Glaivewraith Stalkers

Here are four Glaivewraith Stalkers painted using my Nighthaunt method.

They come from Mortal Realms issue #4

I don't have any more Nighthaunt figures and with these 18 I should have roughly enough to make a Warcry band although I lack I leader.... I took a quick look at the issues and in order to have all the options that I can use in a Warcry band I would need to get:

• #10: Tomb Banshee
• #19: Knight of the Shrouds on Ethereal Steed, Guardians of Souls, Spirit Torment
• #24: Lord Executioner, Grimghast Reapers, Glaivewraith Stalkers
• #28: Spirit Hosts
• #39: Cairn Wraith
• #44: Liekoron the Executioner

And perhaps the following just because they look cool although I can't use them in Warcry:

• #6: Thorns of the Briar Queen
• #14: Dreadblade Harrows
• #38: Crawlocke the Jailor
• #48: Reikenor the Grimhailer

(so basically, almost every Nighthaunt issue published)

But that would put the investment around the 100€ mark and it would no longer be "a few of those nice cheap ghosts minis to experiment with" and suddenly would become "my Age of Sigmar Nighthaunt Army" which I am not prepared to start, so I am going to pass on this. Maybe as a future project sometime...

For now, I leave you with the pictures of the Stalkers:

And here is a group picture:

Painted in 2020

Banshees

Here are four painted Banshees using the same technique described for the Chainrasps but omitting the Blue part since they are fully ethereal.

I had a blast painting the bases and all the ghostly stuff going through them.

Got them from Mortal Realms #2

Painted in 2020

Chainrasps

I managed to get my hands on a few numbers of the Mortal Realms collection.

Here are ten Chainrasps that come from issue #1. At a cost of 1,99€ not buying them was like losing money :)

I experimented with them a little bit and asked around with a few test colour schemes until I got them exactly like I wanted. It turns out that they are extremely fast to paint. And I really mean it, each one takes roughly 15 minutes, excluding drying time.

To be honest of course the end result is quite rough, but can be easily improved by cleaning up the messy drybrush and doing proper highlights. That would turn the figures from "horribly painted" to "acceptable tabletop".

This experiment has helped me check that I could get an Army painted in no time with this quality. Which for a Nighthaunt Army due to the look n' feel it has I guess it's ok. But let's not go there yet.

The step by step is:

1. White base coat
2. Paint base and details using grey for stone + dark tone wash. Bone and Brown for bones. Green + dark tone wash + yellow highlight for bushes
3. Gold from Game Color on weapons
4. Paint white over any mistakes done on previous steps
5. Paint Nihilak Oxide (from Citadel) over all white and gold areas
6. Paint Night Blue from Game Color on the cloth
7. Highlight with light grey or grey + white the cloth and the green areas either with dry brush or fine edge highlight

Without further ado here are the photos.

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.