Zikkit's Tunnelpack

Filed Under: Hobby

Tagged: Warhammer, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Underworlds, Skaven

Left to Right: Rittak, Nitch, Zikkit, Krittatok and Tik-Tik.

Just painted up Zikkit’s Tunnelpack from Warhammer Underworlds: Embergard. They’re the first Skaven I’ve painted in about 7 years, the last being the original Skaven Underworlds warband, Spiteclaw’s Swarm. Since then I’ve evolved a lot as a painter and gained access to new materials, like Contrast paints.

I’m starting in on my stash of other Skaven models, beginning with the Clan Eshin models from Spearhead: City of Ash and then moving, at long last, on to the contents of Skaventide, so I used this warband as an opportunity to dial in on how I want my Skaven army to look overall.

I’m going for a split-complementary with pink as the primary colour, used in various hues and values on clothes and skin. Then the complementary colours are green, erring yellow, for warpstone, gadgets and eyes; and cyan/turquoise/teal, represented as verdigris on armour and metal devices.

I began with a black-to-light-grey zenithal prime and a white all-over drybrush.

Steel:

• Vallejo Metal Color (henceforth VMeC) Steel
• Gryph-Hound Orange and/or Skrag Brown watered down selective wash for rust
• VMeC Silver highlights

Bronze:

• VMeC Copper
• Aethermatic Blue wash
• Nihilakh Oxide for extra oxidation
• VMeC Silver edge highlights

Colour wheel courtesy of HTML Color Codes

Wood:

• Wyldwood
• Zandri Dust + Ushabti Bone

Warpstone, Fire and Tech:

• Warp Lightning
• Moot Green highlights
• Flash Gitz Yellow peak highlights

Skin and Tail:

The grenade-chucking Skaven uses a different recipe but I won’t be carrying it forward as it turned out too dark and muddy.

• Carroburg Crimson
• Volupus Pink nose, mouth

Fur:

• Vallejo Model Color (henceforth VMoC) Dark Grey
• VMoC Neutral Grey
• Druchii Violet wash
• VMoC Light Grey highlights

Leather:

• Snakebite Leather or Black Templar
• Zandri Dust/Ushabti Bone highlights
• Druchii Violet wash

Cloth:

• Sigvald Burgundy
• Ushabti Bone highlights, sometimes glazed back with Sigvald Burgundy or Magos Purple or Volupus Pink

I’ll be going for ashy grey bases on the rest of my skaven, but the Tunnelpack’s sculpted bases represent the mines beneath Embergard, in Aqshy, so I painted them with ruddy earth and sinister red Emberstone-infused puddles.

• Bugman’s Glow earth
• Dryad Bark wood
• Zandri Dust drybrush
• VMeC Burnt Iron metal
• Khorne Red + Mephiston Red + Evil Sunz Scarlet puddles
• Agrax Earthshade/Reikland Fleshshade wash
• Zandri Dust + Ushabti Bone highlights on stones, wood
• VMeC Silver edge highlights on metal

I have an itch to play some more Underworlds, so hopefully these guys will see the table soon!