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Painting Fyreslayers - Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire

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This is my second set of models that I've manage to finish and i must say that I really enjoyed painting these guys! First of all, the models look amazing and there are almost no tricky spots to paint. Secondly, the size of the warband   is just perfect. With my previous project I often had the feeling of being overwhelmed, this did not happen with these four lads. Sure.. the closer you get to the finish line the more eager you become to just wrap it up and continue with your life, no matter the size of the project. I for example got a bit lazy with the bases on these models, and I did not paint eyes as they were very small and after a several tries I decided to skip it. But besides that, the small size of the warband allowed me to always have a clear sight on the end goal and I didn't have to paint for too long sessions to achieve progression. For the paint scheme I pretty much went with what they list in the tutorial on warhammer Tv, but with a few exceptions. I wanted a

Beastclaw Raiders

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I've always wanted to dipp my toes into the hobby of painting miniatures, and once upon a time I actually had a go at it. I think I was like 13-14 years old when I bought some Skinks from the Lizardmen army and I totally drowned them in paint. Me being young and not much money over for this kind of hobbies I only bought two paints and yeah... the results was just not really presentable... at all. So now, 12-13 years later I wanted to do another attempt at painting up some sick looking minis. Did I succeed? Well.. mistakes was made here for sure. My first and biggest mistake was my choice of miniatures. After browsing around on the games workshops page for hours and hours I decided to go with the Start Collecting Bestclaw Raiders pack. The looks of these miniatures is just awesome. Lots of details and the winter theme was very appealing to me. But they are big and since the goal was sick looking minis - painting was slow. This ended up with me painting for three months