epic Magnus super epic base!

So I got eMagnus and my 2nd Renegade off of Bartertown, but eMags didn't come with the epic base that he normally does. However, I do have a plastic Ironclad sitting around waiting to become Gallant, as well as some instant mold.

Voila! Super epic base! My eMagnus isn't on some light warjack, he's standing on top of a heavy warjack that he just wrecked!

So I just filled in a few of the gaps in the base after I took these pics. I'll post pics of him and Fiona after I get them primed.

More Kayazy!

I'm still working on the new cloak for 1 guy, but the rest are all done. (more pics here)



I'm still debating taking off the fur around this guy's hood cause he looks too much like an eskimo and not an assassin to me. We'll see though.

Anyways, I'll probably be working on the cloaked crusader for another day or two before everybody gets the primer.

Kayazy Assassins Conversion or Eskimo?

Like many other warmachine players out there, I dislike the Kayazy Assassin sculpts (excluding the Underboss, which is quite boss). To fix it, I ordered some druid & kayazy heads to do a head swap.

I also wanted to try and make them fit with the underboss better, so I figured sculping some fur onto their cloaks and possibly hoods would be better. The lesson I've learned? Furry hoods = eskimos :p Lucky for me I only did the hood fur on one.





Also, the pose on this guy just kills me. I never knew there was such a flamboyant assassin. Anyways, I'll be sure to post more when I've got stuff done.

eEiryss WIP

So I managed to get a hold of eEiryss for my Merc forces at The Realm (in Brea) the last time I got in a game against Blake & his trolls. However, I always thought she looked out of place sitting on a freaking wall/building thingy, and I remember seeing that somebody (GardenNinja painting studio maybe?) had sculpted that base into a tree stump (which looked awesome). So I decided to take some of what I've picked up on sculpting from CaptainSpud's tutorials over on Lost Hemisphere.

The only special thing I did was bend a paperclip to serve as a frame for all the GS instead of just throwing it all into a big ol' hole. After I had a frame, I put on a thin layer of GS and let that dry before I added more and sculpted into that stuff. Anyways, here's what I've got so far.







I'm really happy with the colors on the tree stump and on the cloak, so I'll actually share how I painted that.

The stump was actually really easy. I basecoated it in GW foundation Khemri Brown, then washed it all with Devlan Mud. The ringed portion I highlighted with Bleached Bone, then washed with Gryphonne Sepia. The bark was highlighted back up to Khemri Brown, and another lighter highlight was done by adding in a little Bleached Bone.

The cloak was done with 90:10 Foundation Mechrite Red:Chaos Black. Then I did the first highlight with plain Mechrite Red, with lots of water and matte medium mixed in (not real scientific there). These highlights were built up over a few layers just to try and make use of the transparency of the mixing medium. Then I did the same thing, but with a dab of Foundation Macharius Solar Orange added to the Mechrite Red, still using lots of matte medium & water. Then a final highlight was added in a few places just with Foundation Iyandan Darksun + Mechrite Red + Macharius Solar Orange.

Hope the paint recipes are at least mildly interesting. I also have pics of the sculpting before priming if anybody is interested.

Painting eGaspy's Feat Turn

I've had this conversion sitting on my desk for months now and I'm quite relieved to have finished it. It's supposed to be epic Asphyxious popping his feat and bringing some ghostly bane knights back. The conversion process was fun but I've never painted a Cryx model before and working with darker tones was a challenge. Not the best thing I've ever painted but hey, it's done.

Avatar of Menoth- Mosque Style

I've had this thing finished for about 9 months now but I held off on posting it because I was hoping to get it in the NQ player gallery and because I kept thinking I was going to go back and touch up the paintjob. I'm thinking neither of those are going to happen so here goes, my completed Avatar of Menoth conversion:

Ashlynn Conversion, Final Update

So I finished painting Ashlynn up. She's now the 3rd model where I got to use the new W&N Series 7 brushes from Micah. Damn is it nice to have some good brushes! Thanks again to Micah for getting me them. I really feel like I can step up my game with painting now. They make painting go so much faster since I have to touchup less. Anyways, here she is.

I also finally finished the Cephalyx Overlords. Not hugely happy with them as much, but they're done at least.

