Larger image on flickr.com Many people have difficulties knowing who is who in this character unit. If you have problems identifying the Great Bears – Volkov is the leader and is the miniature in the middle (with a beard); Kolsk is on the right (he is the eldest and is bald); and Yarovich is on [...]

The War Dog was an ‘in between’ project for me. I always try to have at least two different things on my painting table at once. That way if I get bored/uninspired by one I can fall back on the other. The War Dog was the fall back and it took quite a while to [...]

This is the last of the three Great Bears finished (apart from basing which I’ll get to). He is the leader and is named Volkov. I finished Kolsk and Yarovich over the last few evenings. Here are all three from the unit – Once they are based I’ll write a quick painting guide. Owen

I finished the next of the Great Bears (named Yarovich) this evening. I finished Kolsk a few days ago. Just the leader Volkov to finish now. In case you are wondering, he is blu-taked to the top of an old GW ink bottle with some water in it. I find it’s a nice weight and [...]

My newly painted Cryxian force faced off against Phil’s Protectorate of Menoth tonight. Phil is an old hand at the Protectorate and I’m relatively inexperienced with Cryx. We are, however, both very experienced at playing Warmachine, so I knew this was going to be a challenge. We decided on a simple 500pt kill the ‘caster [...]

I’m currently basing my Cryx, but while the glue dries I’ve returned to the Great Bears of Gallowswood. I started these guys, along with a Koldun Lord, before I got stuck into the Cryx. I’m treating each as character, so this one (named Kolsk) is the first to be (almost) finished. The others have their [...]

The last two weeks has been a marathon of painting. Over that time I’ve spent about 26 hours preparing and painting 30 miniatures and I’m pretty happy with the results. Asphyxious was added during the last week in order to help preserve my sanity by painting another character model rather than just rank and file. [...]

The Bane Knights mark the end of my push to get Cryx miniatures painted. All that remains now is to get all 30 miniatures that I’ve painted over the last two weeks based. The Knights were painted using a different, but hopefully complimentary, colour scheme. I was torn between painting them as ethereal ghosts (to [...]

I’ve been working on my Cryx over the last week and Iron Lich Asphyxious is the last miniature I’ve completed, so I decided I’d do a step-by-step guide to painting him. I tend to paint character models individually as they deserve a little more time and detailing as they tend to receive more attention on [...]

In another good day of painting I managed to complete Bane Lord Tartarus. I wanted him to have a similar colour to the Bane Thralls, but to also have the blue hue which is a subtle theme colour in the army. I painted the brown in much the same way as I did on the [...]