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New month, new Malifaux Rat Which means... no pearly white teeth, @Caedrus And no sparkling green as well, because this time I would like to learn how to do proper OSL. The rat will be in the dark, lit by a torch somewhere in the distance. Wish me luck

I failed. BUT... not in the way you would think I simply used bit too much varnish so the model is currently shiny. From my experience - the same happend with Iggy - it will be OK in a month or two. I also moved and will have to figure out how to take photos since I no longer have my Poor Man's Lighbox available. Until I take proper photos, here is a single out of focus, overlit picture of my second - and oh so shiny - Malifaux Rat

Mid-month(ish) update: First two weeks of April I worked on Hamelin. I did some research on Pied Piper, felt inspired and wanted to try few ideas I had. After that I switched to my pledge for this month - Malifaux Rat, which is almost finished I will try to finish it this weekend and then again come back to Hamelin for the rest of the month. I would also like to create a thread about my Plague painting adventures so that I have everything in one place. I would really like to see this one through and its own thread would be nice

I like to listen to audiobooks I, robot by Isaac Asimov was the last one (really enjoyed it) and currently I am listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Not a potterhead, but they are very well narated by Stephen Fry If I am watching a video it is usually a gaming stream or a let's play video on YouTube. Sometimes painting tutorial. Not to learn though, just a background.

Since I no longer have a mulligan, I will pledge a Malifaux Rat again. The second Apostle of Blight. And in the meantime I might do a research on Pied Piper and start to work on Hamelin already mounted to a cork.

Thank you, @Nikodemus I am sorry, but I am not sure that I understand the question. The base is a Wyrdscapes - Sewers (30 mm) and the tentacle is smooth.

My pledge for the month of March finished If you would like to see few more photos, you can find them at my pseudoblog here at the forums Of Swampfiends and Men - Chapter 10 - Apostle of Blight I

Chapter 10 - Apostle of Blight I

Good news, everyone! I do not have to eat my hat... this month that is @Caedrus, I have finished the Malifaux Rat only yeasterday something after 10 PM. Later today I will post some photos And yes, unfortunately, that is actually the first mini I have finished this year. I have already started working on the next though

The Plague Cometh should cometh via post next week and though you might say that my pledge is truly weak, for the month of March I solemnly swear I will eat my hat, if by the end of this month I haven't finished a Malifaux Rat.

Unfortunately, I will not be able to finish my pledge for February, @Caedrus, and thus I would like to use my second mulligan. Work and family But! But I have already made some preventive measures so that it will not happen again I have ordered The Plague Cometh (Hamelin's Crew Box) and some Wyrdscape Sewer Bases. I mean... a Malifaux Rat is a 2 SS model after all Every month I will pledge a single Malifaux Rat and anything else will be a bonus

Now that we are in M3E Open Beta would it, please, be possible to confirm which model's Monday Preview is the one from May 21 - Mystery Monkey Mischief? Thank you

Me, a person with Wp 2, ordering Cyclops and Bultungins right after I came home from the first game with Euripides back in 2018: Me, a person that painted Voodoo Doll for well over a month, realizing that most of the modles with the Savage Keyword are 50 mm: Me, a person with Wp 2, hovering over Gremlins on Wyrd Webstore:

Thank you Thankfully the eye is quite large so it was a great opportunity to learn how to paint eyes in general. Here is the amazing tutorial that I followed - Arcane Paintworks - 6 Step Eyes by Meg Maples

My pledge for February is to finish the male Cyclops Here are some promised WIP pictures. The skin colour is going to be greenish blue with offwhite on belly, chin, inner thights and arms and buttocks. Knees, elbows and fingers are going to have red tint to make them visually more interesting and red mouth should draw attention toward the face Detail of the face. Still some work to do Chin, ears, ice "horns" etc. And here is how the ice on the whole miniature (and crew) is going to look like. The process is little bit time consuming but I feel like it is worth

"Everything sounds trustworthy, if you say it is an ancient Chinese secret." An ancient Chinese secret

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish my pledge (male Cyclops) this month and thus would like to use my first mulligen, @Caedrus. I hoped that I would be, but... The base and 2/3 of the model are already finished though I will post some WIP pictures when I get home tomorrow. The impact MPC had on me: I didn't switch to another model when I felt frustrated with the state of the Cyclops. I felt motivated to paint more. Things I would like to work on: Everyday find half an hour for painting - make painting a (nice) habit

Good lord, no I signed up as a Minion as well. That gives me freedom to paint whatever miniature I feel like My pledge for January is male Cyclops worth 8 SS

@misterfinn, thank you very much, I truly appreciate that 🙂 And yes, you are correct in both cases. "I can't figure out what color scheme I'm doing." I have a notebook where I write or sketch ideas, write "recipes" for colours, make notes and sometimes sketch colour schemes as well 🙂 Sometimes I use a bit of sprue as a "sketch model" as you called it. The real problem comes when I have to actually apply the colour scheme on a miniature. For example, if I am painting the skin blue and want the belly to be very light blue (almost bone colour), where is the colour supposed to start turning light? Where exactly do I place shadows and how dark are they supposed to be so that the miniature looks interesting? When to make a particular part of a model more interesting with a freehand and when it is too much so that it starts to be distracting and clash? Simply put, I lack experience and still haven't fully developed my own style 🙂 I look at photos of miniatures on painting blogs, CMON, Pinterest, art from videogames etc. (When I was painting Silurids I had a whole folder full of photos of frogs, catfishes, newts and such.) and make mental notes of what I like and what I don't and try to mimic it. "Dang, my technique sucked there so I'm gonna clean it up." I remember listening to an interview with a Golden Demon winner where they asked her what would she like to advice her younger self if she could when it comes to painting and she said something like: "Avoid perfection at all costs." 😃 Here is the first miniature I have painted - Young LaCroix. That was 4 years ago. I was so proud of those delicate, almost invisible shadows. LOL 😃 And here are two latest miniatures I have painted - Mysterious Effigy and Stitched Together. That was well over 6 months ago. @Nikodemus, you can't imagine how difficult it was to resist those Bultungins when I unwraped them as a christmass gift 😃 The actual miniatures look so much better the art and 3D renders on the box set. But... I did it 🙂 I am looking forward to painting them. I am taking all my painting stuff to my girlfriend's for the weekend. We were both working over Christmass holidays so we are very tired, she likes to lie in on weekends but I am actually crazy and wake up at 5 am every day no matter what, which means... 3 hours of Cyclops painting a day 😃 She also likes to take a nap after lunch, but there I have to serve as a pillow so...

