Warhammer Age of Sigmar Stormcast Eternals Army

Had some break from painting Hobbit/Lotr stuff and went for the Age of Sigmar Stormcast eternals army!

I was painting the figures on multiple occasions through two weeks time, and was aiming for a game-level standard. The colour scheme is obviously copied from the cover of the box - a very straightforward but effective way of painting the figures although might be a bit boring and repetitive after a while.

I have started from the hardest one - Lord Celestant, maybe because I knew that if I get stuck too long with him than I might just abandon the rest of the army and leave it in the same state as my Dark Vengeance set is now (shame on me). First I was painting the body of his dragon-beast and spent a while on figuring out how to paint its head until I have got a decent result. After that, painting the rest of the figure was pretty straightforward, just as you would later paint an ordinary Liberator.

I have also done some imitations of stars on the cloak - pretty basic, but would work fine for a gaming table.

Now after having the lord done, which was a great motivating factor, I went on to getting one unit of Liberators and Prosecutors. 

Just some nice and shiny unit. I didn't want to put any transfers on their empty shoulders as that would make them too much spacemarinish, and I am not really big fan of that.

Some of the most challenging things to paint so far for me where the wings of Prosecutors, as after background coats and several wash layers I was highlighting some of the "feathers" individually. When you do it on one wing it is fun, but after you realise that there are three pairs of wings to paint on both sides, it gets a bit boring.

Yet in the end the results look great (apart from few minor marks on the left wing of the head prosecutor, I have removed those but was too lazy to retake a picture)!

This is how the army looked after week one:

Lord of the Rings Death of Gothmog Diorama

All right, it has been one year since I have made this blog to document my painting projects, and finally, I have got around into putting my first post :)

As you can probably see the blog looks quite basic now, hopefully I will be changing some stuff when I learn more about it, but in the meanwhile I will be just going on with the pictures of the models I have painted (after all that's what matters!).

I just had a great chance to paint The Death of Gothmog diorama from the Lord of the Rings strategy battle game as a commission. This set was available as a collectors item from GW, but it has long been out of production. In fact it seems to be so rare, that there are almost no pictures of it being painted when you google it, at least that's what I have found out. That's why I though of putting up some pictures after I paint it.

The scene features one of the moments from the directors cut when wounded Eowyn is being attacked by Gothmog, but rescued with the arrival of Aragorn and Gimli who slain the orc. Legolas is missing from the diorama, at that time he is hunting Mumak. Well, at least not jumping up over falling stones!

My favourite figure is Gimly who is in a really distinct dynamic pose. I guess he could  be taken from this set and used as a single figure. The same is true for Gothmog, although he is just a moment from being cut to pieces by Aragorn, the figure on its own could make a great alternative version.

Aragorn's face looks a bit asymmetric though, pretty much messed up in the same way Cirion's face is, but luckily you don't see much of his face because of Gothmog standing before him, and the bits you get to see look quite decent :)

You might notice that on the picture some parts look shiny while others don't - this is because I     didn't want to wait to cover some parts with the matt varnish and decided to make pictures straight away!