bobzilla

A very enjoyable day

Cheers I'm actually enjoying how it looks on the table. Nowhere near the level of some of the other local players but I'm actually very happy with it all things considered. Ended up taking him to the tournament today and I'm actually wanting to know why I didn't buy him sooner!

Wooden Spoon here I come!

*evil* I'm going to blame you if I sleep in for the tournament now...

When it's intentional I've usually touched it with a finger to lift paint off just before it dries but not whilst it's soaking wet. The rest of the time I put it down to bad lighting in the painting area where I can't see how thin I've got the paint or how much paint is still on the brush. I think.

Half way through the Viks crew I get my sons Ophelia crew delivered as well. Add to that I have a tournament tomorrow and wanted to have the option of taking Lucius with me. Cue frantic painting in bad light. I don't know how I did it but I managed to kill it first time around. I'm guessing it was the later hour and the bad light but it was horrendous. I didn't have time to strip it back and start again though as it needed to be done by noon today as I'm going to be nowhere near a paintbrush until after the tournament. So in other words what you see here is my attempts to save what I could. And the best bit? I don;t even think I'll be taking him tomorrow after coming up with a crew I love that doesn't include him! :S

Looking forward to not having a long drive home for this one!

There isn't a single thing about these models that I can even come close to having a criticism about. Between your models and that tutorial it's certainly made me rethink my approach to this kind of thing!

Loving it. The first hanging trees I've seen and thought they've not looked rubbish. I think we can safely say you've hit this one out of the park!

Next up is Bishop. Not happy with the eyes and that he is so bland but the guy I'm painting them for wants them like they are on the box. I guess I'm just not used to my rank n file guys looking so different Just noticed from the photo there are a few bits I need to touch up but I'm happy enough with it that once they are done I can move on to Johan and the Viks

Having done several years of product photos for websites the biggest headache I ever had was mixed light sources and I've never had anything worse than an occasional blue caste on cheaper cameras no matter what settings were used. I guess it comes down to 'experience may differ'. In other words try it out with your own equipment and see what works.

Mixed temp lights may work for painting but for photography you don't want to mix light temps unless you are completely at ease playing about with white balance. If your relying on the cameras settings then stick to one type of light source otherwise you end up with the colours all messed up and it gets messy trying to fix it on the computer.

Cheers for the link. If I'd have had any other faction than Guild I think I'd have been painting them up so that every single model looked like an individual but I think with the way the Guild works they have to have some sort of unifying uniform or they just don't look right The lighting effect on the coffin terrified me. I'd never tried anything like that before. It looks good but I think there is a lot I can still do to improve it for next time.

This. I'm loving the bases as well though. Wanting something similar for my sons gremlins and I've yet to pull it off so it looks even close to acceptable yet!

I have a friend that hates to paint. He hates it that much that I don't ever remember him buying any figures that weren't already prepainted and sold on ebay. So with that in mind I was more than happy to paint his Malifaux stuff for him when he got his hands on a Viks crew box. I'm very wary of painting figures like this. It's purely because I can't paint eyes, which I sort of lucked out with on the Lady J crew, and I don't want to mess them up too badly for him. I learned a lot painting Taelor though. I think I've worked out my problems with painting white for a start. I had a few issues painting the trousers as they look very drybrushed when they weren't. I've always watered my paints down with water and flow enhancer but I'd never tried using acrylic medium before. Makes things a whole lot easier! Overall I've happy with how it came out

Really enjoyed today!

Looking forward to this!

Nice one. I'll definitely be remembering this thread for when I get my Ramos crew in the new year

Loving the idea. Might be an idea to work on the larger base so the other cobble inserts all match up with that and then make the bases for the other two so they line up as well?

Fair point The best pose I've seen for him has been where someone built up a base that had a tree trunk/branch lying down that fitted the models foot height perfectly. Only problem I had with it was that they had themed it for woodland and the rest of the crew were on deadland style bases.

I'm coming around to the hounds. I think the dislike is because I hate the muzzle on the one on the left and I just know it's leg is going to snap at some point in the near future as I only have to breath on it and it bends out of position.

The wings on the mature make it look like something my crew would actually be scared off

Looking back at them they actually look far better than I thought they did. I still think painting at 2am isn't a good idea for me though

I've had to pick up a couple of hounds as well to add a little bit of speed to my crews when it's needed and I've got Sonnia Criid on my painting table as well although she's been there for a while... I've also got The Viktorias crew box sitting assembled and primed waiting to be painted for a friend. I hate these models. I love how animated they are but I hate painting them. I just struggled with the details. I guess doing it at 2am whilst watching the US elections probably didn't help with that one...

I'm trying to ignore the vast amount of 40k IG sitting staring at me so I'm trying to work through The Guild as well as any others I like the look of So far I've got Lady Justice's crew and a few hangers on painted up but we'll get there in the end. My entire Guild crew is going to be based on browns and bluey-black. Only the uniques will be different or have an extra colour to make them stand out on the table. Lady J - I love the look of wyrd models but this one terrified me after painting 40k models all my life. Ended up having a go after finishing off the rest of her box The Judge - The first Malifaux model I painted and it's going to be the first one I strip and redo as well. I just can't paint white to save my life. It will probably end up being a very light tan next time. Scales of Justice - Never been a fan of this model as there isn't that much you can do to make it your own. Still I like how easy it is to get it looking half decent. The Executioner - I hate the original sculpt that much that I refused to buy it to include in my crews. Then I finally found a photo of the alt sculpt and I fell in love with it. I've never painted that much flesh on one model though and it's sort of fell into the same boat as the Judges jacket. It'll do until I know I can do better. The Death Marshals - Fantastically easy to paint and stupidly awkward for me to build them up at the right angle so that they don't look stupid. Witchling Stalkers - I picked these up for a team tournament when I thought I'd need a harder hitting melee crew. Stupidly easy to paint and I just love the poses. I say stupidly easy to paint but I just remembered the eyes were the bane of my life for a few days!