Well I am back from the holidays and getting some work done on the Longbeards. Gehenna’s Gold layered on a Balthasar Gold is what you see here. Up next is the final highlight of Auric Armour Gold and all the batch painting of details on…

On occasion I will host group paint nights. We all setup around the table and sling or spray paint until the wee hours of the morning. It is an opportunity for my buddies to use the airbrush or get help with things like color choices…

Over the last couple sessions I went back through the unit with Abaddon Black to clean up any dry brushing that got onto the beards or grips of the weapons. Then, just as I did for the for the Hammerers, I split the unit up…

Took me another two days of intermittent hobby time to do a very controlled dry brush of Ironbreaker on the lads. After the wash and this step the details are really starting to show. I think I will wait to do the final Runefang Steel…

This evening I got a wash over the base coat of Leadbelcher on the Shieldbeards. I used the Drákenhof Nightshade thinned with Lahmian Medium 50/50. It gives the metal a nice blue steel look but of course will need to be highlighted now. … come…

There are a lot of metal areas that are recessed behind or around the beards so I decided to do them first. So, hobby time has been lean and it took me two days but I went through and got all bros base coated with…

Well after finishing up the shield scraping I was ready to prime these guys up and get some paint on them. Because the faces are so recessed I knew I would need to start with skin first. Always better to start on the deep areas…