Enter the Silver Tower
Today I'm posting the start of a new side project. I got a copy of Warhammer Quest Silver Tower some months ago and surprisingly my wife and I enjoyed it a lot despite the Age of Sigmar setting.
So in order to spice up our next delves I decided to start painting the miniatures. I started with the Kairic Acolytes but an accident with a pot of paint made me kickstart the Stormcast before I finished the Tzeentch warriors.
Blue horrors were just a middle pitstop I painted while waiting for the bases on the acolytes to dry. Their color scheme is so simple you can get them done very fast. So in order to give me a painting challenge I decided this time I would try to get the fire right.
In the past i painted fire the way you usually render and shadow other areas, painting the upper areas brighter, until reading a tutorial made me notice that for fire it was actually the other way around. So this time I tried to get it right from the start and add some source lighting for extra coolness.
For the stormcast I decided to step away from the full gold plate that GW uses. Instead I used a mostly dark and grey armor with gold accents. It kinda remembers a golem, like Kharn from Magic the Gathering.
For this model my painting challenge was to get the blade right. I'm not very proud of my weapons, as I never use the same technique they look all over the place and lack consistency. I tried to adress this trying some new approaches.
By the way, you might have noticed by now, but I got myself a small photo studio. I still haven't got the hand of it, and still get some particularly intense lights on some of the photos, but overall photo quality has improved considerably.
So in order to spice up our next delves I decided to start painting the miniatures. I started with the Kairic Acolytes but an accident with a pot of paint made me kickstart the Stormcast before I finished the Tzeentch warriors.
Blue horrors were just a middle pitstop I painted while waiting for the bases on the acolytes to dry. Their color scheme is so simple you can get them done very fast. So in order to give me a painting challenge I decided this time I would try to get the fire right.
In the past i painted fire the way you usually render and shadow other areas, painting the upper areas brighter, until reading a tutorial made me notice that for fire it was actually the other way around. So this time I tried to get it right from the start and add some source lighting for extra coolness.
For the stormcast I decided to step away from the full gold plate that GW uses. Instead I used a mostly dark and grey armor with gold accents. It kinda remembers a golem, like Kharn from Magic the Gathering.
For this model my painting challenge was to get the blade right. I'm not very proud of my weapons, as I never use the same technique they look all over the place and lack consistency. I tried to adress this trying some new approaches.
By the way, you might have noticed by now, but I got myself a small photo studio. I still haven't got the hand of it, and still get some particularly intense lights on some of the photos, but overall photo quality has improved considerably.
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