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Dysartes wrote:Well, we'll see how it goes once Maelstrom pull their finger out and ship - ordered on Thursday, with everything in stock, and no word on shipping yet :(

They seem to be quite unpredictable these days. My latest order was sent really fast and was on my door step within a week, which is really fast from UK to Finland, but my friend who ordered before me is still waiting for his order to be sent. Quite frustrating as it seems that the store's in stock values cannot be trusted. Hope you get your figs soon.

Well, it is listed as "Packing" at the moment - unfortunately, I'd ordered when I did so that (assuming packed & posted the following day) it would turn up on one of the two days this week I'm working from home. Odds now are that Royal Mail will try and deliver when I'm at work, meaning it'll be next Wednesday before I can pick them up - unless the order turns up next Tuesday.

During the weekend it was nice and sunny and I found some time to stay indoors to get these pics of my first canine remain finished. It was really nice and easy mini to paint, a lot character and it kind of painted itself after I looked a bit at the images of English Bulldogs in the web. Some details have been added since the last pics along with a lot of blood to make it clear that he is a bit living impaired. In the end I'm really pleased how the small fellow turned out.









The last pic is just to show that apparently you can play also Malifaux like you have a pair

I still have one canine remain, this one a dobermann, and nurse to paint of the initial batch of Malifaux minis. I have been enjoying them so much that I think I won't stop there, but I'm going to paint the rest of Ressers I have bought. So you might see the rest of the punk zombies with rotten belles sooner than later. I did get one of my Rackham drune barbarians stripped of old paint though, so might also start to paint them after I've got the initial 25 stone crew of ressers painted.

That's a nice-looking zombie dog, Metsuri.

Maelstrom eventually shipped my order, but RM tried to deliver it while I was out, so it'll be Wednesday before I can pick it up :(

I am considering taking advantage of their 5% cashback deal to order either the Ramos or Hoffman starter sets, though.

Dysartes wrote:Maelstrom eventually shipped my order, but RM tried to deliver it while I was out, so it'll be Wednesday before I can pick it up :(

I am considering taking advantage of their 5% cashback deal to order either the Ramos or Hoffman starter sets, though.

That was too bad, at least you don't have to wait too many day though. Both of those sets are nice - steamborg is one of my favorites, but I think that I would get the Hoffman set. Purely from modelling/ painting point of view. I have no idea how they play out of box. Still haven't played a game of Malifaux, even though I bought most of these figs when the first rule book came out.

There is some disease going on here, Ifalna is doing some squigs and couple weeks ago my daughter asked me why I haven't painted this nice gobbo. I was going through my bits box looking for Thead bits and had lifted this one squig hopper out of the box. I bought full set of them when WHFB 7th edition came out, as I had been playing orks in the 6th and have a nice big army, but couldn't get into painting them and there they still were in the box, assembled and primed. But after the ecouragement from Ella, I got it to the desk and after couple of hours here he is. Quite fast paint job to table top level, nothing fancy. Just a quick distraction between the projects really. Thought there was some room to add skulls as the model has none, so one was glued to the base

This is a very effective use of washes.

Go Team Squig!

killykavekommando wrote:This is a very effective use of washes.

Thanks, killy! I have practiced using washes to nice results faster and they work really well in areas like the gobbos cloak.

Dysartes wrote:Go Team Squig!

Ugh, that zombie dog is sick. Good job!

MrMerlin wrote:Ugh, that zombie dog is sick. Good job!

Yeah, apparently good doctor has a thing for dogs. I did paint a buddy for him too, but as a dobermann he is so dark that the pics didn't succeed so well. It's hard so see the blood and puss against almost black fur :(

Still have to get the nurse painted to meet my goal for Malifaux this spring.

This is my entry, the Nomad Hellcat with HMG. I had this model prepared and primed before the contest and that was the reason for selecting it. I went with plan to make the Nomad's colors nice and harmonious and then have the weapons and base bring some contrast to the entry, which worked up to certain level. I paid attention to getting smooth blending and nice color transitions.

One of the focus areas in the entry is the base, which was made to balance the fig as the original pose is looking too much down for my taste and the new base was done to fix this. I tried to paint it in colors complementing the main figure, but at the same time tried to keep it a bit understated to keep it from dragging attention from the main figure.

In the end I'm quite pleased with both the end result and my place in the results. It would have been nice to get some free hand mixed in the wings or other armored areas, but I didn't have time to try it out. Without it the fig doesn't have the pop that would be required to place in a competition with this level of entries. But to place 12th in this level of competition is really satisfying and I think I learned a lot in painting my entry.

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Really cool entry! The body is very nicely painted, my only critique would be that the highlights on the gun could look a little cleaner.... but other that that its perfect!

I agree about the gun. It kind of threw me out of balance with this figure as I painted it with the gun as separate piece, and when the gun was glued on it became a lot more dominating piece than I originally had thought. I should have given it more time and color to make it a focal point in the figure instead of trying to subdue it with limited highlights and dark color.

I am very satisfied with my blending and color choises on the clothes so there is a lot I'm happy with and will now paint more figs to this level than before.

The infinity models are such a treat, and you have done great job with the painting.

Agree that the gun might need something. Also the "blades" on the backpack thing could use some markings or transfers to break the yellow-brown a bit. Maybe using some dark blue.

Thanks Northen, the figure as you said is really great and was a joy to paint once I got started. The detail is so nice and sharp I was a bit intimidated in the beginning. I hope you like the base, I tried to take inspiration from your basing on the wolves but give it my own twist. I really like what you have achieved with your bases and tried to capture similar feeling.

I agree also about the markings on the backpack, there is some room in those for marking and dark blue with a bit of turquoise would hit the spot well. Small details like that really elevate a miniature to completely new level.

After some two and half years, I'm back at posting pics of my painted figs. These two years have been really busy with limited hobby time and no stable photo set up, which has basically made me stop posting my finished figs here. But now things seem to be calming down and I'm back at painting more regularly.

First paintjob I'm posting is this Varp Krigare in waiting from Red Box Games. I got the fig from the first RBG kickstarter and it is really top notch cast in resin. It was a joy to paint, it is close to true scale and details are so fine it proved to be a nice challenge. I went a bit further with the base that I have done before, mainly inspired by the excellent Painting Buddha basing DVD. I tried to keep the colors close to earth and natural, while at the same time I tried to get some contrast between the base and the barbarian. This was mainly done by keeping the skin as the only element with red and using some subtle green glazes in the base.

As always comments and opinions are more than welcome, it feels good to be back at posting here!