More Old Warcasters

I have been having some issues keeping my photography rig set up lately, also the hockey playoffs have been eating in to my painting/blogging time. I have got a few things done, but I don't have pictures. What I do have is another old warcaster. This was years after the last two, and painted to what I considered a pretty high standard at the time.

Old Warcasters

I have been playing Warmachine for years now. Since back when there were four factions each with four warcasters. Today I am posting up pictures of my first two. At the time I worked really hard on these, even adding a little crude freehand (the menofix on Kreoss' hat and the runes along the bottom of Severius' cape. You can see my progress, Severius, the second one, has much better highlighting than Kreoss. Still I would consider these only table top quality now.

Project Scythe Now With Paint!!!

After all that work to get this built things are finally moving along quickly. You can see the model was primed white. I also have my first coat of paint down. I do the yellow skin color of my warbeasts in an unusual fashion. This coat, Citadel Sunburst Yellow watered down to not quite a wash, is actually the highest of the highlights. I will be adding a series of progressively darker, and thinner washes, then I will go back and touch up the highlighted areas. 

A lot of people will tell you never to prime white because you have to go back and all the shadows between sections. However, since the plates on this model will be so dark anyway I find the white primer saves me a great deal of time trying to cover black primer with yellow. The darker paint on the other parts of the model also mean I can do the skin with a series of washes and not worry to much about how neat I am as I will neither be hiding detail not putting down a hard to cover color. 

Project Scythe Putty

I have the putty work done on the Scythean. You can see where I filled in the gaps and smoothed the seems. I did this for pretty much every piece. I use Games Workshop's green stuff, and Vallejo plastic putty for this.

The putty looks rough, but it actually been blended against the model so that it feels smooth. I use a combination of things to do this including a modeling knife and a few odd tools I have lying around. Sometimes I even bend a paper clip if I need a specific curve in a hard to reach area.

Next up for Project Scythe is can of primer...

Project 60

Here is how this works. I get one miniature, primed and assembled. I spend one hour painting it and snap pictures at five minute intervals. Photography time does not count towards the hour. I also stop the count to allow washes to dry. 

Today the miniature is the Attendant Priest from Warmachine. In games terms this model accompanies a mercenary unit and this made me less concerned about the paint scheme matching exactly. I have never attempted this before. Going in I had no idea if an hour was going to be enough time or too much. Turns out that a little more time would have been better, but I didn't do that badly. I also learned that I need to figure out how to keep the camera zoom at the same setting. It kept turning off and resetting the zoom level so the picture below is not as consistent as I would like. Still you get a pretty good sense of my painting process here. You may need to click, this is a fairly big picture. 

The final result you can see below, the only changes I made after the hour was to touch up the black part of the base.

I enjoyed this process immensely. I hope to try it again when I can, either on a model used for this specifically or when I get another good candidate.  

Project Scythe Assembled

So finally the first look at our monster all in one piece. Building this things was a significant project. There is a pin in every single part, and two more holding it to the base for a total of 17 in all. After I snapped off three drill bits in my Dremel (Alway wear your safety glasses) most of them were drilled by hand too. 

Now its time to fill the gaps and hopefully soon prime this beast.