COVENANT OF MENOTH

Menoth’s Covenant with the people seems impenetrable and obscure. In truth, it is quite simple: obey the True Law or be washed from the face of Caen – The Harbinger of Menoth

The Covenant of Menoth is a call to war. For two millennia it lay hidden and was studied in secret only by select priests. As the Crusade’s flames spread, however, its passages echoed through Immoren once again, strengthening the Lawbringer’s loyal warriors and striking down the arcane tricks of His enemies. It is a devastating weapon of the True Faith.

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I started working on my Protectorate of Menoth army again. I am completely rebasing them so that they are all on chunks of Cities of Death pieces. I decided that I wanted to alter the standard look of the Convenant, so instead of having a dude carrying the Book on his back, I have converted him to be hefting it with both meaty arms.

I did all the pinning and such today. Maybe I can slap a little paint on it later. Looking forward to getting this one finished. I will post some updated pictures when I make some progress in this project.

PROTECTORATE BASES

I am working on my Protectorate of Menoth army again, and I decided that I was going to tear them all off their bases, and redo them. I have started to add cut off sections of Games Workshop Cities of Death parts to give my wee dudes a “wrecked city” look. This required cutting the Cities of Death sections down, and pinning them to the base to ensure they were stable. Mainly because Privateer Press bases have that famous lip, and that made putting the sections on the bases somewhat difficult.

Now I just need to get a little time to paint. When I get some more work done, and have worthwhile updates to share, I will toss out another post.

But until then … keep rollin’ sixes.

HIGH EXEMPLAR KREOSS

If you didn’t believe in the Creator before, you will today. – Long Gunner Sergeant Terschel Bannock to a fresh recruit sent into battle against the Knights Exemplar

Alright, true believers.

Go to the Privateer Press forums and brush up on your tactics with good old High Exemplar Kreoss.

And keep rollin’ sixes.

COLOSSALS: STORMWALL

This June get something big for the battlefield.

From the PP release: “Perhaps Nemo’s greatest creation, the Stormwall towers over Cygnar’s enemies with all the majesty and menace of a looming cloudburst. From the thunder of its guns to the blinding cracks of arcing electricity from its lightning pods, the Stormwall is the mechanikal embodiment of the tempest. Powered by both steam and surging voltaic energy, it riddles the enemy lines with cannon shells and hails of bullets before smashing survivors with its electrified fists. The Stormwall Colossal comes in a box (PIP 31050) and includes three Lightning Pods and a colossal wreck marker. A player may field up to two Stormwalls for each warcaster in a Cygnar army.”

STEELHEAD RIFLEMAN CONVERSIONS

I was reading through the section of the Forces book detailing the Riflemen, and saw that their group is made up of disgruntled soldiers hailing from Long Gunners, Winter Guard, and the like. I started to look through my collection, eyeing up Trenchers and Long Gunners. I didn’t like what I saw in that area. Then I checked out a box of Widowmakers that had ben sitting around collecting dust, and I got to work.

I already have a full unit of Riflemen. So I placed an order with Privateer Press for two sprues of Steelhead Halberdier heads, and two of the one piece Riflemen models. With minimal effort, I have swapped out heads on the Widowmakers, and am pleased with the results. I had considered converting the Widowmaker guns too to make them smaller but dammit I like those sniper rifles!

I probably will not use these models in a tournament because it might confuse those of little brain even if they are told that my Mercenary army does not actually contain Widowmakers and that the models are conversions for Riflemen. However, I am damn sure going to use them in friendly games on G.O.D. club night.

Stormsmith Conversion

Awhile back, I was given a frame of the Empire Wizards parts made by Games Workshop.

When I was looking through the various bits on the sprue, I noticed this wacky head with a long beard and crazy hair. I thought to myself, “Wow, that looks like the head of a Cygnar Stormsmith … at least in the hair!” But at the time, Privateer Press had a strict rule that models could only contain their parts. Well, since now it is that they must contain mostly their parts … I had to do it.

I have six Stormsmith models. Three are painted, and not shown here. These are an additional three that I got for a very good price on eBay. I figure that I might be able to use a butt load of Stormsmiths if I ever get around to fielding a Theme List with Nemo. Anyway, here’s the conversion … a simple head swap.

I like the way he turned out!

A simple conversion using a head swap.

Three Stormsmiths. Center one is conversion.

GUN MAGE CAPTAIN ADEPT

Finally finished this guy off for my Arcane Tempest Army Lists.

Gun Mage Captain Adept - ready for the assassination run!

CYGNAR PAINT LIST

So I went through my Battlefoam and Sabol bags and wrote down all the Cygnar models I need to paint.

• Storm Gunner
• Stormsmith x3
• Epic Caine
• Lt. Caine (newest one)
• Darius
• Sentinel
• Grenadier x2
• Charger x2
• Kraye
• Cyclone x2
• Maxwell Finn
• Jonas Murdoch ( plus a max unit of Ogrun Gun Corps)
• Haley (alt)
• Stryker (alt)
• Nemo
• Trencher Officer and Sniper
• Sword Knights (max unit)
• Professor Pendrake
• Master Gunner
• Strangewyas
• Trencher Commandos (max unit)
• Scattergunner x3
• Long Gunners x6
• Thorn
• Centurion
• Chaingun crew x2
• Trencher Cannon Crew
• Triumph

 

Wilford Brimley Was Right

Lazy

Hey, it’s MINIATURE MONDAY again.

I have worked at pulling out all my miniatures and marking their front arcs for playing WARMACHINE. I am slowly making progress in marking these bases using a Silver Sharpie. I seldom run into a problem during games, but MKII kind of requires it at this point. I’m not the most popular or active Press Ganger, but I figure I should do what I can to be a good example by having my front arcs marked for games. Especially since my Local Store finally shut down and travel to other locations to take part in tournaments and events when I can. Many times my work prevents me from doing this due to its unique nature.

I have a lot of irons in the fire on my painting table. Problem is that I just don’t seem to have the energy to get anything done. I could easily blame this on being overwhelmed because generally I get bogged down easily and frustrated fast. However, the truth of the matter is simply that I sit down at my table to paint and just end up staring with a frown. The main reason for this is that my blood sugar has run between 500 and 600 every single day … and that’s at my fasting check in the morning. Wilford Brimley was right, diabetes can suck at times when it gets out of whack. The crazy thing is that there’s no clear reason it’s going out of control as of now. In May, I guess my blood tests will explain what’s going on with me.

When I finally do manage to get things back in order, I have the following things finished and ready to post up on Wreck Marker:

• 2 minimum units of Field Mechaniks
• Epic Haley and Variant Haley
• Max unit of Devil Dogs

And I am working on the following:

• Jeremiah Kraye
• 2 Grenadier Warjacks
• Trencher Infantry UA
• A minimum unit of Long Gunners
• Kara Sloan
• 2 Cyclone Warjacks

And I’m happy to announce that I am finally stepping into the Battle Foam age. I’ve been saving a little money here and there and finally got the nerve up to place an order for a WARMACHINE Battle Foam bag from Miniature Market.

I hope everyone had an excellent Miniature Monday.

Keep rollin’ sixes!

 

Rollin' Sixes

Trencher Reference

Trenchers & Siege

 

As some of you know, I am a fan of Trenchers. I recently painted a bunch of them and used some images I found on the White Moon Dreams forum for reference. I’m sure that many of you have already seen these images, but I include them for those of us who live under a rock when it comes to the WARMACHINE video game. The main page is here, and the one I used the most is right here. The pictures were posted by uglymuffin.

Enjoy.

Keep Rollin’ Sixes!