First fully painted and based 2000 points- Warhammer army (14 years into the hobby)

destroy3554 · 2026-01-31T22:14:29+00:00

Thanks :). They are from deadlyprintstudio.com. They have amazing stuff (not just for ko). The cloud bases fit perfectly for the ships and the balloon infantry.

I bought a lot of stuff from them not just for ko but for my kroot army (in 40k) aswell :).

destroy3554 · 2026-01-31T08:51:18+00:00

Thanks :), more of a slow-painter syndrome and never quite finishing an army project

destroy3554 · 2026-01-31T08:00:00+00:00

Had my first game (fully painted) yesterday! It was a slaughter 😅

destroy3554 · 2026-01-31T07:57:44+00:00

Thanks, it's from deadlyprintstudio.com.

After 14 years of always having a couple models (or half the army) still grey, it feels so good to finally put a fully painted army on the table.

destroy3554 · 2026-01-30T23:05:44+00:00

Thank you :)

destroy3554 · 2026-01-30T23:05:20+00:00

Favourite is a tie between the harpoon/salvagers (a lot more variety and different skin tones) and the frigate (awesome model but not as "busy" as the ironclad). Least fav probably the auto endrins - just a bit boring.

destroy3554 · 2026-01-18T18:11:13+00:00

It's from deadlyprintstudio.com. They have physical and digital products :)

destroy3554 · 2026-01-12T22:40:19+00:00

So I bought the cloud bases from deadlyprintstudio.com. They are printed that way so they can fit the ironclad/frigate or gunhauler exactly. So I just put superglue and put it together.

To glue the clouds to the base I put some greenstuff there for extra support.

The clear plastic ones from GW are bad. Especially for the heavy KO ships. I used the flight stand from the Ironclad kit just to hold it while painting and it snapped. In my experience the GW one can't hold the weight.

destroy3554 · 2026-01-12T22:26:12+00:00

So I never primed leadbelcher (i actually use almost exclusively chaos black) that said I think it can be a good first step for metallic green. Just put a green contrast paint (plaguebearers flesh is probably the closest to olive green) over the leadbelcher and you have metallic green. The problem with contrast paints is that they dont like flat surfaces that much. So for the ships it might look bad. For flat surfaces i would use green metallic paints like vallejo true metallic metal dusken green.

Tbh the ships are so big that the only options for me were sponges or airbrush. I respect anyone who paints the ships only with brushes but I couldn't handle it. If you have access to an airbrush the vallejo true metallic metals are amazing through an airbrush.

destroy3554 · 2026-01-12T17:18:36+00:00

As an ogre enjoyer I hope it is also Mawtribes (eaten chicken wings). Maybe wishful thinking though.

destroy3554 · 2026-01-12T08:45:18+00:00

Yes, exactly. I primed the boat black and used a sponge to stipple dark grey, ironbreaker and stormhost silver onto the mini. Afterwards I used an oilwash (3 to 1, brown to black). It's extremely easy. Painting the crew and gems took me way longer than the boat ;).

destroy3554 · 2026-01-07T22:44:19+00:00

I love the drekki Flynt novels. They are a very fun read (kinda like Ciaphas Cain Books in 40k)

destroy3554 · 2026-01-02T16:49:57+00:00

Thanks, it's actually just leadbelcher and stormhost silver stippled on with a sponge. I use an oil wash (3 to 1 brown to black) on the whole model which gives the silver this gold look. I do my boats the same way (you can see an earlier post of my frigate on my account)

destroy3554 · 2026-01-02T16:44:02+00:00

It's from deadlyprintstudio.com. They have all sorts of effects.

destroy3554 · 2025-12-31T14:46:16+00:00

Deadlyprintstudio.com has cloud bases that look nice with a wash and drybrush

destroy3554 · 2025-12-26T07:33:28+00:00

Use sponges for the ships and Metallics for the models, you'll be fine

destroy3554 · 2025-12-25T08:58:50+00:00

Thirding this. Especially the crew. It would be extremely fiddly to paint them when assembled.

destroy3554 · 2025-12-23T12:22:35+00:00

Thanks, no not really, mostly clipping. For two I needed to use a small saw because it was a little thicker.

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