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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! 😛

Work-in-progress

Outcasts – Killjoy

Posted on May 21, 2014

I decided that I liked the new Killjoy model. The old one was so 2D and fugly that I couldn’t bring myself to give a shit about him. The new one is still ugly, but not ugly in a model sense, just in a *shudder* sense.

GMorts Chaotica did an unboxing of him, and I’m super glad he did otherwise I wouldn’t have had the forethought to magnetize his chain arm! I swore the chain was going to snap while I was cutting it off the sprue…

He probably won’t see paint for a bit – have a few other projects I’d like to get painted first, and a few summer-outside-like-things starting up!

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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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Malifaux – Outcast Tara!

Posted on May 12, 2014

I may have mentioned winning the transparent Tara box…she needed a crew to go with her…and she ended up Outcast instead of Resser. The main reason was that I wanted to try out using the Malifaux Child with Tara, and then I found Hans in a local games store and I’ve always wanted to shoot 36″ so here we are!

I am still considering Resser Tara, because The Hanged is gross and looks fun to use to make your opponent cry. But I like that both the Child and Hans can be used in other crews as well!

I picked up two of the metal Death Marshals on a deal, and grew to really like the models. I cut away their faces, glued on some skull heads and sculpted some flames from their head, which I’m pretty happy about! It’s subtle, but I think much cooler than the original human heads.

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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…

Technique Work-in-progress

Malifaux – THE NOTHING

Posted on May 5, 2014

Believe it or not, this is the first non-AdeptiCon related post I’ve written since AdeptiCon. It’s been a long back-log. 😛

I won the Nightmare Tara Transparent Edition at the AdeptiCon Story Encounter. I told Jamie, and he said he’d be happy to trade for her. I told him I was thinking of keeping her. >.>

I had originally planned to only play crews that I could build from what I had already – ie, Ramos from Mei, Hoffman from Ramos, etc. But fuck it – someone gives you a sweet set of transparent models, you play with those!

Unfortunately, I screwed up. I was so worried about frosting the outside of the Nothing Beast, I frosted the inside. >.< I was upset about it, until I had a brilliant idea to fix the problem, and have something original.

I’m going to paint parts of the model! So parts of it are all smokey and other parts are opaque! It’s kind of scary painting something so unique, but it’ll be awesome when it’s done!

If you have the transparent models – buy plastic glue. I picked up Tamiya Cement (but in English) and glued the Void Wretches together. So much nicer. So much less worry about creeping glue.

I also bought the Citadel Imperial Primer. It’s a paint on primer, since I wanted to prime but can’t spray. With this stage, this product began to enter “totally f’d up” territory. Apparently you have to shake the ever living shit out of this product. It starts very watery, but after shaking it’s much thicker. Let me say that again, in larger text so everybody makes sure to read it —

SHAKE IMPERIAL PRIMER VERY VERY WELL.

I didn’t on this model. I started to paint the bits and found parts of the primer sloughing off. I tore away large strips and continued painting. After a while, it seemed like it had done coming off but I didn’t trust it. I started to rub with my thumb, and all of the surfaces came away.

To be fair to this product, after I had shaken it very well and tried it on the Void Wretch bases it stuck as well as I expect primer to stick.

To continue the horrible madness of the Nothing Beast. I decided to stick it in Pine Sol for the night and to just strip it and start again. The next morning I toothbrushed the model and got most of the paint away…only to find that some of the pine sol was stuck inside the model. Facepalm. So then I try to tear apart the torso of the Nothing, and find that the plastic actually has a weaker hold than the super glue I originally used and so it ripped the plastic apart.

I rinsed the model off and put it aside. Sometimes you just have to walk away for a bit to clear your head.

That afternoon I inspected the model and decided it might be salvageable. But that if anything else went wrong, I was going to stomp on the model and go buy a new box on EBay, even if it cost me $100+.

So far it’s going pretty well. The opaque covering looks really good next to the transparent layer. The primer has stuck. The inside is not filled with fluid. And the areas that were frosted are covered. If nothing else goes wrong, this will look amazing.

Wish me luck.

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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.

Tournaments Work-in-progress

AdeptiCon 2014 – Costume

Posted on April 22, 2014

I haven’t posted anything about this costume yet, and I only briefly mentioned it at GottaCon (very end of the post, talking about the costume contest).

The Outfit

I bought a simple white tank top and soaked it in tea to make it dingy. I bought a pair of blue coveralls from Marks Work Wearhouse. Steampunk goggles borrowed from my friend Russ. A leather satchel I bought at GottaCon, after I realized that the outfit needed more. I bought a really stereotyped Asian rice-picking hat and made a hammer.

Making the Hammer

The handle is from a toilet scrub brush. I twisted the scrubby bit mostly off and stuck it into the foam. Then cut 3 blocks of pink foam to rough size and glued them together.

There are a variety of techniques on the internet from cosplay enthusiasts on how to make a thing like this, but I didn’t have the materials, so I …did some other things.

I tried to use the lightweight filler that we used on the board, but that wasn’t filling the spaces between the pink foam enough. I tried to use an acrylic gel medium that I had lying around, but that had the same problem as regular acrylic stuff – it filled, but maintained the look of what was underneath it.

Finally, I settled on paper mache. Haven’t done this since I was 7…but you just mix flour and water in a bowl, dip newspaper in it and layer it.

Which worked perfectly!

Afterwards I just spread black on it and drybrushed two kinds of metal and a bit of brown. It’s not great, but it’s good enough!

The End Result

Yeah, you’ve seen this one already…because stupidly, I didn’t get any other photos of it all. 😛

I don’t think I’m going to be a cosplay person, but I had fun putting it all together. 🙂

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