The bits to the collosal

OK so in poking around I found this picture on the privateer press website.
http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/insider-3-7-2012
There are a lot of pieces to this model.  I like that because it means that we can take more custom approaches to construction if we want to and likely fewer will be posed exactly alike.  It also answered a question I had about the lightning pods.  They will be deployed by the Stormwall to be used by it.
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Cygnar Stormwall

OK so I haven't put this one together yet and it won't be available until later this year.  But as a Cygnar player I must say that I am excited for this to come out.  Ever since hearing about the Collosals I decided that the money that I had been saving for the Cygnar Battle Engine was now going to wait for the Stormwall.  From the Privateer press website.

"Perhaps Nemo’s greatest creation, the Stormwall towers over Cygnar’s enemies with all the majesty and menace of a looming cloudburst. From the thunder of its guns to the blinding cracks of arcing electricity from its lightning pods, the Stormwall is the mechanikal embodiment of the tempest. Powered by both steam and surging voltaic energy, it riddles the enemy lines with cannon shells and hails of bullets before smashing survivors with its electrified fists."

I love playing storm army against my opponents mostly because I like the idea of electrical jumps from enemy to enemy and I am glad to see this model following in that tradition.  I really like the fact that this is both electrical and steam powered, my hope is that it will be at home in either a storm army or a more traditional army in the Cygnar lineup.  I am interested to see how the lightning pods work will they have movement or will the be emplaced before the game starts?  It will be interesting to learn strategy for this new type of jack, I think that this will either draw the enemy to it with concentrated attack to take out the biggest cannon on the field.  Or if the enemy is more mobile than the Stormwall they may try to stay out of range and take out the rest of my army.  Just some speculation because I haven't seen the official stats yet.  So basically I have more questions than answers at this point but I am still excited for the prospects of what has the potential to be a great piece in a nice army.

The thing that concerns me with the Collosals is that they will likely cost a lot of points and will only be useable in large battles. If I am going to pay what I am assuming is going to be over $100 for a model I would like to get more use out of it than just occasionally.

Too much to paint

So I made some trades with someone I met at my local gaming store.  I gave him some green paper and he gave me a whole bunch of Cygnar units, solos, and jacks.  Truth be told I got a great deal on the army but it is in varying stages of being painted, and definitely will have to be painted in my preferred Cygnar army style.  I like my Cygnar to be dark blue rather than the traditional bright blue.  I like to start with necron abyss from the Citadel paint line and then lighten a little bit with some highlights.  Anyway I hope to start posting more pictures as I work on this army as well as the other projects that I have been working on.

-Mark

Magnetized Khador Warjack

Well I magnetized a Khador warjack a while back.  It has been sitting in my work in process area for quite a while.  I am happy with most of the work that I did on it but the magnet that holds the top and the bottom is a bit out of whack.  I still have some finishing highlights, basing and I want to freehand a Khador symbol on the top of it.  But here are the pics of it assembled various ways. enjoy.

Dreadfleet bases

So I have started to put together my Dreadfleet game.  I decided to knock out all of the bases at once assembly style.

I started with a nice coat of Necron Abyss foundation.

Then I added a heavy dry brushing of Mordian Blue.

Then I finished them with a light drybrushing of Bleached Bone over the crests of the waves.

I am not sure if I will use a mat varnish to seal them or not but right now I think that I will be adding that to all of them in the morning.  Not sure if I will be tackling the ships or the accessories next but I will post pics and let you know what I did when I get it done.

Mark

Dreadfleet

Well I gave in and bought Dreadfleet because I am a sucker for pirate stuff and sailing games. When I got to my nearest game store I asked if they had any left and they told me that they were sold out except for one that had been opened. So I started by getting 10% off a brand new game. Yippee!
Got it home and started looking at the sprues. There are a lot of bits to this game.
For some reason I didn't get this posted last week. Oh well here it is a week later.

p-Stryker

I am seriously considering changing the name of my blog to painting after midnight because that is the only time that I get to paint right now. I painted stryker last night and tonight. I have noticed a couple of places that need to be touched up but over all I think I did a pretty good job.  I am particularly pleased with the way the face turned out.  I was very scared about painting the eyes because they are so small.

Note to self.....

Ok so I was just about finished with the grenadier.  I had painted, highlited, used a wash to make it look like it had been in the trenches with the trencher unit that it would be marshaled to.  Then I left it on my desk to dry over night.  Unfortunately I also left the devlin mud wash out.  I woke up the next morning and discovered that my second son had opened the wash and made an art project out of my nearly finished miniature.  All in all he used about half the pot of wash.  Some areas were so thick that I could see clear ridges of dark brown nearly dry goo.  So after I reminded myself that he is just a kid and I shouldn't have left the stuff out, I went and bought some simple green.  I am going to soak the model for a couple of days and hope that I can strip the paint without too much trouble.  So I will be starting over.  I just wish that I had gotten some pics of the nearly finished model because I thought that it looked great.  Oh well I guess I will chalk this up to a learning experience.
Note to self:  put all painting supplies away on a high shelf in the closet before calling it a night.

A bit of work on the Grenadier

I had a few minutes so I painted a few parts of my grenadier. I used Reaper Ancient Bronze, GW Necron Abyse for the base coat on the blue.  I realized that I missed some areas where I want pig iron and accidentally painted them blue.  I will repaint these areas with black and then go over them with pig iron to make them look the way that I want.  This was also my first attempt at painting something to look like leather.  I think that the leather ammo pouches look pretty good on the back of him.  Anyway I usually only get a few minutes after I put the kids to bed to paint so my projects usually take a while to finish because they are pretty low on the priority list.  That said I think that this one is going to look really good when it is done.

Grenadier Work in Progress

So I have decided to post the work in progress pics forthe next model that I am working on a Cygnar Grenadier. First I assembled the model and painted it with black primer. The next thing was to paint the glow comming from the visor, I used Arcane Blue and a fine detail brush. I dry brushed the metalic areas using Pig Iron, I like the look of Pig Iron dry brushed over black it gives it a slightly worn look and I think it also looks more like real metal. I put down a base coat of Hammerfall Khaki in the places that I will paint bronze. Next I am going to dry brush on the bronze and then clean up the primered areas with some Thamar Black. I like to do areas with dry brushing first because it gets kind of messy.