Turelio's Hobby Hoard

A few quick snaps of the McMourning crew. I want to get more used to doing a bit more painting each night so I can start spending more time at the desk. All the models were under coated white so that I could start on the bases tonight. Because I was using dry rushing there, this meant I didn't have to be bothered with accuracy later on in the job. The bases were flooded with brown ink, and while they were still wet there as a dark tone applied to the back, and a yellow applied to the front. Even once it's dry rushed, it gives a really subtle impression of the front and back of the base. The stones were blocked in, given a few washes, and stippled with line highlights to complete them. The final stage of the painting will be the black base edge, and after a varnish I'll do some grass tufts. Finally, I did the skin base coat with Reaper Fair Shadow. I want a pale skin on the models, and the strange thing is that there isn't that much flesh on the models apart from the Fle...

Cardinal rule, I think, for anyone that wants to compete in miniature painting comps regularly, should be: "Don't start a new project within a few months of a competition." Further to that: "Don't start an tabletop level project, that will confuse things." The downfall of this is: "These old metals are cheap..." I started another Malifaux crew... Hall of Heroes is getting rid of some of their old stock at half price. I haven't been keen on new crews unless I can grab the totem at the same time. McMourning is a set of models I like, but the Zombie Chihuahua has been hard to get for a while. They had two in stock... I grabbed them about a fortnight ago, and spent the end of my last two days at work listening to a phone that does not ring cleaning the mould lines off the models. Last night and tonight I assembled the models and stuck them to bases. For the first time in. Y life, I'm doing Malifaux models on what I consider to be 'basic...