More Cygnar WIP, Journeyman Warcaster FIN

Well a week of being together I managed to have nearly a whole day to paint. I clear coated the holiday's helpings, and painted up the alt. Journeyman Warcaster. All I have left is the base - but I never base one model at a time so I will base her when I base the other jacks.

I spent a bit of time on her as you can see and did some more highlighting than usual - actually I liked the long gunner standard bearer's flag so much I hit her with a little as well. Let me know what you think.

Finally we have the other bit that I painted today and thats my Firefly, Defender and my other Charger. Just the blue's but I thought I would show what they look like before the wash.

That's it for today. Hopefully I will get more done tomorrow but my brother is coming over and hopefully I can convince him to play a proper game in the game room so I can take pics for you all.

20pt. Cygnar vs. Khador match

Well, after playing a few battlebox matched with my brother of the Thanksgiving break he gave me a call last night. Needless to say I brought a couple 20 point armies to his place for a match. The armies were:

Cygnar:

• Cmdr. Stryker (+6)
• Lancer (6)
• Ironclad (7)
• Journeyman Warcaster (3)
• Charger (4)
• Sword Knights (Full unit 6)

 Khador:

•  Kommander Sorsha (+5)
• Juggernaut (7)
• Destroyer (9)
• Widowmakers (4)
• Iron Fang Pikemen (Min. Unit 5)

I packed up the book, templates, dice, measuring tape, mini's, and the camera...just not the memory card. Doh! I took a few pics with my cell phone - but it has a horrid camera and they were really bad. I will atleast post the final pic:

Annnnddd...I lost

As you can see by the pic - I lost. Actually, the game was really close until I decided to chance it. I thought my Ironclad was withing charge distance to his caster so I dumped 3 focus on him and charged him at the caster. Well, with having to go up a hill and loosing 1/2 my remaining movement put me .000001 mm out of charge range. It wasn't that close but I was about 1/4 of an inch out of melee range. Well, this of course put my Ironclad out of control range so I had to advance my line. I thought I was smart and swarmed his Jugg. with 6 Sword Knights and kept the other two to shield my caster. Well, he proceeded to shoot both blockers with his caster, shoot me for all but 3 damage with the Widowmakers, charge in the two remaining Pikemen, and knock me down on his first attack. Yeah, I died horribly.

Things learned:

1. Sword Knights with Blur just can not be shot. Same thing with Arcane Shield once they get in Melee.  16DEF while they try shooting at you, and 17 ARM in melee is nothing to sneeze at.
2. Warcasters are nice - but you have to protect them. I didn't have mine completely behind his Charger and he got sniped very quickly.
3. You have to be aggressive and go after his caster - but pay attention to the terrain. If I remembered that the piece of paper we were using was a hill, I doubt I would have chanced it.

So, how do you guys deal with Khador and their 20 ARM jacks?

On the work bench

Well, not much work done, but a lot of assembly managed to get done. Put together are:

• Long Gunners UA - The standard is a bit of a bear
• Journeyman Caster (Alt)
• Khador Widowmakers
• Khador Iron Fang Pikemen - The Sgt is a pain to put together. Beware.

Also, I managed to do a little bit more work on the Hammersmith.

Got the last wash on and after it dried I have started on the white. I think I am going to do that center part, both shoulder-pads, the loin cloth - plate, and the backs of the arms. I also got in a lighter blue for highlights and I think I am going to try it out on this model.

Army shot and holiday news

 Well, I decided to do a group shot as I got in absolutely no painting tonight. But overall I think I am well on my way to a nice sized army.

Remember - clicky clicky makes me bigger!

Also, the reason I didn't get much painting done is the old lady and her "Your always obsessed with something new" logic. Which is true... but if any of you know her in real life and tell her - I will deny it venomously. So, family night, and as Christmas gets closer I might miss a few nights. She just doesn't understand my 2 painting a day plastic-crack habit.

Long Gunner's Finished

After a partial days painting the Long Gunners are finished. Also, I started laying down the blue basecoat for the Hammersmith and second Charger.

 They do not look bad, and again - just aiming for tabletop quality here. The temperature is supposed to be a little better tomorrow and I hope to prime a box of Widowmakers that I picked up over the weekend. Aso always, comments, criticisms, and such are always welcome.

Trenchers Finished

Ugh... I have been sick! That's why no update. I finally started to feel better today and managed to finish of my Trenchers - minus the sniper. I got them in a trade and he is missing the sandbags he was leaning on though. I have him based and nearly finished, but he just looks plain weird in his pose. I think for just aiming at a good table top standard they look good. What do you guys think?

Any comments, criticism, useful tips please leave in the comment section. I am also working on my long gunners and I hope to have them ready for you tomorrow.

