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Before we begin, might I mention that Acrylic Retarder, just a dab plus a little water, is like magic when you are adding highlights and shades- easy blending. I can't explain an easy ratio- you just have to play with it for a while. Desolation Engine Flesh- -Basecoat P3 Beast Hide -Wash GW Devlan Mud -Shade P3 Battlefield Brown mixed with Acrylic Retarder. -Highlight Beast Hide and Retarder. -Highlight mix of Beast Hide and P3 Thrall Flesh w/ retarder -Highlight Thrall Flesh and retarder. -Add shades of bruise w/ purple ink, red ink. Desolation Engine Armor- -Base coat Reaper Blackened Steel -Wash GW Devlan Mud -Shade P3 Battlefield Brown mixed with P3 Exile Blue w/ Retarder -Highlight Blackened Steel w/ Retarder -Highlight Reaper Aged Pewter w/ Retarder -Add rust w/ thinned P3 Bloodstone w/ Retarder -Finish model, use Testor's Dullcoat as sealant. -Add final details/highlighting/scratches with GW Chainmail w/ Retarder. Waif Flesh- -Base coat P3 Cryx Bane Highlight -Shade w/ P3 Cryx Bane Base w/ retarder -Highlight w/ Cryx Bane Base mixed with P3 Trollblood Highlight w/ retarder -Continue highlights w/ same mix as previous, but add in P3 Frostbite. -Final highlighting with a very small amount of thinned and retarded Frostbite Notice a trend? The magic is in the retarder. Available wherever acrylic art products are sold.

Hey man, what's up? I was at Adepticon, but only to sell my old Cryx army to Romeo from Battlefoam and to check thing out. Next year...

Not this year, unfortunately. Adepticon will probably be my next major showing.

Alright- the final "official" models of my Leveticus crew- The Hollow Waifs and Desolation Engine Waifs- Desolation Engine Basing used similar methods to earlier models, just with some Mordheim bits to liven up the Desolation Engine's base (so it looks kind of like he just burst out of a tavern wall or something). Anyway, thanks everyone for all the compliments. You flatter me. I am going to post the "best of" on the original post so everything is more consolidated. One more final shot of the whole family... I still have four more SPAs and Ryle to paint, but I am probably moving on to other projects for now (as painting necrotic flesh is getting tiresome for the moment). I'll keep you posted.

Come up to New Game in Town in DeKalb and check them out in person!

The minis are finished, but I am putting the final touches on the bases. Pict to follow in the next couple days.

Thanks- you flatter me. Leveticus is a much nicer sculpt than the photo on his card betrays- but be forewarned, Alyce is not. Her head is TINY, and she is overall very lanky and bizarrely proportioned.

Guardian was a basecoat of Reaper Scorched Metal, a wash/shading of Brown Ink and PP Cryx Bane Base, then highlighted with successive layers of Scorched Metal and Reaper Tarnished Brass. Same for the Watcher.

And the big sister helmet even comes off? Man, this is an awesome conversion. Big kudos on concept and execution (and it is still steampunk!)

Thanks, man. To get the guild crest off, I used a flat file and sandpaper. I had to remove and then resculpt a couple of the rivets, as they got in the way.

I know I said my waifs would be next, but I got motivated to do some other stuff first... Behold, my Guardian and Watcher. And one more group shot with the new additions...

For my eyes, I use a Reaper 10/0 brush (the cheaper one) for most of the details like the whites and corneas, and I use a Reaper 30/0 for the eyelashes. Make sure you mix in a little acrylic retarder (available at any art supply store), because the paint tends to dry on the bristles quickly when the brushes are that small. Plus, it gives you more time to work with the paint, or brush it off if you screw up.

In case you missed the post, here is a group shot- As spectacular as my hooded rider might look, his first battlefield experience ended with a quick death at the hands of Pandora. Also, here is a better, less-fuzzy Alyce pic. You can actually tell she has one eye closed in this pic.

