#privateer press

[hungryarts]

Boy oh boy what a treat, managed to snag this at the back of a FLGS for 30 bucks, can't wait to paint me some Warmachine!

[warchirfsminitures]

Last batch. I forgot i already gave 1/3rd of the collection to a lgc for a display… so im missing quite a lot. Last pic is what ive decided to keep. I plan to touch up on them, add some flair and have them in my display cabinet.

Warmachine is what got me back into wargaming. All i knew before was warhammer, and it was too expensive and the games were too long. Warmachine offered a fast paced, engaging, and calculating alternative which felt cinematic, narrative, and impactful. It was my first wargame community, tournament, and also where i found a local club.

When the game, and community, began focusing in tournament and competitive play, the game started to change. And as MK3 was released it was unrecognisable. Games became tedious, boring, lacking soul and imagination. I lost interest quickly after the new edition.

Ive always looked back at these models and remember the good days, and so i kept a number of models which remind of such:

The original battlebox (sorscha, juggs, and bombard); epic sorscha (never used yer but was my favourite caster all round); kodiak (my one and only jack i used); kayazy (early purchase and my favourite unit, so much character!); koldun characters (ice wizards were very interesting to me, and khador was not the ‘good guys’, so these wizards got up to no good); and mikhale, the jr caster i got for backing the (not so good) warmachine pc game (he also is a splitting image of a iron kingdoms character my friend played as).

[space-catholic]

Gravedigger Rangers, Gravedigger Commandoes, Patriot Light Warjack, Valiant Heavy Warjack.

Trenchers are paratroopers now, because "if there's any force in the Iron Kingdoms who'd be the first to try jumping out of a perfectly good airship into battle, it'd be the trenchers".

Getting Metal Slug vibes from this art.

Apparently have a unique mechanic where you airdrop supplies and special ammunition to units during play. The Valiant doesn't even deploy with one of those back-mounted weapons, you pick one and air drop it in during play.

[tiikerikani]

Nicia, Hound of the Abyss

For the beastmen a while ago, I'd slapped Quickshade over white primer and I got a nice sepia tone, so I did the same to some other stuff in the queue. The armor looked so nice already at that point that I was afraid to ruin it and painted just about everything else first, and I really wanted to keep that to myself so I don't have any WIP pictures of this.

There's something I find striking about the muted colors, though the (metallic) weapons probably could use a bit more contrast vs the armor (maybe a dark plasma glow effect on the gun?)

[butchconnoisseur]

Circle Orboros celestial fulcrum model that I purchased a few years back when MK3 of warmahordes came out. The model sucked to build, and falls apart at the drop of a hat, but it does look very nice

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Croak Underchief, Iron Kingdoms by Russell Marks

[verdigrhys]

Some minis.

[biggestlittleminis]

I was recently gifted an air brush and a compressor. After trying it out with a blue contrast paints I had, I bought some base colors to play with. Really excited to break into air brushing. I had prices it out many times and decided to stick with brushes 😂