Diesel DM

The Painting Challenge presented in No Quarter 35 was called Spoils of War.  The objective was to take a current Mercenary ‘jack and paint it to match a new faction.  This really grabbed my interest so I took a look at the Mercenary wajacks to see which I thought would work best.  The Nomad type of warjack, which I chose, were once Cygnaran ‘jacks.  These were eventually decommissioned due to the aging design, replaced with the Ironclad.  I’ve always been very attached to the Iron Kingdoms fluff, so for we it only made sense that Cygnar would re-instate the aged Nomads.  Here was my submission to No Quarter:

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Pressed on all fronts the Cygnaran logistics department can no longer supply newly built ‘jacks fast enough.  Looking for accessible alternatives they recommission the old Nomad warjacks that had served Cygnar’s warcasters in the past.  The Nomads are recalled from use in heavy labor, purchased from mercenary forces and reclaimed from battlefields.  Before being sent to the front the aging ‘jacks are given a fresh Cygnaran paint scheme and a newly designed buckler emblazoned with Cygnus the Swan.  With a heavy blade designed to carve through metal the Nomad will prove especially valuable on the northern front against Khador’s massive ‘jacks.

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Tier 1 gave us the tools to assemble and play a battlebox game. Now let’s dig deeper and head into my second Tier of getting started supplies.  Here we will dig more into the rules, fluff and painting aspects of WARMACHINE.

Tier 2

• WARMACHINE Prime Mark II Book
• Primer
• Iron Kingdoms P3 Paint Box
• Faction P3 Paint Box
• Acrylic Paintbrushes
• Brush Cleaner

A few pictures of the Squire I finished up a few weeks back.  I thought this would be interesting to post because unlike my other models I’m really not happy with how this one turned out.  I had a lot of issues painting it and getting it mounted.  But if I can learn from my mistakes, I suppose everyone else can too, so might as well show it off along with the better models.

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It was with some trepidation that I approached the painting of the Black 13th Gun Mage Strike Team.  There is no doubt that these three gun mages are a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.  There are few lists that don’t make use of this 4-point unit.  Painting arguably the most elite unit in the Cygnaran army was a big deal for me.  I wanted their models to look as awesome as they are on the battlefield.  The sculpts themselves are finely detailed and they are the best posed unit I’ve seen.  Unfortunately, the sculpts have one flaw: they are not to scale with the rest of the WARMACHINE models.  They stand a full head shorter than Stryker and other similar human models.  It’s not just their height, though, the entirety of their model is scaled down.  I read somewhere that while most models are crafted to the “heroic scale” for proportions, they Black 13th were sculpted in a normal scale.  All of these factors combined together lead to some additional pressure in getting a nice paint job.

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