I picked up Kaeris at Kippers Melee at my first Malifaux tournament and left her in the box for almost 2 years. Now that I’m trying to expand my Arcanists so I can have a better arsenal for tournaments, I thought I’d paint her. 🙂
I ended up really happy with her, despite my human skin woes. Really close to the colours I wanted (thanks Oso!) and I love the OSL, particularly where it meets the rock. I finally got something that looks like a “pool” of fire and she’s pulling it out of the ground.
No time for big photography setup, but here’s Kaeris and Ramos on a box of Hanged. 😛
The fire was a pain, and I hate painting faces. I started with Sunburst Yellow and went up with some Blazing Orange, which I mixed with Flesh Wash over successive layers to get a more brownish red, then I mixed that with Codex Grey to cool it off and then with Black for the final cool layer. It looked super messy when I was done, but I think I’ve fixed it by going back over with the Orange and some watered down Yellow in places. Also, adding the OSL brought some focus away from the bright yellow pillars, and towards the ground and her clothing.
Faces, I hate faces. Painted with the P3 Ryn Flesh, then with Game Ink Skin Wash, which I tried out. It’s hard to tell if it was better than the Secret Weapon Flesh Wash. I mixed it with the Ryn Flesh up and got to a tone that wasn’t horrible. Then the eyes. White in the eyes, which gets everywhere. Then desperately try to get a spot of black in there that doesn’t look cross eyed. I got the right eye with little trouble, but as usual the other eye wouldn’t cooperate. I painted back over it 5 times before I got something that wasn’t horrible, but then I had to repaint most of the left side of her face. Faaaaah…
Ramos is less interesting, just a lot of greys. Also, the skin again. Stupid humans. And I mostly finished him off about 3-4 weeks ago, so forget what I did. I don’t think I’ve posted any photos of him!
As with the Arcane Effigy (which I didn’t end up using…), I wanted to put some colour onto Kaeris before my game.
Instead of creating my own colour scheme, I’ve been using Google Image search…here’s my inspiration this time. I want her cloak to be a little more grey to link up with my gunsmiths, but it’ll be a little more blue by the time I’m done.
It’s codex grey on her cloak, snakebite leather as the brown, burnished gold (that’s important – there are a few golds in the GW line) wings, runefang steel for the metallic grey, and the P3 skin paint and I bought something called moon yellow from Vallejo because I was in a hobby shop and was out of yellow. We’ll see how the Vallejo paint works out for me.
I didn’t write anything about it at the time, and have long since forgotten what I did, but I’m pretty stoked about the base. It’s using my new plan of using a variety of glazes on top of a base colour, and then going back again with a top layer (in this case, a brown) to unify the colours. As well, I made sure to pay attention to where her shadows would fall from above, so there is a much darker section under her.
First time playing with Kaeris this weekend, hoping she’s amazing!
It turns out that I haven’t posted Kaeris at all, but she had some work done as part of an assembly line basing process at some point. 🙂 I’m working on focusing on my Arcanists, and I wanted a few more Masters to get some more flexibility in crew creation. Ramos tends towards model spam which isn’t great for Reckoning, and Mei isn’t great where Assassinate or Deliver is in the Scheme pool, so there are a couple holes. Kaeris is my plan to fill those holes (and translucent Rasputina will be pretty cool too!)
She snapped at the ankle earlier this week. So I pinned her ankle and puttied around it, but wanted to try to get some more stability, so I glued two piece of paperclips into the base and then puttied EPIC FIRE coming from the ground. YES.
