Spring Cleaning… with FYRE

More progress on the old Goblen Hewer model. First is stripping the old paint off the base using “LA’s Totally Awesome.” Great stuff, and it’s $1 a bottle at the dollar store. I’m then glung it to a base made of laser cut wood discs from an arts and crafts store. I use those discs for basing large models all the time. They are less than $1 each, and are easy to glue/pins models to as its thick and porous.

The rest is continued painting progress on the actual model. I’m trying to tie it in with the usual fyreslayyer paint scheme by using their typical colors. In particular, the volcanic slate-blue obsidian.

this was achieved using

1) stegadon scale green (GW)

2) nuln oil wash (GW)

3) edges highlight stegadon green

4) small edge highlight 50/50 stegadon green and sotek green (GW)

5) topmost edges and points hit with#4 with white added

So, as many WoE and AoM lists include rather generic war machines (ones that shoot, ones that roll,ones that fly) I wanted to deploy something for these volcanic dwarves. So, I dug around in my old fantasy dwarves and found this old fog.

Malakai Malakaissons Goblin Hewer.

Fyreslayers arent very gunpowder friendly, but they have lots of axes. What better than a crazy axe-throwing contraption? And it’s crewed by slayers to boot!

I started touching up some of the very basic painting I did before. In particular, I’m using dark metallics to paint engravings on the axes, to tie them in more with the fyreslayer ornate axes.

more on this to come.

Here’s my test run of the alternate paint job for my fyreslayers. I went with a dark grey skin tone. Effect was achieved by:

1) Basecoated vallejo green grey

2) reikland fleshshade wash

3) highlight up with 3 highlights of grey grey with increasing amounts of GW Kizlev Flesh added.

I think it will meld them in well with the dark magma monsters.

Fist entry is showing some of my starting figs.

1) I’ve got the Shadespire Fyreslayers that I plan to make Hearthguard (as there’s 4 of them)

2) Magma Beasts – these are actually from the “Caverns of Cynder” expansion for Shadows of Brimstone. They aren’t the best miniatures, but I think they’ll paint up nicely.

I am thinking of an alternative paint job for the dwarves, not a fan of the naked pink dude with Mohawks.