madaxeman

Very clever

Testors Dullcote usually gets the most votes when this topic comes up on other miniature gaming forums. It's my varnish of choice, spray can ahead of paint-on but I'm not sure if there is an airbrush version.

Exorcist Proxy... but this one has a shotgun, and also a bit of Billy Bob Thornton's character from Fargo about him as well - both of which probably make him a little more dangerous! More on my blog. I've also set up some pages that regularly scrape together the UK ebay listings of Malifaux stuff, all sorted by faction - might be easier than doing searches .. tim

The Blessed of December is fairly pokey model, and is also a Marcus-friendly Beast to boot. But the artwork in the Crossroads book is a bit, erm, inconclusive, and as far as I can see the official figure isn't out yet. It also looks like it might have the same sort of easily lost or breakable antlers as the Jackalope when it is. So, in the meantime here's a stonking great hairy purple Yeti with a very bad attitude.

I think you're right - although once I get a coat of wash on them they may well improve a little! These pics were meant more for showing some proxies for models which either aren't really available, or which you can only get in a boxed crew set.

Home-brewed Mobile Toolkit (Ground Zero Games 15mm Walker, + Crooked Dice Repair Drone) Home brew Brass Arachnid proxy, GZG Spider Drone with added buzz saw blade glued in between what is supposed to be twin guns. The buzz saw disc is two 15m ancient shields glued together, and then "serrated" by just using a stanley knife to make a series of cuts into the edge of the joined discs.

Aaah - riflemen - clue is in the name ! Anyway, I picked up what I think should be some nice proxy figures for these guys (with both sorts of weapons... bu no guitars!) and I'll try and give them a coat of paint at the weekend and see if I can post some stuff up

I'm also thinking Gunsmiths & Guild Riflemen..? Add a guitar and Sue is probably also sort of cowboy-like (although the appeal of adding a gun to an Elvis figure with a guitar is hard to resist for some reason, even though it does blur those musical genres rather a lot!) Anyways, good feedback - basically a few proxies are OK, but don't take the p-ss ! I guess there are also caveats for proxying where the actual figure is OOP in metal and not yet available in plastic? Would the fact that a figure is (now) only available in a box set make proxying more reasonable as well?

OK - so do tournaments generally frown on (or disallow?) proxy figures? The reasoning behind the question is that I'm coming into Malifaux from a historical gaming background in which there are no "official" figures, and where "morphing" figures to use them in multiple armies is very normal, and where sourcing unusual figures is almost seen as a badge of honour, so I don't want to suddenly find that I can't use some of the proxy figures I've lined up. Don't get me wrong, I love the Wyrd figures, I've bought far more than I intended, and some of my historical gaming mates have said that they think my painting has really moved on a level with the Malifaux figures I've done...which I put down to the figures themselves. However there are also some very lovely figures out there from other companies (especially when it comes to generic blokes with hats and guns) which I'd like to find an excuse to buy and use too!

Flicking through the rulebook and Crossroads it struck me how many crews seem to have either henchmen, characters (ie rare minions) or generic minions with pretty similar looking artwork - basically a sort of cowboy/gangster type of bloke in a long coat, fedora hat and either a rifle or a pistol or two. Given that this is either a lot of cash to spend just to buy a lot of very, very similar figures, or possibly an opportunity (as they are all basically baseline human cowboy types) an opportunity for some interesting proxy models, is there any consensus out here on the viability of using the same set of figures, either Wyrd or not, interchangeably in various crews? Or, alternatively, are there any "specific to that minion/crew/faction" painting styles, or other basing or design cues that need to be followed to make some of these "blokes in hats" particularly distinctive?

That really is amazing - are you able to share how you got that effect ? is it layers of washes, drybrushing or something else ?

