Few months ago, I have decided to build a small Stormcast Eternals army. As I have mentioned in one of my previous posts, I really like the look of Thunderstrike Stormcast, so I based the army primarily on those models - or, to be even more precise, on Annihilators. When I realized that you could play Annihilators as Battleline troops in Knights Excelsior army, it was easy to choose which Stormhost to play. So I ended up with Stormcast models from Dominon set and several units of Annihilators on top of that :D
I opted for gold armour on most of the miniatures because since I painted Custodes, I was very confident that I could paint similar colour scheme fairly quickly. However, for my general (Lord-Imperatant) and one unit of Annihilators I wanted to do something else - I wanted them to be different from the rest of the army. I wanted the general to stand out anyway, but then I got the idea of him having some kind of "honor guard" or his most trusted warriors. Since I did not like the original Knights Excelsior colour scheme (the one with bright white armour), I experimented a bit until I found alternative scheme that I liked a lot. You can see the result on the pictures below.
- the miniature was primed with white primer
- an all-over wash of GW Nighthaunt Gloom was applied (for bit lighter colour, you can also apply a mix of Nighthaunt Gloom and Lhamian Medium)
- apply a light drybrush of Vallejo Wolf Gray all over the armour
- add edge highlights to armour plates using GW White Scar
