Largo_W

26. June

Starting 11:00 Ending 18:00

Hannover, Germany

Fantasy-In Gaming Arena / Fantasy-In

No Limit

Hi there,

I have been asked by one of the workers at my local gamestore if I cpould spend some time in running a demo fpr Malifaux. I build a 4'x4' large board, including some woods, a river, some houses,a road and so one in the past to promote the game, but that didn't went well. The terrain is still only used by two people, me and a buddy of mine who helped me with the board and is the only other person in my area playing Malifaux. I thought that good painted miniatures and a good looking board would be enough to draw interest, but well. So here we are, back at the beginning of the post. I am supposed to run said demo, and I want to run as many as possible. When I only offer a normal game it would have several problems:

1. A game, even Scrap is rather long. Which reduces the numbers of players who can actually play a round

2. The game itself is very complex for beginners, the whole trigger/special rules thing can be too much for players who are new to the game

3. There are rule bending models, Seamus Starter Crew for example can move at a whole instead of moving only one miniature at a time.

So here are my questions to the experienced henchmen around the world:

1. What is the best format to introduce playerrs to the game?

2. Which rules can be left out if you want to speed it up?

3. Which crews are recommended for the demo? I have two fully painted, Nicodem and Lady J. But I schould be able to paint another crew or two (Rasputina, Bajou Gobs or Seamus are available at home but unpainted)

4. Which items should I ask my hobby store to bring to the demo? I know that it is not possible for him to get the whole of the items (demo is not in the store where they sell miniatures, it is in a secondary shop, and there's only card games for sale). I am thinking of a couple of starters and some rulebooks. What's the general opinion?

Cheers, Largo

Victorian, Bayou is rather easy in my opinion

Hi,

I am not sure which material I should try to achieve. I am capable of building medieval houses and sci-fi stuff, but I do not get the style of Malifaux.

As far as I know there are several 3 different styles of housing.

1. Bayou

Mainly wood shacks, no bricks at all

2. Downtown, Malifaux Outskirts

Brick ? Wood ? No clue.

3. Mining, Badlands

Western Style, Frontier Towns, Mostly wood, some brick houses (Bank, "Sheriff", Mining Office)

I did some reserch on victorian houses and industrial age houses and now I am at a completely loss.

Is this the appearence of Malifaux?

http://www.schweich.com/images/IMGP0093sm.jpg

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/enzo_fortuna/TRAINS/Victorian-houses.jpg

or is it more along this style

http://img.smartnewhomes.com/gwimage/e84e24779cba43ceaa6645eca374c90b_IMG_00.jpg

or is it like these

http://historicbuildingsct.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mansfield-house.jpg

http://historicbuildingsct.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/john-mccurdy-house.jpg

I need help on this topic since I want to build a little town, approx 4-6 houses, and I really want to cathc the feel of Malifaux.

The only clues are""Based in an alternate Earth, Malifaux uses gothic, steampunk, victorian horror with..." and the fact that it's settled around 1700.

Cheers, Largo

1) Favorite: Color of paint (the specific paint color listed on the lable)

-- Regal Blue (GW). Perhaps Turqoise (VA) or English Uniform (VA)

2) Favorite: Brand of paint

--Vallejo

3) Favorite: Sculptor

-- Hard one. Can't get one, but I would say the guys at Wyrd or at Anima:Tactics (some, not all)

4) Favorite: Painter

-- Doesn't have one, but if I would have to choose I would vote for Victoria LAmb

5) Favorite: Mini Company (other than Wyrd, we all know it's everyones #1)

--Brigade Models

6) Painting Preference: Metalics vs. NMM

--Metalics. NMM is too time consuming (I did it, but it's not my style)

7) Mini Preference: Fantasy vs. Sci Fi

--Hard one. modern Fantasy I would say, like Wyrd is probably my fav. Or Pulp.

8) Mini Preference: Male vs. Female

--No preference. Female models mostly have more flesh. And thats a shame since flesh is hard to paint

9) Mini Preference: Human vs. Monstrous

--human

10) Favorite: Paint Brush you use the most

--Da Vinci Harbin Kolinsky

11) Favorite: Paint Job You've Done (provide link if possible)

-- Death from the Discworld Series by MicroArt. No Link available. Or perhaps Celia from Anima Tactics.

