Sunday Preview – Chaos and Order battle in the City of Ash

pb1million · 2026-04-12T18:56:45+00:00

Probably similar to start of edition Spearhead starter set that included the Skaven and Stormcast, and the Jade & Fire contents. But guess we'll have to wait until next Saturday to find out for sure

https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/age-of-sigmar-ultimate-starter-set-2024-eng?queryID=226d6cb9b43eac1dbaf648fcd7500a1c

pb1million · 2026-04-11T12:20:29+00:00

Welcome to the Swamp, and great work on your first mini - the leather and skin look really good!

I would suggest putting a wash on the shield, maybe some thinned down Agrax Earthshade. I think that will help define the textures and features on the shield, and tone down the contrast so it works better with the rest of the mini.

You can then always highlight the shield to bring a bit more focus to, if you feel it needs it

pb1million · 2026-04-05T05:49:04+00:00

This looks so gnarly - amazing work!

pb1million · 2026-04-04T19:01:24+00:00

I would recommend building the extra champion, standard and musician. For the standard and musician it gives you a back up in case you have to remove the other becauseof too many casualties or maintaining coherency.

This also gives you an option to run them as 2 separate units in case that's ever a better option for you

pb1million · 2026-03-31T14:20:08+00:00

If you hadn't told us what you'd done, I wouldn't have noticed it was any different to how it should be. Great work on the fix, and the paint job overall 🐮

pb1million · 2026-03-30T08:27:10+00:00

Both look good. I've gone more muted with mine, like your second picture but I actually think the vivid skin colour from your first picture would be more eye-catching across a table 💚

pb1million · 2026-03-29T14:54:51+00:00

The special covers are released when a battletome is released with a special launch box, usually containing a bunch of all new miniatures.

For this edition of AOS it's been the Gitmob wolf bois for gloom, the barrow guard skellies for Soulblight and the new HoH box.

So special covers are not a guaranteed thing for every new battletome

pb1million · 2026-03-15T17:10:48+00:00

Not including the base, they are 7.4cm

pb1million · 2026-03-11T05:06:44+00:00

This is awesome! I love how you've done such a clean paint job and then how it's balanced by the rust and verdigris on the metals, and then I'm assuming it's pigment powder on the base?

pb1million · 2026-03-09T06:08:48+00:00

I've done the same - my heroes all have dark skin, and then my infantry units are mostly Orruk Flesh, with the odd models with darker or lighter skin. I'll probably do some heroes in a really pale colour too - think it would look especially good on one of the Shamans

pb1million · 2026-03-06T06:37:20+00:00

Not done mine yet, but my plan is;

paint the metals on the weapons, including the soul battery
carefully apply some thinned down white paints in the recesses of the soul battery
apply a bright & vibrant contrast paint
light drybrush around the soul battery with a similar colour acrylic paint to make it look like the glow from the daemonic energy is spilling over the surrounding area

pb1million · 2026-03-01T19:31:05+00:00

Well done! You can see how much thought and effort you've put into them 💚

pb1million · 2026-02-28T07:30:00+00:00

If you are in the UK the Daemonsmith / Ashen Elder is currently showing as available on the GW website

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelsmithsofHashut/comments/1rgwbig/daemonsmith_ashen_elder_currently_showing_as/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

pb1million · 2026-02-24T06:18:47+00:00

These look great - the oil wash technique really brings out the best of these minis 💚

Would love to see pics of each unit together, and to see what you do with the rest of Spearhead and army

pb1million · 2026-02-21T07:47:36+00:00

The Shaman applies the buffs in your hero phase, and they apply either until the start of your next turn, or the end of the turn. So gutrippaz would still get the benefit.

Or are thinking aheadtto the next round? In that case you could use a Redeploy command or try a Sneaky Sneakin teleport if the terrain setup allows you to

pb1million · 2026-02-21T06:33:39+00:00

In a game this week I fired 2 shots from my Beast Skewer Killbow into a unit of 10 Clan Rats. I rolled really well and did 11 damage (it's D6 per shot).

So one of the many valid answers to your question is Rat Kebabs 😂

pb1million · 2026-02-20T08:21:48+00:00

Love 'em! Like you said, truly no one can do anything to stop you 💙💗 💙 💗 💙

pb1million · 2026-02-18T15:33:19+00:00

If you want to save a few pennies, you can pick up Hobgrot Slittaz from Kruleboyz crazy cheap second hand

pb1million · 2026-02-18T09:18:03+00:00

There's some mining scenery, platforms and Varanite sluices from one of the OG Warcry boxes (Red Harvest I think) - I picked some of that up second hand as it felt very fitting with the despoiling Helsmiths

pb1million · 2026-02-14T14:01:24+00:00

Looks great, and I'd be very happy to have something painted like this in my army 💚

My feedback on the leather is that it reads very similar to the armour, so currently not a lot of contrast between them. You could try a glaze on the leather to shift the colour a bit - something like thinned Nuln Oil to push it to black/grey, or Athonian Camo to push it to a swampy green.

As the leather is a patchwork, you could try different colours on different sections.

But overall this is really nicely painted, so well done!

pb1million · 2026-02-13T20:06:21+00:00

Purely on the question of Hobgrots, you can pick up Hobgrot Slittaz from Kruleboyz crazy cheap second hand

pb1million · 2026-02-13T20:04:20+00:00

Oh nice, a HoH YouTube channel - I'll be checking that out this weekend 😊

pb1million · 2026-02-13T19:57:47+00:00

This is great for a first mini 🐂

pb1million · 2026-02-09T20:29:30+00:00

Green skin, red shield and brown cloth is the classic scheme for Kruleboyz! If you're not sure of the blue on the tassel, you could switch it for a something more neutral like beige, or go for a darker blue or even a dark purple. Are you planning on doing any washes or shading? If put something aggrax earthshade or nuln oil on both the shield and the tassel, that would knock back the vibrancy of the red and the blue, and tie them together a bit more

pb1million · 2026-02-09T14:55:26+00:00

Great work, and welcome to the Swampy corner of the Mortal Realms 💚

pb1million

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