Painting Stormcast Eternals Annihlators

Recently I painted two units of Annihilators for my small Stormcast Eternals army. I wanted to take a break from working on Kairos Fateweaver and I was also pretty confident that after painting Adeptus Custodes, I was able to quickly paint gold armour. 

I really like the Annihilators - actually, I like a lot of the new Stormcast models that were released when the Age of Sigmar 3rd edition came out. However, the Annihilators with shields and Knight-Vexillor with Banner of Apotheosis really stand out. Initially, I bought a unit of annihilators because I wanted to use them as allies for my Sylvaneth or Idoneth, but I ended up building a 1000-points Knights Excelsior force (because I like the idea of all-paladin army). Below you can see the picture of one of the units I painted.

I wanted to keep the paint scheme simple and effective, and use the shields as the main contrasting part of the miniature. The general process is described below: 

• Miniatures were primed with GW Retributor Gold
• Armour was washed with GW Contrast Gore-Grunta Fur
• Armour was drybrushed with GW Retributor Gold
  
• Armour was drybrushed with Vallejo Game Color Polished Gold
• Armour was highlighted with Vallejo Game Color Silver
  
• Chainmail was painted with Vallejo Game Color Silver and washed with GW Nuln Oil
• Hammers were painted with Vallejo Game Color Gunmetal, washed with GW Nuln Oil and then highlighted with Vallejo Game Color Silver
• Shields were painted with Stormvermin Fur and washed with several layers of Nuln Oil
• Central part of each shield was painted with GW Moot Green, washed with GW Contrast Warp Lightning and highlighted again with Moot Green. 
• Belts and leather straps were painted with Vallejo Game Color Leather Brown and highlighted with GW Cadian Fleshtone

With this colour scheme, I was able to work very quickly: in total, I spent about 2 hours on each model, including basing.