Antinea

19 hours ago, R R said:

i wanted to buy the iconic a wild ride and it's not available, release date was december and lgs say it's not released. i'm trying to get Twisted Alternative: To Grandmother's House We Go and it's not available...i'm in France. shipping to France from wayland is 25€

For France, try this shop: https://levisuel.com/en/4-malifaux-m3e. I looked briefly and it seems the Iconic is available, but the Twisted alternative is out of stock.

They are based in Belgium (just at the border with France), and they ship within Europe. You can also find the guy behind the shop if you go to the french speaking Discord server for Malifaux. You can ask him when (more than if) he will reassort the Twisted alternative box.

EU distributors are not interested. Wyrd is a too small fry for them. Not worth the effort.
And, outside UK, I think there is only 2 EU distributors for Wyrd: one italian, can't remember who the 2nd one is. But they are not restocking frequently, despite being called on a weekly basis by some stores.
There used to be the company that is owning Wayland games, but since Brexit, ordering from UK is not only very complicated but also very expensive.

I have to say that I am quite disappointed with the new assembly guides published for the M3E.
I just bought recently the new Misaki core box and while most models seem easy to assembly I'm left a biy puzzled by one: Shang.

Apart from 3 pieces I had absolutely no clue how to assemble it. I then went to see the assembly guide. And I'm still not sure on how to assemble it. The new sculpture have all parts marked on the spruce. It shouldn't have take very long to put the numbers on the assembly guide to make things quite clear.

Am I the only one in this situation?

OK, for this month, I will try to do the Fire Golem from the Burning bridges box.
And, to buy back my last mulligan, finishing Elijah Borgman from the same box.

@Caedrus
Pledge for this month done. That's 15 SS for the 2 Viktorias from the M2E.

On top of that i also managed to finish my Alison Dade, 8 SS, to buy back one of the two mulligans i've used.

Maybe, with a little luck I will be able to finish my Elijah Borgman (found a special order with him), to buy back my second mulligan, but I doubt it.

OK, so pledge for this month is done. I finished my M2E Viktorias. Or more likely, I reached a point where the more I was trying to fix thing the more I was botching others, so better to stop before they were irremediably beyond any hope.

Now, I'm on a good path to finish Alison Dade, and M2E Taelor.

I can't help but notice that Wyrd has anticipated the Covid19 crisis. All these crooligans are wearing a face mask!
Not sure if they follow social distance rules, though.

OK, done all the basecoats on Allison Dade. Now I'm a the point where I will be botching all that job by doing highlights and shades.

I'm also progressing well on my M2E Viktorias and they should be finished by end of this week-end.

Due to lack of inspiration on my Basse crew on June and a disaster sticking late in July I had to take my two mulligans.
This month I will finish my M2E Victorias (the Masters only, rest of the crew has already been done).
Then I will try to buy back my two muliggans by:
1/ Finishing that bloody botched Elijah Borgman
2/ Finishing M2E Taelor

After that I think I will focus on the Colette crew for several months as I have some inspiration for them (I love saturated colours and artists are made for these)

EDIT: well after careful examination, my Elijah Borgman is really too damaged to be worth anything. I will try to find one on the 2nd hand market but I'm not optimistic. To replace him, I think I will do a spare Alison Dade that I just got.

It seems there's another bug. I've put for $235 (Jakob Lynch core, Von Schill core, Malifaux 1988 and Ancestral Icons) of product in the basket and after updating it says only 1 Miss Guided

31 minutes ago, Nikodemus said:

Ouch, that looks rough.
Any idea what caused the issue? How did you apply the varnish? How long did they dry between coats?

I think they are several parameters at play, materials and process:
Materials: I used the Vallejo PU Gloss varnish as a 1st coat (no issue there) then the AK Ultra matt. Maybe a material incompatibility exacerbated by the processing issues.

Process: I used an airbrush. As the gloss varnish is very thick, I thinned it 50/50 with airbrush thinner. And, as I was told was OK, I applied the AK varnish about 40 minutes later (I was told 20 minutes is plenty enough), unthinned as it is quite fluid.
The paints themselves had plenty of time to dry. At least 48 hours and for that cape it was more than 1 week.

