
Recently got a new display cabinet and wanted to show off my (mostly) painted stormcast army
They do still need to be based, but getting the motivation to work on all of them is daunting

They do still need to be based, but getting the motivation to work on all of them is daunting
There are 3 models in the unit (excluding lorai and naeve which are independent heroes) but each model has their weapons: the axe, hammer abd bird talons/bow
They only have 3 health, so if I remove one model during combat, say, rostus, does the unit lose the ability to use the hammer?
Generals regiment: kavalos vanguard [770pts]
Liege kavalos/zandtos
Reinforced deathriders [elongated tibias]
Unreinforced deathriders (tithe reaper eschelon)
Teratic chohort
Regiment 1: mortisan elite [660pts]
Mortisan ossifector
Immortis guard
Morghast archai
Necropolis stalkers
Regiment 2: tithe reaper eschelon [540pts]
Mortek guard
Mortek guard (optional to reinforce instead of 2 units)
Gothizzar harvester
Then faction terrain and endless spells, giving imperious will to either the soul reaper or ossifector for 20pts
With zandtos- 1990pts
With liege kavalos - 1950pts
So I have a rough idea how I'll paint most of this, but I'm kinda stuck on the roof - using a black primer, with the metallic sections/sigmar faces I'll drybrush warlock bronze followed by a lighter drybrush of screaming bell, likely with an aditional drybrush of retributor armour on the sunray-like thingies on top of the sphere
the stone I'll paint eshin grey with a drybrush of administratum for a dark looking stone look I've grown to like, with tesseract glow in the astological lines between the smaller orbs in the walls - portal will be white to act as a base for some more tesseract glow (glowing portal sounds cool to me) and the braziers would be green flames using tesseract glow blending to hexwraith and then to warp lightning, likely with some caliban green and abaddon black at the tip.
but what I'm really stuck on is the roof tiling, I want it to match with the warp lightning green I used for the cloaks but I'm unsure how to make the roof tiling look good - would warp lightning followed by nuln oil help the tiles on the roof to pop out or would there be another method you guys would recommend?
pictures of some of my models added for inspiration
One of my friends got his hands on the armageddon box and bought the ork half again from another friend - from what I can tell the boyz have the same base size as the ardboyz, the bigboss/warboss have the same base size as the ardboy bigboss, the weirdboy can be used as a shaman but there's no good place to use the gretchins, painboys, bannernobs or the vehicles.
So using only 2x the armageddon box, a bigboss leading 2x reinforced ardboyz and 2 individual shamans would get about 950pts... or are there other proxys I'm not realising that can be made?
I recently finished listening to wardens of the everqueen and plague garden and I know that the hallowed knights have a silver and azure colour scheme, but the box art for gardus has him in the hammerhands gold and blue colours.
I decided I want my named heroes to use lore friendly/official colour schemes but gardus seems to have 2 conflicting schemes, maybe I'm mistaken, but if I'm not, which would be the official gardus colour scheme?
When black flag came out (the first time) I got this with it but I can't remember for the life of me if it was from a collectors edition or anything, and I can't find any hint of it online either so would anyone know where it's from?
I have a list for the following:
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Generals regiment:
Krondys
Gardus
Praetors (for krondys)
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Regiment 1:
Naeve blacktalon
Lorai
Naeve's companions
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Regiment 2:
Karazai
Praetors (for karazai)
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Then gotrek guurnisson as a regiment of renown
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And adding a stormreach portal for an extra 20 points for a total of 1960 points
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I know it won't be very competitive, but I was wondering if anyone tried a similar hero-heavy list and whether it was fun to play as
Colour scheme is a musty bone (rakarth flesh with agrax), obsidian (leviathan purple with ardcoat) and gold trim (retributor armour, liberator armour and canoptek)
And I'm kind of torn between using the gold or the musty bone for it, but I'm just not 100%sure on either option
so every now and then I proxy some units - eg vindictors as stand-ins for the vanquishers in yndrasta's spearhead and a mortisan boneshaper instead of a soulreaper in the tithe-reaper eschelon spearhead sets
but what if i wanted to make a CoS dwarf spearhead by proxying some units from the old world dwarf factions with the CoS spearhead "castelite company"
taking ironbreakers in place of steelhelms,
miner carts instead of cavaliers (possibly placing some miners inside the carts)
either the bugman's cart or the dwarf lrods with shield bearers instead of the cavelier marshal (leaning toward the bugman but the idea of dwarves carrying their lord and going the speed of a warhorse is hilarious to me)
and the organ guns instead of the ironweld great cannon
again, ensuring the base sizes are done properly, and its all Games Workshop plastic - would this still be too much proxying or would it be valid to use?
I'm thinking of getting these eventually (alongside possibly the nexus siphon and stormreach portal) and I really like the paint scheme on the box, so if anyone can give advice on how to get a similar effect, I'd really appreciate it