Adventures in the underworld

I had a great evening of gaming with Warhammer TV’s very own puppeteer Nick Bayton this week. He was testing out his recently painted Thorn’s of the Briar Queen and I was using the Farstriders who I have completed recently too (see my painting post https://adventuresintheunderworld.blogspot.com/2019/05/painting-farstriders.html   if you are interested in how I did them).  I have probably had around 15 games with Farstriders now and have refined the deck into an aggressive damage dealing build which can pick its battles with some big movement buffs. Nick’s Briar Queen was running an objective/key build that could buff the Queen up into a real beast at removing priority targets. In game one we set up wide and I tried to ensure that I deployed in range of some easy targets and so that I could comfortably get into enemy territory for inspiration. Generally speaking this went well with some good scoring and shardgale helping me to remove the chainrasp...

Next on my list of warbands to paint was the Farstriders. I did these guys in more or less the same scheme as my Cursebreakers and my Age of Sigmar Stormcast. I did try a few new techniques out and spent a bit more time on the details than I did with Stormsire and friends. Swiftblade - got to love that three fury melee attack with cleave :) I sprayed them all black and did two thin coats of Rakarth flesh on all the armour before doing a make up dry brush of screaming skull all over. This then had a diluted wash of camoshade with some earthshade in the recesses. Once dry all the leather and wood is painted dryad bark, cloth and plumes khorne red and all the fur rhinox hide. From here on I paint each model individually.  I went for an obsidian weapon effect based on the tutorial here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09fu880d90  and was really pleased with the outcome. The red is layered with wazdakka red and highlighted with wild rider red. Leather gets a gorthor br...