Primed and Ready: Stas Starts a New Crew
We had one of those very normal hobby-chat mornings: a bit of rules grumbling, a bit of list nonsense, and then suddenly — fresh minis on the desk.
While the rest of us were busy joking about terrain, shooting, and increasingly questionable army ideas for Age of Sigmar, Stas dropped something much more important into the chat: a freshly prepared gang, already primed and ready for paint.
His summary was perfect: he did a zenithal prime, because he still hasn’t decided how he wants to paint them.
Honestly, that’s a very relatable stage of the process. Sometimes we know exactly what we want before assembly is even done. And sometimes we get the models cleaned up, based, primed from above, and only then start asking ourselves the big questions:
- grimdark or clean?
- muted tones or something louder?
- quick contrast workflow or regular layering?
- “just get them done” or “this unit is going to become a whole project”?
Zenithal priming is such a nice place to pause. It makes the models immediately look better, helps define volumes, and leaves the door open for a lot of painting approaches later. Even when we’re undecided, it feels like progress — and in hobby terms, that absolutely counts.
Meanwhile, the rest of the conversation went in the usual direction: reacting to updates, trying to figure out what was actually buffed, and laughing at the idea of stuffing absurd numbers of Arkanauts into a list.
So this post is really a small celebration of a very specific hobby milestone: not finished, not even fully planned, but definitely underway.
We like these moments a lot. A unit with a zenithal prime on it is full of possibility. It might become a fast tabletop force, an excuse to test a new scheme, or the start of a much bigger army. Right now, Stas’s crew is sitting exactly in that sweet spot.
And honestly? That’s part of the fun.
We’ll be very curious to see which direction he takes once the color decisions finally land.