Battle Alongside Cryx’s New Captain Aiakos in Warmachine
August 1, 2016 by brennon
Continuing a look at what's ahead for Warmachine by Privateer Press they also shown off some amazing artwork and the new model for Captain Aiakos. Cryx are getting themselves an epic new Warcaster...
Captain Aiakos is looking fantastically brutal. He was even sculpted by our good friend Doug Hamilton who was at the EU Masters with us in Brno earlier this year. But, a good model needs a base and here's his concept art by Andrea Uderzo.
This was then taken into the digital sculpting realm by Doug who managed to turn him into a model with some dynamism to him.
The final paint job shown in the first image was done by Dallas Kemp who provides you with the scheme you'll be trying to re-create with your own models.
What Came Before?
As with most of the characters we're looking at this week they have existed in the game to some degree before. Aiakos was known as the Scourge of the Meredius and looked like this.
"Having honed his skills through years of piracy upon the Meredius, Aiakos moves with his battlegroup like a specter of death both at sea and on land, striking down foes with wicked effectiveness. Nowhere is his cruelty more apparent than in his weapon of choice, a chained harpoon he uses to impale his victims before reeling them in to deliver the death blow."
The pirate has turned from Reaver to Warcaster and is looking the better for it. It's nice to see these characters joining the ranks of the existing Warcasters and developing not only the narrative but their powers too.
Finally we have this wonderful artwork by Néstor Ossandòn showing how scared you should be of Aiakos...
Are you a Cryx player in need of a new Warcaster? Did you maybe use Aiakos in his role as a Solo?
Get your thoughts below!
"The pirate has turned from Reaver to Warcaster and is looking the better for it..."
The weapons look thick… I don’t really like them. The paint-job also doesn’t do them justice.
It is the color scheme, not the painting itself that is letting this mini down. The colors don’t have a lot of value contrast against one another, and he is left without a clear center of interest.
Composition is often tricky on this sort of mini- one with lots of detail and a helmet obscuring the face.
But the sculpting is done well, and I think that with the right composition, he could look pretty great.
Yes, but besides that (and the ensueing lack of harmony), it’s clear that the omni-directional light treatment and the absence of contrast is not doing any favors to Aiakos. It’s either cartoonish on purpose, or amateurish. Either way, it doesn’t look good… it’s full of bad choices, whether they’re deliberate or not is another story entirely.
The solo had a nicer and more dynamic sculpt sculpt IMO
IMO both of those are very good sculpts. Maybe not to my taste but still I can’t say bad about those.
I actually gave a small laugh when I saw this mini. Man it is atrocious.
Looks good to me!
I think it’s an okay sculpt. I find interesting that they used a “healthy” flesh tone for this model instead of something more sickly and pale like most of the Cryx living models.
His Warcaster for does not look as good as his Journeyman Form (all Journeymen are also Solos ;p).
Really looking forward to the Warlock forms or the Hordes Lesser Warlocks.
We’ve already have seen Fyanna, who wasn’t a lesser Warlock for fluff reasons (Legion Warlocks are made by having an Anthac shard shoved into them and are automatically warlocks because they are possessed by Everblight)
I really want to see the Warcaster form of Gastone(he was the Mercenary Journeyman) and the Warlock form of Una (Hopefully she gets here flight beast discount back)
The spear thrusting arm looks odd, like anatomically incorrect, like a dislocated shoulder. The older model also looks more buff. I think there’s too much style and not enough substance to the model. I mean yes there is detail, but doesent feel like much character. Kind of… ‘sterile’