12) Favorite: Paint Job Ever (provide link if possible)

-- Can't name one, perhaps the Khorne Juggernaught on CMON (rated about 9,x, easy to find)

13) Desire: A mini company from which you've never painted a mini, but want to

--None yet. Fulfilled all desires

14) Desire: A mini you most want to paint, but haven't

-- My Wyrd stuff. Sad Face

15) Favorite: Mini related forum (again, other than your obvious favorite; Wyrd)

-- Local Gaming Club forum

16) Favorite: Site you find most useful in terms of helping learn mini painting/Sculpting

--CMON

17) Desire: A sculpt you would love to see, but doesn't yet exist

-- good Cyberpunk Miniatures for Shadowrun

18) Ambition: What would you most like to achieve in the painting hobby

-- BestPainted Awards for all my systems (2/4 done)

19) Least Favorite: Thing you most dislike about mini painting (think eyestrain, back ache, being socially outcast, lost time, costs, etc...)

-- lost of time. definetly

20) Least Favorite: Paint Brand you've tried

-- Revell

21) Least Favorite: Mini Company who's sculpts/style just don't make you want to paint them.

--least GW models. And their price.

hmm.. I am pretty solid concerning freehands, any ideas?

Update! I finally had time to edit the pictures (cut, brightness etc), and without further introduction, here they are:

Overview

Killjoy

nothing special except the sculpted base. I had the intention to match the superb MicroArtStudio Bases, but since the big bases are rather expensive I went for a "resculpt"

Converted Death Marshal Close-Up

I had the concept art of the Marshals in my head when building this one. Somewhere in the book or in one of the e-Zines there is Marshall leaping above somthing (or somebody) with his coffin on his back. So I went and pinned a Coffin from the "Spare Coffin" Blister to his back and the other one, on which he normally jumps went into my Malifaux Bitzbox

Converted Judge Close-Up

I saw the pictures of the Judge being sculpted and when I saw that he originally should wear a hat, I was a bit dissapointed at the next page, where they were ripping it off So I made him a new one

Mortimer

Punk Zombie Anarchy T-Shirt

Punk Zombie

The head and the arms had been bent before painting and that's it. Not much work.

Punk Zombie Samurai

I have completed Mortimer and alsosealed the first 5 Ressurectionists. That's the first completed starter box. Since I want other people to join the fun I will now paint another's fraction starter, then the next and throw some undeads in the mix ('cause undead are most fun to paint).

Pictures will follow tomorrow, I have already made them, but it's too complicated to do it on laptop with a touchpad and only GIMP when I can do it tomorrow ( the tomorrow in Germany, so in about 10 hours) on normal screen with Corel PP.

Overview:

[edit] See next post

And for your concern, the next steps:

First: Guild (Lady J) starter

Second: Arcanists (Rasputina) starter

Third: Killjoy

Fourth: Probably Gremlin Starter

Fifth: More Gremlin Stuff

Thrown in for fun: 3 Samurai Punk Zombies, 4 Mindless Zombies, 1 Flesh Construct

So far I have invested quite a bit of the money, but I haven't had so much fun painting minis since the beginning of Anima:Tactics, nowadays it's always the same type of miniature and it's gotten far too expensive (1 (ONE) Mini 10€ - 15€ (thats 15$-23$ for you US folks) , 28mm Scale, metal). But thats just rants about another tabletop so I will remain silent in that matter.

Hi there! I am from Germany and I wanted to share some pictures of my miniatures. I normally paint at an incredibly slow pace, but not when undead and/or great sculpts are involved. So far this is the work of two evenings building, filing, sanding, cuttin and sculpting and about 10 hours of painting. It's not top notch and the bases are still unfinished but so far I am rather happy with them. Comments welcome.

EASTERN

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New York - Rochester - Travis Syxx

New York - Rochester - ZombiEd

New York - Albany- Gunwitch, LMBB, Kloudfire, MoonFever

Kentucky - Lexington - mozart

Ohio-Cincinnati - WyvernX86, jgemrich

Ohio-Columbus-Cacuin

Ohio-Columbus-Darkeldar

Ohio-Columbus-Grammaton Cleric

Ohio-Columbus-IceRaptor

Ohio-Kettering - Dv8guy, WyvernX86, jgemrich

Maryland-Baltimore-Tenebræ

Maryland-Fredneck/MoCo - Angel of Menoth

Maryland-Fredneck - Unwieldysquig

Maryland-Frederick - Sarr

Maryland-Kensington/Rockville_Scorpio

West Virginia-Martinsburg (Eastern Panhandle)- The Lemondrop Dan

Northern Virginia - Angus Khan, St. Anger, Thalaric

New York City/Brooklyn - CaptMorgan

Florida - Orlando - TheBugKing

Florida-Tampa-Dr.Mercury

Michigan - Detroit (East Side) - StormHalo

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Georgia - Atlanta - Zee

Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh, Legions Hobbies & Games - abbysdad