It seems I should have let the gloss varnish to dry at least 24 hours before applying the AK. Trouble is that I used the same process gloss then matt about 30 minuites later without problem but it was both Vallejo PU varnishes.
Anyway, the cape has been striped, re-primed, and re-base coated. I will do the highlights and shadows tomorrow. Maybe I will have time to do the touch-up to the areas affected when I stripped before end of month.

I was largely in time to complete my mini for this month, Elijah Borgman. Nearly everything was done except the metallics. So before doing them I decided to varnish the mini with a matt varnish.
So i did what was recommended to me:
One coat of gloss varnish (went OK and no issue) then one coat of AK Ultra Matt varnish.
And that where disaster struct.

I'm doomed. Everything I touched, painting wise turns to a disaster. No chance that I will be able to finish that by end of the month.. :((

Done a lot more trials

Yellows: Not even the Intense Deep Yellow. It was the Standard Yellow. Quite good coverage for a yellow.

And reds

I think I will have to use a mulligan this month. I've started my Basse crew, but I've got zero inspiration. So it drags, on an on, and I've started procrastinating.

On 6/4/2020 at 10:34 AM, theamazingmrg said:

If she's the Master of the Spelleaters (in noway confirmed!) and Asylum Keyword, that would make her a very Guild-centric Explorer's Master (as the Spelleaters are definitely Witch Hunter Keyword).  As a Guild player I'm completely down with that, of course 😉

Unlikely to be Guild. There is already a Guild/ES master and it is Basse.

On 6/4/2020 at 12:51 PM, Dirach said:

If the Asylum and Half-blood theories are right the keywords could be, 

Frontier
Wastrel 
Apex
Umbra
Syndicate
Seeker
Halfblood (not confirmed)
Asylum (not confirmed)

The first 6 is more or less confirmed, but there could be masters with two keywords like Lucius (Elite/mimic) and Sonnia (Witchhunter/witchling).

Frontier and Wastrel are confirmed as the Basse crew and McCabe crew are available. The other 4 are indeed, more or less confirmed. For Apex we have the artwork for the crew plus Lord Cooper's pet. For the other one we only have snippets here and there.

Well for this month, I will try to do the Basse core box, so that's:
1/ Cornelius Basse for 15 SS
2/ Jonathan Reichart for 10 SS
3/ Frontiersman (and woman) for 3*5SS= 15 SS
4/ Bernadette Basse for 2 SS
So a total of 42 SS

Not sure yet how I will paint them, will probably end up a symphony of browns and greys with a dash of red here and there.

June Challenge - 3 Fave Paints

I'm too new to painting to give really the paints I'm always goes back too but I love these:
- VMC Violet: a really deep, saturated violet
- AK3rd Gen Oxford blue: some people like the Dark sea blue as a deep blue, I prefer this one for its purplis undertones instead of the greenish ones of the dark sea blue
- Not really a paint, but an ink: Daler & Rowney Payne's grey, a nice dark grey with blue undertones that goes extremely well onto metallics, especially steel and gunmetal

I know it's a bit late but finish my Lilith, mother of monsters box. So, 38 SS total

Next month will be the Basse crew box, but I don't have the paint scheme yet. I think they will end up with a symphony of browns and greys.

@Caedrus Unfortunately I didn't finish all I said I would do, but 2 out of the 3 remaining isn't bad at all, especially as Lilith is 95% complete.
So here there are; Barbaros and the Cherub for a total of 9 + 2 = 11 SS. I still nee to base Barbaros, but that's a small job. Cherub will wait until I can get my hands on a small transparent plastic rod.

@CaedrusPartial update but I've finished the 3 Terror tots, for a total of 12 SS
I'm still on schedule for finishing Barbaros, Cherub and Lilith by end of the month.

It fits very well with the Umbra keyword we have seen for the Explorers society. But I can't remember which card it was

Time for me to go to a bigger challenge: painting faster. So this is what I will be trying to paint this month: The Lilith 2E crew (38 SS)

Not sure what I will do yet. On a mini painting there's a sort of challenge to complete at least 5 pieces with a single theme. So doing a core box could be a good idea. I'm hesitating between Basse, Nellie and Youko.
That said painting 5 minis in a month will be a huge challenge.

@Caedrus Airbrushing.
I found out that I am way better with an airbrush than I am with a standard brush.