Aaaaand I'm out... (warning: uncensored)

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Kreoss Final

Here's Kreoss finished. I have to find some way to get better pictures, which is as soon as possible. Overall fairly satisfied with the way he came out - a few things I would do differently and I'll discuss those. This model is not yet matte sealed.

The Colors:

Primed in Army Painter Skeleton Bone

VGC Bone White

VGC Scarlet Red

VGC Gore Red

VGC Blood Red

VGC Fluo Green

VGC Tinny Tin

VGC Brassy Brass

VGC Polished Gold

VMC Gunmetal Grey

Citadel Abaddon Black

Citadel Dark Angel Green

Citadel Gryphonne Sepia Wash

Citadel Badab Black Wash

Citadel Carroburg Crimson Wash

Edit: the entire base is Galeforce 9 products. Washed the white rock in Devlan Mud, drybrushed with VGC Beasty and a little VGC Bone.

Analysis:

Feels good to be somewhat content with a model!

I don't pretend to be some Golden Demon award vacuum. Hell, I throw a friggin party when I can look at a model and say "can't wait to play it" instead of not putting it on the table with some sort of pride.

I need to work on smoother color transitions as well as planning better. This was my first model for my Menoth box, so I will be applying what I've learned to the next models I paint for that faction in this scheme.

I also need to work on my fine detailing. I feel I have a stronger grasp than I used to on wide-surface blending and (proper) painting. My small details seem to suffer a little.

Overall, though, not very happy with the metallics. Would like to see if I could get some more functional small brushes as well as read up a little more on metallics.

Priming bone and washing in sepia didn't quite turn out as bright as I expected. Quite a bit darker but it actually worked out as I like the darker vibe. I highlighted the shoulders after I painted the studs which I wont be doing next time. My next recipe for metallic studs on top of non-metallics will be:

- Finish the surface the studs are attached to

- Black out the studs with Abaddon Black or VGC/MC Black and a very small space around them

- Paint the studs

- Add a dab of wash to the studs to tone the metallic down (if appropriate)

- Highlight dab (if appropriate)

This entire box set though.........

Kreoss

Started with Kreoss on my Menoth box set.

Using P3 pins with an Excel drill @ 1.25mm. Seems to be a good size. Simply drilled into the bottom of Kreoss' cloak far enough to get the pin in and keep him steady. Make sure with pinning you have a deep enough hole to keep the model from wobbling around on it - nothing sucks more than painting a precision line of detail to have the model spin around on your and make a fat line of paint where you dont want it.

Army Painter Skeleton Bone. I swear by army painter. Low odor, very thin even coats. Expensive, sure, but if you are painting to a decent standard this stuff is amazing. I chose this color because it's what made me go for Menoth in the first place. I loved the army's fluff, overall vibe, and color scheme. I HATE priming white, and really want that bone-white to be smooth and clean - priming black and trying to paint the Menoth white isn't something I'm willing to risk - I'm not that good with low-pigment colors ;)

With priming you want to make sure you aren't point-blank distance from your model to avoid paint pooling up in the detail. I've found with Army Painter you can be a little bit closer and it will still look great - however 5"-8" away is the sweet spot. Don't forget to hit the model from all angles for coverage - above, below, sides, front, and back.

This is a Bone prime - a wash of Gryphonne Sepia - and a heavy drybrush of Vallejo Bone White to pick up highlighted areas. I'm glad I didn't go to Devlan mud as it would be too stark a contrast. Even the Sepia was a little jarring. Stuck the pin in a wine cork and it worked very well.

Notice the cloak is not very smooth in terms of transition of color. We will fix this with another light wash of Gryphonne Sepia followed by targeted washing in the recesses to make sure shaded areas are darker - light wash as necessary to help blend.

The next few steps are skipped in terms of photos, but what we're going to do is smooth out the color transition in the cloth and shoulder pads, targeted wash on the Menofixes and other areas that should pop out and have depth, black out all metallics (very tedious but worth it to preserve the bone color), and Vallejo Scarlett Red for the shoulder trim, leg and cod panels, trim of the hat, scarf and headpiece.

Undress- I mean.. unboxing Protectorate Battlegroup. And maybe looking up Kreoss' skirt...

Protectorate of Menoth Starter Box. MSRP is $49.99 and comes with:

High Exemplar Kreoss

Crusader Heavy Warjack

Repenter Light Warjack

Revenger Light Warjack

Here is the plastic tray that comes out of the shell. Comes with a Quick Start Rules, No Quarter sample mini-magazine, and the plastic models themselves with their appropriate stat cards

Each model is packaged in plastic separately. This is kind of nice seeing as how there are many pieces to a model. In fact I was completely surprised with just how many pieces there are for each

Kreoss

Crusader

Repenter

Revenger - lotta pieces to this guy

This is a quality kit - I purchased this kit a long time ago but it was when this product contained metal models. Only being a fan of few metal models (and after being bitten by the Menoth bug again) I decided to pick up this kit to slowly collect a PoM army again alongside my Legion.

The plastic they use in this kit (and im sure the rest of their line) is not easily broken - is quite heavy - and seems like it will work well with the rest of the modeling/painting process.

One of the nice things about the Crusader particularly and even the Revenger to an extent - is that they appear to have far more flexibility when it comes to posing - instead of the metal kit's stone statue pose.

Not sure how I squeezed a couple paragraphs out of an unboxing blog post, but the next one is where we really get to business. :)

In righteous fire...

Menoth starter box is in!

So I will be chronicling, from start to finish, this awesome plastic kit for your enjoyment:

• Unboxing
• Preparing the models for primer
• Pinning (possibly)
• Priming
• Painting
• Assembly
• Basing

Test

Bloodletters I started paitning a long time ago. This post is just to get the ball rolling, this was quite a while ago and since have been sold. Quite a few nasty mold lines on these, and also interesting to see how my painting has come thus far - these were a very quick dry brush job in the early stages of the models.

I will be getting a Menoth starter box in this week and will go through unboxing, prepping, priming, painting, and basing that kit!