Warcry: Raptoryx

And there are the last six of the Chaotic Beasts to complete the pack!
The Raptoryx!

These are quite unique figures, a mixture of chicken, dinosaur and chaos hound... I have decided to give them a quick blue/black paint job because somehow they remind me of Tzeentch.
I am quite pleased with how they look like even though the paint job is mostly drybrush...

Painting these beasts marks the second milestone of the year! With over 60 miniatures painted so far, it is time now for the Undead for Blood Bowl!

Painted in 2020

Warcry: Chaos Furies

Here are the first six of the Chaotic Beasts for Warcry!

The Furies!

I have decided to paint them like the Gargoyles from the 90s TV series. It is a quick paint job designed to have them ready for battle fast.

Painted in 2020.

Warcry: Iron Golems

Here is the very first band I have painted for Warcry!

I bought the Starter Set and one of the targets of the year is to paint them along with the Chaotic Beasts. As I do not like too much the other band that comes with the Starter, the Untamed Beasts, I decided to sell them and buy another one to pair them against my Golems.

I followed the step by step shown here, taking some licenses. I tried a few new things that worked out quite well, like the skin tone, which is great because I will be reusing the recipe for the zombies, and some other things that did not worked out so well, like the purple for the armour with see-through metal. Instead of looking like chips of the color, it looks like I made a poor job at painting it. Oh well, you learn more from your mistakes than from the things you do well, they say...

I like how they look like anyway, with the pale bleached skin and the shiny metal. I was not sure about adding blood and gore and in the end I decided not to, I might come back to that some time in the future.

The recipe for the skin is:

1. Basecoat light grey
2. Sepia wash thinned down with medium
3. Base with light grey
4. Highlight with pure white

Varying the degree of mix in step #2 you get darker skin tones, like the one used on the Ogre or Dwarf.

Armies on Parade: Genestealer Cult

And finally, here is the mandatory group picture!

As a recap, I painted the very first miniatures of what was at the time a Kill Team in November 2018 and finished the team by March 2019.

After a short break, I restarted the project with the target of painting a 40K Army in October 2019 and finished it in April 2020.

That makes a total of 12 months! That is by far the fastest Army I have ever painted. On average, in the past, it took me 2 years to paint an Army. Therefore, I can only be very happy about the final result, even though I took many shortcuts and painted them to a lower standard compared with my Skavens for example.

Here is the Army, roughly a bit over 2,000 points for 40K 8th Edition. As always, it has been challenging to take a pic of them, but with so many different ones, I hope that I have captured it.

 

Some close-ups...

A cenital view

And a rear view