Mister Feral

Great work - the cyan works really well in conjunction with all that dead goodness!

Very cool, good call on that deep blue for the clothing!

Only painting suggestion I have is a couple of brown and green glazes on the wooden planks to make their highlights look less chalky.

Fair enough, I was going to order some Hanged, but I went with Punk Zombies instead.

Nice solid yellow you've done for Molly's dress! :)

Great stuff, I do like how desaturated the Lady looks!

I will ask, how was the Jack Daw crew to put together? Any problematic parts?

Impressive!

Wong has to be my favourite though, I've never seen one painted before. The turquoise too is lovely.

Great work!

I'm in a bit of a painting slump at the moment, so seeing what can be done with the plastics is good to see - especially since I have plastic Nurses to work on!

Ah Mordheim! I remember reading through the issue of White Dwarf that model came free with.

*nostalgia*

I am loving your interpretation of Aenur, the green, fleshtones and base are lovely.

I like seeing WIP pictures, it's nice to see how paintjobs develop. It's also handy for people to make suggestions on what's been done so far. Having said that, I have nothing to suggest.

The bases look great, I love the leftmost one leaping over the rock - very much a classic action pose!

I see what you mean about the large surface area of the coat. I'm the opposite to you in that respect, I love painting large smooth surfaces, and generally disdain excessive amounts of fiddly detail. Freehand is a good idea but I personally would leave that for the more elite and flashy models. I imagine Death Marshals to be very rugged yet simple when it comes to coats! 

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and similar experiences!

I'm going to ditch the resin base idea and build my own base inserts for the Wyrd-branded bases I got in the box. I'm thinking something simple like cobblestones for my Resurrectionists. My idea is to pin each model's foot onto a cobblestone carved from spare plasticard, position and stick those to the base. After that, fill the gaps on the base with putty cobblestones. Hopefully that should keep the models secure.

I'm expecting a 0.50mm pinning set and some plastic Nurses to turn up tomorrow, to test my idea! If it works, then I'll brave trying to fix my Rotten Belles again.

Tombanjo, I already use a handheld pin vice anyway.

I'm having serious problems assembling my plastic Rotten Belles! 

The arms and legs are just too thin. All my models use resin bases so the models just keep breaking off after I superglue them on. I tried to drill out holes for pinning but my usually right-sized drill bit is too big for the limbs.

How have you guys and gals assembled yours? Have you had to pin yours? If so what size drill bit is good? How do you keep yours from not breaking at the slightest amount of handling?

I've never had as much a problem assembling models as these. 

Sanding filler, I'll have to make a note of that for future reference. Any particular brand? (I'm UK-based too so I imagine I could get my hands on it!)

Critique? I don't think I can come up with anything to be honest. Lady Justice is looking great so far, I especially like the green-brown in the recesses of her top.

As you said the red looks a bit flat (nice colour though!), although it might work better but brightening it up a tad (especially the eyes, as they are a focal point of a miniature).

Still, great job all around. The limited palette really works across the whole crew.

Very nice!

The blues on the Depleted and more subtly on Graves and Tanner imply a very inhuman nature - lovely!

As others have already mentioned, great job on Lynch's white suit.

Impressive work on the McCabe crew! Makes me wish the Wastrels were available separately so I could paint them!

I'm looking forward to seeing your painted versions of the Ortegas.

Great work on Barbaros, smooth highlighting and nice and clean painting.

Since you asked for painting advice, I find mixing in a dab of purple into the final shades for non-humane skin works really well. Although I wouldn't want you to go over what you've done already, models like Barbaros and the corpses on the bases would be good candidates for such a technique.

Hope that helps.

Good start, loving the bases! What materials are you using for them? (the slate pieces I recognise, but the plastic planking and the white paste?)

I look forward to seeing the first painted models!

The bases for Teddy and the Daydreams, how were those done? Custom made or pre-made resin bases? I've been looking for resin bases in that style but haven't found anything!

Your painting is great all-round, you clearly can work across the various factions and genres that Malifaux blends together so well. Your Neverborn are my favourite although the blue flames on Samuel's base are good as well.

I'm pleased to see that Killjoy is out this month, that's one a definite buy for me! Looks like great fun to paint.

Now waiting for the plastic Convict Gunslingers and Punk Zombies sets that are apparently out April(?)

The blind eye? Simple stuff, after painting the skin it was merely several thin glazes of Blood For The Blood God [GW Technical paint] then re-highlighting the eye white.

The glossiness of the BFTBG / Glazing Medium mix caught the light of the camera, which is probably why it glows!

Glad you like Two-Face! I've started to paint one of his Arkham City thugs whilst I wait for my Malifaux delivery (please turn up tomorrow, please turn up tomorrow...).

Thanks for the kind words!

I got the idea for the teal from generally doing some "colour research" but looking at various Malifaux 2E art for ideas (little rulebook and the internet comes in handy!).

I was going to change the hair to a deep crimson but I went with the "neutral" teal because too much red on the head / face would of overpowered the colour scheme.

I'm literally waiting for tomorrow so I can get my Seamus crew through the post. I'm banging on about it but I'm excited!

Beautiful! The cold and pallid tones across the crew really draw the various models together!

Question, where do you get those bases from? I've seen those particular ones several times now!

Work continues on the Convict Gunslinger:

Skin and trousers done! Ignore the hair, it came out wrong and doesn't work with the colour scheme. Do I go back to vibrant green or try something else?

When trying to take a picture of the back of the model, since the base was still wet from initial wet-blending to get the base tones down I accidentally broke the model off the base! Not a problem, that can be easily solved after the base has dried. Still, meant I can show you the crackle medium I used to add effect to the base!

Definitely want to get this model done in the next couple of days. Why only because my plastic Seamus crew is winging it's way to me for sometime next week! Cannot wait! 

That's all for now, all comments and suggestions for wacky hair colours would be grand!

Feral