Why Cryx?

Last year I was sitting in a train with some friends who were traveling from the big city and to my part of Denmark. I asked why they would venture away from Copenhagen and they told me that my local gaming shop was having a sale on WarMachine and Hordes, and about all the stuff they were going to buy. It sounded like a good deal so asked them to buy a Cryx Battlebox for me. I intended to paint the models to a relatively high standard since it had been quite a while since I had done anything but batch painting. When I got home, I went to privateerpress.com and looked at the models. Cryx had everything I want, boney war-machines, zombie pirates and casters with a great rack. When my friend called and told me that there was no battlebox, I was disappointed. He told me however, that he had an old battlebox lying about, and that I could paint it up if I liked to. I got them a few days later and started fixing them, and preparing to paint them.

I spend hours painting the deathrippers and the defiler, and they turned out great. I had this crazy idea that I wanted gold coin bases, so by the time I got to Denegra my energy was a little spent (thus the awful blue lips).

 

Every coin is handmade and there are several hundred on each base. At that point a good friend of mine told me that he played a load of warmachine and that he would play it with me. I played three games the first day, and that opened my eyes to why this is such a good game. I bought a few units and played a bunch of games. The bases where however a burden for me to finish so I talked to an insanely talented sculptor and special effects guy that I know who could help me make a mold to get easy access to more bases. Here is some of his work that he made on beer coasters in a few hours while drinking said beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As well as, just what you need!!! A baby with correct weight proportions! He yelled, “catch!” and threw it at me. Nasty stuff.

 

Before long, I changed the theme for the bases into something faster and equally appropriate, but I will show you that in my next post.