Reinforcements for the Maynarkh!

Wait, what are we looking for again? I don’t see it.

These two clowns are always picking fights with Captain Angholan so the Kingbreakers abducted them recently to get them into some proper paint. As expected they were super quick to do up:

• Prime: Army Painter spray white
• Staff: Brass Scorpion base, Mithril Silver drybrush, Nuln Oil wash
• Cloak: Mechrite Red base, Blood Red drybrush, Nuln Oil wash along the bottom edge & deepest crevices, Baal Red wash
• Body: Leadbelcher base, Mithril Silver drybrush, Nuln Oil wash
• Base: Skavenblight Dinge, Codex Gray drybrush, Nuln Oil wash
• Base Rim: Abaddon Black

Unfortunately some of the drybrushing and pick-outs, like on the cloaks, eyes, and supposed-to-be gold chest symbols, got lost a bit somewhere between the washes and matte sealing. I’m still happy with them though, particularly given how fast they were to do. Again I went with the dirty, grubby look to match my style, fast painting, and how I see the Maynarkh as clawing their way out of crumbling, broken tombs. The burgundy/metal scheme matches the first batch of Night Scythes.

And 3, 2, 1, twirl!

The bases actually took the most colors and steps, because of the badges. At first I put on a Dark Angels badge to be all “Haha, Jason’s guys are dead!” but then added a Templar badge to the other one so Lovell had an easy reference point to give opponents: “Yes, the Dark Angels killer has this rule I penciled in that grants his whole unit 2x range, while the Templar one has this other pencil-rule that lets them jump into Night Scythes with The Relic.”

That’s a ton of paints for an effectively 3-color model…

Unfortunately the base terrain doesn’t match the nice desert orange gravel Lovell has on his other infantry. But I wasn’t going to be easily able to really match that anyway, short of figuring out what terrain kit it was from or getting some from him (and these were kind of a spur of the moment thing, I wanted to get them back ASAP as he uses them all the time). I also thought that brighter basing goes well with his infantry and their black shoulders and cleaner look, but would clash with the burgundy and heavy washing here.

Plus, these guys were on slotta-bases, so I was either going to have to greenstuff the bases quite a bit, working around the feet and under the cloaks, or build up some rubble. I went with the rubble mostly because it was faster and easier, but partly to reference the Necron abilities to destroy vehicles and buildings. Originally the rubble was going to be colored to match the badges as if it was paneling and debris from Space Marine vehicles, but again I decided big blocks of other colors would detract from the nice simple contrast of the burgundy/metal scheme.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.