Age of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound #3

With the large number of Bloodbound releases over the last few months I've managed to build up quite a force (and sticking to a budget to boot!).

I've built and painted the Blood Reaver set in it's entirety and used five of the Blood Warriors from the Blood Warrior set to bulk up the unit from the starter set to ten models strong. I could have made the unit larger but I "have plans" for the remaining models in the box.

I also dug out some Goblin Troll models that I had laying around, using these as a proxy Chaos Troll, they have received a Khorne style paint job to tie them in to the army in general.

The first of the clam pack character releases has been finished; the Exalted Deathbringer. One particular highlight in a recent game was failing to hit on all his attack rolls only to wipe out his opponents with a lucky batch of mortal wound inflicting armour saves.

At this point that pretty much brings the list of painted models up to date. On the to do list; Wrathmongers, Skullcrushers, a Skullgrinder, a Slaughterpriest and a couple more bits and bobs.

'Chaos' Trolls

Exalted Deathbringer & Blood Warriors

Blood Reavers with Deathripper Axes & Command

Age of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound #2

Two months since the last update. Since that last post we've moved in to the new place, decorated here and there and I have a hobby room set up. I've even found time to paint! I've been cracking on with the Khorne Bloodbound, working to get the models up to a based and shaded level (so that good tabletop level).

The army itself is now nearly completed with only a couple more things to buy to round it out and there are now less than a third of the models left to paint. I reckon I have two more boxes of bits to buy and I'll call that it for this army.

I'll focus on some of the non-starter box models in a following update, but for now here are some pictures of the remaining starter set models that I've yet to show. Once again these have been painted using the Age of Sigmar Painting Guide.

The Bloodsecrator had his face fully painted prior to attaching it to the torso as I wasn't convinced I'd be able to do it justice were it glued in beforehand. Whether I will get round to highlighting them all in the near future I do not know, but I would certainly like to get all the character models done.

Khorgorath

Bloodsecrator

Bloodstoker

Age Of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound - Mighty Lord Complete

This will probably be the last post for a little while as I'll be collecting keys to the new place on Friday and have a week of furniture moving, painting, unpacking and what ever exciting things house related to look forward to. So precious little hobby time for a while and almost certainly no internet either.

On the plus side I do get a dedicated new hobby room, it's small but plenty of room for me to store everything and have a nice dedicated hobby space to work from. I have also finished the Lord model, so the Khorne horde now has a fully assembled and painted leader.

Aside from substituting Steel Legion Drab for the XV-88 to do the cloak, I have continued with the painting guide scheme. The skulls have been glazed with a very thin coat of Zandrii Dust as I really didn't like the starkness of the Ushabti Bone highlights.

Khorgus Khol, Mighty Lord of Chaos

Flesh Hound

Cape Detail

For now that is it, I have managed to base and shade a large portion of the army, and if time allows I will try and pop some pictures up in the next few weeks. I've also got some Chaos Trolls and Skullcrushers on the go, the latter of which I have mixed in with some Blood Warrior parts to try and give them a bit of motion (rather than their default static poses).

So... Until next time.

Age of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound - Mighty Lord #1

I hit a big milestone this week, and managed to get the whole starter set painted to a good tabletop standard. Next up I'll need to get their basing done and they'll be good to go.

I also managed to assemble a box of Blood Reavers with meat ripper axes and the new Exalted Deathbringer so they'll be added to the painting production line once the rain stops long enough to let me undercoat them.

In the meantime I have been carrying on the paint work on the Mighty Lord and he is now nearing completion. Once again I am using the colours and guidelines provided in the AoS Painting Guide.

Khorn Lord WIP Front

Khorne Lord Close Up

One area where I have deviated however is the painting of the cloak - whilst I want to retain the sharp edges that typify this style I did also want to blend in some of the deeper areas to give it a smoother look. This was achieved by adding Abbadon Black to Khorne red and thinning heavily with water before applying as glazes. This is also useful to tidy up areas where you have painted an edge highlight but decided it wasn't quite right. A few coats of the glaze mix softened the edge nicely. I used this several times after I added highlights and decided that they weren't appropriate.

Khorne Lord Cloak WIP

Age of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound - Flesh Hound

"With the campaign being the driving force behind the army I've had to forgo my usual 'paint everything to as good a standard as I can' mentality and focus on getting base coats and shading on each model."

That was my comment last week. Didn't last long did it. I actually have an excuse though, and it is one that makes a lot of sense. So in this one instance, I don't feel too bad at breaking my own rule. Besides I actually have the bulk of the starter set painted to that basic standard, so at least I am not holding myself up too much.

So that excuse. Well the Lord model has his pet hound and if I stuck them both to the base straight away I'd never get a good paint job done on either of them. Plus your Army General does deserve a really nice paint job right off the bat.

I started off with the Flesh Hound, following the Painting Guide (with some minor variations in colour placement, primarily keeping the snout red). Keeping to the Painting Guide actually does speed this process along, with the simple base, shade and two/three highlight approach helping to keep things motoring at a nice pace.

It's also a fantastic way of practising painting fine lines.

Flesh Hound Angle #1

Flesh Hound Angle #2

Flesh Hound Angle #3

I am tempted to add a final highlight to the black to make it stand out like the red but otherwise this will be the hound done. I have already started on the Lord model and will hopefully have him finished in time for next weeks update. If not, well I have plenty of base coated models to show off...

Age of Sigmar - Khorne Bloodbound #1

I wasn't looking to start a fantasy army honestly, but the release of AoS has meant that, Maelstroms badgering aside, I would be able to get a game in locally, with a friend of mine wanting to start a narrative driven campaign. So I caved like the weak willed weakling that I am. In fairness it didn't take much persuading, as I have always had a soft spot for Khorne, so the Bloodbound were the perfect release to entice me in.

Playing the game itself proved to be a fun experience, primarily because we both focused on the narrative rather than anything else (charging a shield wall with Reavers, Blood Warriors charging their general). Taking the aim to win out of the game makes for an entertaining time for me.

With the campaign being the driving force behind the army I've had to forgo my usual 'paint everything to as good a standard as I can' mentality and focus on getting base coats and shading on each model. The agreement being that we both play only with a painted force (our first game aside). 

I've also gone with the stock colour scheme and copied the colours used in the Painting Guide. This keeps things simple as I don't have to worry about figuring a scheme out or suddenly finding I need to change it halfway through painting the force.

At this point I am well on my way to getting the whole army painted to a good solid (but basic,) standard. I have however realised that with some of the models (the Bloodsecrator and the Mighty Lord) I need to paint parts of them completely, as they'd be a right bugger to reach once assembled. I've started work on both and should have an update coming next week with both of them.

For now here are a few shots of the basic troops so far.

Blood Warriors

Reavers