Grey Knights up for Preorder

GW's site has the Grey Knights up for preorder this morning, and at least for myself, the first real view of the "Dreadknight".

There are a couple other pics, but this is the only one that's new and different.  I'm willing to bet that the Dreadknight will be a big seller, but I don't think it's for me.  I've never had the urge to build or paint Grey Knights, even though I could just spray some marines silver.  As much as I love the Dreadnought, I think they're great because of their bulkiness and such.  This guy is just too sleek.

Now, if he was actually a "Dark Knight", and the model had a voice box and taunted my opponent in the Christian Bale Batman voice...well, maybe then I'd order two.

GW Forest Assembly and Thoughts

As it rained all day yesterday, I wasn't in a huge hurry to assemble the GW Forests I'm working on, as I couldn't prime during the day.  A couple things to note:

1.  Those tree branches seem to hate being glued together.  I ended up using the tiniest bit of green stuff to give them a head start at the connection points.  

2.  I'm not a fan of the GW leaves.  The trees are great looking, but in the end I only put leaves on one.  I think I'll paint that one in a normal leafy green forest scheme, and then paint a dying autumn scene (wald!) and a dead winter forest. 

Anyway, hope for some dry weather today, so I can do some priming!

Master Necrotech Mortenebra

My favorite Cryx 'Caster so far has to be Master Necrotech Mortenebra and her Skarlock, Deryliss.  She can really power her 'Jacks, and combined with a Leviathan puts out a surprise amount of Cryxian pain!

Mortenebra is seventeen pieces of metal by herself, and can be a pain to assemble.  I took a deep breath, took my time, and green stuffed liberally.  She cam out sturdy, and I hope she survives a long time, and misses out on any model droppage that tends to happen with my big thumbs!

Skarlock!

The Skarlock seems like something you should have for every Cryx caster.   While it's a cinch to take it on the field, you'll want to be extra careful when assembling it, as it has some parts that need to go together smoothly.  I assembled mine in more of a prone position, so that he'd look like a puppet with a Warcaster pulling his strings.  Painting the green involved three to four layers of different greens with washes in between, to give him that just yanked your soul out feel!

Painting Forests

I'm painting up three GW forests for this year's Brawler Bash IV (see information above).  I wanted to poll around and see what kinds of forests you folks would suggest.  Blood Forests?  Snowy Treelines?  Autumn (Insert different word for Forest)?  Leave a comment below, and I'll see what I can whip up!

Bonejacks!

Games notwithstanding, Cryx continues to be a joy to paint.  The highlight of the whole experience has been the new plastic battlebox, and I whipped up the two Deathrippers and Defiler in a day.  They're done with a mixture of grays and bone, silver and bronze, with just a bit of bright green in the back to feature the soul engines prominently.