Finished my Rail Crew this weekend! Also, found some time to take some photos and do some editing, a good weekend! Next weekend I’ll be in Nanaimo for Kippers’ Melee, a multi-system event in it’s second year. I’ll be playing 5 games of Fantasy for the first time with the “brand new” Lizardman book, and Malifaux with…
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Malifaux uses a ton of markers. Your models drop Corpse or Scrap Markers when they die, and other models interact with those markers. You can use a (1) action at any point to drop a Scheme Marker. Sometimes these markers are used to score victory points. Sometimes they are just used to make your opponent think you’re trying to score victory points.
I wanted to make some specific to my crew since I had a ton of 30mm bases kicking around and it wasn’t that much extra effort.
These are done with the same basing technique as the models. Instead of drybrushing Fenris Gray over the Rhinox Hide (as I did for the Emberling), I drybrushed Bestial Brown and then Zhamri Desert. I like it a lot more! It left the dirt red, but brought a lot more yellow into it which I feel is a lot more realistic and good looking.
I’m a little concerned about the railway ties right now. I know that I just did Vomit Brown followed by a Devlan Mud wash, and I know that I feel like that isn’t enough paint. But they look ok with just that…
In some places it also just looks like a dirty mess. I’m not a huge fan of that, but it probably looks ok/great to other people. Urge to clean…
The promised Emberling post.
Before starting painting the crew, I wanted to see what others were doing with them. It’s like…if others are painting their orks in green, you don’t want to paint them pink. Unless you’re deliberately doing that. Have to know the rules before you can break them.
I found this guy who had painted two Mei Feng crews and a ton of other Malifaux stuff as well – that thread is an excellent resource! I liked his Emberling and wanted to copy it. I
I’ve been trying to do the lava-look on my stegadon base, but I was never really happy with it. Mr. Wappel has an example of a fantastic looking lava model, as well as a ton of lava bases that he’s painted and I’ve always wanted to get that look right. Here’s what I did on this guy:
- Primed white. This is critical!
- Sunburst Yellow base. I should have done a second or third coat of this, but at the time I thought it was good enough. The yellow really should be pristine when you start.
- Used a foam bit to stiple Blazing Orange around. I was trying to keep it on the raised areas like a drybrush, but to make a random pattern like weathering. I was not entirely successful, mainly because the models arms got in the way of my foam so I had to “get in there”.
- Watered mephiston red lines on the top of the raised edges of the model. This is not nearly as stark as the photo looks.
- Cleaned up some of the edges with watered Sunburst Yellow, the goal was to make it yellow yellow under it all.
- Straight Black on the raised flat parts of the model and the face.
- Mixed Black and Fenris Grey to highlight the black edges.
- Mixed some Rucksack Tan into that to further highlight the face and only the top-most flat parts. The face should be highlighted more than the rest to provide focus.
I’ll try to get a better photo of this guy when I finish the rest of the crew, since this one was rushed.
I made some fantastic progress on the Rail Crew last night.
This is awesome, because this project was looming. LOOMING!!
Bases:
- Black edges, because it’s classy.
- Rhinox Hide for the dirt. This is waaaay to red. I didn’t realize. It’s really really red.
- Drybrushed a Graveyard Earth over it. Still pretty red.
- Drybrushed a Fenris Grey/P3 Rucksack Tan combo over it, less red, but now to grey. >.<
- Rail lines are Mithril Silver and Badab Black. Based on feedback from my last post, I might try to weather the tracks with some of the Secret Weapon powders, we’ll see how I feel.
- Vomit Brown to start the railway ties.
- This is a pretty bright colour! I wanted a different brown, but this may have been to light.
- I think it worked out ok in the end because of a heavy application of
liquid skill–Devlan Mud.
Skin:
I suck so hard at skin, but this was ok…for now. P3 Rucksack Tan to start out, then a wash of Dark Flesh which looked really nice, but really red (there’s a theme today). A very careful wash of the Rucksack again left the skin dirty and red, but not red red. More work is required on the skin, but I think in general I’m happy with where it ended.
Other stuff:
- Mithril Silver and Badab Black on all of the metal pieces. I wanted a bright metal. The Gamin are going to require some thought on how to make them not be just silver on silver.
- Fenris Gray for clothing that wasn’t the primary piece of cloth.
- Black for Mei’s hair.
- I think Vomit Brown for other hair bits. Mei didn’t look good as a blonde. 🙂
- Vomit Brown for tool handles, because it was on the palette and I needed a few more brown items. I get away with this because I’ll end up with different highlights/washes/etc on each of the brown bits. For example, I won’t be Devlan Mudding the tool handles so it’s already different from the railway ties.
Emberling:
And then I started work on finishing a model – the Emberling was calling to me. I’m going to have a full post devoted to him in the next day or two, so even though he’s looking pretty snazzy in that photo, you’ll have to wait!
Tonight marks the first time I’ve applied paint to a model since September 11th. >.> Didn’t realize it had been that long, but the move definitely killed my ability to do this. Add to that the heavy conversion I’ve been working on, and it’s been weird to finally get a chance to put colour on models again!
I was worried about the Malifaux models because they are so much smaller than any of the Warhammer models that I usually work with. Base coat is going pretty well so far though. I asked Miranda what colour I should do their pants, and I really could have predicted that she’d have said red.
So Mephiston Red to start the pants off. Mithril Steel for all of the metal – the Metal Gamin are nice and simple in that regard. Some Rhinox Brown for the dirt.
I want to figure out how to make the railroad ties be a light brown, but burnt and tar-like. The rails might go to silver as well…could be to much silver though.