For the Motherland/ For the Glory of Everblight

[Hushrong]

Just head on over to post #8, that's where it's at!

Welcome to my Painting Log that will follow my efforts with Khador, the Legion of Everblight, and whatever else I can get my grubby hands on from Privateer Press.

For some history, awhile back I joined a gaming group here in South Austin that has been nothing but a great experience (terrific people, great atmosphere, and all around fun). I originally joined to finally get in some regular games of 40k but everyone in the group was going to start Warmachine as well. Since everyone would be relatively new to it, I jumped in with Khador and the Motherland. After the first few games there has been no looking back. So to chronicle this I wanted to start a painting log, get some critiques, and keep on trying to do better with my painting (that has slipped).

So to start…

Khador:

This here is 26 points of Khadoran awesomeness (obviously not reducing the points from the two casters). I hope to add to this relatively soon when funds come in with the purchases of Kayazy Assassins, Underboss, and Man o War Shocktroopers.

I also must state that not only do I like the background fluff but I love the look of Khador. Rugged and bold. They look mean and the red just screams extreme prejudice will be used.

I have a few prepped and some with the base colors on. However, only the Destroyer has received attention recently. So here he is in his growing glory:



He is sitting at lower tabletop quality that I want to improve on. He has not been highlighted yet (which is something I still need to practice on my minis). Despite all this, I do like where he is heading and I just want to make sure he looks good in the end. Nothing feels as great as wrecking your opponent with an awesome-ly painted mini.

As for the rest, i really want to make sure my painting is at its best when I get to Sorscha and the Butcher. Sorscha is a character I like and has a lot of little detail on her that will require a lot of effort on myself. And the Butcher (Kommander Orsus more precisely) is so awesome that ruining him with a bad paint job should be a punishable offense.

and now for something a little more draconic...

The Legion of Everblight

So after awhile everyone started to think about trying Hordes. I was split on either going Legion or Skorne. Both have a lot that I like but in the end Everblight won out. I thought Skorne to be a bit similar to Khador...so no point in having two armies that are mostly red and bent on making their Empire numero uno. *this doesn't mean some won't crop up in the future...

After playing every game with Khador previously, the minimum of spd6 with Legion felt like god mode. I looked at the table with the thought of "THIS, all this right here *use finger to circle around the gaming board, this is all mine!". I also love the ankle-bitters, I love some of the animusi (animi, animuses, errr...), and I love having to manage fury.

For this army though, I think I will be picking up the Hex Hunters, Bayal, and maybe another beast. I am still undecided on this because I also want to try out a "Flying Circus". So many options & choices, so little money to make it rain in the LGS.

So far, this is all I have tried to work on for the Legion, Lylyth. I must state that I LOVE this mini. I just wished I painted it better...


I am definitely going to be redoing this lovely. At the moment she will stay like this but when I start the beasts I want them all to have the same skin-tone (after looking at Brushthralls: Legion Box in 10 days article) and I want to try painting her again.

I must also say, I like the Forsaken. I like the artwork in the book, I love her rules and abilities, but I absolutely dislike her sculpt. She seems tiny, her face is weird looking (kind of like how Vayl has a huge face) and doesn't look sharp & intimidating like the art, and I'm sure I fudged up on assembling her. I'll make it work somehow...or get Absylonia to proxy her on the table.

Well, that is all for now. This will be slow going as my courses are pretty taxing this semester (as well as having drained money away from the hobby). However, with the cold season around the corner I hope to be doing a lot more painting. Especially since the air won't be so dry to the point that paint dries on the brush within seconds.

Thanks for taking a look and any C&C will be welcomed!

[spikedog]

Good stuff, glad to see some more Warmachine players/painters on here. I too collect Khador so am interested to see how yours turn out. I see you are going for the classic Russian red look to them, also nice to see someone else how likes the female manhunter model, I use two of them in my force.

Anyway looking forward to seeing your updates!

[Hushrong]

Thanks for the comment spikedog and cool to meet another Khador fan.

With the warjacks I truly wanted to try something different, digital urban camo, like the russians in CoD Modern Warfare 2. Some red with grey and black in such a design I think would be cool however with my skill set it would come out sloppy and make for a good eyesore (which might help in games?). So maybe in the future I will give it a shot after some practice.

Because of this, I have decided to stick with the standards. Which I also like very much.

As for the Manhuntress, I'll throw out an internet high-five! I really wanted her over the standard one because she is a female...and after painting soooo many space marines... you get the idea.

[basher]

i think the term is animi

love what you've done so far i play against everblight a lot and can tell you the forsaken is a pain.My mate painted a target on her head because she's always enemy no1.Funnily i havent met one person who likes the mini.

will sub and see how you get on

[Keravin]

Nice to see more Khador on here. Jacks are getting there and I do like the grubby effect around their bolts.

