Spirits of Vengence

[Ratty]

Managed to get started on painting my Kirai crew after a lot of time fathing around scratch building Seishin and making bases. I started with the Gaki, I went with a really dirty feel to them, as they are meant to be semi feral Hunger Spirits.
I know a lot of people didn't like the models, but once I had them out of the packet they definitely grew on me. The pose on the right one is great, especially the flow of the robes. The left one has a really cool head, though the robes are a bit static. I've got another packet of them, I'm going to swap the heads between them, which will mean I will have to add cowling to the shoulders of the bare chested one to link in with the hood. I'm also planning to rock it back an extend the robes at the front to give it a bit different pose. I have a lot of ghoul arms from the Vampire counts range that look a similar size, some of them are holding bones which will fit nicely with the theme of the Gaki, also they have bent arms which will allow me to create 2 very different looking Gaki from these two.

(I apologise for the quality of pictures, I didn't have time to set up a proper rig, so the light is very directional which has has caused some glare on the varnish, also I haven't set up the camera quite right as my GF understands these things and I don't, so the depth of field is a bit short causing the blurriness)


[ More pictures at http://nezumi.me.uk/Malifaux/photos.html#Gaki ]

For the Seishin I went for a very fiery palette. I liked the idea of the Hitodama (fiery spirits of the newly departed), but wanted to avoid going for the traditional blue or green flames as I've painted a hugh army of the dead in blue/green. 2 of the Seishin are scratch built out of greenstuff.


[ Again more pictures at http://nezumi.me.uk/Malifaux/photos.html#Seishin ]

For the bases I went for quite lush looking greenery and very pure looking water. I wanted to step away from the dirty graveyard look of the traditional ressurectionists with this crew and go for a more japanese spirit look, especially as Kirai was a gardener. I took a lot of influence from Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Next on my bench is Ikiryo, I've been putting down the base colours to try and work out where I'm going with the paint scheme. I wanted the model to tie together the two very different colour schemes in the crew. So I went for a peach sash which picks up the colour used on the faces of the Seishin, that together with the flaming hair which will go up as high as the flames on the Seishin should link the two models together nicely. The Kimono is loosly based on the kimono in the new [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU"]Florence and the Machine Dog Days[/ame] video, I felt this was perfect as I could use it to compliment the purple in the skin colour of the Gaki while the clouds which will be a greenish grey will compliment the Gaki's robes. BTW has anyone else noticed that Ikiryo is wearing a mask though they didn't paint it as one on the box, the hair line is really wierd if it isn't one and there is a obvious curve to the side of the face that makes no sense otherwise.


[ Pictures of back of model at http://nezumi.me.uk/Malifaux/photos.html#Ikiryo ]

[Nathan Caroland]

Excellent work. Gaki in particular.

[Werecat]

The Ghaki and Seishin look stupendous. Well done.

[Cassarus]

Lovely stuff!

[dgraz]

WOW! Excellent work. Gaki are truly impressive. I love the bottom of Ikiryo's kimono. I also like your basing ideas. It's killing me that I'm too busy painting other stuff to get to my Kirai!

Can't wait to see more.

[Ratty]

WOW! Excellent work. Gaki are truly impressive. I love the bottom of Ikiryo's kimono. I also like your basing ideas. It's killing me that I'm too busy painting other stuff to get to my Kirai!

Can't wait to see more.

It's going to take a little while to paint all the grey area like the corner I've done, and then I'll have to do the purple and then add some distressing to the fabric. I don't think the Seishin pictures really do them justice, the photos really don't accurately represents the brightness of the yellow highlights. Anyhow I need a bit of a break from painting. I am going to start getting together the hanged and additional Gaki I got today.

[redarkham]

very nice looking minis, kudos sir

[Vash Axis]

I really like the Seishin. They look amazing.

[osoi]

Nice work

[Omenbringer]

Wow, that is great execution.