Category Archives: Malifaux

Malifaux: Hannah


I’m a total sucker for limited editions.  And Malifaux’s skirmish nature means there’s less of a “I’ll never use it” argument holding me back.

The Through the Breach Hannah has been tempting me for quite a while.  The regular model is pretty ungainly, which is both an aesthetic problem and a practical transportation one.  But it’s pretty scarce, and the ebay price was more than I wanted to pay.

Finally, my patience paid off, and I snagged one on sprue for a small premium over the regular Hannah price.  Everyone’s favorite power armored librarian was mine.

Hannah
Hannah

I knew I couldn’t leave the pages blank.  It’s simplistic, but it still adds a bit of character.  I briefly tried doing some kind of magic glow at her finger, but it looked stupid so I washed it off.

Hannah (detail)
Hannah (detail)

I had a chance to play Hannah at the Henchman Hardcore at Adepticon.  My list was:

  • Hannah with Ancient Tomes
  • Nothing Beast with Void Shield
  • Void Wretch
  • Void Wretch

The idea was to bury a key model with Ancient Tomes to steal an activation.  If lucky, bury another with the Nothing Beast, nibble with the Void Wretches, and unbury outside of the Turf War area.  Hannah could also Make a New Entry off of the Nothing Beast’s attack.  It worked out pretty well, and I was able to steal activations from the opposing Henchman several times.  It was also pointed out to me during lunch that I could just sit a model on top of the Void Marker to send the buried model back to the deployment zone, and possibly out of the fight, which I used to good effect in the final round.

Malifaux: Aionus


I picked up Aionus along with the rest of my Black Friday goodies.  It’s a different material, a softer PVC rather than the standard hard plastic Wyrd uses.  The material itself was okay, although a little harder to clean up seams.  I wish it hadn’t been pre-assembled, however.  The upper and lower torso were a bit out of alignment, and needed a fair amount of green stuff and filing to smooth out.

Aionus
Aionus

I tried to do a bit of OSL shading with this model, to try and give the clocktower an etherial quality.  I’m not sure whether I think it works on the basing, or just looks like I was sloppy when painting.  On the legs and arms, though, I think it works pretty well.  I’ll keep experimenting.

Aionus (detail)
Aionus (detail)

I’ve taken Aionus in one game, to fill out my Tara crew.  Unfortunately, he mostly just stabbed people with his bony finger, and I didn’t get a chance to use his cool marker manipulation abilities.  Next time!

Malifaux: Starter set – Guild


Even though I don’t have specific plans to play Guild, I wanted to get the rest of the two-player set painted.

Dr Grimwell
Dr Grimwell

I decided to go with a cleaner look than Wyrd’s art for the set.  They may be not-entirely-nice people, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get their laundry done! I was pretty nervous about the whites, but they turned out really nicely.  As usual, I painted the basecoat (off-white), shaded via wash (Secret Weapon Soft Body Black), then brought it back up again with hightlights (off-white and white).

Nurse Heartsbane
Nurse Heartsbane

I’m not quite sure what Nurse Heartbane is holding, but I thought the using the red from Grimwell’s tie would bring a bit of cohesion, and maybe look a bit like a (anachronistic) prescription bottle.

The orderlies are nice and creepy.  Skinny will knock you out so that Apron can get to work.

Now I just need to convince the wife to play with me.

Malifaux: Starter set – Neverborn


I picked up the two player starter set for three reasons:

  1. The Neverborn models seemed useful, especially the Scion of the Black Blood’s condition removal.
  2. I had been meaning to pick up a digital copy of the mini rulebook, and the starter has a (overly manual) process to get one.
  3. Maybe I could use the intro scenarios to get my wife to play.  Even though I don’t think she’ll want to play regularly, it would be a good way for her to better understand miniature games.
Angel Eyes
Angel Eyes

I find it interesting that Angel Eyes has some kind of monocle or bionic eye, but hey, who am I to argue.  Like far too many female Malifaux models, she has tiny feet that are hard to pin.

Scion of the Black Blood
Scion of the Black Blood

I decided to try to replicate the body paint in the official art for the Scion.  I’m not super happy with it, but it still adds some visual interest.  I think the shading on his flesh worked out pretty well, though.

I had originally intended the Wretch’s skin tone to be a purple tint on a natural flesh tone, but that didn’t exactly happen.  So mine may be more fully transformed into Neverborn than most. Each one has hair that matches the other’s shirt, and matching pants, which hopefully ties them together a bit.