Fireblarney’s Seraphon Spring Clean

I don’t seem to have a lot of photos of this project pre dusting it off. When I put it aside for the 40k Hobby Weekend (which is still yet to be returned too) I had primed the entire box with Grey Seer. The Saurus champion, Skink caster and the unit of Skinks had been painted to what I thought at the time would be pretty much where I was going to leave them and I was stumped as to how to proceed with the basing.

The idea of the project was to see how a simple contrast paint scheme would look and how much time I saved on a more traditional paint job.

The main colours where Flesh Tearer Red for the skin and at the time I think it was Leviadon Blue for the shields which I have now changed.

Over the course of the first weekish I finished off the started foot troops, basically the box minus the Troglodon and the Bastiladon.

I did end up deciding the Contrast paints needed a little bit of a lift so I have given them all a bit of a dry brush.

Skintone: Fleshtearer Red with a Cadian Fleshtone drybrush

Shields: Akhelian Green with a Fenrisian Grey drybrush

I was still on the fence on basing until I gave in and bought the Battletome and upon reading the fluff about the terraforming around landed Seraphon forces I decided I’d just go with a junglish theme, but I’m aiming for the outskirts of their territory where things are still transitioning and not as overgrown as they could be.

I have been a little lax in taking work in progress pictures with this blog mostly as I’m tending to hobby a lot alongside my daughter who is currently trying to “assemble everything she currently owns so she can see what she has before starting a project” to quote her so I tend to forget the photo part until the end of each session.

In my head the Seraphon are using the cured skins of the Teradons for the shields of their warriors so the skin tone is again Akhelian Green with the Fenrisian Grey drybrush. When I get around to it I’ll get some better shots of everything as I’m fairly happy with the flaming bola one of them is wielding (I do happen to have a work in progress shot included for it) and the little bombs they’re carrying.

The Ripperdactyls were next and the final models before the two monsters of my initial box.

I decided I’d go for a much brighter colour scheme for these guys given their psychotic nature in the fluff so I went for Gryph-hound Orange (contrast) with a dry brush of Fire Orange (reaper paints). I also wanted to have a crack at some Obsidian looking weapons but this time it looks like I forgot to take finished pictures so they’ll be coming soon.

I’ve got the Troglodon finished over the past few days except for the basing, which I’ll tackle tomorrow, and the poison spit which I’ve started but I want to finish with Nurgle Rot which I gave away so I’ll have to wait for GW to start shipping again. I’ve decided to play with some plastic aquarium style plants on the base which I haven’t tried before which after reading I’ll need a hot glue gun which I normally borrow from a mate but I’ll just pick one up this time.

Palette

Skin: Plaguebearer Flesh with an Ogryn Camo Drybrush

Underbelly: Nazdreg Yellow

Scales and Spines in sail: two coats of Basilicanum Grey

Sail: Magos Purple

Tusks: Tusk Ivory (reaper) and Seraphim Sepia wash

The Bastiladon has just the first few starting touches, his skin which is Warp Lightning with a Moot Green drybrush. I also used this on the arm-guards on the Skink flyers (sticking with my idea of the Seraphon recycling what they can of their large beasts) and the first colour down on his carapace Black Templar.

This post now brings me up to date with my progress over the last 3 and a bit weeks. I had meant to start the project up back then but I never quite got there. I’ll get out tomorrow at some stage and get some better shots of the finished bits and pieces and do another post with them. Hopefully I’ll get the Troglodon finished off and some decent progress on the Bastiladon as well.

I decided to duck down quickly while there was still daylight and get a few quick shots outside. Here’s the end results so far, although I may go back now and fix up the Skink Priests dagger.

I’ll start with him and the Saurus Champion.

The Skinks

And the flyers

I saw finished but once I get a hold of some Nurgle’s Rot I’m going to touch up the venom spit a little. But the colours on it are just the Dark Angels colour scheme off the GW painting app at the moment. Caliban Green for the base, a wash of Nuln oil, then progressively lighter hits with Warpstone Glow then Moot Green.

I’m happy with how the plastic plants came out. I did have the wash pool slightly, it shows up badly in the photos but in the flesh it’s not too bad but it’s something to work on.

For the darker plants I’ve used Agrax Earthshade and on the lighter ones it was Seraphim Sepia. The tufts are just a mix of Gamer Grass tufts I picked up down at Cancon with this project in mind.

I’ve made a bit of progress on the Bastiladon over the last couple of days. I’ve finished of the gold areas, and the base coats on the Skinks. I’ve decided to play around with some stippled effect on the edge of the carapace to try to give it a bit of a lift. I’ve used Mephiston Red, then lightly touched around it with Wild Rider Red, I’m planning to use some more of the darker aquarium plants on the base so the splashes of colour should contrast nicely against that.

I’m going with the Solar Engine for this one. I’m pretty much sticking with the paint scheme in the book for this one, though I’ll need to find a sub for Dorn Yellow. So far I’ve got the Iyanden Yellow down and finished off a first layer of edge highlighting with Yriel Yellow.