Hoboskins posted:

but the one with the vine whips... You can very easily make her unable to stand. The whips extend well below her feet 😑.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Made a display board for my EVS crew.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

SiKboy posted:

All I've got done this week is varnishing some stuff I painted last weekend, then a tiny amount of weathering (because the dirty down rust effect works better after the varnish). Hopefully get a bit more done this week coming. Both Malifaux.

KillJoy, an undead Fae. Was planning on adding some Blood For the Blood God to the cleaver and/or his guts, but I'm kind of happy with it as it is. Skin is based with GW pallid wych flesh, and I have to say as much as I love the colour for super pale skin I feel like I have to fight that loving paint every single time to try and get it thinned to a usable consistency, more than probably any other paint I own.


A Medical Automaton. Fun little palate cleanser of a figure.

SiKboy posted:

Did a bit more painting through the week, finished off what I have for the Fae keyword for Malifaux. They're undead faeries/Sidhe basically, so I wanted them to look distinctly unhealthy, and the bases to look "Nature but a threatening way", so I went with plants erupting through cobblestones. Kind of went overboard on the plants on some of them, but in person you can still see the cobbles through the tufts, static grass reindeer moss. I'm pretty happy with how the crew turned out, they may not be the technically or objectively best thing I've painted but I set myself a brief for the mood I wanted and feel like I kinda nailed it.

So Titanias Autumn Knights


Aeslin, Titanias Henchman


The rest of the crew, most of which were painted in the last month or so, but the Waldgeist (haunted tree dudes on the left) were done ages ago because they were picked up for a Swampfiend crew I was doing. So their bases dont match, but with all the greenery they also dont look too out of place, and I'm not crazy enough to buy/paint two sets just so they have matching bases with each crew.


I do technically have one more Fae model to paint but uh... He can wait a while. Possibly until I get a hang of basecoating using that portable compressor airbrush I have but never use.

tankfish posted:

Any strategies for Lady J 1? I bought my partner the nightmare set and they seem very intrested in playing.

jodai posted:

I'm not good at the game in general but I love her and her key word, especially because they are good against undead and summons, which I hate. Domadores are awesome and will look great alongside the Nightmare crew.

It feels good to beat people up so choose objectives that require that but if they aren't available, she has options. She has 3 ap and leap, she is incredibly mobile! She can be jumping around the board and taking objectives, then retaliating when the opponent comes to her. The great sword even encourages this by potentially doing more damage if you haven't moved.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Just went 3-2 at the masters invitational for 5th place. Pleased with that but also salty because round 5 I was playing for 2nd place and I was COMMANDINGLY winning the game before making a very stupid mistake and losing by 1.

Electric Hobo posted:

I should post my Kaeris in here too, just to have my Malifaux stuff in the Malifaux thread.

jodai posted:

I'm not good at the game in general but I love her and her key word, especially because they are good against undead and summons, which I hate. Domadores are awesome and will look great alongside the Nightmare crew.

It feels good to beat people up so choose objectives that require that but if they aren't available, she has options. She has 3 ap and leap, she is incredibly mobile! She can be jumping around the board and taking objectives, then retaliating when the opponent comes to her. The great sword even encourages this by potentially doing more damage if you haven't moved.

SiKboy posted:

Been in a bit of a hobby slump the last month or two. Wanted to want to paint, had figures on the painting desk, but nope. Got one base colour down hoping that would then motivate me to keep going but... still nope. So I took the advice I always give when other people are feeling like that and tried something a bit different but related. Dug out some terrain that was sitting in the bottom of a box, painted that and had a lot of fun with it.... But still could not motivate myself to paint figures. Scratch built a simple wee piece of terrain, painted that up over a couple of evenings, interspersed with a few evenings of not even thinking about anything hobby related to take the pressure I was kind of putting on myself back off and that combination finally did it. TL:DR - I'm back on my bullshit.

All Malifaux, a "Last Blossom" Ten Thunders crew. Second edition figures. Wanted to give the new(-ish) contrast yellow a try, I have to say, its pretty good.

Misaki Katanaka, crew leader, and her fire type pokemon ninetales kitsune totem, Shang. For the record, that is a load bearing magic effect on Misaki as its connected to her raised food and is the main anchor point to the base as the foot on the ground is on tippy toes. The 3rd edition model looks marginally more stable, but I kind of like this one. Shang is stood on cork because he just flat out doesnt fit on that base.


