Flesh Tearers - Death Company

The hoard of Flesh Tearers grows with more not-red marines, this time it is the Death Company.

There is a lot of black on these guys, but I think all that bling livens it up nicely. And hazard stripes (of course!)

Some of them are lucky enough to have glowy bits...

These chaps will be riding in a LR crusader, which is built and ready for primer. It will complete the forward edge of the sawblade with the other one. I am thinking of inverting the black/red so the black is forward (with the 'x' on the hatches). Thoughts?

The unpainted pile is rapidly shrinking, but there is more on the way! More terminators, jumping death co. and a couple of dreads, yay dreaddies!

Also, my thanks to Tristan for sending over such dynamically-posed marines!



Until next round!

Faith, the Other Slayer

I wanted my second slayer to have a more dramatic pose, my first idea was to have her jumping over the dead man'o'war, but I decided to go with a pose associated with a dire troll.

Being the angrier slayer, I gave Faith larger tusks (taken from the plastic minotaur sprue).

I painted her the same as the other helljacks except for the gold. Instead of using my standard (dwarf bronze, shining gold, burnished gold, thrakka wash) I used the 'blighted' method (blighted gold, shining gold, thrakka wash, burnished gold). I think it looks much better.

Rawr!!
Until next time.

Flesh Tearers - Medic!

Progress on the Flesh Tearers fares well with the apothecary being finished. I would guess I am on a trend of not-red Flesh Tearers...

Like the librarian, I replaced the dark red with his designation colour, in this case white.

I snuck in some osl on the backpack...
Next up; Death Company. Until next round.

Why no posts?!

Here is why. Don't worry, I will get on the camera soon.....

Space Hulk Flesh Tearers - Librarian

Got to work on the Flesh Tearers, specifically, the librarian. It was nice to get away from the red for a bit.

I went with green for warp-stuff for two reasons. First; too much blue, it wouldn't be noticed. Second; to separate psychic energy from mechanical energy. He still has his fair share of red though.

Next up is the (first) Death Company, half done already!
Until next round.

Deathjack

Ever since I started collecting Cryx, about a year ago, I've had Deathjack lumbering around without paint and unused. So, while I was working on a certain terminator librarian, I put some coats on the big fella too.

When I first built him, I made him bigger, and it looked to odd. A while ago I went back and did some cutting and re-gluing to reduce the proportions. Happy with the new size, he sat about for a while more.

I stayed to a simple palette, like the rest of my helljacks but with a subtly different tone.

He was one hell of a heavy, spikey chunk of metal to paint, but surprisingly fast too.

On the table he is a beast with a potential 5 focus, able to cast spells, take souls, regenerate, and the best helljack stats (so far). Completely worth 12 points.

Grrrr!
Until next round.

Kacy - Warwitch Siren

Kacy, recently finished, is the second of my warwitch sirens. The majority of the mini comes from the Anima Tactics range, which has some really nice sculpts with crisp details. The original model was supposed to have a scythe but it was missing from the box, so she sat around in a bitz box for a while. Then I got a second Deneghra which I cannibalized, using the pointing hand and her back spikes. I think she has the Cryxian look.

Now that I have a second warwitch I can field a tier 4 Mortenebra list (which makes me a very happy necromancer). Outside a tier force, simply having two free focus is sweet for any of my casters.

Blighted Gold (from PP) has cut my painting time on 'Cryx gold' in half, no need for that green wash any longer and it covers better. From the start, I knew she would be a redhead and the clothes dark, otherwise I painted her like the other siren.

Until next round, keep painting.

Orrin Midwinter, Rogue Inquisitor

I got this model with a bunch of other Iron Kingdoms minis, intending to add him to the Adventuring Party, until I noticed that a friend had mercenary stat card which looked suspiciously like him. Since he will work for Cryx (and he is a rogue inquisitor) he has been added to my mage corps.

As an Iron Kingdoms mini, he goes by the name of Vahn Oberen, he was a straight forward and quick mini to paint. I tried to keep him bright, without adding more colors to the green tone. I think he turned out ok.

On the table, he hasn't done much yet. His lightning arc was fun but couldn't get through the man'o'wars, and his null field prompted the enemy to kill him quickly. We'll see what happens in future games.

Until next round.

The Ragman

Here is one of the first of my mercenaries to be hired by my Cryxians, the Ragman. He is the merc solo from the Wrath book, one of my purchase goals at GottaCon, and I just really like the model.

He will be a nice addition to my "mage corps", led by the Withershadow combine and usually joined by a skarlock. I can't wait to use him with some mind slaves.

I wanted to paint him in the typical necromancer theme, with dark hues offset by bright green, as per his background. (The fluff is one of the reasons I love the Iron Kingdoms, it is rich enough to make me want to use named characters!) His base has sculpted bricks and waterworks like the Adventuring Party I am painting for rpg purposes.

I finally took the camera out again, so there is a whole backlog of posts incoming, until next round!

The Boss Troll

This year is the year of the troll, and to herald such a grand occasion is the Boss Troll himself; Capt'n Gunbjorn. What is "the year of the troll"? I will try to clarify.

I have made myself a goal to collect a army/faction/gang for each wargaming system I can get my paint-stained fingers on, and with my Cryxians verging upon completion, it is on to Hordes.

Why trolls? Simple; they are a bunch of Scottish monsters with big guns and they are smarter than orks (and look better, imho). Once I saw Mr. Gunbjorn here, everything clicked. Being a quarter Scottish the tartans were already decided upon.

The trolls will have a different feel than most of my other collections, they will be more vibrant with brighter, warmer colors. I decided on swamp/marsh- themed bases, far from civilization. I used a collection of cork, tree trimmings (from wire trees), a skeleton arm and aquarium plant to start. After painting some colored lichen and water effects were added.

I love the way NMM can look, so I have been working on how to get the same effect using metallics and washes. I use both highlighting and selective washes to get the effect. (Tutorial? Yes, one day...) Any brass I wanted to keep dark, so it wasn't mistaken for gold. The other tones were kept similar, greens and browns mostly with a bit of blue and yellow.

I entered the Capt'n in this year's GottaCon painting contest and won first! (His cup is bigger than Fester's.) I was surprised to see an amazing squid-faced bloodgorger in second!? Congrats to all the paintcomp winners this year, they were all spectacular!

Until next round.