Kayazy Progress

So I didn't get to game this afternoon. Instead, I painted. Here's where the Kayazy stand right now.

by the way, I hate painting eyes & faces. Why can't all models be undead? :p

Anyways, there's still more work on the metals to do, and highlight the front, and highlight up all the cloaks to be like the underboss'. The fur will probably get another drybrush to differentiate it from the dirt, etc.

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.

Things are always better with a little bit of grass

So Rob Hawkins over at Privateer Press made some pretty cool little things on their terrain blog (Cryxian Bile Reservoir).

Now I'm not planning on doing that complicated of a terrain piece anytime soon. However, I think that there's a lot of little things that I can do to spruce up my bases. So I just wanted to show how my multijack looks now.





So I'll probably be going back and adding some tall grasses and maybe green goo to a bunch of my bases.

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.

Unboxing the Vessel of Judgement: Menoth Wheels it!

I was lucky enough to snag the Protectorate of Menoth Battle Engine at Comic-Con and now you are lucky enough to see a blurry video of me unboxing it! The video quality isn't great but it adds to the mystique.

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.