Another Age of Sigmar Soul Wars Project

Very sorry, had another tumble off the painting wagon. But I’m back on this project. Actually had a whole bunch of photos today of my work, but when I looked at them on my pc, most were very blurry, and I think they were the better ones. But I did upload this photo of my celestial ballistae with some basecoating.

Will post up more pictures soon, I promise.

Well, I made it onto the hobby hangout. I got panned, but I made it on. Note to self; never again bring up what games you’re playing, because Johnnylyons led everyone off into a tangent discussing No Man’s Sky, to the point of suggesting NMS was the inspiration of my chosen colors, even though there was a whole post showing test miniatures for the color scheme right here.

Anyways, I put on of most, if not all, of the highlights and I repainted the Gryph Charger (John said it was clashing with the rest). I don’t know if I made it better or worse, but it looks more like the flycatcher bird I said I wanted to base it on, for better or worse.

Sort of fell off the wagon again. Partly because of No Man’s Sky, partly because Not Tonight finally was released. Anyways, here’s the Lord Arcanum fully (AFAIK) base coated, base included.

My plan is to paint the bases for each army in the colors of their opponents. So the Nighthaunt army bases will be green, purple and maybe white or gold while the Stormcast will have blue, red and bone.

This project’s still alive! I swear to Gork the Soul Wars set is coming, I just got distracted a bit, playing No man’s sky, almost 24/7 for several days.

Anyways, here’s the model with most of the gold basecoated in Vallejo Hammered Copper. Except for a few bits and spots I just have to basecoat the, um, base and then it’s on to highlighting.

Before deciding on the color for the griffin I googled “wild bird,” expecting to see some bald eagles, condors, hawks etc. Instead, the first bird I see is… something special. Something I’ve never seen or even heard of before; an Asian Paradise Flycatcher.

This weird, little bird with its little punk hairdo just flew into my brain and wouldn’t leave. So even though the color of the back feathers was too much like what the color of the robes would be (which is why I changed it) I knew once I saw it I found my griffin.

First off to whoever recommended my project posts, thank you, it is much appreciated.

Second, I’ve decided to go with the Celestial Vindicator scheme, in light of all the overwhelming feedback. The Lord Incantor is already primed (and so far no one else from Soul Wars is even built). I was thinking of forgoing a zenith spray since I completely skipped that with the test model and it turned out fine.

As for the Gryph, I’ve been looking up pictures of wild birds online for ideas. I’ve looked up Eagles, Golden Eagles, Black Eagles and even Blue Eagles. Against my better judgement, however, I keep coming back to this.