Your advice then would be to finish the Cyclops and not to take the break I was talking about before 😕 Not... what I wanted to hear 😃 Probably what I needed to, though. Alright, I will give it a try 🙂 I will not start painting new miniatures until I finish the one I am currently working on.

@Nikodemus, I used to spend significantly more time watching various tutorials than actually painting and felt like I am doing something good. I was basically procrastinating 😃 I participated in this year's Monthly Painting Challenge and even though I was eliminated halfway through it taught me how to work on a single miniature until it is finished... more or less 😃 It is very difficult to resist new miniatures since I have Wp 2 and it's so tempting to switch to a new miniature when things aren't going well with the current one. This year I would like to paint more and actually finish Monthly Painting Challenge 🙂 I already bought new table and lamp so I can paint when I am at my girlfriend's and would like to learn to again paint everyday, even for half an hour.

I don't, @lusciousmccabe and unfortunately I don't believe it would help me. Me personaly, I mean. I don't have a lot of experience with painting (I think that I have painted no more than 10 models total) and thus almost everything is an experiment for me 🙂 This is how I would describe me painting the Cyclops: "Let's try blue skin. Looks OK, but what if it had slight green shade. That I like much better." "It's a little bit boring, what if I added some white on the belly, inner thighs etc. Good idea, terrible execution. Again, but better. Now I have overdone it, let's take it down a notch. Now it looks nice." "The blue is good, but it's missing something. What if I added red tone around knees. I like that, let's try that around ankles as well. That looks horrible, I have to repaint that. How about around toes. OK, that looks good." I would describe my painting technique as 'three steps forward, two steps back' 😃 I also constantly come back to "finished" parts, because with fresh eyes I see mistakes I haven't seen before. Luckily, when I come to something that I have already painted it's not so dramatic 🙂 Brown pelt of the loincloth, toenails (similar to bones), even though painting individual ice shards is time consuming it is at least similar to painting gems etc.

Thank you, @misterfinn 🙂 My girlfriend is giving me Bultungin Box Set as a christmass gift, so that kind of solves my Malifaux Identity Crisis 😃 I have been playing Zoraida almost exclusively for the last three years and decided that edition change is an ideal time to start something new. Euripides sounded cool and thus I bought Cyclops Box Set and started working on it, so that I have as much Savage (Euripides) models ready when M3E and Euripides' Crew Box actually come. Just to explain, I paint painfully slowly. To finish a single 30 mm miniature a month is a heroic performance for me 😃 I was like 20 hours in painting the male Cyclops and had 1/3 of the model "finished" when the MIC (Malifaux Indentity Crisis) kicked in 😃 I felt frustrated and wasn't sure if painting big models is for me. Currently the plan is to take a break from the Cyclops, paint one of the Bultungins, return to it and when I feel frustrated again repeat the process 🙂 The main problem is that every master has something cool - models, theme, playstyle - and at the same time none of the masters is perfect. How is one supposed to choose?! It's like with girls 😃

Am I the only one who has this... Malifaux Identity Crisis? 😃 I want to paint, but don't want to paint something that I am not going to play in M3E. I can't decide what I want to play in M3E, because the most important aspect for me is the visual one (since I spend much more time painting than playing actual games) and some masters are getting new Crew Boxes and new thematic models. I also don't want to buy model X and then, when M3E comes out, find out that it is now sold in a thematic Box Set (like an Encounter Box) with other models with the same Keyword. A sensible thing would be to paint some unfinished models which I already have, but... I can't bring myself to feel enthusiastic about them and to try to think of ways how to personalize them - create a custom base that tells a story for example or add some fun details etc. And at the same time I would like to have a running start when M3E comes and have few models already painted for the new crew 🤪 What are your plans for 2019? What models are you going to paint? 🙂

Both Abilities, Intuition and The Old Ways, also make you think very carefuly about the order in which you might want to do certain Actions or even what Actions you might want to declare. The Old Ways seems very strong, but as soon as you perform Damage Flip, Duel with Fate Modifier etc., you not only loose the opportunity to declare The Old Ways, the high card, or stack of high cards even, will probably get buried under cards that are not worth suffering 1 damage for. Also, as the game goes on and your opponent has kindly contributed with some of his very own damage, you might want to think twice what cards you want to recycle 😃 Euripides looks very fun and, most importantly, like a master that other, lesser, Factions will envy us 😃 Can't wait to see the rest of his Box Set 🙂 Might be different in M3E, @Kadeton, but currently the Red Joker doesn't have all the suits, it has one suit of the player's choosing 🙂 Jokers (Rules Manual, Page 12 and 13): The Red Joker has a value of 14 and a wild suit. When the Red Joker is flipped or played, the owning player must immediately announce which suit the Red Joker will be during the Action.