Let's get sigmar'd - Mammoths age of sigmar army.

[Mammoth miniatures]

"The farforged host are a strange and grim stormhost - forged at aphelion, as the burning core of mallus was at its Apsis, they are ever distant - each warrior in this iron clad band longs for the endless journey of the quest. So it is that these warriors are lead not by lords, but by errant questors and wandering knights who have been given some great and distant task by the god king."



Right that's the fluff out of the way...

I like age of sigmar. I have liekd it since it came out - I think it's a refreshingly fun game and since its earliest days I have thought the setting had potential to be a really psychedelic breath of weird air in what had become quite a stagnant fantasy landscape. Fast forward to two weeks ago - I had become a bit tired of the grim darkness of the far future and decided to start digging into the latest age of sigmar lore and low and beholdif what I wanted isn't exactly what has happened - strange cosmologies, realities made of crystalline magic, a grand cycle of universal recurrence ...It all felt like a drulliet comic with a bit of a friendly mask on top - It's all very moorcock...
which is perhaps way the latest age of sigmar partwork magazine is called stormbringer. And it was just this magazine, the entire back catalogue of which I stumbled across in forbidden planet, that prompted me to start an army of stormcasts. (the core of which, through multiple magazines, has cost be less than £50)

The army has started with 10 vindicator spears.






These new stormcasts are far nicer than the 1st edition lads - less chunky, far sleeker and more sinister looking. They're also a real joy to paint. I am not a speed painter - in 20 years I've never managed to build more than a single squad without getting distracted by converting or detailing. But a couple of spray cans and some spot colours really work to bring these figures to life.

The next step is to add a knight questor and some preators, and then look at what kind of dragon-y magicky nonsense I can add.

[Hobgoblin]

Those look terrific! The white masks are a great touch.

[OSHIROmodels]

Nicely done 

[boneio]

Very nice!

I actually like the GW official golden Stormcast paint scheme (apparently it's not always well-regarded!) but that darker scheme you've done with the contrasting masks is wonderful. More gritty but without going too far.

[3Fingers2]

Much prefer these to the golden paint jobs 👍

[sir_shvantselot]

Much prefer these to the golden paint jobs 👍

Don’t say that. Ive just sprayed all mine brightest gold. May still try do white faces like these fantastic ones.

[Elk101]

The newer versions do look a lot better, and your paintjob is ideal. I may have to steal it!

[Mammoth miniatures]

The newer versions do look a lot better, and your paintjob is ideal. I may have to steal it!

It's really easy if you do fancy giving it a go - spray the mini black, then spray silver from a distance as if you were doing a zenithal highlight, letting the silver mottle rahter than cover. Then apply a black wash followed by a targeted brown wash, and add highlights and scratches in a lighter silver. repeat as many washes as you want for darker armour.

[Elk101]

Thanks!

[Melnibonean]

I've seen these figures many times and I've always thought they look crap (I even got a couple of free sprues at one time). You have made these look fantastic. Great work. Really great work.

[Mammoth miniatures]

"The ranks of the farforged host are often bolstered by questing knights and other errant warriors of the god king. Many from the host feel the questors call, and often don the robes of the errant warrior as they stray far from their brothers on secret hunts. Yet many of these questors are in fact warriors of brother stormhosts who have taken up a place alongside the far forged, bringing their skills and knowledge in battle in exchange for help in their sigmar given tasks..."

A couple of characters - An errant questor and a preator prime(from stormbringer mag) who I will run as a lord castellant as soon as I get her a gryph hound.

The questor is a converted stormcast vanquisher, given a space marine hooded head and a sanded down shield. Again painting is just sprays, washes and pigments.







I just have the three preators to finish and that's the initial 600ish point core of the army done, and enough to play some vanguard sized games of age of sigmar. Now I can start looking at fun stuff to add...

[Pattus Magnus]

Those look great! The weathering and scratches on the armour is especially good. I haven’t liked the style of most of the AoS figure lines, but your take on these may change my mind.

[Mammoth miniatures]

Those look great! The weathering and scratches on the armour is especially good. I haven’t liked the style of most of the AoS figure lines, but your take on these may change my mind.

It's just a truth of GW miniatures that they need at least 20% of the clutter removing to get to the nice sculpt underneath

As an early adopter and fan of what GW were trying to do with the stormcasts I'll be the first to admit that their look on launch was pretty naff - chubby golden space marines didn't really sell the setting very well. I almost wander if GW deliberately made the first wave of stormcasts a bit crap so that they could tank the inevitable backlash and then launch the proper ones later on when everyone had calmed down, thus avoiding the risk to their actual nicely designed figures.  The more recent stuff post malign portents has been far nicer and if not less over the top, then at the very least over the top in the right ways - We've got actual dragons and cool mythical creatures, not that weight square dragon dog thing from the 1st edition launch box.

[hubbabubba]

These are some of the nicest Simarines I've seen. Nice painting, great aesthetic.

[Melnibonean]

More great brushwork. I love it.