As I've already got two metal Ramos (Ramosses..? Rameii..?!), a metal Howard and plenty of metal spiders (which I think will be a lot more robust than the new plastic ones, and which are easier to magnetize) I have been puzzling how to get hold of a Joss proxy... and this is the guy I've settled on, having seen the suggestion elsewhere on this site. He's from the Reaper "Bones" plastic range, and is technically called "Goldar, male barbarian"... but with some gunmetal and brass muscles and pretending his left arm armour is actually a mechanical arm I think he's not a million miles away anyway. And here's metal Howard The figure ended up being "pinned" through all 4 joins between legs and body (saucer?), and even so I still had to use some 2-part metal epoxy to get a good bond. With the points of the legs not really providing good anchor points to the base I ended up with two of the legs overlapping the main base, so I had them puncturing the lip of the base - which gave a much better grip anyway to mount the model on the base. He's also got a bit of railway on the base to tie him in to my very simple Mei Feng scheme. I might go back and paint the eyes someday, but in a lazy attempt at a post-hoc justification I may claim that this "Rutger Hauer Blind Fury" look isn't too out of character either

Yeah - three at a time is rather different to a whole army of hundreds...!

You win

Here we go - some WiP pics of the new Waldgeist 2.0 models: Basic black spray. I left the guy with the skull under his foot off the base so I could paint it more easily after undercoating, but normally I like to base the models before spraying black This is the black undercoat, with a drybrush of German Field grey (which is quite green) Here they are, after a Peat Brown ink wash, plenty of other drybrushing coats (including GW Graveyard Earth, which I always find to be a good "wood" colour" and also some highlights in a lighter green). I've added some clump foliage to the branches that "fell off" some railway trees I've got kicking around. Then, with static grass, some tufts of grass and a couple of clump foliage bushes added to the bases, which have also been drybrushed. Part way through some of the very thin arms did come off those on either end of the line, so I glued them on again at a different angle to the way they are supposed to be - this means I could get 2 anchor points (usually elbow and thigh instead of just the thin elbow) to make them more robust. The clump foliage hides the less-than-perfect joins at the elbows that result. Fairly "frutti di bosco" I feel..

Pricing on their blog http://www.plastcraftgames.com/blog/?p=310

Willie. A fairly hefty model that apparently attaches to it's (50mm) base by the toe-end of the sole of one single foot, and the rim of an, erm, 5mm diameter wheel. May as well have cast it with a hole in the bottom of the wheelbarrow and the 50mm base to accommodate the metal pin. However, one of the three Canine Remainsmodels appears to be designed to be in mid-leap. No attachment points at all !

Hmmm.. interesting. I guess I could try German Uniform Grey, as that's kinda my go-to grey/green colour...

Just undercoated three of these from the new box, and I've got a couple of questions for the forum 1. What colour will they work best as do you reckon - they could be "green", or they could be "wood-coloured" ... and if so, potentially you could also stick foliage onto them, which could be neat, or could be really sad. I'm not sure on any of these... 2. These models are supposed to be picked up and played with as gaming pieces? Like, really...? That one on the left with what are literally twigs for feet ...? Come on - surely that model will struggle to survive being placed into a foam packing case without bits snapping off..? Or am I being pessimistic.. ?

Thanks! The Razorspine was really simple - a white undercoat (all the rest I use black) and then Windsor & Newton Viridian ink, finished off with a coat of ArmyPainter varnish & stain. No actual "paint" was used other than for the tongue and teeth. All the basing is just normal sand glued down, painted black and then drybrushed in light grey and bleached bone.

Molemen (new plastics) - black undercoat, drybrush of a dark green and then the "spots" picked out in a deep red before the varnishing. The claws are GW Bleached Bone, now called something more ridiculous like Ushabti Bone.

After rolling out my Mei Feng crew, I had a painting blitz and have ended up with Marcus and Ramos rather fully staffed up in fairly short order.. The full set of photos is online on my blog here but here are some snapshots too: Cojo Razorspine Rattler Sabretooth Cerberus Rogue Necromacy (metal) Large Steampunk Arachnid Ramos (Alternative, metal) Steampunk Aracfhnid Swarm (with rail debris)

aaah - thanks - found it! Got word blindness - mine is a 'steampunk' large arachnid..

apologies for practising thread necromacy (in an Arcanist thread!) however can someone point me to where the stats and cards are for this model in 2.0? I cant seem to spot them in the 2.0 rules, and they aren't in the 2.0 Wave 2 arsenal deck either...?

ok - so there are at most 2 on table at any time