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Arcanists – Joss – Basecoat

Posted on June 30, 2014

Joss may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time…I had only planned to paint my models for the Wyrd Summer Contest, but I had some colours out and was mixing some up and waiting for paint to dry, and he was assembled and primed…and I haven’t painted any of his themed crew except his all-metal spiders, so…

Mr. Joss has Ushapti Bone coveralls, which will likely become much darker before he sees the table proper. I did a Vomit Brown and Blazing Orange mix for his shoulder pads and the cables from his axe. Kislev Flesh skin and an Arcanist base.

Joss was originally going to be my single-model entry to the contest, but after he got the 4th rate treatment for skin, he looks closer to “table top” quality than “show me off to the world” quality, so here he is! That’s ok – I have a badass entry for this competition, you’re all going to be stoked when you see it!

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Painting myyyyysssssteryyyyyyy!

Posted on June 25, 2014

I’ve been painting up a storm this last week! I saw the Wyrd Summer Painting contest and got excited to paint something for it!

Unfortunately, the rules state that I can’t have shown off the model before, so I can’t post it or any of the lead-up posts until July 27th!! Which is kind of brutal, since that’s a month away and this is pretty awesome work…:)

I also finally decided to go to Wet Coast GT this year! So next week I should have some mini-battle reports/con-reports to go through that might keep this blog active for the next month. 🙂 The deadline helped to give me a big push to get an extra model or two painted so I could be competitive at the Hardcore tournament…

Completely non-painting related, I’ve been super busy training for a circus show I’m performing in at the end of August. The painting related part…is that it’s been tough to scrape away time to paint, since a lot of evenings are taken up working on the show…and then collapsing in bed afterwards. 😛 Just you wait until July 27th though…going to be tons of posts! 🙂 (and I might even find time to paint something non-contest related!)

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Outcasts – Malifaux Child – Finale

Posted on June 20, 2014

Again with the blasted eyes… this guy had a different problem, in thatwhile I got the left one ok, the right one (looking at him…) would continually blot out the entire surface of the eye. Kelly recommended that I got back on my Performer and deepen the eye sockets a bit, and I may have to do that to this guy as well.

He got a huge pile of leaves coverage the storm drain he’s sitting on, because I was feeling like moar leaves were moar bettah.

Next up, I think I’m back to working on Arcanists. There’s a tournament coming up that I’m thinking of going to, and I need a handful more models to shore up my potential Hardcore list. 😛

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Outcasts – Death Marshals – Final

Posted on June 16, 2014

I painted a couple layers of SW Heavy Body Black on their cloaks after the last session. Then took straight Codex Grey and watered it way down and painted that on the edges. I wiped away some of the paint with my finger when it got to built up, my goal was to use it in a “feathering” manner away from the edges, and leave it pretty bright on the actual edges.

Then I went back for the glowing bits. These were Warpstone Green mixed up with White in successive drybrushed layers. I realized that one of the guys didn’t have nearly enough flames on him, so I painted part of his coffin, trying to make it look like there was a green glowy fire inside his box.

I added the leaves after a week or so, after they arrived in the mail from Secret Weapon. This product is brilliant – it instantly spruced up my cobblestone so that it looked a lot less painted and a lot more awesome.

I’m still having some serious trouble with the SW washes, in that they are leaving things very shiny. I’m not certain what is causing the shine, and I can’t seem to get rid of it effectively with dullcoat or matte medium, so I’m going to have to experiment with how I use the washes.

Unfortunately, my summer so far has had a lot less time for painting – if you’re a regular reader you’ll have noticed posts every 3 days until just now – this post is the first since Adepticon that hasn’t been scheduled. 😛

Work-in-progress

Outcasts – Malifaux Child

Posted on June 11, 2014

After base coating this model, I really like it. The face has excellent features, and the clothing hangs nice, and I like the little details like where his pants cover his ankles because it’s to big.

I painted his hair and inner shirt Ushapti Bone, and his skin Kislev Flesh. His jacket was a 1:1 mix of Warpstone Green and Mournfang Brown, and for the pants I mixed some Vomit Brown into that mix.

This little guy has proven to be 2ss of miraculous flexibility with Tara, and I think he’ll see a place in most crews I build with her!

Work-in-progress

Outcasts – Kinda – Death Marshals

Posted on June 8, 2014

Tara wants Death Marshals, so here they are!

I painted the coffin Vomit Brown, then mixed with Ushapti up. Then SW Flesh Wash all over and SW Amethyst in the shadows. I’ve done a few layers of the Amethyst in the shadows. I also painted a few thin lines of Mournfang Brown along the grain of the wood to give it a little depth amongst the wood paneling. I may do some lighter colours in a similar pattern later, after I’ve finished with the Amethyst and the Marshal himself, to cover up any mistakes.

My hope is to make the Marshal himself be somewhat monochrome, so I’ve painted the same basecoat all over him. I started with Snakebite Leather mixed with Codex Grey. I did SW Heavy Body Black all over and then mixed that with Codex Grey and painted that on the raised areas. We’ll see where this goes!

