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True. Although it can be harder to spam core models because the poses and look are so unique.

Playing as Gremlins, this is the problem I have. If I run Sommer or Lenny I can have a few different Bayou or Piglets in play at once. So I have a mixture of things like metal and plastic piglets (7 different altogether) and 7 Bayou Gremlins (plastic and metal as well). Although I am only learning so I tend to only be able to keep a couple alive at any one time.

One thing I love about the miniatures is how easy they are to paint. I love the sculpts that the likes of GW, Warlord, Privateer Press and so on do but they can be varying degrees of complicated (the main reason I haven't started a Scions army yet). But these are so simple (and I don't mean that as a negative). They also lend themselves to any skill level. I am currently working on Miss Ery and even with a bit of shading and a couple of colours she looks great. Which is a surprise for such a large piece.

And here she is. Need to tidy a lot of the washes and get the rest of the stitches, claws and teeth done. Once that is done a couple of pink patches and then I will highlight her.





Tempted to try and do a glow effect from each of the seams, but that may be too much. Will wait till it's closer to completion.

I built some proxies for the Guilty, and they're table top done, barring the bases.

Yes, the male MPM is a boon. Too bad you have to cut every ankle on the female ones to get a decent size.

I took pictures of my Neverborn and I am not even uploading them. The skin job is too horrible.

houshin wrote:
One thing I love about the miniatures is how easy they are to paint. I love the sculpts that the likes of GW, Warlord, Privateer Press and so on do but they can be varying degrees of complicated (the main reason I haven't started a Scions army yet). But these are so simple (and I don't mean that as a negative). They also lend themselves to any skill level. I am currently working on Miss Ery and even with a bit of shading and a couple of colours she looks great. Which is a surprise for such a large piece.

Yeah, something I didn't appreciate until I started painting some Malifaux was how good a model can be with simpler detail. Someone once told me old timer painters liked models like these because 'they paint up a treat', and I never really got it. Too much GW at the time with skulls on buckles on ammo belts on more skulls.

Malifaux plastics tend to have large areas free of detail broken up by simple details. This lets you explore, or not, painting techniques you might not have had the skill level to try on more complicated models. It also has the bonus f being easier to paint, so for people like me who are terrible at details, they can stick to painting the basics with clean lines and clear transitions between different parts of a model and they still look good.

Yep, I'm not always happy with the over all model (like when it's out of scale or in a pose I don't like), but Malifaux plastics take paint exceptionally well regarding how easy it is to get something nice going.

It's funny. I used to be scared of the Malifaux miniatures as they tend to look so good I thought I would ruin them by just running my brush near them.

Now doing a batch of 10 Guardsmen, or 10 Wehrmacht Infantry scares me more.

I am now looking forward to getting hold of something like The Dreamer set, especially to have a go at painting Lord Chompy Bits. And I am really looking forward to painting Merris.

Hmmmmmmmm...........................wish I hadn't sold it now.

Really like that alt Lady J! Don't recognise the other, but it's also great!

 Paradigm wrote:
Really like that alt Lady J! Don't recognise the other, but it's also great!

The other one is Snow Storm.

Alt lady J is original lady J

While she had a few problems, I still hugely prefer her to "generic anime girl" lady J.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Alt lady J is original lady J

While she had a few problems, I still hugely prefer her to "generic anime girl" lady J.

The original and still the best! New one is rubbish. Not a fan of the current Wyrd style at all. Theres some improvements, but overall? Nah.

Yeah, huge leaps and strides from a technical perspective, but there's a lot of their original style I prefer. I think the only faction I think has seen near-universal improvement is the Gremlins, but even with them I still think that alt/avatar somer is way cooler than the current one, and don't like the mctavish concept art.

Here's my latest minis. First, the last of my Ten Thunders (until Shenlong comes out):

Sniper (The LE sniper really represents a big step forward for me as a painter. I'm not sure that it LOOKS a lot better, but I really FEEL a lot better about it)


Low River Monks (I like the way these turned out, but the photo stinks)


Plus, here's one of my favorite Wyrd minis I've seen, along side easily the worst.
Teddy (best)

A&D (so so so ugly)

Good stuff everyone. Very inspiring to continue putting brush to plastic.

So, here is the (almost) completed Gremlins so far. The old metal War Pig needs its base sorting though.

I finally got all the Guild masters done, so here's the last year or so's worth of collecting and painting. It's all the plastic models released for the guild, a few extras that can be hired by various masters, some counts-as made from the TTB multi-part kits, plus the Viks and hangers on.



Individual crews spoilered

Wow, impressive collection. Also the first non-skull Death Marshals I've liked.

My Redchapel crew. It was the TtB box I got, so I haven't really added anything to it yet.

Seamus


Sybelle, front and back


Copycat Killer


Rotten Belles, including and MPM... can you guess which one? Geez..


Punk Zombies (unrelated, but I don't see them as belonging to a specific crew, they're more "generally useful" than anything else.) I don't like the green of the flesh, I'm going to try to turn into a bit more flesh-y.

Finished these guys up for Gottacon last weekend. They got best group for the painting competition, but poor Mortimer only got 2nd for single.

Very nice! I prefer the old Mortimer, personally. But I love your flesh colour, very consistent.

Those are great, second the love for the flesh colour.

It's in the gallery, but noone looks in there so this is my first Malifaux mini



Any C&C welcome, no matter how nice or mean!

I'm starting to get into painting my Malifaux minis at the moment.

Here's my Latigo Posse

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Yeah, huge leaps and strides from a technical perspective, but there's a lot of their original style I prefer. I think the only faction I think has seen near-universal improvement is the Gremlins, but even with them I still think that alt/avatar somer is way cooler than the current one, and don't like the mctavish concept art.

A lot of the Neverborn stuff is infinitely better. Nephilim went from looking like the work experience kid made them with playdough to some fantastic looking models.

Yeah, Neverborn and Outcasts both saw big strides forward too, but they both also saw some minis I just don't particularly like. 1e Jack daw, Ronin, Nekima for instance are some of my favorites, vs. only okay plastics.

I think the only faction I like worse as a whole is Guild, though (Guards in general, Justice, most of the Ortegas, Lucius, Peacekeeper... there are a ton of old models I prefer and very few I like the updates for better).

The Ortega with two pistols is better in plastic, imho. I had to paint the metal one twice and he was soooo flat. Now he seems like a giant of a man, full of machismo, rather than a scrunty little thing that would fly away at the slightest breeze.

My favourites of the current Guild are the two that cost the most. Santana and Miss Terious. I have the Miss Terious but can not find Santana's for below my upper limit (around the £50 mark).

I have been collecting both old metals and new Plastics. I do really like the new plastics (they put a lot of other manufacturers work to shame) but there was so much more character in the older metals.

One quick question, I have the Latigo Posse to paint up and was planning on painting them up with a more Mediterranean look. I just don't know where to start. My default skin on both my Cadians and Germans is Flat Brown, Bugmans Glow, Cadian Fleshtone. That just won't work for what I want in these.

So, finally completed Miss Ery over the weekend.



On to Wong and a Slop Hauler next.