Not super happy with this model, but I want to be done.
The dress is a strange blue/green combo, when what I really wanted was just that one green. The hair is shiny, and it’s not bad, but it’s not right either. The base is a muddled mix of glaze colours over white, and when I tried to bring the colour back to the greys I’d been doing for my Guild crew, it looked absolutely awful.
Anyway. Leaving her alone.
I got 2 of these ladies in a trade and wanted to be able to play with them in whatever Ten Thunders list I happened to be putting together. I realized they might be an interesting addition to the Death Marshall list because of their Wp buff.
I found this photo on the internet that I liked the colours on, and they’re a good difference to have what with the stream of red I’ve been painting.
I’ve also got finals for 4 other models to take photos of, but it’s pretty hot and I haven’t been motivated enough, which is why there’s been a few days of no posts. 🙂 Maybe a few more.
I started painting Chiaki with the colours that I had down to paint Toshiro in. I like them a lot less on her though, the green doesn’t look quite right, and the “wave of energy” or whatever her base is made of is a really strange colour against the high saturation colours of her dress and scarf thing.
Then, once again, I suck at faces.
I really like how these guys turned out, so I’m a little sad that they might just end up being summon fodder instead of an actual part of the crew. I started by using this image as reference. You can probably tell this, but I use these images just as a starting place for the most part and then take it whatever way the paint wants to go.
In this case I liked the contrast between the grey/blue pants and goldish armour. I ended up doing Stegadon Scale green pants, shade, shade, highlight. And Mithril Silver armor, with Seraphim Sepia and then went over again with the Mithril Silver, really wanted down. When you do this you need to get rid of most of the paint from the brush, because if this stuff runs you’ll end up with silver all over your model, and that sucks.
Bone was just Ushapti, Seraphim, Ushapti. Red was Mephiston Red with two coast of Seraphim. Bases were the same as for the Crooligans previous, except I started with Stegadon Scale Green and drybrushed up from there, and I’m really liking the colours on these bases.
Here’s a ton more photos.
Well, most of it. Chiaki is good for potential Ten Thunders stuff, and the Ashigaru can be summoned by Toshiro or taken when Tara is a Resser.
Yan Lo and the Soul Porter stayed on the sprue for now, I don’t need another Master to learn quite yet. 😛
The bases are Secret Weapon. The more I use these, the more I hate being tied to manufactured bases. When I run out, I have to get more shipped to me, and that sucks.
I wanted to do some freehand on Toshiro’s back, seems like a decent place for it.
I put a question up on A Wyrd Place on Facebook and got some ideas of how to find an image to use — “japanese mon“. I picked this crane image because it was kind of cool, and not overly complicated. AWP recommended I draw it out a bunch, so I started big and worked my way smaller. Then I swapped to using some watered down black paint on the paper, getting smaller so I could somehow figure out how to put this image on a teeeeny little back.
I started painting with the beak, because it felt like it was in the most difficult place under the rip in his cloak. Because the paint was pretty wet, I had to to be sure to get most of it off the brush so it didn’t run. I did a couple layers of the black to make it show, and then went back with the Warpstone Green after in places to clean up the work.
I think it looks pretty good, although maybe not so much like a crane. 🙂 Wondering if there’s anything I can do to make it a little bit more obvious, or maybe I’ll just leave it.
I’ve all but finished the Crooligans and now I’ve kind of forgotten how Toshiro went together…so lets see if I can piece this all back.
I don’t know about this photo. Makes him look super flat. He’s not that flat. >.>
The cobblestone was the stegadon green, with black just behind it. After I drybrushed Codex Grey and Fortress Grey over it, I feel like both colours looked the same…but looking at it now, maybe there’s a small difference, and enough to make it interesting. I mixed Mephiston Red and the SW Amethyst together to make a horrible redish purple that I used as innard fluids, which I painted directly underneat Toshiro and behind him…and on his pants after they were done…and in his guts.
His cloak was just the Warpstone Green, and I tried to make it a little different by mixing with the SW Flesh Wash, and then with some Snakebite Leather, but I feel like it just got still greener. Ah well.
The skin was that Ryn Flesh (actually this time — I have the paint pot in front of me), and I think I mixed it with the SW Flesh Wash, but in the end it wasn’t satisfyingly deep. The dude has crevasses in his skin, and you couldn’t see them. I think I mixed it with some green of some sort…and then it was to green…so I went back with Ushapti Bone (the hardest working colour in the box) and it got less green but still not a great colour (if you’re alive, it wouldn’t be a great colour) and I’m happy with it.
The rest was pretty simple, I thought it all looked nice with a basecoat and a wash.
This model and the Crooligans had a case of bad primer. Toshiro got away pretty ok, except on his lower pants, where it actually looks pretty awesome because it’s all caked up and red with blood. The Crooligans, it just looks fuzzy and consequently I’m less interested in making them look super amazing, just good enough. They’ll come along in another post or so. 🙂
Also, it says “Kinda” in the title — I did some freehand on Toshiro’s back, and it turns out you can’t see his back because you don’t have the model in front of you! bwahaha! That’ll be along soon too. >.>
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…
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:
I’ll try to get a better photo of this guy when I finish the rest of the crew, since this one was rushed.
