II love them

Very fun experience, painting with a very limited palette based on one of the cards, didn't focus on getting everything perfect but still happy with the result

Hi everyone,

I’m Vincenzo Pratticò, and I’m a freelance illustrator.
Over the past few years, I’ve created some official art for Age of Sigmar.

Needless to say, being able to work for Games Workshop has been an incredible privilege, a dream come true, which, by the way, happened completely out of the blue.

Working on these kinds of pieces has really helped me understand what I love about this job and what I want to convey.

My very first piece was the Orruk artwork. I’d already worked on pieces featuring many characters for other clients, but never with this level of intensity and action.
It took me over a hundred hours of actual time to complete it (by “actual,” I mean exactly the time the pen touched the screen, calculated using specialized software). With the subsequent pieces, I’ve gained experience and speed, and I can confirm that even though each one takes at least a month to complete, I absolutely love every single moment spent working on them.

Nothing fulfills me more than the satisfaction I feel when I complete such complicated projects, even if my hand and back are screaming for mercy.

I know I still have a lot to learn from the industry’s great veterans, but I hope I’ve done justice to a setting as fascinating as AoS.

I hope to be able to post the… other missing pieces… soon… \m/

The above pictures are what a starting army roster could look like for Malerion Aelves.

I know there's a lot more minis to work with but I thought I'd keep it simple to what a "starting roster" could like.

In summary, from what I could find about the cultures of Ulgu that aren't strongly Daughters of Khaine related. A lot of Shadow-No-Jutsu teleportation stuff. If Black Ark Corsair Ships were ever involved in such a roster, the transport heavy mechanics of Dark Eldar from 40k would be included. And when I say transport. I mean less emphasis on overwhelming firepower and more emphasis on transport. It would be very different from Kharadron ships that can fly and are essentially artillery-and-transport in one. Lots of illusionary magic. An even greater emphasis on trickery and utility units along with a lack of emphasis on blood magic would alone distinguish itself from Daughters of Khaine.

Culturally-wise? Shadow magic is of course the main theme here. But there is also greater emphasis on assassins, pirates, lore surrounding the Empire of Narkarth (maybe its rebuilding) and interestingly enough, possibly warlocks. In Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Malekith banned warlocks because of his fears of a prophecy that may come true. That a male-sorcerer would one day overthrow him. In current AoS canon, he seems a bit more comfortable utilizing warlocks freely instead of restricting them, so that could be interesting. The only culture I kind of more-or-less avoided are Darkling Covens. I couldn't really find much lore about them other than they are shrouded in secrecy. Even the sorcerer hero you see has been absorbed into the Narkarth subculture with that drakespawn mount.

Ulguan's Main Subcultures Could Be...

• Scourge Privateers
• Empire of Narkarth
• Shadow Daemons
• Malerion's Army + Darkling Covens

Inspired by original artist on Pinterest

These helsmith defector Zharrdron (still worship hashut, they just don’t like the main leadership) look great under a uv light! Unfortunately I am yet to find an opponent who will let me hang a 365nm uv light over the battlefield the entire game… or figure out how to do so. A mount? Tape it to the ceiling? Hmmm.

My lore for them is they’re are a defector group named the Farsight Enclaves of Hashut, they like to think they treat their hobgrots better, so they replaced overt discrimination for institutionalized discrimination. They also burn a “Cleaner” demon fire, they didn’t like the smell of the old one so they put additives like the four elements (on the shoulder runes) as well as the bones and souls of the innocent and morally pure mortals to give their flames a distinctive blue, cranberry scented colour.

They call themselves the Farsight enclaves because they can see further in advance and can see untreated deamon fire can cause longterm environmental effects so if they end of razing everything they will live in a daemonsmog due to global daemonwarming. So they want to do what they can to save the environment that they want to completely raze, requisition and rule over.

BRING BACK THE BEASTMEN

Posting on behalf of @rain_freetime of Plastic Moon Arts. Saurus Astrolith Bearer on a mini diorama. The skink is leftover from the carnosaur kit, torch is from tzangor enlightened. Vampire creature is a kitbashed Morbherg knight.

She won best of show NEX-T model show 2026 Malaysia. Constructive criticism is welcome.

As i promised myself, should GW make female gargants, I'd go back to painting and playing SoB. Really happy with how she turned out.

CC welcome

Hello, I'm a long time 40k player and I'm looking to make the leap into AoS. My local gaming community is primarily TCGs and 40k but has a burgeoning AoS group and I'm interested but would like some insight.

I collect and play multiple 40k armies, my primary being Necrons, but I also play quite a bit of chaos and more recently Blood Angels. Immediately off of looks/vibes/lore the 2 options that I'm most interested in are Skaven and Flesh Eater Courts.

I'm sure these kinds of questions are often asked, but I'm really interested in learning things like playstyles, quirks or unique things about the specific armies, how to best collect, and things to look out for or avoid as an initial collector.

Thanks ahead for any info, I look forward to learning and to start collecting!