Forgesworn Eternals - Painted Models Part 1

Even after finishing my Dark Eldar project, I find myself still very much in a painting mood. So I started batch painting all my Forgesworn Eternals models. These of course are in preparation of the Las Vegas Open I will be attending. Stormcast Eternal models are ridiculously easy to paint, so these are getting done really quickly.

Here are my 10 Liberators. These can be run as 2 separate groups of 5, or one group of 10. I will likely do the earlier in my tournament list as it easily fills out the 2 of 3 battleline requirements. The Liberator-Primes are the ones with great weapons. All others just have hammers and shields.

Forgesworn Eternals - Liberators and Retributors (WIP)

I finishes up more of my Forgesworn Eternals stormhost. This time I have the Retributors and the rest of the Liberators built. These are all minis from the box set and not the new kits, but I wanted the options from the new kits, so this is where some creative conversion work went in.

For the Retributors, I bought an extra set of 3 from the box set online so I could come out to 5, this way I could get an awesome Starsoul Mace. But since I didn't have the proper Starsoul Mace bit, I built my own dwarfy version.

I really like the way these guys turned out. While most of my minis I try to fit on smaller bases, these guys are just barely too big for 32mm, so I had to stick with their 40mm. Retributors also have those reliquaries on their backs, so I found I had several of these banner bits available from previous dwarf kits that look fitting enough, even the wings come out and accent the Retributor's heads.

This shot just shows them individually and their posing. I wanted different poses because only 3 minis repeated gets old. The one on the far left is a unique pose, then of course there's my counts-as starsoul mace on the 2nd from the right. What's really cool about these guys is because they are so big, the metal beards on their heads fit inside the armour instead of outside like on my liberators.

I wanted a majority of my liberators to stick with the hammer and shields because I like that build. But again 1 in every 5 can carry a grandhammer. In this case I used parts from the extra retributor I had and extra liberator to help fill this in. So above is a full squad of 10 (including the one I built and painted previously) with 2 grandhammers. Again they are on 32mm bases, and I had to do some cutting and reposing to get some variety with them. The liberator prime in the front I am pretty proud of. I knew I wanted him to hold his hammer high, but what to do with the other arm was a conundrum. There were not any spare hands or hands not holding anything in the box set, so I dug through my bits and found the perfect part. A Grey Knight Paladin left hand holding a severed daemon head. It just fits.

These guys plus my Lord-celestant will be the majority of my Forgesworn Eternals that fight alongside my Duardin, but I may not get around to painting them for a while. In October I have to prepare my Tau for a tournament, and on top of that our family is moving to another city, so that will be cutting into hobby time.

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Forgesworn Eternals - Liberator test painted

Here he is all painted up. This is the Liberator test model for my Forgesworn Eternals. I'm pretty pleased with the paint scheme and how this turned out.

I hope the shield design turned out well enough, it's supposed to be the Ghal Maraz in front of a silver mountain range. And the ribbon is supposed to say 'GRUNGNI' and 'SIGMAR' in the traditional ancient dwarf script of the old world, klinkarhun.

As you can see the shoulder's symbol is the 'L' in klinkarhun, for Liberator.

Now that this sets the theme of my army, here is a sneak peak of what I am working on next:

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Forgesworn Eternals - Liberator test model

I have a few of the Stormcast Eternal models from the Age of Sigmar box set. I have a theme in mind for my own Stormhost.

In our Konomancer setting, there exists a human nation that have sworn their allegiance to the Dwarf kingdoms. This was because of some favor performed so long ago. This nation was known as the Forgesworn.

I plan to recreate them in some way for my Age of Sigmar army. So I thought of a stormhost made specifically by Grungni himself. Made with the sole purpose of protecting and reclaiming the duarden holds and lands. They are the:

Forgesworn Eternals

This is the free model that came with White Dwarf 75. The conversions are simple. Mainly I put him on a 32mm base instead of the 40mm he comes with. In a game where bases don't matter, you don't want them getting in the way. The head is from the Irondrakes kit. I scraped off the lightning bolts that emanate from the hammer on the shield. I have painting plans there. Also the runes on the ribbons are filled in with liquid greenstuff so I can draw dwarf runes over top of them, to show they were endowed by Grungni himself.

I will get more lore written out for these guys as I get more of the models done. Just wait until you see what plans I have for the Lord-Celestant.

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