Thunderhead finished

Nope, this blog isn’t dead. I spent June/July watching the world cup in South Africa, but August and September were invested into painting whenever I had time off the job and family. I have to say I prefer spending time with my family, though, as our daughter is doing progress with every day.

Either way, here comes the Thunderhead, my first finished Warmachine model:

Besides being my first Warmachine model, it’s also my first model I painted using a palette for mixing my paints. Using the layering technique I was able to get a quite nice blue gradient, but unfortunately it can’t be seen that well in the photos. I’m sure I won’t win any painting competition with my blue gradient, but for a first timer I am really happy with the result.

A few additional words on the base decoration: I want my Warmachine models to walk over a terrain of rocks and ashes. As the kingdom of Cygnar is on the retreat, I figure they launch counterstrikes through torched no man’s land which suits especially the role of eCaine, my Warcaster. For that purpose I mixed aquarium sand with hobby rocks and glue, covered everything in black ink and drybrushed it with Dheneb Stone. Et voilà.