Gorram's 2026 Log

I haven’t been posting here much over the last couple of months but let’s dip a toe back in shall we?

I know it is terribly frowned upon to praise GW for anything but I really like their miniatures. I paint from a lot of different companies and across genres and scales but I still come back to Warhammer in some form regularly. For the next two-ish years, it’ll be regularly once a month. I decided after a bunch of humming and hawing over it to subscribe to the new Age of Sigmar partworks magazine, Spearhead. But only for as long as I can keep up with painting it. Models come in, models must be painted.

Due to timings, I ended up with the first six issues coming pretty much all at once so my first month’s worth of models consists of eight Stormcast Eternals and five Skaven.

My Stormcast are going to be Lightning Hawks. I’d love to tell you that I picked them because the lore sung to me but I just liked the colours. I nearly went for the Hammers of Sigmar (the standard ones you see all the time) because I’ve really enjoyed the Blacktalon animated series and quite fancy picking the character up at some point but I find the gold too garish for my tastes. Lightning Hawks it is then.

1. Prime black
2. Drybrush with Army Painter Gun Metal
3. Lighter drybrush of Citadel Stormhost Silver
4. Wash of AK Interactive dark grey wash
5. Several thin layers of Citadel Incubi Darkness on shields, shoulder pads and scabbards
6. Citadel Vallejo Cavalry Red for the weapon hafts and some of the material on the character models.
7. Citadel Retributor Gold on all the trim details
8. Wash previous two steps with Citadel Reikland Fleshshade
9. Bases are AK Interactive Wet Mud texture paste, washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade, dry brushed with Citadel XV88 and then Summer tufts from Tajima1

All told this was about three evenings work and I’m very happy with the final results. It should also be easy enough to replicate as the rest of the Spearhead turns up.