Silver Tower: Family pictures

After having completed the set, I thought I would share some family pictures.

It is not so easy to capture so many figures, so some of them are blurry, but at least you can see the group effect.

The "good" guys

The bad guys

Silver Tower: Gaunt Summoner

I am extremely happy to share this post today because it marks the finishing of yet another box, after completing Space Hulk previously now I am done with Silver Tower!

I was already quite tired of painting this box when I started to tackle the Gaunt Summoner, as a result I think the paint-job suffered. I decided to try my luck with different shades of blue in the armour and tunic but I am not so sure I managed to get them to look different.

All the other elements are painted using colours I have previously used for other Tzeentch daemons, so that I can give them a bit of cohesion, even if they are still chaotic.

My favourite part is the yellow eye looking from the top of the staff, but I can't really say it is a very good job. It took me roughly 2-3 hours in total which is still quite fast even though way above my 1h limit.

In any case, this marks a significant milestone for the year! I am now done painting all the miniatures I said I would. Therefore, it is time to start opening boxes and catching up with the lead mountain.

Next thing on the list is painting a few more skavens as I shared previously so I can play T9A with 4,500 points.

I am hoping to do them before Autumn starts, let's see how it goes!

Painted in 2019.

Silver Tower: Ogroid Traumaturge

It has been only a couple of weeks without posting but somehow it feels like more.

I just had two figures left but unfortunately I did not manage to paint them before the end of June, let's target July instead!

Here is the first one, the Traumaturge, the one single miniature from the box that captured my eye from the first day.

I have had lots of problems with these two last figures, I am by now a bit tired of painting Silver Tower and I keep finding excuses not to paint them... in the end, the quality of the paint job suffered.

It has taken much more time than the approximately 1 hour I have dedicated to almost every other figure. I think this one took something between 3 and 4 hours, and I kept having doubts about what colours to use and how to paint certain things. I am not really happy with it, but I can put him now in the "done" box.

The pictures are just too bright and the highlighting on the skin cannot be appreciated, because of the weird pose he has, it was very difficult to snap a good picture.

Now, onto the last one!

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Darkoeth Chieftan

For today's post I am finally sharing the last hero of the box, the Barbarian. Well, it is officially called Darkoeth Chieftain, but we all know it is in fact a different take on the original Barbarian :)

I painted it following the same techniques as with the rest, simple and with the goal of finishing it in less than 1 hour if possible. The only thing new I tried was painting the skin without washes, just applying shadows as opposed to my usual way of doing it, which is washes and highlights. I am quite happy with it and I think I will be doing more like this one.

With this one done, the whole box is almost gone. Just two left!

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Excelsior War priest & Gryph Hound

I am showing today a very interesting hero for Silver Tower, the War priest.

I decided to paint it following the same skin colour as in the box art, and because I seldom paint black skin. They were both painted in approximately 1 hour following the fast techniques I have been using lately.

With these two done, just the Barbarian is missing from the heroes!

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Mistweaver Saith

This is a female elf model representing some kind of Witch. The figure is quite unique with the mist surrounding and making her float. I was really not sure how to tackle it, but in the end I decided to apply different shades of green for the clothes as if she was some kind of Wood Elf and greys for the mist.

The hair was painted in a similar way as with the Fireslayer, with washes and a bit of yellow and orange on top.

Painted in 2019.

Silver Tower: Tenebrand Shard

This is the first of the two elves on the Silver Tower set.

I am not sure how they are called in Age of Sigmar, but it certainly looks like a male Witch Elf, so I painted him like that. Very pale skin, dark leather for the clothes and metal for the weapons. The skin was done with different washes and a bit of pale grey on top, I am satisfied with the tone although it is not a very good job, it is quite fast.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Knight Questor

The second hero I have painted is the Knight Questor and my ever first Sigmarine model. I wanted to paint one since they were released but so far did not have any.

It has been a very easy and fast paintjob, bronze and metal in most of the figure, then blue on the few areas without it, washes and a thin highlight. Less than 1 hour in total.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Fyreslayer Doomseeker

This is the first hero for Silver Tower!

I have always liked Dwarfs and this figure is not an exception to that rule. I base coated it with white and painted 80% of it just with flesh wash. Then a few thin layers of orange and yellow for the hair and gold and metal for the weapons and that was basically it. He was painted in about 30 minutes, drying time aside.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Tzaangors

Here are the last troops I needed to paint to finalize all the non-heroes of the Silver Tower box, the Tzaangors!

Very interesting models and quite detailed. I decided to use all the previous colours I had on the other Tzeentch models, blue, pink and violet. The weapons are metallic as these troops are not daemonic.

They are also fast-painted as the rest of the box, but I believe the end result is good enough to be considered battle-top ready.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Kairic Acolytes (II)

Here are the two remaining Acolytes. I have painted them using the same techniques but have added a few extra layers on wash on some parts, although I did not really accomplish the effect I was trying to get.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Kairic Acolytes (I)

For these pseudo-human figures I decided to try out something new. I sprayed them white and applied directly flesh wash on top of the skin areas, after that I brought up the colour with a thin layer of dwarf flesh. The end result was good enough and quite fast to make, so I will be repeating it with similar models.

Most of the other colours are applied in a similar manner, base colour, wash and that's it. The end result is good enough for using them in the game.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Familiars

The smallest miniatures of the whole set, the familiars are very interesting and weird figures to paint. From the walking fish to the bird sage, they are all unique!

Quite fast to paint as well, painted in 2019.

Silver Tower: Brimstone Horrors

After the Pink and Blue Horrors, I painted their little brothers.

These were extremely fast to paint, just three colours on top of white spray.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Blue Horrors

After the Pink Horrors, the Blue ones come!

Following the same idea as with the Pink ones, these sculpts are pretty good I must say. I have always played Khorne but I get the feeling that I would love to have a small band of Tzeentch warriors.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Pink Horrors

These are two of my favourite miniatures of the whole set, the Pink Horrors.

They look fairly simple, but in fact it took me more time than expected to paint them.

As they are daemonic creatures, I have not used any metallic paints for the weapons, that is a simple yet effective way of making them stand out compared to the mortals.

Painted in 2019

Silver Tower: Grot Scuttlings of Tzeentch

For today I bring the Grots.

I have chosen a very simple technique to paint them, keeping the skin green but mixed with plenty of yellow and the coat is just grey with a wash on top. Fast an effective.

Painted in 2019