Arctica's Cygnar

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Arctica's Cygnar

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Ok start of a new thread and project. After learning to play a few weeks ago I got hooked into warmachine and now i am totally excited all the time about playing some more but also painting the miniatures. The guy who taught me how to play wanted to sell his cygnar so as a trade i'm doing commission work on a number of his troll models in exchange for a large cygnar group.

The cygnar i have are:

Warcasters:
Allistar Caine & Epic version
Victoria Haley & Epic Version
Coleman Stryker & Epic Version

Warjacks:
Lancer
Charger
Hunter
Ironclad
Defender
Centurion
Thunderhead

Units:
Arcane tempest gun mages + Unit attachment
Stormsmith tower
Black 13th

Solos:
Stormsmiths x 3
Squire
Arlan Strangeways
Journeyman Warcaster
Gun mage solos x 2

That's quite a lot of models and I have some more to come but mostly just character warjacks. I chose models which i like the look of so that i would paint them, not going to be massively competitive but i think i may add more to get a decent force going. We should be starting a league soon, which i hope i can help organise and start up. Once i've got more painted i might do battle reports etc too :) So keep your eyes peeled.

For now i've started the defender and I wanted to use metallics as most of you know i've always primarily been a NMM nut so this would help me branch out more and give me practice with metallic paints. Anyway have a look at the wip and as always feel free to comment.

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I like the blue, though, you should perhaps go for a little more highlight to make it pop a little more :) (just my 2 cents)
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I agree with Hellspawn. The blue can use a bit more highlighting. The metals look very nice though.
The whole miniature looks very smooth btw! :)
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So keep your eyes peeled.
I will! :D
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Well i got a lot of painting done these last couple days :) i'm happy with the results, especially since i've never had much luck with metallics. I tried to push the blue highlights too as suggested to make things pop a bit more.

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I'm still debating as to whether to put cracks in the blue armour plating, and some more freehand lettering elsewhere but i don't want to overload the model with too much detail. Anyway next model will be a Hunter light warjack i think, or epic haley. Answers on a stamped addressed envelope ^^
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Still not highlighted enough to my taste but it's still a nice painting :)
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another tale, that's good :)
good luck!
the metall parts could be given some more highlighting.
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And onto heavy warjack number 2 a centurion :)

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I tried to push the highlights a bit more on this, but i think i might need to shade it a bit darker to make the contrast pop out more, but these are gaming models.
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I like this one more than the first one, the blue pops a little more which is nice
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I think I'd highlight edges only if this is a gaming piece.
nice warjack!
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