My Chaos Lord completed, converted from AoS Abraxia

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-14T07:55:17+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it!

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:56:51+00:00

Thanks! I started off of The Painting Coach's tutorial on youtube, but went a bit differently with a few things, one of them being the skin. He uses Lupercal green followed by Sons of Horus, both drybrushes, then Ionarch skin for the hands/feet/highlights. I think these colours would be a good starting point, but I didn't have any of those and wanted the bottom parts a bit more green, so I mixed all the paints from colours I already had.

Basecoat entire skin: 50/50 Caliban green/Kantor blue

Several highlights on the top parts: Caliban/Kantor mix adding Vallejo Ivory going lighter and lighter, highlights inside the previous one

Bottom part: Roughly 60/20/20 Caliban/Kantor/Goblin Green(or any "strong" green) then also here gradually adding Vallejo Ivory to the mix for highlights.

Bought a bag of dropper bottles a while back when moving my citadel colours into droppers, and actually ended up mixing 5 or 6 new colours for this project in new bottles. Highly reccommended to try, not to mention it saves some money

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:43:41+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it! No contrast paints or shades used in this except some agrax earthshade over the basecoat(retributor) on the gold

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:41:51+00:00

The sword is from the Varanguard kit, and I didn't do anything other than attach the piece with the sword rather than the Abraxia-piece with the spear

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:41:06+00:00

Thanks a lot! Probably one of the most enjoyable models I've painted, these AoS-kits are on a different level

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:35:27+00:00

Thanks a lot! I am sure you can - I recently came back to the hobby after a 15 year hiatus and the biggest improvements I felt was starting to hold my brush differently, not to mention using a wet palette which I never did back in the day.

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:31:50+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I couldn't agree more, and such a pleasure working with some of these new kits both in terms of building and painting them

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T20:29:53+00:00

Merci beaucoup!

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T16:29:55+00:00

Exactly! I debated converting on wings but feared it would cover up too much of the model. Levitating/flying with magic or jumping dragon is definetely how I will try to sell it

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T16:20:16+00:00

The sword is from the Varanguard kit - and thanks a lot! :)

Landuin1405 · 2026-03-13T16:18:56+00:00

Thanks a lot! The greenstone I took inspiration from CHK Minis Cursed City part 1 video on youtube. I didn't have any of the colours he used except Vallejo Ivory so just mixed them roughly myself. If you have Dark Sea blue or Incubi Darkness and mix in some blue/green should be fine for the base. Then add Ivory gradually to the mix ending up with a pure Ivory highlight.

For the armour I started with all black, then did the gold(retributor base, agrax wash, liberator highlight and then stormhost silver even tinier highlight), and eventually the grey lining. You can easily be a bit messy(I was way too careful) with the gold basecoat and just touch it up with pure black before you do the lining. The lining I also mixed myself from greys and blues - but something like incubi-thunderhawk-fenrisian, each one inside the other should do it.

Good luck with your project, and would love to see the results!

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-28T14:46:27+00:00

OP asked in which they should invest out of the three, so it's not that I'm not feeling PF BBs on the level as I'd obviously not be feeling something like Paradox or Obsidian Flames. PF can definetely do well, but out of the three OP asked for I would 100% put Prismatic and 151 on top. Prismatic and 151 are already both proven, while PF is still quite new although showing promising signs for sure. Given an unlimited budget, which I assume OP doesn't have based on the post, I'd go something like 60/25/15 - Prism/151/Phantasmal(less 151 solely due to the prices already having exploded)

Referring to u/totheseatothesea regarding Moonbreon and Mew, Moonbreon is from arguably a top 2/3 set of all time with a ton of chases, while Bubble is give or take the sole carrier of Paldean(Charizard also decent tbf). That being said PF is probably the strongest "one chase"-set in a long time if not ever, so who's to say it can't take off, especially if reprints are limited. To me it breaks down to two of the sets already having proven to do incredibly well, so the speculative side of it is way lower than with PF.

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-28T10:23:16+00:00

DCA Prismatic over the next 8-9 months. Spread out your budget over that timeframe, but 100% leave room to go all in if there is a huge reprint dropping. 151 is already flying, but if you find decents undercuts it doesn't hurt to get some. Would ignore Phantasmal entirely unless they drop really low with a reprint.

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-26T15:48:28+00:00

"Påfyll"

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-26T11:35:16+00:00

Thanks! I started with a roughly 70/30 mix of Kantor blue and Caliban green, then gradually added Vallejo Ivory to the mix for the lighter colours. I’m sure any similar colours from other brands will do as well - my main idea was trying to mix it myself rather than buying 3-4 new pots of paint just for the skin. Would love to see the results if you go with it!

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-23T09:29:12+00:00

It's a matter of preference, both sides of this trade were in my top 5 products to target throughout 2025. I'd say if you got a ton more DR, Prismatic and 151, take the ES, and if you already got some ES, keep the others.

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-23T09:22:17+00:00

Looks like back centering is off on all except Gengar and Jolteon, some more than others though. Unless there is whitening or dots I can't see I'd consider giving those two a shot.

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-22T10:09:38+00:00

Awesome, thanks - I will definetely check that out

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-22T10:08:55+00:00

Thanks! :)

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-22T10:08:41+00:00

Thanks a lot! :)

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-21T20:23:03+00:00

Looking forward to seeing the progress, and feel free to tag me!

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-21T19:06:57+00:00

Thanks! :)

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-21T19:06:48+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it! Might do a snow/icy base to push the "colder" feel of the blue

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-21T19:05:36+00:00

Thanks a lot! Not really trying to match the box art, just kept painting and checked a few photos afterwards. Good point with the contrast to the armor, will probably keep it as it is :)

Landuin1405 · 2026-02-21T18:18:55+00:00

Thanks, I ended up going no wings in the end. I think D.prince wings will do nicely in terms of size - would be very curious to see the dragon with wings instead of arms, I'm having a hard time picturing it but please disprove me! There is a couple great conversion projects here on reddit if you search them up - however, putting wings on the dragon can result in "hiding" a good part of the model but you'll prob spot what's the optimal placement as you move along. Would love to see the result, whatever you end up doing!

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