Showing posts with label nepharite of Semai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nepharite of Semai. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2023

Dark Soul

Those familiar with dramaric history of Warzone universe, especially stage of early corporate wars know how the hell broke loose: proud scientists, allmighty A.I., unhealthy curiosity...

We all know Imperial Conquistadors reached Nero and found strange tablet, which disturbed Dark Soul. But nobody knew after Imperial expedition two other explorers reached Nero.

Until now... 

That's right: two daredevil worshippers of lead and dice staked everything on one card but the risk was worth it. They sacrificed their lives to hobby but thank to this we can finally take a look at face of the very Dark Soul! Behold the Great Devourer, Prince ov Hell or maybe even Azathoth himself! 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻




We know this mystic statue was built by ancient civilisation worshipping forces of Chaos but not much more. Close examination and analysis performed by the best Cybertronic's scientists shows the statue was made of rubber toy filled with plaster, covered by pva glue + sand and then painted with acrylics. But of course these are just rumors - data are classified.

The rumor also says the statue was supposed to be used for the coming Warzone game (Dark Legion vs Cybertronic), and there was supposed to be battle report but SOMEONE decided to sell fully painted army about 2 weeks before the battle and swapping Cybertronic to Mishima... 🙄
Oh well - Dark Soul has been waiting ages to be woken up so I guess it can wait a little bit longer to send Dark Legion against space samurai army.

And in the meantime - some postcards from holiday on Nero:



And some more scale shots - from my painting desk, not Nero...



And the big picture:


See ya in the space! 🤖


Monday, October 25, 2021

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! 🤘