Harlekin

7 hours ago, Butch said:

I wouldn't call this lazy. To paint a stucture like many litte feathers drybrushing can be the right technique for the task.

While you are right, I still call it lazy. As the moment arrived where I had to decide if I choose 2000+ strokes or 5 minutes of drybrushing - I just picked drybrushing. Not that this wasn't the wiser decision but I will never learn how to properly paint feathers if I never do it... 

If I started with putting more effort into painting this particular model from the very beginning I probably would have done otherwise. 

But overall the outcome is decent enough and in a busy month I tend to be forgiving towards my own painting stuff. 

Thanks for the heads up, anyways. I always appreciate this. 

20 hours ago, Maogrim said:

15 subpar Stones done.

Don't be too critical about it. While you can do better, it's still a decent paint job and the hair indeed is great.
Shading and highlights also are just on spot. More transition would have been nicer but it's a great gaming piece, aynways!

Aaand the next and last Order Initiate: 

It was a bit rushed but the next 6 Stones are done for this month's challenge.

And the next one. Not my best piece of work but okay-ish. 
I have to confess that I was a bit lazy and used drybrush on the wings. 

So, something non-Undead, again: 

I'll get back to Rezzers after the third Order Initiate. Redchapel is in need of some Dead Dandies.

It's not much for a sunday, but here is my second Order Initiate for 6 Stones. 

10 hours ago, Maogrim said:

Sure you didn't hand one in for March? We're in April already...

I'm talking about April, of course.

Shame, @Maogrim. I always enjoyed your shared pics a lot.
Anything we can do to keep your motivation going? 

I have to confess that I didn't finished any model either so far. But I will try my best to at least fullfil my pledge for March. Wanna join, @Maogrim? Would be a pleasure and an honor.*

* consider it a polite kick in your butt. 

10 hours ago, astapable said:

Crushed images(

Schtook WAS competitive until errata)

The errata not only destroyed Von Schtook game but als pic wise 😥

On 4/22/2021 at 5:44 AM, astapable said:

Still trying to jump into my painting rhythm, but my job absorbs all of my free time

I feel you. Crossing my fingers that you find time and motivation to be back on (painting) track again.

10 minutes ago, Nikodemus said:

Lovely work on the acolyte. It's a fun core box to paint.

Gotten anything more done on the painting front after march? 

The miniatures in the box indeed all look very promising. I am a bit afraid of touching Myranda due to the many transitions in color and textrure I am planning/willing to try. 

It was a busy month so far. But I plan to finish the other two Acolytes this weekend. Cross your fingers for me, please.

On 4/21/2021 at 12:29 AM, admiralvorkraft said:

What role does each one play? They all do a slightly different flavor of hang-out-midfield-being-kinda-tough-and-killy. 

 

- Doxies are bonus movement and Anti-Focus + tank

- Belles are Lure (hooray) + WP attacks in close combat + tank

- Dandies are anti-scheme + tank

- Mourners are card hungry if they are meant to do something + tank 

The main issues is what @Maniacal_cackle mentioned: all those Redchapel Minions only in theory do anything within Keyword (Why, hello love + Redchapel Killer). They prevent some scoring for your opponent while in most games they have hard times to score you points and Seamus is somewhere else doing stuff (killing or scoring). anyways. 

8 hours ago, admiralvorkraft said:

For the record I don't think that Redchapel is actually bad, it's just that their minions are all basically identical. If I were to change anything about the keyword it would be to give each minion a more defined role rather than being "the same thing with higher/lower numbers."

Are they? 
Those 4 minions already are totally different:

- Dead Doxies with Take by the Hand for extra Movement + the awesome Regret Trigger

- Rotten Belles with their Lure +  on damage counting as 

- Dead Dandies for eating Scheme Markers or Corpse Tokens to create Scheme Markers or Corpse Tokens

- Mourners with anti Ruthless Tech and On Your Heels Trigger plus a bit of healing

They all do different stuff with their Actions. But they still lack. Imho it's mainly the lack of movement to keep up with Seamus himself. They just don't synergies this well with their Master. 

1 hour ago, ooshawn said:

Do y'all plan on doing a campaign book for this edition? 

Of course, there has to be one (please, pretty please)!

6 hours ago, doubleW said:

night Terrors

NTs are balls! The concealment alone and the Negation Aura alone makes them worth their points versus some crews. 