Ototo and Yamizako. Talking of not fitting on the base, at least in Ototos case its obviously deliberate, and kind of hilarious. It did mean I had to glue some scraps of metal to the underside of his base to shift its centre of balance enough for it to stay upright on its own. Yamizako was kind of a gently caress up. I bought her already assembled, and saw there was a bit of a seam/gap but thought it was small enough that I'd get away with being lazy and not filling it. The contrast paint of course immediately made it look like the grand canyon, so I went back and tried to fill it when it was already primed and partially painted, then had to try and cover the bit I'd fixed and get it to blend... Not the easiest thing with contrast paints, and the sprue goo kind of did not get on with the primer on the cloak, caused some little texture issues. Not as obvious in person, but easily my least favourite model out the crew and the last thing I needed tbh.


The Minions, one Katanaka Sniper (there is a rifle on his back I swear) and 3 Torakage. It just really amuses me to have stealth assassins painted canary yellow, but I did at least tone it down a bit for the sniper. By the time I got to the Torakage I was back in my stride and enjoying painting again, they're probably my favourites out this crew.


Crew group shot;

Electric Hobo posted:

Nice painting! I usually don't like painting regular people, but I think a lot of the Ten Thunders are pretty cool. They remind me of 90s cartoons in a way.

SiKboy posted:

This weeks Malifaux figures. A 2e Asami Tanaka (Keyword Oni) crew.

Asami Tanaka, the crew master and easily my least favourite model in the keyword. Kind of hosed up the skin a little, but half assed a fix and called it because I just wasnt enjoying the model. She looks better from the back. Also in contrast er totem, Amanjaku who has some grumpy old man energy I kind of love.


Ohaguro Bettari, which is based on japanese folklore. In the folklore she has dyed black teeth but I didnt do that because a) it would be invisible at any real distance making it look like she was toothless, b) no-one I could see on google image search had painted her like that, and c) in the folklore she doesnt actually attack people, just scare them and if we're ignoring that part I'm ignoring the tooth thing. I like the figure, got a sort of Pans Labyrinth vibe.


Kamaitachi, or as I think of him, Squiiirrel, and the oni minions, the Yokai.

Hoboskins posted:

Those models look great! This could be my own confirmation bias but I have just been putting together some Explorer Society kits I picked up and the models both look more detailed and have more sensible assembly. It makes sense given they are newer but I am wondering if it is just my perception.

SiKboy posted:

Been painting more Malifaux, assorted odds and sods for various factions/crews and making a small dent in the pile of shame.

Two Riotbreakers and a Peacekeeper for Hoffmans Augmented Crew.


Union Steamfitters, who are the S in the M&SU. Been meaning to pick these guys up for ages, it was annoying me my Miners and Steamfitters Union had no Steamfitters. Painted these when I was on strike a few weeks ago, felt fitting. The lady with the red hair unfortunately came missing an arm, but it was the mechanical one, so I could clip down a spare Necron arm, glue it between the shoulder and the hand (sculted on the skirt) and put a couple of greebles on it and it looks fine.


A Bandersnatch and Widow Weaver for the Dreamers Nightmare crew. Bandersnatch I really liked, jumped straight to the front of my painting queue, and I'm pleased with how it turned out, bozo level OSL and all. These havent been varnished yet because its loving freezing outside, and I might add a tuft to the base just to break it up a bit. The Widow Weaver I spend a good bit of time on, but I'm still not 100% happy with it, but eventually you have to just call it a day. Might go back for yet another round of highlights at some point, but done for now.


Some Terracotta Warriors for the Ten Thunders faction. Was all set to break out the terracotta coloured paint I have from a project like 3 years ago and have never used since then remembered the terracotta warriors are a real thing and I can google what they actually look like, turns out they arent anything close to that colour at all. One day I'll get to use that flowerpot reddish-orange brown for something. A lot of people online seem to have painted these guys and then put flock and tufts on them, but I felt that would move them from "living statues" to "just a statue". Kept the basing fairly neutral so they look broadly okay with any of my ten thunders crews.


And some Cryptologists for the Wastrel faction. I suspect that whoever named these thinks cryptologists study crypts instead of codes, but fun models. When I get them varnished I'll add some weathering powders (then probably take another crew picture now I've got more than their core box done).

Electric Hobo posted:

Thirty-Three for Malifaux. I really enjoyed painting this little guy. Also, what's the easiest way to do image stacking when you have take pictures with an android phone? It's starting to annoy me that part of my photos are out of focus every time.

Pierzak posted:

As someone who actually loves assembling Malifaux minis and finds it genuinely relaxing, I'd like to make an announcement:

gently caress Skeeters.

Thank you for your attention.

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Iron or regular? Iron weren’t so bad for me.