Hi folks, Colin a.k.a. Technasma here! I’ve journeyed through the Realmgates to make my debut on Tale of Painters, a site that has inspired me for many years! Today I’ve brought a host of Chaos Warriors of Tzeentch to share with you.
I’ve been collecting Warriors of Chaos for several years, and the first unit I built was the Warriors. Despite being comparatively ancient sculpts, I still love these miniatures. Each Warrior inscrutable under their horned helms, marching in lock-step behind towering runeshields; an inevitable force ruin and devastation. I converted the command group to make them even more imposing.
Thundering up the flanks of my army is the epic Chaos Chariot. I love the bold, brutal lines of this model. At the time I painted this before Age of Sigmar came along I hadn’t foreseen the new stylistic direction Chaos was going and so I replaced the Charioteer’s head to link him visually with my Chaos Warriors.
With the army’s dedication to Tzeentch in mind I decided on a very limited palette with lots of blue tones. I used cold, desaturated colours for the shields, cloaks and barding with Vallejo Field Blue, built up over a Kantor Blue basecoat. After a bit of experimentation I used Vallejo Bronze to add some warmth to the palette for the armour metallics. After basecoating I did a global wash of Drakkenhoff Nightshade to give a blue cast to each model and an ethereal, wintery aura.
To denote the command models I opted for a splash colour of magenta – another colour typically associated with Tzeentch. I used layers and glazes of Screamer Pink and Pink Horror over a Naggaroth Nightshade basecoat.
I used freehand painted runes on the banners to tie together the separate units of the army. I used blasphemous symbols inspired by runes found on the various Warriors of Chaos kits to convey the fickle aura of sorcery surrounding those that bear the Mark of Tzeentch.
I hope you enjoyed my miniatures and I’d love to hear your thoughts in the Comments. I hope to be back on Tale of Painters soon with more Tzeentch models, but until then you can catch me on my blog over at Technasma.com or my Instagram and Twitter.
Until next time, may the Dark Gods favour your dice rolls!
Technasma
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Wow… You have surpassed the GW artists in foresight imagination and skill. Congratulations !! For me the best and better representative colour scheme for Tzeentch fantasy warriors… i think my army will in the same way ?!!
So, what the colour scheme for shields and furs ?
Wow… You have surpassed the GW artists in foresight imagination and skill. Congratulations !! For me the best and better representative colour scheme for Tzeentch fantasy warriors… i think my army will in the same way ?!!
So, what the colour scheme for shields and fur ?
Nice work, I love the desaturated colours. I also like that you love your army – and the passion show through. Keep it up.
Love the colour scheme on the warriors especially :), they wouldnt look to out of place in a game of frostgrave either!, they have that glacial look about them 🙂
The only criticism i could make is to do with the photography, where perhaps a slightly darker background would really help the details stand out, as im finding it hard to see all the fine highlights against the white background, and that's a shame as they look amazing.
Thanks for the feedback guys. I tried to do something a bit different from the usual silver armour glazed with blue that you tend to see for Tzeentch. I certainly have plenty more to share so watch this space 🙂
Cheers – Technasma
I like that its clean, great highlights and nice (not dull) but like muted color scheme which I think chaos look great with!
These are really beautiful. There seems to be very few examples of a solid Tzeentch colour scheme out there, but I think the clean lines and disciplined use of a limited pallet has really paid of. Terrific work, hope to see more.