Soulblight Gravelords are getting new model kits released this Saturday and I was lucky enough to get some of them early. I’ve painted Prince Vhordrai, Lord of the Crimson Keep to add to my army. I have my painting guide for him at the end of this article and I’ll also share plenty of pictures showing all the different angles.

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I don’t have the new Soulblight Army tome at the moment, so I’m not really up to date on the lore regarding Prince Vhordrai. I’ve also not played this current edition of Age of Sigmar, having switched back to 40k for the past year, but Soulblight Gravelords are one of my favourite factions, so I’m excited to raise some fresh reinforcements from the grave.

I have some Soulblight already, and I’ve painted the Cursed City boxed game so I have my colour scheme down already and I applied that to the Prince, the only change is instead of Black Armour, I painted his armour green. I wanted the Dragon to have black skin so that mean’t changing Vhordrai’s armour so he stood out.

I painted the wing membranes the same way I’ve painted all my wings in the army, like Vhargiests and the like. It’s quite fleshy and bat-like. What a really like about this version of the zombie dragon compared to the previous is it has forelimbs as well as wings. The previous kit didn’t have any arms! Only legs and wings.

This Draconith is crawling over a huge slab of masonry so I added plenty of tiles and rocks to the base to help it all feel more integrated into the base. I didn’t want to over do it as it still needs to match my existing army.

How to Paint Prince Vhordrai Lord of the Crimson Keep

It’s quite easy to paint Prince Vhordrai separate to the Dragon, it definitely makes it easier. I also left the Dragon unglued from the terrain piece which helped a lot. I used a black undercoat for everything, but to speed things up I did airbrush the bugman’s glow on the wing membranes. Apart from that it was just putting the hours in to get it painted.

How long did it take to paint this model

So, you may have seen my model on Games Workshop’s Warhammer Community website last week. To meet the submission deadline, I spent 10 days painting and photographing Prince Vhordrai and I was putting in serious hours every day but I’m ecstatic he made it onto their website. I think I’m going to plan a new Soulblight Gravelords army around him.