Following in Reva's wake

Vincent ended up with the kind of Blue I wanted for the Onryo. His face looks manic enough for me though. He was a simple model also, with little detail, but nicely sculpted surfaces. Poor Vincent. Still a look at that face will tell you he's made a few bad choices in life. That  "Ikea Blue" coat isn't the worst. Still At least he doesn't have a facial tatoo.

The corpse candles were ok. A bit of a faf to assemble, but a bit simple to paint to be truthful.

The shield barer was nice to paint. She seems very 80's in dress style and was nice to paint and highlight. The guardian shield was particularly fun and I went with Red. Partly in homage to GO and partly to get a Roman feel. No metalics. I will paint up the other Male-shield bearer too. I  quite like these models. Next to stone-swallowing Molly they will be good and often fast. If Molly is in spirit mode they can be prompted and black blooded - eventually. With Toshiro they have potential to make corpses for him with the suits and hand out some nice beats.

Reva rides forth

I got the Reva box set early and then didn't have time to paint it for ages.

In terms of assembly Reva was alright for a Malifaux model but I honestly find the infinity metals easier. When Painting her I wanted the black horse and black gown to be different. I did this by washing and blending the Horse (Grey on top and black in recesses and then layering Reva's dress - gloss black up to turquoise. I gave he a white hood. It just seemed appropriate. She was nice to paint. The detail is there, but with nice flat surfaces that can take three plus layers or colours. I thought about red eyes for the Horse. But instead I went for red mane and hooves, and green eyes

I want one more layer on her hood, to add some orange from the lantern and maybe top light her upper torso little, or around her face.

More summons

More summons. The Seishin was very easy to paint. I washed for base colours, blended on surfaces and lined other areas. I like it. I find its a little Rupert the Bear, but I like it.

A technique I also used on the Benaie zambie's flesh (the zombie gamer). I took extra care lining his behind. This is one of my favourite Malifaux metals, along with the Rogue Necromancy, metal Molly, metal mortimer and the metal Pug Canine remains

The other zambie is a Mantic Ghoul. Mantic stuff kind of splits the group a little; GO doesn't care for it, I quite like their Undead and old Space Human's (colonial/corporation marines) and nobody else cares. This ghoul was fun to paint and had lots of detail. I like the "Would you care for knife?" pose. Zambies make good butlers.

Stop looking at a purple zombies butt. You were, weren't you...

Summon forth summons

Well yesterday I outlined  a plan to stay out of trouble by leaving warhammer and crack alone and submiiting to a delusional reality in which the King Yellow will return to liberate the world. Today I thought I would extoll the many virtues of necromancy.

This time we leave the high spirits, and get down to Erath. Or rather call up from its charnell earthy depth my freebie-summon good time Zambie, Doxy and Autopsy. All in metal

The zambie is an old metal and I like it very much, its zuper characterfull. The red/near pink is a homage to the Governor's Orifice's Levi-red. GO is now into Titania. Maybe He'l show a few pics if we can bring him back from the land of faerie - a modern day Thomas Rhymer. His Titania is really rather nice. He should share.

The Doxy in the middle is back to a blue uniform. She was a bit of quickie really, and the highlights are rough. Still a cheap quick zombie-doxy is always pleasant to have on hand. As a summon doxies are actually pretty good because their movement tricks are a zero action leaving them free to move and drop schemes.

The autopsy was sadly even quicker. I found the autopsy too rough to layer or blend, at least with my skills and gave up.

More metals more summons. And tomorrow even more summons.

Time to resurect the blog - Blauj painted some ressers

The Blog died. Time for its return. Time for a resurrectionist to light the candles in his hand of glory and see what he can bring forth....

I blame warhammer. Stay away from warhammer and crack. If we do that pretty much everything should work out alright.

Recently real life gave me some discretionary time in the evenings for three weeks. I used it to paint a little. To see if I still could. Let me show you what I did.

First of I wanted to get another master done. So I thought about it and went with Yan-Lo.  I also did some other spirits at the same time.

All of these were actually very nice to paint - although at times I find the malifaux plastics hard to assemble well. The big boy drowned has been on my table for a while, I had to use foundation-paint to plug his gaps. I liked the flabbiness on his skin and he reminds of the soft-squishy man from "The Yellow Sign".

Carrying on with the Yellow Sign King in Yellow theme we have Yan-Lo. I personally enjoyed his beard very much. I like a simple beard. I wanted an Imperial yellow Hanfu feel and went with it. His hands and face had a really nice texture. I liked painting Yan-Lo. He wasn't Wrath of Kings flat, but he has simple pleasant lines and surfaces that were mostly easy to dry blend. I kept him metal-free and wanted a jade effect for his staff.

The Onyro was a bit hasty. I wanted his blue to be skyblue, but it ended up a bit too deep. The features on his mask were a little hard to paint properly so I flat edged them which only made them look rougher. But for me this is better than feature less opera mask effect.

 I like the group picture. Its kind of an unusual yellow-sign version of the Village People..