Pennsylvania - York, Comic Store West - Entiago

Virginia - VA Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News - Sobek

Central

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Illinois - Chigago and Burbs - Nilus, WEiRD sKeTCH, Jokerohki, PolishSausage, Reaper

Indiana - Terre Haute/Bloomington - Pavic

Indiana - Indianapolis - Sryth, Totengraber, revmidni

Wisconsin - Madison - Gargathor

Wisconsin- Appleton--Smoke

Wisconsin - Milwaukee - schuwa

Kansas - Wichita - Gregdorf

Mississippi - Jackson - shakespear

Missouri - Union/St. Louis/St. Charles - MEdwards, Snakeking, Brasidas, Pensfan, Thetang22 (on occasion)

Nebraska - Grand Island - Thetang22

Minnesota - Twin Cities (Roseville) - CaffeineBoy

Texas-Plano/Rowlett - knightdrake

Texas-Duncanville-Chev Chelios

Mountain

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Utah - Layton - Grimwolf

Utah - SLC - Napar

Colorado - Longmont - Gobbo

Colorado - Fort Collins - Endgame

Colorado - Aurora - greyseerco

Colorado - Lakewood-WombatCowboy

Montana - Bozeman - MontanaJeff

Western

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California - Bay Area/San Jose - Orius, Kealios, Royal, Hannibal, vxghost

California (Southern) - Keltheos

California -Los Angeles - Sushicaddy

Nevada - Las Vegas - HighSerraphim (+2 others not on this forum)

Oregon - Tigard - CrazyBones

Oregon - Hillsboro/Portland - The Keebler

Oregon - Portland SE - Peterdita

Washington - Vancouver/Portland - Goblyn13

Washington - Olympia - blkdymnd

Washington - Seattle/Edmonds - fildrigar, Danicia, and one other

Abroad (use Country)

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Canada

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Eastern

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QC - Montreal - Xenon_Wulf

ON - Thunder Bay - Fireymonkeyboy

ON - Cambridge - B1gn4sty

Western

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BC - Vancouver/Richmond - Draykin

Alberta - Calgary - Breten

Germany

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Sachsen - Leipzig - Nimor

Hamburg- Hamburg- Peanut

Hamburg - Hamburg - Seppocalypse

Niedersachsen - Braunschweig - Gottkaiser

Niedersachsen - Hannover - Largo_W

Netherlands

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Gelderland - Arnhem - illustrange/Melvin

Groningen - Groningen - Malebolgia/Marijn

Groningen - Groningen - TheWill2/William

Noord Brabant - Breda - Nick/Nick

Ireland

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Dublin - Dublin - lauth81

U.K

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North West

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Stockport/Manchester - Loxam - Team Octopii at Marauder Games www.octopii.co.uk

North East

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Newcastle/Durham - redben

Leeds - Docbungle

Midlands

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Warwickshire/West Midlands - n0signal

Scotland

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Glasgow - DangerousBeans

Glasgow - Mechaace

Rothesay- PeteScete

South

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West Sussex - Midhurst - elysium64

Oxfordshire/Wiltshire - Carterton/Swindon - katadder

Hampshire - Clanfield - FCWookiee

Devon-Sidmouth--Darknight

Dorset-Christchurch - SMG-Graham (and others!)

Australia

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Queensland - Brisbane - Dr D

NSW - Newcastle - Lims krigma

NSW - Sydney - Vulpinoid

Spain

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Andalucia

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Cordoba - Caronte

Sweden

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Katrineholm - Katrineholm - sjostrand

Poland

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Warsaw - Warsaw - Gru6y

Malaysia

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Kuala Lumpur - Shinobi

Kuala Lumpur - wolfisin

Currently not playing because:

Uncharted Seas (only other player is very occuped at the moment)

Malifaux (no other players in my area)

WH40K (cause it su*** and I don't want it any longer. Screw 5th Ed)

Epic Armaggeddon (no active players.. )

Anima: Beyond Fantasy (completely unbalanced, no rulebook for 3 years, no fun)

WHFB (it su***, too)

Currently playing:

Shadowrun RPG 4th (but it's dying 'cause our master nearly killed the whole group on run one and sees no mistake in his actions.)

Blood Bowl (cause it's the greatest game ever invented by GW )