Repainted Juggernaut and a little wip

I skipped last week because I was moving. Luckily, all of my minis made it through the move without disassembling themselves. Unluckily, I haven't have a lot of time to paint. I do however have a small backlog of pictures that I haven't done any updates on yet though. First is my Rager:

I hesitate to call it done-done, but it's a solid single done I think. In that second picture I intentionally added my thumb for scale because that 5th border legion logo there is now my smallest freehand of any model I can remember. For reference, here is the official pin of the 5th border legion (which I do not yet own!)

The Rager is not a traditional 5th border legion jack like the Kodiak, but that does bring my up to my next project which was to update some of my Khadoran red jacks to the 5th border legion paint scheme. Here is my Juggernaut before and after photo:

It's hard to see in that picture but I even repainted the shoulders in my first attempt at wet blending, here is a close-up of the result.

 It's not perfect, but it looks great for my first try I think! Blending has always been the barrier I never attempted in painting because it always seemed "too hard" so I avoided it. But I think it could add a lot to my minis, so I'm going to be using it extensively in my next several models to get some practice.

The other model I just started is Kovnik Markov, and he is taking a very long time because it turns out that blending doesn't always work out as easily on a non-smooth, irregularly shaped surface. But here is a WIP of him. Hopefully I can post his finished form by next week.

I'm kind of lucky, kind of not, in that I accidentally dropped him and he shattered into his three main pieces and then discovered he's actually a lot easier to paint this way so I'm leaving him unassembled for the time being.

Still no battle reports, I keep forgetting until halfway through a game. Maybe next week.

The whole Cryx army

I was looking through here and realized that I never posted how basing my Cryx went. So, even though I did this years ago, I pulled them all out to take pictures and because my wife wanted to try them out. I tried to do a swamp effect with tall grass and water effect and I think it really ties them all together. They're quite a bit dusty, but I couldn't find my can of compressed air.

So that's the lot. I haven't done any new painting on them besides the basing and I think a few touch-ups on Deneghra, but I figured I ought to show that. I recently picked up some Bane Knights too, which could see some paint before too long.

Journeyman League!

I'm starting in another journeyman league on July 1, with my Khador. I thought for a long time about picking up a third faction but I think I still have a lot of learning to do with the Motherland before I move on. Another player is doing the standard Khadoran battlebox of Kozlov and his Juggernaut and Decimator, which I've already posted here, so I thought I'd change it up. I'll start week 1 with the following list:

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Khador Army - 0 / 0 points

[Kozlov 1] Lord Kozlov, Viscount of Scarsgrad [+28]
 - Grolar [18]
 - Rager [10]

Mainly for the reasons that I like Kozlov, I never get to play with my Grolar, and I just got a Rager, which I magnetized for the first time. Plus, don't they look great together?

The picture is a little out of focus, but I also went back and touched up Kozlov some. Here he is now, with the old image in the top left for comparison.

I'm really happy with the face, something I've been struggling with lately for some reason (as an example, see Strakhov's weird face in the last post), but his looks great. I'm also very happy with how the cloak turned out after the touch-ups. The rager will be one of my submission for painting as well as a full unit of IFP, Uhlan Kovnik Markov, and possibly some more models that I've ordered. Like the battle mechaniks that still haven't come in yet. In week two I plan to just add a full unit of IFP without CA but I might change my mind on that one. It might be more worth it to take a min unit plus CA for the minifeat and relentless charge.

If my opponents are fine with it, I plan on doing at least one battle report per week to help with my post-game analysis. I know that LegoS is not the best (or even in the top 3) Khador themes but I trust PP that it is at least usable in most match-ups, I just have to figure it out first. 

Strakhov 2 and friends

I made a lot of progress on Assault Kommando Strakhov and his friends. I'm happy enough with them to play them but I'm not entirely sure I'm done with them yet.

I'm going to set them aside for now, and I might come back to them later. I tried experimenting with the black with hard highlighting, to try to imitate shiny leather or rubber which gives them corrosion immunity. I did the same with the red.

I thought that the extreme highlighting might evoke a night time lighting but I think I missed that.

As always, I'll wait to do the basing later with the rest of my army.

I also recently got the Extreme Destroyer and was surprised at how many pieces it had!

Even the individual fingers were separate pieces. I wanted to assemble it in a dynamic pose, with the 'jack looking where it was shooting, and I think I did a decent job of that. Here is what it looks like now, though I don't feel finished with it yet.

So I've gotten it to the point that it's at least as good as my other destroyer, but I want to do more to it still. I'm thinking some weathering and rust. What I like about it so far is the blue steel of the axe and a good looking Khador symbol on the top hatch.




Hope you enjoy.

Just bearly tabletop quality

Just finished the Great Bears, which means that I now only have two unfinished models in my Khador force.

Like I said in the last past, I wanted them to be violently Khadoran, hence the bright red. Eventually I hope I can actually play with some of these in a game. Maybe I'll take pictures and do a battle report. Anyway, the individual pictures:

I also finished up the war dog (who doesn't have a name yet, but I'm leaning toward Petunia). Here she is by Sorscha.

With so much getting done I made another group picture, this time with everyone in my Khador army. *USSR anthem intensifies*

On top of all that, I just put in a big order of some more pikemen, Uhlan Kovnik Markov, Strakhov2, Malakov2, and the Extreme Destroyer. After that, I think the army will be mostly finished in terms of models? Unless PP entices me with something extraordinary.

Rounding out my Legion of Steel

Now I have enough pikemen to play the Legion of Steel theme force within Khador reasonably competitively because I finally finished the Iron Fang Pikemen unit I started painting ages ago and had just left unfinished.

And I managed to catch a little bit of sunlight. I like the more popping red of the capes so I went back and brightened up my Black Dragons' capes as well to match. Now all that's left is my Great Bears which won't look like either Iron Fangs or Black Dragons, because I'm thinking about making them Khador red. They are, after all, living legends and should look the part.

I'm also starting to consider my bases. I'm thinking a blue ice using the tutorial posted here. If that is what I do, I may need to order a bunch of bases or potentially try casting them again. I might instead do a simple cork rock deal with some snow.