Joachim

+1 For my lady justice crew, I work in red in every miniature somewhere, there are a lot of browns and greys in their clothing but then I use a turquoise/blue for the flame and i try and use this as an accent color. This ties the crew together but I still have a lot of freedom in color schemes. Especially for malifaux I like to work some bright colors into at least most models. Another example is this seishin. I looked up a lot of pictures of dragons. I then think about my entire crew going forward, I want to use a sort of ghostly green/blue color throughout my spirit models, this jade green is quite a strong color so I then think with what colors can I combine this to get a nice contrast but no clashing colors. An obvious combo is the bronze and jade, and I then made some contrast between the bronze and dark browns. That is basically the thought process. In some particular case though some elements of a model just give me an idea and I then alter the paint scheme around that. For example when I saw the artwork of the will o' wisps I immediately thought monarch butterfly wings, which has oranges and browns, I paint my neverborn crews with very natural colors browns and greens and some bright lime green as an accent, and this fits perfectly as well. And to conclude, an example of how using an accent color can give an otherwise bland paint scheme (trees are usually brownish, greyish, greenish) that little extra. And I believe the most important tips are to look at a lot of pictures and other miniatures to get inspiration and then just try things out and improve your skills.

After reading the wording again I agree that they do not use the wording after. I mentioned this because I play Titania and she can easily reduce damage to 0 and therefore prevent 'after damaging' triggers. But the same wording is not used here so I overlooked that.

I feel like the scheme pool is more important than what you bring to support him. But indeed, models that can make him take extra attacks can be extremely efficient if he is able to finish off a model that way. Also models that can give him an extra push can be really nice as he then gets an insane threat range. In scheme pools where the opponent will be dropping lots of markers you can potentially force him to pick suboptimal schemes or at least be wary of where they drop scheme markers. That, I think, is already very valuable.

Also the death marshal recruiter.

I think the brutal effigy is an auto-take, his (0) is crazy good, and even outside of that he is very good for his cost statwise. I also never leave home without a death marshal recruiter with lady J. I recently got my Jury, so I still have to try her out on the table, but she looks really strong as well.

I was able to finish datsue bah, It is the first time I've tried to do OSL. I'm really happy with the effect on the face, though I'm not entirely happy with the robes. Oh well, I'll leave it at this for the moment but I might revisit her later on. I also assembled the Jury. I have an upcoming game with lady justice next week so I'll field her for the first time. I'm not sure if I will be able to finish her though. And finally, for the same reason I'm working on my brutal effigy. It is still WIP, mainly the cloak shoes and hat still need to be painted.

@whodares knows him a lot better than me and he is also writing the guide on TT lynch. So it will be a good idea to check that out as well. I know lynch from playing against him. I find that two things are really good with lynch, models that can set lynch up to attack, saving lynchs ap to blow stuff to oblivion, aka emissary and yu. I as an opponent am more afraid from the emissary than yu, the emissary can get a double focus and with a severe of 6 (I believe) which is reasonably easy to get, so he can put a lot more hurt on your models. So after supporting your crew he can switch gears easily and provide some offense. Secondly, models that can abuse the ace discard shine with lynch. Enter 10t brother, these things are extremely annoying to remove and depending on the aces you have in hand can choose what effect they get from their zero action. Except for like burrying them in a pine box or attacks that bypass their main defenses these things can be quite the ap sink. I would almost always consider bringing 2 in scheme marker heavy scheme pools or at least one when you need to hold a certain area. The illuminated and huggy that come in the box are already very usefull (essential in huggy's case) so it looks like your set to start playing him already and get to know him. Consider yasunori if you're going to play 10 thunders, he's a real pain because of his combination of speed and damage output. His synergy with lynch is that you have multiple threats that you can not ignore (huggy, lynch, yasunori, even illuminated can hit very hard) so even if the opponent goes hard after lynch or paralyses him or whatever, Lynchs crew still has some major threats.

don't have the card here but 99% sure it is a peon.

I didn't finish datsue ba. I'm gonna leave it as is for the seishin for now. How much SS is the seishin worth? So that's doppelganger (7), primordial magic (2) and seishin for a total of 9ss + seishin SS.

That is an amazing looking crew man, you also managed to bring together a crew that consists in part of mercenaries. Well done!

Got the doppleganger (7ss) and the primordial magic (2ss) painted up at the start of the month as I had my first tournament on the 18th of november. So last couple of months I've been painting neverborn models. I'm taking a break from that for a bit and I'm going to finally continue with my kirai crew. This month I'm going for datsu ba and I'm getting started on the seishin. So for datsu ba I'm trying out OSL for the first time and it has been really fun (especially the blue ringed octopus!), but also time consuming. I'm posting a WIP here, and any feedback is welcome, she is mostly finished, I'm just working on the highlights on her clothes and the light effects. The seishin needs some minor details, I've tried out someting different as for color scheme, let me know what you guys think!