AzuraRayume Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 All the images in my old thread are broken for some reason, so I'm gonna start a new one. I moved, and moving both killed a lot of my drive to paint and kind of destroyed a lot of my free time trying to get a new job and everything. I do have a friend who has been getting me to do craft things with her when we video chat every couple weeks, so I haven't exactly been inactive, just not as active as I'd like. It's also been too cold to prime minis for the past couple months, so a lot of things I actually want to work on, I can't beyond assembly. That said. There's uh... kind of a bunch. Most of the painted ones actually came from a miniature resale site that handles pretty much only Warhammer. But I really like Seraphon, and some of them have come in pre-primed, so I could paint them whenever I wanted. Four raptor riders (one fully painted), Seraphon Wardrummer, Skink Sun Priest, and Seraphon Oldblood. And the Carnosaur is fully assembled, but his saddle and rider are not. As for Malifaux minis, there's the Arcane and Carrion Effigies, Carrion and Mysterious Emissary, and the alt sculpt Rogue Necromancy. The base for the Mysterious Emissary is ridiculous, and he's not going on there until it's painted because otherwise I won't get to any of that detail, and the Arcane Effigy is the only one that's actually on a base. The only Malifaux mini I have left to build is the Mysterious Effigy, and I still have most of the Seraphon box I can put together. Anyway, here's a couple Seraphon photos I have from when it wasn't -1 F and snowing outside. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted February 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2021 It's terrain, not a mini, but I built a... fountain? I guess? There's no middle thing yet, but I might add one later. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engorn Posted February 20, 2021 Report Share Posted February 20, 2021 On 2/18/2021 at 8:52 PM, AzuraRayume said: It's terrain, not a mini, but I built a... fountain? I guess? There's no middle thing yet, but I might add one later. Idea taken from Black Magic Craft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted February 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2021 9 hours ago, Engorn said: Idea taken from Black Magic Craft? Yep! His tutorials are great, and I've ended up watching a lot of them. The inside walls aren't cut solid, though, since I didn't manage to cut them even; they're two layers of cut bricks with paper clay in between to fill the gaps. It makes a pretty good mortar, but it's kind of fragile when it's thin, so be sure to seal it if you use it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engorn Posted February 21, 2021 Report Share Posted February 21, 2021 It's an idea I considered to make it myself more than once. Maybe one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted February 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2021 It was warm at last today! I got several things primed, but this little guy was actually already based and ready to go. I still wanted to do something after changing my bike tire, so! A little Arcane Effigy! He uses the same blue and silver as the Arcane Emissary, and I Love using Vallejo Basic Skin Tone over a dark brown to make parchment color. I'm hoping I can make the other Effigy/Emissary sets match, but I am, uh... Very skeptical of the Mysterious ones working out that well. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 I do have a bit of a request. If you've put together a Malifaux table, what kind of things do you think are important to have scenery-wise to get the aesthetic for a game? I can sit around and make a whole bunch of terrain bits, but I don't actually know where to start. Mostly thinking of small scatter pieces since I don't have much of a workspace right now, but building styles and things would be great, too! Uh... you come here for miniature photos, so here's the thing I painted today. Which is the base for the Mysterious Emissary. Honestly this base is complicated enough to be a mini of its own. I added some gloss ModPodge to the insides of the plant mouths and over the little baby nephilim or whatever they are since they fell out of the plant mouths. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lusciousmccabe Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Looks good. Never realised just how Mario-ish those plants are before. What kind of environment are you thinking of for your table? The old (v1.5) rulebook used to have a great table for generating random terrain that was full of great ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 See, that's... part of my problem. I mostly want to play Neverborn, so it might make more sense to make a more wooded/ruins board. Concentrate on, like, broken walls and overgrowth. But the first crew I really want to build is The Dreamer, and he fits well in a city-scape, so maybe cobblestone streets and buildings and maybe a train station. But I think it would be really fun to put together industrial terrain, something like a mountainside mine or even full factory setting for crews like M&SU, and basically... I have plenty of ideas but no real direction, so it might be best to actually lean into that instead of a specific theme. Black Magic Craft on YouTube has these great modular dungeon tiles, 3"x3" most often. I think the best plan for the most usability (since I am a single person with many hobbies) would be to make just. A whole ton of these. Cobblestone, metal sheeting, wood planks, grass and dirt, water, all sorts of stuff. Have some of them, the ones with more solid/flat textures, be double sided to save on the number of these little things I have to actually store. It could make any kind of map I would need for anything people wanted to play as well as not being locked into a single game. If we decide to play physical D&D, we can build scenes on it. The problem, I think, arises when I try to figure out what the actual style of this game is, like. I don't know what types of buildings or scatter terrain make the most sense. Most tutorials and inspiration pieces I find are either dystopian sci-fi or medieval fantasy, and I'm sure some of those pieces would fit? But definitely not a lot of them. I'm looking at scratch built more than mdf/terrain model kits, too, since I'm more likely to get a few dollars for foam and glue and random bits for $.50 at the thrift store than however much for a box of parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lusciousmccabe Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Paved streets and brickwork houses/walls/ruins are solid options. Piles of barrels and crates also good. Corrigated steel is period appropriate and Malifaux was repeatedly colonised at different time periods so literally any architectural style from anywhere in the world up until the 20s is fair game. If you look on the terrain section here you'll find a bunch of ideas. I built this whole board using reclaimed materials, although I'd recommend going the scatter terrain route as it's more modular and convenient. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted March 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2021 Couple new things! First up, the finished version of the Mysterious Emissary! Actually a big fan of how his kinda dead browns contrast against the brighter greens of the base. And I maybe went... a little overboard on the foliage, but you know what? It looks nice. Wow, that's a big picture. Next is the guy I've spent a few days on: a Tzaangor Skyfire archer from Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Personally, I'm very proud of the magic effect on the bottom. This whole thing has so many little blends and highlights, but that magic has about eight colors I mixed in it. It looks starker in photos; in person, the blends are really subtle and nice to look at. I like it. He's very neon, very 80's, very awesome. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodemus Posted March 12, 2021 Report Share Posted March 12, 2021 I painted six of the basic Tzaangor last year. Pretty minis. Awful to paint. Yours looks good. Nice gloomy emissary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzuraRayume Posted March 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2021 @Nikodemusyeah, there's so many fiddly pieces on them. And the three I have came from a second-hand online blind box pre-assembled with plastic glue. I had to paint around the archer to get at all the filigree bits, which is why the mouth in the middle is a bit... lack luster for what I might have liked. The other two are primed, but seeing as how this one took me two days of hobby time to get to this point, I don't know when I'm gonna touch them. I do love them, though. Something about vaguely birdlike demons in shock rocker colors is really appealing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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