Closing loose ends of 2018

Garkorr was the limited edition Nighthaunt model released by Games Workshop to celebrate their 500th store opening a couple of months ago.

This is my second test piece mini for my nighthaunt colour scheme. The first can be found here (https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1293604/) but I wasn’t happy with the result. It looked too solid.

For this attempt I started with a white undercoat and then dusted the model with a black spray – sort of like zenith highlighting in reverse. I then limited myself to only using washes to try and keep a washed-out ethereal look.

The arms had a wash of seraphim sepia. The metal blades were washed nuln oil. The bronze hilts were washed reikland fleshshade. The cloth was washed hexwraith flame. The entire model was then drybrushed with hellion green.

This model is from the Kev White does Matt Dixon Kickstarter. I want to use her as a Banshee for my Age of Sigmar Death army.

I haven’t painted the base yet. There are several models in this project with the same basing scheme so I’ll do them all at the end.

I started with a white undercoat. Then the dress had a wash of Nihilakh oxide, her skin had a wash of coelia greenshade and the hair a wash of druchii violet. Once the washes were dry the entire model was drybrushed white scar.

I started by googling pictures of Rhinos so I could try and get the skin realistic. Based off the picture below I decided stipling greys would produce the best results.

The skin was painted mechanicus standard grey and then washed with nuln oil. I then stipled on dawnstone followed by a lighter stapling of administratum grey.

The bone was painted rakarth flesh, washed agrax earthshade then progressively highlighted with ushabti bone then screaming skull.

The exposed muscle was painted mephiston red. Before the red dried I applied stripes of genesteler purple along the strands of muscle and allowed the two colours to mix slightly on the model. This gave the muscle a bit more texture. I then applied blood for the bloodgod over all the muscle.

The eyes were simply painted white scar to give them a dead look.

The base will be painted later once all the undead models in this project are ready for basing.

The Witch Hunter is both a cool model and the cheapest unit Order can buy in Age of Sigmar. I picked this guy up as a treat for myself when I visited Warhammer World for the day.

I’m trying to copy the ‘Eavy Metal colour scheme throwing in the key colours of my Order colour scheme. So far I’ve done the coat, leather straps and hat, skin and gloves and boots.

The skin had a bugman’s glow base, reikland fleshshade was and highlights of cadian fleshtone and kislev flesh.

The coat had a doombull brown base, nuln oil wash and then the finest highlights of evil sunz scarlet and ushabti bone that I could manage.

The leather hat and straps started with mournefang brownas the base. They were washed agrax earthshade and then highlighted skrag brown and deathclaw brown.

The boots and gloves were painted abaddon black and then given the finest highlights I could manage with fenrisian grey.

The shirt and trousers have had a base coat of celestra grey followed by a layer of ulthuan grey.

The scabbards have been base coated caliban green then layered snot green and highlighted moot green. Finally these areas were given a beil-tan green wash.

The feathers and strips of cloth were base coated naggaroth night, washed druchii violet and then highlighted with xereus purple followed by genestealer purple.

The metal areas have been painted as either brass or steel. For the brass areas I used Screaming bell as the base colour, washed with reikland fleshshade and then highlighted with hashut copper and sycorax bronze. The steel was base coated leadbelcher, washed nuln oil and then highlighted ironbreaker and runefang steel.

The hilt grip and scroll pouch on his back were painted rakarth flesh and then washed agrax earthshade.

Basing was my standard recipe for Age of Sigmar Order models: zandri dust base coat with rakarth flesh on any bone and retributor armour on any stonework details. Everything gets a wash of agrax earthshade and once that is dry the base is drybrushed tyrant skull and then the gold areas drybrushed golden griffon.

These three models are for my Age of Sigma Death force. I always wanted Khalida but last year you could only get her by paying around £50 on eBay so I bought the Tomb Queen model from TT combat instead. Then Games Workshop re-released Khalida on their “cast to order” service so I picked her up. The third model is Ksenia the Unlawful from the Kev White does Matt Dixon Kickstarter.

Their bandages were base coated rakarth flesh, washed agrax earthshade and then highlighted flayed one flesh and pallid wych flesh.

The gold was base coated retributor armour, washed reikland fleshshade and then highlighted auric armour gold and then liberator gold.

The cloth was base coated caledor sky, washed asurmen blue and then highlighted teclis blus and lothern blue.

Still to do is the leather, wood and bronze.

To finish the models I needed to paint the wood and leather, hair, and bronze. Then I needed to paint the bases.

The wooden staves were simply painted rhinox hide. The leather was painted rhinox hide and highlighted doombull brown.

The wight hair was base coated mechanicus standard grey and highlighted ulthuan grey.

The bronze sword blade was painted warplock bronze, washed agrax earthshade and highlighted brass scorpion and runelord brass.

The blue gemstones had been painted with the rest of the gold areas earlier and I finished them off with soulstone blue technical paint.

The bases are caliban green with an agrax earthshade wash over the raised areas.I then apply a very liberal coat of nurgle’s rot technical paint on the bottom areas. The soul pod gem is painted ceramite white and then given a wash of nihilak oxide.