Wild West Exodus – Global Gunslinger League – MCM
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About the Project
This is my first look into Wild West Exodus and the new Showdown at Retribution Two Player Starter Set. I plan to build and paint up some miniatures. I still have to decide if I am Enlightened or the Union. Right now, I am leaning towards the Enlightened faction as my slow grow army.
Related Game: Wild West Exodus
Related Company: Warcradle Studios
Related Genre: Steampunk
Related Contest: Global Gunslinger League
Unlocked Achievements: A Dystopian Age BeginsPioneer
This Project is Active
The Completed Minis
As part of the Global Gunslinger League, I finally finished up the Enlightened Miniatures of the Wild West Exodus: Showdown at Retribution two player starter set.
These minis are great and I had a lot of fun painting them. I hope you like the finished product. If you do, please give me a few votes under Skill, Idea or Tutoring on the posts within this project.
This is the leader of the group. 
I really like these Spider Cav models. I made two of them.
This is the second one that I made. I made them pretty much identically but painted extra blood on one versus the other.
This is the Mono Cav that I featured in some of my earlier posts. So neat.
Here we have some cavalry on an Iron Horse.
And another miniature on an Iron Horse.
Here we have Smash and Grab. I enjoyed adding the blood and glowing effects to the mini.
This is Emily. She fixes robots. I think I am going to have to pick up some K9 models for this group. Painting up the Enlightened side of the new Wild West Exodus two player starter set is now complete. I do have a few extra posts that I plan to add before closing up this project.
Come on back for a video tutorial on how to use brush on primer, and a video on how I painted these miniatures.
If you like my work, come on over and check out some of my other painted minis on my personal website.
Until next time, Happy Gaming Everyone!!!
Adding the Highlights and Effects
Now I am almost done these miniatures. I used The Army Painter Paints, which make it really easy to quickly finish up your miniatures and have them look good.
Check these images out of the figures at this stage in the game.
Emily all painted up. All that is left is to add basing materials to the mini.
I went with a ton of gore on this one. Lots of blood effect on the front of the mini and a glowing green effect on the back of the figure.
A side view of that same mini. I like how it turned out!
Here we have Smash and Grab. I did the same green glowing effect off of the cylinders that are inserted into his back. I have more images and a tutorial video coming. Be sure to keep checking in on my work. Hopefully I will get the video up before the end of the Global Gunslinger League.
Until next time, Happy Gaming Everyone!!!
After The Shading
My previous post was a bit of a tutorial and it outlines the process that I use to paint my miniatures. Well, I finished the shading step and take a look at how fantastic these minis look now. I could stop here, but I am going to take it another step yet.
The Enlightened Cav Models along side Smash & Grab.More Base Painting
When I paint, I use a five step process.
- Prime
- Base Coat
- Shade
- Highlight
- Effects and Basing
With these Enlightened miniatures for Wild West Exodus, I continued through that process and want to share with you some more pictures of my miniatures being base coated.
Base Coating the Iron Horses
The other minis in the group.
Smash and GrabThey might look simple now, but wait until I carry on to the next two steps of shading followed by effects and basing. They are going to look great!
More Progress
The work goes slow but steady. Here are some more images of my WIP.
Getting some leather color on Emily.
Carrying the brown onto the back of this chair.
Getting some ugly skin tones on Smash and GrabYou can see more images of my work in progress on my personal website – Must Contain Minis.
Making a Little More Progress
I am still working on the base colours of these miniatures, but I have been making a little more progress and am happy with the look of the figures so far.
A look at my hobby desk as I work on the figures. 
The Mono Cav mostly base painted. 
The Spider Cav. I really like these models.Starting the Paint Job
Once I built all the figures I primed them grey with The Army Painter brush on primer. Why brush on primer? I live in Canada and the snow is already flying. Spray painting season is over. Brush on primer is a great alternative that I can use in the comfort of my warm home.
To prime the miniatures, I used The Army Painter brush on primer. I then started applying on my base layers. I started with metallic colours on my mono cav and spider cav minis.
I started by painting the metallics onto my cav minis. For tonight, this is what I got done. Tomorrow is another day.
It is looking good so far. Not sure why, but I gravitated to working on the Mono Cav model first. 
WWX in progress. Today I got the metallics down on all three of the cav models as well as some gun metal on the iron horse hovercycles. I will get more paint on them a few days from now. As you can tell, I am well supplied with Army Painter paints and am enjoying using them and the wet pallet on these figures.
Until next time, Happy Gaming Everyone!
The Best Unboxing Wild West Exodus: Showdown at Retribution
In this video, I unbox and show the contents of Wild West Exodus: Showdown at Retribution. For this one, I had a video editor help me out. Come give it a watch!!!
This video was edited by Dave Mann of Highland Media. If you are interested in having him edit some of your videos, please email him at… [email protected]
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