Blog Huanata'Kor remembers

Hi All,

I've collected and painted for a good few years now, however I've never done a painting blog before and being as I'm starting up a new Lizardmen army once again, I thought this would be the right time to produce my first painting log.

All in all I wasn't best pleased when Warhammer Fantasy was scrapped and AoS came into existence and I've been focussing on 40k ever since then, however the draw to "fantasy" is still too strong and I've decided along with a few of my mates to build and paint a Sigmar army.

Lizardmen have always been one of my favourite armies ever since I got the old Lizardmen/Bretonnian Warhammer fantasy set back in the day so naturally I chose Lizardmen (I know they're Seraphon now, but still Lizardmen to me).

I have an old edition Lizardmen army book which tells you the translation of various Lizardmen words and so decided on Huanata'Kor for my Slann's name which consists of the words Majestic Moon and Prophecy in the Lizardmen dialect.

I'm not really a major fan of the fluff either that only the Slann are alive and that all other Seraphon are "remembered" into existence and so therefore for my own personal fluff, I believe that Huanata'Kor and his loyal bodyguard of Saurus Guard and his favoured Eternity Warden, travel the different realms in response to lost signals that they pick up of other surviving Lizardmen. This seems feasible to me and also allows me to experiment with my colour pallet for different units to emphasise the different spawnings of old.

Anyway without me waffling on any longer I've got some WIP's shots of my Slann and the finished model, pretty pleased with him and really enjoyed painting the model, next up will be a converted skink priest and some Saurus guard to form Huanata'kor's loyal followers.


Hope you all like and any comments and criticism are welcome. Hopefully the next post wont be as long

Thanks

 

Nicely Done, I love all the extra attention to the basing.
Oh and Welcome to Lustria.

 

Welcome aboard, look forward to seeing more.

 

Looking good!

 

Well done! Agreed that base looks good, and the colors you made really look fantastic. I like the double-colors on the skink (and the slann)

 

Thank you all for your comments and welcoming me to Lustria, greatly appreciated.

@n810 I like to try and bring extra attention to the bases, especially of my characters as I just feel it makes the miniatures "come to life" more, I do however try and look for easy ways to base so it doesn't take up too much of my time lol and this is the tried and tested dried herbs technique with a few left over wood elf treeman parts added to the mix.

@Warden this whole army is hopefully going to be an experiment in glazing, hence the double colours. Almost all of the Slann and skink were painted by successive layers of glazes which I am quite pleased with the final effect, in fact with the skinks colouring I think I may actually do a unit of skinks in these colours.

Hoping to get one of my skink priests posted later today and have started work on a unit of saurus guard.

 

Thats a beautify done piece, love the base work and you say that was all glazing wow.

Also im wth you in the fluff but i did here once the slann remember the lizards into existence. They done poof after battle, they stay alive.

So apparently there are now "new" seraphon building temple citys once again.

 

@Bracnos other than the basecoat which was rakarth flesh for both the slann and the skink, and a slight wash of seraphim sepia to begin with, the skin colours were all built up using lots of layers of glazes. The palanquin and details of the mini were painted normally however.

This makes me happy and I'd defo run with this, I kind of feel as though the Slann are starting again being as their original "quest" in the old word failed due to the end times and now they have come back even more focussed to rid the world of Chaos and essentially begin the "re-birth" of the thriving Lustria of old

 

Ok so here is my converted skink priest from an old skink handler model, I have named him Chuq'zec which again roughly translates as magic thief and his staff "ack ack" (95% done, just needs his base finishing off)

Bit of fluff that I've made up for this guy in regards to his staff, is that once in the old age while battling the undead, Chuq'zec witness hexwraiths materialize from thin air and immediately deemed them to be extensively magical beings and therefore being the little magic thief that he is decided he needed to obtain this power. He ordered a nearby unit of saurus guard to attack one of the cornered hexwraiths and in uttering an ancient incantation he managed to remove the ethereal aspect of the hexwraith which promptly resulted in it being decapitated.
He then attached the decapitated head to the top of his staff, however the staffs head still believes its "alive" and mutters odd words, the only one of which Chuq'zec has made out is "ack ack" so he has therefore given this name to his staff


Also WIP pic of one of the saurus guard, working on the skin tone again with glazes


hopefully will have the 5 man unit done by the end of the week. Thanks all

 

Amazing! Great job!

 

Thanks all

@Crowsfoot Do you mean do I enjoy the technique? I built the tones on the skin using glazes, they were built up using a variation of greens and yellows over rakarth flesh basecoat. I think that the variation in tone each layer gives creates that more "natural look" to the minis.

@Aginor I guess I'm just a bit of a chancer then, however I tend to find that even if a colour crops up that you don't like, you can usually glaze it back out again if that makes sense.

 

Love the skink with the skull staff, and I am liking the green color direction you are going with that Temple Guard, he is looking great!