will hold the shield came off during painting.  I'll put those back on in the final stage.  I was hoping to be finished by now but I'm close.  I should have the table ready version ready very shortly.

If At First You Don't Succeed...

When I built the dracoth for my Stormcast I messed it up about as bad as I could.  I've put off fixing it and painting it but now we have a firm date so I need to get it done.

I watched a painting how-to where they left the lord and the mount separate so I figured I'd do that.  Then when I tried to dry-fit the pieces and they didn't come together right.  My solution to this is to give the lord some longer legs.  His lower legs are sculpted on the mount.  So, I glued some sprue pieces on the legs.

Then I put greenstuff around those and shaped them:

Building, Sculpting, Fixing... not my strong suit.

Now dry-fit round two.

Pressed into GS to give me guidance for final assembly.

I'm also going to model a shield onto the unit.  I needed to flatten an area on his left arm. I won't mount the shield until the end.

Lord Celestant on Stick, also his shield is in the background.

Hopefully if a few year's time I can look back on this and see that my sculpting and filling is much, much better.

Next step prime.

Practice... We Talkin' 'Bout Practice..?

Randroid and I have been able to get together to play practice games for the AoS campaign we're going to be involved with at the beginning of June.  I'm learning a ton, both about my warband and about how to play this game.  Randroid has tried out multiple builds since he has more experience with the game than I do.  And I've stuck with one build and tried out different strategies.  Some with good success, some leading to a quick death.  His group isn't fully finished yet but he at least has basecoats on each of his minis, this makes my Lord Castellant on Dracoth stick out like a sore thumb.

I got too caught up to remember to take photos.  I wish I had.  So, next time I'll take some; I promise.

As for painting the rest of the warband, I feel like I'm close to having the other nine done.  I need to finish their base and some touch-up then they'll be don.  I had grand ideas of how the army would look but my mind is a much better painter than my hand.  This coming weekend is a holiday weekend here, so I'd like to get the whole shooting match done this coming weekend.

I cleaned up my work space again so I'm re-motivated to paint, which is very good since I have to get it done.  Hopefully I'll have more pictures soon to keep track of what to do.

But How Strong is the Shield? - Part 2

More stages on the shields from a while ago guess I didn't post it

Insignia Hammer:  Vallejo Flat Brown (undercoat), Vallejo Gold (core), Citadel Dryad Bark (shading), Citadel Runefang Steel (highlight).

Insignia Lightening:  Citadel Rakarth Flesh (core), Citadel The Fang (shading), Vallejo Off-white (highlight).

Oh Yeah, I was Making a Stormcast Army... Huh

I fell off the painting wagon.  Then I got back on, but painted something different.  Of course I didn't finish that either.

I am joining a local group in an escalation tournament of Age of Sigmar.  The first round is 500 pts and I have most of the basecoats done on my models for that.  The one piece that isn't started as far as painting goes was built terribly... by me, so I've been working, slowly admittedly, to fix the model the best I can.  Here is my list for 500 point games:

500 Point team As It Stands

Allegiance: Order
Lord-Celestant On Dracoth (220)
- General
- Tempestos Hammer & Thundershield
Lord-Relictor (80)
5 x Liberators (100)
- Warhammer & Shield
3 x Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers (100)

Total: 500

Here's the unit as they stand now.  There's still a lot to do:

I bought the kits to make the 1000 point unit but haven't built or painted any of them yet.

Here is what my possible 1000 point list will be:

Allegiance: Order
Lord-Celestant On Dracoth (220)
- General
- Tempestos Hammer & Thundershield
Lord-Relictor (80)
Lord-Celestant (100)
5 x Liberators (100)
- Warhammer & Shield
- 1x Grandhammers
5 x Liberators (100)
- Warblade & Shield
- 1x Grandblades
3 x Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers (100)
3 x Prosecutors with Stormcall Javelins (80)
- 1x Stormsurge Tridents
5 x Paladin Retributors (220)
- 2x Starsoul Maces

Total: 1000