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Cool but I'm surprised you didn't go Landsknecht for the Prussian robots?

The 15mm dudes are neat, its and interesting scale.

Good stuff all round.

I think that if I had gone with a color scheme reminiscent of a Landsknecht, my intent would not have come through at all. It would have just looked like a colorful Warjack. It really isn't the look I was going for anyway. I wanted it to look like a Prussian soldier. Like something they might field alongside their infantry.


I've really been enjoying painting 15mm. I didn't think I would like it at all due to how small the figures are, but it really is fun. The fact that figures generally paint up quickly is an added bonus.

That was what I was thinking, you get to knock out some dudes who probably paint pretty quick, and then get to paint some aircraft and mechs to use in a system where they aren't unreasonably large for the size of game (looking at you 40k...). I guess 6mm pulls that off even better but then you don't get a lot of detail on your little dudes.

I like 15mm as a concept, but I've never known anyone who plays at that scale.

Hey, I don't know anyone who plays 15mm either. I'll just have to force Highlord Tamburlaine to learn.

I was hoping to have some new stuff to post tonight, but no dice. I've salvaged some of my old Menoth Warjacks that I'd started and never finished and got back to work on them. They should be done fairly quickly though since I was actually pretty far along on both already.

I've also been giving some thought on how I ought to go about making a KOW army. My desire is to do a demon army and a werewolf army. Demons would probably be pretty simple, just buy Mantic figures and Bones. Werewolves though will require a bit more thought. I'm quite certain The Herd is the way to go with them. I picked up some Warpwolf Skinwalkers from the FLGS along with a druid shaman over the weekend to slowly start my wolf army. I only just realized today though that I pretty much already have a werewolf army thanks to Wrath of Kings. So, along with my monthly projects, my new plan is to produce at least two wolves a month, starting next month.

Prussians are looking really rad!

EDC

If you don't mind the confrontation aesthetic, isn't that *the* way to get an affordable crapload of werewolves?

I think you are right regarding the herd, I forget what it is but herd werewolves are better somehow and they have a hero werewf option.

It's true that I could make an army quickly and fairly cheaply with the Confrontation prepaints, but, I already own a bunch of Wrath of Kings wolves. I'll do a count of them to see just how many I have. If I need more, which I kind of doubt, then I'll grab more Confrontation. Though, I do have a bunch of those wolves already as well.

I uhh... Soaced out the second half of that paragraph about wolves. Whoops.

Okay, Salvaged Warjack all finished. This is a Menoth Vanquisher.

Nifty. I like the off-white/cream with the violet.

Looking good. Is that a converted Warjack with the ball and chain?

Looks very solid!

JoshInJapan wrote:Nifty. I like the off-white/cream with the violet.

That cream color is the reason my Menoth output is so slow. It's an absolute pain in the ass to paint. It's also the reason why I had abandoned this project partway through way back when I got him.

Azazelx wrote:Looking good. Is that a converted Warjack with the ball and chain?

Nope, he's stock. I believe I got him from the starter set/Battlegroup. But, he's also available in the Heavy Warjack 3-in-1 box.

GrimDork wrote:Looks very solid!

Thanks!

Warjack looks good. Do not look forward to seeing you use it in any capacity whatsoever.

What did you use on the chrome parts? A mixture of different paints, I'm assuming, but what?

I don't think I have in metallics that light.

The silver is actually from a silver spray paint. I'd tried to speed up the painting a bit back when I originally worked on him. The coverage wasn't the best and despite being fairly light, it was also a very dull and matte.

I've been looking over the Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes rules, and yeah, this 'Jack may turn out to be kind of nasty in combat.

I wasn't feeling too good today, so I didn't get a whole lot done. I did however finish my Talos team and I painted the squad leader for Red Team.



Here's the full Talos team.



You get a flamer, grenade launcher, and 2 HMGs. Not too bad. I love their designs though. I really REALLY hope White Dragon makes some 28mm figures and does these designs the justice they deserve.

I also got my Oathsworn animals! So, I did not in fact get the drunken weasel. The only add-on I purchased was the bat necromancer. They tried to keep the animals mostly in scale with each other, so she's actually pretty small. Maybe next time we'll get a Megabat like I'd suggested. Freebies this time around were a scenery piece featuring a busted up badger statue and mouse adventurer sleeping on his pack.

