Turelio's Hobby Hoard

If you ever seen me transporting my minis, you may have figured out I have an unhealthy addiction to Sistema lunch boxes and Daiso display cases. Well. This past weekend, to go with the new Detolf I got the week before, I grabbed some new Daiso cases in sizes I haven't got before! That's my Pandora crew all collected into one box! I get to make jokes about it being Pandora's Box until it stops being funny! Which is never! So my basic method with these is to blutack all the models down. They have a clear she'll that goes over the. Top which is great for keeping the dust out as well. Once the lid is on, they are fairly well protected and can stack, so you can have a few on top of each other to save some space as well! For frequent use cases, I'll hold them together with rubber bands as they are easier to transport, but for larger displays (this is the largest one I have right now) I use builders tape to hold it shut. You can also see that some of them have a stepped v...

So I'll start by pointing out that this is part of the reason I've been worn out lately. I've been really busy lately, and it's left me rather drained. Blogging has been the last thing in my mind, sadly. Also, there aren't any images in this post... yet. I'll add them in later, but I seem to have lost most of the images from the last month on my laptop somewhere. Anyway, on with the fun and games!

So, I'm going to try a strange tactic... I'm going to discuss my thoughts on how to run something in Malifaux openly, a few months away from a tournament. Admittedly, I'm not in this to win, but I'm pretty sure this is listed close to the top of The Art of War Do Not Do list. But, it's all in the name of fun... For those of you who have been with the blog a while, you'll probably know that my first steps into Malifaux were under the watchful eye of Pandora. Originally I had trouble using her, but when I managed to figure out how she worked, I started to get really good with her. I wasn't perfect, and my friends new my plans well enough to devise their own counters, for which I had to counter, and at the end of the day, I really like a game that lets that evolving concept grow, especially when I find use for models I have little to no previous interest in.

I did a review of the Pandora starter box for Malifaux for the Aetherworks website, and they are currently using it! If you'd like to have a look, the review is located at: Aetherworks - Pandora Legion of Sorrows review

Over the last few years I have become rather good at keeping things in boxes. And in the event of them already being in boxes, I tend to take the things and put them in ziplock bags which are then grouped up and placed in... other boxes! And on this occasion, I bought some airtight containers a while ago, with no real intention beyond 'I will find a use for them at some point'... These boxes hold my current gaming gear. On the left is my DnD box. It has my character's model and my dice (Oh, so many dice), as well as some tokens. On the right is my Malifaux Pandora crew (Minus Teddy, but he is too big, so travels in his own box), as well as a box for my Malifaux cards, tokens, stat cards and tape measure. After years of playing Warhammer, and having to fit boxes into bags and cart around an army as well as books, guides, dice, rulers etc, these boxes are a welcome change. Now if I want to go somewhere for a game, I can put the boxes I need in a bag with a rulebook or two, an...

Remember that airbrushing? It turned out I needed very little work (Even less than I expected) to finish off the Sorrows. The advantage here was that I got them done in time for the painting contest at MOAB, and got to enter them in the unit category (Even though they weren't a planned entry). So what do they look like now? Andrew Lum (Numbat - http://arrch.blogspot.com/) kindly took some photos: And the crew themselves: CMON Links are: http://coolminiornot.com/262039 and http://coolminiornot.com/262038 Next up for Malifaux, I have to finish of my Morgue Assistant who has been around here for a while. After that, I picked up Teddy and the Poltergeist at MOAB, so I guess they are the two that are going to be done after that...

Next up are the Malifaux Sorrows. These have been floating around for a while, and I figured today with some downtime (See the next post) that I could clean them, get the base, and possibly even the bulk of the green done with the airbrush. After some cutting and gluing, failed pinning, and fun with putty and slate, I broke out the airbrush... (It has a hands on feel by the end...) And then the Sorrows were painted to some degree: The rocks were a happy accident. The accident was breaking my new .5mm drill bit in a Sorrow on my first time using it. The happy bit was that when I propped one model up with a rock after trying to putty it in place, it looked good, so I decided to continue that on the other tow models. I may have to add some sand beyond this do it doesn't look like someone just piled the rocks up, but I think it looks OK. As for the rest, I have to do a a few tiny touchups (Not even visible in the photos) on some dark colours in the green, and a few bolder highlights, a...

Some alternate photos of the Malifaux models. No extra work has been done on them since last time. However Andrew (His Blog) suggested it the other day using a gradient he had and changing the lights slightly. These haven't been through the usual Gimp editing I do, just resized in MS Paint.

Work continues on the Malifaux miniatures, with Pandora and Baby Kade almost completed...

Oil washes finished to an extent on the bases: I'm trying out a new set of colours for the flesh, and putting a little turquoise around the face to draw the eye. These models are great fun to paint, if a little fiddly in places. However they are keeping me at my painting table, so that is always a good thing!

A few more steps towards completing my Pandora crew: The bases are painted, and are ready for oil washes! A few people did point out the gap in the base Baby Kade is on between the tiles and the edge, and the general comment has been it looks neater. Originally i filled the gaps on the other two to try to blend them onto the base. Having done that, i wish they all had the gap. It would have been so much easier painting the rims...

I have a Pandora Crew box set for Malifaux which i am painting up. It was purchased mainly on the basis it has Baby Kade, Candy and Pandora. I wasn't too fussed about the Sorrows, although they still look like they will be pretty fun to paint. I decided i wanted some simple tiled bases for them as the Wyrd models tend not to need giant showy bases, and as they are going to be used in games, it quicker and simpler the better: Well, that's what i thought. Turns out to cut the tiles bases for three bases, fit them, fill the gaps etc averaged out at about 30 mins each. I'm just happy at the moment as there are only 6 in a group, so i'm not going to have to do something the size of a Warhammer army with 1/2 an hour on each base.