Mansions of Madness - Investigators

[Malebolgia]

My and my friends bought the big box of Mansions of Madness and we will be playing it for the first time next Tuesday (woohoo!). But playing with unpainted plastic is less fun than with painted investigators. So I speedpainted them: basecoat -> dip -> eyes -> bases -> done. Supersimple to do and effective results. The eyes were horrid to paint due to their size and the way they were sculpted.




The monsters will follow...but after me and my wife have moves to out own new Mansion of Madness

[Steve F]

Pretty good results from the paint-and-dip.  But the sculpts are a very mixed bag, aren't they?

[Bobble]

Nice looking figures and lovely paint jobs
What dip do you use? Is it the Army Painter Quick shade stuff?

[Malebolgia]

@Steve: Aye. The sculpts aren't very good. I do like the men...they are okay (although the guy with the two pistols has a very small head). The ladies are not very good IMO.

@Bobble: Jup, I used the dark brown color and the black color. I usually use them together to give different colors different shades.

[YPU]

One of the most effective dip jobs, I must say. Do you brush it on or do the dip n shake?

EDIT: and you post before me to answer me, well done sir well done.

[Nyogtha]

Got the game too.  Since opening the box I have been systematically replacing the most of the 'monster' minis in the game, apart from the shoggoths (after taking off those ridiculous legs) and the cthonians which I think are the better ones in the set.  The scale of a lot of the human figures is totally out of whack, the cultists and maniacs look especially strange at the side of the investigators.  The zombies have to be worst of the bunch, they look like happy stoner zombies, sporting a stupid grin on their face and appear to be waving!?!? Almost finished painting all the replacement 'monsters' (to the best of my ability at any rate ).  On to the investigators next, which although not great are still amongst the best in the box.  If it wasn't for the fact that they match the artwork pretty closely (although sister Mary looks like she has been repeatedly punched in the face) I would have replaced those too.

@ Malebolgia - nice job on those btw.  Love the bases (something I still haven't tried my hand at beyond pre-made resin ones).  Someone really need to cut the carpets in those creepy old mansions! 

[supervike]

Have to say, regardless of the dipping process, these are among the best painted versions I've seen of these.

[wellender]

Great jobs on the figures.  They look fantastic.  Has anybody had a chance to play yet?  I was thinking of maybe picking it and/or Arkham Horror up, but have no experience with these types of games.