Two for one posts!!!

I whipped these up with some medium bases and the banners from Man o' war Kovniks which I ordered from PP online. I cut off the anvils on top carefully and gave them to a Khador playing friend.  They feature some really nice shading, especially on the green and purple ones. I colored them specifically not to match any of the armies I regularly play.

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 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.  

More colors

I am going to show off another one of my paint schemes, but first I want to talk briefly about another aspect of the hobby. Modifying miniatures. I am not much of a sculptor. However, I love to build things out of random bits. A while back a friend and I stumbled on a great deal. A sizable force of Cryx from Warmachine for sale a a really great price. We decided to go in on it together. One of the pieces we picked up was even cheaper than a good deal. Asphixious was missing the bottom part of his spear. I knew right away how I would fix it, and you can see the unpainted repair here.

The picture is kind of rough but you can still see the repair. I made this from a spare piece of copper pipe, a bead and one of my SO's earings which had lost its small stone. I think the result is pretty nice. Painted up you can hardly tell its a replacement build.

The other nice thing about going together with a friend on an army is that I have step by step instructions for all the colors and effects for the entire model written up. It requires a somewhat eclectic mix of paints, but unlike with most of my older stuff I can tell you exactly how I did this model if anyone is interested.

Showing my colors

OK, so last post I promised you something with paint on it. The other day while shooting pictures for an upcoming post I needed a test model for the lighting and camera settings. I grabbed something off the of the shelf and just happened to get this guy. This is one of my better and more recent War Machine solos. Its also the blog's first look at the color scheme for my Protectorate of Menoth army, which is my largest by model count.

Unfortunately this guy doesn't see a lot of table time because of his in game stats. Which is why he was on the shelf in the first place.

The jacks and more heavily armored troops in this color scheme feature the tan color you can see here on his shoulder plate, you will see more of that as I post more pictures.