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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!

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

Thanks, I have been aiming this year into focusing on one larger project all the time. In the beginning of the year it was my skorne and then in the autumn I switched back to cygnar. It also helps to have very specific subgoals, so when I have been painting this eNemo theme list I have divided the figs that need to be painted to groups for each month. December's goal is to paint the second firefly along with storm tower to finish the stormcaller section of the army.

Then on parallel with the main project I have one or two figs to paint to get some variation to painting. The problem is in keeping these under control. Currently I have malifaux crew, infinity, spherewars, a soda pop fig, confrontation Drunes along with Space Hulk trying to compete for the place in the spotlight. I have the Waagh Dakka ork and a Malifaux fig almost finished, but I already painted the space hulk dead terminator before finishing either.

I just try to focus on the main project and then do the other minis when inspiration strikes, it seems to work pretty well for me. Also keeping the main project to certain quality level, they are not perfect and in some areas they might be quite roughly painted, but it doesn't matter as they are for gaming. Display figs are then worked and reworked until perfect, but I haven't painted many figs to that level in years. Now I have the urge to do the Soda Pop fig to top level I can achieve so let's see how it goes.

To kick of new year I'll give you pictures of the last figs painted last year: the stormtower for my Nemo2's theme force. It is included in the army as a tier bonus for free, but the figures are so nice that it was a pleasure painting it. The leader and grunt were both painted to fit among the rest of the stormsmiths already painted for my cygnar force. Stormtower was painted using the worn brass and steel used on my cygnar jacks. I opted to paint the hair of the smiths in regular colors as opposed to the gray look that the studio smiths have. I like it a lot better as the figs seem to represent pretty young humans.







And here is a group shot of all of the stormsmiths for now, I think that I need another blister of 3 for my force though.



I did miss my deadline for getting also the second firefly painted during December. It is base coated, but still needs a lot of attention to get it finished. I aim to get it and another fig for the force still finished during this month, but lets see how it goes.

I love THIS! All of this!

Great work on the highlights, I dig the khaki + blue paint scheme for your Cygnar. Great bases!

I'll keep coming back for more!

Nice Stormsmith group, Metsuri. How was the Storm Tower to assemble?

I'm also putting a 50pt eNemo Tier 4 list together, so I know what you're going through

Hmelrose wrote:I love THIS! All of this!

Great work on the highlights, I dig the khaki + blue paint scheme for your Cygnar. Great bases!

Thanks Hmelrose, I wanted my infantry to look more rugged and natural than the studio scheme and khaki was a good neutral light brown. It is quite nice color to paint and is not too difficult to shade. The bases are done to give good contrast to the lighter figs. I've tried to make them look natural and neutral, but still have some detail in them to make them more interesting.

Dysartes wrote:Nice Stormsmith group, Metsuri. How was the Storm Tower to assemble?

I'm also putting a 50pt eNemo Tier 4 list together, so I know what you're going through

Thanks Dysartes, I saw that you are on the same boat as I am from your blog and new years resolutions here.

What kind of list are you planning on? Or how many stormsmiths are you planning on fielding

The Storm Tower is not too hard to assemble, the grunt is one piece (or she has sword to attach to the hip). The gunner is two pieces, goes together easily and the tower is one piece. The only part where you need to pay attention is when attaching the tower and gunner to the base as there is a power cable joining the gunner to the tower. I pinned the cable to the gunner and then pinned the tower to the base near the lip. After that I just needed to pin the gunner to the base so that the cable reached the socket in tower. Not too difficult, but needs to be done with some attention to make it look good.