A hunt of the perfect tabletop miniature

Some time ago, right before Age of Sigmar was officially announced, I painted a few skaven models. AoS was rumoured to be a new warhammer fantasy skirmish game, played on round bases, with few models on the table. They had me at round bases. I quickly painted 10 test clanrats, but they were  poorly designed in both colour choices and painting technique, and I abandoned them soon after.

These guys are just boring to look at

I have never really given up on trying to find the perfect colour scheme for skaven, but unlike what the rumours said, the game actually requires quite a few models (for most armies). This is bad news for the people, who want to paint a skaven to a certain standard.

A few days ago, while looking around the internet, I found this beautiful fella' over at https://reaktorminiatures.files.wordpress.com. I instantly fell in love with the colour scheme, and I knew at once, that I had to steal it.

For me, there are only two important rules in painting a good tabletop miniature.
1. It has to pop on the table. This mostly comes down to bright, clear colours and heavy contrast.
2. You have to be able to paint an army in the chosen colour scheme. This seems obvious, but most gamers I know, have abandoned a project after painting the first 1-2 units, when realizing how daunting a task it would be to paint a whole army that way.

The above model does this to an A+. I think it is beautiful in every way, and most colours are only 3-4 layers. Simple and elegant, and I want an army like that. I don't know if I can actually do it, but after painting my copy model (with a few personal tweaks), I feel pretty confident.

The green warpstone could probably have been pushed a bit more, but all in all I'm really happy with the result. Unlike most other armies I have ever painted, this model just owns the table. I want to look at it all the time, and I want to paint more... In fact, I'm just going to do that right now.


/Andreas 2.0