The Sanguine Bitbox

My latest progress towards my new Legion army. Mostly focused on converting Blighted Swordsmen (more on that another time) so haven’t gotten far.

May intermission: Started on Sylus Wyshnalyrr this week, and now I’m done. Still have to base and might redo some of the leather. But for now he’s done.

I’ve been playing Warmachine/Hordes for about a year and a half now, and all that time I’ve spent with my Khador armies. I started only wanting to play with Warjacks, but it didn’t take long for me to find that only using warjacks were both limiting and somewhat boring. A few months ago I looked at my painted army (being about 100 points in size, and 4 warcasters), and I found I wanted something different. Khador is strong, slow and durable. I needed something new.

My first thoughts went to either Cryx or Legion, and in the end I decided for Legion (I can always start with Cryx in the future). I want an infantry-based Legion list (however wierd that may sound in a beasty Hordes faction). What did it for me was the challange of making nice infantry models (yes, I’ll probably end up converting or using other models for most infantry choices) as well as the possibility of trying how Fury works. I’ve always been part of the ones disliking the fact that Fury-users get much more fury than Focus-users get Focus.

So I began today with Kalus and Rhyas, by getting them based and assembled. I’ll start painting them up soon, but I’ll probably get Sylus done first.

Done. Onwards to the next fun project.

A fully painted and based Drago. Sadly, however, I noticed today that one of his spikes were missing. So I had to do a last minute adjustment to the back of his left hand. Maybe I’ll order a new spike in the future. Until then Drago will have to live with some more battle damage.

Motivational Challenge, goal for the month of may: Done! Sure, I should (and will) still base them. But beyond tha they are done. I quite like how Drago looks. I was afraid he would be too black, but a silver highlight fixed that.

Almost done. This went quicker than I had anticipated. Only to highlight the black areas on Drago and base them both, then I’d be done. Should be possible to get done before sunday.

So far so good. Yesterday Stinkypainter complained that I hadn’t posted anything for almost a week, thus showing no updates on my current painting “project”. So I thought I’d show you how far I’ve gotten on Drago and his fellow Berserker. At the moment I have a lot of highlighting + basing and some washing and green left to do. I hope to get most of this done before the weekend so I can base them friday-saturday the latest since I’ve signed up for a small 25-point tournament at my Local Gaming Club this sunday. It’ll be fun, since I haven’t played a game of Warmachine/Hordes since I played my brother over Christmas.

For May I aim to paint the two Warjacks shown in the picture, so my 35pts pVlad-list will be finally completed.

PS: Sorry for the bad picture.