Alakhai the Cunning

Alakhai is well over seven feet in height. His armor is forged of petrified human souls, it's surface etched with runes telling of the atrocities he commited to acquire such protection. 

His piercing eyes cast a fiery glow across his thin lips and sharp teeth, which are always visible through his maniacal smile. 

Always accompanying Alakhai onto battlefield is the Meat Wolfer, his huge battle sword...

Well that shit freaks me out! 😱
And those tiny guys on the pic below most probably have already fouled their panzer pants after they noticed it's Meat Wolfer's feeding time... 🥶

Anyway I've finally done it - after all those years my Dark Legion got worthy commander!

This model is kinda special (most of Warzone models I have are kinda special): 

official Paul Bonner's artwork was one of my very first Warzone pictures I spotted back and on that very moment I just knew that was it. That second I was sold to the Dark Soul...

No matter how cool the artwork is, model is just... Well - oldschool Warzone style: maybe cool but also kinda goofy. Color choice was based on "official" paintjob I spotted in Mutant Chronicles zine. The plan was to add more red elements (like armor edges) but dropped it - I am more then sure such thing would look just flat. Red cloak is test piece: I want to add unit of acolytes wearing red robes. They should look striking especially on grass green battlefield. The final result is ok, but next time I'll use violet instead of dark brown the shading.

Like most models I have this one is second hand. I got it slightly damaged - the rim on right back shoulder pad. The top of the horn was also broken so I cut it off and replaced with greenstuff prosthesis. I made it bigger then original horn: it makes Alakhai even more badass and besides we all know what do girls say about nepharites with big horrrrrrns...

I'd love to ask the sculptor about the gem on left knee. No idea what was the idea behind it but my guess is round piece of greenstuff was left there by chance. Accident at work. On the other hand - old Warzone sculpts were specific and gem on knee ain't most weird thing...

And since this one is painted it's time to modify army composition for the coming game...

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... ^^