The Corvus Cabal miniatures first caught my eye a year or two before I’d dived back into the hobby, and before I had any idea what Warcry was all about. The design aesthetic and paint scheme was spot on to my mind. For a good couple of years I had an itch for them, but no chance to scratch it.

Fast forward a few years, and I’d trialed my first (beautifully arrayed) game of Warcry and was sold on it. Naturally my go to warband was the Corvus Cabal.

Sadly, and after much loss of wa, my first attempt at assembly resulted in approximately half of the miniatures, i.e., everything other than the Cabalists, being either broken, misaligned or simply impossible to assemble.

No doubt this is mostly my own fault due to lack of experience (and patience) with contemporary GW kits, but I do feel that the designs are at times too fiddly for their own good and the assembly instructions severely lacking…

Not to be deterred, and with the generous gifting of a second box set, I was back on track.

After painting the Horns of Hashut, I was keen to attempt a finish a little closer the Studio box art, so purchased the Citadel Colour paints cited on the box art and Citadel Colour app. On the whole this worked, and I’m happy with the results thus far, but some of the paints/ guides seemed a little off or overly complicated.

Ultimately, there was something about the crow-feathered black, grey, turquoise colour scheme off-set with pale flesh tones that appealed in the first place, and I’m happy to have approximated the same at a good gaming level with these Cabalists.

The plan, of course, is to shift gear and up the level of the painting on the Spire Stalkers, Shadow Piercer and Shrike Talon, if I can assemble them correctly…