Silver Tower: Gaunt Summoner

I am extremely happy to share this post today because it marks the finishing of yet another box, after completing Space Hulk previously now I am done with Silver Tower!

I was already quite tired of painting this box when I started to tackle the Gaunt Summoner, as a result I think the paint-job suffered. I decided to try my luck with different shades of blue in the armour and tunic but I am not so sure I managed to get them to look different.

All the other elements are painted using colours I have previously used for other Tzeentch daemons, so that I can give them a bit of cohesion, even if they are still chaotic.

My favourite part is the yellow eye looking from the top of the staff, but I can't really say it is a very good job. It took me roughly 2-3 hours in total which is still quite fast even though way above my 1h limit.

In any case, this marks a significant milestone for the year! I am now done painting all the miniatures I said I would. Therefore, it is time to start opening boxes and catching up with the lead mountain.

Next thing on the list is painting a few more skavens as I shared previously so I can play T9A with 4,500 points.

I am hoping to do them before Autumn starts, let's see how it goes!

Painted in 2019.

Silver Tower: Ogroid Traumaturge

It has been only a couple of weeks without posting but somehow it feels like more.

I just had two figures left but unfortunately I did not manage to paint them before the end of June, let's target July instead!

Here is the first one, the Traumaturge, the one single miniature from the box that captured my eye from the first day.

I have had lots of problems with these two last figures, I am by now a bit tired of painting Silver Tower and I keep finding excuses not to paint them... in the end, the quality of the paint job suffered.

It has taken much more time than the approximately 1 hour I have dedicated to almost every other figure. I think this one took something between 3 and 4 hours, and I kept having doubts about what colours to use and how to paint certain things. I am not really happy with it, but I can put him now in the "done" box.

The pictures are just too bright and the highlighting on the skin cannot be appreciated, because of the weird pose he has, it was very difficult to snap a good picture.

Now, onto the last one!

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Tzaangors

Here are the last troops I needed to paint to finalize all the non-heroes of the Silver Tower box, the Tzaangors!

Very interesting models and quite detailed. I decided to use all the previous colours I had on the other Tzeentch models, blue, pink and violet. The weapons are metallic as these troops are not daemonic.

They are also fast-painted as the rest of the box, but I believe the end result is good enough to be considered battle-top ready.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Kairic Acolytes (II)

Here are the two remaining Acolytes. I have painted them using the same techniques but have added a few extra layers on wash on some parts, although I did not really accomplish the effect I was trying to get.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Kairic Acolytes (I)

For these pseudo-human figures I decided to try out something new. I sprayed them white and applied directly flesh wash on top of the skin areas, after that I brought up the colour with a thin layer of dwarf flesh. The end result was good enough and quite fast to make, so I will be repeating it with similar models.

Most of the other colours are applied in a similar manner, base colour, wash and that's it. The end result is good enough for using them in the game.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Familiars

The smallest miniatures of the whole set, the familiars are very interesting and weird figures to paint. From the walking fish to the bird sage, they are all unique!

Quite fast to paint as well, painted in 2019.

Silver Tower: Brimstone Horrors

After the Pink and Blue Horrors, I painted their little brothers.

These were extremely fast to paint, just three colours on top of white spray.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Blue Horrors

After the Pink Horrors, the Blue ones come!

Following the same idea as with the Pink ones, these sculpts are pretty good I must say. I have always played Khorne but I get the feeling that I would love to have a small band of Tzeentch warriors.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Pink Horrors

These are two of my favourite miniatures of the whole set, the Pink Horrors.

They look fairly simple, but in fact it took me more time than expected to paint them.

As they are daemonic creatures, I have not used any metallic paints for the weapons, that is a simple yet effective way of making them stand out compared to the mortals.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Grot Scuttlings of Tzeentch

For today I bring the Grots.

I have chosen a very simple technique to paint them, keeping the skin green but mixed with plenty of yellow and the coat is just grey with a wash on top. Fast an effective.

Painted in 2019