Finished: Screamer-Killer

The Screamer-Killer landed on my painting desk (and I just noticed that I gave him the wrong background... well, it is what it is, I guess). It's one of the big beasties in the Leviathan box and the penultimate left for me to paint. Great, characterful model, a little bit funny as with the carapace placed on his head he looks bald. I used the same scheme as for my other tyranid models, available here.

Finished: Death Commando

 

Another addition to my Heretic Legions warband. I decided that units I see as elite will not have corroded armour, so no rust on this guy!

The Scheme

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Heavy Metal on the armour and claws
3. Runelord Brass on some embellishments on the armour
4. Steel on the chainmail
5. Shamrock Green on the vials and tubes
6. Grey Seer on the flesh
7. Targor Rageshade on the flesh

Finished: Sha'dar Hunters and Arthromite Spinewyrms

 

After a very long break from Necromunda models I painted a set of melee specialists for the Ash Waste Nomads and their pets. I really like the sculpts and the fact that the parts go together far better than the box for the core "gang".

The scheme is mostly the same as for my other Nomad miniatures. I decided to use pink underpainting for the orange masks and I think it works quite well with Nuclear Orange. The new colours used were Ruddy Fur on the bug carapace armour on each warrior, Shamrock Green for the poison globes and Gore-grunta Furs for the leather straps. As for the spinewyrms, they were slapchopped, and then I used Dusk Red on the carapace, Bony Matter on the "underbelly", Sceleton Horde on the skulls on two of the bases, Basilicanym Grey on the rocks, Ratling Grime on the legs and Ahriman Blue on the eyes.

Finished: Warwolf

 The Warwolf charges in! Another model to reinforce my warband. I really love the design and now I finally have a painted mini.

The Scheme:

Slapchop underpainting

1. Dirt Spatter (or another light brown) on the armour
2. Ryza Rust stippling on the armour
3. Leadbelcher drybrush on the armour and teeth
4. Grey Seer on the flesh
5. Gulliman Flesh on the flesh
6. Ratling Grime on the fur
7. Black Templar on the claws and tubes
8. Skeleton Horde on the spine
9. Blood for the Blood God on the "snout"
10. Leadbelcher + Strong Tone on the construction element
11. Basilicanum Grey on the stones
12. Skeleton Horde for the skulls

Finished: Savage Orcs/Savage Orruks

 

One of the projects started in Orctober 2025, a 20 orc strong unit of dual-wielding savage orcs, bought when I learned that they are removing them from AoS and I knew I wanted them for The Old World.

The Models

Quite nice to build, many options for different heads and weapons, poses more dynamic than the older sculpts.

The Scheme

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Militarum Green for the skin
3. Skeleton Horde for the bones
4. Gore-grunta Fur for the leather elements, straps and furs
5. Terradon Turquoise for the scales
6. Wyldwood for the wood
7. Basilicanum Grey for the stones
8. Blood Angels Red for the topknots
9. Volupus Pink for the tongues
10. Ushabti Bone/Ivory for the teeth
11. Mephiston Red for the eyes
12. Base: A mixture of electrostatic grass and old "basing materials"

Finished: Chorister

 Small reinforcement for my Trench Crusade has arrived. This model is the Chorister for Heretic Legions.

The Scheme

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Occultist Cloak for the robe
3. Skeleton Horde for the ropes and straps
4. Targor Rageshade for the skin
5. Goreg-runta Fur for the hair
6. Blood for the Blood God for the blood
7. Tainted Gold for the crosses and other ornamentation, including the hilt of the dagger
8. Leadbelcher for the blade of the dagger
9. Strong Tone on all the metal elements

Finished: Tau Pathfinder Kill Team from Chalnath

 

Today marks a big milestone for me, as I managed to finish another Kill Team. As you can see it's the Tau Pathfonders from the second box to come out for the previous edition of Kill Team. I decided to go for a Farsight Enclaves scheme, as it was the one that I liked most.

The models themselve were assembled a long time ago. I recall that I didn't like how the listening devices attached to their heads, the point of contact was really small and bad and I had to glue more than one back after they just popped off randomly.

The scheme:

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Flesh Tearrs red for the armour and red parts of the weapons
3. Grim Black for the undersuit and the black parts of the weapons
4. Space Wolves Grey on the skin
5. Ratling Grime on the "hooves"
6. White on all the parts that will be green
7. Black Tone panel lining on the red elements
8. Shamrock Green on all the lenses and blinking, technoloqical devices
9. Balthazar Gold on the golden elements
10. Leadbelcher on the silver elements
11. Black Tone on the silver elements
12. Reikland Fleshshade on the golden elements
13. Bases: AK Fireland, Light Tone wash, Ryza Rust drybrush, Gamers Grass Alien Neon 4mm

Finished: Grinkrak's Looncourt

I have finished painting this band for Underworlds that I have actually bought to play Warcry. A very cool little project that enabled me to test out a bunch of stuff for any AoS goblins/grots that I'd like to paint in the future! They are "easy to build" miniatures that come in green plastic and sculpted bases. This is also the first time I used pink as a basecoat for yellow transparent paint and I'm in love!

