Stormcast Eternals Liberators Prime & Sequitor Prime

 Howdy! I am Doggo and this is my painting bloggo. I figured I'd start up a blog just to keep track of my painting exploits, and what better place to start than the models I finished today?

So for the inaugral post here let's start with some pretty basic guys. You'll be seeing a lot of this colour scheme in the coming posts as I have been working my way through the Mortal Realms magazine over the last year and a half. It's what got me properly into painting, and I've been quite enjoying Age of Sigmar 3rd edition.

Left & Right: Liberators Prime, Centre: Sequitor Prime

 
 
 
 The first thing you'll notice is of course that the bases are not done. This is because I mostly like to do bases in batches, but you'll see the basing I settled on for my Stormcast Eternals sometime soon I'm sure. Otherwise, these guys follow the regular colour scheme that I have been using, mostly chosen on a whim a while back when I decided to start painting them up. I had fairly recently bought some new paints and not yet used Vallejo Jade Green, so that's my main colour for the cloaks and plumage. The brass-ish metal is Tinny Tin (a dark brown metallic), with a dark brown wash, then heavily drybrushed with a bright gold. I really like the look of the technique, it gives a real textured look to the metal and it fits the Stormcast aesthetic but the fact it's more brass than gold makes it a bit more unique. The parchment is just straight up the way Games Workshop does it - their Rakarth Flesh paint with a wash of Reikland Fleshshade. On earlier Stormcasts I painted, I did this in white with various brigh coloured inks in the recesses to try to give a sort of arcane rune look. I like it in theory but I don't think I was quite skilled enough.
 
The main thing I was focusing on with these models was improving my shading on smooth cloth, on things such as capes. One thing that was holding me back from painting more Stormcasts was that I was never happy with how their capes looked. Previously I have used washes to shade the cloaks and while it does shade the recesses it also usually pools and I find it tricky to control on a large area like the cloaks.
 
A much earlier Sequitor. It looks like he's got a really dirty cloak :(

So recently I decided to give blending a go, and I'm pretty happy with the results. These are the first regular troops with cloaks that I have painted with this technique so the cloth makes up a much larger proportion of the model. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, and I think the biggest improvement I could make is to just get faster because while I didn't time these guys, painting the three models together from start to finish was probably about 4 or 5 hours' work and I definitely made a lot of mistakes on the blending that I had to then go and cover up. But I'm happy to keep on trucking and see how much I can improve! It feels like I've only just learnt how to properly thin paints, so yeah I definitely have a lot of room to grow.
 
Much more control when you don't just wash all over!
 


Next on my painting list is probably a couple of Evocators on Dracolines, which are very fun to paint and have a lot of diverse colours. I'll try to take some during shots for them!


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