Here are a couple more pics of Alyce's base, so you can see all the detritus I worked so hard on.

Thanks, everybody! In response to the source lighting critiques on the lamp, the pictures do make them a little wonky- the lamp is definitely the brightest element on the model. However, I did go a little strong on Levi's coat, and just didn't feel like fixing it. The light does draw the eye away a bit, but I feel like the lightness of his skin and face detail helps balance that a bit (esp. in contrast with the base). Good eye though, guys. That was my own personal critique on this model as well. I guess it shows more strongly than I thought.

Yeah, sorry the pics of her are a little fuzzy. I have yet to master keeping extended bits of the minis in focus. Anybody who knows how, please share.

Greetings, all. So, I decided to throw down my hand with Leveticus. Here is my progress thus far on my basic crew box... The models are all stock, except for Alyce's gun arm. I straightened her aim a bit, and gave her a nice, big, steampunky targeting device. The zombie on Levi's base and the arm on Alyce's are from the Mantic Zombies unit (with some modifications), All of the rubble is just crap from my various bits boxes, the bricks are little plaster casts (in the case of the walls, stacked), and the wood is all strip styrene textured with a file and frayed with a hobby knife. ***UPDATE*** I'm going to include a few pics here on the first page so anyone interested in checking out the whole crew doesn't have to search through a million pages. Thanks again, and enjoy. More on my Hooded Rider here.

Top tier stuff- very impressive (especially Perdita)

Thanks for the honest critique, and while I certainly understand your point, the addition of the crow where he was is quite intentional. The part of the model that the crow is covering is one of the only open 'fields' on the miniature that doesn't contain much detail. As opposed to having this large, light-colored horse flank diverting the eye from the most striking parts of the sculpt, I feel like the dark detail adds flavor as well as channeling your immediate attention elsewhere.

I feel the same way about the black backgrounds, but the extra light reflected from the white background brings out more of the details. The actual painting process took about three days- maybe 12 hours total. The base took an evening to build- maybe three hours.

Greetings, all! I just finished my Hooded Rider and I wanted to share. I think this is one of the nicest models in the Wyrd line, so I wanted to do it justice with some nice custom basing. I tried to follow the color scheme from the Rising Powers artwork as closely as possible. The base is all custom built w/ some various bits from GW and old Confrontation stuff. The bricks and paving stones are cast resin, the soil is Sculptamold with dirt and sand sprinkled in it (then painted), and the roots are, well, roots. I scavenged them from a little banzai tree I picked up a while ago, killed, and dried the remains. The trunk is actually part of a stick, glued to the roots, with the bark sculpted on. This is one of my favorite minis ever, and it was a blast to paint. A great, detailed sculpt, highly recommended to anyone (Neverborn player or not...).

Thanks, guys! I picked up a Guardian the other day for said pro- and anti- Levi shenanigans.

Can a Guardian cast Protect on Leveticus and then suffer the Wds that Leveticus suffers for spells like Desolation or Necrotic Unmaking? Granted, it is probably going to cost you a Guardian a little earlier in most games, but the wording of the "suffers # Wds" makes me think this is kosher.

Okay, I know I am probably going to get berated for asking this, as I am pretty sure it has been clarified elsewhere and I just couldn't find it, but I want to get official confirmation- Let's say that Leveticus dies, as he is wont to do. Lets say you have two Hollow Waifs in play when this happens. At end phase, Leveticus comes back, and you sacrifice all Hollow Waifs. At end close phase, both Hollow Waifs come back. Am I correct in this assessment? Hence, both Hollow Waifs will pretty much always come back unless Leveticus and both Waifs are killed or sacrificed before Closing Phase? If someone could even point me in the right direction, I would be appreciative.

Again, just an 18/0 brush and a magnifying glass. For that little detail work, I mix in some acrylic retarder to give me a little more working time (in case I screw up, I can effectively "erase" with a moist brush).