Back in the (painting) saddle again.

Not my best work, but I needed something to get me going again. I need to get ready for Gencon after all.

Moros, Retribution of Scyrah Character Warjack

Privateer Press Secret Santa

Well, I didn't get all of the projects done that I wanted to send, but I at least got one extra model to mail off tomorrow.

My giftee asked for a Legion Shepherd. Well, what good is a shepherd without a sheep? They might try and fit in to a nativity scene for the holidays? Maybe not...

Legion Shepherd and "Sheep" (Shredder)

Rear view.

EDIT: And I'm finally getting around to posting this. Thank you Peacemaker44 for a festive take on the Coven.

Witch Coven of Gnarlygast

Start of my 2015 Warmahordes Secret Santa shipment

Just posting this up so I can get this on the Privateer Press forums as a work in progress.

The beginning of the first model of my Secret Santa mailing. Hopefully if I can pick them up I'll be sending a few more than expected.

Identity obscured to maintain the surprise.

Warmachine elves and SDE undead

Did a little painting this past month, figured I'd post them up to share. First up we have some new members of the Retribution of Scyrah.

Thyron, Sword of Truth

Thyron is the newest warcaster to join my elven ranks. Fairly fun to play, but gets murdered by anything with decent control or debuffs.

Houseguard Thane

 Making halberdiers faster since 2014, he finally gets a paint job.

House Shyeel Battle Mages

My third unit of Battle Mages. (Not sure if I ever took photos of my second unit...) When I clearcoated these guys it was a little humid so their bases all frosted up. I'll see if I can clean that up in the coming weeks.

Madelyn Corbeau, Ordic Courtesan

Ok, the only two mercenaries that will work for the Retribution are Madelyn Corbeau, a Courtesan, and Master Holt, the personal bodyguard and confidant of Lady Aiyanna. So it appears the only humans the elves will tolerate at the ones they sleep with? Interesting...

Then we have some more undead that was painted up for my intended Halloween party for Super Dungeon Explore. Adding to the ranks of the Shallow Grave spawning points we have:

Bone Heads

Dust Mages

My ranks of undead are swelling. Mwuhahahaaha. Ha ha. Ha.

*Cough*

Denny and her SDE Zombies

I have been doing some painting recently, so we have a bit of a larger update today. First up are the different zombies for the Stilt Town Zombies box for Super Dungeon Explore. I wasn't sure how to paint zombie skin so I tried a couple ways until I was happy with it.

Stilt Town Zombies - Pudges

These first models I basecoated the skin with P3 Ryn Flesh. Then washed twice with 1:4 P3 Thrall Flesh : water and then twice with 1:4 Vallejo Blue Violet : water. This was followed up with a liberal drybrush of 1:1 Ryn Flesh : GW Ushtabi Bone and then a little Ushtabi Bone for the top highlights. My ending thoughts with these guys are that they look a little too healthy even with the purple undertones to their skin.

Stilt Town Zombies - Swampies

For the Swampies I basecoated their skin with P3 Thrall Flesh to start out with a more unhealthy skin. They then got a liberal drybrush 1:1 Thrall Flesh / Ryn Flesh. Then with a light wash of 1:1:4 Vallejo blue violet : Vallejo dark blue : water. A final light drybrush of GW ushabti bone finished them off. I think this almost makes the skin look too much like a clean bone color, but with my bone for SDE being a much dirtier/browner looking bone this should work out.

Stilt Town Zombies - Homunculi

These guys got the same zombie flesh as the Swampies, with their outfits inspired by Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice. Gotta love 80's fashion.

Stilt Town Zombies - Shamble Priest

Finally we have the leader of the zombies who I'm guessing isn't a zombie at all, just a witch doctor. The white jacket with black hat and gray pants was inspired by Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die. This is my first attempt at chibi eyes and I think I made them too small. I might have to go back and redo them. The two houses he's with are the spawn points for the group. They must be clown houses if all those zombies can fit inside of them...

Stilt Town Zombies

And here we see all of them together as my first pair of painted spawn points. Yay! That's two of five spawn points ready for the goal of a fully painted Halloween game in October.

Last but not least we have my first painted warcaster for Cryx - prime Deneghra. I'm pretty happy with how she turned out, though I almost wish I did the cloak a little bit brighter of pink. Will play around with that shading on future models.

Prime Deneghra - Cryx Warcaster

Hyperion number 2

Not the greatest picture (I still haven't figured out exactly how to get good lighting and focus at the same time on one of these guys), but here's the second of my two colossals.

Hyperion

 

SDE, Junior Elf and the last of the Khador

Just tossing up a few random models from the last 2 months. Haven't painted much but I'm starting to feel like getting the brushes going again. I'll most likely need to do my second colossal before the 25th for the next Madison 6 Pack event for an odd tier list I'm thinking of. But for now, here's what I've painted the last few weeks:

Super Dungeon Explore Ser Snapjaw

 This is my first hero/mini boss model I've tried for Super Dungeon Explore. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out, and I'm looking forward to painting more of these chibi style models. Painting with a completely revised (and more pastel) palette is entertaining.

Elara

Then we have our Junior Warcaster for the Retribution. This was the LE model from the Kickstarter. Probably one of the most expensive humanoid models I've bought as I haven't played the game more than 20 minutes or so, so this is all I really have to show for that Kickstarter...

Ironfang Kovnik

And then we have the Ironfang Kovnik for Fluffybunny, which finishes the pieces I was doing for him on commission. Between the Kovnik and Elara I have my 5 points for last month's Tale of Warmahordes post, so I've only had to use one Get out of Painting Free card in the first 6 months of the year. I might just make it to the end.