Got my first games in!!!!!

Alright, got some games in with my Brother at out LGS this weekend! Sorry no pics, but I forgot to snap them in the swirling midst of melee. Well, my Bro, was absolutely floored by my birthday gift to him! I gave him basically a complete start up into the game with a fully painted Cryx battle box, MK II rulebook, tokens and templates, tape measure, Sabol Platoon case loaded with foam, MK II Cryx faction deck and a marker for checking damage off. And what did I get for this? He beat me in our first 3 games in a row!!!!! LMAO! But I came back with a vengence with my Khador and tied up the score. We then found a couple of Hordes players to throw down with, one Circle player and a Skorne player. My Bro, took on the Circle player who was running some sort of eKaya list, not sure what it was, but between his feat and Crippling Grasp, he locked him down and forced him to give up before he was totally annihilated. I choose to take on the Skorne player running with pMorgul, a Titan Gladiator, a Cyclops, and a unit of Cataphract, and a solo that was incorporeal(no clue who it was). I ran my battle box plus a unit of Widowmakers. I got the jump on him and almost took out his Titan in one go with my Juggernaut on my feat turn, then he started dropping my Widowmakers down, and then I thought I had lost. He had feated so I could not use my focus and I was too close to him for comfort. I ended up camping focus and trying to put terrain between us, but he caught me anyways! Thanks to my def 16 and arm 20, he only did 9 wounds to me, and I then proceeded to put AX TO FACE! on my first hit I dropped him to 1 life, and then, game over, ASSASSINATION! All in all, great times and great games, learned a lot, and still much more to learn. I will work on getting some pics up of the finished Cryx, and of my new Khador force, and will try and remember to take pics of games.

I am HOOKED on this game! Love it!
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WOW! Sorry for being off for so long...

Life gets in the way some times, but back to the hobby I am. Just because I have been off line for awhile doesn't mean that I haven't been working on the Cryx army. I have finished the Slayer, and am currently working on the last Deathripper and the Defiler. My goal is still set at having them ready for this Saturday, as that will be my first official game (did a little play-testing/learning with my Bro). Here is the big change though, I have convinced my brother to get in the game, which is awesome, the bad news is he only wants to play Cryx! Well, in all my generosity and OCD, I have decided to give him an awesome Birthday gift! He will recieve my Cryx Battle-box fully painted with the Faction deck, pDenny token set, templates, and his own copy of the MK.II Rulebook all wrapped up in his very own Sabol Mini Case! Hope he doesn't read my blog before March, lol.

I guess I need to choose another Faction, anyone have any ideas?

Now for some pics of my Bro's Cryx WIP.

Painting Cryx, Support By Fire's Style (part 1)

Alright, got a comment from Dean at The Old West Chronicle asking what techniques and what kind of paints I use to paint my Cryx. Well, Dean, here is part 1 of at least a 2 part post.

First, I will start off with a list of paint colors and what brand of paint they are from.

VGC= Vallejo Game Color
VMC= Vallejo Model Color
GWF= Games Workshop Foundation
GWW= Games Workshop Wash
GWP= Games Workshop Paint

GWP, Chaos Black
VGC, Black
VGC, Sombre Grey
VGC, Ghost Grey
VMC, Gunmetal Grey
GWP, Chainmail
GWP, Mithril Silver
GWP, Brazen Brass
GWP, Shining Gold
GWP, Rotting Flesh
GWP, Elf Flesh
GWF, Dheneb Stone
GWP, Bleached Bone
GWP, Skull White
GWP, Blood Red
GWP, Blazing Orange
GWP, Fiery Orange
VGC, Sun Yellow
GWP, Scorched Brown
GWP, Bestial Brown
GWP, Graveyard Earth
GWP, Bubonic Brown
GWW, Badab Black
GWW, Gryphonne Sepis

As you can see, I still have mostly GW paints, as I have just transitioned from 40K to Warmachine, I do not have any P3 paints yet. I am really liking the Vallejo paints as well, love the bottle they come in, and really like the consistency of the paint(practically already mixed with water so you can use it from the bottle with out watering it down). I will try out some P3 paints, but I am going to be replacing old paints with Vallejo for the most part, unless I need to make an exact match.
Some may notice, That I use 2 different Black paints, here is why. The Chaos Black from GW is a matte finish paint, and works great for painting black, VGC Black has a semi-gloss finish and is excellent for mixing with my grays for shading. I kind of stumbled on this actually, I had bought the VGC Black, thinking it would be matte, but I was thinking of the VMC that are the matte paints, so I had a happy accident. I will be replacing my dwindling supply of GW Chaos Black with a matte VMC Black soon though(love those dropper bottles).

Well,in part 2 we will look at what paints are used on which area of the model, and what mixes are used for highlighting. Keep an eye out for part 2 soon.

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The Warwitch Lives...

Got my Warwitch Dhenegra finished! Now a couple of Jacks' left to go.
I had a request for my paint recipes and any techniques that I used, so I will write that down and make up a post on it later today.
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Pics are proof,

Starting Off 2011 The Right Way!!!!!

Hey all, hope you had a safe and Happy New Year!
I am starting this year off the right way! By painting my Cryx Battle Box!!!!
Nothing new to post picture wise, but just wanted to let you know that I will be posting my color choices along with a couple of techniques that I used to paint my Cryx Deathripper, and definitely will be finishing my Cryx Battle Box by my February Deadline, then off to getting in some games!

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First Bonejack painted with new scheme, C&C.

Alright, got my first Warmachine model painted up! Cryx Deathripper Bonejack, in my own scheme, let me know what you think about the color choices, does it work?






Not much else to post up yet, but I will start work on the rest of the Battle Box soon.
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Got My Cryx Force Primed and Ready!

Primed dark grey and ready for some painting, hope to start in the next few days. Still have to choose which one to start with first, any ideas on that? Well, here is a couple primer shots of progress since as you know, if there are no pics, then there is no proof.




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I am getting all Cryxed Out.....

Got my Battle Box all assembled, flocked, and ready for priming. Probably do some spraying in the morning and painting by the end of the week. Well not much else going on right now, here are some WIP pics of my Cryx

Got my Battlebox today!

Let the construction begin! Well, I am very excited to have my Cryx Battlebox and some other goodies come in the mail today, and of course I got to work on them at the first available moment. First off, let me say that I really like these mini's! Easy to build, easily magnetized(which my Slayer is fully magnetized now), and very well detailed. My only complaint, is very pronounced mold lines.If you have built a few kits from any manufacturer, then it shouldn't be a problem to remove, just time consuming. Now with that as my only complaint, all I can say is WOW!!! After flipping through the MKII rulebook and the Cryx Faction Deck, and the Cryx Faction Book at my LGS, I can say that I can't wait to get painting and then get them on the gaming table.
As it turns out, the two better hobby stores in my area(Books, Comics, and Things), each have a Press-Ganger that runs games on the first Saturday of each month. Looks like I made an excellent choice in switching up to Privateer Press games. More to come this weekend after I get some more time to bust out some new mini's and read the rulebook fully, but for now here are some early WIP pics.




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