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After couple of months of watching this jack to be half done, I got up and finished it today. Part of my Kraye theme list, but also to be used with other casters especially Sloan and Siege. I have magnetized the arms so I can change it to defender or ironclad depending on the situation, but the weapons of those jacks are not finished yet. I painted the furnaces to be lit, like Dysartes does on his jacks.

Check full sized pictures in gallery by clicking on the images.







Next up for Cygnar is either Stormlances or Rowdy, depending on which I get assembled first.

You and Dysartes have nice blues. Did you sculpt that
rock piece on the base, did you just stick it on there, or was
it a pre-sculpted base?

malfred wrote:You and Dysartes have nice blues. Did you sculpt that
rock piece on the base, did you just stick it on there, or was
it a pre-sculpted base?

Thanks Malf, I think that I nailed the shade of blue that I like on the defender and ironclad and this cyclone both have nice shiny blue that I like.

The rock is made of cork. I took and old cork from a wine bottle, cut about third of it's lenght and then started to carve it with a hobby knife. You can get nice shapes out of cork and it paints up nicely. I have to think of something new for the next jacks though, I have a large rock on front of every jacks base now.

Great color layout I like the light bands. Fig and base really look good.

Thanks MudgeBlack.

The light bands tie my jack to my infantry, which has khaki as the main color. The blue jacks just seemed so cygnar that I could go for khaki as the main color for the jacks I settled for the bands to break from the studio paint job.

After several months of painting my Skorne and other figs, I got the urge to paint something blue. I looked through my collection of cygnar figs and noticed that I have several jacks and stormnouns unfinished or unpainted. This started a thought in my head about doing Nemo2 theme force mainly to get the figs painted, but I think it might be a fun list to play too.

For the tiers I need to paint Nemo2(unfinished), 2 fireflies (unassembled) and 2 units of Stormguard(I currently have only one, which is unfinished) also the free stormtower needs to be painted. I played around with forward kommander to build the lists and came up with the following tier 2 35 pts list:

General Adept Nemo
Firefly 5
Firefly 5
Ironclad 7
Thunderhead 12
Squire 2
Field Mechaniks (Leader and 3 Grunts) 2
Stormguard (Leader and 5 Grunts) 6
Stormsmith Stormcaller 1
Stormsmith Stormcaller 1

The bold units I already have painted. It needs the inclusion of another Stormguard unit along with third heavy jack to reach tier 4, but those were too hard to include on 35 pts. To start the painting on the list I have finished half a unit of stormguard and second half is already on the way. I guess this list will guide my painting this winter, at least until painter ADD sets in again.

They look nice. I prefer the majority of the armour silver, much more natural than completely blue. Good work!

They look great! I second the comment about the silver with a little blue. I really like your basing too.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:They look nice. I prefer the majority of the armour silver, much more natural than completely blue. Good work!

Thanks, I thought sometime about the ratio of silver to blue in these as I wanted them to fit next to my swordknights naturally. I think they stand out as figs enough to be noticed on the gaming table and I wanted them to look more natural than the studio scheme. I am a big fan of natural and subdued colors so these worked well and were fast to paint in addition.

MudgeBlack wrote:They look great! I second the comment about the silver with a little blue. I really like your basing too.

Thanks Mudge! The basing is just collection of down to earth colors with bone white drybrush after the grass has been applied to tie things together. Down to earth as the figs, but with enough twist to make thing a bit more interesting.

In the mean while I got a game in with my Skorne and after that I got the urge to paint some so the second half of the stormguard are progressing well. Silver armor is already done as are the blue areas. Still have to finish the brass and insulation gear before they are ready for varnish.

Nice work you Cygnarian dog! I agree with Vitruvian XVII, the stormguards look much better with less blue and more silver!

Just looked in on your gallery, a lot of great models you have done. I really like the purple scheme on your Skorne and McMourning and friend look great (Long live the Resurrectionists!!!)!

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:Nice work you Cygnarian dog! I agree with Vitruvian XVII, the stormguards look much better with less blue and more silver!

Thanks count! The ideas as said was to have a bit different and natural looking army, it seems to have worked in practice

MudgeBlack wrote:Just looked in on your gallery, a lot of great models you have done. I really like the purple scheme on your Skorne and McMourning and friend look great (Long live the Resurrectionists!!!)!

Thanks Mudge, glad that you enjoyed the gallery. There a lot of figs from these past couple of years there. So many great figs and so little painting time The malifaux Resser crew is one project I hope to have time to continue on soon, I have rest of the morgue crew and the graveyard crew waiting for paint. I just seem to have too much fun with the Skorne and Cygnar currently to paint them. Then I have the Space Hulk set, pile of old Rackham figs, couple of nice Reaper minis along with a really nice looking spherewars fig and .... It just seems that now I want to get the gaming figs done before going forward with the display pieces.

Got rest of the Stormguard unit 1 painted and here are the pictures, 2 more grunts and the leader of the unit. Really fast paint job for me, but I'm really pleased with the way they look together on the table top. Same techniques and colors used as the rest of the unit. The leader has a bit more space to paint the electric effects so that he stand up a bit more from the grunts.



Here is a back shot of the leader to show how I painted the cloth on the back, basically the same blue as on the shoulder pads and then some bone/ khaki on the rim to tie them to the other infantry units on my army.



I currently have eNemo and Firefly on the way, lets see which one I finish first.

