Deathripper (Cryx)

It's the end of October and yet I've managed save another model from the pit of oblivion! 

Woo-hoo! 🥳

Surprisingly it's another plastic model from Warmachine new line, but contrart to those ghastly bane thralls - working on Toruk's lap dog - deathripper - was lots of fun. This model is part of Cryx leftovers my friend was getting rid of a while back, so I got it with missing head. That wasn't really a problem: although original model has skull and jaw, it can be easily replaced with almost any weapon you can imagine and robot would still look cool!

For example the previous deathripper was assembled using chaos terminator chain fist as the weapon. I couldn't find any spare termie fists this time, but I had spare killa kan's crushing claw - which turned out to be perfect robo-head prosthesis 👾

Color choice is my typical olive green mix - Cryx models look pretty cool and kinda believable painted this way. Blood stains should look really nice on such armour. So here it is:

And here family photo: Iron Lich Asphyxious is taking death chicken herd for a walk:

And here death chicken is about to feed on some mechanithralls led by necrosurgeon:

Off for some more Warmachine excavation...

Iron Lich Asphyxious

Last Wednesday local Cryx force has once again been challenged to battle. To my surprise my trusty old foe didn't field Khador (despite he just got nice and shiny Juggernaut... 🙄). Instead - Magnus the Traitor appeared with his mercenary band.

The game was fun, but I decided to get another warcaster painted to provide some necro-variety to the army. I've always liked Iron Lich Asphyxious - it was the first purchase together with starter box when we were starting Warmachine here about 2004 and IMHO it's still cool. Dead cool... 💀

If I remember correctly it's my 3th attempt to paint this deader and looks like I finally like the result. Military olive green ain't common among Cryx stuff but I like it much more then classic black. And it has absolutely nothing in common with the fact I can't paint black so it looks smart. I didn't like original skull. It was bit smaller and had no jaw so it was replaced with plastic head. Such bright element makes strong contrast and is nice focal point of the miniature. Right. Time to find some more corpses to paint in local graveyard. Heil Toruk!

And little size comparison shot. Pretty big compared to ordinary rank-and-file deaders, ain't it? But it's Iron Lich after all!

Necrosurgeon (Cryx)

Looks like I am still on Warmachine painting wave. Last week some mechanithralls got prepared for combat and now I decided to boost their morale and survivability: 

the boys got hot and saucy nurse to fix their wounds during heat of the battle 😍  

The model comes with 3 assistants - stitch thralls. These little fellas were painted quite a long time ago (apart from bases - these were refreshed to fit new mechanithralls), but until now I couldn't find enough steam to finsh the surgeon. Which is strange actually. Before I started painting I was sure all those details (like nasty medical tools) would cause lots of trouble but in the end it took me only 2 evenings to get work done 😳

I really regret I haven't done it earlier - this sculpt is just brilliant! It's surely one of the most characterful models in Warmachine range - in my opinion that is. The sculpt turned out way better then artwork. It's just so cold and evil - clearly reminds cenobite from Hellraiser series or Dark Eldar haemonculus. Just look at these empty eye sockets! 😵
The "human" part is pretty frail - not like most of Warmachine models so it was a chalenge to paint it with brushes I use (in fact for quite a long time I've been pretty sure the sculpt is underscaled). I'd gladly paint another one armed with better tools and bit more patience.

Here it is anyway - together with her grateful patients 👩‍⚕️

Big bang!

Looks like the new year's painting has started with the bang. Or even big bang! (at least on the summary chart...). By the half of the month I added 6 models to the painted side! Sure it's nothing complicated and big but hey, it's statistics what counts!

So what do we have here?

The first piccie is group of Cryx necrosurgeon's little helpers: stitch thralls.

These little bastards were fun to paint: quick and easy job. Hope to start their boss shortly so the full unit can deliver necessary aid to any deader on the battlefield.

I also tested dead flesh tone on these guys and I think something quite similar will be used on mechanithrall squad. Should look even better confronted with corroded metal.
 

And since were at corroded metal theme - here's the second group of my heavy wreck markers. As you can see the original bases were cut and filed so the junk could be placed on standard 50 mm gaming bases, which I like much more than original ones.

Just like painitng small wrecks there's absolutely nothing complicated here: basecoat, some metallics, some washes, some pigments, some varnish and voila!

Next time I'll try to bring something more game effective. 

Heil Toruk!