Cryx

Any Cryx fans in the house?  I used some of my Patreon money to grab this Cryx army off ebay for a bargain $200.  Merci beaucoup for the support folks.  This is going to be something to use in my tutorials.

I already have a bunch of these in storage, so I don't feel uneasy converting doubles.  And lo, there shall be much converting and buggery with this little lot.

Anything you would like to see done with them, comments below!

Dire Chicken

Undead Robochicken Privateer Press

I realized my plan to add spider legs to my Cryx chickens put them in the too hard basket and would mean my force was not ready for my nephew's arrival...  so...

Nothin I fancy... just a straight forward pj to get the job done.  I used cork tiled to build up the base, hardened this with thin superglue and pinned on my robo chicken.

Whilst chained to my desk I also magnetized my plastic warjack using the old dremmel and greenstuff technique to fix the magnets in place.  I am not looking forward to painting all the parts separately, and have a dreaded feeling that some of the heads may disappear under the table never to be found again.

I reread the warmachine rules again last night and, well, to be honest I am not filled with excitement.   Admittedly its not the latest edition,  but it seems due to the special rules combining forces that a major portion of playing the game is in army building and deployment, the actual mechanics of battle seem hella complicated for the end result.  But, as I always say the proof of a game is in the playing.

I am tempted to do a war golem skulldred expansion now.  Once I finish the main book!

Virtue is a virtue

Yes dear reader, I am feeling virtuous.   I have taken a tablet and hope it will soon pass.  All this virtue is making me virtually giddy.
I forced myself to up end my 'to fix' tub and actually fixing stuff therein.
You know all those things that arrive in the mail with a weapon snapped off and your like... uh, pinning... Ill do that later.

Well tonight was that later baby yeah!

Citadel miniatures:  Aly Morrison Hobgoblin (reaper banner), Broo, Chaos
Centaur, Drum and Drone Ulssen Chaos Dwarf, First Slotta Chaos Warriors,
Adventurer Starter Box fighter with Chaos Familliar

So picture my evening.  Drill, pin, fill... rinse repeat.  Yaaaaaaaaawn.

I figured it would be a good warm up for getting back into mini sculpting.  I was right.  After that pushing putty feels exciting again.

Deneghra converted from her sister

So another crappy iphone picture- this time of a motley crew including some early beastmen (broo), early slotta chaos warriors, a hobgoblin or two from Aly Morrisons nifty fingers and a starter set adventerer with an evil puppet.  Along with this stash was three cavalry figures and a half dozen more simple drill and pin jobs.
I also found Deneghras witch barbs in my bitz box and liberally, (if not wantonly) applied said barbs them to 'er back with this amazing stuff called glue.  Cracking ride this episode, innit?

Next episode is a cliffhanger,  with thrills, spills and more lead with paint applied.  Hang onto your seats readers...  excelsior!

Scrap tokens

Any old Iron, Any old Iron, anyee, anyee, anyee ooooold eye-ronn.

I picked up a crappy looking rubber battletech loader mech the other day for two bucks.  Tonight it gave its life for scrap tokens, and surprisingly I got five out of it.  Bargain.
I just tore up the model and voila. Excellent junk.

These tokens will come in handy for a variety of games.  I have some copplestone bikers on my shelf that will no doubt get to shoot out over these at some point.  Pchoo, pchoo!

On other project fronts... I *finally* landed my last Dwarf for the Undead Assault project.  Mimbrim is on the way!

I am still missing some skellies, but they are suddenly going for silly money on eBay at the moment.   Weird how it goes in waves like some insane stock market with no apparent rhyme or reason.

I am not feeling up to tackling big things right now, so the castle and mushroom forrest scenery will have to wait.  I may just focus on creeping along finishing off long time incomplete figures til then.

Cryx in the neck

A big shout out to my nephew Matthew, who inspired me to finally put some effort into my warmachine figures, which have been sitting on my shelf since... well, before lady ga ga heard a madonna record.  Matt is in Tasmania right now, and is heading to the mainland to reap and plunder shortly.  Its been years since I have seen him, so very exciting.  I have been a dutiful uncle in the meanwhile, and made sure he was well topped up with 40k minis at every chance.

Turns out Matthew is also a Cryx fan!  Whats not to love?  Angry undead robo pirates FTW.

Since Matts going to want a game or ten, I figured what better excuse to drag my sorry ass back to the painting table, then to at least get my figures all painted to table standard in readiness for his arrival.  Its nice to be back behind the brush, my illness sucked all my energy out, (no doubt converting to energon cubes and storing it under a dam) it was really nice to be back to the stage I can comfortably sit and paint.

Early Work in Progress- King's Cryx Horde  (Privateer Press)  30mm plastic bases by www.hurlbat.co.uk

So let me chat about what's in the pic.  Coz dat iz wot I doo.  First up, I dont play Warmahordes, so I just bought cool minis.  I am sure I will correct this error later by filling out my ranks, but since I figured they will probably be used for Skulldred, the 'oh, that looks cool' method of building forces was selected.

In addition to this I have a placcy Reaper Warjack, and two ebil chikenz wiv tuskz and Goreshade- coz he looked badass.

So I am about halfway through the painting of this little lot.  As usual, I got them table ready first, then plan to go back and glaze on some magic later.  I confess I got ahead of myself and started gluing on the basing material before the paint job was done, but hey, I was sick for yonks and missed base decorating.  I want to find some nice little cogs at some stage.

The unpainted model (Top right) is my stand in for Deneghra.  I cut my original model up to use in some conversions, so her sister Victoria Haley got a quick makeover and is doubling her til I get my filthy, diseased fingers upon an epic wavey dynamic witch caster model... the other Deneghra poses are stiff and a bit blah.  This one will do for now.    I used a dremel to etch her blade into a more cryxy style, and blocked in her helmet with procreate/Apoxie mix.  She still needs a detail pass.  I still have the witch blades from the original model, so plan to retrofit those to this one shortly.

Now my cryx chickens are another story... I hate the two legged look, so am thinking of giving them creepy spider legs perhaps using some canopek wraith bits.  If anyone has spare bits and want to trade up, lemme know!  I like the idea of having my chickenz more like steel pirahnnas- and have been thinking of scratchbuilding something along those lines.

I landed some nice plastic battletech figures at the local flea market today for a few bucks, so they are destined for scrap markers.

I am looking forward to finally putting a big 'check' next to the life goal of painting up all my cryx figures, since they have lurked in my collection for soooooo long.  I also have my eye on a few other figures in the range... perhaps put that on my cryxmas list.

As for making my cryx playable, I decided to keep my basing and coloring style compatible with all my other figures- though I originally wanted to do classic cryx grey greens for everything. They all work so well with my weird war, dirz and inquisimunda style figures, so they can tripletime on my table.

I was also thinking of filling in the gaps of my cryx force with proxies from my reaper collection.  Why fork out for satyrx raiders (not greatest models in the faction imho) when I can call upon the mighty range of reaper demon lasses?  Bane thralls are easy to make too.

Anyway, hopefully I have this lot done by the time he arrives... feeling much more energy lately, so that bodes well.

Later peeps!