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.

Painting Chaos Knights

I love big robots. Since I was a kid, there was something cool about the idea of big robots fighting against each other. I have always loved Transformers and Battletech was one of my favourite games (both the board game and card game). 

So I guess it's not surprising that I also own a small Chaos Knights army. I mean, Chaos and big robots - how can you possibly not like this? I sold or traded most of my WH40K armies since I play WH40K rarely and don't really like 10th edition (and my main focus is on Age of Sigmar and Old World) - but this army is among those that I want to keep. At the moment, I have 1000 points of Chaos Knights: one big Knight and 4 War Dogs. I am not sure if and when am I going to expand the army, but I would definitely like to add one more big Knight some time in the future (because big Knights are, well, big and incredibly fun to paint). 

Below you can see the pictures - I really wanted to paint almost every model in different way, because the idea is a ragtag band of renegade lesser nobles gathered around a powerful Knight. The army is almost finished: I need to add some finishing touches on one Huntsman and finish painting the other one.   

Some new models and lots of Daemon Princes

Last week I got some new models - a box of Chaos Warriors and a Daemon Prince. Of course, I assembled the Daemon Prince as soon as I got home :)

I love my Chaos armies - not only because of the way they look, but also because I can easily use them in different games. I can use all of my Khorne and Tzeentch Daemons in any GW system: Age of Sigmar, WH40K, The Old World (not to mention old Warhammer editions as well). I can also use almost all my Slaves to Darkness models when playing AoS, ToW and WHFB. Not only this can save you a lot of money (because you use the same miniatures all the time), but once you paint the models, they are ready for battle regardless of the system you're going to use.

That being said, I think that the best chaos model that GW released in the last few years is the new Daemon Prince. It looks great and can be customized however you want. I love it so much that the one I bought is actually my 4th Daemon Prince! I already have 3 of them (Tzeentch, Khorne and Undivided), but I wanted to make another Tzeentch DP, which will be more suited to fantasy environment (because the one I have is built specifically for 40K). Here you can see the new guy on the pictures below:   

And here are the other princes. First, the Chaos Undivided one, because he is almost fully painted (I still have a few things to finish): 

Now, here's the Khorne Daemon Prince. It is about halfway done (maybe even bit less than that). I wanted it to have blood-red armour with gold trim, but then you have to be careful when painting skin, because you need to differentiate different surfaces that are all painted in different shades of red. This made painting a bit tricky, but I think I've made a good progress so far.

And here's the second Tzeentch Prince, this time built specifically for WH40K. I hope the picture is clear enough; this one is only primed, but the painting will have to wait because I need finish the models I am currently working on first.  

Of course, I will post the pictures of each of these Daemon Princes once finish them. I believe that all of them will be painted by the end of this year. My priority for 2025 is finishing my Disciples of Tzeentch and Chaos Knights armies, so these guys will have to be painted somewhere between lots of  Tzaangor Skyfires and Pink/Blue/Brimstone Horrors.