Lair of the Lagomorph

The last Blightking!

I finally finished this unit of five Blightkings, with this last model the standard bearer. Couldn’t resist and had to pose them against a quick backdrop for a photo.

Here are the first five warriors I’ve painted, ready for the codex release next weekend! The bases are done exactly as per the article I posted last week, I’ll put up a post on how I’ve done the warriors themselves soon. The paint scheme is relatively quick and I’m hoping to have roughly a thousand points done relatively quickly.

Jungle Bases pt. 2

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A continuation of yesterday’s post (found here). Last post I covered the airbrush steps I took to get the bases ready, this post will cover the paintbrush steps.

First any rocks are painted with Vallejo’s Dark Sea Blue

Then the fun part! I liberally applied Agrax Earthshade, Athonian Camoshade and Biel-Tan Green from the Citadel Range in splotches on the bases, letting the colours run and mix together.

The rocks were highlighted twice with successively lighter mixes of Vallejo Dark Sea Blue and Kimera “The White”.

Then I picked out a few random elements on each base in Mig Light Green to add a bit of interest.

Finally I focused on the leaves, adding some Vallejo Warlord Purple spots to some and highlighting these with a mix of that same purple and Kimera white, then on all leaves highlighting the green areas with Vallejo Escorpena Green.

I painted the rims black and the bases are ready to mount models on.

I think these turned out pretty good considering the relatively low amount of time they took to paint. Here they are with a few artificial inhabitants.

Jungle Bases pt. 1

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For my Necrons I decided early on to have jungle bases, with a strong green tone overall. The idea is to have the bases look like the floor of a jungle area, with a lot of leaf litter and smaller ground plants. To that end I purchased the ever-needed accessory of jungle bases: aquarium plants!

To fill the bases, bits of aquarium plants were hot glued directly to the base, then a textured paste was applied over the entire surface of the bare base and over hot glue spots. On top of the paste I glued mixed herbs and some static grass to add texture to the ground and make it look undergrowthy.

To paint the bases I decided to employ two stages, first rough in the colours using the airbrush, then paint in detail by hand. The photos below walk you through the airbrush stages, I’ll cover the hand details in another post.

First a quick zenithal undercoat to define light and dark areas.

Go over the lot with vallejo air dark green, concentrating on the centre to start forming a light to dark gradient outside to in

Mig bright green to reinforce the outer areas

Vallejo Air Escorpena Green, also on the outer edge, but much more patchy, to create a bit of visual interest

Finally I lightly misted Vallejo Air Light Livery Green over the whole base to tie everything together

The LEDs in the spray booth are quite blue, so here is the result under daylight lamp.

And here is the base in context, with its future inhabitants

I plan next to add some washes to add more depth and to pick out some details using a brush. A few browns will be introduced for a bit of variation, but I want to make sure the greens dominate. I’ll add a link to Part 2 when that is complete (Part 2 here).

Something Dark This Way Comes

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I keep hearing chittering near my paint desk…

Like many I’ve been bitten by the Indomitus bug and have been excited about painting 40k models for the first time in a while. In this case, it’s the Necrons that have captured my imagination.

I’ve tried to keep the paint scheme relatively simple, in dark colours to make them appear even more menacing. The goal is to give them jungle bases, but more on that later.

More Blight

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The fourth blightking makes his appearance. In the vein of the others I tried to keep to a relatively similar palette while also painting him as an individual model. The last of these is almost done, which will get me close to my complete warband.

For whom the bell tolls

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The third Blightking is now done. For this one I used Kimera Kolors paints that I just got. They make for some killer rust and oxidised copper tones. Very keen to play with them some more on other types of materials.

A Second Blightking

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Slowly making my way through the rest of the unit. I’m painting these one by one with the intent of making them look a bit haphazard. I figure these are Nurgle’s (almost) greatest champions, they probably achieved a lot to get where they are, and have amassed their gear over the course of their lives. They to me are more like a party of high-level adventurers rather than a military unit, and I want the painting to reflect that.

I’ve also based and primed the leader for the warband, a nurgle sorcerer

The First Putrid Blightking

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I’m currently working on a very small (400 points) Nurgle force for an Age of Sigmar escalation Campaign. The army is composed of a unit of Blightkings, a unit of plaguebearers, and a sorcerer. Here is the first completed blightking.