Top 10 armies painted by Awaken Relams showcase

Hello there,

After some time of our painting, we had a nostalgic moment when we looked back and recollected the most memorable commissioned armies we had the pleasure to paint up to this date. Painting the whole army to reflect the idea that was begotten in someone’s mind is perhaps the best opportunity that may happen to the painter – and for that reason we really like to paint whole armies that look great and coherent on the battlefield afterwards.

We have chosen ten armies, painting which we liked most – now we’re wondering which one of them you like the most? Please vote in the poll and tell us why in the comment!
The armies (click on the photo to open the high resolution image):

1) Cherry Blossom Wood Elves Army:

It is one of the most unusual projects upon which we had pleasure to work with, themed around the Japanese cherry blossom - a pattern present on every squad in the army (on their cloaks, the cherry-flower inspired banners and custom bases), reflecting the time of early spring, when the snow is melting down and vegetation begin to sprout out. The little shrine and the cherry trees forests were also a part of the commission. The overall scheme is really nice and surprisingly fitting the models.

The photo is quite big, feel free to click on it and see the full army in detail!

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2) Salamanders army:

It was (well, still is, as one part of an army is still being painted) a very big project - a massive, Horus Heresy army, featuring not only the mass of troops and vehicles, but also a Primarch of the XVIII Legion. We've done a special diorama for him - you can see him in the center, taming the giant Fire Salamander diving in the lava river of Nocturne. We also like the bright green scheme of this army and the flaming pattern on vehicles.

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3) Ceramic Necron Army

We are all used to see the metallic Necron armies with green glow around them, so painting the ceramic scheme was really fun and refreshing. Cold blue glow is a nice touch-up, very fitting the primary color.

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4) Infinity Yu Jing Army

Painted to resemble chrome-like, high-tech surfaces (inspired by Tron as well), this army was really a great opportunity to piant (and the models were one of the nicest sculpts we had the pleasure to deal with).

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5) Dark Elves Army

With toned down and muted purples (and blue tones on the warbeasts) this army is a really nice sight on the table when present as a whole. Also, the swamp, watery bases make nice addition - to the warbeasts particularly, where the bases are big enough for the water to be present in a bigger amount!

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6) Cerastus Imperial Knights Household

Perhaps not a classic army, since there are only several models there, but the overall commissioned force really was carved in our memories – the models are such nice and the chosen paintjobs for every one of them made each one unique.

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7) Hexagonal Pattern Tau

We’ve enjoyed painting it in the high-tech, chrome-like scheme complimented by hexagonal patterns that nicely highlight the difference of technological approach when compared to the human technology in Warhammer 4000 – we find these patterns really fitting the technologically advanced, alien race.

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8) Shadow Harlequin Army

One of our newest work, it was also a first time we used airbrush stencils - you can see them on the Voidweavers. The customer wanted the shadowy color scheme, so the Harlequins are not the classical, colorful troupe but rather dark, shadowy webway-stalkers.

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9) Da Orkz

Technically not exactly an army, but a bunch of biggest creations of an Ork Mek, the yellowish armor turned out so nice, that we are often quoted for the Orks in this painting scheme.

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10) Space Wolves Army

We've painted many Space Wolves forces in our history in every possible painting quality, but we really like the white fur of Thunderwolves in this one.

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