Looking good Metsuri!

Continuing with the eNemo theme force here is first Firefly. Tier 2 requires the army to include 2 of these to help the stormsmiths to do their lightning calling. This was my first of the new plastic lights and it went together like charm. I had to warm the spear a bit as it was quite bent, but that went easily enough. I was quite surprised at how big these new lights are, they are much taller and bulkier looking than the old metal lights.

The painting is following my established palette for cygnar, no new trick were tried when painting.

Metsuri wrote:The painting is following my established palette for cygnar, no new trick were tried when painting.

Be that as it may, its still a top job! That kit does indeed look nice.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

Metsuri wrote:The painting is following my established palette for cygnar, no new trick were tried when painting.

Be that as it may, its still a top job! That kit does indeed look nice.

Thanks Vitruvian!

I have gotten to the point with my blues that I can paint the jacks quite well without thinking too much about it, which is why I have taken much of this year to paint my skorne force. After this eNemo list is complete I have to take a project outside PP universe to clean my palette, it will most likely be incursion or infinity. Have to see which one wins in the end.

The kit is indeed really nice, perhaps most players already have the metal jacks and therefore I haven't seen the new plastic one in flesh. The firefly is a jack that I wouldn't use without several stormsmiths and eNemo so I have been missing the lancers and chargers mostly. I might take a comparison picture of firefly next to classic charger and ironclad, which would show the size increase well.

Go Infinity...

Once again, the model looks great. I hear what you are saying about straightening things (usually long thin things) on the plastics. I had to straighten mauls on demo corps, sorsha, kreoss, and cinerators. Just get some hot water, dip it in, and good to go.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Go Infinity...

I think that might be the case, even sooner than you think. I have a Nomad Hellcat with a nice Secret Weapon base next to it on my desk waiting for me to finish a Malifaux mini. That is probably going to be the next mini that I start. I think that I will paint a force of PanO during next year, but this one mini might be enough to scratch that itch for now.

MudgeBlack wrote:Once again, the model looks great. I hear what you are saying about straightening things (usually long thin things) on the plastics. I had to straighten mauls on demo corps, sorsha, kreoss, and cinerators. Just get some hot water, dip it in, and good to go.

Yeah, that was the way I did it also. I think I got it reasonably straight as it appears to be quite good looking also on the pictures. The spear is really nice looking, especially when compared to the metal jacks spears. I haven't had any inspiration to paint my centurion as the spear is so sad looking. I hope that the coming plastic jack has really nice and beefy beat stick.

Next up for my Cygnar army is a merc solo Anastasia diBray. Really beautiful figure, a lot of nice detail and good pose. The only problem is she is in the same scale as Black 13th so quite a bit smaller than a lot of WM infantry models. I painted this one to have a bit of break from painting the normal cygnar infantry figs, but still she is painted with the same colors as the rest of the army.





Comments and suggestions about her are appreciated

Next up are the cygnar mechanics for my eNemo theme force, half of the full unit is already well under way.

She looks great, love the shading and highlighting, it really brings her to life. Your palette is perfect as well, my first thought on seeing her was "British field agent in a spy movie".

MudgeBlack wrote:She looks great, love the shading and highlighting, it really brings her to life. Your palette is perfect as well, my first thought on seeing her was "British field agent in a spy movie".

Thanks, she really fell into place really easily. I just looked at the colors I have used for my Cygnar and though about which would look best as the jacket color and rest just fell into place.

I got the first half of bodgers painted yesterday, still need to varnish and base them. Today starting the rest of the unit, 14 figures left to paint for the 50 point eNemo tier 4 list.

I agree, the choice of colours look great all together, such an evocative mini, well done!

Thanks Vitruvian!

She was a good mini to try couple of things on as a practice for Infinity figs also. The scale and detail are pretty similar on this one. I already have my Nomad Hellcat with HMG primed and on base. Now I just have to get the Waagh Dakka Ork done before diving into that one...

To continue my adventure with eNemo theme force I finished these Bodgers for my max unit of Field Mechaniks. They were bought and painted mainly to fix my urge to paint the Lacroix crew of Malifaux, and they managed to scratch that itch for a while at least. Nice figs for Prime era, all one piece sculpts but the casting didn't show their age. Nice amount of details and character, they were a joy to paint. I just finished the second half of the unit, but still have to varnish and paint them before posting here.





Next up is the Storm tower and second Firefly or Thunderhead. I haven't yet decided which jack I'll do first.

Theyre charecterful sculpts! Love little guys like that, like the way you picked out the goggles.

You just need to make the goggles stand out Vitruvian, they bring a lot of the cool character to the unit. Either you cannot see the eyes or they are covered by goggles for the whole unit.

The second half of the unit is now varnished and sand has been glued to the bases, hopefully I have time to finish them during weekend to move back to paint lightning based weaponry.

And here are the rest of the mechaniks. I varied the color placement with these so that there is no identical gobbers on the unit to make them look more irregular in appearance. The chief was painted to contrast with the rest of the crew with colors placed like the rest of my infantry. These were a blast to paint, so I made quick work on the whole unit. Sadly there has been really cloudy weather here for the past days, so I had to take the pictures by lamp light, which makes them look like crap.





Next up is either one of the missing jacks or storm tower, I haven't yet started painting any of those.

They look great as a group! Im continually impressed by your level of output, i always get so distracted!