arcane emissary

I went to Malifood, and since I’d been playing the Arcane Emissary a lot in the campaign Derrick and I are playing, I wanted to finish the job I’d converted a few months ago so I could use him!

This was a super simple paint job. Bases are as my Arcanist bases, most of the model and the gears are Mithril Silver with some Seraphim Sepia and Nuln oil over. The blue is Ice Blue, painted up in darker tones and then drybrushed over the finished silver in a cheap sort of blue OSL.

This guy is phenomenal in-game. I think I would pay 10 stones for his ability to give a (1) AP action to any non-leader within 6″. My usual crews suffer from being super slow, so being able to take an extra 4″ is really helpful! Or to force an Interact for a model that only barely made it. Or get someone to finish off someone at 1 health from afar.

Because the campaign is Henchmen only, I got to play with the Conflux upgrades this weekend too. I didn’t end up using Mei Fengs (drop a +6Ca Scrap Marker, discard to attack again) because they were on different sides of the table. Ramos (Magnetism ability, plus Construct) I tried to use against the Necropunks across the table but didn’t work. And Kaeris’ (+1 Burning for Minions and Instinctual) I used to great effect in turn 1 to draw 3 cards, but ended up needing Kaeris to leave Burning on her crew to drop Scheme Markers (Grab ‘n Drop) for points instead.

Which leaves me to believe that the “basic” Conflux upgrade might be more useful than it looks. Or, that Imbued Energies on this guy could be nice, since he’s Wk 4 as well.

The actual model is the Arcane Emissary, but after this art preview image, people started calling it the murderbull. And it’s not that I don’t love the murderbull imagery, it’s more that I don’t believe I could successfully convert one. Like this guy. That’s a damn fine conversion!

I wanted something with more spider legs, so I picked up the Ramos Avatar model to ensure the proper density of legs. Then scoured my bits box for more legs until I found the new plastic Brass Arachnid model. Not quite the same…but since everyone complains it won’t fit on a 30mm, may as well drop it onto a 50mm!

I also took this opportunity to try out my new Basius pad. I used milliput, which I’m not certain was a great plan. It was really hard to press into the pad, and left big chunks un-sculpted, so I added some random gears until it looked better. Some friends are using something called FixIt, and I might try some greenstuff if I get some cheaply somewhere.

This blurry spider photo is supposed to be showing detail of the basius. The parts that did get pressed properly look pretty good!

And then some photos of murderspider. On his magnificent 50mm base! Going to sculpt some more arcane flames coming out of parts of it, but it’s good start!