[Hushrong]

Thanks for the comments basher & Keravin.

i think the term is animi
love what you've done so far i play against everblight a lot and can tell you the forsaken is a pain.My mate painted a target on her head because she's always enemy no1.Funnily i havent met one person who likes the mini.

Yeah, I really underestimated the forsaken when I decided to field her/it. Now seeing the effects of blight shroud when sitting on fury and getting stuck in there with enemy models...she/it is nasty.

As for the sculpt, I pray for a resculpt.

Nice to see more Khador on here. Jacks are getting there and I do like the grubby effect around their bolts.

For the jacks, I hope to add some wear & tear and a little bit of freehand to them to give a little more detail. I still need to figure out highlighting and going back over some of the metals.

As for my freehand idea, I am thinking of doing something like the 4th assault legion's symbol. Instead of having three axes make the Khador symbol I was thinking of trying to use three scythes. I will have to practice later.

and a minor update:



To start, I added a wash to the destroyer to make the red...look more blood red. He does look a little glossy, so I am thinking I will have to invest in dullcote.

Then I added another thin layer of red to the juggernaut. I hope to do his metallics before gaming night Wednesday and catch him up to the destroyers state.

Last but not least i got some painting done on Sorscha. I have decided to run her as my main caster and leave the butcher for games where i want to show off a Khadoran madman ripping apart a warjack. For Sosrcha I added a thin layer to the red as well as painted a bit of the fur trim, started on the on the face & metal bits, and drybrushed the base. I am having difficulty with the scale of detail (like her chest armor, coat lapels, and other things around the neck) but the challenge is quite fun.

Also, I will be working only on khador until I have my 35pts bought, built, and painted. Basically it will be the starter box, mechaniks, war dog, manhunter, and a Winter Guard infantry force. Once I have those 35pts painted to a good level for the table I will go full steam with Legion (though I may dabble because I really want to repaint Lylyth).

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

[mdiscala]

There is a plog link section for Privateer Press logs in the PP section of the forums. I'm adding you to it. Better get to painting!

[Hushrong]

My gaming group is running a campaign very soon. I don’t think everything is written in stone yet but each player obviously has to pick a faction (whether it be Hordes or Warmachine), must have a total of 35pts to play, and must have three Warcasters available for deployment (3 different ones to use throughout the campaign, not a monster 3 v. 3 slugfest per battle). So those are the established rules for the armies so far and each force will compete for territory in this campaign (I keep thinking of something like the WH40K game Dawn of War).

Another rule about the army that many of us have agreed upon is to have painted armies.

So I have been gaming much more than painting and must say I was not happy with my skills. If you look at those earlier posts…it’s pretty shabby and I’m sure I could do better. So I paint-stripped my pSorscha and went to work on a new paint scheme.



I am actually still not too happy with her. Mostly the Face and her front chest area represent some frustrations I have with painting her. The face is “chalky” and I blame myself and her hand that blocks her face. I hope to get a new plastic Sorscha in the future and I will remember to paint her separately and then glue her together. The front plate is also tough for me because it packs quite a bit of small detail that I can't seem to get right.

However, I was really pleased with the paint scheme. I was looking at the Winter Guard infantry picture in the main rule book and liked how it had little red. This made sense as you wouldn’t want to run around a warzone wearing a very noticeable color. Even car thieves know not to steal red cars; those vehicles are much easier to spot. So I wanted something dark, something with a hint of red to represent Khador, and something a bit fast to paint that will look good. So this scheme covers all those points I think.

So I went on further and painted up my future star of my Khador Army: eSorscha




*I damaged her rank symbol. I accidently drill through when pinning her arm to the body. So I will have to paint that as battle damage.

So far I am quite pleased with her and she still needs some work done. I want to practice some OSL for her weapon and her eyes. Fortunately I found some Imperial Guardsmen to use as guinea pigs. I also need to get modelling snow for the bases, I hope that breaks up the amount of grey on each mini and their base.

That's it for now, thanks for stopping on by!

[Hushrong]

Quick little update. My friend did me a solid and primed my army as it will help me get my 35pts of Khador painted for our upcoming campaign.

First, I wanted to present this guy, the Battle Mechanik Boss. I painted him some time ago and didn't get around to posting him:




I see some stuff that needs color but I am happy with him. I would have painted his friends up too but I wanted to paint this:





All of his squadmates are ready for the assembly line treatment. I just wanted to see one of my glory-hounds mostly painted up.

Thanks for taking a look!

[Grateful Bread]

Looking great so far....keep up the good work!