Warp Lightning Cannon

To keep things from getting too boring when painting this skaven army, I’ve decided to space out the blocks of infantry models with single models. First of these to hit the painting table is the Warp Lightning Cannon! One of the Skaven’s most powerful (and therefore extremely likely to blow up!) war machines.

This model was painted following the same recipes I detailed in the post on the clan rats with the exception of two new materials: the warpstone chunks and the copper wiring.

The warpstone was painted by first covering the yellow ochre undercoat with GW’s Ork Flesh contrast paint, followed by a pure white highlight on the edges of the stone, and finally a very light misting of Vallejo’s Light Livery Green through the airbrush to tint the stone and the surrounding areas for that faint glow effect.

The copper was painted using Vallejo Metal Color Copper as a basecoat, followed by the overall coat of GW Agrax Earthshade the rest of the model gets, then GW Reikland Fleshshade to give it a nice reddish tint. This is followed by a fine highlight of the copper basecoat to bring that metallic look back in.

Overall I’m happy with how it turned out, painting time was relatively quick which is what I’m aiming for with this army, too many models to go slow! I also had a bit of fun with the “in-universe photo”, lots of squiggly lines seemed to do the trick!

In the background, I’ve been bitten by the historical bug again, so next post will be a WW2 interlude before resuming the skaven!