G. Footman

yan-lo as lo-pan, wan as egg, brent as burt

belles-obvious necropunk-objective grabbing punk zombie-cutty canine-cheap and annoy the enemy flesh construct-hitting things

I just run who I feel like, but seeing how mostly my arcanist selection has either been ramos or rasputina, doesnt give me alot of choices there anyway

yeah, i ended up with the original metal belles, a reaper mini converted to a belle (it's a girl, in short frilly clothing, who looks decayed, a good alt in my book), and the new plastic belles. I havent bothered getting the redchapel box because, aside from not liking the johnnydepp'smaddhatter look for the plastic seamus, I don't think I'm ever going to have that many belles on the table at once. but I have been wrong before, I have reaper bones zombies on bases, zombies taken from the old Mageknight line, as well as wyrd zombies, just because I already am painting the same identicle zombie 18 times for zombicide. as far as the general proxy/conversion thing. I've played warhammer and warhammer 40k for years before hand, and (especially with GW prices going up) have seen plenty of alt minis, scratch builds, and conversions, as well as own pleny of alts, scratchbuilds and conversions. When we referred to proxies, it was usually a nailbox used for a drop pod, or coasters used as tyranids. Malifaux is honestly the first time I ever heard of alternative minis from another line, scratchbuilds, or conversions referred to as proxies in the same vein as pennies or a sodacan thunderbird, and early on it seemed like they were looked down on. Honestly, if you put some actual work into it (no blank bases or unpainted SM legs), it's recognizable for what it is (with some leeway for similar minions like belles/doxies), and on the right base, I'll play your crew with no problems. I have some proxies/conversions, mostly either because I own the original and wanted a second one that did not look identicle, the mini was not available yet, or I flat out did not like the look of the official model (most of them are good, there's a couple i'm not a fan of). Aside from the zombies, I have a 2nd, scratchbuild flesh construct maybe 85% greenstuff, 2 seishen made from greenstuff, scratchbuilt brass arachnid, electrical construct made from an old o.g.r.e. tank (taken off my brother's hands, he didn't like the tentacle ball look of the official one and I agree) large arachnid made from a combination greenstuff and random sprue bits, a december acolyte converted from a mageknight mini and joining my other 3 plastic wyrd ones on occasion. and am working on a custom rail golem, because while I like the legs and head of the offisial model, the arms don't look mechanicle enough to me and just look cartoony. I have bought by now, maybe a few hundred dollars worth of wyrd minis, so I'm not doing this to avoid paying for minis, it comes down more to personal tastes. I like seeing other people's creativity as well with their crews, and wouldnt want to see that go away completely. I'd like to see wyrd actually put out a line of just bits to use for conversions, heads, arms, bodies, and like the hats and weapons they put out before , hopefully we might get that with the through the breach minis. and I will always go by what my signature says, it's not proxies unless I'm using pennies to count as zombies.

never really liked NMM, it never really looked right to me. I usually just paint the metals black and drybrush a few coats of different metallics to get what I want. but that's just me.

only k-12 educational wikis? well, there goes any reason I go to wikispaces.

we still have to get the brewmaster vs mcmourning whiskey game in sometime Mr. Tezla

actually last night after talking to some fellow players, came up with a neverborn teddy master, he can take teddies, that 4 armed bear, and some sort of teddy voodoo doll I guess, henchman can be some twisted version of Teddy Ruxpen or Winnie the Pooh, or Paddington ( the new creepy one). and he'd wear a bear suit, and his name....Teddy Roosevelt

gremlin backyard wrestling master and crew (keeps with the hillbilly vibe most of them have) the crew would be like the gremlin version of the rail crew, all combos and fighting moves

the gunslingers are really truescale space marines without their armor, wyrd figured you could use them for that other comp[anies game as well, and this way lawyers don't show up actually seeing this, I'm kind of glad i held off getting them, i didn't know about the size, but like how the original looks better, short, potbellied, and i put a cowboy hat on him and named him Barry, Barry the Bastard Ortega

started with wfb/40k and played them through most my teen years and adult hood, mageknight for a short while before whizkidz was bought by topps and mageknight was killed off, and heroclix until i moved to an area where noone played. picked up malifaux because 40k became a game to make sure your weekend was clear for and I was looking for something skirmish sized that i couold get a game in within a couple hours., plus i liked the settings and steampunk style. have been slowly getting into warmachine as well and have a dystopian wars fleet, though i havent played yet

Squats will return one day.. probably once gw goes under and someone else buys the IP personally i like the sounds of this, I always liked 40k, just havent gotten the chance to play as often lately as most of the people i used to play are currently focused on other games, and i can never get down to the local gaming store for their 40k nights setting sounds interesting and I like how the story wwill progress

i like the detail and working with plastic is alot easier when it comes to conversions, but some of the small parts are a pain, I've already lost: a punk zombie's head (he is now 'headless sid') a number of hoses and wires from iron zombies and miss step the hand the chihuaha's holding and the cylinder that's supposed to hang under the tray McMourning is holding I unfortunatly have wall to wall carpeting in my current house (wich i hate, but rent, so it stays) so those pieces are good and gone

one thing i've sort of wanted since i first got into the game was some official rules for making your own master. like a base stat, costs for addons and upgrades, spells abilities otherwise some sort of time travel based master for arcanists, like he can do paralyze effects or even an ability to reverse an action so it never happened. either make him mounted on some HG Wells time machine, or some guy in a suit holding up some fancy mechanicle screwdriver. and been messing off and on with ideas for a Nemo based master and crew

I don't even use a mini until it's finished, too many games in the past of warhammer where i'm playing agains legs glued to a base, bases, or pennies and coasters, part of the appeal to miniatures games for me is visual. I want my crew of insane undead mad scientist creations to look somewhat like undead mad scientist creations when i play. part of why I'm not big on using a plain soda can as terrain either

I've been using old mageknight evil looking trees, i think they were the necropolis sect originally, but they have enough of an evil forest feel to them

that's true, Mr. Tezla plays with a grey clan of gremlins. I just half-ass it and take my paints names to literally mean what they say,

Welcome aboard, me and Mr. Tesla are also colorblind painters too