I plan to use these models in a game next week, so I wanted to get some paint on them quickly so I wasn’t using unpainted models.
Bases are also pretty easy in this crew, so I thought I’d do the base coat and then finish off the bases. Then I found 3 more Arcanist models in my case that hadn’t had bases done, including a very old Silent One I based and primed a while back and my Sparks conversion and Mechanized Porkchop model.
I’m doing pink capes on my Oxfordian Mages. You can’t stop me.
I think that the official release of Sparks is a missed opportunity for a great Tailspin-related Easter Egg. So I decided to make my own. Which, mid-project, I realized/remembered that I’m pretty terrible at.
I took the metal version of Ophelia, because it was a model that was good enough for my needs. The plastic one would have worked as well, but it was $50 for the Kin box, when I only needed 1 model from it.
I started by cutting her hat and gun away.
Then I puttied some hair on. And found a gretchin hammer thing, and an ork wrench thing and glued them on. The ork thing was initially much much bigger, and had like a little satchel and a pouch and a flag on it, but it turns out when you’re dealing with a tiny true scale model, things get small quickly.
I wasn’t super unhappy with the hair sculpting, but I wasn’t happy either.
I waited for that to dry, and then put some goggles on her to finish the look. I started by trying to sculpt little circles, which was getting super frustrating and super ineffective. After I threw my putty away while I sulked, I found a nearby flying stand, drilled a hole in it and cut two slices off. Jobs a good ‘un.
The base will be similar to my old Arcanist railway bases, since Sparks and the Mech Pig will be going into my Mei Feng crew! Mei can take Foundry models, and Sparks and Mech Pig are both Foundry!
