Legions of the Dragonfather

I got the Pistol Wraith and Gorman almost done. I had to do the wraith at home as the senior speed painting didn’t happen at the club The wraith was mostly a quick drybrush up, some light inking and more drybrushing with some slight detailing (the silver on the guns). The reason the skull was brown was because bone looks better over brown. I also tend to use bleached bone rather than white to make my first highlight and then possibly white and that to make the final one depending. The bleached bone is more muted and not as garish as white can sometimes tend to seem. Eitherway he was mostly done and just needed the green scarves to be inked green, then highlighted up with goblin green+bleached bone and finally a hint of scorpion green so he’s a little bit ethereal looking!

Feeling Lucky Punk ?

Gorman DiWolfe was a bit more time intensive as I wanted to make his boots, hood/mask and gloves look like rubber (what a chemist at the time would use to stop himself getting chemical burns) so I mixed black with clear varnish. It gives it a different texture than pure matt black. His trim was lined grey and the white chemical bottles were painted goblin green+green ink+ardcoat. The ardcoat thickens the paint so it can be given more texture hence the slightly swirling appearance to his acid bombs. He still needs to be highlighted but seems alright so far.

The Cankerworm face, spine and jaws were painted in bone like the Pistol Wraith’s head and arms. I was kind of stuck what colours to paint him… but i decided to make the underbelly from brass as Cankerworms are rare bonejacks so it stands to reason that no expense would be spared in manufacturing one. I make my brassy bits from chainmail + shining gold (the new version is the worst metallic EVAR!) and then when its dry some brown ink. (also lack of inks… they are all washes now )The legs were also picked out in flat chainmail. I drybrushed the other plates on his top/back with chainmail to pick out the rivets. At the moment he looks passable for a game but is nowhere near finished. The base also got some minor additions like picking out the chain and also making the skull look more skull like !

I also worked on Deryliss who got undercoated yesterday along with the Nightmare and Mortenebra. He got a camogreen+codex grey base coat on his robes that was later inked. His skin was bleached bone + beastial brown+a dot of brown ink. This was then inked brown. The metallic parts were drybrushed with chainmail and a drop of green ink to tie him visually to mortenebra.

Mortenebra only got the most basic of base coats. The chainmail + green ink drybrush as well as some necron abyss foundation mixed with a little grey for her ‘skirt’. some of the bone/fangs were picked out in a little brown but she needs a lot of attention. I still have to affix parts of her.

Finally… let me introduce the WIP of Warwitch Deneghra :

As you will notice Deneghra has a nicer poke-ier stabbier spear as her default one is totally pathetic! She needed an über spear which came from Morathai’s corpse. (Don’t ask why I had spare Morathai body lying about) the spirals were green-stuffed to blend in and painted the nice green basecoat of scorpion green. I started on Deneghra’s skin which was grey+liche purple then it was highlighted grey + brown to inject some life into it. It gives it this dusky appearance. Elf flesh and grey leads it to where it is now but it needs a final highlight of elf flesh alone I think.

Tomorrow I might try and get Deneghra finished for my game against Tim on Sunday. I’m expecting to be murdered but I remember when getting to grips with my Lizardman army I would always be looking to learn from a game weather I win or loose and I think I am picking up ideas. I will need to get more infantry like has been suggested. Mechanithralls were suggesed and Bane knights/thralls. The Bane Knights look a bit cooler although game wise I have no idea. Bane thralls and mechanithralls are listed in the book so I will re-read them.