When I get into a new game, I need something visual to draw me to it. I consider myself a game player primarily, despite this blog, but I like cool looking things more than I like powerful things. (Malifaux is an excellent game, because everything is cool looking, and everything is powerful!)
When I first found Warmachine/Hordes many years ago, I looked though their catalog to find models that spoke to me. The Cyclops Brute in the Skorne faction was the model that did it for me, with the Immortals being the next ones. Then when the big stompy elephants were pretty cool looking (as opposed to all of the Warjacks of the game, which look bloody stupid!), I was sold!
This was the only model painted in the army for the longest time. When I got into it, I noticed that very few people had painted models, at all. (Todd, who is now an excellent commission painter, was an exception). I wanted to be different, so I painted this guy.
After I was unable to convince anyone to play it with me, he sat unused for a long while. He might have been the first time I used a GW wash and white primer! I remember his pants are white primer, with a red wash and then a black wash and that’s it and I thought they looked so cool! (I still kind of do, although I can see how simple they are :))
Still really love the look of the cyclopses in this game! Plus the fluff…they are all but brutal animals, but they can see into the near future and can predict what their opponent will do.