Painting Abraxia

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).

Now I have enough models to field "Swords of Chaos" army of renown! I've wanted to field Archaon's elite army for a while (basically, since 2nd edition). It's not fully painted (yet), but I don't mind - one of my hobby goals this year to play at lest one game using this army and finally see it in action :)

Painting Lord-Arcanum on Gryph-charger

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.       

Abraxia and some other things

This week, I finally managed to find "Abraxia's Varanspear" set that contains Abraxia and 3 Varanguard. This set was very hard to find - none of the stores where I buy Warhammer miniatures had any in stock (it was out of stock with GW as well). Finally, I found one in a local WH shop. I assembled it yesterday and will assemble the Varanguard in the next few days. Abraxia's model is really beautiful:

Ever since the 2nd edition of "Age of Sigmar", I wanted to play Archaon's elite army - but aside from Archaon and one unit of Varanguard, I have never fully assembled it (main reason is that I've prioritized finishig some other armies over that one). However, it stayed on my "to-do list" all this time and I have never abandoned the idea. As soon as I've seen Abraxia, I knew it's time to finally finish "Swords of Chaos" army. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that in the new edition of Age of Sigmar, "Swords of Chaos" is army of renown, composed only of Archaon. Abraxia and Varanguard (with some awesome rules as well). I really can't wait to finally bring that army to the table - even unpainted (there's already a lot of stuff in the pipeline right now). 

Oh, and here are also some pictures of one of the endless spells for Disciples of Tzeentch (Daemonic Simulacrum):

Painting terrain - Sacrificial Rocks

During the last few weeks, I have been working on some terrain pieces. Actually, I got quite a few of them from a friend who wanted to get rid of most of his wargaming terrain (for both WHFB/AoS and WH40K), so he kindly gave all that stuff to me. There were some really cool terrain pieces in that lot; the most interesting is probably Warscryer Citadel/Skullvane Manse (click here for pictures). I did a lot of work on the Citadel but it's not done yet (however, I expect to finish it soon because there's not much work left to do). Besides that, I managed to do a quick refresh/repaint for the Sacrificial Rocks from the GF9 (that were also part of the lot). Their original color scheme is very dark and I wanted more contrast and brighter colors. I repainted the bases, added mossy effect and made the rocks much lighter (by drybrushing several highlights). Here's the final result:

I find it funny that I was thinking on buying some terrain pieces later this year, to have bit more variety and also be able to build some futuristic-looking terrain for WH40K. These terrain pieces came out of nowhere and saved me a lot of money. Now I can build some great looking battlefields (for both AoS and WH40K). 

Saurus Warriors

As I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts, a while ago I have decided to start Seraphon army. It is slowly starting to take shape - I have finished painting a unit of Saurus Warriors earlier this month, as I want to try playing Seraphon in Spearhead format when AoS 4E comes out. I really like the new Seraphon models (all of them, really) and besides the unit shown on the pictures below, I will have one more unit - but armed with spears.