Joachim

I agree with @4thstringer. I find the emissaries walk to be plenty, lj has a 9" charge threat range, 14" if you walk first. The marker placement comes up if the enemy indeed needs to drop markers.

About the lone marshal, I actually had some pretty good games with him. What is underestimated on him is that he pushes 10" and still gets a focussed shot off, if you think about that that's pretty crazy. He can be really nice to engage scheme runners on a flank, because he can still push around and get shots off, and push back in to engagement. Late game he can also be a good scheme runner cause he's pretty fast. He has a lot of competition from other models, but he has a unique move and in my opinion is a bit underestimated. I actually don't believe abuela needs a family crew to function. The combo with the emissary can be strong. After that she still has a no charge aura and a good shot. I agree that without using the emissary she has no real synnergy with the crew. I strongly disagree that the models I have don't combo together. I've always felt that jury and death marshal recruiter form a really strong duo to stand behind lj. Condition removal, heal, hard to kill aura, extra attacks on Lj. Plus there are a lot of chances to discard cards which basically makes the scales arcane reservoir +2.

Indeed, i actually only used riflemen once when i just got them. I just really liked the models.

Hello guys, I've decided to play lady justice in an upcoming tournament. It is a small event and a very uncompetitive scene, so it's more important to have fun and be a good opponent (though still trying to win games) for me. My pool of guild models is very limited and is more scewered towards cool and/or thematic models than the best fits with lj. I enjoy playing her though I don't have a lot of experience with her. My question: based on the models I own what kind of combo's are strong, are there explicit weaknesses, etc. I recently purchased abuela ortega and I was also wondering what anyone's experience is with using her and the brutal emissary to get lady j up the field. My model pool: Lj box obviously Jury Brutal emissary Brutal effigy Lone marshal Death marshal recruiters Executioners Abuela ortega Guild riflemen

I haven't been able to paint much the second half of the month, so I wasn't able to finish the bases on asura roten, gaki and ikyrio. So it will just be hooded rider and lilitu this month for 17ss total.

Sounds familiar @whodares? When did you order yours? About a year ago?

Thanks, it is a mix of skull white (all colors I use are from Vallejo) with leather brown and a very small amount of black to make a bit more greyish. I then used glaze medium to make some smooth transition from pure white on the ridges of the folds and a darker grey in the recesses to create a nice contrast. Finally I used german grey to stipple a darker grey brown from the bottom up, adding some more of this dark color in the recesses and some dark spots to create an extra dirty effect at the bottom of the robes. I then applied a watered down sepia wash and i carefully wipe it off with a cloth to remove it from the ridges.I also let quite a bit of wash collect in the recesses. So breaking some normal rules of painting which is fun :). Can't remember which bottle exactly, but we drank a bottle of casillero del diablo recently, I think that that's from chile?

I'm on a roll and I'll post a last wip this month. I guess trying to get a new crew/faction ready for the table is a great motivator for painting (I'm trying to only put painted models on the table from now on). The gaki I've painted similarly to Ikyrio and they've turned out to be really fun cause you can just slap some paint and washes on them to get that dirty effect. The appear more yellow on the picture than they actually are though. Need to finish details on the skin, and the bases, I'm going to mount the third one on a fly base. Asura is coming along nicely, mainly sticking to the artwork color scheme with some slight variation, working in the jade green to fit her in with the seishin. It's the first time I'm painting dark skintone and I've watched several tutorials first, but I'm really glad with how the color turned out.

@Franchute grats on the bright colors and contrast. The effect on the spiders eye is outstanding.

Thanks, I was trying out some stuff, and actually painted the belly in leather brown. Then I applied several very very light drybrushes of a bright gold and it gave a cool effect. The seishin are miniatures that allow you to do some different stuff, they have a cool feel to them. For the eyes it is actually quite simple, i paint the eyes with white where I want the glow to be brightest, then apply nihilakh oxide, and i then come back with white where I want the glow to be the strongest. I'm also really looking forward to painting the gaki. It doesn't show very well on the picture but I painted ikyrio with browns, redbrowns and orange and red tones with very dirty spots, stipples and smudges with quite a high contrast. I then applied several sepia washes, it creates a very cool and creepy effect, which will fit the gaki very well. I can use the same technique for the cloth to make them fit in with ikyrio.

Got some more assembly and painting done. So after a tournament with neverborn I'm back to working on my kirai crew. The plan is to borrow some models from a friend and play with what I got for a while untill I get a better feel of what I want. I really like the aesthatic of the emissary, kentauroi, archie and necropunks so I'm probably gonna get these models eventually, regardless whether they're good with kirai or not. Though the emissary seems really strong with her. I currently own the kirai box ofc, gaki, datsu ba, hanged, asura roten. I can borrow Izamu, goyro, chiaki and yin. So this gives me plenty of hiring options and some summoning options. I have cheap summons in gaki and onryo, mediocre summon in goryo and an elite summon in hanged. This is my first summoner so I deliberately limit myself to a small amount of possible summons to first get a hang of what kirai does without overwhelming options. Now on to the hobby part: I've got my seishin mostly done. I have to clean up some details and finish the bases. I'm not sure how I will do the bases, I've tried to do some ghostly effects where the seishin come out of the ground but I'm still thinking about going through with this. Thoughts? I finished Ikyrio but I still need to paint her base. I went for a really dirty look on her clothes, using a lot of washes. I used nihilakh oxide for the glow on the eyes, which is a color I also used on the seishin eyes. I'm going to use this color to tie all of my spirits together. I also assembled my gaki and asura roten. I'm planning to magnetize the zombies on her base so I have the option to use them as mindless zombies or keep them on her base. Or take them off when they're summoned which will look cool on the table. The third gaki I will mount on a flight base, but I'm waiting for the putty to dry out in order to prime them first.

@Ludvig Absolutely true, you should probably hit something more than weak, but he can also flip high on prevention but then youre at least eating his stones.

I also think that lady j with the emissary and an obey is a good combo. If you name nico you can get + to damage and take 3 min 4 hits, probably bumping it to 5 or 6 cause youre gonna want to put your high rams and stones into this alpha.

I understand. Though its not as extreme here in belgium, its dark when i leave for work and when i get back in the winter, so i take my pictures in the weekend. A very good light source should also do thr trick indoors.