I finally finished painting my entire Cygnar warband in order to put up for sale, and took new pictures of all the models. Almost every model is a moderate conversion of some sort. I wanted a warjack army that was entirely storm-powered or a hybrid between storm and steam (like an army of Toyota Prius', I suppose). I also wanted to have the biggest heavy jacks in the game, ones that can go toe-to-toe with the extreme sculpts and dwarf standard Khador jacks. I feel like I accomplished this by using the Thunderhead frame for every jack and also getting a bit more height from the bases. I'm fond of sharp highlights on Warmachine models, and wanted a color scheme that really stood out. I've always thought the miniatures remind me of Final Fantasy characters, especially Darius and his halfjacks. Rather than the traditional Cygnar blue, I adapted a double quarter pattern using 'colder' colors to signify a Cygnar detachment that is deployed along the Northern border with Khador. I used the two primary colors for front and back arcs on the ice bases. It gives the army more of an appearance of 'playing pieces' rather than of a realistic look, but that's what I was going for to contrast how I paint my Warhammer 40,000 armies. On to the pictures:
The entire detachment.
Darius. I extended his hammer and wrench with brass rod, and switched the wrench head out with the one from Arlan Strangeways. The barrel of his steam cannon is extended with the cannon from the Defender. His crane is assembled together from my bits box to look more extended and dynamic. I also added some storm coils to his armored suit, which is going to be a common theme in all the models.
Halfjacks. I glued the mines to bases to help visualize them in the game and to prevent paint chipping. One jack was given a glohawk, can't get much more steampunk than that.
Journeyman Warcaster. A simple backpack switch with
eStryker and a weapon switch with
eMagnus and all of a sudden the young fella doesn't look so amateur.
Thunderhead. I didn't like the football player pose of the model, so I built new arms from brass rod and positioned them so he looks like he's barreling down straight at you for a two-handed throw.
Centurions. I cut off all the storm coils from the Thunderhead, and used Centurion arms. The two large coils were converted to steam pipes, and the spears were extended with the shafts from the Menoth Guardian. The results were models that looked like how the Centurion plays- giant, kickass heavy jacks that can take a great deal of punishment and hand it back out. You can see in the following images how much more imposing the size change is.
NO! ... no Gits! 
