Warhammer underwolds Shadespire - Garrek's Reavers

It took me a while after Steelheart's champions but I finally managed to paint the second half of my box of Shadespire !

To be honest, this is the first time I paint all the models from a single box so that's quite an achievement ticked !

Just like for the Stormcast, painting the Reavers proved to be quite more challenging than expected due to my muscle memory being entirely focused on painting old lead.

For those guys, since the flesh was a big part of the look I opted for a more "painterly" way of doing things, not trying to achieve any perfect blending but trying to get some variations in the tone with some cold and warm tones to make it more interesting, following the path of greater men from before :

Now you might have noticed I converted some of the reavers slightly as I simply didn't want my khornates to look like Hipsters :

So with a pair of mohawks kindly donated by unwilling Necromunda Goliaths, I could start painting the Reavers.

Now I knew I didn't want to go full red and brass on those so I discarded the latter right away and kept the former to the bare minimum because I like painting red and it will be just the right counterpoint to my Stormcast's blue.

Garrek Gorebeard

As always, I've used a lot of greys to keep the tones down and make the reds flash and stand.

The armour parts were treated in weathered black because there were simply too many elements echoing the berzerker armour from the manga Berzerk (a must read if there ever was one really). The influence on Garrek's and Saek's parts is obvious.

See ?

Blooded Saek

 Another thing about those models is that they are waaaaay more fragile than what I'm usd to and it's no surprise I managed to break one of Karsus' fingers (won't tell which)...

Karsus the chained

I haven't really thought about deck building for now since I wanted to get both teams painted before anything else but I might consider looking at what I have and what can be done, can't harm can it ? ^^

Arnulf

Like for the Stormcast, a huge appeal of this band comes from the fact that it's a small and easy project, 5 models a side without any risk of it turning into something bigger definitely was the trigger for me along the couple of games I played.

Targor

Now this is the real reward, all the content of the box done and good to play ! I will very probably treat myself with one or 2 of the new bands, either the Skaven or the undead for the miniature although I suspect the dwarves would probably be more adapted to the way I play (without subtelty).

In the shade spireness of a far... oh wait...