This guy marks my seventh Menoth Warjack, and my eight total finished Warjack. All that's left is the Devout.



I'll work on the Devout a bit this week, probably and get working on this month's main challenge: The Skorpios Bombard.

Take a photo of all these Menoth jacks together.

I can't believe you've got that many now!

...says the man with at least 4 or 5 unpainted Cygnar jacks....

Okay, the Devout is done. This means all of my Menoth Warjacks are finished. This brings my grand total of Menoth 'Jacks to 8, and 9 Warjacks all together.



As I mentioned when I posed the Dervish, I didn't like his running pose, so I reposed him. I think having him standing on a pile of rubble like that is more fitting to a shield wielding halbredier. As I understand it, these guys are actually supposed to be pretty good in-game as bodyguards for your warcasters. When I stat him up for SOBH though, he's probably going to wind up being a shield buster with that halbred. Piercing, Long Reach, and I'll probably give him some kind of advanced guarding ability since he's actually got the largest shield of my Menoth warjacks (next to the Vigilant, of course). He should be a pain in the butt for Highlord Tamburlaine to fight.

Speaking of the Highlord, he asked for a pic of all 8 of my Menoth Warjacks together. The lighting isn't the best, but here you go.



Click the pic to go to the gallery where you can zoom in on it.

I actually painted another Afterlife figure! Hurray!

This is Gabriela Aguilar, a Specter Operative for the Unity Council and a special character.



I am so pleased her eyes turned out decent. Here she is with the other operative I did.

Nifty. I like the camo pattern on the cloak.

So, this weekend I was supposed to work on my Skorpios Bombards. I did, but I didn't finish them. I kind of got distracted. See, my brother wanted to go to the FLGS and I can't leave the damn place without buying something. So, I purchased a Wold for my slowly-being-built Herd army and I bought a rather large Bones Fire Demon at half price because for some reason, somebody put the thing in the consignment case even though it was still in the blister and wasn't missing anything. No clue why they did that, but, I now have an Abyssal Archfiend for my slowly-being-built Abyssal army. Now, this caused a bit of a painting distraction. See, somehow I wound up pretty much painting the entire thing last night. There were just a couple small details that needed work today and he was finished.



The guy is big. He doesn't fit entirely into my rather small frame for photos.

He also towers above my other demons.



You can also see the skin color progression with the weaker, younger guy being brightest and the stronger, older ones being darker.

Wow that is a big daemon. It looks great, the skin colour progression is a great idea.

Also a shout for that camp cloak, great work.

EDC

That's a pretty fast turn around for such a big model. He looks great.

Fancy work Barzam! That's a lota jacks! Big demon and sniper are cool too.

I'll elaborate now that I have a proper keyboard at hand:

That's a whole lot of 'Jacks! They all look great too I say that's a lot... but then I know one of the Retribution lists I looked at when I was flirting with the idea of picking up some WMH stuff had roughly 8 of the same Jack so... I guess it's not that many? Neat horde anyway!

Sniper looks good, the eyes did come out nicely and the camo cloak is smooth and looks just right.

Your Demon is awesome. The color choices are perfect, from the metals to the shade of red..spot on. And well executed, very nice piece in the end.

That medium demon on the right, were those guys metal? I know they don't have a hard plastic kit right?

Damn, that was fast.

I guess I gotta go back and touch mine up as mine looks really similar to your now.

That was a crazy deal though.

Still tempted to go back and get those Finecast undead.

Thanks for the compliments, guys.

Surprisingly, the demon was pretty easy to paint. The hardest parts was the golds, ans that's because my golds have gotten a bit dried out.

Grim, the demon on the right is the Abyssal Champion. He is a metal figure. One of the nicer metals I've received from Mantic, actually.

Tamburlaine, yours is a bit different from mine. Yours looks to be wearing bone colored armor while mine is gold. You also gave yours a mane of fire. Your flame whip looks much brighter than mine. Mine also looks to have darker skun.

For that Demon, I raise my staff and sword and shout "You shall not pass!"