#protectorate of menoth

[corvidous]

Aww this came up in the old FB memories! 2016, some of my first foray into painting minis, Warmachine Protectorate of Menoth. I used cheap brushes and craft paints from Walmart (with some dedicated P3 paints for specific colors) because I wanted to "give myself permission to just paint and not worry about wasting expensive materials."

WELL guess what?? Cheap craft paints fucking suck ASS for painting miniatures! They're so thin and translucent that you need 4 or more coats to get any kind of coverage and even then they don't look very nice, which made painting such a dispiriting repetitive slog that I never got most of that army painted at all! Sometimes it's worth it to invest in the good materials. Sadly I got rid of most of this army years ago for space reasons (before I discovered model agnostic wargaming). Literally just GAVE it away to some guy after failing for several years to sell it. I sure wish I had kept it now, but I DID keep my two best painted and favorite lil guys: the Vigilant Light Warjack and the Reclaimer solo.

[primerjohn]

Nicia, Tear of Vengeance, painted in my Infernals scheme. I figured she’d been called to task at the last minute and unable to discard all the Menoth iconography.

[deazmonius]

Compled Paladin initiates unit compled

[lorethcrow]

I just finished painting my Iron Kingdoms mini for my Protectorate Paladin. Her name is Zakari and she’s very tall, very broad, very quiet. Her job is to protect the heretic gun mage from dying (because he’s dumb) and keep the elf from causing trouble. I’ll have better pictures later when I finish our game and do the basing.

[conceptvault]

High Paladin Dartan Vilmon

By Matthew D. Wilson

[netsalvage-blog]

Probably the last Warmachine mini I’ll do, because I hate Warmachine. Infinity seems kinda interesting, though - I’ll probably sell my unpainted minis for Infinity stuff.

This thing was a nightmare, too. Some 14 parts, only 3 points where gluing differently poses it rather than just makes it look like a disaster. Lots of areas that needed full paint coverage that would not get it fi you painted it disassembled first.

I learned a lot about mounting pieces for painting while working on this. (Notably: use big beefy electronics clamps and then just touch up the bite areas later.)

Some fast and loose fire effects on this, but they turned out pretty well. I’m impressed. (Just put yellow and Ferrari red on a wet palette. Red base, black at the ends of the flames, yellow at the bases, and then blended paint for the mid area.)

I learned that black wash on pale colours doesn’t make them TOO much paler; much better than trying to guess the proper colour to wash them with. (My last crotch banner looked like it was made of caramel....)

Base went really, really well. “Painted” it with white glue, dumped a brown gravel flock mix on it.Then after it dried I soaked some superglue into spots and poured on some grass flock. The grass flock holds better than the non-superglued gravel, of course.

Onto some quick kitbashed buildings next...

[munsonx]

Vassal of Menoth.

[gmortschaotica]

The latest Privateer Press releases for Warmachine and Hordes are looking particularly nice...

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/privateer-press-october-wave-1-releases.html