Malifaux – The Firestarter

(Just slotting this post in early because I need to send photos of this model to a few places this week!)

There isn’t an actual model for The Firestarter, but I got the idea of using these Hell Dorado Efrit Warriors from the Wyrd forums, and I do love the model! The funny thing is that most people refer to The Firestarter as “he”, but mine is very clearly a “she”!

She started with Sunburst yellow all over. Building on my playing with glazes from last time, I took Bloodletter and mixed it with the Sunburst to create a hybrid glaze/paint mix. I added more Bloodletter, getting more orange with each layer. I think I did 10 or so layers, before I got impatient and went straight to Bloodletter and put a bit of it at the tips of everything.

I painted her body in Shadow Grey, being careful to create area where the fire was still showing through. I mixed 2:1:1 Soft Body Black, Guilliman Blue glaze and water and then painted the undersides, exactly the same as how I did the Rail Golem. Then I did 3:1 Shadow grey and Sunburst yellow, adding more Sunburst to highlight up. This had a similar effect as painting the Lamenters Yellow over the grey – such that the tip of her head and some of her edges look like they’ve been OSL’d

She has some raised up areas on her legs and back, and I mixed Shadow Grey and Skull White to edge highlight those parts.

I think the hybrid mix of paint and glaze worked out well, as the glaze has the property of spreading out nicely and it tints the paint that I’m using. I’m not convinced this is better than just using paint+paint+water, but I felt like it was easier to control where my paint went, which is a critical improvement!