September 2018 through January 2019

And yet again my posts have slipped way behind. I have been painting a bit but not as much as I would of liked, what with work and real life getting in the way and all. So this post is going to be an accumulation the last few months work......


September 2018
A convict Gunslinger and Bishop are a couple of M2E mercenaries that have been sitting around to long so they had a quick splash. Also pretty sure it was September I finished the Cross Road Seven.

October 2018
A very slow month for me this month only finishing Amina Nadu for my Malifaux painting. I really like the colour her shirt and jeans came out so will utilise these colours more on other models in the faction as well as the purple I use to tie my Arcanisits together. Next month I plan to get some of my terrain completely finished. Since the roofs have been done for months, I need to finish the buildings.

November 2018
Finished my 5x terrain pieces that form the basis of my Frontier/Western Style town for Malifaux and got a start on the base coats of Fitzsimmons and the two Saboteurs. They will be next months task but for November its just the buildings

December 2018
Epic Fail...Had a family Christmas organised for my partners family who all met at a batch in the Coromandle and that meant no painting on my days off. zero models completed in December



January 2019
Fitsimmons and the 2x Sabotuers where the items finished this month.

Next month, well this month, February, I am planning on getting Neil Henry painted and the finishing touches on my Warhammer Underworlds crew, the Chosen Axes. see you again soon.





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July and August work in progress

Seems I didn't post an update for July and it's now two weeks almost into August...whoops. July saw the completion of my Ice Dancers finally and My Through The Breach augmented character.

August has so far seen my Hoar Cats get some colour and a start made on a Crossroads Seven crew I managed to get from a mate. While the Crossroads Seven is not the most game worthy, they are a crew I have wanted for a long time so picking them up has renewed my energy to get something painted. Here's hoping I can finish these off this month too, but for now it's pics of the Ice Dancers, my Fated character, the Hoar Cats and a progress shot of the Seven.....

June work in progress

this month I moved away from the ice dancers yet again and finished Anna Lovelace and the Scorpius. Next month will be the ice dancers as I've made a start on them at least. Anyways, here's the images for this month

May work in progress

Carlos was all I could finish this month. The ice dancers got assembled and primed but that's as far as they got. Hopefully they can get finished next month.

Carlos in my mind was going to just get flames, but then I needed to tie him into the purple of the rest of my Arcanists so his flames were all purple at first. Looked OK when done but added the transition to flames just to show fire and it looked better to me so left it there. Put a bit of a scorch on the floorboards by the tips as well.

April work in progress

For some reason I am unable to upload images into the monthly painting challenge thread on the Wyrd forums so I'll put my WIP shots for April up here in the mean time.

Who knows, it may even tempt me to post updates here more often lol

Here is Rasputina and the start of Carlos for now

Electrical Creation

Yes I know, this is supposed to be the acolytes and or silent ones post but I found an image of the Electrical Creation that was painted with the other random Arcanists a while ago so here that is. The acolytes and silent ones are coming soon lol

The mechanical horse finally has its rider

Yes, after using the mech rider for the last few months without its rider I've finally painted and put the rider on her back. The spear was a pain and broke off while I was taking her off the Sprite when I assembled her and my intention was to repair this. Problem was the spear tip has since gone missing and well to be honest, I just couldn't be bothered finding a replacement. Hence the tip less spear how she now rolls.


Up next are the December Acolytes and tomorrow I might try and get the Silent Ones painted. Will see, but for now, here's the finished mechanical rider.

Molemen and Willie

Adding to list of painted Arcanists are another couple of models that are at least semi finished. The Molemen have no bases and Willie is in the same boat. For the Molemen I'm thinking of a jungle sort of base but not sure and for Wille I'm heading towards a rail worker type base like Mei Feng box bases.

The Molemen I decided to try and make look sort of dirty purplish pink skin tones but made them all slightly different. Sort of works I guess but they are weird models anyway so doesn't matter. Here they are.

Fire Gamin oh you horrid little buggers

so I decided to paint these guys while I was sitting on the floor...bad idea. While they came out alright, when I was putting on the last few strokes of colour on the last one I dropped it between my legs. Not to bad so far. Just reach down and pick it up. Not so easy it wasn't there, so I lifted up my leg. No good, still not there. Put down my foot and rolled it forward to be comfortable and found the missing gamin.

Yes these are as fragile as they look haha. The injury list was all of the fingers on the right hand, one or two of the fingers on the left hand, both ankles broken and a snapped tail...damn it that sucked. So I glued the tail back and the ankles but the fingers were a lost cause but it looked like it might almost hold up...wrong! So after taking the photo and putting it on the shelf both of the ankles snapped off again gggrrrrrr oh well, never mind I guess it just means I'll have to make a green stuff fire base or something to imitate it forming or some other weird thing of fire. Not sure it will work with the way I have decided to paint these guys but will see if I I ever decide to finish it.

Angelica, almost anyway...

...well she's table ready and done enough to use. At least until I finally decide what to put on her foot stool. Also painted a little while ago was the rider for the Mechanical Rider, Fire Gamin, Willie and the Molemen but they will be the next few posts. So here's Angelica

I'm here to die or kill you trying....Howard Langstone

It's here, everyone's favourite construct.....Howard Langstone aka Citizen Snips, Hank, Dr Chops, Langa Banga, F;$@3~*g piece of S#@t or the variety of other endowments this sexy model has poured upon him.

This was another model that needed a bit of a gentle push and a poke to sit on his base properly. While it's not far from the original pose, what I've tried to achieve with the new pose was a bit more of an action orientated stance and have it look as if he was trying to cut your head off with his incoming left hook after running at you over the junk pile with his over extended uppercut.

In the past I have had limited success with him and he's spent the most of his life unpainted and unused, sitting quietly in my model box all lonely like because every time I field him he's priority target and dead before he does anything. But.... I have finally finished him and are currently using him in the campaign my local gaming group has started. So far I like him for the sheer panic on people's faces he produces when placed on the table rather than his tabletop prowess but hopefully after the campaign is over I'll be more used to him and he may see more table time.

Large Arachnids and Ramos totem repurpose

So the little spiders have big brothers hhhmmmm.....best I get me some of them too I thought. So I did hahaha

Originally the Large Arachnid box comes with a pair of them which should be plenty however once I had made them and seen that they are a little smaller than Ramos' totem from his box set I decided to turn the box set totem into a Large Arachnid for use in my other crews. The real Large Arachnid models got the same base treatment as the rest of my Ramos crew so they fit in nicely but the totem repurpose ended up on the more generic cobblestone base style that I use on the majority of my other Arcanists. It did still require a bit of bending and shaping to even fit on the larger base I made for it so it looks as if it's crawling over a wall section so there is NO WAY I can see this ever fitting on a standard 30mm base if anyone tries to use it as the totem it's intended to be?!?!?! Wyrd scale issues at there finest I say