Mostly finished pMakeda.

So today I realised I may not actually end up buying any Skorne infantry at all. Except maybe Incindearii. Simply because Gators and Frogs are so good.

Anyway here is my shiny Makeda. She doesnt pop enough for me but I am feeling a bit more satisfied with her than most of my painting done this year.

Next up is finishing the swordsmen.

Paint scheme test. Extoller Soulward.

So I have been practicing with the airbrush for a few months now. I am happy to say that I can almost mix paint to the proper cosistency and I think I have pre shading down. 

However everything after that is a travesty. 

I havent mastered taping off or using blue tac to cover areas, my colored layers are always too thick and I lose the effect of the pre shading. If I paint its mostly the same effect.

The gloss and wash approach is semi successful as either I am going too heavy on the wash or mixing my own wash with paint thinner is insufficient. I keep getting dried lines splotching around it.

On top of this my pallet is a bit thin, I have lost my skill in hghlighting by brush and my matt varnish is a far cry from Moana.

Pre shading and a few coats of white on her dress and it looks ok.

 However the white green and red look seems to be ok. The next step is to try it on some swordsmen and see if I cant get more work done with the air brush.

Welcome to the back of the bus.

Blah blah blah stuff.

Going from Ret to Skorne, where I usually spend my time figruring out assassinations has made a lot of the Skorne casters look strange or downright bad. It just goes to show how faction tunnel vision can effect your view of the game. "How do people play this faction, my other one is so much better"
Admittedly most people dont have a Grass is Greener HERE perspective. This could mean that either Skorne is really bad or my perception of Ret is way over blowen.

Its time to learn to Skorne

Part of this move is because I got free minis, Part of it is because Skorne is officially bad, part of it is because the last 3 Ret casters have either been rather dissapointing (eVyros) or more of mostly the same thing, Issyria, Thyron. Ok cleaving jacks are pretty awesome and Issyria is great but its still just roll more dice!

Of course the real reason is because I want to be able to beat Gator players.