Quick post to show my finished Stormcast Eternals Lord Relictor. I started painting this last year when I was on a bit of roll after finishing up a little unit of Liberators. Did pretty well with the main body of the model and was looking to have it done before Christmas with hopes of getting another hero done too. Weeeeeelllll... that went to shit didn't it! I got a little bogged down working on the relic icon thing and then commission stuff kind of burned me out a bit and killed my desire to paint anything. A couple of weeks back I finally managed to force myself to get it finished off. Chuffed to have it done at last and I'm hoping to tackle another soon.

Another post so quickly! Well I finished my fifth Stormcast Liberator yesterday which gives me a full, albeit small unit and I'm really chuffed to have actually got these done. I started the first model right before the new year and have been joking ever since that I might get the unit finished before this Christmas due to my rather slow personal output. Anyway, a few pics of the unit.




The bases are topped with flagstones made from plastic sheet. I wanted something that looked like it could be a ruined temple or a slightly fantastical city street so went with hexagonal paving slabs. Not an easy shape and sometimes I wonder why I had to make things so bloody awkward but I think it looks pretty good. I originally tried out the hex slabs on a couple of Melnibonean models I painted years ago so I still have the template I used. Couldn't help thinking at times that the bases still looked a little lacking in some way but thankfully GW released new basing materials and they're exactly what I needed. I've sparingly used the Barbed Bracken and just one skull but I'm sure I'll use them more extensively on future models.

It's been a bit of a learning curve working on these as previously I'd not touched any of GW's current models. Whenever I begin work on a model that's a different style to what I'm familiar with it can throw me a little and take a bit of time to get used to the sculpting and how best to paint it. Those first few Liberators came together quite slowly but the last two were a lot quicker and easier to work through. But, just as I get used to painting these they're done and I'm ready to move onto slightly more challenging models. I have a Lord Relictor ready to start that I'm hoping isn't as complex as it might seem and I also built a Lord Celestant on Dracoth which will be one hell of a job. I've a selection of other heroes that I'd like to work on as well before I delve back into painting additional troop types. Maybe I'll get one or two things added before Christmas!

A quick post to show my Stormcast Eternals Liberator Prime. Pretty much the same deal as the previous two models. Just two more Liberators to do and then I can move onto some heroes. The Lord Celestant on Dracoth from the boxed game is a very tempting candidate for post Liberator daubing. Although with the release of the AoS Skirmish rules the Lord Relictor would make a good addition and give me enough pieces for a small bare bones warband. Not to mention the other heroes I've got from the two Warhammer Quest games. Decisions, decisions!

Another quick post. Finally got my second Liberator finished the other week. The model has been sitting fully painted for a little while but I had to do the base (why did I choose hex shaped flagstones!?). I was going to hold off posting this model until I'd done a couple more as it's just the same thing as the first one I did but it's done and I doubt the next model will be along anytime soon.

Guess who forgot about his blog? Same old excuses I'm afraid but I'm sure people have been keeping up to date with all my daubing elsewhere (Facebook linky thing over on the side there). Anyway, it's a new year and I'm even late in acknowledging that. No new years resolutions as that kind of thing is just bollocks. Onto something a bit more interesting... hopefully.

I've gone all Age of Sigmar and decided to have a stab at painting up a Stormcast Eternal Liberator. When AoS was first announced I wasn't keen on the idea and didn't care too much for the Stormcast models. I was one of those people who oddly gave a shit about the direction of a game that they hadn't played since 3rd edition back in the early 90's! I'm just slow to adopt anything new. I moved on though and didn't pay much attention to it all (unlike some - check out any conversation about AoS, some people are still bitching about it). Then Warhammer Quest Silver Tower was released (to another round of whining) and after a bit of thought I decided to check it out as a self contained game kind of appealed to me and I was curious about the models by now. That won me over to GW fantasy again and I was especially taken with the Stormcast Knight-Questor in the set. Goes to show that seeing a model in hand can make a massive difference. As the year went by I just got more interested in looking into AoS, and here we are.





This is one of the easy to build models so has a few areas that display the kind of moulding artifacts that you tend to find on simpler plastic models. I did think of cutting them away but just wanted to get on with painting the model, although there's a horribly obvious area on the back of the right shoulder (not too visible here) that I wish I'd sorted before painting. Shoulder insignia is a decal but I over painted it to blend into the rest of the paint job better. Enjoyed this one and have another four prepped to build a small unit, eventually.