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"Such Sweet Thunder" - Grundstok Thunderers (aethershot rifles)

Circa Regna tonat 
- It thunders around the realm

- Sir Thomas Wyatt


Welcome all to the next installment of The Art of Caesura!

This week we're heading back to the Mortal Realms (or above them as the case may be) to look at the next unit that I have completed for my slowly growing Kharadron Overlords army: Grundstok Thunderers! 

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These 5 are all equipped with aethershot rifles, but if you stay tuned next week, you may just see some special weapons cropping up! I was originally going to magnitise all of them (their shoulder joints are certainly chunky enough) but the aether-cord that attaches their aether rifles to their aether-backpacks made this idea a bit aether-awkward. If I decide to magnetize some in the future, I would probably have to clip this cord off first.

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There are a few big differences between these guys and the Arkanauts that I painted previously: firstly these Thunderers are on 32mm bases which left more room for bigger stones on their bigger bases!



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The next big difference is that these guys have a lot more armour-plating, meaning a lot less of their canvas-coloured undersuit shows. From an aesthetic point of view I actually prefer the greater colour variation on the Arkanauts, but tried to liven up the armour by bringing the highlights right up to Gauss Blaster Green.

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I love the gunnery sergeant's "aether peg-leg" and his Drillbill (the mechanical parrot on his shoulder) is a stroke of genius!

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I painted the sergeant's helmet the lighter bone colour, and stuck him to the largest rock to make him stand out further. 

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Lets take a few minutes to look at each of these guys individually: I think the easiest way to differentiate them is by the little doodads on the top of their backpacks.

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As you can see, the guy above has a vent-thing, while the one below has a whirling weatherometer (windspeed gauge thingy). When you begin to examine them more closely, you notice that all of their heads are unique, as are their torsos (the guy above is buckled in with leather straps, while the one below has metal fasteners). It is these kinds of details that I only notice when I am building and painting a model, and one of the things I relish in!

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In general I really like how they each have one targeting lens eye which can represent a pirate's eye-patch. I also really like the pose of these guys with their underslung massive hand cannons!

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From the side, you get a better view of the small "flintlock" mechanism that I painted with Gauss Blaster shaded with Drakenhoff and highlighted with Gauss Blaster again. 

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I won't go through my whole painting process and base-building process again, because I have devoted previous articles to them here and here, respectively. 

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For the Honor Bearer's...uh...honour, I mixed a grey from black and white, shaded it with Drakenhoff and drybrushed it back up adding more white. I painted the rune in the centre (Liberator) gold instead of the (Screaming Bell) copper that I used for their other metallics. I don't usually mix metallics like this on single model, because I think it can clash and look gaudy, but here I think it fit because it was meant to represent a valuable relic that they have carried with them from some ancient mountain hold, and so the metal rune was not made at the same time (or out of the same stuff) as the rest of their kit. 

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I finished them by, you guessed it, picking out every single rivet with Runefang Steel. Whew, I didn't realize these were such detailed little buggers when I started them!

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So that's some much-needed firepower added to my burgeoning Sky Fleet! Tune in next week for more on The Art of Caesura!


Gaming: MTG Arena
Listening: Revolver Express
Watching: Russian Doll


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