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WIP after today's work on the Hooded Rider. Really enjoying this model, while at the same time feeling like it's taking forever to make noticable progress due to all the details.

27 minutes ago, theamazingmrg said:

Variations of them all in black suits with hats and sunglasses? 

It's 106 miles to Malifaux. We got a full Fate Deck, half a cache of Soulstones, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it!

Really though, I just want some horns. I don't even care that they'd inevitably be a 17 piece trombone and trumpet, and a sax where you have to attach the individual buttons.

I'd love to see the Crossroad Seven as a blues band instead of a rock band.

Quick update on my end: Flying piglets are pretty well done but for some basing and deciding if I want to green stuff them some pirate hats. Bad Juju just needs better eyes and a touch up or two on his water effects. I'm stepping up my lighting work on the Hooded Rider and pretty pleased with it so far.

Thoughts?

I seriously can't say enough how much I hope a future Toni sculpt does a similar style.

This is amazing.

For July I'm filling in a few holes in my Gremlins, and ramping up to go hard into Neverborn after GenCon.

Redoing a metal Bad Juju I've had for a minute, to give him more of a rising-from-the-swamp feeling. Then, a few flying piglets, another Gatreaux Bokor and maybe a Bayou Smuggler and Gracie, with Hinimatsu and the Hooded Rider coming in for NB, and 2 Mecharacnids so I have them available should an urge to break out my Arcanists hit.

Total Pledge: an unrealistic amount of Soulstones.

This is a great write-up! I've only played Mei a couple of times so far and there were definitely a few little tricks I missed. Really looking forward to getting her on the table more this edition!

I'm definitely planning to update the previously pinned How To Colette post for M3E, just waiting for the official release to see if anything changes.

Colette's crew is surprisingly good at Idols between Don't Mind Me and the healing and movement shenanigans she get from Mannequins and the Duet.

Kaeris' crew also does well with board control from markers and healing from Firebranded.

To start this month, finally buckling down and finishing Izamu for my Resser friend, and getting Jack Daw's translucent box done for him as a birthday gift. Have some interesting ideas on how to make them...interesting.

@lusciousmccabe thanks! And very close, you spy one of the many stamps from happysepuku.

2 hours ago, dannydb said:

the issue i have Colette is the rest of her crew falls over to a stiff breeze and Colette doesn't do enough on her own to remedy this 

This is true of her minions, but the Duet, Cassandra, and Carlos can hold up pretty decently. And the minions can be swapped out for the much more durable versatile minions elsewhere in the faction.

3 hours ago, CD1248 said:

The only real DO NOT TAKE situations I can think of are Kaeris into Idols (crew too glass cannon-y to afford the strat's health tax) and Ironsides into Plant because of mobility issues.

Glass cannon, Kaeris' crew? The amount of fire they can get on themselves plus the healing from a Firebranded have made them as survivable as they need to be in my experience.

The Performer crew is very top heavy, meaning Colette, Cassandra/Carlos, and the Duet want to be in the limelight and draw the opponent's attention to allow their squishy minions time to run schemes.

That said, I've found myself not bothering with many minions except for a SS Miner with Magical Training, which also digs up more Soulstones to help your master and henchmen perform better and survive longer.

Oddly enough, with Mannequins, the Duet's pulse heal and Cassandra's ability to borrow those actions, this crew has a decent amount of healing built in depending on how it's built.

Barring some really weird tricks from opponents (Split the Soul shenanigans from Yan Lo I've seen, for example) I think we have a wonderfully varied tool box in our different Arcanist masters. Most can build crews can do most things in their own ways, and our versatile models (while not as bonkers good as some Thunders things) are excellent at plugging holes in various crew deficiencies if they play out of their obvious strong suit(s).

Love the new sculpts for Taelor and the Student!

April showers are being followed by...well, May showers, in my neck of the woods, so good painting weather continues 

I'll be doing some more Thunders odds and ends this month, mostly to make sure I'm set for MuseOn Con (which I highly recommend if you're within traveling distance from Iowa). Wanyudo, another Toakage, a Thunder Brother, an Izamu for a friend, and converting Cherri Bomb into a Samurai/Fuhatsu to fit with last month's Team RWBY Misaki. I don't have exact numbers on me at the moment, but I think that's 38ss.

(Also, @Caedrus I realized upon seeing you have me as an Unknown for April that I hadn't given a monthly today between my two waves of completions last month. All told it was 45ss).

Looking great everyone!

@Viruk thanks! I've always enjoyed conversion work, it's one thing I've found less reason/opportunity for in Malifaux over 40k (which is overall good, means the models are more interesting) but when I get a fun idea like this I run with it. Trying to get my hands on an Alt Ototo to add to the theme and conversion, but for next month I'll be adding a different option.

Thanks for the insight, Nathan! Loving the transparency and wealth of information!

Fantastic news all around! 

One question: any news on if there will be a small rulebook like for M2E? That was seriously the best thing ever.

@Franchute that yellow and weathering looks AMAZING!