Colette's Crew - Update

Some progress with Colette's crew. The top picture are the final mechanical dove, Cassandra, and performer. I touched up the metallics with some gloss to give them their shine back. Colette's Avatars have been primed and the beckoners that I'm going to use as performers have been assembled and primed.

The Rest of My Malifaux Gencon Acquisitions

The final pieces of my Gencon Acquisitions. These are two orders, so there are two more Miss Terious and two of the tape measures. I haven't dug into the new book yet. I plan to use the beckoners as performers for Colette.

A bit of work for Colette. First her avatars (finally!). They were relatively easy to put together. Now just to paint them.... The other shot is the nearly finished minis that have been hit with dullcote. Now just to add a bit of gloss on the metals.

GenCon Acquisitions - Pt 1

The first of my GenCon Acquisitions from Wyrd. They also sent me a small keychain tape measure, which didn't make it into the picture this round as my wife claimed it as soon as she saw it! Two more packages to come, though.

Liquid Gold? Not quite, but nearly....

Something else that is hard for me to get a hold of. It is not sold locally and can't be shipped via air because it's compressed. There's nothing quite like Dullcote though. Many thanks to a friendly coworker that had a couple of spare cans for me.

Some Hard To Get Paints...

These are surprisingly hard to get a hold of and are rather expensive. Unlike the typical acrylic paints, these are alcohol based with actual metal flakes in them. They go on incredibly smoothly and look great, but they're also very hard to work with. Any water contact with them will cause them to tarnish, including the entire bottle if you make a mistake!

Birthday Presents From A While Back

I've been behind a bit. These were birthday presents from my parents, supplies for my works in progress. I'm looking forward to experimenting with the pigments, which I've never used before.

More Rasputina

The final bits of commission from Blue Table Painting. The clear resin guys in the front were assembled by me, as was Snow Storm and Rasputina, but all the paintwork is done by BTP. I think they did a great job, particularly on Snow and Rasputina's goggles look great.

Ramos by Commission

Some more commissioned work from Blue Table Painting. Love the look they got on these guys. The spiders are magnatized so they can be individuals or a swarm. More photos in my Photobucket Album.

Kaeris Box Set Completion

Another Blue Table Painting commission. The Kaeris Box Set. I think they did a great job on them and I love the goggles on all of them and the hair on the female gunsmith. I think Kaeris came out really well and like the slightly darker skin tone that most models have. They made the bases themselves as well. I think they work nicely with the fire theme. More photos and angles in my Photobucket Album.

Wyrd Easter Collectors Figures

While I was having Blue Table Painting working on some of my other models, I decided to go ahead and have them paint up my Wyrd Easter Collectors figures from this year. I do actually have a basic gremlin crew (that I didn't paint myself), so I was able to add these in with it. BTP only did the work on the two individually pictured figures. More photos can be found in my Photobucket album.

Commissioned Work For Colette's Crew

The two Corphyee and the Mechanical Rider I commissioned Blue Table Painting to work on. I think they came out great. More pictures can be found in my Photobucket album.

Colette Crew Status

Above is a picture of the part of my Colette crew that I've painted as it stands. Today, I did some work on it and hit the finished models with some dullcote. After that dries, I'll make another pass with some gloss for the metal bits of them.

Wendigo

The wendigo was fairly easy to setup, though it did take a bit of experimentation to place him on the base in a way that would make it easy to work with in the future.

Rasputina's Ice Pillars

An essential part of any Rasputina crew are some ice pillars. You could use just 50mm bases to represent her pillars, but a far better option are Battlefield in a Box's Ice Crystals. I grouped a few of them onto bases to make fewer, but more dense, formations. I also did a fair bit of cutting and filing on the one that was meant to lay down flat so that it could be tilted over and fit on the base better. Unfortunately, I didn't pay close enough attention to the count, so I ended up with seven (pillars come in pairs). Ahh, well.

Some More New Arrivals

Another set of miniatures came in. A little bit of everything really. The ice crystals will be mounted on 50mm bases for Rasputina's Ice Pillar ability.

Snow Storm Assembled

I pinned together Snow Storm and their base. I still need to use some green stuff and fill in the arm joints. Unfortunately, they didn't fit together quite as nicely as I'd have liked. Overall, it's not bad, but there are gaps where there shouldn't be.

Mannequin - Armed

I finished pinning up the arm of the last mannequin.

More Rasputina Crew Assembly

I decided to take a break for a little bit from painting and get a bunch of models assembled. Since assembly can be a bit messy, I try to only do painting or assembly. Doing both at the same time can mess up the paint jobs. So, for a bit, I'm assembling.

 I finished pinning up Rasputina's right hand and the Ice Golem. They'll both end up on fancy bases, but for now are one just the standard ones.

Yet Another.... Kaeris

While picking up the Rasputina bits, I couldn't help myself and I added Kaeris' starter box to the cart. She just looks great and I think would be fun.

Other New Arrivals

To go along with Rasputina, who you saw earlier, I needed some more for the crew! Here's Avatar Rasputina, and Snow Storm. I also added a Mechanical Rider for Colette's use. Also present... the Wendigo, December Acolyte, Silent One, Ice Gamins, Hoarcat Pride and Ice Golem.

Another Crew?! Yes, Rasputina

I convinced my wife to give Malifaux a try.  As part of that, I had her chose a crew that she would be interested in, so that she had at least a little investment into trying it out.  She chose Rasputina, so here's Alt Rasputina being pinned together before painting.