Cygnar

So a while ago I painted up and sold a Cygnar battlebox. I was pretty happy with how it all turned out, with a predominantly white look to complement the Cygnar blue, and have recently gotten back into Cygnar.



I started off with Darius, as I've always liked the man in the machine-armour. One of the new Cyclones had to be in there as well as the eponymous Thunderhead. Unfortunately, my camera hasn't quite performed as I'd have liked with this last lot, and I'm still working on the whole miniature photography without a miniature lens thing :)



I also now have a full eHaley tiered list, but I'll pop that guy up here another day.

The Ortegas

So these guys are comission pieces. I was pretty happy with how they turned out. It doesn't show up in the photos so well, but the pants are all using the "Denim" ideas expanded on in FOW: Cygnar and it has quickly become one of my favourite color surfaces to use. When I borrow a good macro lens and can do my trenchers some justice, I'll pop them up on here - they have made liberal use of the denim stuff :)

Malifaux

So, like alot of people, when Malifaux launched, I was more or less compelled to go up and pick me up a bit.

Unfortunately, the game wasn't for me, but I've now painted up a bit and really really like the minis.

Marcus was alot of fun to paint- I hadn't done alot of "beast" type minis before this, and the POS lighting on Marcus himself was fun to try and get together. My last couple of tries didn't work out all that well.

I've since done more Malifaux up as comission work, so getting my eye in nicely for the fine detail on these guys.

The bases are woodchips covered in greenstuff.

NQ #30

So I got an email from the editor of No Quarter today letting me know that giant Juggie made it in. Haven't seen the edition yet, but damned cool anyway :)

Khador

So with the release of the extreme Khador sculpts, I had absolutely no choice but to pick them up and start working on them. Consequently, I couldn't just sit them on my bench and never use them, so I've had to build an army around them as well :)

Just the giant juggie today, and what a giant he is! Its an awful lot of red to try and get depth on, but I think it was pulled off successfully. I used the same method advocated by PP - extreme highlights followed by somewhere around 20 coats of red ink, to bring it all back into line. The shoulder freehand was done similar to the guide in the NQ and I managed to fumble my way through the boiler freehand to a semblance of success.

In any case, love my big red beastie and, with him being so darned cheap, he makes it into every Khador list I have so far :) Now. I just need to get around to doing my Destroyer...

Trolls!

We all love a smattering of tough, blue, beer-guzzling giants in an army, and an entire army of them was just alot of fun.

Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.



As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).



Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)

Menoth

So I started way back when with the crazy religious zealots that are Menoth. Oddly enough, they actually started with a bizzare blue-gray washed down with blue colour. I was pretty happy with nearly three years ago. Not so happy with it now...



Switched from there to the full white Menoth colour and just continued to develop skills'n all until I decided that I'd enough of Menoth so I sold 'em off. Probably culminated with the mighty Fire of Salvation and Epic Severius. Was pretty happy with them in the end. Funnily enough - now thinking of picking up another Menoth army. I'll decide when I have a good look at the new book.