The Ballad of the Beige Cowboy
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About the Project
With the arrival of Wild West Exodus 3rd Edition and the Showdown at Retribution landing on my doorstep its time to break out the Brainmatter and get to work! As a primarily Hex / Lawman player im excited to get to work on two factions im usually trying to stomp on rather than build as these are the factions of my two main opponents. Once ive got them painted up i aim to play each opponent and report on how i find using them before crawling back to the safety of the Hex!!
Related Game: Wild West Exodus
Related Company: Warcradle Studios
Related Genre: Steampunk
Related Contest: Global Gunslinger League
Unlocked Achievements: A Dystopian Age Begins
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UR-31 Teslabots
In an homage to Kraftwerk, it’s the Teslabots!!
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Shield’s up!
And with these the starter set is DONE! Now to get them on the table!!
Iron Horse
Next up it’s the slightly shabbier Iron Horses of the Enlightened! FYI forgot to picture the paint for the cow catchers, it’s Army Painter rough iron!
Beige. Drybrushed and loving it!
Next up the washes, 1/1 with medium
Undead bikers? Check!
Iron Eagles
Unfortunately not the film of the same name but still cool nonetheless!!
Let’s beige up these birds!
Kept them simple and basic but they are done!
Gustave Eiffel
Now for the big bad of the Enlightened it’s Gustave Eiffel. I’m thinking he needs to be elevated above the standard menials so gave him a golden prime to work from.
Beige up the bad boy!Next up it’s the washes, all 1-1 with medium.
Based and done, do like this guy!!
Emily Nouguier
After finally recovering from my Christmas excesses it’s back to the painting desk!
Beige me like one of your French girls!
1-1 washes, dark tone on the metal, strong ton everywhere else!
And she’s done!
Carl Fredrickson
Next up it everybody’s favourite portal hopping varmit Carl Fredrickson, not the old boy from Up….
Some beige magicNext it’s the washes, flesh tone on the skin and gold and Strong tone on everything else. Both a 1-1 mix
Quick base tidy and that’s another one done!
And for funsies as I’ve already painted the original Carl I thought I’d do a little side by side. New Carl has definitely been at the Weetabix!
Union Belle
Next up it’s back the the more ‘human’ elements. Enter the Union Belle!
Beige time!
2-1 medium wash on the armour and a 1-1 on the others.
Based and done!
Strider Cav
Happy with how the Mono Cav turned out I decided to do the same for the Strider Cav.
Drybrush time
2-1 medium wash mix
Base tidy and done!
Mono Cav
Next it’s time for the weird stuff, it’s the Mono Cav. Hoping to keep this quick and simple so I can replicate for the Strider Cav.
Beige up your dead!
Final wash with a 2-1 medium to dark tone
Smash ‘N’ Grab
Next up it’s probably my favourite model in the starter set, the hulking man machine that is Smash N Grab!
The all important step…
Quick base tidy and done!
Nikolai Tesla
Right, after a lengthy delay due to the arrival of a mental puppy it’s finally time to get back into a project and where better to start than with the Steampunk Iron Man himself, Nikolai Tesla!I’ve decided this time to go with a little experiment on this one mixing up some blue paint, blue ink and some medium just to see if what I think will happen will.
So I mixed up some Liquitex ink, Crystal blue and some wash medium and applied it over a white primer hoping for a basic contrast effect. Overall I think it came out okay for a base layer with shade.
With the base layer down for the armour it’s time to block in the details
The new overlord inspects!
Now at this point I did start to get frustrated with the lightening bolts as I couldn’t get them as clean looking as I’d like. Also as they are so thin drybrushing them was a real pain. I did go in with a very watered down light blue to try and level them out a little. It seemed to work enough for me to move on!
After a quick drybrush to highlight the head a washes where applicable decided that was enough for Tesla to be table ready so tidied up the base and moved on!
