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I'm running off to dinner, but I figured I'd post this before I did.

I'm really scared to finish this model. All that I have left to do is the coat. Which is like half the model. My original idea was to do it all white and write something down the back kinda like Aoi in Beelzebub. Anyways, currently I'm waffling just doing it like that and highlighting it, 'cause I don't wanna screw it all up. Anyway, dinner calls and I'll decide later what to do.

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So I decided to go with my original idea. Came out alright. Was a little to high contrast to start, and had to white wash the coat to tone it down. After playing with Photochopping I decided to go with the whole 5 Kanji on the coat after doing a little practice on paper to see if I could do it that small. The photochopping let me see what Kanji would be hidden by the swords. 1 Free Internets to someone who can guess what's written, and a bonus Internet (with extra tubes) for where the phrase comes from... Any takers?








What to say about her? The dreads were quite fun/painful to paint up, and to highlight the texture of the hair. The coat came out alright. The base is a different set then Malifaux's metal inserts. Not as characterful as the Malifaux one, but I had it around... The glasses in her hair were a last minute idea and I loved the idea of the die hard wandering killer type having bright sun glasses. I tried to tie in the colours again to the other Malifaux mercs so far. Oh, and girly flowers on the lapels: I wanted something to have them stand out, like the pink lapels for the Bounty Huntress Vik, so little flowers. The left one was good, the right wasn't so good. I was in such a rush to finish up and post and get to sleep, the base isn't even dry yet. Oh yeah, I got really lucky with highlighting the black pants. Used deep deep blue to shade the black, and a really dark gray for highlighting. Came out perfect if a little subtle from the tabletop distance. Overall, I'm ecstatic!

'Till next time,
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Another quick one before dinner. Same idea as the last Ronin. I really like Malifaux's models so far. A joy to paint. I'll be doing the coat similar to the last ronin (ie white with kanji done the back). As far as I understand, the coat with kanji is a boast/open challenge from strong fighters, so I don't know if I want to keep the same kanji on the back or do a twist of the same theme for all of them... I'll decide later. Anyway, here's a quick shot of everything done but the coat.

bah, waiting for them to upload...

Lovin' it so far! Keep up the good work!

Also, I've no idea what the first two kanji might be, but the ending is "no tenchi." Meaning something along the lines of "angel of" or "from heaven." Right?

yup, the hidden characters are horobi and something I don't know.


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So I finished her up, she's looking good. The characters are a little different and gave me a headache doing (and had to 'white out' one and redo it). So the last 3 are the same 'angel of' but I decided not to repeat the same 'boast' on all of the coats. So while the last one was the Angel of Falling into Ruin this is the Black Haired Angel (Angel of Black Hair) At least that's what I hope they say... I could be saying something weird for all I know...
I actually had to switch from black paint to black ink (the old GW black ink) cause I just couldn't get the flow and control with the paint. The hair was midnight blue with black wash, I was hoping to get that blue-black look that some people have.


Anyways.. pics or it didn't happen...

So this is the Ronin sculpt I like the least. (Even using the word like is being generous) And to make it even less enjoyable to paint, I, don't really know why, decided She was wearing ALL WHITE... and she was primed black... whatever, here she is. Sword and scabbard are for a bit of colour and same for the shirt. Belt will be black (need to highlight it) and I need to do my final white highlight. Oh, she'll probably have 'blood sword' on her back. Which is only 3 characters and none of them look to bad. I didn't like the white boots, so I devlan mud'ed them quick. I may back track that full and do leather like the other two... If anyone has an opinion, I'd like to hear it. I also realized that I did a full 360 photo shoot and I'm not done it, so I don't know if I'll do a full one when it's done since what's left shouldn't be that big a difference... Today wasn't my day.

I personally must say I like the white boots as they are- they look like white leather or snakeskin boots. And I'm really liking that you took her from a black undercoat-- takes a lot of determination to do that

So I finished (kinda quickly) but I kinda just wanted it done so its done and I can move to my Hans or maybe a Firestorm Armada Sorylian Frigate to break it up.

here are a couple of the Ronin





And here's the mob of them!


ah yeah

So here's what I've been working on for the last few days. Had a lot of fun. She's my stand in for Hans. She's from Freebooters (the same people that did that amazing angel that every liked) and she's got a pretty hot pose. In an effort to push myself I expanded my (according to my one friend)'racist' palette and painted her up a little darker. Like I said, a lot of fun to paint up. Her are the pics. Next up will either be Bishop (poor Bishop, always being bumped back for more ladies) or my stand in Gunslinger.

Sexah. Love the peg leg

Sexeh... saw these girls over on Wyrn forums...

