So boo to the forum rollback losing some of the posts, but it is for a better forum-ing experience for all, so it's well within reason.
Will be posting my progress on Mei Feng's crew to beef up the thread again. Let me know what you guys think!
(As always, click on the image for a larger resolution)
Beefed up Mei's base by adding girders to the gap at the front and the back. Will be painting these as if they were bent through super heating, bright reds, orange whites, on the seared black and rusting/oxidized red of the iron at the end.
I love painting the faces on these Malifaux models, gives me a chance to give them much more life and character. As always, I do the eyes first because they're the bane of my existence. Really love how they ended up, especially the lips.
For the others I've just added miscellaneous accessories to bring more life to their bare cork bases. Wouldn't be a rail crew if I don't show train rails, same size as the girder from Mei's base, but added snapped popsicle sticks to be the sleepers. Highly inaccurate though as the rails typically rest on the sleeper blocks, but I guess this should be the third rail off to the side.....but that would mean electricity....<facepalm>
Kang I added a ton of medium grit basing rocks to act as coal, added some to the shovel as well. Emberling is the same, though I'll paint these while they're stoking, which will be fun to practice OSL on. I added just a bit on the Golem's base, mostly just mildly stoking coal that fell from the behemoth's furnace as it runs to its quarry, or to Mei's side.
Progress is fairly slow, but the effects are worth it it to take my time on. I'm noticeably getting better and faster though, and it's great to see effects of practice bearing fruition.