Absylonia, the Terror of Everblight
Absylonia sports quite a bit of detail that takes painting well. She's very similar to the Forsaken in that respect - made up of different design elements of different models. It makes her relatively easy to paint as there's not really anything "new" to the Legion about her but the discord of her design stands out on the tabletop.
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Visgoth Rhoven & Honor Guard
I painted Rhoven and his Exemplar honor guard up at the tail end of my Protectorate collection. I've only fielded them once or twice since they were first released, and as such they kept getting pushed back to the end of my painting queue. But as PP's release schedule slowed the past couple years I was finally able to get to them.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution
If you're a gamer, you've heard of Deus Ex. Released over a decade ago, it has earned countless awards and accolades. It also combined a number of gameplay elements that resonated with me personally: open-ended obstacles, stealth-based gameplay (remember Thief?), experience-based progression, and a dystopian cyberpunk setting.
Although Invisible War was a decent game, it failed to live up to its name as a Deus Ex sequel. The game wasn't bad but in an attempt to simplify many of the mechanics of the original Deus Ex it removed much of what made it unique. So the question commonly asked on the internet was... would Eidos Montreal create a worthy prequel to the original Deus Ex?
Yes. Yes they did.
Kaelyssa, Night’s Whisper
Of the two Retribution warcasters I've painted at this point, I think Kaelyssa came out better. I really like Garryth's sculpt but hers just turned out far easier to paint.
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Garryth, Blade of Retribution
I purchased Kaelyssa and Garryth back when the Retribution of Scyrah was first released just to have them to paint. After a knocking the loosest of the rust off with a few test figures I sat down to see what I could do with my Retribution figures.
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Diminutive Denizens Migration Complete
After a couple weeks I finally finished migrating Diminutive Denizens, my old miniature gallery, here to my blog. I decided part way through the import not to push every single image through the IABN. I tagged some of my favorite Warmachine/Hordes images to pass through but there are a lot more in my galleries, accessible using the Miniature Gallery link up in the header menu or by clicking here.
On top of that I picked up a paint brush for the first time in almost a year the other day. I'm still feeling a little rusty but I'm getting back into the swing of things. I have a few new miniatures to post soon and while I had a photo rig set up I got a few shots of some older miniatures that never made it onto my gallery. I'll be uploading those in the future as I get the images re-sized and color balanced.
And if you're here surfing non-miniature topics of geekery, you can skip the miniature content by jumping 12 pages of posts into the archive. The mass of miniature posts all blocked together was an unfortunate side effect of the migration.
Gorman di Wulf, Rogue Alchemist
Although my first try at painting a light source, I was rather pleased with how Gorman turned out. All of his garments were painted in various browns to create a dull, utilitarian look. This was meant to contrast the glowing vials hanging from his waist. I think the end result really highlights the vials.
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Nephilim Soldier
I tried something a little bit different with the Nephilim here compared with the rest of my early beasts. Instead of using a Sky Blue to highlight my Midnight Blue I use for a base coat I went with Rain Grey, hoping the result would be slightly more muted when compared with the Carnivean and the others. I think the experiment was a success, and the more detailed musculature on the Nephilim here really brought out the difference.
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Carnivean
Ah, the Carnivean. If not for the lack of opposable thumbs, he would overran the lowlands and rid Immoren of Everblight's enemies long ago.
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Carnivean
For my second Carnivean I decided to change up its pose in two ways - I placed the head on facing forward instead of to the side (filing and greenstuffing the neck to accomodate this change) and I put a wrecked bonejack on the base under his front foot. Minor changes overall but just enough to make my two Carniveans easily differentiated on the table.
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