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Blood Angels Drop Pod
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Cygnar Long Gunners with Unit Attachment
This unit is taking forever. Of course, it is the business week of the entire year at work, so it might be that I’m only able to sneak in an hour painting here and there. I suck at wood grain… so hard to get the micro thin lines, even with a tiny brush. If the point is to sharp and the line is too thin, no paint wicks off the brush or the line is to faint. If I water down the paint to less paint so the tip is ‘sharper’ (no mini paint blob at all) the line is too faint. If I try and do layers of wood grain to build up slight lines, I’m not precise enough and wash out the underlying darker wood. argh! Need to improve precision painting skills.
Still have to paint add some highlights and shadows on the green greatcoats, finish the faces, hair, flag, and a few minor doo-dads on the officer… then it’s on to a batch of warjacks.
So many models complete, so many to go!
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Assembling a Blood Angels Assault Squad
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Precursor Knights
Precursor Knights completed! The eyes look a bit ‘big’ with the blue pupils, so I might go back and thin them down… or I might just varnish them up tomorrow and move on to the next model(s). The banner is airbrushed on with a frisket mask, and is the symbol of Morrowan (which is also sculpted into their shields, the figure at the top of the banner, etc). In Iron Kingdom lore, these guys are religious zealots that follow the Morrowan faith, a splinter from the Menites which was the dominate religion.
77 models painted, 41 to go!
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Warmacine & Warhammer Metallics
Warmachine Cygnar Precursor Knights with reaper Metallics and a Citadel black wash next to some Grey Knight space marines painted with raw, unwashed Testors stainless steel metalizer and some citadel dwarf bronze details also washed in citadel black wash.
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Warmachine Cygnar vs. Protectorate 15 points
This past weekend I had some Warmachine firsts:
- First 15 point game
- First time playing on the new terrain board
- First time playing the 3t-studios pro-terrain
- First time fielding a unit of stormblades
- First time fielding Reinholdt
- First time fielding a Hammersmith
- First time against a Protectorate Choir of Menoth
You can see the Cygnar hunter trying to flank on the left. This failed as the choir cast ‘Safe Passage’ on the Protectorate Revenger which sent my Hunter running back towards the front line.
This did seem to cause the Protectorate advance to hesitate, and my warcaster (Siege Brisbane) laid down several turns of 2x/turn Rocket Cannon ranged attacks (thanks to Reinholdt’s reload special action) that successfully softened up the Protectorate Advance. My Hammersmith (which is hard to see, is around the corner of the building on the left) disabled (but didn’t kill) the Revenger and soaked up the attention of the Protectorate Crusader and Revenger. The Protectorate Repenter rolled poorly on a flame thrower spray attack and only took out one of my stormblades as they advanced out of cover, who were then in position to successfully attack Kreoss with a combined melee attack which effectively ended the game.
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Testors Metalizer on Games Workshop Grey Knights Space Marines
I gave Testors ‘stainless steel’ metalizer enamel paint a try this past week. Overall I’m very happy with the results. You can see a ‘metalized’ squad of grey nights next to some space marines painted with Createx Wicked airbrush paints. Obviously these are all just basecoated, so I have yet to see how acrylics will layer on top of the metallic, how the finish will look if/when I seal with Acrylic varnish, and how durable the metalizer colors will be in practice.
The metalizer sprays were a dream to shoot in my Iwata Hi-Line brush.
On thing that I learned was to be conservative with how much to ‘buff’ the metalized paints. I was a bit too aggressive and buffed out some of the metallic shine on the shoulder pads on some of these guys.
I’m so enamored with these enamels and metalizers in general that I ordered some ‘Alclad II’ chrome paint. I will, as usual, post the results once I have given the Alclad paints a whirl.
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37 Bases
Glued sand down to 37 Cygnar tonight… tomorrow night will be painting sand!! w00t!
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Varnishing a Cygnar Army with Liquitex Gloss & Matte Varnish
As I need to varnish/seal an entire cygnar army… I’m trying various finishing techniques and I think I’ve found the best. I applied un-thinned liquitex gloss varnish first, and you can see the very glossy finish on the hunters in the picture to the right.
After waiting the recommended three hours between coats, I applied the matte varnish with the airbrush, and was impressed with the ability to control (roughly) where I wanted to dull down the varnish. In the picture below you can see where I sprayed the matte varnish to the blue armor area and left the metallic smoke stack glossy to preserve the metallic sheen.
The varnish feels very durable, handling the mini feels like a harder/more durable surface than the ‘raw’ acrylics, without being really apparent when looking. It also feels like there was never even a remote risk of frosting like with the aerosol cans.
30mm Madness! 