The Scheme

1. Black Primer
2. Grey part of slapchop
3. Squid Pink on elements that will be yellow or orange (2 or 3 thin coats should do the job)
4. White drybrush
5. Forest Sprite on the skin
6. Dreadnought Yellow on yellow elements
7. Turnbull Turquise on the remaining parts of the robes
8. Chameleon Orange on the squigs
9. Skeleton Horde on ropes and teeth
10. Wyldwood on the wood
11. Snakebite Leather on leather elements
12. Blood Angels Red on the shields, moons and mushrooms
13. Satchel Brown on the pouches
14. 1:1:1 Burnt Moss, Occultist Cloak, Desolate Brown on the base
15. Iron Warriors i Runelord Brass on the metallic elements
16. Dark Tone on the metallic elements

Finished: Psychophage from Leviathan

 I managed to finish the Psychophage from the Leviathan starter set! Such a big monster! Lovely sculpt full of wonderful detail.

The scheme is basically the same as usual (and I'm really happy that my scheme transfers so well from the small tyranids to thoe big bioforms!). I changed Ushabti Bone for Ivory as I believe my pot of Ushabti bone is going bad. I used Flesh Tearers red on the space marine armour and some Blood for the Blood God on the torn pieces.

Painted: 3 Test Hormax

 

Recently a friend lent me 3 colorshift paints by GSW, namely Darth Blue, Evil Forest and Borealis Green, to test on some The Makers Cult models I printed. A while ago I decided that I wanted my Iron Hive models to have opalescent armour plates, so the only thing left was to find the hue that I liked most. The schemes above are almost the same in terms of colours used, with the only difference being the shifter paint used. I decided to buy the same set (which contains 3 more paints), and the other ones plus probably more from other companies, to have options for various future projects. From those three I like Borealis Green most (even though I don't think I would use it for my Iron Hive).

The schemes:

• Black primer
• White drybrish to better see the details
• Grey Seer on the flesh
• Black on the armour plates
• Gloss Varnish on the armour plates
• Darth Blue (left) - one coat/ Evil Forest (middle) - 2 coats with airbrush and 3 with brush/ Borealis Green (right) - 2 coats on the armour plates
• True Brass on the armour trim
• Runelord Brass on some details
• Heavy Metal on the weapons and spine
• Steel on the rest of the metal bits
• Grimdark Shadow on the metal elemenents
• (optional) Stormhost Silver drybrush over the metal elements

Hobby Summary: October 2025

 So, Orctober ended and I still have some projects that are not finished! In the picture above you can see some normal Orc Boyz, Savage Orc Boyz (or Orruk Boyz or whatever they were called in AoS, I bought the box when I learned they were to be removed from retail) and 4 of the 7 models in Grinkrak's Looncourt. I hope to finish them (or at least most of them) in November, but I will still tag them as Orctober 2025.

Models Painted (47)

• 12 Orc Boyz (Orc & Goblin Tribes Battalion)
• 3 Von Ryan's Leapers (Leviathan)
• 1 Ork Warboss (Assault on Black Reach)
• 12 Savage Orc Boyz
• 1 Murknob with Belcha-banna (Dominion)
• 9 Tau Pathfinders (Chalnath)
• 1 Beast-skewer Killbow
• 1 Winged Tyranid Prime (Leviathan)
• 1 Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof (Dominion)
• 2 Hormax (The Maker's Cult)
• 4 Grinkrak's Looncourt

Models Finished (8)

• 1 Ork Warboss  (Assault on Black Reach)
• 1 Murknob with Belcha-banna (Dominion)
• 3 Von Ryan’s Leapers (Leviathan)
• 1 Beast-skewer Killbow
• 1 Winged Tyranid Prime (Leviathan)
• 1 Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof (Dominion)

Assembled (8)

• 8 Ork Boyz (Orc & Goblin Tribes Battalion)

Bought/ Received (2)

• 1 Leman Russ Battle Tank
• 1 Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

Games Played (1)

• 1 Necromunda

Unlocked Achievements:

• More models painted than bought
• Painted a model (Warhammer Underworlds)
• Painted a model (Warhammer The Old World)
• Painted a unit (Warhammer 40000)
• Painted a unit (Warhammer Age of Sigmar)
• Painted a hero (Warhammer 40000)
• Painted a hero (Warhammer Age of Sigmar)
• Painted a Spearhead