Cheetors Malifaux: Guild Executioner Finished

[cheetor]

Hi everyone

I recently came across a local Malifaux player and decided to test the waters.  I have finished my first five man crew and I am putting photos of them up on my blog over the next few days, starting with Judge:




I have only played a couple of games of Malifaux so I am still very much in the learning stages.  Below are a couple of shots of the games.





I have some more pictures and talk about this stuff on my blog if anyone is interested.  I will add the rest of the crew here as I get them photographed and posted up.

Comments and criticisms all desired if you get a chance

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

wow,nice start  will follow this with interests for sure!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

LIke the way you did the white color in the judge. Generally a great choice of colours on him.

[cheetor]

wow,nice start  will follow this with interests for sure!

Thank you.  Lady Justices crew (including the Judge above) is finished.  Next on the table is the Ortega crew.

LIke the way you did the white color in the judge. Generally a great choice of colours on him.

Thanks.  I used a little of that white and green on Lady Justice too, in an effort to visually tie them together.

I went through a six month painting slump last year and it really is amazing how much about painting miniatures I have forgotten.  I painted the Death Marshals coats before I painted the Judge and I approached them the wrong way, with inferior end results.

I am pleased with how the Judge turned out though, as I am slowly relearning/remembering some of what I have forgotten.

[leonmallett]

Like the Judge a lot! Great work.

You didn't choose to do him just because of your Dredd stuff, did you? being a Judge and all... 

[Hawkeye]

Nice! Really nice! That judge model is superb - very crisp painting, lovely smooth colours and shading/highlighting. I know nothing about Malifaux (other than liking the look and feel of the miniatures) but I'll be on my way to your blog now to find out more. Happy you're out of your painting slump - it happens to all of us, but this is a great return to form!
John

[white knight]

He looks very very good. Recipe for the white, green and grey please. 

[cheetor]

Thanks for the feedback guys.  Judge probably worked out better than any of the other figures in the crew, so I hope that the follows ups dont let it down too much.

You didn't choose to do him just because of your Dredd stuff, did you? being a Judge and all... 

Its slightly odd that that was how things worked out, but its just a coincidence.  I dont have a subconscious fetish for extremely right wing authoritarian figures.  At least, I dont think that I do...

He looks very very good. Recipe for the white, green and grey please. 

Thanks.  I dont have my painting notebook with me right now so I cant be certain at the moment, so I will put the recipes up later.

I dont use any very complicated techniques and I dont wet blend or anything like that, just hasty layering. I tend to avoid mixing complicated colours too: for me its all about getting the figures painted to above a certain standard, ready to game with so that I can tackle some of the other stuff in the lead mountain. I just layer with occasional hasty blurring of edges, if you know what I mean.

Recipes this evening.

[cheetor]

I have the rest of the crew photographed.





Not my very best work, but I am happy enough all the same.  More photos and info on my blog for anyone interested.

Feedback appreciated as usual

Recipe for the white, green and grey please. 

Sorry for the delay.  I currently paint with a pretty simple base coat everything, wash everything (usually Devlan Mud) and add an average of two layers on top of each colour approach.  Its all pretty straightforward, just reasonably thin layering, no complicated techniques.

Judges coat
GW Astronomican Grey
GW Devlan Mud
GW Astronomican Grey
GW Astronomican Grey/White mix
White

Often I would use Game Colour off white when painting something like this, but I went with a straight cold white for the Judge.


Judges scarf
GW Knarloc Green
GW Devlan Mud
GW Knarloc Green
GW Knarloc Green/Scorpion Green mix
GW Scorpion Green
Model Colour Flat Yellow/GW Scorpion Green mix


Judges gloves and trousers
GW Charadon Granite
GW Devlan Mud
GW Charadon Granite
GW Charadon Granite/Kommando Khaki mix
GW Kommando Khaki

I hope that that is some use.

[Steve F]

Lovely rich colours there, Cheetor.

[white knight]

Thanks for the recipe.

Naturally I don't have any of thsoe colours, but sounds like I need to break down and finally buy some of that devlan mud everyone keeps singing the praises of.

[cheetor]

Thanks for the recipe.

Naturally I don't have any of thsoe colours, but sounds like I need to break down and finally buy some of that devlan mud everyone keeps singing the praises of.

Devlan Mud isnt a magic bullet, but it is useful for prepping decent tabletop standard figures.  Covering a base coated figure in it shades the base tones while also defining the various areas quickly, a lot like "dipping" really but without the stigma   Its handy stuff.

[Hawkeye]

Saw Lady Justice on your blog - lovely painting. That's a great group shot as well. They've come together very nicely, and the gravestones look cool too. Are they the Renedra (spelling) ones?

Excellent! So, is this the end of your Malifaux project, or have our plans for 2012 now been derailed? I know mine would be!

[cheetor]

Saw Lady Justice on your blog - lovely painting. That's a great group shot as well. They've come together very nicely, and the gravestones look cool too. Are they the Renedra (spelling) ones?

Thanks.  One of the gravestones above is from the GW Zombie sprue, and the other two are Renedra, like the ones here:

 

Half of the LAF (me included) seem to have recently bought Renedra gravestones to go with one or two GW Garden of Morr cemeteries.  A full graveyard is high on my to-do list.

Excellent! So, is this the end of your Malifaux project, or have our plans for 2012 now been derailed? I know mine would be!

Plans for 2012 have been derailed a bit by Malifaux alright.  The small number of figures required to play plus access to a regular weekly game has made me switch priorities for a while.

I have Malifaux Ortegas primed and I am currently working on some other Weird West stuff.  Some of them should be finished over the next week or two.  I am also working on more post-apoc/Western/Malifaux terrain which I hope to have up an running within the next month or so.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Kitsune]

Superb Lady J!

Might have to put some pics of my own version.