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Hordes – Cyclops Savage – Think I’m done

The photo doesn’t look all that much different, but I think the light at my desk is being weird and overly orange.

Just a few simple things after the last post — hightlighted the tassles with some white to bring a non-orange/yellow into it, black lined the recesses that didn’t have enough contrast, more yellow on the banners to bring that star out a bit more.

But I think I’m done. They’re pretty same samey, but I think that in a crowd, with a variety of models and a different coloured terrain around that they’ll look pretty sharp!

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Hordes – Cyclops Savage – More paint!

I put another quick layer of glaze on the next morning. It was simple, just some Waywatcher Green on the base and armour, Guilliman Blue on the base and under areas. Then I went to work.

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After work I played a shit ton of Hearthstone. >.< But I finally beat Sapphiron on Heroic! Only Kel’thuzad left…

After I got sick of that, I put some more layers on. SW Amethyst in the recesses of the cloth. Drybrush up with Codex, Fortress and some Skull White on the base. Then some waaaaashes! Again, part of the reason I’m enjoying painting these guys is because I’m getting pretty good results quickly and effectively. Washes got a bad rep in some places, but at the end of the day “liquid skill” still looks damn good. I just can’t leave it as the end result! So here’s some Nuln Oil on the cloth and Seraphim Sepia on the armour. I love how it brings a ton of depth to the models which were previously very flat.

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I just noticed that I accidentally posted the first draft of these guys out of schedule, so it’s been about a month since you saw them. 😛

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Cyclops Savage – Getting there

After the Seraphim Sepia and Nuln oil layer, it was time to add some colour and contrast back in. I started with a simple highlight of Mithril Silver over the gold edges and the models immediately popped a lot more.

I took some Amethyst to the undersides of things, and again in the recesses to try to keep some interest there.

The banners and fabric had a couple layers of Bloodletter glaze applied, in striped patterns on the banner and on the raised areas on the cloth. The banners I went over again with Lamenters Yellow glaze to start a star pattern, then did some more opaque layers with Vallejo Moon Yellow.

The sword was annoying, because I wanted it “bronze” but a different colour from the rest of the armour. I started by wet brushing with Mithril Silver with the edge, the tip pointing towards the edge of the blade. This looked like ass, so I tried to make some “distressed” areas by using Bloodletter and Amethyst, but that didn’t help. I used Blood for the Blood God, smearing it around to cover up some of the bad areas. Lastly, I stippled on Mournfang Brown and then wiped it away/around with a finger and I think they have enough going on to be interesting, and not terrible.

 

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Hordes – Morghoul

When I started painting Hordes again, I felt I should paint up my warlock first.

This guy was super simple in the end. White primer. 2 layers of Bloodletter glaze made him really orange, so I went in with SW Red Black to darken it to an actual red. Dwarf Bronze and Mithril Silver for the metal. Seraphim Sepia. Waywatcher Green in places to give an extra colour.

Skin is Dheneb Stone, Vallejo Game Ink Skin Wash, Dheneb Stone.

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I’m really liking painting these guys — detailed enough to be interesting, but most of the model is tending to be a few simple colours that work well together. It lends itself to being relatively quick to paint, but also satisfying to finish and look at when I’m done!

 

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Hordes – Cyclops Savages Basecoat

I played 2 games of WMH this weekend, and enjoyed them. It’s not my favourite game, but it is the game that all my friends are playing so it’s easier to get into. Coming out of it, I really wanted to get on with painting my army so I could buy more toys!

These Cyclopses were easy to “base coat”, although it was more of a layer of tinted washes that give the impression of gold and red. The hope with these guys is to paint them with literally 3 colours, but to give the impression that there is more going on!

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It’s an old Baal Red (which I used on that ancient Brute!), Dwarf Bronze and Snakebite Leather. Oh, and the base formula from here.

And these are really old models too, so they are both metal. 🙂

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Hordes – Cataphract Arcuarii

I looked up both words to see if they meant something. “Cataphract” is a medieval mounted unit, so I think we’re off to a bad start. “Arcuarii” is just a word that Privateer Press made up, as the only Google results for just that word link to gaming related sites.

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Continuing the Warmahordes reign of terror at my gaming club, I picked up a box of these guys. I was on the receiving end of the pull mechanic one to many times in a recent game, and I decided that I wanted to be able to do that myself. As well, I don’t currently have any heavy infantry in my army, and these guys plus another small unit of Beast Handlers and I’m at 50 points which I’m told is the next standard game size after 35.

Plus they look badass. Scott was saying in club chat the other day, that the more he looks at PP models, the more he likes them. Even the shitty ones start to look a little bit less shitty. I still think the jacks look ridiculously proportioned, and I don’t understand why everybody doesn’t play Skorne since they are the most beautiful faction in the game. (Although Everblight could even be tied…only reason I didn’t play them is that when I got into the game sooooo many years ago, they were a popular faction, and I just can’t do the same thing as others >.<)

I’m going to have to type out “cataphract arcuarii” a ton while painting these guys, to put their name into every tag. I’m working on the Immortals right now, and these dudes may be next.

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Hordes – Titan Gladiator

I thought this was a neat mid-step and I haven’t posted such a thing in a long time, so here we are. 🙂

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After the base coat, I’ve only added 2 layers.

Seraphim Sepia all over the gold sections, takes that really pale watered down gold and gives it a much stronger contrast and a better colour.

And a combination of SW Amethyst, Golden Matte Medium and water into the recesses of the skin. After that dried, I took a similar combination but with SW Heavy Body Black and went deep into the recesses and the under areas. You can see on the arm on the left the contrast this makes, but a more comprehensive photo shows that it’s on the under areas as well, giving that more realistic shading.

Next I’m going to use green glaze on the gold, and red glaze on the skin to give both a more varied colour. For these, I apply the colour in a random pattern, to be just a little bit of weathering.

(I left his buddy after the sepia and amethyst step – from there it gets to detail oriented to be doing two models at once anymore.)

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Hordes – Titan Basecoats

I’m really liking painting these models. Good details, but not a lot of it, so the colour schemes are simple and effective. Here’s a basecoat on the two Titan Gladiators.

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One of these gladiators is all metal and the other is a Privateer Press plastic/resin combo and is much much lighter. The metal one is difficult to manipulate without dropping!

Codex Grey skin watered down so it runs into the crevasses, Dwarf Bronze metal, Ushapito Bone nails and tusks, Tallarn Sand ropes and 2 layers of Bloodletter glaze on the cloth and banner.

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Hordes – Skorne Stuff

My gaming group has been picking up on Warmachine/Hordes recently, with the lull in Warhammer, so I pulled out my ancient models and had a couple games. I had fun playing people I hadn’t played in a while (because I haven’t been playing Warhammer much), so I decided to put some paint on them.

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I also bought a few new models to get to a decent 35pt list. The Titan Gladiator and Agonizer on the right are new.