Painting Kroxigor

Ever since I saw Lizardmen for the first time, I loved the look of the Kroxigor - giant liazards armed with huge clubs. I considered starting an army severl times, but always decided against it (for various reasons, main one being my focus on other armies). However, I never completely abaondoned that idea. And so, two years ago, when GW revealed new Seraphon/Lizardmen models for Age of Sigmar, I finally decided to start building an army. 

I love the idea of Saurus-themed force: Saurus Warriors, Kroxigor, Aggradon Lancers and some heroes, backed by Slann Starmaster (and maybe some Skinks). I mean, big Lizards are going to war, Jurrasic Park meets Aztec - what's not to like? Not to mention that all these models are really interesting to paint and also let you experiment and use some interesting colour combinations. 

On the pictures below you can see the unit of Kroxigor that I have finished few days ago. All miniatures from the new range are beautiful, however - I like Kroxigor probably the most. Similar to Sylvaneth Kurnoth Hunters, these models were one of the reasons to start collecting the army. They are large, look menacing and have really nice poses. I liked the original colour scheme and went with something similar. I also had a lot of fun painting them and I'm really satisfied with the end result.

I have also magnetized the bases, so I can attach them
to square bases for games of WHTOW

And now, here are some details (these little frogs are lovely and I really enjoyed painting them): 

Painting Saurus Oldblood

More than a year ago, I started painting my Seraphon (you can see the post here). However, for various reasons, that work has been going really slow - one of the reasons being that I paused working on that project multiple times, to paint some other models (some of which you can see on the blog). However, I kept working on Lizardmen/Seraphon here from time to time and now I have several units which are almost finished and few others which I am actively working on.

Today, I wanted to show one of my finished models - it's Saurus Oldblood, Kro-Jax, from the Jawz of Itzl WHU set. I wanted to use him as a regular Saurus foot hero and I really liked the colour scheme shown on the box, so I tried to do something similar. 

I am really happy with this paintjob - so much that I consider this one of the best I've done this year (and the model itself is amazing). I also magnetized his base, so I can attach the square base when I use him in my Old World games. And since I have been working on some other models as well, here's one small teaser of things to come: 

I expect to finish most of these models by late December/early January, so expect to see some more pictures soon! 

Painting Glade Guard

Recently, a few friends and I started preparing for a small Old World campaign. I wanted to try Wood Elves and realized I could field an entirely painted army using my Sylvaneth models - but I was missing one thing: the Glade Guard (which is mandatory unit for Wood Elves). So, I bought a box of Glade Guard and started working on the first unit. First batch of 5 models is almost done, and here's the test model that I used to set the colour scheme for the unit: 

Angron

Last summer I have painted Angron. I already had some Chaos Space Marines and Khorne Berzerker models lying around and by adding Angron I would have nice, small, thematic World Eaters army based around the angry Primarch. I was very excited about the project and was looking forward to painting all these models.

However, after I played my first game of WH40K 10th edition, I abandoned the idea of World Eaters army. Not only that, I realized I do not like (at all) where WH40K is going and decided to focus on The Old World and AoS for the time being. If I play any WH40K games in the near future - it's going to be 4th edition. I'll just skip 10th edition entirely and wait for the next one (but the chances of things improving are pretty slim). I will write a larger post about why I think the current edition of 40K is the worst one I have ever played - that topic deserves a dedicated blog post.

So, since the World Eaters army is not happening, Angron just sits on my shelf now. It is a great model and I am very happy with the paintjob. I can still use him as a pretty unique Bloodthirster, so at least he won't gather the dust forever. I tried to sell it once, but I like the model a lot and it decided to keep it - at least for now. 

Painting Great Eagle

Recently, I painted one of the Great Eagles from the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game. I don’t actually play MESBG, but I plan to use the model in my Warhammer: The Old World Wood Elf army—after all, Wood Elves have Great Eagles too! 😄

This was a quick paint job—about 2.5 hours total, including the base. The model is very drybrush-friendly, so you can get a great result with minimal effort. It’s a good example of how effective drybrushing can be: fast, simple, and still visually striking.