Metropolitan prophet

I said it before and I can say it again: for me winter is best period to paint oldie Warzone stuff. No idea why but that's the fact, and another proof after Cartel agents death squad is Semai's favorite saboteur: metropolitan prophet.

This model is based on one of Paul Bonner's amazing mutant chronicles artworks (you see if on the bottom of the post). It's gaming rules were posted in the third supplement (Casaulties of war) so it's part of "new wave" of miniatures. New wave of Warzone 1st ed. stuff that is. Sculpt is just damn cool and much better quality of most of early miniatures. I had lots of fun painting this beautie but now I think it's time to work on some WW2 stuff for a change, to get proper perspective from all that candy stuff.

So here it is - dominating my painting station:

And here about to be arrested by NBC suit squad:

And the original artwork - amazing, ain't it? 

Nepharite of Semai

Looks like I am still waiting for the annual Warzone game so in order not to get too rusty I picked another artifact from the pile of lead to rescue. This time it's nepharite of Semai.

That one for sure brought me back... ⏲

I remember when I got hooked into Warzone, Semai fluff and artworks were just damn impressive to me: heretics, "5th column" thing, Lord of Lies, and not even mentioning amazing Studio Parente's and Paul Bonner's artwork... 🤤

Too bad I've never ever played with Semai based force. There were sure guest appearances of Callisionian Intruder (because of his stealth and never-miss abilities) but all in all Semai army were just piss poor, not even mentioning freakin' ugly heretic legionnaires models.

As for model below I got it long after we dropped a regular Warzone gaming. If I remember correctly either on Ebay or on Warzone/Chronopia trading group someone was getting rid of Warzone lot, which I've got because of pure nostalgy for the old times. 

The models I got in blisters are still unopened waiting for some care, attention and drop of paint.

And nepharite of Semai would still remain hibernated in original packing for Algeroth knows how long, but Warzone painting contest woke him up from eternal slumber...

Although I've never seen it in action I wanted to paint that model for a long time. Sculpt is based on Parente's aftwork - which is just a badass!

See? Told ya!

I wanted to give my model a similar sinister look but I'm afraid flesh turned out a bit too much smurfy. Looking at the picture of the painted mini I think additional layer or two of dark blue or blue/black wouldn't hurt. Although now it's a natural leader of praetorian stalkers pack.
As for the rest I am pretty satisfied - I like the strong contrast between dark flesh / gear and bright bone and blade. It should look even more eye-catching given the fact we're going to play Warzone on a desert battlefield. Hope you like it and beware of LIES! LIES! LIES! 💀

And here's the unboxing. Hopefully my very first and very last: watching someone is opening box of stuff is just fuc#ing stupid...

1. Boxed...

2. Unboxed! Ta-daaa...!!! 🙄

Take care, stay evil and keep lying! 🤘

Heretic legionnaires

Since I am STILL WAITING for some heavy support for my Bolt Action Hungarians, decision was made to take one more trip back into origins of my hobby: mid 90's. Like 2 weeks ago I gave a try to new way of washing paint off the miniatures and these guys below were test subjects. Heretic legionnaires are Semai's cannon fodder - trusty grunts of Lord of Lies... 

Nice story, but sadly only 2 poses were released, of which one (with rifle) is just stupid... 😒 Despite their age I still consider the one with knife & gun cool - even for modern standards.

But there's special place in my heart for old Warzone stuff so each model from this range deserves to be painted. Besides we're about to have annual classic Warzone battle and I need some more cannon fodder - every heretic counts for war effort and Greater Evil!

As for painting I've never liked plain uniforms so tried painting some simple camo using mostly "blu tack" and airbrush. It's not exactly what I expected but still looking decent especially on gaming models. One of models lost it's knife, so it got assault gun from 40k - more DAKKA! for the team.

Hope to dig out something much more decent for the next painting... ^^