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Terrain – Tricity Laser Buildings

Posted on June 5, 2014

My favourite table for Malifaux AdeptiCon was the first one I played on. I loved the Old West buildings and how characterful they made the table feel! There was a fellow from Knuckleduster Gamee (the website is atrocious, but there is an online store in there somewhere) selling Tricity Laser Buildings in the hallway. When I walked past, I swore it was the same stuff. Anyone with eyes can tell that it isn’t.

Hoooowever, I still love the Tricity buildings, they are so cool looking and I had to bring some home. I sold a baneblade I’d bought for conversions some years ago so that I could keep my apartment “space neutral” just so I could take these home!

Now I want to buy their multi-level saloon and play Shindig in it…

I assembled it all using white glue. And it looks great right out of the bag, with no paint necessary!

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Outcasts – Tara!

Posted on June 2, 2014

This was a pretty fun model. Even though I have the transparent edition, I wanted to paint Tara. She’s a human being…why is she transparent? So I left the soulstone and her Obliteration arm transparent and did the rest in a brown/green cowboy look.

I started with some pretty bright browns – the same colour for her skirt, cloak and shirt, and then an even brighter colour for her leggings. Her hair started out blond, but that looked kind of dumb so she ended up black of hair with a little grey streak.

All of the base coats went through a number of different glaze applications, using lots of the Secret Weapon purple, blue and flesh wash to add lots of different subtle colours. After that was done, I went back and did a “traditional layering” technique on the raised parts of the cloth.

The face I did with Kislev Flesh, then glazed down lightly with blue. Then I mixed the Kislev with some Warpstone Glow and Waywatchers Green and very lightly painted into the recesses on either side of the nose and the underside of her face. The Kislev was to pink, so I finished by mixing the green with Ushapti Bone.

I also glazed the sword and arm blue. Because I could.

I think she needs a dullcoat to bring the shininess together – there are a variety of different levels of shine here, and it’s bothersome. I might also pick up some Blood for the Blood God and use it on her back hole. That wouldn’t be a bloodless wound…and besides I’ll need it for Killjoy in the end. 😀

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Outcasts – Void Wretches

Posted on May 30, 2014

I successfully used plastic glue on these guys, so they didn’t need (*cough*) any paint. So this is as good a place as any to talk about how I’m doing my Outcast bases!

I started with Secret Weapon resin cobblestone bases. I picked a bunch of these up while at AdeptiCon because I wanted to finally get some of them under my models. I think in the end, I’d rather do my own bases. I feel like I’m getting pretty good at customizing them and I don’t have to order in more when I find out I don’t have enough. >.<

I basecoated them with a drybrush of Codex Grey and Fortress Grey. This looked pretty crappy. I think the roundness of the cobblestones just made it look bad, as opposed to a grey square brick. Anyway, a long way still to go. 🙂

I used the Amethyst (purple) and Sapphire (blue) Secret Weapon washes to heavily shade the crevasses, and also to tint the surfaces. GW Waywatcher Green was used in puddles to bring little spots of green around.

Then I drybrushed again with Fortress Grey to bring the highlight back up.

SW Red Black wash (which is actually kind of…purpley) and Flesh Wash over the gravel bits. I used the Oxid Paste to keep the Wretches feet well anchored to their bases, and wanted to colour this differently.

Then I drybrushed up again with Fortress Grey and mixed in Skull White over 3 layers to bring the shade way up again. I drybrushed Zamesi Desert, mixed with Ushapti Bone over the gravel and called it a day.

The details were Warpstone Glow Leaves, Mithril Silver metal and Zamesi Desert rope. I did these colours early so that the various glazes and washes would colour them as well.

As usual, I wasn’t happy with how it looked until I finished and then walked away for a couple days. Now I’m really glad that they look great, and didn’t need any paint! 😛

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Happy Blogoversary!

Posted on May 27, 2014

Yay!

Today my happy little blog turns 4! I’ve come a long way from my hopeful beginnings, through a few rough patches and then rushed out of the last birthday with a renewed joy of writing, and a ton more focus on painting and hobby! Here are some fun statistics for you:

May 2010 to May 2011, I wrote 40 posts. 33 of these were in the first 3 months of the blog – May, June and July. I had a big back log of scheduled posts and after July I wrote 7 more posts in the year.
May 2011 to May 2012, I wrote 14 posts. Total.
May 2012 to May 2013, I wrote 55 posts, 27 of which were in the first 10 months. In the last 2 months, I wrote another 28. This was after AdeptiCon of last year. I think we can say that AdeptiCon 2013 was the inspiration I needed to start painting and blogging for realz.
May 2013 to present, I wrote 129 posts. Almost three times the year before, and more than the last 3 years combined. This April was my most prolific period, with 29 posts in that month alone. AdeptiCon, it really works.

I only started using Google Analytics last year, so I don’t have any visitor statistics before that, but I had 238 visitors last month. Roughly 51 were returning visitors, with 187 coming here once. You come from a variety of places such as Facebook, Google searches (with some odd search terms), Disqus, and Wyrd-games.net. I think some of you have me in your RSS readers and are marked as “Direct traffic”, but I don’t have any proof of that, from what I can see. Most of you still don’t comment, so maybe 234 of you are robots…

It’s probably pretty obvious that I do this because I love writing, and not because I need glowing feedback from 238 adoring fans. At the same time, if there was only 1 person reading, who knows if I would continue. So thanks for reading, and have a happy Tuesday!

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