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

Acolyte Hybrids (V)

And here is the last post -for now- for the Genestealer Cults for the whole year. With these three I complete the unit and the last cultist I had in my unpainted pile.

After having called the Army complete I still managed to sneak by another 13 miniatures... and I still miss a couple of HQ/Elites options that I would like to have, so you never know when they will come...

Painted in 2020

Acolyte Hybrids (IV)

 Here is another batch of 4 acolytes for the 10-man strong unit I am painting right now.

Painting in 2020

Acolyte Hybrids (III)

The last post with Acolyte Hybrids shared was back in March.

Since I bought some second-hand Characters just for completeness sake, I decided to go ahead and paint the few acolytes that were lying around in my bits box as leftovers. They are a total of 10 and here is the first batch of 3.

Painted in 2020

Sanctus

This is another miniature I never thought about using or buying, but I saw it for cheap and just grabbed him.

It was real fun to paint him, especially the little familiar lying around, I love the sculpt!

Painted in 2020

Kelermorph (II)

 To be honest, I was not expecting to paint another Kelermorph after having converted and painted already one.

But, I saw one for cheap in a second hand store so I needed to get him since I just love the sculpt.

I painted it in the same way as I have done all other models.

Painted in 2020

Biophagus

I was not expecting to share more updates about my Genestealer Cult after I shared the last miniature of the Army.

In fact, I was not planning on buying anything new, but when you find a good deal you ned to rethink your strategy. In the end I would like to have all HQ and Elites option available, especially if I can find them for cheap on second-hand stores.

I have never used this a Biophagus in a battle, but with 9th or newer editions you never know.

I painted him using the same techniques as usual, even though he is dressed in a different way, I still wanted him to blend in with the rest of the Acolytes.

Painted in 2020