So, I've had a fun and busy week. Got to visit Wales and see awesome old castles and stuff.

So Bishop. I wanted to do either a ginger or kinda a red head viking look so I made him a little paler than normal. I also stuck to really dark and dull colours and I really like how it came out. Looks good. Even gave him green eyes.











That's all folks, I'm sleepy.
edit: wow, those are still pretty dark. the pants are dark brown, the shin guards are beaten copper and the chest thing is black with grey edge highlights

wow some awesome things here. How could I have missed this?

I like your shadowing of this latest guy- added to the already muscle-y sculpt of the model, it really gives him a renaissance muscle-bound man look- as though he were some sort of Renaissance style Adonis or David, with all the roughness of his arms and anatomical detail exaggerated.

In other words, keep it up, stuff's awesome.

Wow, a month and a half! It almost looks like school was a little hard than I thought it would be. Either that or Civ 4 dug its dirty claws back into me and dragged me through the mud... one of the other.


So I had her almost done at the start of Sept and she sat around waiting for the last touch to face and flesh and I finally finished it tonight after my neighbour threatened to cut off her head if I didn't finish her.

Model is PP IK RP model Ordic Pistoleer, Valeria Alvaro. (Apparently I forgot how to take nice pics in the last month and a half too)






So that's the end of my Viktorias' Vicous Vixens crew, I had a lot of fun painting them and I hope to have a lot more fun stomping some other crews. In the mean time, here's what is next on the table. My Vik's need someone to fight against.

nice. I wish you many victories

Impressive stuff! Gotta love chicks with swords!

Ack, It's almost time for dinner, so this'll be short. Sammy Hopkins. DIdn't really know what I wanted to do, so he came out pretty dull coloured. Wished I had looked at the card picture and did that kinda colour scheme. Oh well. The back flap thing I had no clue and ended up playing around with washes and stuff on it. Anyway, built some more stuff and a convict gunslinger (wyrd's model) is up next.

Just like all your models, Sammy hopkins looks ace. Good work. I like his face.

Just a quick update. bought my second ever flesh tone (GW dark flesh) considering the convict has such large skin areas. I usually just use the old flesh wash/ink to get my dark tones, but decided to expand a bit. Plus it seemed like a pretty solid base colour for a bunch of different stuff. I was just painting 'cause didn't feel like sleeping, so the pics are 'happy pic' quality as in just put it on auto and click. Enjoy.





had fun, I might do a highlight on the scars. screwed up the thiness of the paints at one point so I needed to wash the thing to soften the changes. I'm gunna try for blue jeans on him, and the flash makes them really bright right now.

Just a quick update. I've been doing stuff on and off. The convict gunslinger is done except his base which I need to prime and paint.
I broke out some Firestorm: Armada to break up the work flow. I've got one Frigate finished and the other 5 in stages. Anyway, that's it for now.

Good work on the gunslinger. Makes me want to start my Resurrectionists, which are still only primed.

No comments.

Back in the loop, I see. With some large chains

Looks great.

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts... diddleydee... there they are a standing in a row... bum bum bum....









Hmmm.... I seem to have missed the straps tying him to the beam... but it still works. And the chains look better in person

She's being quite frustrating to paint. I've had to switch over to a slower style of paint each section/detail in totallity rather than working by colour like I usually do. I still have to do the hair, the boots, and finish the guns, but she's getting there. I still haven't played any Malifaux, but I'm hoping to wrangle a bud into a game once Lady J is done as I'll be able to put up 25ss crews with both the Viks and Lady J. And I may have ordered in Lucius and some more Guardsmen models to make an alternate Guild list. And of course, since I was ordering stuff, I ended up kinda going over board and getting some Firestorm Armada and a little Hordes and Infinity stuff too. Including a replacement Interventor 'cause mine lost her arm. :( Very sad about that, I really liked how she had turned out.




And Ultra-high res pic (click for gallery link)

progress. Just hair left. Tempted to leave well enough alone.

Hair is slow going work. Not turning out perfect as I was aiming for platinum blonde, but the snakebite wash was a little too much. I'll either highlihgt white or bleached bone + white. Not sure. Either way, here she is.

How on earth did I miss this? Lovely work, I have to say - I'm a huge fan of both your Bishop and your Lady J. Love J's skin tone and the red/blue contrast you've got going with her particularly:-D Keep up the good work!

That's it. She's done. I can't take this anymore. My eyes hurt and I got more stuff to paint.









I'll probably do some Firestorm Armada Next as a break before breaking into my guild swarm (4x guard, 2x austringer, captain, sergeant, and lucius)