And here they are with their compatriots.

First Camel Built

I finished building my first Exemplar Camel Venger. Now to prime it and get to painting.

Fully painted Raffle? I'm in!

So for this Saturday's 50pt SR2011 at Adventurer's Guild, there's apparently a raffle for playing with a fully painted army. I'm planning on reverting back to playing eGaspy, cause he's so awesome. My 2 lists will probably be eDenny and eGaspy, but neither list is fully painted yet. The eGaspy list is closest to fully painted, only needing Saxon Orrik and eGaspy painted. Well, eGaspy needs to be repainted after I rebuilt him. I'd like to try some OSL on eGaspy as well, but I'll probably hold off on that till after the tourney in an attempt to get everything for my eDenny list painted, which needs a full unit of Satyxis Raiders + UA + Captain painted. I don't think I'll be able to get them done, but I'm definitely going to try.

Anyways, here is eGaspy at his good enough to play stage (aside from his head and the eye on Daemortus). After the tourney, I'll go back and do OSL and add more highlights to his robes.





In other news, I also got my ATGM UA in, so now I can run an Ashlynn list without borrowing 75% of it :p Since I don't care for the hats too much on them, plus I'm making them into Amethyst Rose Gun Mages, I decided to cut off their hats and sculpt some hair (a new experience for me). To start, here's the dude.



And here are closeups of all the hair (aside from ponytail chick, who needs touchup).



I tried to make the dude's hair long enough to look like the real dude. Other than that, everything else was just trying to cover up my hack and slash of the hats.

Ashlynn Update 2

So after Micah mentioned that he got me some W&N brushes for my birthday, I told myself I would wait to start painting Ashlynn up until I could try them out. Sad to say, I couldn't wait to at least start painting her. So this is mostly just laying in the base colors on Ashlynn, along with a wash on the metals. I'm not ecstatic about all my sculpting, but it's mostly passable. Practice makes perfect and all.

So there's what I've got so far. All the offwhite cloth I'm going to highlight up to pure white, her hair will probably need to be redone with the yellow basecoat and highlighted up to almost a white. Silly blonde hair is much harder than black or brown hair. The long purple cloak will be highlighted up to purple, and then of course I have to shade and highlight her face. Anyways, just wanted to show the little progress that I've made.

Call in the Camelry

I haven been the proud owner of a full unit of Exemplar Vengers for a while now. I think the Venger horses are some of the best 28mm horses out there, they really capture the fluid grace and strength of horses. So naturally I'm going to embark on a long and exhaustive conversion project to mount my vengers on camels. Yup, here's what I'm starting with 6 Imperial Roman Dromedarii from Warlord Games.

And here's what I accomplished before running out of glue. Not a big surprise, I've been milking the bottle for every last drop for over a month now.

The scale matches up closely enough, (the knight is a bit larger than the roman soldier). I've still got to glue on the shoulder pads and the hilt of the scimitar (which I may scale down a bit) and I might add the lance somewhere. Anyway, keep your eyes peeled for more Venger Camel insanity.

Ashlynn Update

So after some suggestions from Cloud-Gatherer on the PP-forums, I made some alterations to Ashlynn's arms again to go for something that makes a bit more sense with her body's pose. The GS'ing for the joints isn't done yet, but I figured this way I can get some more input on whether it should be good or not. Anyways, I now present, Ashlynn with more oomph!

Ashlynn Conversion!

Like 99% of all warmachine players, I don't care much for Ashlynn's sculpt. It just looks so plain and awkward. So I ordered a bunch of parts from Privateer's online store.

1) Katherine Laddermore's body

2) Ashlynn's arms

3) Journeyman Warcaster Alt Backpack

I didn't do any in progress shots of this conversion, I just have the assembled/sculpted product, but here's what I did:

1) Cut off Laddermore's shoulderpads/arms. This included cutting up some of the cloak on her left side.

2) Bend Ashlynn's arms to a more natural position. Doing this, the sword arm broke, so I had to pin and sculpt the elbow.

3) Clean up the shoulders and pin the arms to the body

4) Sculpt in the cloak and fill gaps

5) Glue on backpack

Anyways, here's what she looks like now: