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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. 😛

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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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Outcasts – MORE OF THE NOTHING

Posted on May 24, 2014

I still think this model needs something more. I wanted to stiple like a Camo Green on his back, but I’m afraid of screwing it up …again.

In the end, I did various layers of Codex and Fortress Grey, and a good number of washes of green, blue and purple.

I think he turned out pretty good and original considering he really shouldn’t be painted at all! 😛

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Arcanists – Bases!

Posted on May 19, 2014

My last few posts for my Arcanist bases (previously called “Malifaux” bases, before I got an Outcast crew!) ended up muddled between a few different posts, making it hard to refer back and repeat. Here’s a summary of how I did my bases for some Steam Arachnids!

I prime everything white these days. I drank the koolaid on starting with bright colours and shading down.

Rhinox Hide all over the gravel, Mithril Silver on the rails and Vomit Brown on the railroad ties.

I bought the “new” Seraphim Sepia from GW, but it wasn’t really as dark as I wanted so I put Nuln Oil all over. This was really super black. Much more black than Badab Black, much less…shadey.

Wetbrush up the gravel with Rhinox Hide and Scab Red, then drybrush Tallarn Sand and lastly Zamesi Desert.

It’s not the same scheme as how I did my last bases, but it’s more concise. I think it’s more…I don’t know. It’s brighter in places, but also darker in others. I think it’s the Nuln Oil, in that where it dries it’s really dark, but otherwise it has very little coverage.

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Arcanists – Performer Final!

Posted on May 8, 2014

I was waiting until I had a few models to photograph, since this one has been sitting in my case since AdeptiCon. I painted her in bright green, but I kind of wish I’d done bright red instead – the green is a little too sundress, and not enough dancing-girl.

I tried to copy someone else’s stocking painting by adding some pink in with the black at the knees and the back of the calves. I also decided that she looked better with her shoulders on display, rather than how the sculptor decided with it being a crop-top dress. Most people who have seen her agree that this was a good call. 🙂

I hate human skin a little less now that I’m using glazes. But you can see that eyes are still escaping me…

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Malifaux – Mobile Toolkit

Posted on April 28, 2014

To paraphrase Dale – I couldn’t be arsed to set up my photography stuff for this model. It’s hideous. It’s supposed to be a Swiss-army knife of cool construct buffs, but instead it says…HI GUYS!!

While looking for conversions to make it suck less, I found an image on Google that was kind of neat. So I bent up the awful looking legs, bent down the awful looking arms and glued two Ork shootas to it’s back as a jetpack.

I used it once or twice at GottaCon, but I found it to be of limited use. It has a single purpose (in my crew) – making my Rail Golem kill things faster. Sure it can give +1 Armor to another construct, but paying 3SS to buff a Rail Worker or Gamin doesn’t seem that awesome.

I’ve also used it with Ramos, and it works well as his Scrap Starter Kit. 1ss cheaper than an Electric Creation and Joss can cleave it in half to get 2 Scrap Markers to start summoning from.

But let me tell you, that when I needed something dead, Rail Golem with (+) to damage flips is real good.

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Malifaux – December Acolyte

Posted on April 14, 2014

(I wrote this post a month ago, but it kept being pushed back for AdeptiCon coverage. I think I’ll take a day break here, to make sure he gets some love. :))

And this guy finishes my glazing thoughts for now. The white shown in the photos is just white primer. I took the Guilliman Blue and watered it down, and painted it very carefully again into the undersides and pits of the cloak. After I’d painted his paints and quiver, I did the same thing with the blue on them as well. At one point this model looked so strange – white and stark blue with very warm beige clothing, accessories and the trim on his cloak. I toned it down quite a bit by drybrushing white on the cloak, and using the blue glaze to bring those warm colours back down in temperature similar to the cloak.

Lastly, as you can see, my first attempts at using the Secret Weapon Crushed Glass bundle. This is very neat stuff! I did it in two layers, not because I had to, but because I underestimated what it would look like after the first layer. That layer looked very weak, more like slush everywhere. I went back again and used less of the Realistic Water in the mix (watch the video on how to use it) and it came out much more snow-like.

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ADEPTICON DAEMONS!

Posted on April 3, 2014

Finally, here’s a couple photos of the entire team together at last!

We have…

Skull Cannon
Horrors (turns out I have an unpublished draft of the Horrors!)
Beasts of Nurgle
Plaguebearers
Herald of Nurgle
Herald of Tzeentch (also, no final for this guy…)

This is a good looking army!

I’ll be playing in the team tournament with Patrick, and the 1000pt How You Use It tournament. I may play in the 500pt Warband tournament, if I’m up for it and able – I’m on the waitlist for it right now, and may just wander the vendor hall or hang out while Patrick plays in it. 🙂

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