Blog Maw of Sotek Hobby Blog

[its-taru]

Hail, spawnlings. This one welcomes you to the Maw of Sotek hobby blog. Here, I will be posting and indexing the various projects that I'll be (or I have been) working on. My goal in having created this is to maintain hobby discipline, have accountability, and receive feedback for the things that I make. For you of the older spawnings, you may recognize this hobby blog. I'm trying to resurrect it after life got in the way of being a hobby person!

While I have been playing Seraphon since early 2nd Edition of Age of Sigmar, I admit that a lot of it has been smashing around with grey plastic. With some time on my hands, I've made it my objective to paint them all up into something I can be proud of. It's a long road ahead of me, but I look forward to it.​

STILL IN THE BOX:

• 20x Saurus Warriors
• Skink Starseer
• Aggradon Lancers

STILL UNPAINTED:

• 1x Lord Kroak
• 1x Slann Starmaster
• 5x Raptadon Chargers
• 5x Raptadon Hunters
• 3x Kroxigor Warspawn
• 2x Stegadons w/ Skystreak Bows
• 1x Stegadon w/ Engine of the Gods
• 2x Bastiladons w/ Ark of Sotek
• 1x Bastiladon w/ Solar Engine
• 1x Skink Oracle on Trogolodon
• 1x Saurus Oldblood on Carnosaur
• 2x Skink Starpriest
• 6x Terradon Riders
• 5x Saurus Guard
• 60x Skinks
• 2x Saurus Oldblood on Foot
• 1x Tehenhauin
• 2x Kitbashed Skink Chiefs
• 1x Kitbashed Skink Priest
• 1x Kitbashed Skink Chief on Troglodon
• 1x Realmshaper Engine

The FLGS I work at had an old Citadel Realm of Battle tileset in storage and my boss was kind enough to let me borrow and restore it. I will be detailing my progress as I try and turn this old peeling paint into something we can really play on.

More updates to come.​

 

[its-taru]

The Starseer ruminates...​

 

[its-taru]

"I'm beginning the army with my skinks as they'll be easy to pain in batches and - more importantly - I want to get them out of the way because there's a bunch of them. After doing some research on the battletomes throughout the ages of AoS and WHFB, I landed on a colour scheme. The 6th Edition Lizardmen battletome describes blessed spawnings of Sotek as being infused with a reddish color, and I want that to inform my decisions.

I decided to settle on an orange base and plan for red markings and warpaint. Citadel's Gryph-hound Orange with a quick drybrush of Lugganath Orange got me a quick and dirty start. Speaking of; I used dirt I bought from Lowe's with Mod Podge to start the basing, but I wanted to really lean in to some jungle themes for these lads, so I busted out the Barbed Bracken.

... And as a bonus; dug out this little treasure.

I tried red on the orange base coat, but wanted to see more contrast on the model. I settled on Kabalite Green for the markings. Afterwards, I went buck wild with tufts and bracken and did some quick vibrant colors:

With the test model complete, I'm on to chugging away at the 59 remaining skinks. Wish me luck!​

 

[Killer Angel]

well well well... a great first thread!

Welcome to LO @its-taru , may the Old Ones bless your blog

 

[Imrahil]

Great thread, really nice layout

Love the bright orange skin with dark strip, lovely colours.
The very best of luck with the batch still to do

Grrr, !mrahil

 

[Explodingzeb]

Really nice colour scheme on the skinks! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the army come together

 

[its-taru]

Great thread, really nice layout

Love the bright orange skin with dark strip, lovely colours.
The very best of luck with the batch still to do

Grrr, !mrahil

Thank you! My inspiration for the scheme is from the 6th Ed. WHFB Lizardmen handbook

 

[Killer Angel]

Thank you! My inspiration for the scheme is from the 6th Ed. WHFB Lizardmen handbook
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so many memories...

 

[- Q -]

Great blog @its-taru ! I'll be looking forward to seeing more of your fantastic work. The orange Skink with the cool base looks really awesome.

 

[Warden]

Thank you! My inspiration for the scheme is from the 6th Ed. WHFB Lizardmen handbook
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so many memories...

So true! Great stuff here @its-taru

 

[Lord-Marcus]

Looking good so far.

 

[its-taru]

March 15th, 2026

I've Finished off a small unit of 10 skinks to fill a flex spot for my Seraphon lists. Unfortunately, skink-heavy lists are not particularly good at this moment, so I'm moving on next to some bigger boys.

In the mean time, I've been trying painting endless spells on the side, and I'm trying to focus on using Turbo Dork paints to give the endless spell models that little extra oomph.
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[Killer Angel]

Those skinks are gorgeous!

 

[- Q -]

Beautiful skinks!

 

[Lord-Marcus]

I concur. Lovely colors on those skinky boys. Hola skinks!

 

[Warden]

March 15th, 2026

I've Finished off a small unit of 10 skinks to fill a flex spot for my Seraphon lists. Unfortunately, skink-heavy lists are not particularly good at this moment, so I'm moving on next to some bigger boys.

In the mean time, I've been trying painting endless spells on the side, and I'm trying to focus on using Turbo Dork paints to give the endless spell models that little extra oomph.
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Lovely orange skinks!