chaos and noise

I played in a Malifaux tournament a few weeks ago, and tried to get some figures painted in time for it. It's a fun little game, using a deck of cards instead of dice: you flip cards for challenges, can "cheat" using cards from your hand, and generally get screwed over by jokers appearing at exactly the wrong moment.

The tournament games were a bit of a baptism by fire. Quite literally, in the case of the first round: I drew the eventual winner of the tournament, with a witch-hunting Guild army that proved to be both immune to my spells, and capable of incinerating everything on the table. I learned a lot about how to play the game, and ended up losing most rounds by a single control point.

That left me in second-last place, but I managed to pick up the painting award :) These are the models I used at the tournament, from one of the Arcanist starter boxes. At $30-40 for enough models to play a game, it's a hell of a lot more affordable than some of the games I've played...

Rasputina:


Ice Golem:


Ice Gamin #1:


Ice Gamin #2:


Ice Gamin #3:

This is my entry from Iron Painter, Round 2. The theme this time around was "villainous" - so I've decided to use the contest as a good excuse to finally paint some Wyrd miniatures that I bought at GenCon Indy in 2007.

Wyrd now have a skirmish game called Malifaux, using all the figures they've sculpted to date. No idea how it plays, but the miniatures are nice... These figures mostly fit into the Resurrectionist faction: neo-Victorian necromancers and their assistants, with a host of different undead. I've also converted the figures a bit to make them fit in with an Unhallowed Metropolis RPG that I was planning to run.

From left to right:

Sebastian: "Doctor" with a bonesaw. No conversions here, but I tried some new techniques for gore and splatter using red ink, black paint, and an old paintbrush.

Mourner: Made from a Dark Age miniature (previously carrying a flamethrower), now with a new right arm, a rifle, and an umbrella to keep some of New London's acid rain at bay.

Nicodemus: One of the necromancers; usually carrying a vulture familiar on his right arm. Aristocrats in UnMet often pick up ranged weapons to stay away from the zombies, so I've given him a sniper rifle.

Mortimer: An Undertaker, with a multi-purpose shovel (and a jumper his Mum knitted for him). Good for dealing with uncontrolled zombies, or creating more bodies for the Master to raise.

Thrall: A familiar from Rackham's Confrontation line. When I saw the little creature lugging a shovel and a sack of body parts, I figured it needed to join the crew...



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