Trenchers and Long Gunners WIP

 Well, I was all set to get home from work and start on my Cryx battlegroup but instead I got in a box from Bartertown. I have been working on a few trades on there and managed to get quite a few 'jacks (who are soaking in paint stripper as we speak), a full unit of Sword Knights - already painted and not going to be repainted, a full unit of Trenchers and 8 Long Gunners. Well, the latter two were bare metal so, following Leontheconfused's advice I bought some paint on primer and did two test models. What do you guys think?

Now do you see why I was asking which to use to expand my force? So, just when you thought I was done with Cygnar...it pulled me back in!

Cygnar Battlebox Finished!

  Well, I managed to finish my Cygnar battlebox today. Plus, after the horrid pictures from the last WIP update I had to play with my camera for a few hours to undo the mess the wife made. I think I have it figured out and I retook pictures of everything. So, lets start it off with a couple group shots.

Well, my main goal for painting anything I feel was achieved. They look good together and clearly belong as a group. Nothing special on any of them but the Warcaster - and even that was very slight.

Speaking of the warcaster here you go:

He just got some extra highlighting and a few more colors than I gave the jacks. Really pleased with him and he was super simple to paint.

Next we have the one that has not been shown yet the Lancer. I wanted him to look a little different than the Charger as they are both light jacks built on the same chassis.

I left him a bit dirtier and barely cleaned up the blue. I did this because the white just did not stand out enough when I first put it on. In leaving the blue washed darker the white really pops now. I didn't think I would like the dirty blue but it looks pretty cool IRL.

Finally, the two that were finished before but I wanted to post better pictures. Not much time, as we are about to go out to eat so I will close it out with just the pics. Next on my painting table it the Cryx battlegoup. All of the groups I have painted so far are as close to their true colors as I can get. I am thinking something different for them so stay turned.

Till tommorow.

Cygnar WIP Part I

Well, I started the Cygnar Battlegroup last night. With it being a work day I didn't have much time to work on it. Overall I am fairly pleased, I just need to find me a highlighting color that is just a smidge lighter than what I am using for the base - Which is Vallejo Model Color Royal Blue. If anyone knows of a good shade let me know in the comment section below. Otherwise its a trip to a few FLGS's to see what they have. So, enough blabbering - here it is. Let me know what you think for a few hours work.

Clearly after looking at the pic, I have some touch up on the rivets to hit with the wash again. Also, I need to touch up on the blue which I can do with the blue I have now.

Getting my feet wet...

 Well, as time has gone by on Warmachine Mk. II I have been keeping my eye on it.  Giant robots smashing the hell out of each other really is apealing to me so I finally took the plunge. This past weekend I purchased:

• Warmachine Prime Mk. II Softcover
• The Template Set
• The Khador Battlegroup
• The Cygnar Battlegroup
• The Cryx Battlegroup

Shiny new boxes begging to be assembled!

Now that I had a few starter armies I suckered my brother, who was at the house for Thanksgiving, into giving it a try. We played five or six games and after it was all said and done I decided I liked Khador and Cygnar the best. So on Sunday I sat down and painted  up the Khador box set. Nothing too fancy, I just wanted a decent table top quality. Also, if you have ever seen my stuff on DakkaDakka you will know that I usually try for a very clean no dirt paint style. I wanted quick with a lot of what is normally painstaking work to be done by washes.

So here is the battlegroup:

Lots of block painting, simple highlighting and super quick blending. One thing I noticed that I was rather disappointed in was all the old warjacks there was a Khador symbol raised on the model where I free-handed mine. Not a deal breaker just disappointing that they would remove a nice detail like that.

Now for some close up shots:

 

Warcaster Sorscha

I did spend a tiny bit more time on her than the other two, picking out a few more details but again - super quick. Overall I am pleased, but if I had it to do over I would have block painted her face black first and raised up the detail from that instead of relying on the wash. It worked but not to the extent that I really desired.

Don't you know who I am?

 Actually the first model out of the group. Really pleased with him considering from start to finish I spent maybe 2 hours on him. Anything to redo? I would paint his lower legs red instead of leaving them gray. One thing that is kind of obvious to all on the way I paint - I do NOT like the look of metallics. But I am not good enough to do a convincing NMM so here is the result. I paint in gray tones.

Finally we have the Destroyer. Another super simple model. I made the wash do all the work. Its just Rust-oleum Auto primer grey with Vallejo Model Color Uniform Red. And GW Badab Black Wash. Also used Vallejo Scarlet to highlight the red and Light Grey on the primer.

  So, thats all she wrote for this post. Please join my blog and tell me what you think. Up next is the Cygnar battlegroup and I am trying to arrange a learning game from my local press ganger and I hope to take some pictures of it for you as well.

Until Next Time,

Burb