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Previous Blog, for my Eldar and Space Marines.

With Warmachine putting out MkII (and plastics!), returning things to a bit of a level playing field as far as escalation goes, my wife and I decided to consider picking it up. We're taking it as our "painting small amounts of minis" game, since it lends itself to playing with only a few models/units. I'm'a going to play Khador, she's doing Menoth; I'll be doing all the assembling/converting. This will definitely be a slow going blog, as I am in school with much of my non-classwork time taken up by commuting (another reason why a skirmish-friendly game is welcome).

I've only assembled one model so far: a Decimator (Khador gun+buzzsaw heavy, it's apparently new to MkII). This served as something of a test model, as I'd not worked with the new Privateer plastics yet, and I needed to see how they hold up to the cutting/pinning/scraping that comes with doing up conversions. As such, this one's a fair bit simple: I replaced the weedy Khador smokestacks with something a little more beefy, gave the legs a bit more mobility (compared to the squatting nature of the standard model), and extended the barrel on the gun (the barrel was warped anyways, so I had to do it). I also did a very minor bit of sloppy putty around the sawblade, as I'm intending to paint it to look as if it is rotating.

Color-wise, I'm probably going to do a forest green + red scheme, somewhat similar to that seen on the company Kodiak. This might seem a little odd given my proclivity for not following "official" color schemes, but I just couldn't think of anything better for this one. The whole army's going to be themed as if it were fighting in the forest bordering Cygnar (lots of knocked-over lumber, etc) so the color should fit well once I start painting.







Coming soon: deciding what exactly I want to do with The Butcher...

This one doesn't quite fit the title, but I put together the first model for my wife's Menoth. Since I'm not painting them, I'm not going to give them their own thread, only sticking them in here from time to time.

Not much of a repose needed, except extending the arms a little bit to give me the angles I wanted, and doing up a longer (and positionable) chain for the flail.

Lookin nice, they have the feel of a seige regiment in my mind, though I have never played this game.

Finished the Decimator; these are rough pics, since the lightbox is buried away somewhere at the moment. I'm pretty happy with it, except that the "spinning saw blade" didn't come out AT ALL. I may just repaint it a little more traditionally, or chop it off and try again. We'll see.

Nice poses on the jacks, I especially like the charging Khador jack. The long chain on the menoth one is also cool. The red army green paint job suits the Khador jack so well that I couldn't think of a better one myself.

Thanks for sharing!

Latest project is converting the plastic Khador kit into a Kodiak (a model currently only available in somewhat boringly-posed full metal).

I wanted to get the model looking dynamic and running (since the Kodiak is a relatively fast mech); the right arm is going to be knocking a tree trunk up into the air (as it can move through terrain with no penalty). I still need to add some spiky bits to the front of the arm shields, as well as on the shoulder.



I also have posted a step-by-step of the model conversion over at the PP forums - link to that thread.