Some of you might find it blasphemous that I don’t use P3 paints. It’s true. I find that I don’t want to mix paint. In the economy of time that I get to paint, It is far preferable for me to be able to grab one of Reaper’s Master Series’ Triads and instantly have a base, shadow, and highlight in just 3 bottles. Add a touch of flow improver and get to painting. The paints also dry fairly quick so I can, on a REALLY good night hammer out a mini a night or even 2 simple ones.
I broke out a new triad, Dark Elf flesh. The triad is a gray color with a hint of purple to it. While I admit it was not as dark or as red as I originally intended, I like the color. I picked it up for the Black Ogrun Boarding Party. I have a full unit and want them to match their description from the original Monsternomicon. On page 12 of that book, they are described as:
“A distant cousin of the regular Ogrun.
Black Ogrun resemble their cousins in things such as general build and size but they are more sinister and evil. Their skins are darker, of an almost soot color with red glowing eyes that can fix even the bravest of men in place.
They are vicious and cruel slavers but excellent smiths who produce weapons of great quality. Rumors circulate that these weapons are made through dark and vile practices and as a result are cursed.”
They sound intimidating. They are also one of the few units with health boxes in Cryx. I believe they are the only 8 health Cryx unit. With their abilities and my theme, it is an easy conclusion to add them to the mix.
But I digress…
Flesh in any species, real or imagined, is not the same tint in everyone. Some have darker pigmentation, some have lighter. Keeping this in mind, I varied the skin tone of my Black Ogrun. I have 3 that are just the basic Dark Elf Skin Triad. It is a great color. I used it on my two Skarres and plan to use it predominately through the Satyxis Raiders I will be painting up soon enough. This will help the models blend more with the rest of the army.
Next, I added a bit of red ink to the base color and purple ink to the shadow to have an Ogrun that was more red. Honestly, it ended out brighter than I wanted so he was the only one with the redish tint to his skin.
Last, I have one that I used grey on. I used the shadow of a stone grey color I have as the base/midtone and shadowed it with black and highlighted it with midtone of the stone grey triad. He ended out looking pretty good too, but without that hint of red, he look a bit too unliving…in a bad way for Cryx. More stone than undead.
After the flesh was done, I moved on to pants. Each model has a different color for their pants. There is bright green, off white with dark blue (nearly black) stripes, red leather, and blue. The leader has the stormy seas color that is on Skarre’s overcoat.
Last night, I finished the leather vest on the leader model and the belts and straps on all 5 models. I have weapons, armor plates, and small accent parts left such as the bottle and fish bones on the belts. I expect I should finish them this evening.
Images will be posted soon.
Tags: black ogrun, Cryx, Dark Elf Skin, Fight Club, IABN, MKII, Monsternomicon, pirates, Reaper Master Series, Vallejo Model Color, Warmachine
I am a night of drybrushing, arc marking, and sealing away from a complete 25 point MKII list. Here is a peek at 4 jacks after I had applied the water effect.
Tags: army, Cryx, Epic Skarre, Fight Club, fully painted, IABN, Painting, Warmachine, Water Effect
I cranked out a hell of a lot of painting this weekend. My wife was out of town for unfortunate circumstance and I had the kids from Thursday until about 9:00 last night by myself. My oldest daughter was a pretty big help and my second oldest was pretty much sick the whole time. My younger two were pretty good overall and didn’t give me much guff each night when it was time for bed. So at about 10:00 pm each night, I would grab a drink and head down the stairs to paint and paint and paint. I took my 25 point list (and a few extra models) for Fight Club from abyssally behind to nearly done in 3.5 nights. Tonight, I have to base the Seether, a Slayer (not in the list, but needed for Resurgence), a Stalker, and Nightmare.Epic Skarre and a Deathripper are done and arc marked. Tonight they get sealed. After that, I can finish painting up my Skarlock and get started on a unit of Bile Thralls…and a few other bits of Cryxian goodness.
After I have the models based, arc marked, and maybe sealed, I will get some images up for all of you to see.
Tags: army, Cryx, Epic Skarre, Fight Club, fully painted, IABN, MKII, Nightmare, Painting, Warmachine
Quite some time ago Privateer Press announced that they were ending their partnership with Gale Force Nine and were going to release tokens for Warmachine on their own. While this was dubious given their lackluster showing with the Hordes tokens, I was quite willing to set aside that experience and assume that Privateer would do what they have always seemed to do…Learn from their mistakes.
At the time, Warmachine and Hordes Mark II was not announced and it caused quite the public uproar for people who were looking for new tokens for their newest models. In fact, there were no tokens released for the last Hordes book, Metamorphosis, at all. Legends had a limited time release for the new epic warcasters, but not for their newest none epic warcasters.
This lack of tokens prompted many to either make their own or to use Gale Force Nines’ “new” Warcogs and Warclaws tokens or resort to making their own. The Warcog/claw tokens are great for most people, but I miss the personalized feel that the official licensed tokens offered. Sorry, GF9.
Thanks to Saultydog, making tokens couldn’t be easier. He created a tutorial to help people create game tokens in Gimp. Not that I followed the letter of the tutorial on this, but the jist is there and it was a huge help for what I was looking to do.
I used the same basic steps as Saultydog’s tutorial but added a few tweaks that I wanted on my tokens. Each side of the face of the token reads, in Cryxian runes, “Glory to the Dragon Father.” to create this, I used a few IK fonts. You can download those on the Privateer Press Forum. For the symbol in the middle, I used an IK Symbols font that I found on a UK Warmachine site. Remember to scroll all the way to the bottom. There are a few other interesting bits here, but the IK Symbols is really the icing of the site.
After all that, I had a basic layout for my tokens. You can see it at the bottom of this post with the finished examples.
With this basic layout, I added spell and effect names for everything from Knocked down to focus and souls. To put on the name of the effect I used mainly either black text for general tokens like spell effects or focus or red text for mainly negative effects like knocked down or Stationary. I did break the mold for Fire and Souls using something a bit more fitting for those tokens. I used the Windless font for a good pirate-like feel. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome. Here are some images of the final tokens that should be hitting the table this coming Wednesday when my Cryx finally hits the field.
For those interested, I have included a link to download a PDF of my token sheet. The Cryx symbol and runes are copyright Privateer Press. The template sheet is provided at no cost and is not a challenge of their copyright or IP.
Tags: Cryx, effects, Epic Skarre, Fight Club, IABN, spells, tokens, warclaws, warcogs, Warmachine
Just a quick note to say congratulations to Tim on his very first No Quarter article. It was a good read and really shows the knowledge anyone can experience from a St. Louis Riverdog.
Good job, Tim and I look forward to reading more from you in the future.