Showcase: Stormcast Eternals Lord-Veritant with Gryph-Crow (inc. painting guide)

My Stormcast Eternals Spearhead continues to grow this week with the addition of the Lord-Veritant and her faithful Gryph Crow. You’ll definitely want to read this post if you’re about to paint your own, I have some assembly tips and a painting guide if you want to paint yours as a Hallowed Knights Stormhost.

Models were kindly sent to me by Games Workshop. My thoughts and opinion are my own.

A Lord-Veritant’s role is to discover corruption, heresy and treason for Sigmar and then bring down his Ruination Chambers to wipe out those who oppose him. Veritas means ‘truth’ in Latin so it’s a very fitting name to one who wants to shine a light on the evils of the Mortal Realms.

My ToPTIP if your models have capes lie thew Lord Veritant, is to drill and glue straightened paper clips in to the soles of their feet and insert into a cork so they’re raised about an inch above the cork. It’ll allow you to paint up and under the cape without a base getting in the way.

My next piece of advice, is more of a warning. There is an error on the assembly instructions for the Gryph-Crow. The instructions say use a 25mm base but the model won’t fit on that size with its rear feet over-hanging the base edge. The painted example clearly shows a 32mm base was used. I went with the 32mm option. The Gryph-Crow is referred to as a token in the game, so it kinda just hangs around and doesn’t interact in any form of measurable way, so I don’t think the base size is all that important.

How to Paint the Lord-Veritant and Gryph-Crow

These two models build upon the painting foundations I laid when painting the Liberators and Prosecutors. You can see it uses the armour from the Liberators and the Flames from the Prosecutors. If you’re following along there a few new recipes you’ll need though to paint the Lord-Veritant and her Gryph-Crow. There is a skin recipe now and there is her pets body and beak.

I was looking at pictures of crows and I felt in some of the pictures the feathers had an oily/blue sheen to them. This blue highlighting on the black would really complement the blues I use for the armour and shoulder pauldron. The beaks of crows are a different black to the feathers, so I exaggerated this by highlighting with greys instead. I gave the Gryph-Crow a red eye. Not sure why, it just felt right, or maybe I just hade red paint open at the time and just needed a dab of it quickly.

Now these two models are finished and added to my Prosecutors and Liberators, Just have one model left to paint and that’s the Lord-Vigilant on Gryph-Stalker. It’s a big mounted centrepiece of a model and I can’t wait to add it to my collection and complete my Spearhead force. Check back next week where I share it in all its glory.