While I was painting the other Shadespire-era Stormcast, I did their other blue friends. Plus, this one has an eagle!
Now I have a melee, ranged, and spellcasting set of Stormcast Eternals.
Underworlds: The Farstriders
Underworlds: Steelheart’s Champions
After a Beastgrave interlude, let’s go back and fill in some Shadespire warbands.
Steelheart’s Champions were one of the warbands included in the original Shadespire box. I joined the part too late for that, but it’s still readily available as a standalone warband box.
I painted them very much to match the Nightvault starter warband, Stormsire’s Cursebreakers.
I have to admit this big chunky armor is starting to grow on me a little.
Underworlds: Morgwaeth’s Blade Coven
Morgwaeth’s Blade Coven is the other of the new(ish) warbands. In proper Games Workshop style, they feature giant hair.
Much like the studio paint, I used hair color to help Morgwaeth stand out as leader. She gets blue, while everybody else gets pink.
Only slightly more impractical than the giant hair are the giant headpieces.
One downside to the Blade-Coven is how much volume the models take. Good luck fitting it in standard infantry foam.
I didn’t have to transition between snake and woman on Kyrae. Her armor hides all that.
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Underworlds: Morgok’s Krushas
As the first new releases since I started playing Underworlds, I was excited to pick up and paint these guys.
I’ve always liked the orks, but have never really gotten into them in my time in the main GW games, probably because the idea of a horde army has always turned me off (or at least my wallet and paint queue).
As a small model count skirmish game, though, Underworlds has no such problem. At only three models, this is tied for the smallest warband in Underworlds.
They’re big and brutal. And maybe cunning?
