Another Age of Sigmar Soul Wars Project
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About the Project
So there's probably about half a million Soul Wars projects going on here on BoW, so I figured why not add mine, where it could get completely lost among the others? Joking aside I fell off the painting wagon again (ok, most joking aside) and was using this as an excuse to get back on. The project is the Soul Wars box set for Age of Sigmar on Shattered Dominion bases. Yes, those bases, because I'm tired of gluing sand and grass on, only to watch it come off. Naturally, it's only after I decide to use Shattered Dominion bases do I notice the ghosts are almost all on slotted bases, but I'll burn that bridge when I get there.
Related Game: Warhammer Age of Sigmar
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
Test minis for the Stormcasts.
So far so good, this here project blog is going up nicely. I got a good idea on how I’ll bel painting the Nighthaunts (Blue, red and white) but I’m a little less decided with the Stormcasts. So I took a page from Johnlyons and made some test models out some Liberators I… damaged, attempting to strip their paint off (long story, very boring, MOVING ON!)
I did three test schemes but I’m really only feeling two of them. I’m almost decided on which one to use, but I’m holding off painting until I get some input so please, PLEASE feel free to endorse which one you like.
This is the first and most favored one, my version of the Celestial Vindicators.
The second test mini done as an Astral Templar. Thought the purple pauldrons were too plain...
So I painted them Temple Guard Blue.
This poor, poor sod is the third test. I'd call him Cinderella, but that'd make me the wicked stepmother's bigger, meaner brother who just broke out from the dungeon...Lord Arcanum
Starting off with the Lord Arcanum, so far the only guy from the box assembled. I tried using some liquid green stuff on the head and torso, with shall I say, mixed results. It’s stuff and it’s green but it sure ain’t liquid. And some regular green stuff under the rock because of course, I had to use the Shattered Dominion bases.
I initially was going to try and convert him by swapping his head and torso with the Knight Incantor. Then I looked at the pieces and dropped that idea quick.
I’m going to digress here a little. Even if you don’t think the new sculpts are busy and flimsy and have too many pointy bits (and I happen to think they’re guilty of all three,) that still doesn’t change the fact that for an amateur like me, trying to convert without destroying them is impossible. And this really bugs me because I remember when GW was all about converting. White Dwarf used to have Catachans with Ork arms and guns, Kroot with wings, Grimgore Ironhide in a chariot (Ok that last one was mine and never saw the inside of White Dwarf). One time I saw a Storm of Chaos era Archaon converted into a hero of the Empire, seriously. The new models are so wildly posed (like everyone’s flailing about in seizures) and have so many overlapping details (like the end of a staff fused to a cape in the case of the Lord Arcanum above) that you can’t even do a simple arm or torso swap.
There used to be a sense of freedom… and now it’s gone. Makes me wonder how long it will be before GW minis start coming pre-painted because our peasant delusions of creativity could never do proper justice to their glorious, Wagnerian vision of heavily over-armored juggernauts hitting each other with axes or hammers.
