Today which was actually November 24th, we've added two new articles to the Astronomican. Warhammer: Painting Witchfate Tor, Tower of Sorcery is a step-by-step guide on how to paint your own Tower of Sorcery. Chad has included some great hobby tips throughout the article - my particular favourite being how to match your tower with the scenery you already own. Can you imagine building your very own sinister tower surrounded by dark and haunted woods? Or would you paint up a glorious, well-maintained tower that dominates fresh rolling pastures? I like the top view which I've added below. Could easily use that in a Black Templar Chapter Keep.
Warhammer: Tower of Sorcery shows you some different ways to use Witchfate Tor and Dreadstone Blight in your games. 'The Roving Tower of Lustria' scenario could be very amusing (and pretty frustrating too, I bet) as it features a moving Witchfate Tor. While this is not strictly a rule from the rulebook it is a perfect example of how you can make your battles even more spectacular by adding a scenario that you have designed yourself.
Witchfate Tor has attracted a lot of attention around the office: Dave Cundy got so excited about it that he sent me close to 100 pictures of his kit (and then we took even more). To make sure he never forgets building this monumental kit, Dave will be adding these pictures to his family photo album in the near future. For now though, I will hand over to Dave who will share his thoughts on assembling and painting his own Tower of Sorcery.
Dave: Upon opening the box, I was swarmed by a veritable tide of components. I started by grouping the walls and floors together for each section of the tower and planned out where I would use each piece in the construction. I then took some nice pictures for my photo album using my 'film noir' filter. Someone is in need of help.
I found a simple way to build this tower. I took all of the wall sections for one level and glued them together in a ring on top of the tower base. I then put an elastic band around the wall sections to hold them in place while I went for a cup of tea. My top tip is to make sure there is no glue on the bottom of the wall ring; otherwise they will stick to the base. Once the wall has glued solid, do the next one.
The tower comes together piece by piece. After completing the two middle sections I glued the third, and last, to the base. I would suggest doing the bottom floor last because it doesn't have a wooden floor like the other two levels. That way you can glue it straight to the base of the tower without having to take it off.
My tower is complete- but wait, there are still more components to use. The Witchfate Tor kit contains three complete levels plus the tower top and accessories. You also get loads of broken wall sections to convert your tower into a ruined version too which, in the Warhammer World, is very likely to happen. I'm interested in the four pillars in the bottom right of the picture.
Over the weekend I painted up my Tower of Sorcery and brought it into work for everyone to admire (I got a lot of funny looks on the bus as you would expect). I started with a Chaos Black undercoat before painting the whole tower with Adeptus Battlegrey. I then stippled on areas in Gretchin Green and Orkhide Shade to represent moss and algae. To finish the brickwork I drybrushed it all with Astronomican Grey. I would suggest using one of the spare bits of broken wall to test your colour scheme before doing the whole tower. Click on the picture to see the tower in sections this picture is further below.
I put my tower next to Ed Morris' Dreadstone Blight and they make for imposing pieces of scenery. It's easy to see how a battlefield can be transformed by their presence: from an empty wind-swept field into the domain of a powerful wizard.
Thank you for your insight and your pictures Dave. While Dave went for the towering edifice of Witchfate Tor, Ed Morris and Bek Hawkby took on the ruined visage of Dreadstone Blight.
Ed decided to build his kit straight out of the box. One of the many clever features of this kit is the flooring. The floorboards come as three separate sections that can be made into one solid level or several ruined ones. This gives you a lot of different construction options and the possibility of making every tower individual
The tower was undercoated with Chaos Black before a coat of Charadon Granite was applied over the whole model. It was then drybrushed with Adeptus Battlegrey followed by Codex Grey and finally a 50:50 mix of Codex Grey and Skull White. The flooring was painted with Calthan Brown and washed heavily with Devlan Mud. While the wash was still drying Ed added dabs of Thraka Green to give the effect of rotten wood.
Bek wanted to see how many pieces of scenery she could create from one Dreadstone Blight set. She started by building two broken wall sections and mounted them on modular movement trays to make them durable. She then sanded one base and painted it to match her Realm of Battle Board. The other base was painted with a black and white chequered pattern and washed with Devlan Mud.
Witchfate Tor is tall by any standards, completely dwarfing the Watchtower kit. It's even taller than the Warhammer Fortress towers. However, we wondered if we could make it even taller so we combined Dave's tower and Ed's tower and made a mega- tower. Curiosity knows no bounds - we need more towers.
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Wait, did you just lift an entire article from the GW website?
ReplyDeleteClick on the label Terrain... there are lots more of them. It is easier to find things on the blog, rather than shifting through the mountain load of content on GW website.
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