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.
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.
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):
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.
Over the past two months, I haven't painted much. I took a small break from the painting, and also focused on some other things in my spare time. The only model I was working on during that period was Abraxia - I got it back in October (you can see the blog post here).
Abraxia is a very nice model and I like it even more because I can use it for both AoS and Warhammer: the Old World (she can be lord on a daemonic mount). I decided to go with a colour scheme similar to the one on the box. The only exception was the face: I was afraid that the darker skin tone will completely blend in with the rest of the miniature, so I went with something completely different - a pale face with blood-red warpaint. I also enjoyed working on a spear - the glowing/fire effect is fun to paint. The miniature is almost done and you can see the result on the pictures below. Keep in mind that there's still some work left to do (sword, claws and few other details).
Recently, I bought some Sacrosanct Stormcast Eternals models from a friend that decided to sell them because they are being moved to Legends. I was OK with that (I liked the models anyway and I don't play competitively); It was a small army (just a bit over 1000 points) and it was nicely painted as well. I especially liked the Sequitors, because I could easily play them as Liberators. However, there was one model that wasn't painted: Lord-Arcanum on Gryph-Charger.
I have always loved Stormcast heroes on Gryph mounts. I own Lord-Vigilant from the Skaventide box and I'm really looking forward to painting him. However, I think that Lord-Arcanum is probably the best-looking of those mounted heroes. The pose is really dynamic and there's a lot of interesting surfaces on the model (armour, cloth, skin, feathers, etc.).
As I have already mentioned, Lord-Arcanum was the only model in this small army that was not painted, so I decided to change that immediately. I really enjoyed this paintjob: the model is interesting to paint and the painting scheme is different from my Thunderstrike Stormcast (I painted him to match the rest of the Sacrosanct models). Actually, I am so satisfied with the final result, that I believe this is probably one of the best paintjobs I've done this year.