6 hours ago, doubleW said:

Was wondering if you have some cases where you love to pick the forgotton marshal

 

I am not as much an expert as @Maniacal_cackle but had some nice success with the Forgotten Marshal and the Rabble Risers.
When I expect to be on the receiving side of some heavy beating, I tend to bring the Marshal. Throughout a game he has considerable chances (10 of is enough for Risers, with Molly's card draw) to bring 3-4 new bodies for the enemy to chew on. 
My favorite summons are Rabble Risers. Depending on your hand/ressources you should be able to get some focus on them with summoning and they always are a threat the opponent can't ignore. They aren't this frightening per se but a big enough threat to leave them untended. 
The Marshal can even soften the target up before the Riser then charges it to make it even more a threat. 
With Molly around a Rabble Riser can dish out 5 attacks after being summoned: Charge + Flurry, then Constructive Critisism for another 3 attacks (even more with right positioning and cards for the Quick Reflexes Trigger) - best case scenario would be 4 of those 5+ attacks with focus. And all of them with the Critical Strike Trigger. 

In most cases I am totally fine with my opponent throwing relevant actions at my summoned 6 Stone Rabble Riser. 

I have to confess that I close to never hire a Rabble Riser, though and I mostly bring the Marshal because I really like his theme and miniature and he surely won't win you a game. I consider him (including his summons) a quite nice speed bump which creates opportunities and time for my winning models to do their stuff. 

To overexaggerate with simple maths: if he only summons a single Crooligan in a game he (kinda) costs me 3 Stones - I consider it a deal. 

1 minute ago, muraki said:

So what you're saying is... you'd trade it all for cheaper shipping

Not for cheaper shipping. Never ever. But if we're talking about more Wyrd miniatures... you got me thinking, now. 

On 3/30/2021 at 10:54 AM, Caedrus said:

Paint a single Malifaux miniature in the month of April, using only one brush

If it really was a Highlander challenge wouldn't it have to be: Paint a single Malifaux miniature in the month of April, using only one head? 
So, no spare parts or brain-in-a-jar for us Rezzers. 

1 hour ago, muraki said:

Forget you international people, us us folks also want extra puppets

Yeah. That's the bonus for you US people. You can get them for nothing. 
Else, you'd have to spent ~5 scrip for shipping for each sprue. While it's ~30-50 scrip for shipping for us non-us people 😭

On the other hand, most of us get something like real health insurance and at least some state welfare (aka socialism), so that's that ^^

Looking forward to order moar stuff 💸

Will this be implemented in the shop? Pretty please... Shipping is a thing for us non-US wyrdos 😟

43 minutes ago, Maogrim said:

Those are some sexy abs! And I love the coral snake color scheme on the tail!

Thanks. 
And yes, being an Order Initiate obviously includes a very strict workout routine. 

Well, it's still painted Malifaux miniatures but I was in the mood for something more weird than mere undead humans, so I started to get some progress with my (started but) unfinished projects.

Here's the first Order Initiate: 

2 hours ago, Caedrus said:

Paint a single Malifaux miniature in the month of April, using only one brush, of size 1 or greater.

Um... Where's the challenge?

No, really, everybody who hasn't done yet get yourself a good brush (most 10$+Kolinsky Sable brushes should fall in this category, I mostly use Windsor&Newton Series 7 long and Raphael Series 8404 (prefer Series 8408 over the later)) (see here for example: https://www.fauxhammer.com/top-10/top-10-best-brushes-for-painting-miniatures-2019/#The_10_Best_Brushes_for_Painting_Miniatures_Wargames_Models or here: https://tactilehobby.com/best-paint-brushes-for-miniatures/).

I really improved my painting to the next level when I switched from GW and cheapish to good brushes and I nowadays use a single Raphael 8404 size 2 for almost everything. If you have a good brush, you can do details way better than with any cheap 10/0 brush as the tip of the brush is by far better and the bodyis still able to keep some color for actual painting (compared to just stippling with those cheap brushes). 

I'm not playing Arcanist as a main faction atm but I tried to bring Raspi for a few times recently because I love her theme and models. 
While the Acolytes look good with Tools For The Job and a nice gun with movement trick on triggers, they don't really add much for the crew. They don't offer much synergies (more options for Slow, though) but the competition is just too much for them. They are 1 Stone more than Silent Ones and those just are a huge help for Raspi herself. 

So far, I didn't find a lot of legitimate reasons to bring one (not even talking about two or even three). Shame.