Warmachine Cryx: Army Pics

Cryx Army Pics

Here are some pics of the Cryx Army.
I am going to put the Cryx away now and create another army for them to do battle with!

Overview:

Bonejacks:

Warcaster and Helljack:

Blood Witches and their Captain:

Warmachine: Cryx: Blood Witch Captain

Blood Witch Captain

This is the last member of Alanna's Cryx Army (for now at least)...

Before:

After:

Here is a better angle of her weapon...the Whip:

Warmachine: Cryx: Blood Witches

Cryx: Blood Witches

The Blood Witches came as a set of 10, one of which is their leader.

Alanna asked that I paint their horns like "Homestuck Tolls". I am also going to add a new color to the pallette. Red. In this case it is called "Cherry Cobbler" there won't be much red, and it will be more of a wine color than a true blood red... here goes!

Color Palette:

Before:

During:

9 of 10 finished...

And a duel to the death once everything was finished!

Warmachine: Cryx: The Slayer

The Slayer

Ok, The Slayer! Finally. This is the last (out of 5 models). This guy takes a lot of time to glue together. Whenever you sit down to paint, prior to getting to this figure, take 10 minutes and glue another piece on to him.  Let The Slayer sit on the sidelines of your painting area until he is ready to be primed then...

The Steps:

Assembly-This takes a bit. Don't try to do it all at once. Glue one thing at a time and let it set and cure between other projects...

Priming- Prime after putting it together. 

This will make the model more difficult to paint, but the glue will hold better over time. 

1st Painting-First Colors.

Front:

Back:

2nd Painting- More Colors.

Front:

Back: 

3rd Painting- FX

Front:

Back:

4th Painting-Touch-up and Based

So that brings the painting of the Cryx battle group to a close...

Warmachine: Cryx: The Warcaster

The Warcaster

The Warcaster for the Cryx battlegroup is... Warwitch Deneghra.

Here is the Box, Bonejacks (Warjacks) and Deneghra with the Battlegroup box in the background.

Let's take a step back though. First there was glueing the Warwitch together. Notice I glued the "backblades" together and placed them next to Deneghra..

After that more coats for the backblades she needs her left arm attached and then the backblades. I want to twist her just enough so that it looks like she is peeking in between her backblades. Notice the unprimed slayer we will talk about him more in the next post...

The "Peekaboo of Death"

Here she is with the rest of the paint on her...

And in Glorious Glowing Colors!

Now that we have a magically glowing Warcster, It time to bust out the powerhouse warjack in the set...


Next: The Slayer....

Warmachine: Cryx: Defiler and Deathrippers

Warmachine: Cryx

 I have not posted to this site in quire some time. Tonite I will recify that. Last month my daughter and I went to a gaming store where we saw of few folks playing Warmachine vs Horde. It looked like a lot of fun. So I asked Alanna if she wanted me to paint an army for her and she said that that would be really cool. 

I began to do a bit more research...

Sites:

Battle College (Army Building Advice and Pics)

https://battlecollege.wikispaces.com/Battle+College+-+Home

Privateer Press (Game Publisher)

http://privateerpress.com

Pirvateer Press (Video Channel)

http://privateerpress.com/videos

Hordes (Video Tutorial)

http://privateerpress.com/privateer-press-prime-video-channel/hordes-gameplay-tutorial

Warmachine (Video Tutorial)

http://privateerpress.com/privateer-press-prime-video-channel/warmachine-gameplay-tutorial

Then Alanna and I talked about armies...Alanna decided on the Warmachine-Cryx. (Logo Image Credit: http://gallery.burrowowl.net/index.php?q=/image/11718.jpg )

It looked like the models would be neat looking and fun too paint for me too. And I thought that it would be interesting to paint them with a darker paint w/ some green and glowing special effect paint.

I also thought that the Army needed a name and a theme...And the "Coven of the Zodiak" was born. I decided to paint symbols of the zodiak to make the models appear more unique unto themselves.

I wanted the Warjacks to look like they were made out of black shiny metals, green more expensive metal, glowing and green necrotiic energies, and a bit of bone... like the box but darker and less of a steampunk feel...

What is in the Battlegroup Box?:

• 1 Defiler
• 2 Deathrippers
• Slayer
• Warwitch: Deneghra

Ok so now to break the process into more managable chuncks...

Phase one: 

• 1 Defiler
• 2 Deathrippers

Steps: 

1. Assemble
2. Prime
3. Paint
4. 2nd Coat of Paint
5. Add Symbols

...and here are (from left to right)

• Taurus (Deathripper)
• Aries (Deathripper)
• Sagittarius (Defiler) ...in the foreground

Next, the Warcaster...