Vidiots Malifaux Painting and Sub-Standard Photography Emporium

[Vidiot]

Before I expose you to the horrors within....

I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks to Wyrd for making a great game that was able to grab hold of me and get me involved with painting (as well as playing) again.

When I was younger, 16yrs old or so, it seemed that I was always surrounded by miniature wargamers. But as tempted as I was to pick up the hobby I was either too intimidated by the massive investment of both time and money of Warhammer / 40k or the incredible quality of the paint jobs on all of their models. I always had the itch to paint some miniatures but never really gave it a shot.

Fast forward 10 years and I end up moving next door to an avid D&D player. I get invited to his game and he tosses me a mini and he sets me loose with his paint set. For my first mini ever painted (a hastely drybrushed knight of some sort) it didn't look half bad. He served me well for my weekly game of D&D and beer but my painting career pretty much stalled out there.

Fast Forward another 15 years and I hear of this game Malifaux. It's not the massive undertaking of the large scale battles. It doesn't involve fists full of dice and an engineering degree to play. It uses a deck of cards and a handful of miniatures. And it starts the wheels turning. I see the models and what's not to love? It's like they took every genre that I loved (Westerns, Sci-Fi, Horror, Steampunk) and rolled them all into one cohesive mix. I picked up a box and some assorted models and I was hooked. That was just a few short months ago..

Okay, backstory completed. I'll shut up now.. So without further ado, my first three Malifaux minis I've finished painting.



Considering my lifetime painting total is now a whopping 4 miniatures I have to say I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Please excuse the poor photography. I'll be sure to actually "use" some lighting next time. Not to mention the macro setting.. Please be gentle! And of course, any criticism or advice, on both painting and photography, would be gladly accepted.

Vidiot

[Jewomie]

wow... these are better than mine, and i have been at this malifaux thing for two years! haha

keep up the good work! these look really good.

Cheers!

[Vidiot]

Thanks for the compliment Jewomie!

Even though these are my first few minis I've always been pretty handy with my larger art projects so all that's changing I guess is the scale. I still feel a little heavy handed on the wash though. Going to try and localize it a bit more on future models rather than slathering it on all over the place.

I'm looking forward to painting Lelu and Lilitu next to see how I fair when I try things that aren't burlap sacks!

[durek]

Really good, actually great considering these are your first minis (except knight). Painting is easy to get competent at but hard to master (...well for some of us lol).
Looking foward to seeing your talent grow over the next few months.

[Vidiot]

Thanks durek! I'm looking forward to getting some more models finished (as well as the Iron Painter I nervously added my name to!).

I'm hoping to get my crew minis looking good so during my upcoming games maybe that will help distract from my complete lack of strategy! :D

I just checked out your stuff in your plog. Some gret looking minis! Loved the Ice Golem you did!

[Vidiot]

Figured out how to take a some better pics.. Still need another source of light though.

Stiched Together 1





Stiched Together 2





And a closer shot of the two of them together. Unfortunately I'll need more light for the Voodoo Doll since I couldnt get a a cleaner shot of him to save me life..

[FoeRender]

well done .

[Vidiot]

Well, Adepticon is just around the corner so I need to get off my butt and finally start painting up my 35ss Lilith crew for the Cake Match. The first member can be seen above (one of the the Stiched Togethers) but that still leaves me Tuco (my converted exorcist), Lilitu, Lelu x 2, a Primodial Worm and the MoM herself Lilith to paint up before then..

Thankfully they are all based and primed so it should go fairly quickly.. To those of you that grind out a table ready crew in a matter of hours I tip my hat to you.. But me? I'm lucky if i can grind through one in an evenings painting session. However, I was able to partially knock off the Primordial Magic last night. Still needs some highlights and the basework painted but all in all I'm happy with it so far. Please forgive the pic quality, misplaced my actual camera so my cell phone had to make due.

[Averlorn]

Looking forward to see the finished miniatures. Nice choice of colours for the worm!

[Darios]

jup. they are really good looking! Like the usage of the swamp bases with the stiched...
if you keep that level or better raise it i'll be damned if you're not going to be a very good painter!