Malifaux Insidious Madness set painted

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Trying my hand at some of the plastic Malifaux figs, starting with the Neverborn Insidious Madness models.  These usually tend to get bright, colorful paint jobs, probably because the Dreamer (one of the Neverborn masters most likely to use them) is a little kid and even his nightmare playmates are like to be a little cartoony looking.  The sculpts are actually pretty grisly and have a strong Chaos spawn / Lovecraftian horror vibe though, so I've gone with a darker, more ghastly color scheme.  Pandora tends to use these things too, and she isn't the type to go with garish colors.  Realistically they're pretty good models for any crew needing a cheap, highly mobile piece to run schemes, or one that's playing with willpower attacks, so most Neverborn masters can make some use of them.

Three unique models, which I'll call Tubby









Skinny







and Big Mouth







All three models come in an insane number of pieces for no discernible reason, and are quite a pain to assemble.  The need to avoid undercuts on injection-molding sprues is vital, but some of the design decisions are just nonsense.  Neat designs, lousy moldmaking.