Thursday 15 November 2018

Shadows of Commorragh - part 11

At present, Commorragh is an almost-infinite nest of architectural impossibilities and spatial anomalies. Each of its estates has been overdeveloped to the point that their growth has been forced into the vertical plane, the various regions sprouting upwards like needle-plants fighting for sunlight. Each of the Dark City's spires and starscrapers is linked to its fellows by curved arches and gossamer-like buttresses. Its miles-tall aeries and palaces both reach upwards and downwards simultaneously, spiralling into the depths of the Webway's curved space-time. With every Terran year that passes, the hideous city seeks to spread out over more of the dimension that serves as its foundation.
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The Low Commorragh scenery for Shadows Of Commorragh is starting to take shape. I have a plan for 2 Kill Team boards with Drukhari / Aeldari oval platforms over ancient stone ruins. These ones are made from Ruins of Osgiliath (Lord of the Rings scenery), pillars from the (OoP) Temple of Skulls, Eldritch Ruins, Raider bits, a couple of old movement trays, plus a load of odds and ends from my Drukhari bits box.

I also finished the 6 objective markers (made from Raider prows). Each one is "numbered" with 1 to 6 skulls. Most of the skulls are human but there is an Ork skull and an Ur-Ghoul skull in there too.

  • Chaos Black spray undercoat. Then a grey zenithal basecoat, making sure to get most of the base.
  • Paint the whole piece of scenery with Incubi Darkness. (Leave some areas like this for deep shadows!)
  • Drybrush the whole piece with Kabalite Green.
  • A very light drybrush of Sybarite Green on areas you wish to stand out a little more.
  • Give the whole piece a final very light drybrush of a Sybarite Green and White mix, with a focus on the right side of each facing, so light appears to come from the right, no matter which way round you look at the scenery.









And I received the 12 Webway Gates that a friend 3d-Printed for me! I've attached them to 60mm oval bases and I will start painting them soon.

Edit (19th November 2018):

I finished another piece of Low Commorragh scenery (I based and repainted the small backdrop piece).

And added some Drukhari graffiti to all of them.



Edit: 30th November 2018

Got me some WHQ Blackstone Fortress Ur-Ghuls in the post earlier this week (and I've already done a chop-and-swap with an arm on two of them, so they all look a bit different).


4 comments:

  1. Really starting to come together nicely now. Directional drybrushing like you're doing with that final layer is a really handy trick. I use it all the time.

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    1. Thanks mate. It's just starting to get to the stage where it looks the same in real life as it did when it was just in my head!

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    2. Just ran across this: https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2018/11/16/hobby-showcase-ynnari-supreme-command/

      Specifically for the staircase his Counts As Yvraine is on, made from a Wraithknight Scattershield. Seemed like a really cool idea to me.

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    3. Ooooh, that's really nice. I will see If I can get hold of a few Scattershields!

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