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I figured they'd be about the same size as gremlins...

See, I prefer "the Picnic" referring to Marcus leading a bunch of Gremlins and Pigs...

I think Kaine has a good idea here. We had a discussion about this elsewhere: the idea of going in with a couple people and buying a few boxes and then splitting them between everyone. The problem is that I will be playing largely with family, though I can't wait to throw down with some of the local community (looking at you Cadilon). That means I'll be the only one buying them and, if my perfectionism wins out, the only one painting them and I'll want enough so that anyone playing can field whatever they want, within reason. I've never understood how someone can enjoy the whole random booster experience. I want to know what I'm buying and how many I need. On the other hand, I thought it would be fun to have some randomness in things like Sidekicks. While you need to collect pawns in certain numbers to have enough to play, Sidekicks are on their own and you can use multiples of each (each player can take 1). They would be the perfect models for random blisters. "Here's a pack of three random Sidekicks." GW did something like this in the later days of Necromunda, where you could buy a fleet of regular fighters, and then a hero booster, which had a random leader and random heavy. Put them in clamshells and that would be perfect. Then you'd have: -Starter Box -Multiplayer Expansion Box -Pawns 1,2,3 -Master Boosters (1 master puppet and 2 random Sidekicks) Anyway...that's just my two cents....

You guys are hitting on what I think might be the most fun part of PuppetWars...that other people play it. During the playtest, I played with my wife a couple times a week and she has never played a miniature game. Now that the game is coming out we're looking forward to painting them together and she has even picked up an Ortega box for Malifaux. In the evenings after GenCon, my brother-in-law and his wife have insisted that my fee for staying in Indy with them will be to teach them Puppet Wars once we get our copies home. Neither of them have played anything more than a Wii.....ever....And when I showed them the Malifaux books (for the puppet pictures) they started reading and asked if I'd paint crews for them as well...Looks like I have a busy fall coming up.

I'm looking forward to stopping by Kendallville this weekend to see the league in action. Unfortunately, the recent birth of my daughter has been keeping me from doing much with malifuax this last few weeks, but Im anxious to see some games in action if I can't get a game or two in myself. Instead of making a new thread, I though I would just post here to get more of an idea of what else is going on around Northeastern Indiana. I've been to the BC&T a couple Tuesdays, but haven't seen anyone still playing...and I heard there was a league starting at The Keep in Fort Wayne, but didn't have a chance to check that out either... Has anyone else heard of what's been going on around our area? Do we have a local Henchman? Now that I'm mostly done with playtesting, I'm also eager to get some PuppetWars demos going once Gencon has passed, so I'd love to get an idea of the malifauxness that's still going on in the area. -Nick www.yetischool.blogspot.com

Agreed. Plus, Austringers will work wonders against gremlin crews once you start seeing the Lacroix around... I also enjoy the guild hounds with the Ortegas. They will give you a bit more speed and can help round up shots for Nino. Groups of 3 or more of them though.

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but do you know / can you say if the puppets are on 30mm bases?

Zoraida here! Even my puppet has puppets!

Are there still people playing in Ft. Wayne on Tues. at BC&T? I stopped in once without my stuff and after that some life got in the way. I'm hoping to have some more time coming up. Not sure about joining the league but I'd still love to get some games in.

Totally interested. My game time is a bit sparse of late, but I'm totally interested in getting some games in. @ deputy david: Do you guys meet every week? How late do you usually go? I'd love to join in on some Malifaux action in town!

I used a similar technique on the sword Vicki with great success, but I mixed the flesh tone with codex grey and then gave it a very thinned down wash with half and half babad black and devlin mud

I'm loving the girls so far. I am a big fan of the colors your using; not too brightly colored and very realistic in terms of the world in which they would exist.

I enjoy this crew quite a bit. I particularly like the use of blue to throw some color into the otherwise subtle scheme. I also like way you've made the judge seem almost out of place in the crew with his light coat. Also, i am a fan lf your basing as well....not too overdone...just simpering, subtle and effective.

I also enjoy the idea of some sort of Riverboat gambling, mustachioed, charming master. Mine would likely be an archanist, and instead of focussing on magic, his focus would be on running the black market. He'd have access to a wide variety of other archanist minions, but his own focus would be on commerce. I've also always had in my head a Resurrectionist Master, the Artist. In Malifaux he's found the power to push his artistry to the absolute limits, using unwary citizens as his canvas. I envision his crew a mix of living and undead models in various degrees of alteration at the hands of the artist as he uses them as his canvas. In his pursuit he leaves his subjects (victims) tortured, mutilated and psychotic parodies of what they once were. His ultimate goal, to perfect the frail and flawed human form using the powers within Malifaux and create a beauty otherwise unknown to the world.

I finally finished my first few Malifaux minis. I've decided to use the Malifaux range to try several techniques I've never had the chance, skill, or courage to do in the past. My first crew is the Viktorias and the first new technique is Non-metallic Metal. Let me know what you think of the first two! I decided to go with a very traditional color scheme for the first Viktoria. However, I wanted her scheme to share several things in common with the second Vik, who is still on the painting table. The ivory kneepads and gauntlets will tie into the other Vik's scheme and help make the two look like a single unit. For my first effort dong any kind of Non metallic metal, I'm pretty please so far. **UPDATE** I decided to redo the work on Viktoria, as I Was never happy with the NMM gold that came out. I tried about four or five times before finally deciding to stick to a silver sword all the way for her. and one of her from behind. Next up in the first Ronin. I loved the studios scheme and I decided to keep this model simple and clean. I may go back and do some more detailed flourishes in the future, but haven't decided yet. I was very impressed with myself at how the metals turned out this time, especially the gold on her sword and belt buckle. That's it for now. More to follow. Thanks for looking!